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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.
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.
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 Catholick Church. General Councils have upon examination judged their Popes to be Hereticks, Schismaticks, Adulterers, Murderers, Simonists, yea, guilty of Blasphemy or Infidelity it self. And the Church cannot be Holy, whose Essential part is so unholy.
XIV. Reason: Their Churches succession is so notoriously interrupted, and their Papacy so often altered in its causes, as that it is become a confounded and a mere uncertain thing. So many notorious or judged