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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.
If any imagine that though both may err dis-junctly, yet not conjunctly, I shall only now say, that the concession that each of them dis-junctly may err, destroyeth the force of all those Arguments which are brought for their infallibility; and therefore will prove it of them also conjunctly. But we have yet further proof.
If any imagine that though both may erre dis-junctly, yet not conjunctly, I shall onely now say, that the concession that each of them dis-junctly may err, destroyeth the force of all those Arguments which are brought for their infallibility; and therefore will prove it of them also conjunctly. But we have yet further proof.
Argu. 7. If the very substance of Popery be nothing but a fardel of errors brought in by the Pope and his Council to corrupt the Christian Religion among them, then certainly the Pope and his Council may err: But the Antecedent is true: Therefore so is the consequent.
Argu. 7. If the very substance of Popery be nothing but a fardell of errors brought in by the Pope and his Council to corrupt the Christian Religion among them, then certainly the Pope and his Council may erre: But the Antecedent is true: Therefore so is the consequent.
All the Question being of the Antecedent, and it being proved before in the former disputation, and fully by our writers against them, I shall thither for brevity refer you. What impudency is it to introduce such abundance of corruptions contrary to the express word of God and after all this to say, they cannot err when they have so plagued the Church with their errors? They teach men to serve God in an unknown tongue, and speak and hear they know not what, to worship the Bread with divine Worship, to ⟨p. 258⟩