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A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…
A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton, 1662
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Qu. 1. If the Scripture be not the Word of God, How could it tell us of the making of the world, and such like things, which none but God alone could tell? I know you will say, I know not whether it tell us true or not; or whether the world were not, as Aristotle thought, from eternity. But tell me this then (to pass by the rest now) How comes it to pass that in all the world, there are no Books or Monuments known of any longer standing then the time that Scripture assigneth to the Creation? It is not six thousand years since the Creation. If the world had lasted thousands and millions of years before, is it possible that all its Antiquities should be lost, ⟨p. 151⟩and not one to be seen, nor mentioned by man in all the world, (For the fabulous tales of some in China, without all proof, are not worth the mentioning.) Certainly some Book would have been saved, or some Cities, or lasting piles or stony monuments preserved, or some sign or tradition kept alive, of some of all those many thousand years.
Qu. 1. If the Scripture be not the Word of God, How could it tell us of the making of the world, and such like things, which none but God alone could tell? I know you will say, I know not whether it tell us true or not; or whether the world were not, as Aristotle thought, from eternity. But tell me this then (to pass by the rest now) How comes it to pass that in all the world, there are no Books or Monuments known of any longer standing then the time that Scripture assigneth to the Creation? It is not six thousand years since the Creatiou. If the world had lasted thousands and millions of years before, is it possible that all its Antiquities should be lost, ⟨p. 151⟩and not one to be seen, nor mentioned by man in all the world, (For the sabulous tales of some in China, without all proof, are not worth the mentioning.) Certainly some Book would have been saved, or some Cities, or lasting piles or stony monuments preserved, or some sign or tradition kept alive, of some of all those many thousand years.