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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.
3. Sure the preaching of any one Apostle or other Preacher of the Gospel in the first age did leave the unbelievers without excuse; and not only the Cathedral Determination of Saint Peter And why then doth not any Preachers Revelation of Gods will from his Word, oblige men now to believe as well as it did then?
3. Sure the preaching of any one Apostle or other Preacher of the Gospel in the first age did leave the unbelievers without excuse; and not onely the Cathedral Determination of Saint Peter And why then doth not any Preachers Revelation of Gods will from his Word, oblige men now to believe as well as it did then?
And 3. It is evident and undeniable that their practice is according to their principles. The Popish Religion changeth so fast by the new additions ⟨p. 137⟩of several Popes, that it is not the same thing now, as it was heretofore. Look but into the Oath, or Trent Confession which I recited in the beginning, and you may presently see how their Religion is swelled bigger then it was. All the Popes Decretals, or at least all the Canons of Trent, and every General Council (at least, confirmed by the Pope) do enlarge their faith, as they add any thing to what went before. What a multitude of things are de fide now, that were not so within a thousand years? What man can give up himself to such a growing Religion, where we must wait on the Pope, as the Enthusiasts do on God, for new Additional Revelations? And cannot know when we have all or half. How can they tell but their Creed may fill more volumes yet before that all their Popes have done with it?
And 3. It is evident and undenyable that their practice is according to their principles. The Popish Religion changeth so fast by the new additions ⟨p. 137⟩of several Popes, that it is not the same thing now, as it was heretofore. Look but into the Oath, or Trent Confession which I recited in the beginning, and you may presently see how their Religion is swelled bigger then it was. All the Popes Decretals, or at least all the Canons of Trent, and every General Council (at least, confirmed by the Pope) do enlarge their faith, as they adde any thing to what went before. What a multitude of things are de fide now, that were not so within a thousand years? What man can give up himself to such a growing Religion, where we must waite on the Pope, as the Enthusiasts do on God, for new Additional Revelations? And cannot know when we have all or halfe. How can they tell but their Creed may fill more volumes yet before that all their Popes have done with it?