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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.
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.
2. The infallible dictates of the Pope while he erreth in mind should be all either unreasonable acts▪ as being the words of one that knoweth not what he saith, or interpretatively lies. For when a man speaks contrary to his judgement, if his words be true in themselves yet they are interpretatively lies, because he so takes them, and intendeth them as falsehoods to deceive others. For instance, If Pope John the 23. that was deposed by a General Council upon Articles exhibited against him for denying the Resurrection, and the Life to come, should with his tongue have taught the Resurrection and the Life to come; this had been as lying to him, though the thing it self be most true. And we must have a promise that the Pope of Rome and his Clergy, among all the Liars in the whole world, shall be the only infallible Liars. A happy generation of Liars sure? But where is that promise?