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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. 12. We may well conclude therefore that whether a Papist may be saved or not, that certainly Popery is no safe way to Salvation.
Prop. 12. We may well conclude therefore that whether a Papist may be saved or not, that certainely Popery is no safe way to Salvation.
If a cup of Poison be tempered for the killing of men, and one drinks it all, and dyeth, another drinks almost all, and dyeth, another drinks less, and yet using no remedy dyeth, another drinks but a little, or taking more, yet useth some effectual Remedy, and so with much ado scapeth death. I think, notwithstanding the scaping of these last, we may well conclude that [Poison is no safe or wholesome food.]
If a cup of Poison be tempered for the killing of men, and one drinks it all, and dyeth, another drinks almost all, and dyeth, another drinks lesse, and yet using no remedy dyeth, another drinks but a little, or taking more, yet useth some effectual Remedy, and so with much ado scapeth death. I think, notwithstanding the scaping of these last, we may well conclude that [Poison is no safe or wholesome food.]
I come now to prove the Proposition last expressed.