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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.
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 ⟨p. 68⟩Heretics, Simonists, Murderers, Sodomites, Adulterers have possessed the Seat, who were therefore uncapable, that the line of succession must needs be interrupted by them. And so many ways have they been made or elected, sometimes by the people, sometimes by the City-Presbyters, sometimes by Emperors, sometimes by Cardinals, sometimes by Councils, that if any one way of Election be necessary, they have lost their Papacy long ago. If no one way be necessary, then the Turk may make a Pope.
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 meer uncertain thing. So many notorious or judged ⟨p. 68⟩Hereticks, Simonists, Murderers, Sodomites, Adulterers have possessed the Seat, who were therefore uncapable, that the line of succession must needs be interrupted by them. And so many wayes have they been made or elected, sometimes by the people, sometimes by the City-Presbyters, sometimes by Emperours, sometimes by Cardinals, sometimes by Councils, that if any one way of Election be necessary, they have lost their Papacy long ago. If no one way be necessary, then the Turk may make a Pope.