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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.
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?
The next mark that he lays down is [Victory over all sorts of enemies] But is it over their minds, or over their bodies that they mean? If the first, who must be judge of their victories, but themselves? I never heard any of them plead their cause but in my judgement they had the worst. There i• no party but may turn divers others to their opinions. Mahomet hath got far more followers in the world then Christ; and Heathenism than either. If Papists can turn all these, why do they suffer themselves still to be confined to so small a part of the world? And if it be victory over mens bodies that ⟨p. 239⟩they mean, I say the like. Have not the Turks a larger Dominion than the Pope? Have they conquered the Great Turk, the Great Mogul, the Grand Ham of Tartary, &c? Are we not as infallible as they on this account, when we conquer them? It seems then, when Papists are so industrious to enlarge their Dominions, to destroy their enemies by Poisoning or stabbing Kings, or other means, it is that they may have a further Testimony of their infallibility.