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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.
8. Governments, and Justice, and all humane converse is maintained by the belief of others, and the reports and records of things which we see not: Few of the Subjects see their King. Witnesses carry it in every cause of Justice: Thus Princes prove their Successions and title to their Crowns, and all men their Estates, by the records or testimony of others.
9. It is impudent arrogancy for every Infidel to tie God to be at his beck, to work Miracles as oft as he requireth it: To say, I will not believe without a Miracle; and if thou ⟨p. 308⟩work never so many in the sight of others, I will not believe unless I may see them my self.
§. 12. There need not be new Revelations and Miracles, to confirm the former, and oblige men to believe them: For then there must be more Revelations and Miracles, to confirm the former, and oblige men to believe those; and so on to the end of the World: And then God could not govern the World by a settled Law by Revelations once made; which is absurd.
§. 12. There need not be new Revelations and Miracles, to confirm the former, and oblige men to believe them: For then there must be more Revelations and Miracles, to confirm the former, and oblige men to believe those; and so on to the end of the World: And then God could not govern the World by a setled Law by Revelations once made; which is absurd.