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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.
19. How can we be assured that this or any promise belongeth to the Popes, when the Papists the• selves say that they were made to Peter before h• was Pope. For so Bellarmine is fain to answer, wh• we say Peter himself erred in denying Christ he saith [Saint Peter when he denied Christ, was • yet made Pope: For its manifest that the Ecclesias•• call supremacy was given him in the last of John, wh• Christ after the resurrection bid him Feed my sheep Bell. de Pontif. li 4. cap. 8.
19. How can we be assured that this or any promise belongeth to the Popes, when the Papists the• selves say that they were made to Peter before h• was Pope. For so Bellarmine is fain to answer, wh• we say Peter himself erred in denying Christ he saith [Saint Peter when he denyed Christ, was • yet made Pope: For its manifest that the Ecclesias•• cal supremacy was given him in the last of John, wh• Christ after the resurrection bid him Feed my sheep Bell. de Pontif. li 4. cap. 8.
20. It is of necessity that all Christians who belie• upon the Popes authority, must know who it is th• is the true Pope, and to be believed: And wh• there are many Popes at once pretending to that i• fallibility and authority, how can all Christians resolved which is the true Pope when one Count owns one, and another owns another, whom s the vulgar own that are out of reach and uncapab of understanding the quarrel? And then, w