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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.
Prop. 1. That Christian doctrine contained in the holy Scriptures which the Papists do profess to believe, is of it self without their corruptions, a safe way to salvation.
Prop. 2. Whatever errors are held by Papists or any others, which do consist with a true practic• belief of the foresaid Christian doctrine which they confess, and we are agreed in, those errors sh••• not exclude the erroneous from Salvation.
Prop. 3. The Papists do not expressly in terms and sense deny any fundamental point of faith.
Prop. 3. The Papists do not expresly in terms and sence deny any fundamental point of faith.
Prop. 4. Its possible even practically to hold an error, which by remote consequence contradicteth a fundamental Truth, and yet to hold that truth practically, and so to be saved. For either all moral •errots in Theology (as Amesius thought) do contradict the Foundation by consequence, by reason of the necessary concatenation of Truths; or most at least.