A27015:189
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.
And as is noted in Curopalat. de Offic. Palas. Constant. & Offic Mag. Eccl. he hath under him, The Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia; 2. Ephesus, 3. Heraclea, 4. Ancyra, 5. Cizicum, 6. Sardis, 7, Nicomedia, 8. Nice, 9. Calcedon, 10. Mytilene, 11. Thessalonica, 12. Laodicea, 13. Synadae, 14. Iconium, 15. Corinth, 16. Athens, 17. Patrae, 18. Trapezuntium, 19. Larissae, 20 Naupactus, 21. Adrianopolis. These are all Archbishops, and have many Bishops under them, viz. Of Muscovy 17. of Larissae 13. of Athens 11. of Corinth 10. of Thessalonica 9. &c.
And as is noted in Curopalat. de Offic. Palas. Constant. & Offic Mag. Eccl. he hath under him, The Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia; 2. Ephesus, 3. Heraclea, 4. Ancyra, 5. Cizicum, 6. Sardis, 7, Nicomedia, 8. Nice, 9. Calcedon, 10. Mitylene, 11. Thessalonica, 12. Laodicea, 13. Synadae, 14. Iconium, 15. Corinth, 16. Athens, 17. Patrae, 18. Trapezuntium, 19. Larissae, 20 Naupactus, 21. Adrianopolis. These are all Archbishops, and have many Bishops under them, viz. Of Muscovy 17. of Larissae 13. of Athens 11. of Corinth 10. of Tessalonica 9. &c.
And if these be under the Patriarch of Constantinople alone, how great a number are all the rest in the great Empire of the Abassines, and elsewhere through the rest of the Christian world?
I do not mention all these to intimate either that multitudes prove them or any to have the best cause, if we were in all things of their minds, or as if I preferred them for Arts and Civil Policy to the Romans, but to show both the heinousness of the Popish Schism that would unchurch so many, and the cruelty of their censures that would damn so many, and the Impudency of their pretence of Universality, and their vain boasting of [All the Church] when they are so small a part of the Church, and more bad then small.