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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.
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.
XII. Reason: The Papacy doth intolerably tyrannize over Kings, and teach such Doctrines of Perjury and Rebellion, as their very Religion, as is not in the practice of it to be endured in any Kingdom; nor dare they fully practise it: The Crowns and Lives of Princes being at the mercy of the Pope; As the said Lateran Council showeth.
XII. Reason: The Papacy doth intolerably tyrannize over Kings, and teach such Doctrines of Perjury and Rebellion, as their very Religion, as is not in the practice of it to be endured in any Kingdom; nor dare they fully practise it: The Crowns and Lives of Princes being at the mercy of the Pope; As the said Laterane Council sheweth.
XIII. Reason: Their Church is oft Essentially unholy, heretical and wicked, because the Pope is often so, who is an Essential part of it: And therefore it is not the holy Catholic Church. General Councils have upon examination judged their Popes to be Heretics, Schismatics, Adulterers, Murderers, Simonists, yea, guilty of Blasphemy or Infidelity it self. And the Church cannot be Holy, whose Essential part is so unholy.