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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.
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.
3. Either the Judgement of the Ancient Doctors is sound or not: If not, then the Church of Rome is unsound, that is sworn to expound the Scripture only according to their ⟨image 5⟩consent: If it be sound, then the Church of Rome is unsound, that arrogate a Uiniversal Government and Infallibility, and build upon a foundation, that was never allowed by the Ancient Doctors (as in the third Disput. I have fully proved) and which most Christians in the world do still reject.
3. Either the Judgement of the Antient Doctors is sound or not: If not, then the Church of Rome is unsound, that is sworn to expound the Scripture onely according to their ⟨image 5⟩concent: If it be sound, then the Church of Rome is unsound, that arrogate a Uiniversal Government and Infallibility, and build upon a foundation, that was never allowed by the Antient Doctors (as in the third Disput. I have fully proved) and which most Christians in the world do still reject.