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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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D. But is it not a great reason to incline us to them rather than to you, when They only pretend to Infallibility, and You confess that you are all fallible in your Belief?
R. This is to be the subject of our next Conference, and therefore not now to be anticipated; only I shall tell you, that It is a mere noise of ambiguous words to deceive the heedless that cannot search out the meaning of them. 1. We not only Pretend, but Profess and prove that our Christian Religion is altogether Infallible. For which end I have written divers Treatises my self. 2. And we profess that all the mystical Church of Christ (that is all sincere Christians) do truly and Infallibly believe all that is Essential to Christianity, and as much of the Integrals as they can know. 3. And we profess that the Catholic Church-Visible (that is, All professors of Christianity in the world) do profess all these Essentials of Christianity, and are Infallible in this profession. But we hold withal, that there is no particular ⟨p. 159⟩Church, or Bishop, no Synod or Council, that is so Infallible, but that, 1. They that hold to the Essentials may misunderstand and err about some Integrals: 2. And those persons have no Certainty that they shall not err by Heresy or Apostasy from the Essentials themselves: So that the Church is Infallible, because it is essentiated by believing an Infallible Word; which who ever believeth not, ceaseth to be of the Church: not Gods Word infallible, because the Church or any number of men believe it, or say Its true: For Truth is before Knowledge and Faith: As Aristotle was a Philosopher, because he understood and taught the doctrine of real Philosophy; and not that doctrine called Physics or Philosophy, because that Aristotle knew or taught it. But, alas, What work shall I show you when I come to open their bewildering uncertainties?
R. This is to be the subject of our next Conference, and therefore not now to be anticipated; only I shall tell you, that It is a meer noise of ambiguous words to deceive the heedless that cannot search out the meaning of them. 1. We not only Pretend, but Profess and prove that our Christian Religion is altogether Infallible. For which end I have written divers Treatises my self. 2. And we profess that all the mystical Church of Christ (that is all sincere Christians) do truly and Infallibly believe all that is Essential to Christianity, and as much of the Integrals as they can know. 3. And we profess that the Catholick Church-Visible (that is, All professors of Christianity in the world) do profess all these Essentials of Christianity, and are Infallible in this profession. But we hold withall, that there is no particular