Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, or, Mr. Richard Baxters narrative of the most memorable passages of his…

To pass by now all those Points of Popery which are contrary to what the Holy Scripture revealeth for us to believe (which are many) I only instance in the Point of Sovereignty, is contrary to the Determination of our General Councils. That which is contrary to what a General Council pronounceth to be believed, is (in the Papists sense) a Heresy: But that the Pope is above a General Council, and that a General Council is above the Pope, are both determined to be believed by General Councils: The first by the Councils, at the Lateran and Florence; and the second by the Councils at Constance and Basil: They are both Heresies therefore, because they are both against General Councils: and they are both Points of Popery, because both determined in General Councils, (as I have proved in my Key, &c.) If you will peruse a Catalogue in the End of my Book, called The Safe Religion, or ⟨p. 225⟩the Thirty two Novelties mentioned in my Key, pag. 142, 143, 144. you will see whether Popery be Error. If any other Doctrine contrary […] Christ's do infer an Anathema, then everlasting Woe to Papists. And here you may see the Safety of the true Catholics that have rejected Popery: Our Religion is all contained in the Holy Scripture; we profess to have no other Rule; and you charge us not (that I know of) with believing too much by holding any positive Error, but with believing too little, because we believe not your supernumerary Articles: And therefore you cannot say, that we teach any other Doctrine than Christ's: though you fancy that we teach not all, because we teach not your Traditions. But on the contrary, we prove that you teach another Doctrine, and many such, which Christ never delivered to the Church. But yet to abate your severe Sel• condemnation, let me excuse you thus far, as to say, that you do it upon mistake: For Gal. 1. saith not, [Let him be accursed that preacheth another Doctrine] but [another Gospel:] While it is the same Gospel in the Essentials that is preached and believed, this Anathema belongs not even to you that err, till you come to contradict the Essence and make it [another Gospel] as well as [another Doctrine].

To pass by now all those Points of Popery which are contrary to what the Holy Scripture revealeth for us to believe (which are many) I only instance in the Point of Sovereignty, is contrary to the Determination of our General Councils. That which is contrary to what a General Council pronounceth to be believed, is (in the Papists sence) a Heresie: But that the Pope is above a General Council, and that a General Council is above the Pope, are both determined to be believed by General Councils: The first by the Councils, at the Laterane and Florence; and the second by the Councils at Constance and Basil: They are both Heresies therefore, because they are both against General Councils: and they are both Points of Popery, because both determined in General Councils, (as I have proved in my Key, &c.) If you will peruse a Catalogue in the End of my Book, called The Safe Religion, or