A27015:156
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.
3. Our confessions do show how we understand the Scripture; wherein we agree in the main, as the Harmony of Confessions testifieth, though in some lesser things we differ.
3. Our confessions do shew how we understand the Scripture; wherein we agree in the main, as the Harmony of Confessions testifieth, though in some lesser things we differ.
Obj. 4. They that have causelessly separated from all the Churches in the world are not of the true Religion nor in a safe way to Salvation: But so have the Protestants done: for they are divided both from Roman Church, the Greeks, Abassines, Armenians, and all: therefore they are not in a safe way.
Obj. 4. They that have causlesly separated from all the Churches in the world are not of the true Religion nor in a safe way to Salvation: But so have the Protestants done: for they are divided both from Romane Church, the Greeks, Abassines, Armenians, and all: therefore they are not in a safe way.
Ans. Its one thing to withdraw from some corruption of a Church and another to withdraw from the Church. 1. We that are now living did not withdraw from Rome or any of the rest: for we were never among you or under you. 2. Our Fathers withdrew not from the Church as Christian or Catholic, but from the particular corruptions of the Roman faction, in Doctrine, Discipline, and Worship; rejecting their lately usurped Tyranny, by which they would have still obliged them to sin against God. As we are commanded to withdraw from each particular Brother that walketh disorderly, so must we from a particular Church when they will be so disordered, as to Tyrannize over the universal. 3. The Church of Rome rejected us by a causeless excommunication, ⟨p. 42⟩