A27015:282
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.
7. If Peter and Paul were Bishops at once of one Church in Rome, then it must be known why they may not have two successors at once; and if there be two, which of them is to be believed when they disagree. But if Peter and Paul were Bishops of two particular Churches in Rome, the one of the Circumcision, the other of the uncircumcision, then it must be known by what right their successors made them one? or whether it were not by a failing or cessation of the Church of the Circumcision, when all Jews were banished from Rome, and so the Church of the uncircumcision only continuing, the Pope be not only Pauls successor.
7. If Peter and Paul were Bishops at once of one Church in Rome, then it must be known why they may not have two successors at once; and if there be two, which of them is to be believed when they disagree. But if Peter and Paul were Bishops of two particular Churches in Rome, the one of the Circumcision, the other of the uncircumsion, then it must be known by what right their successors made them one? or whether it were not by a failing or cessation of the Church of the Circumcision, when all Jews were banished from Rome, and so the Church of the uncircumcision only continuing, the Pope be not only Pauls successor.
8. And it must be known whether Peter were not Bishop of other Churches as well as of Rome (yea of Antioch before Rome) and so whether the Bishop of Antioch be not his successor as well as the Pope of ⟨p. 94⟩Rome, yea and the chief successor if it follow the right of primogeniture, either as to the Church o• the Bishop; seeing Antioch was a Church before Rome, and Peter was supposed to be Bishop there before he was of Rome. And then if the Bishop of Rome and Antioch differ (as they do) how, shall we know whom to believe, and how shall we know that the Bishop of Antioch is not infallible as well as the Pope of Rome?