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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.
There are no men of reason that I have heard of, that deny the Books of Moses, and the Psalms, and the Prophets, &c. to be indeed those that went under those titles from the beginning: And that there can be no considerable corruption in them, which might much concern their testimony to Christ, the comparing of all the Copies, and the Versions, yet extant, will evince; together with the testimony of all sorts of enemies; and the moral impossibility of their corruption. But I will not stand to prove that which no sober adversary doth deny. To these Books the Christians did appeal, and to these the Jews profess to stand.
There are no men of reason that I have heard of, that deny the Books of Moses, and the Psalms, and the Prophets, &c. to be indeed those that went under those titles from the beginning: And that there can be no considerable corruption in them, which might much concern their testimony to Christ, the comparing of all the Copies, and the Versions, yet extant, will evince; together with the testimony of all sorts of enemies; and the morall impossibility of their corruption. But I will not stand to prove that which no sober adversary doth deny. To these Books the Christians did appeal, and to these the Jews profess to stand.
§. 3. II. The constitutive inherent image of God upon the Gospel of Christ, is also still visible in the Books themselves; and needeth no other proof, than a capable Reader (as afore described.)
§. 4. The preaching and Writings of the Ministers of Christ, do serve to illustrate this, and help men to discern it; but add nothing to the inherent perfection of the Gospel, for matter, or for method.
§. 4. The preaching and Writings of the Ministers of Christ, do serve to illustrate this, and help men to discern it; but adde nothing to the inherent perfection of the Gospel, for matter, or for method.