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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.
Of the humane Ordination of Papacy, and its late increase beyond its ancient bounds, and the limitation of Ecclesiastical Power; I shall desire you to see what in the following Disputation is cited out of their Cardinal Nicol. Cusanus, a man so violent for the Eugenian faction, that Aeneas Sylvius, afterward Pope Pius the second lamenteth that so learned a man should be the pillar of that Popes cause; and a man so close to Papal interest, and so addicted himself to domineering, that he opposed his Prince Sigismund Duke of Austria, and caused the same Pope Pius the second to take his part, and excommunicate Sigismund and all his Counsellors, and his subjects, for taking this Cardinal prisoner ⟨p. 109⟩by force of Arms; of which see the story in Goldastus, with Gregor. Hemburg's (one of the Princes excommunicated Counsellors) his Defence against the Pope and Cardinal: Yet this man himself in his books de concordia hath confessed enough to destroy the Popes cause, and take down the Roman tyranny, if they would stand to the principles of that confession.
Of the humane Ordination of Papacy, and its late increase beyond its ancient bounds, and the limitation of Ecclesiastical Power; I shall desire you to see what in the following Disputation is cited out of their Cardinal Nicol. Cusanus, a man so violent for the Eugenian faction, that Aenaenas Sylvius, afterward Pope Pius the second lamenteth that so learned a man should be the pillar of that Popes cause; and a man so close to Papal interest, and so addicted himself to domineering, that he opposed his Prince Sigismund Duke of Austria, and caused the same Pope Pius the second to take his part, and excommunicate Sigismund and all his Counsailors, and his subjects, for taking this Cardinal prisoner ⟨p. 109⟩by force of Armes; of which see the story in Goldastus, with Gregor. Hemburg's (one of the Princes excommunicated Counsailors) his Defence against the Pope and Cardinal: Yet this man himself in his books de concordia hath confessed enough to destroy the Popes cause, and take down the Romane tyranny, if they would stand to the principles of that confession.