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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.
And do their own most Learned and Judicious Writers cry out of Lies, and Histories so much more false then the Heathens, and impudent forgeries, and say that, they never saw any of these Histories which they could allow of; and yet must we needs make these the Foundation of our Faith, instead of the sealed Word of God? What a Religion have the Papists that is built on such a foundation!
And do their own most Learned and Judicious Writers cry out of Lyes, and Histories so much more false then the Heathens, and impudent forgeries, and say that, they never saw any of these Histories which they could allow of; and yet must we needs make these the Foundation of our Faith, instead of the sealed Word of God? What a Religion have the Papists that is built on such a foundation!
Yea of the reports of some of the late Writers that were next before Popery, I will add a few more words of Canus, ib. li. 11. pag. 337. [Cicero thought Demosthenes nodded sometime; and Horace thought so of Homer himself. For though ⟨p. 232⟩they were excellent, yet but men: And the same perhaps may I say justly and truly of Bede and Gregory. One of them in his History of the English, the other in his Dialogues, do write certain Miracles, talked of and believed by the vulgar, which the critics of this age will judge to be uncertain. I should have more approved those Histories, if their authors had according to the aforesaid rule, to severity of judgement, joined more care in their choice —] And how he lets fly at the lies of Antonius and Valvacen: The next page shows: And page 338.339. how he censures Eusebius himself. But I must forbear more such citations lest I weary the Reader.
Yea of the reports of some of the late Writers that were next before Popery, I will add a few more words of Canus, ib. li. 11. pag. 337. [Cicero thought Demosthenes nodded somtime; and Horace thought so of Homer himself. For though ⟨p. 232⟩