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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. Do they not make us suffer incomparably more then they? Is it not impudence almost inhumane after the murder of so many thousands of the Albigenses, Waldenses, Bohemians, after the Massacres in France, Savoy, Ireland, the burnings in England, the Powder-Plot, after their bloody inquisition of so long continuance, and the rest of this kind, to tell the remnant of their surviving neighbours, that their sufferings prove them infallible, while our sufferings prove us Heretical?
3. Do they not make us suffer incomparably more then they? Is it not impudence almost inhumane after the murder of so many thousands of the Albigenses, Waldenses, Bohemians, after the Massacres in France, Savoy, Ireland, the burnings in England, the Powder-Plot, after their bloody inquisition of so long continuance, and the rest of this kind, to tell the remnant of their surviving neighbors, that their sufferings prove them infallible, while our sufferings prove us Heretical?
4. Is it not ambition and desire of Rule that is the very cause which they contend for? Whats the unreconcilable quarrel so much as that all the world will not be subject to them? And yet the sufferings of these men prove them infallible? If one Butcher Henry the third of France, and another Henry the fourth, and others would blow up the English Parliament with Gunpowder, is the Pope infallible if some of these be hanged? Or what if some of them have suffered from infidels? Are not others as ready so to suffer as they? and have suffered as much as they?
4. Is it not ambition and desire of Rule that is the very cause which they contend for? Whats the unreconcileable quarrel so much as that all the world will not be subject to them? And yet the sufferings of these men prove them infallible? If one Butcher Henry the third of France, and another Henry the fourth, and others would blow up the English Parliament with Gunpowder, is the Pope infallible if some of these be hanged? Or what if some of them have suffered from infidels? Are not others as ready so to suffer as they? and have suffered as much as they?