A27015:518
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.
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.
5. There is an infallible certainty in the evidence which the former Church hath left, and the present Church possesset• 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.
6. An illiterate person may have an infallible certainty that all points necessary to salvation are expressed in certain translations of Scripture, and that so far, and much further, they are truly translated, and that such things there are in that Book as the Readers affirm there to be, though himself cannot read them. For all this is infallibly discovered by common consent, and especially of adversaries: When all men that are certainly able to judge, and are honest and impartial, affirm it without doubt, and those that would gladly contradict it, as being by their interests carried thereto, yet cannot do it, or at least not with any considerable pretence: This gives men as infallible a proof, as the common testimony of men doth, that there is such a City as Rome or Paris which we never saw.
6. An illiterate person may have an infallible certainty that all points necessary to salvation are expressed in certain translations of Scripture, and that so far, and much further, they are truely translated, and that such things there are in that Book as the Readers affirm there to be, though himself cannot read them. For all this is infallibly discovered by common consent, and especially of adversaries: When all men that are certainly able to judge, and are honest and impartial, affirm it without doubt, and those that would gladly contradict it, as being by their interests carryed thereto, yet cannot do it, or at least not with any considerable pretence: This gives men as infallible a proof, as the common testimony of men doth, that there is such a City as Rome or Paris which we never saw.