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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.
R. It is not Names but Religion which we dispute of. And it is that which each party Professeth to be their Religion. Therefore you must take our Profession or you change the subject of the dispute. And we profess, that the Law of Nature (which no sober man questioneth) and the Scriptures, are All our Religion. Therefore if you please you shall suppose that the name Protestant were not now in the world: It doth not signify our Religion. But we now use it to signify our Protesting ⟨p. 58⟩against Popery, or that we agree in substance, and in rejecting Popery, with those that made that particular Protestation mentioned by you. Names are oft given from accidents; as Africanus, Germanicus, Britannicus, &c. to several Roman Captains; when yet their Humanity was the same before they were so named.
R. It is not Names but Religion which we dispute of. And it is that which each party Professeth to be their Religion. Therefore you must take our Profession or you change the subject of the dispute. And we profess, that the Law of Nature (which no sober man questioneth) and the Scriptures, are All our Religion. Therefore if you please you shall suppose that the name Protestant were not now in the world: It doth not signifie our Religion. But we now use it to signifie our Protesting ⟨p. 58⟩against Popery, or that we agree in substance, and in rejecting Popery, with those that made that particular Protestation mentioned by you. Names are oft given from accidents; as Africanus, Germanicus, Britannicus, &c. to several Roman Captains; when yet their Humanity was the same before they were so named.
P. Turks, Socinians, Quakers, &c. Protest against Popery: It seems then they are Protestants too; and your companions.