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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.
So that the Principles and Practices of the Romanists do assure us that their faith is unfixed, growing and mutable; they may be one year of one Religion, and another year of another, as pleas• the Pope: A Dominican might have been saved at any time since the creation till May 31. 1653. when the Popes ⟨p. 142⟩Determination was dated: but now they must all be damned for heresy. There is a new way to heaven made 1653. that never was before: and for ought they know to the contrary before their Popes have done Determining, there may be five hundred Articles more in their Creed. So that for my part I desire not either to be shut out of heaven at the pleasure of every new Pope, nor to be of so uncertain and changeable a Religion: And I cannot think therefore that Popery is a safe way to salvation.
So that the Principles and Practices of the Romanists do assure us that their faith is unfixed, growing and mutable; they may be one year of one Religion, and another year of another, as pleas• the Pope: A Dominican might have been saved at any time since the creation till May 31. 1653. when the Popes ⟨p. 142⟩Determination was dated: but now they must all be damned for heresie. There is a new way to heaven made 1653. that never was before: and for ought they know to the contrary before their Popes have done Determining, there may be five hundred Articles more in their Creed. So that for my part I desire not either to be shut out of heaven at the pleasure of every new Pope, nor to be of so uncertain and changeable a Religion: And I cannot think therefore that Popery is a safe way to salvation.
Arg. 8. That Doctrine which derogateth from the written Word of God, and setteth the Decrees of men above it, enabling them to contradict its most express institutions, is no safe way to salvation: But such is the Doctrine of Popery: therefore it is no safe way to salvation