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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.
P. Not expressly: for General Councils need not mention it, till the Albigenses Heretics gave them occasion by denying it.
P. Not expresly: for General Councils need not mention it, till the Albigenses Hereticks gave them occasion by denying it.
R. Was it an Article of faith before? If it were, either the Councils are not the measure of your faith, or it is very mutable.
P. Among all your questionings answer me this question if you can. If that General Council decreed Transubstantiation, what could move them so to do, if it were not the faith of the Church before? Were they not all of the same mind the day before they did it? and so the day before that, and the day before that, &c. Or do you think that they were against Transubstantiation the night before, and awaked all of another mind the next morning? What could make all the Pastors of the Church think that this was the true faith, if they did not think it was the ancient faith? And what could make them think it the ancient faith, if it were not so? Did not they know what their Fathers held? And did not their Fathers know what their Fathers held? The same I say of the Council of Trent also.
P. Among all your questionings answer me this question if you can. If that General Council decreed Transubstantiation, what could move them so to do, if it were not the faith of the Church before? Were they not all of the same mind the day before they did it? and so the day before that, and the day before that, &c. Or do you think that they were against Transubstantiation the night before, and awaked all of another mind the next morning? What could make all the Pastors of the Church think that this was the true faith, if they did not think it was the antient faith? And what could make them think it the antient faith, if it were not so? Did not they know what their Fathers held? And did not their Fathers know what their Fathers held? The same I say of the Council of Trent also.