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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.
4. Bellarmine would next prove this from [The High Priests wearing the Urim and Thummim, Exod. 28.] When he first confesseth that it is not agreed among Jews or Christians what these are: And yet it will serve him for a proof. 2. The Priests were not infallible for all their Urim and Thummim: therefore no more is the Pope. They judged Christ not to be the Messiah, and therefore crucified him. They lived and died Infidels, and hardened the people in the same Infidelity, for which they were broken off and unchurched.
3. And whereas he argueth that the High Priest was infallible because the people were to go to him for resolution of difficulties, and obey them, Deut. 17. I must say that Bellarmine had some fault in his eyes that caused him to overlook the Judge, and name only the High Priest. God sendeth them to the Judge, who was the chief Magistrate in those days, as well as to the High Priest; as any man that will read the text may see. If therefore the one of them be infallible, because of this, why is not the other so too? But perhaps they will make the Pope to be the successor both of the Magistrate and Priest, and so to be the universal Emperor as well as the universal Bishop; and use both his swords, that so this promise may belong only to him: For he will hardly grant every King or Judge to be infallible.
3. And whereas he argueth that the High Priest was infallible because the people were to go to him for resolution of difficulties, and obey them, Deut. 17. I must say that Bellarmine had some fault in his eyes that caused him to overlook the Judge, and name onely the High Priest. God sendeth them to the Judge, who was the chief Magistrate in those dayes, as well as to the High Priest; as any man that will read the text may see. If therefore the one of them be infallible, because of this, why is not the other so too? But perhaps they will make the Pope to be the successor both of the Magistrate and Priest, and so to be the universal Emperor as well as the universal Bishop; and use both his swords, that so this promise may belong onely to him: For he will hardly grant every King or Judge to be infallible.