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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.
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?
Now this being so we must be resolved, if a Pope • a Heretick 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 Hereticke 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 tye 〈…〉 tongue that he shall not be able to speak that •hich he believes, and speaks at other times?
18. And whether the promise which they allege this purpose (I have prayed for thee that thy faith […] not) be indeed fulfilled to a Heretical Pope. If •t, then its evident that this promise belongs not • all Popes. If yea, then the faith of a Heretic th not fail; which Bellarmine himself confesseth be false. And here note what a naked shameful ft it is that Bellarmine makes about this text? He th that [There are two things promised there to Pe: The first is that Peter should never lose the true ith, though tempted by the Devil; The other privilege is, that he as Pope should not be able ever to teach ly thing contrary to the faith; or that in his seat no n should ever be found that should teach against the th: of which privileges, the first perhaps was not rived to his successors, but the second undoubtedly as derived to them] So saith Bellarmine de Rom nt. li. 4. cap. 3.