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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.
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 Emperorc. Though Cajetans excuse be true that it was no Heresy, yet either the making or revoking was an error. What will they invent at last to hide the nakedness of Pope Honorius who in two several General Councils was condemned for a Monothelite Heretic? which he judicially persuaded Sergius to, when he sought his judgement. Stapleton and many more of them confess the full certainty of the Councils condemning him of Heresy; but forsooth they say the Council did mistake the cased. It seems then either a Pope may be a Heretic, or a General Council err.
Did not Pope Liberius aerre judicially when he subscribed to ⟨p. 249⟩the Arrians confession in the Council of Sirmium [Libenti animo suscepi in nullo contradicens] which the Fathers condemn of Heresie? 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 Hereticks)? 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 contradictoryes may be true? Yea when Pope Vigilius did afterward revoke his own constitution