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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.
CHAP. IV.
That the most Learned Doctors of the Church of Rome resolve their faith (in earnest or jest) into such an Inspiration of the Pope and Prelates in Council, as the Apostles had, and so are mere Fanatics: And this against notorious sense and experience.
That the most Learned Doctors of the Church of Rome resolve their faith (in earnest or jeast) into such an Inspiration of the Pope and Prelates in Council, as the Apostles had, and so are meer Fanaticks: And this against notorious sense and experience.
The said Durandus saith ib. li. 3. d. 23. p. 573. [Nothing is more certain than experience, to which the resolution of other things is made, that we may have the fuller certainty.] But experience telleth us that there is Bread after consecration: And that he took the belief of humane authority, for the weakest opinion I told you before. And v. 12. he saith [How are we sure that God saith what we believe? Non nisi quia sic tenet Ecclesia? Only because the Church so holdeth?] Which he brings to prove that Divine Authority is not surest to us.
THe said Durandus saith ib. li. 3. d. 23. p. 573. [Nothing is more certain than experience, to which the resolution of other things is made, that we may have the fuller certainty.] But experience telleth us that there is Bread after consecration: And that he took the belief of humane authority, for the weakest opinion I told you before. And v. 12. he saith [How are we sure that God saith what we believe? Non nisi quia sic tenet Ecclesia? Only because the Church so holdeth?] Which he brings to prove that Divine Authority is not surest to us.