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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
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.
He next comes to expound his words, That faith believeth all that God revealeth explicitly 1or implicitly; that is now some things explicitly, and some things implicitly; when as I asked him, What was the faith in which we must unite? who would have expected such an answer, That it is a general belief of all things revealed, and a particular belief of some things? That it is such a belief of all particulars, as is no real actual belief of some of them; and it is an actual belief of other some? But is any man ever the nearer the knowledge of their minds by this?
He next comes to expound his words, That faith believeth all that God revealeth explicitely 1or implicitely; that is now some things explicitely, and some things implicitely; when as I asked him, What was the faith in which we must unite? who would have expected such an answer, That it is a general belief of all things revealed, and a particular belief of some things? That it is such a belief of all particulars, as is no real actual belief of some of them; and it is an actual belief of other some? But is any man ever the nearer the knowledg of their minds by this?
- 1Sect. 4.
1. Here is no notice what the General is that must be believed: He professeth that it is not the formal object only, that is, The veracity, or faithfulness of God the Revealer: And what else it is whether that all that the Scripture revealeth is true, or that all that the Church declareth to be Gods word is true; and whom we must take for that Church, &c. he hath not told us; and so hath given an answer which is no answer.