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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.
4. Negatives became necessary to be expressly asserted by occasion of Heresies. And therefore who •an wonder if many of them are never mentioned till •hose heresies did call them out. When there was •o man so impudent as to say that [The Pope of •ome is the Universal Bishop and Governor of the whole Church] or that [God must be worshipped in •n unknown tongue] or that [Images must be worshipped] who could expect that the Church should have occasion in words to express it as a part of their faith that [The Pope is not the universal Bishop; not infallible, &c.] and so of the rest? If Popery had risen sooner, it had sooner been contradicted.
4. Negatives became necessary to be expresly as•erted by occasion of Heresies. And therefore who •an wonder if many of them are never mentioned till •hose heresies did call them out. When there was •o man so impudent as to say that [The Pope of •ome is the Universal Bishop and Governor of the whole Church] or that [God must be worshipped in •n unknown tongue] or that [Images must be wor•hipped] who could expect that the Church should have occasion in words to express it as a part of their faith that [The Pope is not the universal Bishop; not infallible, &c.] and so of the rest? If Popery had risen sooner, it had sooner been contradicted.
5. There may be an hundred Negatives made necessary hereafter by heresies, which it is not necessary now to put into our Creed or confessions, because they are not yet sufficiently contained or implied in the contrary Affirmatives. If Heretics arise that say that man hath seven souls; that the soul returns to be Gods Essence, and was so eternally; that there are fourteen Sacraments; that Infants must take Orders; with a hundred the like; then it might be necessary for us expressly to deny these; and shall they then tell us that our Religion is new and theirs old, because we cannot prove that any did before deny theirs? So what if we could not prove that any before had said [The Pope is not the Universal Governor?] that is because there was none so shameless for six hundred years as to say he was. Whose Religion then is proved new by this, ours or theirs?