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Full and easy satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…Full and easie satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…
Full and easy satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference between D. a doubter, P. a papist, and R. a reformed Catholic Christian : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.Full and easie satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference between D. a doubter, P. a papist, and R. a reformed Catholick Christian : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nev. Simmons, 1674
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.
P. But you have not all that is essential to Baptism, because you are not intentionally Baptized, into the true Catholic Roman Church: For while you are not subject to the Pope, you are not baptized into the Church: and therefore Bellarmine showeth that indirectly we are obliged to the Pope by baptism; which you intend not.
P. But you have not all that is essential to Baptism, because you are not intentionally Baptized, into the true Catholick Roman Church: For while you are not subject to the Pope, you are not baptized into the Church: and therefore Bellarmine sheweth that indirectly we are obliged to the Pope by baptism; which you intend not.
R. Come, come, strive not against your knowledge. 1. If our Baptism have not all that is essential, why do you never rebaptize Protestants when they turn to you? Do you not find that you condemn your selves? 2. Why do not you your selves put the name of the Pope into your words of baptism? 3. Doth your Tradition tell you that the ancient Churches did baptize men into a subjection to the Pope? 4. Did any of the Primitive Christians baptize men into the name or subjection of Peter or any Apostle? 5. Doth not Paul expressly renounce it as to himself and Peter, 1 Cor. 1.12, 13, 14, 15. Every one of you saith, I am of Paul, and I of Apollo, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ: Is Christ divided? Was Paul Crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul, &c. 6. Did not Christ himself tell us all that was Essential to baptism in his institution, Matth. 28 without making any mention of Peter or the Pope?
R. Come, come, strive not against your knowledge. 1. If our Baptism have not all that is essential, why do you never rebaptize Protestants when they turn to you? Do you not find that you condemn your selves? 2. Why do not you your selves put the name of the Pope into your words of baptism? 3. Doth your Tradition tell you that the ancient Churches did baptize men into a subjection to the Pope? 4. Did any of the Primitive Christians baptize men into the name or subjection of Peter or any Apostle? 5. Doth not Paul expresly renounce it as to himself and Peter,