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A second admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written to call him to repentance for…
A second admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written to call him to repentance for many false doctrines, crimes, and specially fourscore palpable untruths in matter of fact ... : with a confutation of his reasons for separation ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Nevill Simmons, 1671
A second Admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written in some hope of c… › Section 58
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.
16. Is it by Inspiration from Heaven, such as the Prophets had, that the true Reading must be known? or to ordinary (at least sanctified) Reason by evidence in the Text it self? If the former, none but Prophets can know it. If the later, you can prove it to a Rational or sanctified man, from some intrinsic evidence. For instance suppose a man never saw but two Printed English Bibles, and was never told which is right by others, and in one is Printed, Heb. 12. 2. he [despised the same] viz. the Cross, and in the other [he despised the shame] (for so two of them do differ:) how shall he prove which Printer erred?
16. Is it by Inspiration from Heaven, such as the Prophets had, that the true Reading must be known? or to ordinary (at least sanctified) Reason by evidence in the Text it self? If the former, none but Prophets can know it. If the later, you can prove it to a Rational or sanctified man, from some intrinsick evidence. For instance suppose a man never saw but two Printed English Bibles, and was never told which is right by others, and in one is Printed, Heb. 12. 2. he [despised the same] viz. the Cross, and in the other [he despised the shame] (for so two of them do differ:) how shall he prove which Printer erred?
17. Do all the Men and Women that are Godly actually know the true and uncorrupt copies and readings, by the Book it self without mans testimony? Or what is the name of that one Man or Woman in the World that you know, who without ever hearing it from man, could tell all the true readings from the false, or could tell that the Canticles or Ecclesiastes or the Book of Jonah were Canonical, and that the Book of Baruch, Wisdom, and Pauls Epistle to the Laodiceans, and Clemens to the Corinthians, were not. Do you know his name, that ever knew this by Reading the Bible only, without being ever told it by any? If not, and if it be sine quâ non to mens receiving of the Bible it self, that some one brings it to their hands; judge how wisely and fairly you deal with poor souls to talk at such a confident and yet confused rate.