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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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4. Some Popes themselves have confessed that they are not the seat or chief subject of the infallibility: As Adrian the sixth who hath wrote his judgement of it, that the Pope may err out of Council. And in my opinion we shall do the Pope much wrong if we shall not believe him when he speaks the truth, and tells us that he is fallible. Did Bellarmine better know Pope Adrians understanding, then the Pope knew his own? Surely I must do as I would be done by: and if any man should persuade me that I know that which I do not know, or that I am infallible, when I know my self subject to error. I should confidently expect that all men would rather believe me of my self then believe another of me that speaks the contrary: And so will I believe Pope Adrian that he was fallible.
4. Some Popes themselves have confessed that they are not the seat or chief subject of the infallibility: As Adrian the sixth who hath wrote his judgement of it, that the Pope may err out of Council. And in my opinion we shall do the Pope much wrong if we shall not believe him when he speaks the truth, and tells us that he is fallible. Did Bellarmine better know Pope Adrians understanding, then the Pope knew his own? Surely I must do as I would be done by: and if any man should perswade me that I know that which I do not know, or that I am infallible, when I know my self subject to error. I should confidently expect that all men would rather believe me of my self then believe another of me that speaks the contrary: And so will I believe Pope Adrian that he was fallible.
But of this more in the next disputation; where you shall have fuller proof.
Arg. 2. If Popery do build even the Christian Religion it self (as held by them) on a foundation that is utterly uncertain, or else certainly false, then is it no safe way to salvation: For it would extirpate Christianity it self. But the Antecedent is true, as I shall thus prove.