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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.
PART II. Of CHRISTIANITY, and Supernatural Revelation. CHAP. I. OF the need of a clearer Light, or fuller Revelation of the Will of God, than all that hath been opened before, p. 191 CHAP. II. Of the several RELIGIONS which are in the World, 198 CHAP. III. Of the CHRISTIAN RELIGION: and 1. What it is, 204 CHAP. IV. Of the Nature and PROPERTIES of the Christian Religion, 229 CHAP. V. Of the CONGRUITIES in the Christian Religion, which make it the more easily credible, and are great Preparatives to Faith, 241 CHAP. VI. Of the WITNESS of JESUS CHRIST, or the great demonstrative Evidence of his Verity and Authority, viz. The SPIRIT: In 4. parts: 1. Antecedently, by PROPHECY. 2. Constitutively and Inherently, the Image of God, on his Person, Life and Doctrine. 3. Concomitantly; by the Miraculous Power and Works of Christ and his Disciples. 4. Subsequently; in the actual Salvation of men by Renovation: Opened: Notes added, 258 CHAP. VII. Of the subservient Proofs and Means by which the forementioned Evidences are brought to our certain knowledge, 302 How we know the antecedent Prophetical Testimony; and the Constitutive, Inherent Evidence: How we know the Concomitant Testimony of Miracles: 1. By Humane Testimony. 2. By Evidence of Natural Certainty. 3. By Divine attestation in the Testifiers Miracles. The Proofs of that Divine attestation with the Witnesses: 1. In the holy Constitution of their Souls and Doctrine: 2. In their Miracles and Gifts: 3. In the success of ⟨image 17⟩their Doctrine to mens sanctification. How the Churches testimony of the Disciples Miracles and Doctrine is proved. 1. By most credible Humane Testimony: 2. By such as hath Natural Evidence of Certainty: 3. By some further Divine attestation. The way or Means of the Churches attestation and Tradition. The Scriptures proved the same which the Apostles delivered, and the Churches received. How we may know the 4th part of the Spirits Testimony, viz. The Successes of Christian Doctrine to mens sanctification: What Sanctification is, and the acts or parts of it. Consectaries, from p. 302. to 350 CHAP. VIII. Of some other subservient and Collateral Arguments for the Christian Verity, 350 CHAP. IX. Yet Faith hath many Difficulties to overcome: What they are, and what their Causes, 365 CHAP. X. The Intrinsical Difficulties in the Christian Faith resolved:
PART II. Of CHRISTIANITY, and Supernatural Revelation. CHAP. I. OF the need of a clearer Light, or fuller Revelation of the Will of God, than all that hath been opened before, p. 191 CHAP. II. Of the several RELIGIONS which are in the World, 198 CHAP. III. Of the CHRISTIAN RELIGION: and 1. What it is, 204 CHAP. IV. Of the Nature and PROPERTIES of the Christian Religion, 229 CHAP. V. Of the CONGRƲITIES in the Christian Religion, which make it the more easily credible, and are great Preparatives to Faith, 241 CHAP. VI. Of the WITNESS of JESƲS CHRIST, or the great demonstrative Evidence of his Verity and Authority, viz. The SPIRIT: In 4. parts: 1. Antecedently, by PROPHECY. 2. Constitutively and Inherently, the Image of God, on his Person, Life and Doctrine. 3. Concomitantly; by the Miraculous Power and Works of Christ and his Disciples. 4. Subsequently; in the actual Salvation of men by Renovation: Opened: Notes added, 258 CHAP. VII. Of the subservient Proofs and Means by which the forementioned Evidences are brought to our certain knowledge, 302 How we know the antecedent Prophetical Testimony; and the Constitutive, Inherent Evidence: How we know the Concomitant Testimony of Miracles: 1. By Humane Testimony. 2. By Evidence of Natural Certainty. 3. By Divine attestation in the Testifyers Miracles. The Proofs of that Divine attestation with the Witnesses: 1. In the holy Constitution of their Souls and Doctrine: 2. In their Miracles and Gifts: 3. In the success of