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The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard BaxterThe Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter
The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Daniel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1692
Protestant Religion Truly Stated, and Justified, &c. › The Sixth Point accused.
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And must we indeed believe, that the Popes Faith never failed, because Peters did not? Then we must believe that General Councils that are their Church, have been very false and slanderous. Reader, I will give thee but an Account of one or two, (when their own most flattering Historians have written of many a long time, that they were rather Apostatict, than Apostolici, and named but to keep the Account of time.)
The great General Council at Constance, (that Burnt John Hus and Jerome of Prague, for Truth and Honesty,) finding three Popes Heading three Churches called Roman Catholics, had no way to return to Unity, but by putting down all three: With much ado they got down two of them: But Pope John at Rome had the ⟨p. 37⟩fastest hold, and they had more ado to get him down; and had not the Emperor resolved to back them, they had been foiled. Hereupon he is accused in the Council, First, by Fifty Four Articles, of such Monstrous Villainies, as one would think humane Nature were uncapable of. Afterward many more are added, of Poisoning Pope Alexander, of Incest with his Brothers Wife, and the Holy Nuns, and Ravishing Maids, and Adultery with Men's Wives, and much more; and of Simony, almost incredible: And amongst the rest, (which I forbear to recite, lest I tire the Reader,) they say and prove, that he was a notorious Simoniac, and a pertinacious Heretic; That oft before divers Prelates, and other Honest Men, by the Devils persuasion he pertinaciously said, asserted, dogmatized, and maintained, that there is no Life Eternal, nor any after this: And he said and pertinaciously believed, that Man's Soul dieth with the Body, and is extinct, as are the Brutes: And he said, that the Dead rise not, contrary to the Articles of the Resurrection, &c.
The great General Council at Constance, (that Burnt John Hus and Jerome of Prague, for Truth and Honesty,) finding three Popes Heading three Churches called Roman Catholicks, had no way to return to Unity, but by putting down all three: With much adoe they got down two of them: But Pope John at Rome had the ⟨p. 37⟩