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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.
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.
3. And why may not another Doctor by these Rules, know the unwritten word, as well as the Pope, and another Church as well as the Roman?
3. And why may not another Doctor by these Rules, know the unwritten word, as well as the Pope, and another Church as well as the Romane?
4. And why may not the Christian people through the world procure from some one charitable Pope, through so many hundred years, a Catalogue of those unwritten verities, that the word of God may be once commonly known, and men may know when they have all, without uncertain dependencies on the Pope, or travailing in vain to Rome to know.