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The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their…
The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their principles about civil and ecclesiastical authority and obedience ... : mostly written many years past, and now published to save our lives and the kingdoms peace, from the false and bloody plotters ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
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.
5. The Law of God and only it, is obligatory by Primitive, (underived) authority.
6. Divine Revelation or testimony or assertion, and it only is absolutely infallible by the absolute Infallibility and Veracity of the revealer.
7. Gods Laws are not only sufficient but Perfect, as made by him that hath no imperfection.
8. Their sufficiency and perfection is not to be measured by humane presumptions, or by Carnal wit, that would teach God what to speak, and how: and then accuse his Law of material or modal imperfections, because it is not such as they think it should be; or else affirm that to be there which is not there, because they judge that it ought to be there: But it consisteth in their perfect Aptitude to their proper ends.
9. It is wise and valid reasoning to prove first that it is Gods Law, and thence to infer that it is sufficient and perfect: But it is a foolish Reasoning to being with the more uncertain assumptions, and to argue that It is not perfect, Ergo it is not Gods Laws; or to dream, that to be Gods Law, and to be imperfect are consistent.