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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 they be not to be believed, what need there any more proof? If they are, what need there also any more proof, when they themselves confess themselves fallible? Not a Pope for above six hundred years after Christ did ever pretend to infallibility as can be proved: Pope Adrian the sixth, one of the most Learned and best that ever they had this many hundred years, hath written his judgement that the ⟨p. 259⟩Pope may err. And I think he is liker to know himself, as to his infirmities, than any of his flatterers are. His words are these De Sacram. Confirm. art. 4. ad fin. [Dico, quod si per Ecclesiam Romanam intelligatur caput ejus, puta Pontifex, certum est quod possit errare, etiam in iis quae tangunt fidem; haere sin per suam determinationem aut decretalem asserendo: plures enim fue•unt Pontifices Romani haeretici] That is [I say, that if by the Church of Rome be meant the Head of it, to wit, the Pope, it is certain that he may err, even in those things that touch the faith by asserting heresy by his Determination or Decretal: for there have many Popes of Rome been heretics.] Thus you hear what a Pope says of himself.
If they be not to be believed, what need there any more proof? If they are, what need there also any more proof, when they themselves confess themselves fallible? Not a Pope for above six hundred years after Christ did ever pretend to infallibility as can be proved: Pope Adrian the sixth, one of the most Learned and best that ever they had this many hundred years, hath written his judgement that the ⟨p. 259⟩Pope may erre. And I think he is liker to know himself, as to his infirmities, than any of his flatterers are. His words are these De Sacram. Confirm. art. 4. ad fin. [Dico, quod si per Ecclesiam Romanam intelligatur caput ejus, puta Pontifex, certum est quod possit errare, etiam in iis quae tangunt fidem; haere sin per suam determinationem aut decretalem asserendo: plures enim fue•unt Pontifices Romani haeretici] That is [I say, that if by the Church of Rome be meant the Head of it, to wit, the Pope, it is certain that he may erre, even in those things that touch the faith by asserting heresie by his Determination or Decretal: for there have many Popes of Rome been hereticks.] Thus you hear what a Pope sayes of himself.