A27015:166
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.
Ans. 1. The Churches confessions pass no such condemnation; nor any moderate sober men. 2. If two children fall out, & call one another Bastard, they are never the more Bastards for that, nor will the ⟨p. 46⟩father therefore call them so; else what will become of your Jesuits and Dominicans.
Ans. 1. The Churches confessions pass no such condemnation; nor any moderate sober men. 2. If two children fall out, & call one another Bastard, they are never the more Bastards for that, nor will the ⟨p. 46⟩father therefore call them so; else what will become of your Jesuites and Dominicans.
Obj. 9. The very name of Lutherans, Calvinists, Protestants, do plainly express a Sect or party, different from the Name [Catholic] which denoteth the true Church which only holds the true Religion: And the very name [Reformed] is novel, and no proper title of the Catholic Church, but only a cloak for your Schism, which discloseth the novelty of your Church and way.
Obj. 9. The very name of Lutherans, Calvinists, Protestants, do plainly express a Sect or party, different from the Name [Catholike] which denoteth the true Church which only holds the true Religion: And the very name [Reformed] is novel, and no proper title of the Catholike Church, but onely a cloak for your Schisme, which discloseth the novelty of your Church and way.
Answ. 1. And of how much better signification think you, is the name [Papist] or [Romanist? You call your selves Catholics, and we call our selves Catholics: You scornfully call us Lutherans, and Calvinists which are names that we disclaim, and then argue from your own imposed names. Would you have us do so by you? And as for the names of Protestants, and Reformed, we use them not to express the Essential nature of our Religion, but the Accidental Removal of your Corruptions. So that though Scripture or Antiquity talk not of [A Protestant, or Reformed Religion] by name, yet it commendeth to us that same Religion, which we now call [Protestant, […] Reformed] but then it could not so be called, because you had not then hatched your corruptions and deformities, which are presupposed to our Reformation. The man that fell among thieves, when his wounds were healed, was a [Cured man] whereas before he was not a cured man, because not a wounded man: And yet