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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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when I come to that, I shall show you how small and how disagreeing a part of the Christian world the Papists are. I have elsewhere recited the words of their Melchior Canus who boasteth that the Papacy yet standeth, though almost all the world, and besides Princes, almost all the Bishops and Churches have fought against it. Was it then the Universal Church? And the words of Reynerius who saith, that the Churches of the Armenians and the others planted by the Apostles (without the Empire he meaneth) were not under the Pope of Rome. I shall, if I live to do that work, yet fuller show you, that the Pope was but the chief Patriarch in one Empire, as the Archbishop of Canterbury is the chief Bishop in England; and that his General Councils were but General Assemblies of the Empire (inconsiderable occasional accidentals excepted), even as our Convocations, or the Scots General Assemblies were, though in a far larger Empire. But all this I have done already in other writings, beyond all reasonable contradiction.
when I come to that, I shall shew you how small and how disagreeing a part of the Christian world the Papists are. I have elsewhere recited the words of their Melchior Canus who boasteth that the Papacy yet standeth, though almost all the world, and besides Princes, almost all the Bishops and Churches have fought against it. Was it then the Universal Church? And the words of Reynerius who saith, that the Churches of the Armenians and the others planted by the Apostles (without the Empire he meaneth) were not under the Pope of Rome. I shall, if I live to do that work, yet fullier shew you, that the Pope was but the chief Patriarch in one Empire, as the Archbishop of Canterbury is the chief Bishop in England; and that his General Councils were but General Assemblies of the Empire (inconsiderable occasional accidentals excepted), even as our Convocations, or the Scots General Assemblies were, though in a far larger Empire. But all this I have done already in other writings, beyond all reasonable contradiction.
D. Tell me then, how it cometh to pass that so many Princes, Nobles, Learned men, and Religious can be so marvellously deluded?