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The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving…The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving…
The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving that popery is against the Holy Scriptures, the unity of the catholic church, the consent of the ancient doctors, the plainest reason, and common judgment of sense it self / by Richard Baxter.The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving that popery is against the Holy Scriptures, the unity of the catholike church, the consent of the antient doctors, the plainest reason, and common judgment of sense it self / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1657
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.
Argu. 3. That Religion is a safe way to Salvation, in which the Church in the three or four first Ages at least was saved: But the Church in the three or four first Ages at least was saved in that Catholic Christian Religion, which now is called the Reformed or Protestant Religion: Therefore this is a safe way to salvation.
Argu. 3. That Religion is a safe way to Salvation, in which the Church in the three or four first Ages at least was saved: But the Church in the three or four first Ages at least was saved in that Catholike Christian Religion, which now is called the Reformed or Protestant Religion: Therefore this is a safe way to salvation.
I mention not the former Ages as if all other following Ages had come to heaven by any other Religion, then the former; but 1. because in them alone there is a sufficient proof of the Major Proposition: None could be saved in it, especially not so many Ages of the purest times, if it were not a safe way. 2. Because some Popish Errors began among the worser sort of Ambitious, Superstitious Prelates to creep in betimes; and Popery it self appeared in the world soon after the six hundredth year, and was openly established about the thousandth year. And according to the degrees of corruption in the ⟨p. 17⟩Church there was a greater difficulty of salvation, because more impediments: but still those that were saved, were all saved in and by the same Religion of the former Ages; and if they were saved in any Corruption, yet not By it, but from it, or against it.
I mention not the former Ages as if all other following Ages had come to heaven by any other Religion, then the former; but 1. because in them alone there is a sufficient proof of the Major Proposition: None could be saved in it, especially not so many Ages of the purest times, if it were not a safe way. 2. Because some Popish Errors began among the worser sort of Ambitious, Superstitious Prelates to creep in betimes; and Popery it self appeared in the world soon after the six hundredth yeer, and was openly established about the thousandth yeer. And according to the degrees of corruption in the