All these assistances were at hand before I came to the immediate evidences of credibility in the sacred oracles themselves.
This is as it should be; that is, the evidence
a priori
, securing the rational probability; and then the historical proofs of its reality. Pity that Baxter's chapters in
The Saints' Rest
should have been one and the earliest occasion of the inversion of this process, the fruit of which is the Grotio-Paleyan religion, or
minimum
of faith; the maxim being,
quanto minus tanto melius
.