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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
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3. The third instance that I give is, their abominable forgeries, and depravations of ancient writings: Feigning Decretal Epistles of their Popes, and many other writings under the names of ancient Fathers: and presuming to expunge, alter, and falsify the true writings of the Fathers, and of the better sort of their own, as is proved already against them by many, and I need not here recite: (See Doctor Featlyes aforesaid Confer. Append.) Which hath done us so great a mischief, by making much if not most of the writings of the Ancients uncertain to us, as is scarce easily expressable nor are they ever able to repair (as the late King of England told the Marquess of Worcester in the beginning of their conference.) See more in Doctor Willets Tetrastilon Papismi.
3. The third instance that I give is, their abominable forgeries, and depravations of ancient writings: Feigning Decretal Epistles of their Popes, and many other writings under the names of ancient Fathers: and presuming to expunge, alter, and falsifie the true writings of the Fathers, and of the better sort of their own, as is proved already against them by many, and I need not here recite: (See Doctor Featlyes aforesaid Confer. Append.) Which hath done us so great a mischief, by making much if not most of the writings of the Ancients uncertain to us, as is scarce easily expressable nor are they ever able to repaire (as the late King of England told the Marquess of Worcester in the beginning of their conference.) See more in Doctor Willets Tetrastilon Papismi.
5. Another of the principal props of Popery, hath been most horrid inhumane bloodshed and cruelty. How many thousands of the Waldenses and Albigenses they cruelly murdered in Savoy and France, since the year One thousand one hundred and sixty. How many in Bohemia! How many in other Countries, who can possibly enumerate. Cesarius saith, The Waldenses had infected a thousand Cities. Parsons saith, That they were so numerous that they had an Army of seventy thousand men to fight for them, and that they were ⟨p. 168⟩