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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
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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.
XIX. Reason: Perjury is made the very Character of their Church, or the brand by which it is stigmatized; As is visible 1. In the Trent Oath imposed on their Clergy, which whoever taketh he is immediately perjured: and 2. By their disobliging men from Oaths and Vows; even the Subjects of Princes from their Oaths of Allegiance, whenever the Pope shall excommunicate ⟨p. 70⟩them, and give their Dominions to others, as is decreed Concil. Later. sub Innoc. 3. Can. 3.
XX. Reason: They are guilty of Idolatry in their ordinary Worship by the Mass: while they worship Bread as their Lord God: Nor will it justify them to say, that if they thought it to be Bread, they would not worship it: Any more than it would justify Julian to say, that he would not worship the Sun, if he thought not that it was God: And they confess, that if it prove to be still Bread, their Worship will prove Idolatry: and we desire no other proof.