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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.
The like you have in Paludanus, Durandus, (save that he leaveth them as aforesaid) Scotus, &c. I will end with learned Rada, who Vol. 4. Contr. 7. a. 1. pag. 164, 165. having showed that This is my Body will not in its own proper sense infer what Aquinas and others gather, saith [Yet indeed now (we must not take that sense) but as the Church taught by the Holy Ghost understandeth those words. For the Scriptures are expounded by that spirit which they were made by: And so it must be supposed that the Catholic Church by that spirit which delivered us the faith, even taught by the Holy Ghost, so expounded, and exploded the first sense, and chose this, being that other was not true, as to the remaining of the substance of bread after consecration. But this sense he chose which is true, and so delivered by our Lord himself, as it is solemnly declared C. firmiter, &c. And he concludeth that [This is my body] is not enough to convince a Heretic; but [as understood by the Church by that ⟨p. 111⟩spirit by which they were given and delivered, they exclude the substance of bread].
The like you have in Paludanus, Durandus, (save that he leaveth them as aforesaid) Scotus, &c. I will end with learned Rada, who Vol. 4. Contr. 7. a. 1. pag. 164, 165. having shewed that This is my Body will not in its own proper sense infer what Aquinas and others gather, saith [Yet indeed now (we must not take that sense) but as the Church taught by the Holy Ghost understandeth those words. For the Scriptures are expounded by that spirit which they were made by: And so it must be supposed that the Catholick Church by that spirit which delivered us the faith, even taught by the Holy Ghost, so expounded, and exploded the first sense, and chose this, being that other was not true, as to the remaining of the substance of bread after consecration. But this sense he chose which is true, and so delivered by our Lord himself, as it is solemnly declared C. firmiter, &c. And he concludeth that [This is my body] is not enough to convince a Heretick; but [as understood by the Church by that ⟨p. 111⟩spirit by which they were given and delivered, they exclude the substance of bread].