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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.
What is it that your Pope and Councils are to determine? Is it the great Essentials of Religion? We thank them for nothing: Cannot we know that there is a God, and a Christ, till the Pope judge it? Have we not the Sacramental Covenant of Grace, the Creed, Lords Prayer and Decalogue surely delivered before any Pope or Council judged of them? Or is it of the hard controverted points: Do it then; and let us see that you can do it.
What is it that your Pope and Councils are to determine? Is it the great Essentials of Religion? We thank them for notthing: Cannot we know that there is a God, and a Christ, till the Pope judge it? Have we not the Sacramental Covenant of Grace, the Creed, Lords Prayer and Decalogue surely delivered before any Pope or Council judged of them? Or is it of the hard controverted points: Do it then; and let us see that you can do it.
XX. Hath the Pope power to judge in utramque partem, either way, or only one way? May he judge that there is a God or no God, a Christ or no Christ, a Heaven or no Heaven, a Scripture or none, at his pleasure? If so, must we believe him if he be for the Negative? Take you that Certainty: we will have none of it: Or is he only to Judge truly, and then only to be believed? (that there is a God, a Christ, a Scripture, &c.) So may and must every Teacher, yea and every Christian Judge. If you say that ⟨p. 80⟩he cannot go besides the truth, General Councils and Pope Adrian himself said otherwise.
XX. Hath the Pope power to judge in utramque partem, either way, or only one way? May he judge that there is a God or no God, a Christ or no Christ, a Heaven or no Heaven, a Scripture or none, at his pleasure? If so, must we believe him if he be for the Negative? Take you that Certainty: we will have none of it: Or is he only to Iudge truly, and then only to be believed? (that there is a God, a Christ, a Scripture, &c.) So may and must every Teacher, yea and every Christian Judge. If you say that ⟨p. 80⟩