A27004:1838
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
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4. Moreover it is Christ who gave all men all the gifts they have: to Logicians, Orators, Astronomers, Grammarians, Physicians, and Musicians, &c. what ever gifts are suited to mens just ends and callings, he bestoweth on them; and to his Apostles he gave those gifts which were most suitable to their work: I do not undervalue the gifts of Nature or Art in any; I make it not, with Aristotle, an argument for the contempt of Music, Jovem neque canere, neque cytharam pulsare; but I may say, that as God hath greater excellencies in himself, so hath he greater gifts to give; and such gifts as were fittest for the confirmation of the truth of the Gospel, and first planting of the Churches he gave to the Apostles: and such as were fit for the edifying of the Church he giveth to his Ministers ever since. And such as were fit for the improvement of Nature, in lower things, he gave the Philosophers and Artists of the world.
4. Moreover it is Christ who gave all men all the gifts they have: to Logicians, Orators, Astronomers, Grammarians, Physicians, and Musicians, &c. what ever gifts are suited to mens just ends and callings, he bestoweth on them; and to his Apostles he gave those gifts which were most suitable to their work: I do not undervalue the gifts of Nature or Art in any; I make it not, with Aristotle, an argument for the contempt of Musick, Jovem neque canere, neque cytharam pulsare; but I may say, that as God hath greater excellencies in himself, so hath he greater gifts to give; and such gifts as were fittest for the confirmation of the truth of the Gospel, and first planting of the Churches he gave to the Apostles: and such as were fit for the edifying of the Church he giveth to his Ministers ever since. And such as were fit for the improvement of Nature, in lower things, he gave the Philosophers and Artists of the world.
Object. XVII. The Scripture hath many contradictions in it, in points of History, Chronology, and other things: Therefore it is not the word of God.