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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.
25. Yea that all those Bishops or most descend by uninterrupted succession from the Apostles, which is made necessary, If they plead only the Bishop of Romes succession to warrant all the rest, before the forementioned particulars be well answered, it will appear that Romes succession hath been frequently interrupted.
25. Yea that all those Bishops or most descend by uninterrupted succession from the Apostles, which is made necessary, If they plead onely the Bishop of Romes succession to warrant all the rest, before the forementioned particulars be well answered, it will appear that Romes succession hath been frequently interrupted.
26. How shall men at a distance be sure that the Councils are indeed confirmed by the Pope?
27. How shall we be sure when all is done that we have the right sense of the Canons or Decrees of such Councils, when they speak as ambiguously as the Scripture, and the Papists think they can have no certainty of the right sense of that without a living judge: And if there be a living judge still of the sense of Councils, either he is as infallible as they, or not: If not, then he cannot make us infallibly certain by his Authoritative determination. If he be, then what need of a Council, when he is infallible alone?
27. How shall we be sure when all is done that we have the right sence of the Canons or Decrees of such Councils, when they speak as ambiguously as the Scripture, and the Papists think they can have no certainty of the right sence of that without a living judge: And if there be a living judge still of the sence of Councils, either he is as infallible as they, or not: If not, then he cannot make us infallibly certain by his Authoritative determination. If he be, then what need of a Council, when he is infallible alone?