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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.
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 ⟨p. 99⟩rest do only hold, that whether the Pope be a Hectic or not, yet he cannot define any thing here•al, as to be believed by the whole Church: this •th he, is the most common opinion: Bellarm. de •m. Pontif. li. 4 cap. 2.
17. Bellarmine saith that it is agreed among all Catholiks that the Pope as a private Doctor may erre, 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 Heretick, and reach Heresie, so it be without a General Council: And that most of the