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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
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.
CHAP. VII. Of the subservient proofs, and means, by which the forementioned Evidences are brought to our certain knowledge.
THE witness of the Spirit in the four ways of Evidence already opened, is proved to be sure, and cogent, if first it be proved to be true, that indeed such a witness to Jesus Christ, hath been given to the World: ⟨p. 303⟩The Argument is undeniable, when the Minor is proved, [He, whose Word is attested by God, by many thousand years predictions, by the inherent Image of God upon the frame of his doctrine, by multitudes of uncontrolled Miracles, and by the success of his Doctrine to the true Regeneration of a great part of the World, is certainly to be believed: But such is Jesus Christ: Ergo, —] I have been hitherto for the most part proving the Major Proposition, and now come to the Minor; as to the several branches.
THE witness of the Spirit in the four wayes of Evidence already opened, is proved to be sure, and cogent, if first it be proved to be true, that indeed such a witness to Jesus Christ, hath been given to the World: ⟨p. 303⟩The Argument is undenyable, when the Minor is proved, [He, whose Word is attested by God, by many thousand years predictions, by the inherent Image of God upon the frame of his doctrine, by multitudes of uncontrolled Miracles, and by the success of his Doctrine to the true Regeneration of a great part of the World, is certainly to be believed: But such is Jesus Christ: Ergo, —] I have been hitherto for the most part proving the Major Proposition, and now come to the Minor; as to the several branches.