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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.
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⟩noverint scripturam esse revelatum Dei verbum? Respondent; ex universae consentientis Ecclesiae assertione. Quibus si iterum fiet interrogatis, unde sciverint unanimeus hanc Ecclesiae Catholicae assertionem esse ab errore liberam seu infallibilem? Respondent, ex revelat• Dei verbo. Adeo ut non audentes fidem Divinam in certitudine & evidentia naturali fundare, in circulum hunc inevitabiliter illabuntur, & in orbem turpissime saltantes, fidem, quam ipsa prima ratio format & efficit, rationis experem reddunt; voluntque homines rationales, mentis ac judicii partioipes, in fidei assensu certiores esse, quam vel ratio postulat, vel approbat, Hasitant quippe Theologi quidam asseverare & agnoscere quod omnia argumenta, etiam firmissima, omnesque rations, item evidentissimae, quibus universam fidei Divinae & Catholicae traditionem solidam erroris immunem & infallibilem esse demonstramus, adeo veritatem hanc evincant, ut nulla prorsue subsit aberrationis facultas? Ideoque •pinantu• Christianorum a•imos adhuc ita vacillantes & fluctuantes derelictos esse, ut privatum aliquem & singularem instinctum pernecessarium autument quo omni fidei Christianae assensui certitudo & infallibilitas divina (at ajunt) attribuatur. Nos antem levibu• hisce & voluntariis opinationibus fidei divinae & Religionis Christianae certitudinem & soliditatem, inniti aut fundari, nequaquam judicamus.
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 inidore in labyrinthum vulgarem & circulare perfugium, quo solent Theologi passim involvi, qui fidei Resolutionem juxta communem & parum attente examinatam opini conferuunt as effingunt. Quarenti namque und