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A26960	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.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. Reasons of the Christian religion.	1672 (1672)	Wing B1313; ESTC R4139	63,611	190

knew whether all were true or not But also they did all in the power of the same Spirit which Christ did work by doing such Miracles as Christ had done And this not a few nor in a Corner but in many Countries of the world and that by many thousand Christians in one kind or other tongues healing prophecie or the like as well as the Apostles The certainty of which fact is attested by the very existence of all the Churches converted by it with all their Baptismes Professions and the rest of the Tradition before named No Christian of all this multitude by any terrours death time was brought to the last to repent and say that he had deceived the world by a lie Many Apostates falling off for fear of sufferings but none with any such recantation No adversary confuting the History but commonly confessing most of it with more such evidence which I have open'd in the Treat and must not oft repeat lest I be tedious And that which is still the Natural Evidence is that There is still existent First On the sacred Gospel Secondly On the souls and lives of all serious Christians by its impress the unimitable Image of the Divine Power Wisdome and goodness Life Light and Love as the Divine attestation Only as this noble Author requireth to all true Conceptions and Intellections so do we to this that there be but the necessary conditions in the mind of the receiver And whereas he saith that commonly Miracles are reported a hundred years after Here it was otherwise The Jews were enraged by them for fear of the Romans The Apostles and others wrought them openly Matthew and John that wrote Christs History lived with him and saw what they wrote so did Peter and James Paul wrote what he saw and heard from heaven Luke wrote the Acts of Paul which he saw being his Companion in travels The thousands were converted and Churches in many Countries planted not by bare words but by the Conviction of the Miracles of the Apostles themselves so that every Church and Christian was a History of them And all this they were moved to with the hopes of heaven where truth is known to deny the world and mortifie the flesh and suffer whatever the Gospel would inflict to preserve their hopes and comforts founded in this word of faith XI Quest Whether the common custome of sacrificing throughout the world in all generations were not their actual Confession that the sinner deserved death and that Gods justice required punishment of satisfaction and proceeded not from Divine Revelation in the beginning when God had new made the Covenant of Grace and so was delivered down by Tradition For my part it cannot come into my understanding why else men should think that God is pleased or appeased by the Creatures death or how this should become so common throughout the world And the two exceptions confirm this to be truth First Some Savages in America use no sacrifices But they are such as know not God or so Savage as to have lost all antient Tradition Secondly All the Mahometans and Christians use no bloody sacrifice But that is because First Christians believe that Sacrifices were but types of Christ and that he put an end to them by his perfect Sacrifice 2dly And Mahometans received it from Christ being but Christians degenerate first into Arrians and then into Mahometans and still professing to take Christ for the word and son of God and his word as true onely hating the Christians for saying that he is very God But of this instead of writing after so many I only refer you to their writings And specially to Dr. Owens Latine Tractate on this subject XII Whether Interest make the Judgment of Divines in the Cause of faith more suspicious or contemptible than other mens I put this Question with respect to those words in the Preface Sed neque auspicaciores ubique posterioris istius seculi Scriptores dicendi sunt Fit ita ut pro Regionum fidei diversitate in id potissimum incumbant ne illos domi male multet inopia adeoque non tam quid in se verum quam quid sibi ipsis utile exquirant Non est igitur a larvato aliquo vel stipendioso Scriptore ut verum Consummatum opperiaris Illorum apprime interest ne personam deponant vel aliter quidem sentiant Ingenuus sui arbitrii ista solummodo praestabit Author Answ First It is not to be denyed that there are multitudes of such Carnal Pastors in the Churches that are Christians for the case honour and wealth Secondly But that this should be so with all I shall disprove and prove that none on earth are so credible in this case as Divines First Because they have made it the business of their lives to search out the truth and therefore some of them must be supposed to have the greatest advantages to know it So that for Ability they have no sort of men that are Competitors For diligence and helps are the improvers of understanding And all men are found best at their own profession Lawyers in the Law Physicians in Medicine Philosophers in Philosophy c. And for your self your next words are Nobis tamen ad alia omnia fere quam literarum studia uti oportuit exequenda otium fuit Partim armis in diversis regionibus partim quinquennali Legatione partim negotiis tum publicis tum privatis vacavimus And is not this your disadvantage Who is a good Linguist Lawyer Physician c. that hath had but little leisure for his studies Secondly And as for Will and Interest it is notorious that thousands of the Ministry have so little set by worldly Interest as that it is upon the terms of greatest self-denyal to the flesh that they take up and exercise their office being moved onely by the great Interest of their own and others souls Their voluntary diligent labours their holy lives their contempt of the world may convince any of this that are not blinded by prejudice or malice There are few Learned men in the Reformed Churches but might far better use their studies and labours if they took that for best which is most profitable advancing or pleasing to the flesh Thirdly You had a Brother of your own so holy a man as his sincerity was past exception and so zealous in his Sacred Ministry as shewed he did not dissemble And I suppose had it been necessary you would have so maintained him that he should not have fled from truth for fear of poverty Fourthly What can you think of all those that gave up their lives for the Christian saith and hopes Did they go upon such carnal grounds as you mention Fifthly The revolutions of States and the diversity of Sentiments and especially the Interests of the Carnal part do bring it to pass by Gods over-ruling of all that usually the most serious Christians and Pastors are the sufferers of the age they live in

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 the Noble and Learned Lord Edward Herbert Baron of Chizbury c. and Printed at Paris 1624. And at London 1633. Resolving Twelve Questions about Christianity By Richard Baxter LONDON Printed for Nevil Simmons at the Princes Arms in St. Pauls Church-Yard 1672. TO THE Right Worshipfull Sir Henry Herbert Kt. c. SIR THe reasons are many which induce me to presume to direct these Papers first to you and to tell the world how much I honour you first my personal ancient obligations to you secondly Principally your approved wisdom and moderation and taking part with the waies of Charity and Peace in your most publick capacity in these trying times thirdly your Relation to the Noble Author on whose writing I here Animadvert which as it is your honour to be the Brother of so learned and ingenious a Lord and the Brother of so excellently holy as well as learned and ingenious a person as Mr. George Herbert Orator to the University of Cambridge and a faithful Pastor in the English Church so it obligeth me the more to give you an account of this Animadversion It is long since I sought after the Book as provoked by the Title and the honour of the Authors name and received it from you as your gift The premised Letter from an unknown person of the same name occasioned me to review it The sad case of many of my acquaintance and the increase of Infidelity of late especially among debauched sensual Gallants and the danger of England hereby and the Temptations against which the best of Christians have need of help were the Reasons of my presumption it being my Calling to propagate and vindicate the Christian Faith I am so far from writing against his whole Book that I take most of his Rules and Notions de Veritate to be of singular use And had so great a wit had but the Internal Conditions due to such an Intellectual apprehension as his and your holy and excellent Brother had no doubt but our supernatural Revelations and Verities would have appeared evident to him and possest his soul with so sweet a gust and fervent ascendent holy LOVE as breatheth in Mr. G. Herbert's Poems and as would have made them as clear to him in their kind as some of his Notitiae Communes The truth is as he was too low to us who number not our Divine Revelations with the Veresimilia but with the Certain Verities so he was too high for the Atheistical Sensualists of this age And I would they would learn of him that the Being and Perfections of God the duty of worshipping him and of holy Conformity and Obedience to him and particularly all the ten Commandments the necessity of true Repentance and the Rewards and Punishments of the Life to Come with the Souls Immortality are all Notitiae Communes and such Natural Certainties as that the denyal of them doth unman them To know this and to live accordingly would make a great alteration in our times And Christianity could not be disrelished by such that so know and do I may well suppose that your approbation of the Cause I plead for will make it needless to me to Apologize for my boldness in medling with such an Author while I do it with all tenderness of his deserved honour I remain Your obliged Servant Richard Baxter Jan. 17. 1671 2 SIR I Was right glad when I first heard that you had written and put to Print a Book of the Reasons of the Christian Religion and I did immediately buy the Book hoping that in the Reading and Perusing of it I might have received satisfaction as to any doubt or scruple and an answer satisfactory to all Objections that in Reason may be raised against the Grounds of the said Christian Religion because I did think you to be as able to say and write as much as any man in that thing having as I thought studied it as much as any that I had heard of but in the reading and perusing it I contrary to my expectation found it to be short of giving me satisfaction For the greatest occasion of any doubt or scruple in any thing tending or relating to the Christian Religion that I at any time had or have were from that variousness and contrariety if not contradictions which are or at least seem to be in the writings of the Apostles and Evangelists and other Books received for Scripture But you in answer to that Objection page 412. say Nothing but ignorance maketh men think so understand once the true meaning and allow for the errors of Printers Transcribers and Translators and there will no such thing be found But you neither tell me which are those errors nor yet how I may know them 1. Therefore I humbly pray you in writing to tell me whether that which is written in the first Chapter of Matthews Gospel verse 8 9. where Matthew writes that Joram begat Ozias and Ozias begat Joatham be any error of the Transcribers Translators or Printers or the contrary to it which is written in the second book of the Kings and in the books of the Chronicles if not how may they be understood for in those books it is written that Joram was Father to Ahaziah and Ahaziah was Father to Joash and Joash was Father to Amaziah and Amaziah was Father to Azariah and A zariah was Father to Joatham by the account of which Books there is above an hundred Years between the death of Joram the son of Jehosaphat and Joatham 2. And Secondly Whether that which is written by Luke in his Gospel Chapter 24. vers 9 10. 22 23. where Luke writes that Mary Magdalen and other Women told the Disciples that they had seen a Vision of Angels which said that Jesus was risen from the dead and was alive whether this be any error of the Transcribers Translators and Printers or any of them or the Contrary which is written by St. John in his Gospel for he writes Chap. 20. verse 2. That Mary Magdalen told two of the Disciples and said to them They I suppose meaning the Adversaries have taken away the Lord out of the Sepulcher and we know not where they have laid him If not how may I understand them to be both true Testimonies or Reports for it seemeth by Luke ver 11 12. and 23 24. of his 24. Chapter that Mary and the other Women had told those things of their seeing the Angels which said that Jesus was risen and alive before that Peter ran or went to the Sepulcher 3. And Thirdly Whether that which is written by Matthew in the 28th Chapter of his Gospel that the Angel said to Mary Magdalen and the other Mary fear not

was not existent till 4000 years after having any proper casuality to change Gods mind or will The sum of the Christian Doctrine about the Interposition and Redemption by the Son for man upon his fall is but this As if God should say I will not destroy or damn sinful man remedilesly according to the strict termes of the Law of Innocency which he hath broken but will give him a remedying Covenant of Grace because I will in the fulness of Time provide better for the glorifying of my Truth and Holiness wisdome and goodness justice and mercy than the remediless destruction of mankind would do even by the Incarnation doctrine sacrifice merits c. of the eternal word So that this grand work of God is the cause of his subordinate works but not the cause of any real but only relative or denominative mutation in himself This all sound Christians are agreed in And can this offend you Secondly And for the termes of communication of Grace to man it is either First The New Covenant as a Gift of pardon and life Secondly Or the conditions which it requireth of man First The former you neither do find fault with nor can do That God should give the world a Recovering and pardoning Law Secondly The second is all that is here liable to your exception And what do you think amiss in that First Not that Repentance is one of the Conditions of further Grace for that you plead for Secondly Not that Fides in Deum misericordem Faith in Gods revealed me●cy as pardoning sin is required of man for that also you plead for But you would have his goodness and mercy to be a sufficient satisfaction to his Justice Answ First I hope you will not exclude his wisdome because you abhorre Atheism as folly Secondly And I hope you will distinguish between the prime satisfying Cause and the satisfying means These plainly differ The prime satisfying Cause is Gods wisdome contriving and determining of the fittest way to communicate his love and spirit But the prime satisfying means is Jesus Christ who was to do that which was fittest to attain the foresaid ends But that which you will accept against is that the Belief in Christs future incarnation was made then necessary to salvation Answ First See that you feign not the Christian Doctrine to say more of this than indeed it doth which I have opened to you before I told you how narrow the Apostles own faith was before Christs Resurrection We know that ●● the believing Jews knew not so much as they nor so much as the Prophets and more illuminated men And we know that the rest of the world had not so full a revelation as the Jews But we know that all that had the notice of his promise were to believe the truth thereof And those that had not the word of promise made known to them had the possession of many such mercies as that promise gave and as intimated much of the same grace which the promise did Thefore none could be bound to lessthan to believe that God of his mercy would pardon sin and save penitent Believers by such a means of securing the honour of his holiness truth and justice as his infinite wisdome should provide This much you cannot deny And that the promise of the Victorious seed though it seem too obscure to bind men to so distinct a faith as ours is was by Tradition told to Adams posterity and that they had a General belief of such an expiation for some time seemeth intimated in the early and almost universal use of sacrificing of which I shall speak more anon Hitherto then I have vindicated the Christian Doctrine of mans salvation for the first 4000 years Secondly And is there any thing since which should make it more offensive to you First As to the Person of Christ I have said enough in my Treatise the Reason of Christian Religion Verily I think it far harder to confute those that feign all the world to be animated by God as the universal Soul and to conceive how God who is most intimate to all things in whom we live and move and are should not be as neerly united to all things as Christians believe him to be to the humane nature of Christ though undoubtedly it is not so than that he should have that neer union with his humane nature Secondly And as to Christs work I have so largely shewed you the necessity the reasonableness and the harmonical congruities that I will not repeat them In a word The New Testament is the Doctrine of the eternal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wisdome or word of God Incarnate to communicate the Divine Spirit and love to man to be a sacrifice for sin the Conqueror of Satan Death and Sin the Head over All things to the Church the Author of Redemption the grand Administrator of the new Covenant the Reconciler and Restorer of man to God the Teacher Ruler and High Preist of the Church in order to this our Restoration and Salvation Thirdly But if it be the Time of his coming that doth offend you I have answered that and further adde First What is there in foolish man that should encourage him to dream that he better knoweth the fittest season for Gods works than God himself Secondly Man was not all the while before without the Benefits of this dedesigned and undertaken Redemption He was still under a Covenant of Grace Thirdly Consider well that God did not intend to give mankind that had so heinously sinned by preferferring the Devils word before his a present and a perfect pardon but onely to give a new Law and Covenant which should be a conditional gift of pardon to be obteined in full perfection in time and by degrees we had made our selves voluntarily the Slaves of Satan And God would not deliver us all at once We had forfeited the heavenly assistance of the holy spirit and God would not give it us all at once Mans time of healing the wounds of his own sin is the time of this life and the perfect cure will not be done till our entrance into the perfect world And as it is with Individual men so it is with the world of all mankind Grace mitateth nature and doth all by degrees darker Revelations were meeter for the Infancy of the world and clearer at noon day and riper knowledge fitter for its maturity And when Satan by Divine permission had plai'd his part and seemed to triumph over the sinful world it was time for Christ to come by Power Wisdom and Goodness meanly cloathed to cast down his Temples and Altars to subsidue his Kingdoms and to triumph over the Triumpher Fourthly But if it be the present conditions of the new Covenant since Christs Resurrection that offendeth you viz that the world is required to believe in him I have answered that and now adde First Remember what I said before that no mans condition is made worse by Christ than