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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.
I shall forbear to reckon up any more, because the ⟨p. 251⟩Reader may find it done so fully already in so many, and the excuses of Bellarmine by Chamier and many others so fully answered: and because it is a thing so far out of question,1 that nothing but gross ignorance or impudency can deny it. It is so common a thing for Popes to contradict and repeal one another's Decrees, that their Platina in vita Stephani saith [Following Popes do alway either infringe or wholly abrogate the Decrees of the former Popes] Erasmus Annot. in 1 Cor. 7.2 saith [Pope John the 22. and Pope Nicolas are contrary one to another in their whole degrees, and that in things that seem to belong to the business of Faith] Lyra (in Mat. 16.) saith that Some Popes have Apostatized. Occham shows that many things in the Decretals do savour of Heresy. One Pope teacheth Emanuel King of Portugal to marry two sisters. *Another teacheth our King Henry 8 to marry his brothers wife: And even Pope Paul 4. with his Council of Trent decree, that it should be lawful for him to allow those degrees to marry together, which God in Leviticus had forbidden and to forbid those which God had allowed: which was a judicial error of the Pope and his Council, as many more in that Council were.
I shall forbear to reckon up any more, because the ⟨p. 251⟩Reader may find it done so fully already in so many, and the excuses of Bellarmine by Chamier and many others so fully answered: and because it is a thing so far out of question,1 that nothing but gross ignorance or impudency can deny it. It is so common a thing for Popes to contradict and repeal one anothers Decrees, that their Platina in vita Stephani saith [Following Popes do alway either infringe or wholly abrogate the Decrees of the former Popes] Erasmus Annot. in