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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.
and they heard the Gospel preached in the Syriac, which was then their vulgar tongue: But we may not read the same in our Vulgar tongue by the Papists consent, Moses, Joshua, Josiah, Nehemiah, Read the Scriptures to all the people, Exod 24.7. Josh. 8.34, 35. 2 King. 23.1, 2, 3. Neh. 8.3.8.18. & 9, 3 & 13.1. And it was their custom to read Moses and the Prophets to the people every Sabbath day, Act. 13.27. & 15.21. 2 Cor. 3.15. Luk 4.16. And Christ useth to reprehend their strangeness to Scripture passages, as if they had not read them with such words as these [Have ye not read, &c?] and [Have ye never read, &c?] Mat 12.3.5. & 19.4. & 21.26. & 22.21. Mark 12.10.26. Luk 6.3. Luk. 10.26. And Moses commandeth Israel, the Priests, Levites and all the Elders thus, Deut. 31.11, 12, 13. [When all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this Law before all Israel in their hearing; Gather the people together, men and women and children, and the stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God, and observe to do all the words of this Law; and tha• their children which have not known any thing may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long a• ye live in the Land &c.] It was therefore in a known tongue that it must be read; And when the people understood not the old Hebrew tongue in which the Law was written, by reason of the change of their speech ⟨p. 149⟩