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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.
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⟩prove their Religion to be ancient: but its new in •he points wherein we differ, and most new in the greatest differences. Bishop Usher in his Answer to •he Jesuits challenge, and in his book de Statu & •uccessione Ecclesiarum, hath proved the novelty of •he main body of their corruptions, especially the points of whose antiquity themselves most boasted of, and this distinctly and fully to their perpetual confusion, beyond all reply.
The novelty of their doctrine de efficacia Sacramenti ex opere operato is not onely by subtile 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⟩prove their Religion to be ancient: but its new in •he points wherein we differ, and most new in the greatest differences. Bishop Ʋsher in his Answer to •he Jesuites challenge, and in his book de Statu & •uccessione Ecclesiarum, hath proved the novelty of •he main body of their corruptions, especially the points of whose antiquity themselves most boasted of, and this distinctly and fully to their perpetual •onfusion, beyond all reply.