A27015:681
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.
But because this is not the principal point intended in this dispute, and because there is enough said to it in the beginning on the by, and because I have said yet more for explication of the whole matter in the Preface to the later Editions of The Saints Rest, I ⟨p. 279⟩shall therefore say but little to it now, reserving a fuller handling it (if necessary) to a fitter season. Only I shall here add a few more Reasons to prove that the Pope or Roman Church have no such Authority to be judge of Scripture or controversies to all the rest of the Churches on earth▪ and then I shall add a few words to prove that we must believe in Christ and receive his doctrine before we believe in the Pope and receive his pretended authority and judgement, that is, without it.
But because this is not the principal point intended in this dispute, and because there is enough said to it in the beginning on the by, and because I have said yet more for explication of the whole matter in the Preface to the later Editions of The Saints Rest, I ⟨p. 279⟩shall therefore say but little to it now, reserving a fuller handling it (if necessary) to a fitter season. Only I shall here adde a few more Reasons to prove that the Pope or Romane Church have no such Authority to be judge of Scripture or controversies to all the rest of the Churches on earth▪ and then I shall adde a few words to prove that we must believe in Christ and receive his doctrine before we believe in the Pope and receive his pretended authority and judgement, that is, without it.
Arg. 1. If the Pope (or his consistory) must be the universal Governor and Judge to all the Christian world, then must the greatest part of the Christian world be ungoverned and have no recourse to their Judge. But the consequent will be denied by themselves: therefore we have reason to deny the Antecedent.