A27015:516
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
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3. We grant that Christs universal Church shall never deny any one point of Faith essential to Christianity, or absolutely necessary to Salvation: For then Christ should have no true Church on earth (when the whole should thus Apostatize or turn Heretics) and all the then present world should be damned.
3. We grant that Christs universal Church shall never deny any one point of Faith essential to Christianity, or absolutely necessary to Salvation: For then Christ should have no true Church on earth (when the whole should thus Apostatize or turn Hereticks) and all the then present world should be damned.
4. The Church as Reasonable sensible men are infallible in many matters of fact, of which they may give us unerring reports: as that, This Bible was delivered as the word of God by their Ancestors, as they might testify it was delivered to them: and that this Creed or sum of Faith also was thus delivered in the words now in use, &c.
4. The Church as Reasonable sensible men are infallible in many matters of fact, of which they may give us unerring reports: as that, This Bible was delivered as the word of God by their Ancestors, as they might testifie it was delivered to them: and that this Creed or sum of Faith also was thus delivered in the words now in use, &c.
5. There is an infallible certainty in the evidence which the former Church hath left, and the present Church possesseth to prove that this same Scripture was written by the Apostles and Evangelists, and was delivered to the first Churches, and from them, down to us: and that multitudes of miracles were wrought for the confirmation of the Doctrine contained in them.