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…

And what is the infallibility that this Doctor resolveth his Faith into? Let it be observed whether it be nearer the Miracles of Knot, or to the universal Tradition of Chillingworth. Pag. 174, 175. He hath these words [Statuendum 20. juxta superius stabilita principia, Ecclesia soliditatem in fide, seu in fidei divinae & Catholicae in haerendi certitudinem & infallibilitatem, non in privilegio aliquo aut sedi Romanae, Deo authore, concesso, aut S. Petri successori Pontifici Romano divinitus impartilo, &c. ⟨p. 286⟩Sed universae & Catholicae traditioni Ecclesia speciali Dei providentia, & Christi Domini promissis fulcitae, praecipue tribuendam esse] & postea [Deinde Catholicae & universae traditionis rationem omnibus ommino fidei divinae dogmatibus pernecessariam esse. Traditioniis vero medium seu testimonium ade• publicum, universale, & apartum esse debere, ut sensibus ipsis externis fidelibus omnibus Christianis oporteat constare.] That is, The Churches infallibility and certainty of faith [Is not in any privilege either granted by God as the Author to the See of of Rome, or bestowed from God on the Pope of Rome as Saint Peters successor; but its chiefly to be attributed to the tradition of the universal and Catholic Church upheld by the special providence of God, and the promises of Christ— And the account of this Catholic and universal Tradition is most necessary to all points of divine faith. And the means or Testimony of this Tradition must be so public, universal and open, that it must be manifest to all Christians to their very outward senses.

And what is the infallibility that this Doctor resolveth his Faith into? Let it be observed whether it be neerer the Miracles of Knot, or to the universal Tradition of Chillingworth. Pag. 174, 175. He hath these words [Statuendum 20. juxta superius stabilita principia, Ecclesia soliditatem in fide, seu in fidei divinae & Catholicae in haerendi certitudinem & infallibilitatem, non in privilegio aliquo aut sedi Romanae, Deo authore, concesso, aut S. Petri successori Pontifici Romano divinitus impartilo, &c. ⟨p. 286⟩Sed universae & Catholicae traditioni Ecclesia speciali Dei providentia, & Christi Domini promissis fulcitae, praecipue tribuendam esse] & postea [Deinde Catholicae & universae traditionis rationem omnibus ommino fidei divinae dogmatibus pernecessariam esse. Traditioniis vero medium seu testimonium ade publicum, universale, & apartum esse debere, ut sensibus ipsis externis fidelibus omnibus Christianis oporteat constare.] That is, The Churches infallibility and certainty of faith [Is not in any privilege either granted by God as the Author to the See of of Rome, or bestowed from God on the Pope of Rome as Saint Peters successor; but its chiefly to be attributed to the tradition of the universal and Catholicke Church upheld by the special providence of God, and the promises of Christ— And the account of this Catholike and universal Tradition is most necessary to all points of divine faith. And the means or Testimony of this Tradition must be so publike, universal and open, that it must be manifest to all Christians to their very outward senses.