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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.
XXXI. The words of your Councils are as obscure as Scripture words; and are controverted by your Doctors: And how can it be otherwise when humane language is so ambiguous, in such huge Volumes? How then shall the sense of your Councils themselves be certainly known?
XXXII. Councils are rarely extant: God ⟨p. 92⟩only knoweth whether ever there will be another, (even a pretended one:) And must we have no judge in the mean time to give us a Certainty of the meaning of the very foregoing Councils themselves? Most confess that the Pope himself may err?
XXXII. Councils are rarely extant: God ⟨p. 92⟩only knoweth whether ever there will be anothor, (even a pretended one:) And must we have no judge in the mean time to give us a Certainty of the meaning of the very foregoing Councils themselves? Most confess that the Pope himself may err?
XXXIII. It is but few persons in the world that ever saw and consulted with a Pope and a General Council? How then shall we be all sure, what they said or determined? How know we whether the Records of them be truest in Crab, in Surius, in Nicolinus, in Binnius or in none of them? What was Caranzas's fault that he is blamed for? Which of the various Copies of Canons are true which are given us oft by the same Author? Who knoweth what alterations the Index expurgatorius (not infallible) maketh in the books? Have we no more or other Certainty of our Creed than of all these Councils, so variously and doubtfully delivered?