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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.
When we plead that Christ had a true body, and that a true body may be seen and felt, because Christ bids them, Luk. 24. See and feel, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, &c. Bellarmine answereth that Sense is infallible in positives, and therefore thence we may say [This is a body because I see it self, but not in Negatives; and therefore we cannot say [This is not a body because I see it not.] And what need we more then that which is here granted? By his own confession then we may conclude that [This is Bread and Wine, because we see, feel, smell, taste it.] Yet no doubt, we may also argue that it is not a natural body, because it is not visible or sensible.
When we plead that Christ had a true body, and that a true body may be seen and felt, because Christ bids them, Luk. 24. See and feel, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, &c. Bellarmine answereth that Sence is infallible in positives, and therefore thence we may say [This is a body because I see it self, but not in Negatives; and therefore we cannot say [This is not a body because I see it not.] And what need we more then that which is here granted? By his own confession then we may conclude that [This is Bread and Wine, because we see, feel, smell, taste it.] Yet no doubt, we may also argue that it is not a natural body, because it is not visible or sensible.
So much for this second Argument, which I may thus with full advantage enforce: If sense be either fallible or infallible, the Pope is fallible: But sense is either fallible or infallible: Therefore.
So much for this second Argument, which I may thus with full advantage enforce: If sence be either fallible or infallible, the Pope is fallible: But sence is either fallible or infallible: Therefore.