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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
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Prop. 5. There are some errors so great that if they were cordially and practically held, would be inconsistent with the cordial practical holding of the Foundation; which yet may be held but speculatively and notionally in consistency with the cordial and practical belief of the fundamentals; and the person not knowing the contradiction may be saved.
Prop. 6. Multitudes of people while they take common terms in Divinity in a wrong sense, do maintain Propositions which by plain consequence, if not directly contradict the Fundamentals according to the proper genuine sense of the words; when yet in the sense as they mistake and misuse them in, there is no contradiction. Even as many on the other side, do hold the Christian verity in words, who in sense deny it.
Prop. 6. Multitudes of people while they take common termes in Divinity in a wrong sence, do maintain Propositions which by plain consequence, if not directly contradict the Fundamentals according to the proper genuine sence of the words; when yet in the sence as they mistake and misuse them in, there is no contradiction. Even as many on the other side, do hold the Christian verity in words, who in sence deny it.
Prop. 7. We have great reason to think that many millions of the Laity among the Papists, if not the far greatest part of them, do not cordially embrace the most of the Popish corruptions in doctrinals, nor the most dangerous of them.