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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 97
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Would not that man reduce the Church into less than one single person, who would have no man believe the Scripture, nor take it for Gods word, till he can do it without any help of man, or humane History, or Testimony or Tradition? But of this I put him twenty Questions before.
It shall now suffice to tell you this much of the plain truth, that such furious false Teachers as shall take the foresaid course may not utterly subvert your faith.
The Scripture and Christian Religion taken together as one frame or Body,1 hath that in it self which may prove that frame, and all the essential parts of our Religion to be of God; And the true proof of the Divine Authority of the Scripture, is by the evidence of the spirit; not a new Revelation of the spirit; But by a double Impression of Gods own Image made by the Holy Ghost, one upon the Scripture it self, The other by the Scripture in its continued efficacy on Believers souls: And both these Images are the Impresses of the Trinity of Divine Principles, even of the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God; which are unimitably done in both. This is the true proof that Scripture is the word of God.
The Scripture and Christian Religion taken together as one frame or Body,1 hath that in it self which may prove that frame, and all the essential parts of our Religion to be of God; And the true proof of the Divine Authority of the Scripture, is by the evidence of the spirit; not a new Revelation of the spirit; But by a double Impression of Gods own Image made by the Holy Ghost, one upon the Scripture it self, The other by the Scripture in its continued efficacy on Belivers souls: And both these Images are the Impresses of the Trinity of Divine Principles, even of the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God; which are unimitably done in both. This is the true proof that Scripture is the word of God.