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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. By this rule the rest of the Priests also should be infallible: For the people were also to receive the Law at their mouths.
4. By this rule the rest of the Priests also should be infallible: For the people were also to receive the Law at their mouthes.
5. When was there ever one Priest in any age so impudent at Bellarmine and his faction are, to plead for or pretend an infallibility in themselves? Let them name one Priest or person if they can, that ever had such a conceit of themselves, except it were Gods Prophets in the matters of their Prophecy.
6. What if the Jews High Priest had been infallible? Whats that to the Pope of Rome any more then to another man? Hath he indeed yet proved himself successor of the Jews High Priest? Except as a corrupter of the Law, and a persecutor of the Church of Christ.
Well! you have heard all the Scripture arguments that Bellarmine had to bring (for he brings no more) to prove the pretended infallibility of the Pope. May I not well say that it is no marvel that they are such ill friends to Scripture, who have no more Scripture (that is, none at all) to befriend the very foundation of their cause? And may I not justly recite again Bellarmines own conclusion lib. 3. de verbo Dei c. 3. and from thence show them that their cause is built upon confessed fraud and vanity [It is agreed between us (saith Bellarmine) that only out of the literal sense of Scripture effectual Arguments are fetched:] But Bellarmine bringeth no one Argument for the Popes infallibility out of the literal sense of Scripture: therefore he bringeth no one effectual Argument from Scripture.