A27015:330
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 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.
Many more points of the Romish way doth he in that Book discover to be novel. And in opposition to all their way if you will see how he describeth the Reformed Religion, peruse his narrative of the occasion of the Reformation, pag. 410. cap. 4. li. 8. where he saith [Ita licentia parta loquendi: secta brevi tempore mirabiliter crevit quae Evangelica dicta est eo quod, haud ullam asseveret recipiendam esse legem quae ad animarum salutem pertineat nisi quam Christus aut Apostoli dedissent] i. e. [Having once leave to speak, that sect did marvellously increase; which is called Evangelical, because they