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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.
And though he say that it then begun, meaning Luther's particular Reformation, yet what is like to be the end of it in the next words he subjoins his Prognostic [Mansurum ut videtur quoad Christus ipse populum suum culpâ rectorum it a in duas sectas sejunctum, rursus coegerit, a quo istud optimus quisque maxim petere precarique debet, ut ne major indidem fiat Religionis labes] [Its like to remain till Christ himself shall again bring together his people, who by their Rectors fault are thus divided into two *Sects; from whom every good man ought especially to beg and pray for it, lest Religion as daily decay] more and more.
And though he say that it then begun, meaning Luthers particular Reformation, yet what is like to be the end of it in the next words he subjoynes his Prognostick [Mansurum ut videtur quoad Christus ipse populum suum culpâ rectorum it a in duas sectas sejunctum, rursus coegerit, a quo istud optimus quisque maxime petere precarique debet, ut ne major indidem fiat Religionis labes] [Its like to remain till Christ himself shall again bring together his people, who by their Rectors fault are thus divided into two *Sects; from whom every good man ought especially to beg and pray for it, lest Religion as daily decay] more and more.
- *Note that he calls the Papists a Sect as well as the Reformed.
The novelty of their doctrine de efficacia Sacramenti ex opere operato is not only by subtle Scotus but many more of their own confessed to be new. More of their corruptions are by their own Writers confessed to be novelties; and therefore it is great immodesty in the Papists to pretend the Antiquity of Popery, though we easily grant them the Antiquity of their Christianity. In so much as they agree with us they may ⟨p. 115⟩