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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.
15. But if such may be Popes, then must we know why a Mahometan may not as well be a Pope? or how an enemy of Christ and the Church should come to be a Son of Promise, and the Vicar of Christ, and the head of the Church, and whether such were infallible in their judging falsehood to be truth, as they did?
15. But if such may be Popes, then must we know why a Mahometane may not as well be a Pope? or how an enemy of Christ and the Church should come to be a Son of Promise, and the Vicar of Christ, and the head of the Church, and whether such were infallible in their judging falshood to be truth, as they did?
16. And we must know, that the Pope only is lawless, and under no power of Canons, or Decrees of former Popes and Councils? Or else many such Canons will proclaim their calling null: and so the succession still hath been interrupted. And if the Authority of the former Church oblige the Pope to believe, e. g. the truth of Scripture and Traditions, then why must not the Authority of the former Church in its Canons be as obligatory to him in point of duty and penalty, and so null his calling?
16. And we must know, that the Pope onely is lawless, and under no power of Canons, or Decrees of former Popes and Councils? Or else many such Canons will proclaim their calling null: and so the succession still hath been interrupted. And if the Authority of the former Church oblige the Pope to believe, e. g. the truth of Scripture and Traditions, then why must not the Authority of the former Church in its Canons be as obligatory to him in point of duty and penalty, and so null his calling?
17. Bellarmine saith that it is agreed among all Catholics that the Pope as a private Doctor may err, through ignorance, even in universal questions of faith: Also that many Papists and Pope Adrian the sixth himself taught that the Pope as Pope may be a Heretic, and reach Heresy, so it be without a General Council: And that most of the