A27004:1698
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.
§. 24. 2. They have given the World either false or insufficient ⟨p. 368⟩reasons and motives, for the belief of the Christian Verity; which being discerned confirmeth them in Infidelity.
§. 25. 3. They have corrupted Gods Worship, and have turned it from rational and spiritual, into a multitude of irrational ceremonious fopperies; fitted to move contempt and laughter in unbelievers.
§. 26. 4. They have corrupted the doctrine of Morality, and thereby hidden much of the holiness and purity of the Christian Religion.
§. 26. 4. They have corrupted the doctrine of Morality, and thereby hidden much of the holyness and purity of the Christian Religion.
§. 27. 5. They have corrupted Church-history, obtruding or divulging a multitude of ridiculous falsehoods in their Legends and Books of Miracles; contrived purposely by Satan to tempt men to disbelieve the Miracles of Christ and his Apostles.