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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
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XVI. Reason: They plead for a Church which never had a being in the world; that is, All Christians Headed by one Pope; When all the Christian world did never take him for their Head, nor were governed by him to this day.
XVII. Reason: They dreadfully injure the holy Scriptures, as if Jesus Christ, and all the Prophets and Apostles in all those Sacred Records, had not had skill ⟨p. 69⟩or will to speak intelligibly, and plainly to deliver us the doctrines necessary to salvation: But they make their Voluminous Councils more intelligible and sufficient; as if they had done better than Christ and his Apostles: And when men must only Discern Gods Laws, and Judge Causes by the Law, they make themselves Judges of the Law it self, that is, of God the Judge of all, and of the Law by which they must be judged.
XVIII. Reason: There is no other Sect of Christians under Heaven which hath so many differences among themselves, or have written so many Books against one another as the Papists: And though many of them are of great importance, yea, some are about the very Essence or Constitutive Head of their Church, yet have they no handsomer way to palliate all by, than by saying that these are but Opinions, and no Articles of faith, and the Infallible Judge dare not decide them: No though it be diversity of Expositions of Gods own Word, yet Commentators still differ without any hope of a decision, as if Gods Word were not to be believed, but were only the matter of uncertain Opinion, till the Pope and Council have expounded it, and no more Scripture is de fide than they expound.