A27015:531
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.
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.
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 oathes: from which he had need of a special conversion, that God might not forsake him and give him up to a totall failing of his Faith.
7. Two things, saith Bellarmine, are here obtained for Peter: 1The one is that he himself should never lose the faith, nor fall as to his faith. The second is, that he as Pope should never teach any thing contrary to faith, or that none should ever be found in his seat that should so do: Of which privileges (saith he) perhaps the first did not descend to his successors, but doubtless the last did.