A27015:320
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.
Others also in the next disputation are mentioned as to that subject, which I shall therefore now pretermit.
Polidore Virgil a Learned writer of theirs in his lib. 8. de Invent. R••. cap. 5. pag. 475.476. Saith [Item ut nullum conventum indici, nullumque a quibusvis actum haberi ratum liceret sine Romani Pontificis authoritate, Marcellus primus omnium sanxit, deinde Julius & Damasus & Gregorius illud idem statuere] [i. e. [Also that no Assembly (or Council) should be called, nor any act of whomsoever be esteemed ratified without the Authority of the Pope of Rome, this Marcellus was the first that did ordain, and afterward Julius and Damasus and Gregory did ordain the same thing] And though this sufficiently proveth the novelty, yet Polidore is mistaken in taking this part of Papal Usurpation to be so ancient. For he took it on the authority of the decretals, which are mere fictions. Of which I refer the Reader to Blondellus de Decretal. 1The sum of whose censure on Marcellus Epistles is this [As the frequent Barbarism show the Author, so the following oft the version of Hiereme, the excribing of divers instances ⟨p. 110⟩out of Innocent, Leo, Hilary, Gregory, Adrian 1. and Acacius, show that he was many ages later then Marcellus] See also the full evidence that he giveth in his censures against the Epistle of S. Julius and Damasus; and for Gregory, his Epistles to the contrary purpose are well known. So that by Polidorus confession this Papal usurpation is a novelty: but indeed many hundred years nearer then he imagined.
Polidore Virgil a Learned writer of theirs in his lib. 8. de Invent. R••. cap. 5. pag. 475.476. Saith [Item ut nullum conventum indici, nullumque a quibusvis actum haberi ratum liceret sine Romani Pontificis authoritate, Marcellus primus omnium sanxit, deinde Julius & Damasus & Gregorius illud idem statuere] [i. e. [Also that no Assembly (or Council) should be called, nor any act of whomsoever be esteemed ratified without the Authority of the Pope of Rome, this Marcellus was the first that did ordain, and afterward Julius and Damasus and Gregory did ordain the same thing] And though this sufficiently proveth the novelty, yet Polidore is mistaken in taking this part of Papal Usurpation to be so ancient. For he took it on the authority of the decretals, which are meer fictions. Of which I refer the Reader to Blondellus de Decretal.