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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.
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.
2. Every Pastor of the Church hath a judgement of direction; that is, it belongeth to him by office to be a Director of the people, and to teach those the Christian Faith, that yet receive it not, and to confirm those in it that have received it: And they ought to have abilities for the work of this office. If therefore the Pope were a true Pastor, Bishop, or Preacher, this power we should confess to be in him, as in others.
3. It belongeth to these Teachers also, to be specially careful to preserve the sacred Scriptures from corruption, and to deliver them down to posterity in the purity as they receive them, and to translate them into known tongues, that the people may understand them. Though others also have a part in this work, yet the Pastors of the Church have by Office the chiefest part.