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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.
1There are no less than forty Popes whom Bellarmine himself takes notice of as charged with error or heresy, for whom he frameth such poor excuses, that I should think any impartial Reader might receive satisfaction enough from Bellarmine that the Pope is too fallible. Yea that even judicially and in fundamentals he may err.
1There are no less than fourty Popes whom Bellarmine himself takes notice of as charged with error or heresie, for whom he frameth such poor excuses, that I should think any impartial Reader might receive satisfaction enough from Bellarmine that the Pope is too fallible. Yea that even judicially and in fundamentals he may err.
- 1Bellarm. de Pontif. li. 4. cap. 8.9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
Did not Pope Liberius aerr judicially when he subscribed to ⟨p. 249⟩the Arians confession in the Council of Sirmium [Libenti animo suscepi in nullo contradicens] which the Fathers condemn of Heresy? and to the Councils condemnation of Athanasius, as Athanasius himself and many more witness. Did not Pope Vigilius err judicially when he condemned the Decree of the General Council (for condemning dead Heretics)? And when Pope Pelagius and Gregory the first, and Adrian the first did all approve of the same? Sure one party of these Popes erred, unless contradictories may be true? Yea when Pope Vigilius did afterward revoke his own constitution bsure he erred either in making or revoking it? And so did Pope Paschalis when they gave God thanks in open Council that they heard the Pope with his own mouth revoke those grants which (said they) contained Heresy, which he himself had before made to the Emperor