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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 Ninth 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.
That the Church was not always to remain Catholic or Universal: And that the Church of Rome is not such a Church.
That the Church was not always to remain Catholick or Ʋniversal: And that the Church of Rome is not such a Church.
Ans. The first part is a mere flat Lye: We hold that the Church is always to remain Universal, till it be presented perfect in Glory: If it remain not Universal, what becomes of it? Is it a part of something else, or annihilated? If Christ have no Church, he is no Head of the Church, and so no Christ. What Protestant Church ever said any such thing, as you falsely charge them with?
Ans. The first part is a meer flat Lye: We hold that the Church is always to remain Universal, till it be presented perfect in Glory: If it remain not Universal, what becomes of it? Is it a part of something else, or annihilated? If Christ have no Church, he is no Head of the Church, and so no Christ. What Protestant Church ever said any such thing, as you falsly charge them with?
That the Church of Rome is not such a Church, that is, Is not the Universal Church, indeed we not only say, but think the contrary, sitter for a man Drunk than Sober? What? is Rome all the World? Is Abyssinia, America, Mesopotamia, Muscovy, Asia, Thrace, England, Scotland, Sweden, Denmark, no part of the World, yea, of the Christian World? And is not the Christian World, the Church Universal? Reader, here is a Controversy worthy the Wits, Learning and Honesty of all the Famous Fathers, and Doctors, and Jugglers of the Roman Catholic Church. The Question is, Which of the Rooms in the House is the whole House? One saith that the Kitchen, or the Cole-House, or the House of Office, is the whole House. We Protestants say, that no one Room is the whole, but Hall, Parlours, Dining-Room,