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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.
You see then the case of the poor people according to the Romish Religion: They cannot know the •ord of God to be his word but on the authoritative determination of the Pope: and who is the ⟨p. 102⟩true Pope it is impossible for them to know, when even most Learned men cannot know, and Bellarmine himself so long after saith, it could not easily be known.
You see then the case of the poor people accord•ng to the Romish Religion: They cannot know the •ord of God to be his word but on the authorita•ive determination of the Pope: and who is the ⟨p. 102⟩true Pope it is impossible for them to know, when even most Learned men cannot know, and Bellarmine himself so long after saith, it could not easily be known.
21. Moreover, how can all Christians many hundred miles distant know whether indeed the Cardinals chose and consecrated him that is in the seat, or whether he forced in himself, or bribed them to pretend what was not done, and so whether he have all the essentials of his call.
21. Moreover, how can all Christians many hundred miles distant know whether indeed the Cardinals chose and consecrated him that is in the seat, or whether he forc't in himself, or bribed them to pretend what was not done, and so whether he have all the essentials of his call.