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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.
3. It was for the error of the tongue as well as of the mind, that the Clergy disposed Liberius & Felix, and that the Councils of Pisa, Constance, and Basil deposed the other Popes above mentioned. For 1. they could not know their minds but by their words. 2. They charged them with the errors of their tongues as well as minds.
3. It was for the error of the tongue as well as of the mind, that the Clergy desposed Liberius & Felix, and that the Councils of Pisa, Constance, and Basil deposed the other Popes above mentioned. For 1. they could not know their minds but by their words. 2. They charged them with the errors of their tongues as well as mindes.
Argu. 10. If Popes be infallible in the matters which they understand not, then it must be by Enthusiasm or prophetical inspiration. But all Popes are ignorant of many Divine Truths, and some more notoriously ignorant, and yet neither All nor Any of them (for ought is ever proved) were Prophets, or divinely inspired: therefore they are not infallible.
For the Major its plain, that as no erring man must ⟨p. 261⟩speak against his own mind, if he be infallible, so an ignorant man (in those points) must 1. either have his ignorance cured suddenly by prophetical inspiration: or else 2. must speak as in an ecstasy, without or beside his own mind: there being no other way imaginable.
For the Major its plain, that as no erring man must ⟨p. 261⟩speak against his own mind, if he be infallible, so an ignorant man (in those points) must 1. either have his ignorance cured suddainly by prophetical inspiration: or else 2. must speak as in an extasie, without or beside his own mind: there being no other way imaginable.