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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.
1. Either Scripture is True or not true: If not, Popery is not true, which pleadeth its warrant from it (And some of them argue, as if they purposed to disprove the Scripture, and to imitate Samson, in pulling down the house on their own heads and ours, in revenge for the dishonour they have suffered by the Scripture.) If it be true (as nothing more true) then Popery is not true, which palpably contradicteth it, as in the points of Latin service, and denying the Cup in the Lords Supper, and many other is most evident.
1. Either Scripture is True or not true: If not, Popery is not true, which pleadeth its warrant from it (And some of them argue, as if they purposed to disprove the Scripture, and to imitate Samson, in pulling down the house on their own heads and ours, in revenge for the dishonor they have suffered by the Scriture.) If it be true (as nothing more true) then Popery is not true, which palpably contradicteth it, as in the points of Latin service, and denying the Cup in the Lords Supper, and many other is most evident.
2. Either the Catholic Church is one, or not: If not, then Popery is deceitful, which maketh this its principal pretence, for the usurping the Universal Headship. If it be One then Popery is deceitful, which is renounced by the far greater part of the Catholic Church, and again renounceth them, and separateth from them, because they will not be subject to the Pope, who never yet in his greatest height had the actual Government of half the Christian world.
2. Either the Catholike Church is one, or not: If not, then Popery is deceitful, which maketh this its principal pretence, for the usurping the Universal Headship. If it be One then Popery is deceitful, which is renounced by the far greater part of the Catholike Church, and again renounceth them, and separateth from them, because they will not be subject to the Pope, who never yet in his greatest height had the actual Government of half the Christian world.