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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 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. John 13. and the 22. and the 23. Gregory the 7. Urbane the 7. &c. in Platina, Luitprandus, Fasciculus temporum, Martinus Polonus, &c. Ticinus hist. li. 6. of *John 13. shows that his sins were proved in Council that he ravished and committed filthiness with maids, widows and wives at the Apostolic doors; committed many murders; drunk to the Devil; and at Dice asked help of Jupiter and Venus: and at last was ⟨p. 270⟩slain in the act of adultery. See of Sylvester 2. Fascic. temp. an. 1004. Martin. Polonus Anno. 1007. Platin. in ejus vita. Of Boniface the 7. See Baronius himself anno 985. n. 1. Of Alexander the 6. see Guicciardine hist. li. 1. and Onuphrius vit. Alex. 6. But I will name no more.
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. John 13. and the 22. and the 23. Gregory the 7. Ʋrbane the 7. &c. in Platina, Luitprandus, Fasciculus temporum, Martinus Polonus, &c. Ticinus hist. li. 6. of *