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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. 14. And how did all the Church know the Scripture to be Gods word before the Council of Nice, when there had been no General Council to determine the business?
Quest. 14. And how did all the Church know the Scripture to be Gods word before the Council of Nice, when there had been no General Council to •etermine the business?
Quest. 15. Dare a Papist undertake to justify at Gods judgement all that part of the unbelieving world, for not taking the Scripture for the word of God, who have seen or heard it, and had all other testimonies of it, but never knew of the Testimony of the Pope or a General Council? Shall none of •hese perish for this unbelief?
Quest. 15. Dare a Papist undertake to justifie at Gods judgement all that part of the unbelieving world, for not taking the Scripture for the word of God, who have seen or heard it, and had all other •estimonies of it, but never knew of the Testimony of the Pope or a General Council? Shall none of •hese perish for this unbelief?
Quest. 16. And if it be the Pope that they call •he Church, and take it to be this infallible judge, • then demand, How knows the Pope that the Scripture is Gods word, or that the Christian Faith is •rue? The like also I ask of a Council: How doth that Council know it themselves from whom we must know it? Either the Pope and Council must believe it because they first believe themselves, and so take it on their own words, or else on the words of some others. f the former, then they Believe it because they Believe t: then they are the original of their own belief, and believe themselves first, and then would have all the world to believe them. And this is not only to be o arrogant as to be the God of themselves, and the Church, but also so impudent and unreasonable as