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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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R. And do you not know that (though it arose not till about six hundred years after Christ) much more of the world is Mahometan than Christian? And are there not far Greater Emperors and Princes Mahometans than any that are Christians? And have not all these souls to save or lose? And do they not all venture their souls upon that Religion? Why then is not your argument here as good for Mohammedanism as for Popery?
R. And do you not know that (though it arose not till about six hundred years after Christ) much more of the world is Mahometan than Christian? And are there not far Greater Emperours and Princes Mahometans than any that are Christians? And have not all these souls to save or lose? And do they not all venture their souls upon that Religion? Why then is not your argument here as good for Mahometanism as for Popery?
D. Though the Emperors of Constantinople, the Great Mogul, the Persian, Tartarian Mahometans, ⟨p. 165⟩&c. be all Great as to their vast Dominions, yet they are barbarous and unlearned in comparison of the Papists.
D. Though the Emperours of Constantinople, the Great Mogul, the Persian, Tartarian Mahometans, ⟨p. 165⟩&c. be all Great as to their vast Dominions, yet they are barbarous and unlearned in comparison of the Papists.
R. 1. It is not because they have not as much wit as we: but because they think that our laborious wordy kind of learning, is an abuse of wit, and against true Policy, ludicrously or contentiously diverting mens minds and time from those employments which they think more manly and profitable to the Commonwealth; Though no doubt but they do err more unmanly on that extreme. But I further ask you, Q. 2. Do you not think that the Common Religion of the Heathens is very unworthy for any wise man to venture his soul upon? If you have but read how it is described by the Ancient Christians, Justin, Athenagoras, Origen, Arnobius, Minutius Felix, Tertullian, Lactantius, Eusebius, Augustine, &c. you will say that they thought it a ridiculous unmanly Religion.