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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.
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 ⟨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 onely 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.
The Apostolical and Ecclesiastical traditions, and the rest of the Observations and constitutions of the same Church, I do most firmly admit and embrace. I admit also the sacred Scripture according to that sense which the Holy Mother the Church hath held and doth hold, to whom it belongeth to judge of the true sense and interpretation of the Holy Scriptures: and I will never take and interpret it, but according to the unanimous consent of the Fathers. I do profess also that there are seven truly and properly Sacraments of the new Law instituted by Jesus Christ our Lord, and necessary to the salvation of mankind, though not all to every one; to wit, Baptism, Confirmation, the Eucharist, Penance, extreme Unction, Order, and Matrimony: and that they confer race; and that of these, Baptism, Confirmation, and Order, cannot be reiterated without Sacrilege. I do also receive and admit the received and approved Rites of the Catholic Church in the solemn Administration of all the aforesaid Sacraments. I do embrace and receive all and singular things which in the Holy Council of Trent were defined and declared about Original sin and Justification. In like manner I do profess