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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.
X. Reason: They are inhumanely cruel to mens bodies: And this is their very Religion: For the Council at the Lateran under Innocent the third decreed, that those that believe not, or deny Transubstantiation are Heretics, and all Temporal Lords shall exterminate them from their Dominions: That is, no man shall be suffered to live under any Christian Lord, that will not renounce all his senses, and profess that he believeth that they are all deceived by God himself; which is not only to renounce their Humanity, but their Animality or sense it self. So that no men indeed, are to be suffered to live, but only such as deny themselves to be men: What Heathens, what Turks, did ever exercise such Inhumane fury? Besides their burning and tormenting men as Heretics that will not do all this and more, and will not say as they require them.
X. Reason: They are inhumanely cruel to mens bodies: And this is their very Religion: For the Council at the Laterane under Innocent the third decreed, that those that believe not, or deny Transubstantiation are Hereticks, and all Temporal Lords shall exterminate them from their Dominions: That is, no man shall be suffered to live under any Christian Lord, that will not renounce all his senses, and profess that he believeth that they are all deceived by God himself; which is not only to renounce their Humanity, but their Animality or sense it self. So that no men indeed, are to be suffered to live, but only such as deny themselves to be men: What Heathens, what Turks, did ever exercise such Inhumane fury? Besides their burning and tormenting men as Hereticks that will not do all this and more, and will not say as they require them.
XI. Reason: Their Church indeed is invisible, while they deny it, and an unknown thing: For, 1. Men are forced into it by such bloody Laws, as that they cannot rationally be known to be Consenters: ⟨p. 67⟩2. And they have no certain faith to constitute a Church-member: For they hold that his obligation to believe, is according to his inward and outward means, of which no man can possibly judge: And so no man can know whether himself or another have that faith which is required as necessary to salvation. And many of them say, That they that believe not in Christ, have saving faith, and are in the Church, if they had not sufficient means.