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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.
Nor [That in the Mass is offered a true proper propitiatory Sacrifice for the living and dead] Nor that the Eucharist may ⟨p. 174⟩be taken under one kind, and the Cup withheld: nor [That there is a Purgatory, or the souls there holpen by the suffrages of the faithful] nor [that the Saints with Christ are to be prayed to] Nor that Images were to be worshipped] nor the power of Popish indulgences left by Christ in the Church, and the use of them wholesome: Never did the Fathers consent that the Roman Church is the Mistress of all Churches: or that the Pope is the Vicar of Christ over them: nor that all Christians or Bishops or Pastors should swear true obedience to the Pope as Christs Vicar? Let these proud deceivers show us if they can when the Fathers, or any one of the Ancients, did ever take any such oath himself, or persuade others to it? Yea or that they have consented to any one of these Articles of the Romish faith, and Trent oath? What more evident to any man that hath any acquaintance with the Fathers, then that these wretches do here most palpably forswear themselves? Even as if they should swear to believe nothing but according to the Ancient Creed, and withal swear to believe that Christ never dyed, rose, or ascended, or that there is no resurrection, or everlasting life. Certainly if the very faith of Papists be contradiction, and the profession of it plain perjury, then Popery is not a safe way to Salvation.
Nor [That in the Mass is offered a true proper propitiatory Sacrifice for the living and dead] Nor that the Eucharist may ⟨p. 174⟩be taken under one kind, and the Cup withheld: nor [That there is a Purgatory, or the souls there holpen by the suffrages of the faithful] nor [that the Saints with Christ are to be prayed to] Nor that Images were to be worshiped] nor the power of Popish indulgencies left by Christ in the Church, and the use of them wholsome: Never did the Fathers consent that the Romane Church is the Mistris of all Churches: or that the Pope is the Vicar of Christ over them: nor that all Christians or Bishops or Pastors should swear true obedience to the Pope as Christs Vicar? Let these proud deceivers shew us if they can when the Fathers, or any one of the Ancients, did ever take any such oath himself, or perswade others to it? Yea or that they have consented to any one of these Articles of the Romish faith, and Trent oath? What more evident to any man that hath any acquaintance with the Fathers, then that these wretches do here most palpably forswear themselves? Even as if they should swear to believe nothing but according to the Ancient Creed, and withal swear to believe that Christ never dyed, rose, or ascended, or that there is no resurrection, or everlasting life. Certainly if the very faith of Papists be contradiction, and the profession of it plain perjury, then Popery is not a safe way to Salvation.