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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. 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.
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 priviledges (saith he) perhaps the first did not descend to his successors, but doubtless the last did.
- 1See Bannes in 2.2. q. 1. a. 10. p. 149. restraining the text to Peter alone.
But note here what a pass this learned Cardinal hath brought his great cause to. 1. The text speaks but of one thing and not of two: Faith is one thing, and Cathedral determination is another. Doth Christ mean both, when he names but one? Expressly it is only the first privilege that he promiseth Peter, and saith not a word of the later: It was his Heart, and not his tongue that was the seat of faith, and that Christ establisheth: which is also evident by the issue: for sure his tongue failed by speaking against the faith, when he curst and swore that he knew not the man. 2. Bellarmine confesseth that this privilege [that his own faith should not fail] extendeth not perhaps to the Popes: so that for all this their faith may fail: If so 1. Then the only privilege mentioned in the Text extendeth not to them: For it speaks of no more: The text promiseth them nothing to the Pope, but what it never promised ⟨p. 217⟩