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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.
§. 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.
§. 13. Therefore the only natural way to know all such matters of fact is sensible apprehension to those that are present; and credible report, tradition or history, to those that are absent (as is aforesaid): which is the necessary medium to convey it from their sense to our understandings: And in this must we acquiesce, as the natural means which God will use.
§. 14. We are not bound to believe all history or report: Therefore we must be able to discern between the credible, and the incredible; neither receiving all, nor rejecting all; but making choice, as there is cause.