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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.
It is now long since Doctor John White told them of their aCajetans words, who saith [It cannot be known infallibly that the Miracles upon which the Church groundeth the Canonization of Saints, are true] And their bAntoninus Florent saith of the visions of Bernard and Brigit about the Virgin Mary's conception [They are fantastic visions and mens dreams] And their Claudius Espeucaeus csaith [No stable is so full of dung, as the Legends are full of fables — Yea very fictions are in their portesses] And Gerson d[All these the Church receives, and permiteth them to be read, not as certainly true, but more attending to what might be in pious recogitation, then to what indeed was done] And Doctor White then made a challenge to them, that we will admit of all those Miracles, which are reported by such men, as some ⟨p. 233⟩of their own Writers do openly Note for Liars. eWhich challenge the Popish Replyer had no mind it seems to take up.
It is now long since Doctor John White told them of their aCajetans words, who saith [It cannot be known infallibly that the Miracles upon which the Church groundeth the Canonization of Saints, are true] And their bAntoninus Florent saith of the visions of Bernard and Brigit about the Virgin Maries conception [They are fantastick visions and mens dreams] And their Claudius Espeucaeus csaith [No stable is so full of dung, as the Legends are full of fables — Yea very fictions are in their portesses] And Gerson d