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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.
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?
If you could accuse us of negligence, as if we might see your Miracles if we would but travail for it, or of unbelief, as if we denied that which we have evidence of, we might bear the blame: but there's no such thing. I profess as weak as I am, I would go many a hundred miles to see such Miracles as you boast of, if I had sufficient ground of expectation that I might not lose my labour. And I would read over any Volumes that I were able to find sufficient Testimony of them. But where is this testimony? Knot refers us to Brierly, and others to such like reciters of their Fables. And when all is done, there are three sorts of Miracles that they