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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.
If therefore the Romanists would have us return •o their communion (not to their subjection; for that we never owed them) let them but cast off their novelties and return to the ancient faith and practice of the Roman Church, and we shall do it speedily •nd do it gladly: They shall see that we are so far from affecting an unnecessary separation, that we •ill embrace them in a lawful communion with all our hearts. I cannot better express my hearty desires of this, then in those hearty words of Hier. Zanchy Vol. 3. Thes. de Eccles. Milit. Thes. 19. Col. •40. [Non enim ab Ecclesia Romanâ simpliciter & • omnibus defecimus: sed in illis duntaxat rebus in •nibus ipsa defecit ab Apostolica, atque adeo a seip•, veteri & pura Ecclesia: neque alio discessimus zimo, quam ut si correcta, ad priorem Ecclesiae for•am redeat, nos quoque ad illam revertamur, & •mmunionem cum illa in suis porro caetibus habeamus: Quod ut tandem fiat, toto animo Domino Jesum pre•mur, Quid enim pio cuique optatius, quam ut ubi •r baptismum renati sumus, ibi etiam in finem us•u vivamus? modo in Domino? Ego Hier. Zanchius. Cum tota mea familia testatum hoc volo toti Ecclesiae Christi in omnem eternitatem.
If therefore the Romanists would have us return •o their communion (not to their subjection; for that we never owed them) let them but cast off their novelties and return to the ancient faith and practice of the Romane Church, and we shall do it speedily •nd do it gladly: They shall see that we are so far from affecting an unnecessary separation, that we •ill embrace them in a lawful communion with all our hearts. I cannot better express my hearty de•ires of this, then in those hearty words of Hier. Zanchy Vol. 3. Thes. de Eccles. Milit. Thes. 19. Col. 40. [Non enim ab Ecclesia Romanâ simpliciter & omnibus defecimus: sed in illis duntaxat rebus in nibus ipsa defecit ab Apostolica, atque adeo a seip, veteri & pura Ecclesia: neque alio discessimus zimo, quam ut si correcta, ad priorem Ecclesiae foram redeat, nos quoque ad illam revertamur, & mmunionem cum illa in suis porro caetibus habeamus: Quod ut tandem fiat, toto animo Domino Jesum premur, Quid enim pio cuique optatius, quam ut ubi r baptismum renati sumus, ibi etiam in finem usu vivamus? modo in Domino? Ego Hier. Zanchius. Cum tota mea familia testatum hoc volo toti Ecclesiae Christi in omnem eternitatem.