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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. 17. If the Catholic Church be infallible, then the Pope and the Church of Rome are not infallible: But the Papists say the Catholic Church is infallible; therefore according to their own doctrine it must follow that the Pope and Church of Rome are not infallible.
Argu. 17. If the Catholike Church be infallible, then the Pope and the Church of Rome are not infallible: But the Papists say the Catholike Church is infallible; therefore according to their own doctrine it must follow that the Pope and Church of Rome are not infallible.
The argument being ad hominem and the Antecedent their own, all the doubt is of the consequence: which I prove thus, either it is the real or representative body which they must call the Catholic Church: But both these are against the Popes infallibility: Therefore.
The argument being ad hominem and the Antecedent their own, all the doubt is of the consequence: which I prove thus, either it is the real or representative body which they must call the Catholike Church: But both these are against the Popes infallibility: Therefore.
1. For the real, no man can possibly know all their minds, nor ever expect that they should in this life be all of a mind: therefore it is the Major part that we must have respect to, as its usual in all such ⟨p. 273⟩Bodies, or Assemblies. Now the greater part of the Catholic Church on earth, is and hath been against the Popes infallibility. That it is so now, is well known, seeing all the Greeks, Abassin, Armenian, Reformed and other Churches are far more then the Papists. 2. And that it hath been so formerly the Papists themselves confess. I will note at this time but one of the most learned and sober of them, Melch. Canus Loc. Theol. li. 6. cap. 7. fol. (mihi) 201. [Pugnatum est siquidem vehementer, non a Graecis solum, sed ab aliis plerisque totius orbis apiscopis ut Roman Ecclesiae privilegium labefactaretur. Atque habebant pro see illi quidem, & Imperatorum arma, & Majorem Ecclesiarum numerum: nunquam tamen efficere potuerunt, ut unius Romani Pontificis potestatem abrogarent—] That is [Not only the Greeks,