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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.
Christ hath promised that all those that receive • words, and in whom his words abide, shall be beloved of the Father and have everlasting life, and • heard in what they ask, Joh. 14.23. & 15.7. Doubt less that which Christ himself preached was the t• Gospel, and so far sufficient that whoever believe• it shall be saved. Otherwise Christ could not •a• converted any soul, so far as to have brought the• into a state of Salvation by his Doctrine: and the• Peter and the rest of the Apostles were not tr•• Christians by the belief of the Doctrine of Christ, […] if the Doctrine which Christ preached be sufficie•• to make true Christians and Church-members o• those that receive it, then the Protestants are such▪ For, they believe every word that the Evangelists record of the Doctrine of Christ. And if the Papi•• say that there is more of his Doctrine necessary t• salvation, which the Evangelists did not record i• Scripture, 1. We call for their proof of it, and 2. W•• ••ow that the Evangelists did purposely write th• ⟨p. 23⟩••ur Gospels or Histories of Christ, of purpose to acquaint the world with his Nature, Birth, Life, doctrine •eath and Resurrection, &c. Luke professeth that he rote his Gospel upon perfect understanding of all ings from the very first, which containeth a Declation of those things which are most surely believed mong us, even as they were delivered by them that om the beginning were eye Witnesses and Ministers f the Word,