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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.
7. And we further grant, all that Teaching and Witnessing power to the Church officers, which was expressed under the last Question; and all that dueness of Belief and obedience to them, which was there asserted. So much for our Concessions.
But we deny, 1. That either the Pope of Rome, or a General Council are naturally or supernaturally privileged from all error in matters of Gods revealed will, or that they are privileged from the danger or possibility of teaching these their errors to ⟨p. 211⟩others, even to the Church. 2. We deny that the Pope or the Roman Clergy are secured from the danger of Apostasy or Heresy: They may fall so far as to deny the Fundamentals or Essentials of Christianity: though the Universal Church shall never so fall away.
But we deny, 1. That either the Pope of Rome, or a General Council are naturally or supernaturally priviledged from all error in matters of Gods revealed will, or that they are priviledged from the danger or possibility of teaching these their errors to ⟨p. 211⟩others, even to the Church. 2. We deny that the Pope or the Romane Clergy are secured from the danger of Apostasie or Heresie: They may fall so far as to deny the Fundamentals or Essentials of Christianity: though the Universal Church shall never so fall away.
We shall first speak of the Popes Infallibility, and afterward of a General Council, that we may speak to the several parties among the divided Papists herein.