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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.
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.
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 justifie them to say, that if they thought it to be Bread, they would not worship it: Any more than it would justifie 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.
And I am not able to justify their sending God his Worship by a Cross, Crucifix, or other Image, as a medium cultum, from being a gross Violation of the second Commandment: (which they leave out).
And I am not able to justifie their sending God his Worship by a Cross, Crucifix, or other Image, as a medium cultum, from being a gross Violation of the second Commandment: (which they leave out).
XXI. Reason: Their Religion greatly tendeth to Mortify Christianity, and turn it into a dead Image, by destroying much of its life and power: 1. By befriending Ignorance, and hiding the holy Scripture, forbidding all the people to read them in a known tongue without a special license: blaspheming Gods Word, as if so read, it had more tendency or likelihood to hurt men than to profit them, to damn them than to save them; when they will say otherwise of all their own Vulgar postils and such like writings.