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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. 9. Will it not then follow, that the Pope cannot be proved infallible, because it is most certain ⟨p. 289⟩that All the Church doth not take him to be infallible: no nor the greatest part of Christians in the world. Yea if they will take none for Christians but Papists, yet it will hence follow that there is no certainty that either Pope or Council are infallible. For the French take a Pope to be fallible, and the Italians and others take a General Council to be fallible: and therefore the whole Popish Church being not agreed of it, we cannot be sure that either of them is infallible. And moreover on this ground I demand,
Quest. 10. How shall we know (in very many cases at least) either which is the judgement of the whole Church or of the major part? What opportunity have we to take the account? Or can no poor Christian believe the word of God, that cannot take an account of this through the world?
The same Question also I would put, if they take all or most of the Pastors for this Church.