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The certainty of Christianity without popery, or, Whether the Catholic-Protestant or the papist have…The certainty of Christianity without popery, or, Whether the Catholick-Protestant or the papist have…
The certainty of Christianity without popery, or, Whether the Catholic-Protestant or the papist have the surer faith being an answer to one of the oft canted questions and challenges of the papists, sent to one who desired this : published to direct the unskilful, how to defend their faith against papists and infidels, but especially against the temptations of the Devil, that by saving their faith, they may save their holiness, their comfort and their souls / by Richard Baxter.The certainty of Christianity without popery, or, Whether the Catholick-Protestant or the papist have the surer faith being an answer to one of the oft canted questions and challenges of the papists, sent to one who desired this : published to direct the unskilful, how to defend their faith against papists and infidels, but especially against the temptations of the Devil, that by saving their faith, they may save their holiness, their comfort and their souls / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simons, 1672
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But what is this to a true General Council representing all the Churches in the world (on the terms as Dr. Holden honestly requireth.) If you have a mind to laugh at the mans Ignorance in Cosmography you may read Mr. Johnson, alias Terret's Reply to me (which I am not so idle yet as to answer,) confuting me by instances out of Thracia and such like. But the thing is most Evident in History that as the Scots call the meeting of their Ministers a General Assembly, meaning of that Kingdom, and not of all the world, so the Councils in the Empire were called General, only as to that Empire and not to all the world: which I am ready to make good to any man that can understand History. The Pope was by one Prince made the chief Patriarch of that Imperial Church ⟨p. 77⟩as the Kings of England preferred the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury; And four others they joined with him; of which one claimed Primacy when the Imperial seat was removed thither (never dreaming of a Divine right; else he could never have laid that claim;) And the Councils were only as our Convocations, and seldom extended to half the Empire. And little did those Emperors think, that thence their subject Popes and Councils would claim Supremacy at the Antipodes, and turn the orbis Romanus to orbis terrarum.
But what is this to a true General Council representing all the Churches in the world (on the terms as Dr. Holden honestly requireth.) If you have a mind to laugh at the mans Ignorance in Cosmographie you may read Mr. Iohnson, alias Terrets Reply to me (which I am not so idle yet as to answer,) confuting me by instances out of Thracia and such like. But the thing is most Evident in History that as the Scots call the meeting of their Ministers a General Assembly, meaning of that Kingdom, and not of all the world, so the Councils in the Empire were called General, only as to that Empire and not to all the world: which I am ready to make good to any man that can understand History. The Pope was by one Prince made the chief Patriarch of that Imperial Church ⟨p. 77⟩as the Kings of England preferred the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury; And four others they joined with him; of which one claimed Primacy when the Imperial seat was removed thither (never dreaming of a Divine right; else he could never have laid that claim;) And the Councils were only as our Convocations, and seldom extended to half the Empire. And little did those Emperours think, that thence their subject Popes and Councils would claim Supremacy at the Antipodes, and turn the orbis Romanus to orbis terrarum.