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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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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.
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 Rellellious 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.
And now what an ignorant Cant is it to say, The Church cannot Apostatize; Ergo, it cannot Err; Ergo, the Pope of Rome, and his hireling Clergy cannot Apostatize; and Ergo, They cannot Err! Tell me, whether Rome be all the World? And whether the Church of Rome, and the Christian World, be Words of the same signification ⟨p. 56⟩in any Dictionary? And whether an Alexandrian Catholic, or a C.P. are Catholic, be not as good Sense, as a Roman Catholic? And whether the Texts or Fathers, that you name profanely, will prove that the Church of C.P. Alexandria, Antioch, or Jerusalem, can never Err, or Apostatize, or be Invisible? And whether your own Jesuits confess not that Rome shall do so too, in the Reign of Antichrist?
And now what an ignorant Cant is it to say, The Church cannot Apostatize; Ergo, it cannot Err; Ergo, the Pope of Rome, and his hireling Clergy cannot Apostatize; and Ergo, They cannot Err! Tell me, whether Rome be all the World? And whether the Church of Rome, and the Christian World, be Words of the same signification