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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.
IT is not as other mens Judges that we determine this Question; to their own master do they stand or fall: but it is to render an account of our own Belief and practice, and for our further confirmation in the truth for the defence of it against gain-sayers, and for the establishing of our people against the sophistry and seduction of Deceivers.
For the explication of the terms, I shall tell you 1. What I mean by Popery. 2. What I mean by Salvation. 3. What by the way to it. 4. What by the word Safe.
1. Popery is a certain farrago, a mixture of many grievous errors in the doctrine of Faith, Government and Worship, expressed in their Authorized writings, ⟨p. 79⟩especially in their decretals and Councils, corrupting the Christian Religion which they profess; the whole being denominated from that one falsehood, that the Pope of Rome is, the Universal Bishop, and Visible Head of the Universal Church and Christs Vicar-General on earth, and that only is the Catholic Church, and those only Catholics that so believe.
1. Popery is a certain farrago, a mixture of many grievous errors in the doctrine of Faith, Government and Worship, expressed in their Authorized writings, ⟨p. 79⟩especially in their decretals and Councils, corrupting the Christian Religion which they profess; the whole being denominated from that one falshood, that the Pope of Rome is, the Universall Bishop, and Visible Head of the Universal Church and Christs Vicar-General on earth, and that only is the Catholike Church, and those only Catholiks that so believe.