A27015:696
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. 6. Why may not the Greeks, Abassines, Protestants, &c. that acknowledge not the Popes authority or infallibility, receive the Scripture as the ⟨p. 288⟩word of God, as well as the Papists? Do they think that none else in the world but they can tell what was the judgement of the former Church? What records or Tradition have they which all the rest of the world is ignorant of? Or dare they say (if they have the face of Christians) that none of all the Christians on earth, but Papists only, have any sufficient evidence that the Scripture was written by the Apostles, and delivered from them, and that this is it which is now in the Church? Can no man indeed but a Papists know the Scripture to be the word of God, upon justifiable grounds?
Quest. 6. Why may not the Greeks, Abassines, Protestants, &c. that acknowledge not the Popes authority or infallibility, receive the Scripture as the ⟨p. 288⟩word of God, as well as the Papists? Do they think that none else in the world but they can tell what was the judgement of the former Church? What records or Tradition have they which all the rest of the world is ignorant of? Or dare they say (if they have the face of Christians) that none of all the Christians on earth, but Papists onely, have any sufficient evidence that the Scripture was written by the Apostles, and delivered from them, and that this is it which is now in the Church? Can no man indeed but a Papists know the Scripture to be the word of God, upon justifiable grounds?
But if it be on the credit of the present Church (or both) that we must take the Scripture to be Gods word, then I shall further desire to be informed.