VII. Quest. Whether these common Verities inferre not the truth of Chri∣stianity.
Answ. This is sufficiently answered in the last. Perhaps the few Verities mentioned by the Author are not e∣nough to prove Christianity by: But
More reasons for the Christian religion and no reason against it, or, A second appendix to the Reasons of the Christian religion being I. an answer to a letter from an unknown person charging the Holy Scriptures with contradictions, II. some animadversions on a tractate De Veritate, written by ... Edward Herbert, Baron of Cherbury ... / by Richard Baxter.
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- More reasons for the Christian religion and no reason against it, or, A second appendix to the Reasons of the Christian religion being I. an answer to a letter from an unknown person charging the Holy Scriptures with contradictions, II. some animadversions on a tractate De Veritate, written by ... Edward Herbert, Baron of Cherbury ... / by Richard Baxter.
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- Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.
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"More reasons for the Christian religion and no reason against it, or, A second appendix to the Reasons of the Christian religion being I. an answer to a letter from an unknown person charging the Holy Scriptures with contradictions, II. some animadversions on a tractate De Veritate, written by ... Edward Herbert, Baron of Cherbury ... / by Richard Baxter." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A26960.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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that it hath true evidence in sense and reason is manifested heretofore. And I believe that he that will by just argumentation follow on the Christi∣an cause with an unbeliever, if he can hold him to the point from rambling, and suppose him capable of Historical evidence, may drive him to yield, or to deny common princi∣ples, yea to deny that God is God, and that man is man, and consequently that there is any be∣ing. But the evasion will be by de∣nying notorious matter of fact, which therefore must be proved by its proper evidence.