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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.
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.
4. It belongeth to them also to be witnesses and informers of the people, how themselves did receive the Faith and Scripture from their Ancestors, and to show them how it came down to our hands by certain Infallible Tradition from Age to Age.
4. It belongeth to them also to be witnesses and informers of the people, how themselves did receive the Faith and Scripture from their Ancestors, and to shew them how it came down to our hands by certaine Infallible Tradition from Age to Age.
5. The Church guides they are both Preservers of the Scripture, Witnesses of the Tradition, and Teachers of the truth, and have such a power of judging a• belongeth to all these three.
5. The Church guides they are both Preservers of the Scripture, Witnesses of the Tradition, and Te•chers of the truth, and have such a power of judging a• belongeth to all these three.