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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.
9. We as confidently deny that the Pope is a Prophet, or is inspired by the Holy Ghost, as the Prophets and Apostles were, that so they might infallibly deliver us Christs doctrine.
10. And they cannot expect that we should believe till we have some proof of it, that the Pope, or the Church of Rome hath the Power of working Miracles, or are endowed with a spirit of Miracles, or that they can convince those that deny the Scriptures by their own Miracles that they are the true Church, ⟨p. 225⟩or that ever they confirmed those points by Miracles, which is, now called Popery.
Thus much to let the Jesuit know where we differ from him: And now to the point. We call for his proofs, which he here mentioneth to us in general names Non esse & non apparere; are to us all one. Give us sufficient proof of your sealing the Doctrine of Popery by Miracles, or the Popes Infallibility by Miracles, as the Apostles did the Scriptures, and their preaching, and then you shall carry the cause, and we profess that we will rejoicingly pass into your Tents, and proclaim you Prophets or Apostles of Christ: But when we live among you, and so did our Fathers before us, and hear you prate and boast of Miracles, when we cannot see that ever you did so much as make a dead flea alive again, nor cannot see the least Miracle from you, if we would ride or go as far as our horse or legs can carry us, to see it, what can we take you for but the most shameless sort of cheaters?
Thus much to let the Jesuite know where we differ from him: And now to the point. We call for his proofs, which he here mentioneth to us in general names Non esse & non apparere; are to us all one. Give us sufficient proof of your sealing the Doctrine of Popery by Miracles, or the Popes Infallibility by Miracles, as the Apostles did the Scriptures, and their preaching, and then you shall carry the cause, and we profess that we will rejoycingly pass into your Tents, and proclaim you Prophets or Apostles of Christ: But when we live among you, and so did our Fathers before us, and hear you prate and boast of Miracles, when we cannot see that ever you did so much as make a dead flea alive again, nor cannot see the least Miracle from you, if we would ride or go as far as our horse or legs can carry us, to see it, what can we take you for but the most shameless sort of cheaters?