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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 mark how contrary this is to the sense of the ⟨p. 100⟩text. The promise that Christ made to Peter, wa• not to his tongue but to his heart: not that he should not speak against the faith, for he did deny Christ, and curse and swear that he knew not the man: b• it was that his inward belief should not fail, and •• that he should not fall from Christ, and consequently indeed that his heart should reduce the tong•• it self. Now Bellarmine confesseth that perhaps th• part of the promise that concerneth faith it sel• ▪ reacheth not to Peters successors, but only th• which concerneth the tongue: which was directly none at all; so that he gives up the true prom• made to Peter, which was that his faith should n• fail, and not that his tongue should not fail, and b• forgeth another in its stead.
Now mark how contrary this is to the sence of the ⟨p. 100⟩text. The promise that Christ made to Peter, wa• not to his tongue but to his heart: not that he should not speak against the faith, for he did deny Christ, and curse and swear that he knew not the man: b• it was that his inward belief should not fail, and •• that he should not fall from Christ, and consequently indeed that his heart should reduce the tong•• it self. Now Bellarmine confesseth that perhaps th• part of the promise that concerneth faith it sel• ▪ reacheth not to Peters successors, but onely th which concerneth the tongue: which was directl none at all; so that he gives up the true prom made to Peter, which was that his faith should n fail, and not that his tongue should not fail, and b forgeth another in its stead.