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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 beginning of forbidding Priests to marry, see the same Polid. Virgil. li. 5. cap. 4. pag. 293, &c.
Of Peters supremacy the sam• Polidore saith l. 4. c. 6. p. 240. [Veruntamen existunt etiam nunc, &c. There are some now that contend that Peter had power over all the Apostles: of which it belongeth not to us to determine, who are only enquiring of the original of Priesthood: but some think the contrary, because Paul seemeth to deny it, &c.] Where he addeth more reasons.
Of Peters supremacy the sam• Polidore saith l. 4. c. 6. p. 240. [Veruntamen existunt etiam nunc, &c. There are some now that contend that Peter had power over all the Apostles: of which it belongeth not to us to determine, who are onely enquiring of the original of Priesthood: but some think the contrary, because Paul seemeth to deny it, &c.] Where he addeth more reasons.
Of the Original of Cardinals, and the changes of the Electors of Popes, see him also l. 4. c. 9. where also he saith pag. 252. [Verum cum postea Bonifacius 3. ab Imperatore Phoea impetrasset ut in omnes Episcopos praerogativam haberet, omniumque caput perpetuo foret, jam tum Romanus Pontifex multo quam antea unam cum suo urbano sacerdotum senatu cunctis sine controversia prestare authoritate caepit, ac simul illi presbyteri quibus Tituli dati, quibus Christianorum animas cutandi munus delatum fuerat, to Cardinalium nomine velut supremae illius dignitatis proprio cum primis honestari caepit.] Here you have a hint of the Original of the very new frame of the Romish Church.