A27004:1675
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.
Superficial Believers are a small part of the whole World, and sound Believers are a small part of professed Christians: And these sound Believers have many a temptation, and some of them many a troublesome doubt, and all of them a Faith which is too far from perfection. And yet all the Miracles, Evidences, Arguments and Operations aforesaid, must be used to bring them even to this.
Superficial Believers are a small part of the whole World, and sound Believers are a small part of professed Christians: And these sound Believers have many a temptation, and some of them many a troublesom doubt, and all of them a Faith which is too farr from perfection. And yet all the Miracles, Evidences, Arguments and Operations aforesaid, must be used to bring them even to this.
§. 2. The Difficulties are I. Some of them in the things to be believed, II. Some of them in extrinsical impediments: III. And some of them in the mind of Man who must believe.
§. 2. The Difficulties are I. Some of them in the things to be believed, II. Some of them in extrinsecal impediments: III. And some of them in the minde of Man who must believe.
§. 3. I. 1. The mysteriousness of the doctrine of the blessed Trinity, hath always been a difficulty to Faith, and occasioned many to avoid Christianity, especially the Mohammedans; and many Heretics to take up Devices of their own, to shift it off.
§. 3. I. 1. The mysteriousness of the doctrine of the blessed Trinity, hath alwayes been a difficulty to Faith, and occasioned many to avoid Christianity, especially the Mahometanes; and many Hereticks to take up Devices of their own, to shift it off.