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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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Quer. 12. Is it possible that none of the Jews, their bitter Enemies, nor any of the Learned Romans of that age, would have discovered the fraud, and by writing confuted the matters of fact, being public, and if false, so easily confuted? Where are the Books that ever any one of them wrote to disprove any of these Miracles? If you say, The Christians burnt them; give us the least proof of it if you can. When did any Jew complain of such a thing? Nay how could the dispersed persecuted Christians destroy the writings of their reigning enemies? The writings of Jews and Romans then written remain to this day, and had fuller humane advantages of preservation, then any that are against them. No Jews or Romans complained or to do this day complain of such a thing; nor tell us of any such writings of theirs, that ever were in the world.
Quer. 12. Is it possible that none of the Jews, their bitter Enemies, nor any of the Learned Romans of that age, would have discovered the fraud, and by writing confuted the matters of fact, being publik, and if false, so easily confuted? Where are the Books that ever any one of them wrote to disprove any of these Miracles? If you say, The Christians burnt them; give us the least proof of it if you can. When did any Jew complain of such a thing? Nay how could the dispersed persecuted Christians destroy the writings of their reigning enemies? The writings of Jews and Romans then written remain to this day, and had fuller humane advantages of preservation, then any that are against them. No Jews or Romans complained or to do this day complain of such a thing; nor tell us of any such writings of theirs, that ever were in the world.
Quer. 13. Nay the Jews confessed the Miracles themselves, and had no shift left for their unbelief, but by Blaspheming the Holy Ghost, and saying that they were done by the Power of the devil.
Quer. 14. All the dispersed Churches and Christians of the world, have universally concurred in delivering us down these matters of fact, and the Writings that contain them; and this as a thing that they grounded all their hope of Salvation on, and for which they contemned this present world: And the Enemies that gainsaid their doctrine, did not gainsay these matters of fact. Could this be feigned?