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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.
The Writer thought this was part of the mans holiness, but so do not I, who know that the holy man was pleased with poverty, but not with filthiness. And how ridiculous is this, that the Devil ⟨p. 231⟩raging on a time against our father Dominic was constrained by this Saint to hold the candle so long in his hands, till it did not only trouble him, but incredibly pain him. Such examples cannot be numbered: but in these few most of the rest may be understood, which have darkened the histories of the most famous Saints — They do therefore exceedingly wrong the Church of Christ, who think they do not well set forth the excellent deeds of the Saints, unless they adorn them with feigned Revelations and Miracles Wherein the impudency of men hath neither spared the Holy Virgin, nor the Lord Christ — Of late years when I was at the Council of Trent, I heard by some that Aloysius Lippomannus was healing this disease, by writing a history of the Lives of the Saints in a constant and grave speech: But I could never yet see this, nor any other which I could allow, of all those that have come into my hands.1 So far for Melch. Canus.
The Writer thought this was part of the mans holiness, but so do not I, who know that the holy man was pleased with poverty, but not with filthyness. And how ridiculous is this, that the Divel ⟨p. 231⟩raging on a time against our father Dominicke was constrained by this Saint to hold the candle so long in his hands, till it did not onely trouble him, but incredibly pain him. Such examples cannot be numbred: but in these few most of the rest may be understood, which have darkened the histories of the most famous Saints — They do therefore exceedingly wrong the Church of Christ, who think they do not well set forth the excellent deeds of the Saints, unless they adorn them with feigned Revelations and Miracles Wherein the impudency of men hath neither spared the Holy Virgin, nor the Lord Christ — Of late years when I was at the Council of Trent, I heard by some that Aloysius Lippomannus was healing this disease, by writing a history of the Lives of the Saints in a constant and grave speech: But I could never yet see this, nor any other which I could allow, of all those that have come into my hands.