A27004:1607
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
Part 2 › Chapter 8: Of some other subservient and Collateral Arguments for the Christian Verity.
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.
CHAP. VIII. Of some other subservient and Collateral Arguments for the Christian Verity.
Having largely opened the great Evidence of the Christian Verity, viz. The SPIRIT in its four ways of testifying, Accidentally, Inherently, Concomitantly, and Subsequently, I shall more briefly recite some other subservient Arguments, which I find most satisfactory to my own understanding.
HAving largely opened the great Evidence of the Christian Verity, viz. The SPIRIT in its four wayes of testifying, Accidentally, Inherently, Concomitantly, and Subsequently, I shall more briefly recite some other subservient Arguments, which I finde most satisfactory to my own understanding.
§. 1. I. The natural evidence of the truth of the Scripture, about the Creation of the World, doth make it the more Credible to me in all things else.
For that is a thing which none but God himself could reveal to us: For the Scripture telleth what was done, before there was any man in being. And that this World is not eternal, nor of any longer continuance, is exceeding probable, by the state of all things in it. 1. Arts and Sciences are far from that maturity, which a longer continuance, or an Eternity would have produced. Guns and Printing are but lately found out: The body of man is not yet well Anatomized; A Sellius his milky Veins, and Pecquet's Receptacle of the Chile, and Bartholines Glandules, and the Vasa Lymphatica, are of late discovery: Galilaeus his Glasses, and his four Medicaean Planets, and the Lunary mutations of Venus, and the strange either opacous parts and