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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.
By this time then it partly appeareth how great a part of the Church of Christ the Papists do differ from.
But yet this is not all, nay the smaller part. For if you will but consider the state of the Church of Christ for the first three hundred, yea five or six hundred years, you will find that the Papists do differ from them all, even from the whole Church. For then the Popes universal Episcopacy and jurisdiction was not known in the world (as is said before.)
All these doth the Roman party now separate themselves from: All these they do pronounce to be no true Churches or true Christians, but Heretics and Schismatics: All these do they condemn to the pit of Hell. They have now concluded that only those are of the true Church, that acknowledge the Mastership or universal Headship of the Pope, and the Mistress-ship of the particular Roman Church which none of all those forementioned did. They now conclude that none can be saved but who are of this (new-framed) Church of theirs.
All these doth the Romane party now separate themseves from: All these they do pronounce to be no true Churches or true Christians, but Hereticks and Schismaticks: All these do they condemn to the pit of Hell. They have now concluded that onely those are of the true Church, that acknowledge the Mastership or universal Headship of the Pope, and the Mistrisship of the particular Romane Church which none of all those forementioned did. They now conclude that none can be saved but who are of this (new-framed) Church of theirs.