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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
Part 4 › Chapter 11: The Conclusion of the first Book: The Causes of Popery.
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R. And are not you more obstinate than they, if you will not believe that there is any Bread and Wine, when you see, feel, smell, and taste it, and all men that have senses are of the same mind? What is left to satisfy you, if you give so little credit to the common sense of all the world?
R. And are not you more obstinate than they, if you will not believe that there is any Bread and Wine, when you see, feel, smell, and taste it, and all men that have senses are of the same mind? What is left to satisfie you, if you give so little credit to the common sense of all the world?
D. But I oft think that the faith of all the Church is much surer than my sense, or my private faith: At least it is safest to venture in the common road, and to speed as the Church speedeth, which Christ died for, and is his Spouse.
R. 1. But do you think that the opinion of the Papal faction who are not the third part of the Universal Church, that is, the Christian world, is the faith of all the Church? Why call you Opinion faith? and a sect and faction, All the Church? 2. Indeed if all the Church did set their senses against mine, I would rather believe them than my senses: For I should think, that I were in that point distracted, or my senses by some disease perverted, which I did not perceive: I mean if it were in a case where they had the affirmative: As if all England should witness that they saw it Light at Midnight, I would think my eyes had some impediment which I knew not of, if I saw none. But this is not your case; The Papists themselves do not set all their senses against ⟨p. 156⟩yours: much less the senses of all mankind: They do not say, that [We and all men, except the Protestants, do see, and feel, and taste that There is no Bread and Wine.] But contrarily, You have the senses of all the world, and the saith of two or three parts of the Christian world, against the Opinion of one Sect, which Schismatically call themselves All the Church.