| Papist Query 2. | Baptist Anti-query 2. |
| How know you precisely what is the true Word of God? | Whether some Book must not of necessity speak for it self [or be received for God's Word upon its own Evidence?] and whether the Holy Scriptures do not best deserve that privilege? And whether it be not too great presumption to say, There are no Holy Books, but those which you and we have received for such, seeing those which we have, tell us there were other Holy Writings, which never yet came to our Hands, nor to yours? |
Hear the church, or, An appeal to the mother of us all to all the baptized believers in England, exhorting them to stedfastness in the truth, according to the scriptures : together with some farther considerations of seven queries, sent to the baptized believers in Lincolnshire, concerning the judge of contriversies in matters of religion : in three parts / by Thomas Grantham.
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- Hear the church, or, An appeal to the mother of us all to all the baptized believers in England, exhorting them to stedfastness in the truth, according to the scriptures : together with some farther considerations of seven queries, sent to the baptized believers in Lincolnshire, concerning the judge of contriversies in matters of religion : in three parts / by Thomas Grantham.
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- Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692.
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- London :: [s.n.],
- 1687.
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- Baptists -- Doctrines.
- Theology, Doctrinal -- Early works to 1800.
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"Hear the church, or, An appeal to the mother of us all to all the baptized believers in England, exhorting them to stedfastness in the truth, according to the scriptures : together with some farther considerations of seven queries, sent to the baptized believers in Lincolnshire, concerning the judge of contriversies in matters of religion : in three parts / by Thomas Grantham." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A41780.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.
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Forasmuch as no Society of Christians in these days can bear witness to the truth of any thing upon their own knowledg, sight, or hearing (as the Apostles did, 1 John 1. 2 Pet. 1. 16.) for scarce so much as one hundred years, and this their Testimony, also, being but of human Authority, it remaineth of necessi∣ty, that some Books of Record must be received upon the Authority of the Au∣thor, in whose Name they speak, and the Divine Evidence of the Matter con∣tained in them; and hence we argue, the Sufficiency of the Scriptures own Au∣thority, to command our reception of them, speaking to us in the Name of God, and carrying in themselves Divine Evidences in respect of the matters therein contained.