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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.
And if sense in those cases should be deceived, we should be bound to be deceived, as having no other way of knowing, or of detecting the deceit.
§. 10. Those that saw not Christ's miracles, nor saw him risen, received all these matters of fact, 1from the testimony of them that said they saw them: (Having no other way by which they could receive them.)
- 1Pluris est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti decem. Qui audiunt, audita dicunt: qui vident, plane sciunt. Plaut. Truc.
§. 11. Supposing now Christs Resurrection and Miracles to be true, it is certain, that their use and obligation must extend to more than those that saw them; even to persons absent, and of other generations.
This I have fully and undeniably proved, in a Disputation in my Book against Infidelity: by such arguments as these.