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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.
But its plain that it is Saint Becket, and Saint Brigit and Saint Katharine that you send us to for Miracles, and not to the Pope: And then I would further know whether one mans Miracles will prove another man infallible unless they were wrought in confirmation of the assertion of that other mans infallibility? It should rather prove Saint Brigit and Saint Katharine infallible that are said to have the Revelations and Miracles, then the Pope, that had none. Would it prove the Patriarch of Constantinople infallible, if any one that is under his Government should work a Miracle?? Or are you sure that there is no Miracle wrought among the Grecians, Abassines or Armenians?
Moreover, if you are All Miracle Workers, why can we never see one, nor have certain proof of one? But if it be but some very few of you (as good as none) how will that prove the infallibility of your whole Church? When the Apostles wrought Miracles, that proved their own infallibility: but that proved not the infallibility of all in the Church nor of every teacher in it, nor of the greater number of them
3. Quest. If your Pope and Church be proved infallible, by such Miracles as the Apostles were doth it not follow then that all your Popes are inspired persons or Prophets as the Apostles were by which the gift of infallibility was conveyed to them?