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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.
Quest. 4. Whether those that do not go this most absurd way (of proving their Church infallible to an infidel that yet believeth not Gods word, and so by means antecedent to the belief of Scripture) must not unavoidably confess that Gods word must be first believed before the Popes or Churches infallibility or authority (and consequently our faith dependeth not in them, nor is resolved into them) or else they are inextricably ensnared in the Popish circle, and contradictingly do make two primo credenda, the Church or Pope, the first to be believed, and yet the word of God is first to be believed? And do not Holden, Vane, Knot, and others of them see this, who therefore shun the circle, and use not the old shifts of Becanus and others to blind the eyes of those that see them in it?
Quest. 4. Whether those that do not go this most absurd way (of proving their Church infallible to an infidel that yet believeth not Gods word, and so by means antecedent to the belief of Scripture) must not unavoidably confess that Gods word must be first believed before the Popes or Churches infallibility or authority (and consequently our faith dependeth not in them, nor is resolved into them) or else they are inextricably insnared in the Popish circle, and contradictingly do make two primo credenda, the Church or Pope, the first to be believed, and yet the word of God is first to be believed? And do not Holden, Vane, Knot, and others of them see this, who therefore shun the circle, and use not the old shifts of Becanus and others to blind the eyes of those that see them in it?
Whether I wrong them H. Holden himself (an Englishman, and Doctor of Paris, shall be judge, who thus commendeth his own new devised Foundation or resolution of the faith in his Divini fid. analys. li. 1. c. 9 pag. 180. [Ex quibus patet ha•• Christianae fidei analysim haud in•idore in labyrinthum vulgarem & circulare perfugium, quo solent Theologi passim involvi, qui fidei Resolutionem juxta communem & parum attente examinatam opini•••• conferuunt as effingunt. Quarenti namque undo ⟨p. 283⟩