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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.
20. That 'tis lawful for children to enter into a vow, against their parents consent.
21. They allow of great variety of vows, which have various rules of life, invented by men, beside the holy Scripture. And as if there were greater perfection in those rules, then in the doctrine of the Gospel, and a more compendious way to perfection and salvation: they teach, by the observation of them, eternal life and a more excellent degree of glory is obtained.
22. They give the obedience which is due only to God, unto the men that live after the Rules of the Franciscan, Dominican order, &c.
22. They give the obedience which is due onely to God, unto the men that live after the Rules of the Franciscan, Domincan order, &c.
23. That the Apostles were the first Christian Monks.