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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.
PART III. The Protestants Reasons against Popery.
D. I Have heard what you have said in stating the Protestants Religion: I now expect to hear what Reasons you have against that which you call Popery: And afterwards that you prove all that you charge upon it. But I adjure you first that you say nothing but what you believe in your conscience to be the truth, as one that looketh to be judged for it.
R. With many Papists confident and vehement protestations go instead of Arguments, and we oft hear them say, [If this be not true, I am content to be torn in a thousand pieces: We will seal it with our blood: We will lay our salvation on it: And do you think we have not souls to save? &c.] Which is much like as if they would end all Controversies by laying Wagers that they are in the right, or by protesting that they are honester and credibler men than their adversaries: And it is no more than a Quaker or other such Sectary will say: the most proud and ignorant being usually the most confident: But yet though I expect not that you should receive any thing from me, upon Protestations, but upon Proofs, I will here promise you that I will charge nothing on the Papists, but what in my Conscience I am verily persuaded to be true.
R. With many Papists confident and vehement protestations go instead of Arguments, and we oft hear them say, [If this be not true, I am content to be torn in a thousand pieces: We will seal it with our blood: We will lay our salvation on it: And do you think we have not souls to save? &c.] Which is much like as if they would end all Controversies by laying Wagers that they are in the right, or by protesting that they are honester and credibler men than their adversaries: And it is no more than a Quaker or other such Sectary will say: the most proud and ignorant being usually the most confident: But yet though I expect not that you should receive any thing from me, upon Protestations, but upon Proofs, I will here promise you that I will charge nothing on the Papists, but what in my Conscience I am verily perswaded to be true.