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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.
CHAP. IX. Of the Novelty of Transubstantiation.
R. I Once thought to have next proved out of the Current of Antiquity, the Novelty of this inhumane doctrine of the Papists, and that the Ancients commonly confessed, that there was true Bread and Wine remaining in the Sacrament after Consecration: But, 1. I should but tempt and weary ordinary Readers, who neither need any such arguments (having Sense and Scripture to give them satisfaction) nor are able to try them: For it is an indirect kind of dealing, to expect that the unlearned, or those that are strangers to the Writings of the Ancients, should believe this or that to be their mind and sayings, merely because I tell them so. And if they read the plainest words, they know not whether I rightly recite them, but by believing me. And it is as unreasonable on the other side, that the Papists should expect, either by their Citations or their general Affirmations, that the Readers should believe them, that the Ancients were for Transubstantiation. Till men can both read the Authors themselves, and try the Copies, they can have no sure historical notice what the Fathers held, except by ⟨p. 133⟩the common consent of credible Reporters or Historians: Not while one side saith, they say this, and the other side saith they say the contrary, and yet their Books are to be seen by all. We may bid them believe us, and the Papists may bid them believe them, and a Priest may cheat them by saying, that his word is the Churches: But though this will produce a humane belief in the Hearers or Readers, as by advantages it is most taking with them, yet that fallible belief is all the Certainty that it can afford them. Therefore I think it most ingenuous and reasonable to give men such arguments as they are capable of understanding and improving to certain satisfaction. 2. Because they that can study such Authors as have gathered the sentences of the Ancients in this Controversy, may find it so fully done by Edmund. Albertinus in his second Book, that they can need no more.