A27015:530
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. Peter himself was to be converted from some failing: Therefore he was not exempted from it: And the case here in hand is such as that conversion had respect to. Therefore it was not, that he should not fail in Cathedral Determinations; for he was not converted from such. Bellarmine here most immodestly would intimate that the text speaks not of Peters conversion from any sin, but of his turning to his brethren to speak to them; as if it were [When thou turnest thee to speak to thy Brethren, strengthen them] Nothing but the Popes infallibility, or the gross fallibility of common reason, could make a learned man think that this is the sense of the Text.
5. Peter himself was to be converted from some failing: Therefore he was not exempted from it: And the case here in hand is such as that conversion had respect to. Therefore it was not, that he should not fail in Cathedral Determinations; for he was not converted from such. Bellarmine here most immodestly would intimate that the text speaks not of Peters conversion from any sin, but of his turning to his brethren to speak to them; as if it were [When thou turnest thee to speak to thy Brethren, strengthen them] Nothing but the Popes infallibility, or the gross fallibility of common reason, could make a learned man think that this is the sence of the Text.
6. The Papists pretend that here is somewhat promised to Peter which the rest of the Apostles were not partakers of: But that is not so: For, if it were (as it was) that he should not Apostatize: the same was given to them all (except Judas) If it had been that he should be infallible in teaching the Church, so were the rest too as well as he. The reason therefore ⟨p. 216⟩of mentioning Peter in particular, was because Christ foresaw the temptations and lamentable fall of Peter in denying Christ with cursing and oaths: from which he had need of a special conversion, that God might not forsake him and give him up to a total failing of his Faith.