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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.
As to the first of these controversies (to dispatch it in short) as we distinguish between Judicium Descretionis, Directionis, & Decisionis, a Judgement of Discretion, of Direction, and of Decision, so we kn•w that it is only the later that properly denominateth a Judge in the public and ordinary sense. Take our doctrine in these few Propositions.
As to the first of these controversies (to dispatch it in short) as we distinguish between Judicium Descretionis, Directionis, & Decisionis, a Judgement of Discretion, of Direction, and of Decision, so we kn•w that it is onely the later that properly denominateth a Judge in the publike and ordinary sence. Take our doctrine in these few Propositions.
1. We say that every Christian hath a judgement of Discretion, to know that the Christian Faith is true, and Scripture is the word of God: Or else he were no Christian, or faith were not an act of judgement, or Reason, but a brutish thing. This therefore ⟨p. 196⟩we confess the Pope either hath or ought to have.
1. We say that every Christian hath a judgement of Discretion, to know that the Christian Faith is true, and Scripture is the word of God: Or else he were no Christian, or faith were not an act of judgement, or Reason, but a bruitish thing. This therefore ⟨p. 196⟩we confess the Pope either hath or ought to have.