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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.
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.
Quest. 7. What is it which they call the present Church: Is it 1. The whole number of the faithful. 2. Or a major vote, or part. 3. Or the Bishops, or Presbyters in whole or part. 4. Or a Council chosen from among them, 5. Or the Pope? If the first,
Quest. 8 Do they not then make all Christians infallible as well as the Pope. And so they are in sensu composito in the essentials of Christianity and the whole Church shall never deny those essentials, but 1. whole particular Churches may, and 2. the whole Church may err some smaller errors against the revealed will of God; the Apostle telleth us that we know but in part; and as in many things we offend all, so in many things we err all. And moreover if this be their sense.
Quest. 8 Do they not then make all Christians infallible as well as the Pope. And so they are in sensu composito in the essentials of Christianity and the whole Church shall never deny those essentials, but 1. whole particular Churches may, and 2. the whole Church may erre some smaller errors against the revealed will of God; the Apostle telleth us that we know but in part; and as in many things we offend all, so in many things we err all. And moreover if this be their sense.