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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. 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.
Quest. 11. But if they take a General Council for the Church, I would first know, How we shall be sure that ever there hath, at least, these thousand years, been ever a true General Council in the world? The Popish Doctors (as Doctor Holden de Resolut. fid. li. 1. cap. 9. pag. 156.) say that [It must arise to that degree of universality that there may not be any suspicion of conspiracies and combined factions, that so every prudent man may be able heartily to say that the Assemblies are truly General.] And is it so, when there are none but the sworn obliged vassals of the Pope of Rome, and the Greeks, Ethiopians, Protestants, &c. and most of the Church are absent? and when it is a known combination to promote their own espoused cause?
Quest. 11. But if they take a General Council for the Church, I would first know, How we shall be sure that ever there hath, at least, these thousand years, been ever a true General Council in the world? The Popish Doctors (as Doctor Holden de Resolut. fid. li. 1. cap. 9. pag. 156.) say that [It must arise to that degree of universality that there may not be any suspicion of conspiracies and combined factions, that so every prudent man may be able heartily to say that the Assemblies are truely General.] And is it so, when there are none but the sworn obliged vassals of the Pope of Rome, and the Greeks, Ethiopians, Protestants, &c. and most of the Church are absent? and when it is a known combination to promote their own espoused cause?