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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.
But 1. What the particular Apostolical Traditions are which are Gods Word according to these Rules, he had more wit, or less honesty then to let us understand. ⟨p. 130⟩[…] ⟨p. 131⟩[…] ⟨p. 132⟩Is it because the word of God is indeed yet unknown? or cannot be known? or because it is not fit to make it known? or because the Pope must pretend to the keeping of these hidden Laws, that so the world may receive them at his mouth?
But 1. What the particular Apostolical Traditions are which are Gods Word according to these Rules, he had more wit, or less honesty then to let us understand. ⟨p. 130⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 131⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 132⟩Is it because the word of God is indeed yet unknown? or cannot be known? or because it is not fit to make it known? or because the Pope must pretend to the keeping of these hidden Laws, that so the world may receive them at his mouth?
2. And I would fain know whether these Rules of Bellarmines to know the unwritten word by, are themselves the Word of God, or not? If they be, are they written or unwritten, and how known to be so? If not, then it seems we may have Rules and means which are not the word of God, by which we may infallibly know which is the true word of God? And then there needs no unwritten word to deliver or prove the written word.