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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.
divided and mutable▪ A man would think that those voluminous hot disputes about Divine things, did intimate that the Authors did fide divin• believe those points which they do so zealously dispute of. But if it be their pleasure, that we should so distinguish, we will call the rest the Popish faith or Religion, and these last, the Popish opinions, because we would fasten on them nothing but their own.
divided and mutable▪ A man would think that those volumnious hot disputes about Divine things, did intimate that the Authors did fide divin• believe those points which they do so zealously dispute of. But if it be their pleasure, that we should so distinguish, we will call the rest the Popish faith or Religion, and these last, the Popish opinions, because we would fasten on them nothing but their own.
If you ask me, which be those doctrines which they take for points of faith, which we call Popery; I must refer you to their Decretals and Councils on one side, and Gods word on the other; and all the ⟨p. 81⟩Doctrines in those their Canons or determinations that are against the word of God, are the doctrines which we mean by this name. If they do lay greater stress upon any one point than others, its likely to be on those that are put into their Creeds and Vows, and therefore I shall only recite the latter half of their Tridentine Creed, seeing they will own that or •othing: When they have begun with the ancient Constantinopolitane Creed, containing the true Principles of Christian Religion, and have ended that they proceed thus as followeth.
If you ask me, which be those doctrines which they take for points of faith, which we call Popery; I must refer you to their Decretals and Councils on one side, and Gods word on the other; and all the