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The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving…The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving…
The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving that popery is against the Holy Scriptures, the unity of the catholic church, the consent of the ancient doctors, the plainest reason, and common judgment of sense it self / by Richard Baxter.The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving that popery is against the Holy Scriptures, the unity of the catholike church, the consent of the antient doctors, the plainest reason, and common judgment of sense it self / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1657
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.
31. No man can be certain of his justification without a special revelation.
32. That no man in this world ought to seek an infallible certainty of his salvation or justification.
33. That doubting of the pardon of sin is not an infirmity but a virtue.
33. That doubting of the pardon of sin is not an infirmity but a vertue.
134. For any one certainly to believe that his sins are forgiven him through Christ, is abominable presumption.
- 134. To be certain of it is a great mercy: but to believe that it is a thing written in Scripture, that I am pardoned, is not a duty: for it is not there.