A27015:139
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.
Obj. So you would make our Religion and •ours to be all one. Ans. As the word Religion signifieth the Essentials of the Christian Faith, or the •oints of absolute necessity to Salvation, so our religion is with you, and is owned or confessed by •ou: As it signifieth all those points that are conceited necessary to Salvation with the professors, so your religion is not all, but part, with us: And as it comprehendeth also all those Integral parts, which a man •ay confessedly be saved without, so he do not wil•lly reject them, so yours and ours do much differ•nd that your Religion is not all with us is no loss to •; because the points of yours which we disown •e both novel additions of your own brain, and al•• such as contradict the acknowledged verities. ⟨p. 34⟩Wherever then Christ had a Church that did believe all the Doctrine of the Scripture, and specially th• Creed, the Lords Prayer, the Decalogue, the Doctrine of the new Covenant, Baptism, the Lord Supper, and the Ministry, there was our Religion before Luther: If any added hay and stubble, if the• work be burnt, and they suffer loss, yet our Religion among them is the same still.
Obj. So you would make our Religion and •ours to be all one. Ans. As the word Religion sig•ifieth the Essentials of the Christian Faith, or the •oints of absolute necessity to Salvation, so our •eligion is with you, and is owned or confessed by •ou: As it signifieth all those points that are conceit•d necessary to Salvation with the professors, so your eligion is not all, but part, with us: And as it comrehendeth also all those Integral parts, which a man ay confessedly be saved without, so he do not willly reject them, so yours and ours do much differnd that your Religion is not all with us is no loss to ; because the points of yours which we disown e both novel additions of your own brain, and al such as contradict the acknowledged verities.