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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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I would here have added as the fourteenth Argument: That Popery is a mixture of old condemned errors, formerly called Heresies; which the ancient Church hath testified against; and therefore it is no safe way to Salvation: And here I should have tried their particular errors not yet mentioned, or insisted on, as their Doctrine of Merits and Justification ⟨p. 175⟩thereby, Satisfactions, and many Semipelagian errors, Image-worship, with many the like: But that this is beyond my present intended scope, and purposed brevity, and is so fully performed already by so many unanswerable Treatises of our Divines.
I would here have added as the fourteenth Argument: That Popery is a mixture of old condemned errors, formerly called Heresies; which the ancient Church hath testified against; and therefore it is no safe way to Salvation: And here I should have tryed their particular errors not yet mentioned, or insisted on, as their Doctrine of Merits and Justification ⟨p. 175⟩thereby, Satisfactions, and many Semipelagian errors, Image-worship, with many the like: But that this is beyond my present intended scope, and purposed brevity, and is so fully performed already by so many unanswerable Treatises of our Divines.
Let us next here what is said of most moment, to prove Popery to be a safe way to Salvation.
Obj. 1. That Religion which hath been delivered down from the Apostles to this day without interruption, is a safe way to Salvation (For it is the same that the Apostles and all the ancient Christians were saved in) But the Religion of the Church of Rome is that which hath been delivered down from the Apostles: Therefore, &c.