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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
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.
10. Nor that the Judgment of the major part of Christians or Bishops is the Infallible Rule; for 1. The Papal part are but a third part: And they will hardly believe that the other two or three ⟨p. 4⟩parts (Abissines, Egyptians, Syrians, Armenians, Georgians, Circassians, Greeks, Muscovites, Protestants) are the Infallible rule. 2. And if they met in an equal Council, they that are most out of the Council, would be the most in it. And Ephes. 2. and many others now condemned, have had the Major part. And Chrysostom that thought that [few Bishops or Priests were saved,] thought not the greater number to be the infallible Rule.
11. And Pope and Councils agreeing are not that Infallible rule; for two fallibles makes not one infallible, nor two Knaves one honest Man. Popes and Councils have oft condemned one another; yea, they have oft agreed in evil, as did that at Lateran the 4th. under Innocent the 3d. that decreed the deposition of Princes, that exterminate not all that renounce not all Senses and Humanity; for those that have led into the Churches of the West all the horrid Errors of Rome, to pretend yet that they are the Infallible rule of understanding Scripture, is Impudency quite beyond that of Satan himself.
11. And Pope and Councils agreeing are not that Infallible rule; for two fallibles makes not one infallible, nor two Knaves one honest Man. Popes and Councils have oft condemned one another; yea, they have oft agreed in evil, as did that at Laterane the 4th. under Innocent the 3d. that decreed the deposition of Princes, that exterminate not all that renounce not all Senses and Humanity; for those that have led into the Churches of the West all the horrid Errors of Rome, to pretend yet that they are the Infallible rule of understanding Scripture, is Impudency quite beyond that of Satan himself.