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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…

Name: Full and easy satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…
Author: Richard Baxter

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.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed for Nev. Simmons, 1674

[24], 189 p. · 58k words · Wing B1272 · ESTC R15922

Title page: Princeton Theological Seminary Library copy, digitized by the Internet Archive (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

Part 3: The Protestants Reasons against Popery.

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.

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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).

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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.

XXI. Reason: Their Religion greatly tendeth to Mortifie 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.

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2. And by teaching the people a blind devotion, viz. to pray in an unknown tongue, and to worship God by words not understood.

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Richard Baxter 1615–1691

Place

London

Bookseller

Nev. Simmons

Year

1674

Size

[24], 189 p.

Words

58,255

Catalogue

Wing B1272 · ESTC R15922

Text

EEBO-TCP A26931

Passages

557

Sections

Title page

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…

PART IV. The First Charge made good against Transubstantiation: In which Popery is proved to be the Shame of Humane Nature, Contrary to SENSE, REASON, SCRIPTURE and TRADITION, or the judgement of the Ancient and Present Church; devised by Satan to expose Christianity to the Scorn of Infidels.

PART IV. The First Charge made good against Transubstantiation: In which Popery is proved to be the Shame of Humane Nature, Contrary to SENSE, REASON, SCRIPTURE and TRADITION, or the judgement of the Antient and Present Church; devised by Satan to expose Christianity to the Scorn of Infidels.

CHAP. I. The First Reason to prove Transubstantiation false.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

PART IV. The First Charge made good against Transubstantiation: In which Popery is proved to be the Shame of Humane Nature, Contrary to SENSE, REASON, SCRIPTURE and TRADITION, or the judgement of the Ancient and Present Church; devised by Satan to expose Christianity to the Scorn of Infidels.

PART IV. The First Charge made good against Transubstantiation: In which Popery is proved to be the Shame of Humane Nature, Contrary to SENSE, REASON, SCRIPTURE and TRADITION, or the judgement of the Antient and Present Church; devised by Satan to expose Christianity to the Scorn of Infidels.

CHAP. I. The First Reason to prove Transubstantiation false.

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