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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.
1. They do raise and with greatest confidence propagate, most shameless lies of those whom they take for their leading adversaries. We read them in the open writings of Cochlaeus, Bolse, Staphilu• Thyraeus, and many more. What abominable stories have they of the Death of Luther, Oecolampadius, Bucer, Calvin, and others; which it is very unlikely that they can be so blinded with malice as to Believe themselves? What conference do we ever manage with them which they do not misreport? Witness the late ridiculous passage after the conference between Fisher and Doctor Featly and Doctor White, when they boasted beyond Sea of the number of Converts, and in particular of two Earls, and this to the Earl of Warwick himself (not knowing him) who was feigned to be one of them, and who had been a witness of their weakness. And how poorly doth Weston in his Pamphlet put this off.
1. They do raise and with greatest confidence propagate, most shameless lies of those whom they take for their leading adversaries. We read them in the open writings of Cochlaeus, Bolse, Staphilu• Thyraeus, and many more. What abominable stories have they of the Death of Luther, Oecolampadius, Bucer, Calvin, and others; which it is very unlikely that they can be so blinded with mali•e as to Believe themselves? What conference do we ever manage with them which they do not misreport? Witness the late ridiculous passage after the conference between Fisher and Doctor Featly and Doctor White, when they boasted beyond Sea of the number of Converts, and in particular of two Earles, and this to the Earl of Warwick himself (not knowing him) who was fained to be one of them, and who had been a witness of their weakness. And how poorly doth Weston in his Pamphlet put this off.
2. The next instance I will give is their abominable lying legends, by which they have befooled the people, and made themselves ridiculous to the world, and occasioned others to question their reports in other things. I shall give you a taste of some of them, as Doctor Featly hath gathered them to my hand in his Epistle to the foresaid conference, yet with the Authors that report them, that you may try whether