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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.
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.
1. They are divided and disagreed among themselves even their greatest Learned Doctors about the very foundation of their faith, as I shall further show in the next argument: They believe upon the infallible judgement of the Church, and they are not agreed what that Church is.
1. They are divided and disagreed among themselves even their greatest Learned Doctors about the very foundation of their faith, as I shall further shew in the next argument: They believe upon the infallible judgement of the Church, and they are not agreed what that Church is.
2. They build the assurance of their faith upon such a ground as none of the common people, no nor any Doctors in the world, can have the knowledge of: therefore their faith must needs be uncertain. To manifest this I shall review one leaf that I wrote heretofore on this subject in the Preface to the second Part of the Saints Rest.