A27015:579
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.
8. Quest Is not every Priest infallible, and every Church that hath the Eucharist, according to your doctrine? For sure Transubstantiation is a Miracle: I do not think you will deny it. And a Priest, even in deadly sin, may be an instrument of this Miracle, if your Church be infallible. Is, there then no Eucharist among the Abassines, Greeks, or any that subject not to you? Or are they all infallible? And if Miracles be as common as Transubstantiation, the privilege proved by them must be as common. So much to Master Knots first proof of his Infallibility without Scripture.
8. Quest Is not every Priest infallible, and every Church that hath the Eucharist, according to your doctrine? For sure Transubstantiation is a Miracle: I do not think you will deny it. And a Priest, even in deadly sin, may be an instrument of this Miracle, if your Church be infallible. Is, there then no Eucharist among the Abassines, Greeks, or any that subject not to you? Or are they all infallible? And if Miracles be as common as Transubstantiation, the priviledge proved by them must be as common. So much to Master Knots first proof of his Infallibility without Scripture.
His second Independent proof, is [Sanctity] But Sir 1. Are all Saints infallible? Sure you dare not say so?
2. Will the Sanctity of one man, as Saint Francis or Saint Dominic, prove the infallibility of the Pope that hath no Sanctity? By what means? Rather if Saints be infallible, a Murdering, Simoniacal, Drunken, Fornicating Pope (as yours confess many of them were) are not like to be infallible; especially Saint Brigit cannot make the Pope infallible by that Sanctity, that would not make or prove her self infallible.
2. Will the Sanctity of one man, as Saint Francis or Saint Dominicke, prove the infallibility of the Pope that hath no Sanctity? By what means? Rather if Saints be infallible, a Murdering, Simoniacal, Drunken, Fornicating Pope (as yours confess many of them were) are not like to be infallible; especially Saint Brigit cannot make the Pope infallible by that Sanctity, that would not make or prove her self infallible.