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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 Seventh accused Point.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. And if the major part be the Church, rather than a minor Sect, then all other Christians that are against Popery are free from Error, for they are twice or thrice as many as the Papists.
2. And if the major part be the Church, rather than a minor Sect, then all other Christians that are against Popery are free from Errour, for they are twice or thrice as many as the Papists.
3. And when the far greater part were Arians, they were free from Error: Yea, the Council of Sirmium, to which Pope Liberius professed full consent. Or did Christ break his promise to all these?
3. And when the far greater part were Arrians, they were free from Errour: Yea, the Council of Sirmium, to which Pope Liberius professed full consent. Or did Christ break his promise to all these?
4. If the Pope or all his Prelates, have as full a promise of the Spirit as the Apostles, then they may write us a new Bible, and Word of God, as they did: No wonder ⟨p. 48⟩then if the Canons and Decretals be as much Gods Word as the Bible? But why then do they not confirm their Canons by Miracles as the Apostles did? And why did so many Popes contradict each other? Had both Stephanus, Formosus, Nicholas, and the foresaid Johns that denied the Life to come, &c. the same Gift as the Apostles? Surely we may well say to them as St. James, Show me thy Faith by thy Works? They did show it by most odious Simony, Gluttony, Drunkenness, Lying with Maids and Wives, even at the Apostolic Doors, Murdering Christs Members by Thousands, Silencing faithful Preachers, Deposing Emperors, Commanding Perjury and Rebellion, even to Sons against their own Fathers: Forbidding all Church Worship of God to whole Kingdoms for many years, when a King will not obey the Pope: By such Works they show their Faith! O the power of Satan, and the horrid pravity of man, when such things are not only Justified, but trusted to for Justification, and made consistent with a Church that never Erred.