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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.
Of Marriage.
1. That Matrimony, though it were instituted in Paradise, is truly and properly a Sacrament of the new Law.
1. That Matrimony, though it were instituted in Paradise, is truely and properly a Sacrament of the new Law.
2. And therefore does confer grace upon the married, making them acceptable, ex opere operato.
3. That the Church has power to constitute impediments that shall hinder marriage.