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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London :: Printed for Nevil Simmons ...,
1672.
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Herbert of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, -- Baron, 1583-1648. -- De veritate.
Apologetics -- Early works to 1800.
Apologetics -- History -- 17th century.
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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 May 3, 2024.

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IX. Quest. Whether they are necessa∣ry conditions of the certain knowledge of a divine Revelation. First, That it be made immediately to my self. Secondly, And that I feel a divine afflatus in the Reception? as is said Page.

Answ. No: A Revelation made to others, may be certainly notified to me, else if an Angel from Heaven should appear to all men in the Town and Country save one, or if all save one saw a thousand miracles to con∣firm a Revelation, yet that one

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could not be sure of it. But I have by abundance of arguments in a pe∣culiar disputation in a Treatise cal∣led the unreasonableness of unbelief, long ago fully proved the negative; And again in my Reas. of the Christian Relig. therefore I will not weary the Reader with repeti∣ons.

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