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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
To the reader: To the Literate Romanists that will read this Book.
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.
And here I must add, that another thin• that lately hath much disaffected me to you• ⟨image 17⟩profession, is to see by what actual fraud and juggling it is propagated. Do you think I see not the game that you are now playing in the dark in England, in the persons of Seekers, Behmenists, Paracelsians, Origenists, Quakers, and Anabaptists? I must confess I naturally abhor collusions and dissimulation in the matters of God. If your way were of God, it needed not such devices to uphold it, nor would it suit so well with works of darkness? If you have the truth, produce it naked, and deal plainly, and play above board! For my part I do not fear being cheated out of my Religion, by any thing but seeming force of Argument: for I mean to know what I receive before I take it, and to taste and chew it before I let it down: but the blind incautious multitude, and half witted giddy persons, and discontented licentious half studied Gentlemen, may possibly be caught by such chaff as this.
And here I must adde, that another thin• that lately hath much disaffected me to you• ⟨image 17⟩profession, is to see by what actual fraud and jugling it is propagated. Do you think I see not the game that you are now playing in the darke in England, in the persons of Seekers, Behmenists, Paracelsians, Origenists, Quakers, and Anabaptists? I must confess I naturally abhor collusions and dissimulation in the matters of God. If your way were of God, it needed not such devices to uphold it, nor would it suit so well with works of darkness? If you have the truth, produce it naked, and deal plainly, and play above board! For my part I do not fear being cheated out of my Religion, by any thing but seeming force of Argument: for I mean to know what I receive before I take it, and to taste and chew it before I let it down: but the blind incautelous multitude, and half witted giddy persons, and discontented licentious half studyed Gentlemen, may possibly be caught by such chaffe as this.