A27004:1474
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.
6. And they inflicted judgements on Delinquents by no less a power: Ananias and Sapphira one after another were struck dead upon the word of Peter, for their Hypocrisy and lies: Elymas the Sorcerer was struck blind by Paul, in the presence (or knowledge) of the Governor of the Country: And the excommunicated were often given up to Satan, to suffer some extraordinary penalty.
6. And they inflicted judgements on Delinquents by no less a power: Ananias and Sapphira one after another were struck dead upon the word of Peter, for their Hypocrisie and lyes: Elymas the Sorcerer was struck blinde by Paul, in the presence (or knowledge) of the Governour of the Countrey: And the excommunicated were often given up to Satan, to suffer some extraordinary penalty.
7. Their healing Demoniacs, the lame, the blind, the paralytic, and all manner of diseases with a word, or by Prayer and Imposition of hands in the name of Christ, yea upon the conveyance of Napkins and Clothes from their bodies, is witnessed in the many Texts which I have before cited out of the Acts of the Apostles. And this Christ promised them particularly before-hand: And it was the occasion of that Unction of the sick, which some have still continued as a Sacrament.
7. Their healing Demoniacks, the lame, the blinde, the paralitick, and all manner of diseases with a word, or by Prayer and Imposition of hands in the name of Christ, yea upon the conveyance of Napkins and Cloaths from their bodies, is witnessed in the many Texts which I have before cited out of the Acts of the Apostles. And this Christ promised them particularly before-hand: And it was the occasion of that Ʋnction of the sick, which some have still continued as a Sacrament.