A27015:433
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.
1. The very business or prize which they so much contend for, is Pomp, Greatness, Dominion, yea Tyranny in the world: so that it is evidently Pride, Vain-glory, and Covetousness that sets them on, and is the Spring of all ⟨p. 165⟩their contests. Whats the chief part of the quarrel, but whether the Pope and Cardinals of one City, even Rome, shall be the Rulers and Masters of all the Christian world, and all Princes and People obey them? What unprejudiced man can be so blind, as not to see that this contest is Tyrannical, and that their Dominion is their Religion, and their Pride is their faith, and that the question is but that which one would think Christ had once sufficiently determined, Who shall be the greatest? Did not Christ chide his Disciples for this contest? and say, With you it shall not be so? But the Papists, having no better way to prove the Scripture a nose of Wax, and as flexible and multiform, as they accuse it to be, then by making it so to themselves by abusive violence and perverting it, putting by the plainest words that Christ can speak, and will take his Decision for no Decision, when it makes against the Decisive Power of their Pope.
1. The very business or prize which they so much contend for, is Pompe, Greatness, Dominion, yea Tyranny in the world: so that it is evidently Pride, Vain-glory, and Covetousness that sets them on, and is the Spring of all ⟨p. 165⟩their contests. Whats the chief part of the quarrel, but whether the Pope and Cardinals of one City, even Rome, shall be the Rulers and Masters of all the Christian world, and all Princes and People obey them? What unprejudiced man can be so blind, as not to see that this contest is Tyrannical, and that their Dominion is their Religion, and their Pride is their faith, and that the question is but that which one would think Christ had once sufficiently determined, Who shall be the greatest? Did not Christ chide his Disciples for this contest? and say, With you it shall not be so? But the Papists, having no better way to prove the Scripture a nose of Waxe, and as flexible and multiform, as they accuse it to be, then by making it so to themselves by abusive violence and perverting it, puting by the plainest words that Christ can speak, and will take his Decision for no Decision, when it makes against the Decisive Power of their Pope.