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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.
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.
§. 25. Accordingly it hath all the real Evidence which the true parts of any other Religion hath, with the addition of much more supernatural evidence.
§. 25. Accordingly it hath all the reall Evidence which the true parts of any other Religion hath, with the addition of much more supernatural evidence.
For all that is justly called the Law of Nature, (which is the first part of the Christian Religion) is evidenced by the light of Nature: and this Christians have as well as others: and all that is of true supernatural Revelation, they have above others by its proper evidence.1
- 1How excellently doth Seneca speak against a vain curiosity of speech in divers of his Epistles, and with what contempt and vehement indignation? This also is to be applied to the spirituality and plainness of the Christian way of Worship. In exordio nascentis Ecclesiae non eo quo nunc modo vel ordine sacra celebrabantur Missarum solemnia teste Gregorio, &c. Et fortasse primis temporibus solius Pauli Epistolae legebantur, postmodum intermixtae aliae lectiones sunt, &c. Berno Ab. Augiens. de quibusdam ad Messam pertin. c. 1. p 698. Bibl. Patr. Orationes autem quas collectas dicimus, à diversis auctoribas compositae creduntur, à Gelasio praesule Romano, & beato Gregorio Papa. Idem ibid. Lege & Microlog. Eccles. observat. cap. 12. & 13. & Hugo à S. Victore de offic. In Romana Ecclesia Eccles. l. 2. c. 16. una tantum dicitur collecta, nisi, &c.