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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. 15. Have I not fully manifested in my Book against Infidelity (to which I must again dismiss you) that there is a full and infallible Evidence, that this Scripture was written by the Apostles, and Evangelists, and these Miracles done, as there is that any of the Statutes of this Land are the currant Statutes of those Parliaments that are said to make them? And your Lands and Lives are held by the credit of these Statutes.
A word or two to the objections of a Masked Infidel of this Country, Clem. Writer.
A word or two to the objections of a Masked Infidel of this Countrey, Clem. Writer.
Saith he, Men be not commanded to believe these Statutes on pain of damnation: Therefore the case is not like.
Answ. But men are commanded to obey them upon pain of death; and believing is prerequisite to obeying: therefore the case is like. Death is the utmost penalty that man can inflict: or if there be greater, it all runs on the same foundation: And sure that evidence that proves men culpable for breaking mans Laws, must prove him culpable for breaking Gods. You have no other eyes to read the Laws of God, then those by which you read mans Laws And doth it follow that God must not condemn you for breaking his Laws, when men do but hang you for breaking theirs? Sure Gods Laws and mans may be printed in the same Character, and read with the same eyes, and both have the same Natural means of delivery, and yet the sin and punishment differ as the Authority doth.