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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 Eighth accused Point.
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Obj. But the Church of Rome profest Christianity before Luther.
Ans. It did so, and as Christians we are of the same Church with them, we know no Universal Church, but the Christian as such, that is, all Christians as only Headed by Christ If you cannot tell whether before Luther there were any Christians in the World, (in Abyssinia, Egypt, Syria, Armenia, the Greeks, Muscovites, &c.) it's your gross ignorance of History. ⟨p. 55⟩But whether Papists, Arians, Eutychians, Nestorians, Monothelites, Phantasians, Image-Worshippers, do invalidate their profession of Christianity, by their contrary Errors and Crimes, it much more concerneth themselves, than us to enquire and judge.
Ans. It did so, and as Christians we are of the same Church with them, we know no Universal Church, but the Christian as such, that is, all Christians as only Headed by Christ If you cannot tell whether before Luther there were any Christians in the World, (in Abassia, Egypt, Syria, Armenia, the Greeks, Muscovites, &c.) it's your gross ignorance of History. ⟨p. 55⟩But whether Papists, Arrians, Eutychians, Nestorians, Monothelites, Phantasians, Image-Worshippers, do invalidate their profession of Christianity, by their contrary Errours and Crimes, it much more concerneth themselves, than us to enquire and judge.
But tho' those that nullify not their profession of Christianity, are all of the same Church Universal that we are of, yet we profess that their New humane Church, which is [only the Pope as Head, and all that adhere to him as such,] are no Church of Christ at all. All Christians as such are parts of the Christian Church: But a Policy consisting of a Vice-Christ and his Subjects, is a Rebellious Usurpation, and no Church, Forma denominat: As Christ is the Head, all are of the Church that truly cleave to him as Head: As the Pope is the pretended Head, they are all a pack of Rebels.