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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.
Let them show their Commission, and t•• proof of their Traditions. 2. We fully dispro•• them from the Apostles own words. It seems go• to the Holy Ghost and the Apostles to lay • the Gentiles no greater burden then the •• cessary things here named; and by these they m• be saved, and they that teach otherwise are p• nounced by them subverters of souls, that had • ⟨p. 21⟩command from them for what they did. But it •emeth good to the Pope and his faction to lay on ••e Gentile Churches unnecessary things, and multitudes of them, pretending a necessity of them, •hen they are none of the four that are here only •ade necessary by the Apostles, nor are so made by •ny other word of Scripture; and some they impose •n pain of damnation, which they will not pretend •o be of necessity themselves. By proportion therefore we may hence judge, that the Papists are mere else pretenders to Apostolical Tradition, and subverters of souls, and that the Protestants may be sa•ed for all their presumptuous sentence to the contrary.
Let them shew their Commission, and t•• proof of their Traditions. 2. We fully dispro•• them from the Apostles owne words. It seems go• to the Holy Ghost and the Apostles to lay • the Gentiles no greater burden then the •• cessary things here named; and by these they m be saved, and they that teach otherwise are p nounced by them subverters of souls, that had