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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
Appendix › Section 20: § 20. Of Councils and Monastical vows.
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.
13. Our entrance into Religion, is a second Baptism, or in stead of a new Baptism, by which satisfaction is made for all former sins.
14. That perfection is to be placed in true Monastic vows, as the vow of voluntary poverty, the vow of perpetual chastity, the vow of Monastical obedience.
14. That perfection is to be placed in true Monastick vows, as the vow of voluntary poverty, the vow of perpetual chastity, the vow of Monastical obedience.
15. That voluntary poverty is rightly vowed to God.
16. That its lawful; Lawful? yea a meritorious work, a work of perfection and supererogation in Monks to live on begging.