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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.
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?
28. When several Popes and Councils contradict one another, how shall we know which of them to believe? And this is no rare matter among them?