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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.
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?
4. Quest. Yea will it not follow that all your Church are inspired Prophets, if all your Church be thus infallible: But you cannot expect that we should too easily believe these. If you have Apostolic infallibility grounded on the like Miracles, then must you not be each one dis-junctly infallible, as the Apostles were; and not only altogether?
4. Quest. Yea will it not follow that all your Church are inspired Prophets, if all your Church be thus infallible: But you cannot expect that we should too easily believe these. If you have Apostolick infallibility grounded on the like Miracles, then must you not be each one dis-junctly infallible, as the Apostles were; and not onely altogether?
5. Quest. And is it not plain then that all your dictates are Gods word, if you have the same seal and inspiration as the Apostles had? And so your Pope, at least, if not each one of you must make us new Revelations, or new Scripture: And is not this heinous arrogancy, thus to equal your selves with Prophets and Apostles, when you are none? They could but be infallible, and so you say is the Pope, They could but seal their doctrine by Miracles, and so you say doth your Church.
5. Quest. And is it not plain then that all your dictates are Gods word, if you have the same seal and inspiration as the Apostles had? And so your Pope, at least, if not each one of you must make us new Revelations, or new Scripture: And is not this hainous arrogancy, thus to equal your selves with Prophets and Apostles, when you are none? They could but be infallible, and so you say is the Pope, They could but seal their doctrine by Miracles, and so you say doth your Church.