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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.
Arg. 7. If the faith of Papists as Papists, which is it that we call Popery, be a merely uncertain, changeable thing, so that a man can never tell when he hath it all then is it no safe way to Salvation. But the faith of Papist• (as such) is such a merely uncertain changeable thing: Therefore it is no safe way to Salvation.
Arg. 7. If the faith of Papists as Papists, which is it that we call Popery, be a meerly uncertain, changeable thing, so that a man can never tell when he hath it all then is it no safe way to Salvation. But the faith of Papist• (as such) is such a meerly uncertain changeable thing: Therefore it is no safe way to Salvation.
The consequence of the Major, I suppose they will grant. For how can that be a safe way, 1. which is uncertain, 2. and changeable; when the true way ⟨p. 129⟩to salvation is one and the same, and changeth not since Christ had established and sealed his Laws.
All the question therefore is of the Minor: which I prove, 1. From the Popish principles, 2. From their Practices, both which do plainly show that their new Religion is a mere Weather-cock that must fit with the wind of the mutable conceits of the Pope and his Clergy. Even like the Religion of the Enthusiasts that wait still for new Revelations to be superadded to the Scripture.
All the question therefore is of the Minor: which I prove, 1. From the Popish principles, 2. From their Practices, both which do plainly shew that their new Religion is a meer Weather-cock that must fit with the winde of the mutable conceits of the Pope and his Clergy. Even like the Religion of the Enthusiasts that wait still for new Revelations to be superadded to the Scripture.