A27069:104
Which is the true church? the whole Christian world, as headed only by Christ…
Which is the true church? the whole Christian world, as headed only by Christ ... or, the Pope of Rome and his subjects as such? : in three parts ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London : Printed, and are to be sold by Richard Janeway ..., 1679
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But yet he will justify his vanity by more instances: pag. 12, he saith, When you profess in 1t•e Creed, that God is the Creator of all things visible and invisible, I demand, Do you believe as you profess? If you do, then you may believe with an actual belief, that he is the Creator of many things visible and invisible, whereof you have no actual understanding, or which are ⟨p. 7⟩wholly unknown particularly, or distinctly to you, or by any other knowledge, than as confusedly contained in the word ALL.
But yet he will justifie his vanity by more instances: pag. 12, he saith, When you profess in 1t•e Creed, that God is the Creator of all things visible and invisible, I demand, Do you believe as you profess? If you do, then you may believe with an actual belief, that he is the Creator of many things visible and invisible, whereof you have no actual understanding, or which are ⟨p. 7⟩wholly unknown particularly, or distinctly to you, or by any other knowledg, than as confusedly contained in the word ALL.
- 1Sect. 9.
Ans. 1. What's all this, but to say, that I believe this proposition, All things, of which many are unknown to •e, are created by God? This proposition I know and believe; but the things themselves as such, I no further believe than I know: if I know not that they are, I believe not that they are: if I know not what they are, I believe not what they are; that is, if I have not an intellectual conception That they are, and What they are: for believing is indeed but a knowing by the medium of a Testimony or Revelation, and the veracity of the Revealer.