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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.
§. 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.
This I have fully and undenyably proved, in a Disputation in my Book against Infidelity: by such arguments as these.
1. The use and obligation of such Miracles doth extend to all that have sufficient evidence of their truth. But the Nations and generations which never saw them, may have sufficient evidence of their truth (that they were done): Ergo, the use and obligation doth extend to such.
The Major is past all contradiction. He that hath sufficient evidence of the truth of the fact, is obliged to believe it. The Minor is to be proved in the following Sections.