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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.
so that wise impartial men think that the Eutichites (or at least these Christians that are so called amiss by the Papists) do but misuse the term Nature for the term Person, and so deny two Persons only in sense, and two Natures only in name, and that by the same misuse of the terms the Nestorians do affirm two Natures only in sense, and two Persons in words only. Of this I desire the Reader to consider What Luther hath said de Conciliis This I must needs say, that if I did not exercise the same charity in judging of the Romanists, as I do in this excuse of the Jacobites, and other Christians that are not of their Communion, I should be forced to censure the former much deeper then the latter, and if by all their errors I must hold the rest to be Heretics or Schismatics, I must by the same measure judge the Romanists to be doubly Heretical, as I certainly know them to be most notoriously Schismatical. For though I know that they are not so barbarous and unlearned as most of these forementioned Christians, and also that they are free from many of their mistakes, yet withal they have many more in stead of them which the other are free from. And for the Protestants they are Heretics only on this supposition, that the Pope be Judge.
so that wise impartial men think that the Eutichites (or at least these Christians that are so called amiss by the Papists) do but misuse the term Nature for the term Person, and so deny two Persons onely in sence, and two Natures only in name, and that by the same misuse of the terms the Nestorians do affirm two Natures onely in sence, and two Persons in words onely. Of this I desire the Reader to consider What Luther hath said de Conciliis This I must needs say, that if I did not exercise the same charity in judging of the Romanists, as I do in this excuse of the Jacobites, and other Christians that are not of their Communion, I should be forced to censure the former much deeper then the latter, and if by all their errors I must hold the rest to be Hereticks or Schismaticks, I must by the same measure judge the Romanists to be doubly Heretical, as I certainly know them to be most notoriously Schismatical. For though I know that they are not so barbarous and unlearned as most of these forementioned Christians, and also that they are free from many of their mistakes, yet withall they have many more in stead of them which the other are free from. And for the Protestants they are Hereticks only on this supposition, that the Pope be Judge.