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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.
1. In that it is notorious that Popes have erred, and judicially erred, and erred in matters of faith. Bellarmine is put to answer to no less then forty instances of erring Popes; and how shamefully or shamelessly he doth it, any Learned man that will search the records and peruse the case, may soon discover.
1. In that it is notorious that Popes have erred, and judicially erred, and erred in matters of faith. Bellarmine is put to answer to no less then fourty instances of erring Popes; and how shamefully or shamelesly he doth it, any Learned man that will search the records and peruse the case, may soon discover.
2 It is notorious that Councils have erred. I shall not now intermix my Testimonies to interrupt the plain course which I have begun, but rather give you the proof of all this distinctly by it self in the next disputation.
3. The Papists themselves confess this that we affirm. I mean, One part of them do confess that the Pope may err (as the French) and the other (the Italians and Spaniards) confess that a Council may err. One saith the Infallibility is not seated in the Pope; and the other that it is not sealed in a Council, particular or general, of which see Bellarmine de Conciliis lib. 2. cap. 10. & 11. In which last he seeks to prove that a General Council may err. 1. When they dissent from the Popes Legates. 2. And when they consent with the Legates, if those Legates ⟨p. 92⟩do cross the Popes instructions. 3. Yea if the Legates have no certain Instructions, the Council and all they, may consent in error: And he proves the two former by the instance of the second Council of Ephesus, and the Constantinopolitane Council in the time of Pope Nicholas the first, which erred, saith he, because the Popes Legates followed not his instructions. The third he proves by the Council of Basil Sess. 2. which together with the Popes Legate did by common consent Decree, that the Council is above the Pope, which now (saith Bellarmine) is judged erroneous.