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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.
The work that now they are upon, is, 1. By Divisions, and Reviling the Ministers, to loosen the people from their Guides; that they may be as a Masterless Dog that will follow any body that will whistle him.
2. To take down the Ministers maintenance and encouragements, that they may be disabled so vigorously to resist them.
3. To hinder their union, that they may abate their strength, and find them work against each other.
4. To procure a Liberty of seducing all they can under the name of Liberty of Conscience, that so they may have as fair a game for it as we: And ignorance and the common corruption of nature (especially so heightened by a custom in sin) doth befriend the Devils cause much more than Gods; or else how comes it to pass that the Godly are so few, and Error, Idolatry and impiety doth so abound in all the earth!
4. To procure a Liberty of seducing all they can under the name of Liberty of Conscience, that so they may have as fair a game for it as we: And ignorance and the common corruption of nature (especially so heightened by a custome in sin) doth befriend the Devils cause much more than Gods; or else how comes it to pass that the Godly are so few, and Error, Idolatry and impiety doth so abound in all the earth!