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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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And that all our Lawful Pastors must be reverenced and submitted to; 6. And all their lawful Precepts obeyed. 7. And all Gods Sacraments holily used; 8. And all Traditions from the Apostles to the Churches received; with many more such: Only we know not that the Pope is our Pastor, or that his Councils are the Church, or have a promise of Infallibility; and so of the rest. And yet we must burn for it, if they can procure it. And yet he is a true believer Implicitly who believeth not the Essentials of Christianity. But the Design which is predominant here is too visible, when this Implicit faith cometh to be described: For it is not a Belief in God, or in Christ only that will serve the turn, but it must be a belief in the Church, and their Church, and their Pope too, or else it will not do. The Implicit faith is the explicit belief of these three Articles: 1. All Gods Word is true: 2. All that is Gods Word, which the Church tells us is Gods Word. 3. The Pope and his Council and Subjects are this Church. And yet this man must be supposed if he know no more, per impossibile, not to know that there is a Christ, or who he is as to his Person or Office, or what he hath done, or will do for us: And yet that he hath a Vicar and a Church. Or else they may know Christ and Christianity before they know that there is any ⟨p. 164⟩Pope or Church, and then the Pope hath lost the Game.
And that all our Lawful Pastors must be reverenced and submitted to; 6. And all their lawful Precepts obeyed. 7. And all Gods Sacraments holily used; 8. And all Traditions from the Apostles to the Churches received; with many more such: Only we know not that the Pope is our Pastor, or that his Councils are the Church, or have a promise of Infallibility; and so of the rest. And yet we must burn for it, if they can procure it. And yet he is a true believer Implicitely who believeth not the Essentials of Christianity. But the Design which is predominant here is too visible, when this Implicite faith cometh to be described: For it is not a Belief in God, or in Christ only that will serve the turn, but it must be a belief in the Church, and their Church, and their Pope too, or else it will not do. The Implicite faith is the explicite belief of these three Articles: 1. All Gods Word is true: 2. All that is Gods Word, which the Church tells us is Gods Word. 3. The Pope and his Council and Subjects are this Church. And yet this man must be supposed if he know no more, per impossibile, not to know that there is a Christ, or who he is as to his Person or Office, or what he hath done, or will do for us: And yet that he hath a Vicar and a Church. Or else they may know Christ and Christianity before they know that there is any