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A27004	The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural evidence the being of God ... : the second part, of Christianity, proving by evidence supernatural and natural, the certain truth of the Christian belief ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; also an appendix defending the soul's immortality against the Somatists or Epicureans and other pseudo-philosophers.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1667 (1667)	Wing B1367; ESTC R5892	599,557	672

know without this were to know without knowledge Faith is an act or species of knowledge it is so far from being contrary to reason that it is but an act of cleared elevated reason it is not an act of immediate intuition of God or Jesus Christ himself but a knowledge of the truth by the divine evidence of its certainty they that wrangle against us for giving reason for our Religion seem to tell us that they have none for their own or else reprehend us for being men If they had to do with them who make God to be but the Prime Reason would they say that Faith is something above Reason and therefore something above God I believe that our Reason or Intellection is far from being univocally the same thing with God's but I believe that God is Intellection Reason or Wisdom eminenter though not formaliter and that though the name be first used to signifie the lower derivative Reason of many yet we have no higher to express the Wisdom of God by nor better notion to apprehend it by than this which is its Image I conclude therefore that § 1. The Christian Religion must be the most Rational in the world or that which hath the soundest reason for it if it be the truest And the proof of it must be by producing the evidences of its truth § 2. The evidence which Faith requireth is properly called Evidence of credibility § 3. When we speak of Humane Faith as such Credibility is somewhat short of proper Certainty but when we speak of Divine Faith or a Belief of God evidence of Credibility is evidence of Certainty § 4. The great Witness of Jesus Christ or the demonstrative Evidence of his Verity and Authority was The HOLY SPIRIT § 5. The Word or Doctrin of Jesus Christ hath four several infallible testimonies of God's Spirit which though each of them alone is convincing yet all together make up this one great Evidence that is 1. Antecedently 2. Constitutively or Inherently 3. Concomitantly and 4. Subsequently of which I shall speak in course § 6.1 Antecedently the Spirit of Prophecy was a Witness to Jesus Christ Under which I comprehend the prediction also of Types He that was many hundred years before yea from age to age fore-told to come as the Messiah or Saviour by Divine prediction of Promises Prophesies and Types is certainly the true Messiah our Saviour But Jesus Christ was so foretold Ergo. 1. For Promises and Prophesies Gen. 3.15 presently after the Fall of Adam God said I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel As it is certain that it was Satan principally and the Serpent but instrumentally that is spoken of as the deceiver of Eve so it is as plain that it was Satan and his wicked followers principally and the Serpent and its seed only as the instruments that are here meant in the condemnation And that it is the seed of the woman by an excellency so called that is primarily here meant and under him her natural seed secondarily is proved not only by the Hebrew Masculine Gender but by the fulfilling of this Promise in the Expository effects and in other Promises to the like effect The rest of the Promises and Prophesies to this purpose are so many that to recite them all would swell the Book too big and therefore I must suppose that the Reader perusing the Sacred Scripture it self will acquaint himself with them there only a few I shall repeat Gen. 22.18 In thy seed shall all the Nations of the earth be blessed Gen. 49.10 The Scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a Law-giver from between his feet until Shiloh come The whole second Psalm is a Prophecy of the Kingdom of Christ Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing The Kings of the earth set themselves and the Rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his Annointed c. Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Sion I will declare the decree the Lord hath said unto me Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee Ask of me and I will give thee the Heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession Be wise therefore O ye Kings be learned ye Judges of the earth serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling Kiss the Son lest he be angry and ye perish c. Psal 16.10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption Psal 22.16 17 18. Dogs have compassed me the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me they pierced my hands and my feet I may tell all my bones they look and stare upon me they part my garments among them and cast lots upon my vesture Psal 69.21 They gave me also gall for my meat and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink Isa 53. Who hath believed our report and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed for he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground he hath no form nor comeliness and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him He is despised and rejected of men a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief and we hid as it were our faces from him he was despised and we esteemed him not Surely he hath born our griefs and carried our sorrows yet we did esteem him stricken smitten of God and afflicted But he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed All we like sheep have gone astray we have turned every one to his own way and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all He was oppressed and he was afflicted yet he opened not his mouth he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before the shearers is dumb so he opened not his mouth He was taken from prison and from judgment and who shall declare his generation For he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people was he stricken and he made his grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death because he had done no violence nor was any deceit in his mouth Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him he hath put him to grief When thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin he shall see his seed he shall prolong his days and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand He shall see of the travel of his soul and shall be satisfied by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justifie many for he shall bear their iniquities Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great and he shall divide the spoil

A Sellius his milkie Veines and Pecquets Receptacle of the Chyle and Bartholines Glandules and the Vasa Lymphatica are of late discovery Galilaeus his Glasses and his four Medicaean Planets and the Lunary mutations of Venus and the strange either opacous parts and shape of Saturn or the proximity of two other Stars which mishape it to our sight the shadowy parts of the Moon c. with the innumerable Stars in the Via Lactea c. were all unknown to former ages Gilberts magnetical discoveries I speak not of those questionable Inferences which Campanella and others contradict the nature of many Minerals and Plants the chief operations and effects of Chymistry abundance of secrets for the cure of many diseases even the most excellent medicaments are all of very late invention Almost all Arts and Sciences are encreasing neerer towards Perfection Ocular demonstrations by the Telescope and sensible experiments are daily multiplyed Yea the World it self is not all discovered to any one part but a great part of it was but lately made known even to the Europeans whose knowledge is greatest by Columbus and Americus Vesputianus and it is not long since it was first measured by a Circumnavigation If the World had been eternall or of much longer duration than the Scripture speaketh it is not credible that multiplyed experiences would not have brought it above that Infancy of knowledge in which it so long continued Obj. Cursed Warrs by Fire and Depopulation consume all Antiquities and put the World still to begin anew Answ It doth indeed do much this way but it is not so much that Warre could do For when it is in one Countrey others are free and some would fly or lie hid or survive who would preserve Arts and Sciences and be teachers of the rest Who can think now that any Wars are like to make America or Galilaeus's Stars unknown again or any of the forenamed Inventions to be lost 2. Moreover it is strange if the World were eternall or much elder than Scripture speaketh that no part of the World should shew us any elder Monument of Antiquity no engraven Stones or Plates no Mausolus Pyramids or Pillars no Books no Chronological Tables no Histories or Genealogies or other Memorials and Records I know to this also cursed Warrs may contribute much But not so much as to leave nothing to inquisitive Successors § 2. II. It greatly confirmeth my belief of the Holy Scriptures to finde by certain experience the Original and Vniversal pravity of mans nature how great it is and wherein it doth consist exactly agreeing with this Sacred Word when no others have made such a full discovery of it This I have opened and proved before and he is a stranger to the World and to himself that seeth it not Were it not lest I weary the Reader with length how fully and plainly could I manifest it § 3. III. The certain observation of the universal Spiritual Warre which hath been carryed on according to the first Gospel between the Woman's and the Serpent's seed doth much confirm me of the truth of the Scriptures Such a contrariety there is even between Cain and Abel Children of the same Father such an implacable enmity throughout all the World in almost all wicked men against Godliness it self and those that sincerely love and follow it such a hatred in those that are Orthodoxly bred against the true power use and practice of the Religion which they themselves profess such a resolute resistance of all that is seriously good and holy and tendeth but to the saving of the resisters that it is but a publick visible acting of all those things which the Scripture speaketh of and a fulfilling them in all ages and places in the sight of all the World Of which having treated largely in my Treatise against Infidelity of the sin against the Holy Ghost I referre you thither § 4. IV. It much confirmeth me to finde that there is no other Religion professed in the World that an impartial rational man can rest in That man is made for another life the light of Nature proveth to all men And some way or other there must be opened to us to attain it Mahometanisme I think not worthy a confutation Judaisme must be much beholden to Christianity for its proofs and is but the introduction to it inclusively considered The Heathens or meer Naturalists are so blinde so idolatrous so divided into innumerable sects so lost and bewildred in uncertainties and shew us so little holy fruit of their Theology that I can incline to no more than to take those natural Verities which they confess and which they cast among the rubbish of their fopperies and wickedness and to wipe them clean and take them for some part of my Religion Christianity or nothing is the way § 5. V. It much confirmeth me to observe that commonly the most true and serious Christians are the holyest and most honest righteous men and that the worse men are the greater enemies they are to true Christianity And then to think how incredible it is that God should lead all the worst men into the truth and leave the best and godlyest in an error In small matters or common secular things this were no wonder But in the matter of Believing worshipping and pleasing God and saving of Souls it is not credible As for the belief of a Life to come no men are so far from it as the vilest Whoremongers Drunkards perjured persons Murderers Oppressors Tyrants Thieves Rebels or if any other name can denote the worst of men And none so much believe a Life to come as the most godly honest-hearted persons And can a man that knoweth that there is a God believe that he will leave all good men in so great an error and rightly inform and guide all these Beasts or living walking images of the Devil The same in a great measure is true of the friends and enemies of Christianity § 6. VI. It hath been a great convincing argument with me against both Atheisme and Infidelity to observe the marvelous Providences of God for divers of his servants and the strange answer of Prayers which I my self and ordinarily other Christians have had I have been and am as backward to ungrounded credulity about wonders as most men that will not strive against knowledge But I have been oft convinced by great experience and testimonies which I believed equally with my eye-sight of such actions of God as I think would have convinced most that should know as much of them as I did But few of them are fit to mention For some of them so much concern my self that strangers may be tempted to think that they savour of self-esteem and some of them the factions and parties in these times will by their interest be engaged to distaste And some of them have been done on persons whose after scandalous Crimes have made me think it unfit to mention them lest I should seem