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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.
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.
12. If this Deceiver hold what is contrary to his accused Protestant Opinion, he must condemn the Church of Rome, ⟨p. 5⟩that agreeth not of the sense of a thousand Texts of Scripture, Horseloads of Commentators, and Cartloads of School-contenders, contradicting one another: And he that will say that all revealed in Scripture is not matter of Faith, reproacheth God, as revealing that which is not to be believed. All matters of Faith are not essential to Christianity, but some are only for the perfection of it: All is matter of Faith that we are bound to believe as Divine Revelation. All the Scripture is such, though the ignorant must have time and help to understand it, and explicitly receive it. The Popes themselves (e. g. Sixtus Quintus, and Clem. 8.) have differed in many hundred Texts about the very Latin Translation. Many hundred Volumes of Controversies among them, tell us how far they are from ending Controversies, and agreeing in all matters of Faith: But in so much as is necessary to Salvation, all serious believing Protestants, or Reformed Catholics, are agreed.