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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 many a one hath been burnt to ashes for selling, keeping, or reading such Bibles, in Spain, Italy, and Savoy. And Bellarmine mentioneth the Sess. 22. cap. 8 and Can. 9. of the Council of Trent forbidding both the Common reading of such Bibles, and also the public use of them in the Churches, in both which we must have them only in Hebrew, Greek, and Latine. Bellarm. ubi supr. If these be not notorious enemies of the Light, who are? David faith, Psal. 119. That the word was a Lantern to his feet, and a Light to his Paths. Isaiah sends us to the Law and to the testimony, saying that if they speak not according to these it is because there is no light in them, Isa. 8.20. And the Papists say (as Arboreus ubi supra) that the reading the Scriptures in the vulgar tongue is the Rise or Root of all Heresies: And so the Sun must be taken out of the firmament as being the fountain of all darkness, or at least the cause of mens wanderings. Only where they cannot help it (or as Stapleton saith, where Heresies are most common) there they will permit or connive at ⟨p. 152⟩it, for their own ends. For Necessity hath no Law.
and many a one hath been burnt to ashes for selling, keeping, or reading such Bibles, in Spaine, Italy, and Savoy. And Bellarmine mentioneth the Sess. 22. cap. 8 and Can. 9. of the Council of Trent forbidding both the Common reading of such Bibles, and also the publike use of them in the Churches, in both which we must have them onely in Hebrew, Greek, and Latine. Bellarm. ubi supr. If these be not notorious enemies of the Light, who are? David faith, Psal. 119. That the word was a Lanterne to his feet, and a Light to his Paths. Isaiah sends us to the Law and to the testimony, saying that if they speak not according to these it is because there is no light in them, Isa. 8.20. And the Phpists say (as Arboreus ubi supra) that the reading the Scriptures in the vulgar tongue is the Rise or Root of all Heresies: And so the Sun must be taken out of the firmament as being the fountain of all darkness, or at least the cause of mens wandrings. Onely where they cannot help it (or as Stapleton saith, where Heresies are most common) there they will permit or connive at