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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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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.
Object. 3. But (saith Writer) If God had means that the Scripture should be a Law to all, he would not have writ it in a language which they understand not?]
Answ. Any thing will serve to make an Infidel, when the mind is corrupted and deplorate. Were they no Laws which the Romans wrote in Latin, for the Government of all the Nations of the Roman World? It was enough that the Rulers of the Provinces caused them to be so far understood by the People as was necessary to a righteous Government. I mean, those Laws that were added to the proper Laws of that people.
Answ. Any thing will serve to make an Infidel, when the mind is corrupted and deplorate. Were they no Laws which the Romans wrote in Latin, for the Government of all the Nations of the Roman World? It was enough that the Rulers of the Previnces caused them to be so far understood by the People as was necessary to a righteous Government. I mean, those Laws that were added to the proper Laws of that people.
2. Was there any one Language then that all the world understood? And was it not enough that God appointed the Ministerial Office purposely to preserve and publish this Gospel to the world from generation to generation? And is not Translating (whether by Voice or Writing) a part of that preaching or explication? Did not the Ministers of Christ preach the same doctrine to the world then, in the several languages of the Nations where they came? And were not the Scriptures presently translated according to the use of the Churches? Upon how silly a pretence then would your silly Imperial Majesty impose it on the God of Heaven, to write his word in as many Languages as are in the world, if he would be believed?