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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.
28. That the words of absolution are not only a sign but also a cause of remission of sin, or that they do effect justification: for by the Priests absolution is sin driven away removed ex oper• operato as a cloud by the wind.
28. That the words of absolution are not onely a sign but also a cause of remission of sin, or that they do effect justification: for by the Priests absolution is sin driven away removed ex oper• operato as a cloud by the wind.
29. That a man cannot be reconciled to God without a Sacramental absolution.
30. That Sacerdotal absolution hath that force of justifying; because many desiring reconciliation and believing in Christ are damned, only because they died before they could be absolved by a Priest: or (as they otherwise express their meaning) do perish for that only they could not have a reconciling Priest.
30. That Sacerdotal absolution hath that force of justifying; because many desiring reconciliation and believing in Christ are damned, onely because they died before they could be absolved by a Priest: or (as they otherwise express their meaning) do perish for that onely they could not have a reconciling Priest.