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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.
The second untruth which constituteth this part of •is answer, is, that [The Grecians, Muscovites, and Egyptians do in one only point dissent from Rome, and •n no point at all agree with the Protestants sin quantum such, and dissent from their Catholic Church.]
The second untruth which constituteth this part of •is answer, is, that [The Grecians, Moscovites, and Egyptians do in one only point dissent from Rome, and •n no point at all agree with the Protestants sin quan•um such, and dissent from their Catholike Church.]
This one great falsehood containeth two not small ones in it, and each of those two contain abundance more.
This one great falshood containeth two not small ones in it, and each of those two contain abundance more.
1. That all these Churches differ from you in no one point but the Popes supremacy is a falsehood beyond all modesty. For besides the supremacy they believe not your pretended Infallibility, nor do they pretend to the like of their own: They believe not your Purgatory: they own not your pardons for easing the pains of Purgatory, nor prayers for the dead to that end; nor the application of the treasury of the Saints Merits to that end, or for satisfaction to the Justice of God. They own not your Transubstantiation: They have the Scripture in their known languages: They worship God in their Liturgies in their known languages, the Muscovites in the Moscovian tongue, the Georgians in the Iberick; the Arabians in the Arabic; and so the Carmanians, Slavonians, Greeks in theirs: They administer the Eucharist in both kinds, and detest your Sacrilegious