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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.
Argu. 9. If the Pope be infallible, then either it is his mind in believing, or his tongue in speaking, or his pen in writing, that is infallible. But it is neither his Mind, nor Tongue, nor Pen: Therefore he is not infallible.
1. That his mind is not infallible, in point of belief, is confessed by the Papists themselves. One part of them saying he may err, and the other maintaining that he may be a heretic, and that many have been so.
1. That his mind is not infallible, in point of belief, is confest by the Papists themselves. One part of them saying he may erre, and the other maintaining that he may be a hereticke, and that many have been so.
That his tongue and pen is not infallible when his understanding erreth is plain.
1. In that otherwise he should be infallible in dissembling, and God is feigned to promise a man to keep his tongue from error when he speaks against his own heart; which cannot be proved, nor soundly imagined.