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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.
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⟩[…] ⟨p. 169⟩[…] ⟨p. 170⟩so spread even in Germany that they could travail from Colen to Milan in Italy and every night lodge with Hosts of their own profession. Yet did the Papists by fire and sword disperse destroy them, from the year 1206. to 1228. they had so filled their prisons with those that they had left, that the Archbishops stay it, because it was impossible to defray the charge of their food, or to build prisons for them (as they themselves speak) yet after this 1260. Morrel in his Memorials saith, p. •4. That there was above eight hundred thousand persons that made profession of the faith of the Waldenses: (And some of their own Popish writers say, that it was so ancient that they affirmed themselves to have thus continued successively from the Apostles: And yet the Papists would make men believe that Luther was the first founder of the Reformation) I desire the Reader that can have it to read Mr. S. Clark's general Martyrology of the persecution of the Waldenses and Albigenses, and also of the Spanish Inquisition, the Bohemian, and French cruelties, and the Irish of late to spare me the labour of further recital. The very perfidious French Massacre at once was thought in a few days space and a little room to murder about thirty thousand persons, and this in a pretence of peace and quietness. So many bloody bouts hath that Nation had, that it is not like to be still unavenged. The cruelty of the Inquisition in Spain another parts, will hardly here be believed. The most horrid cruelty of the Papists in Ireland lately were beyond all the rest. The number that they murdered in time of peace by a sudden insurrection is almost incredible. In the very Province of Ulster alone, about a hundred and fifty thousand were computed