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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.
And not only the minds of the wicked, but their tongues are deceitful, even when they know the truth, so that a wicked Pope may lye and deceive. Psal. 36.3. Prov. 12.5. Mar. 7.22. Rom. 3.13. I confess that a wicked man may have some kind of superficial knowledge of all those doctrines (dis-junctly at least) which are known to true Believers; but as he hath no solid knowledge of them, so he hath no promise or assurance of infallibility in that which he is capable of knowing: Nor is it so like that a blind deceitful man should be universally orthodox.
And not onely the minds of the wicked, but their tongues are deceitful, even when they know the truth, so that a wicked Pope may lye and deceive. Psal. 36.3. Prov. 12.5. Mar. 7.22. Rom. 3.13. I confess that a wicked man may have some kind of superficial knowledge of all those doctrines (dis-junctly at least) which are known to true Believers; but as he hath no solid knowledge of them, so he hath no promise or assurance of infallibility in that which he is capable of knowing: Nor is it so like that a blind deceitful man should be universally orthodox.
And for the Minor, that many Popes have been notoriously wicked, I need not prove it, while their own Historians and disputers too, do so commonly confess it. Its well known what wickedness the Councils that deposed them charged upon some, and what poisoning, and other murders, Simony, conjuration, incest, common adulteries and other wickedness, is by the writers of their lives and other Historians charged on so many more, that I should but trouble the weary Reader to no purpose to cite them. Read the lives of Pope Sylvester (the Witch) the 2. Alexander the 3. and the 6.