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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.
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 ⟨p. 99⟩rest do only hold, that whether the Pope be a He•tick 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.
Now this being so we must be resolved, if a Pope • a Heretic in heart, and open profession, and […] if a General Council be called, this Pope cannot •e his sentence in it according to his own belief, •hether indeed we can prove that God hath promis to cause a Heretic Pope to dissemble, and to eak against his own judgement, which is to lye, ough the thing that he saith be true, or yet to tie […] tongue that he shall not be able to speak that which he believes, and speaks at other times?