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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.
lSome say that the Church judgeth de mediis discursive, sed de conclusione per doctrinam propheticam & Divinam: And so these men may affirm (agreeably to this principle) that the Popes Definitions are part of the holy Canonical Scripture, as Melchior Canus affirmeth he heard a most excellent Divine confess, and citeth Gratian and Innocent also as of the same mind. mAnd thus all the most wicked Popes are made Prophets, and speak by inspiration of the Holy Ghost. But others of them ndo deny this: Though yet they know not how it is that the Pope is infallible, without declaring themselves Enthusiasts. Also (though saith Bellarm. l. 4. de Pontif. c. 2. all yield that the Pope may personally err through Ignorance, yet) they are disagreed among themselves whether he may be a Heretic. Some osay he may not, and others that its most pious and probable to think he may not: Others reject that as false pand say he may: And one would think it should have been out of question by long experience before this time? And Bellarmine confesseth that three General Councils did believe that the Pope might be a Heretic ⟨p. 193⟩(ubi sup. c. 11.) some say qthat when the Pope is consulted and giveth his judgement in matters of faith, he cannot err (though in matters of fact he may) and that he is Infallible in his Courts and Councils, though not as a private Doctor. Others rsay that he cannot err when he intendeth to bind the whole Church to receive his sentence, or when he teacheth the whole Church. sOthers say that the Pope may err even defining in Council; but not in errors manifest to the Church but only in new or not manifest points.