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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.
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.
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 denyed the Life to come, &c. the same Gift as the Apostles? Surely we may well say to them as St. James, Shew me thy Faith by thy Works? They did shew it by most odious Simony, Gluttony, Drunkenness, Lying with Maids and Wives, even at the Apostolick Doors, Murdering Christs Members by Thousands, Silencing faithful Preachers, Deposing Emperours, 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 shew 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.