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The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…
The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural evidence the being of God ... : the second part, of Christianity, proving by evidence supernatural and natural, the certain truth of the Christian belief ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; also an appendix defending the soul's immortality against the Somatists or Epicureans and other pseudo-philosophers.
London: printed by R. White for Fran. Titon, 1667
Part 2 › Chapter 4: Of the Nature and Properties of the Christian Religion.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
This will be more cleared when I have answered the objections against it.
§. 24. It containeth nothing that hath the least contrariety to any Natural Verity or Law; but contrarily comprehendeth all the Law of Nature, as its first and principal part, and that in the most clear and legible character, superadding much more which Naturalists know not.
So that if there be any good in other Religions (as there is some in all), it is all contained in the Christian Religion, with the addition of much more: There is no truth or goodness in the Religion of the Philosophers, the Platonists, the Stoics, the Pythagorean Banians in India, the Bonzii in Japan, or those in Siam, China, Persia, or any other parts, nor among the Mahometans or Jews, which is not contained in the Doctrine and Religion of the Christians.
So that if there be any good in other Religions (as there is some in all), it is all contained in the Christian Religion, with the addition of much more: There is no truth or goodness in the Religion of the Philosophers, the Platonists, the Stoicks, the Pythagorean Bannians in India, the Bonzii in Japan, or those in Siam, China, Persia, or any other parts, nor among the Mahometans or Jews, which is not contained in the Doctrine and Religion of the Christians.