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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 17. Do you believe that the Lord Jes• Christ understood the doctrine of your Papal Authority and infallibility, when he so chid his Apostles fo• ⟨p. 293⟩striving who should be greatest: and telleth them so expressly, that the Kings of the Gentiles exercise Authority over them, and are called, Gracious Lords: but with you it shall not be so: And when he sets before them a little child, and telleth them that he that will be greatest among them, must be as that child: that is, that humility is the thing that they must strive to be great or excel in, and so to serve one another in love. Also when he commandeth them to call no man on earth Father or Master, that is, of their Faith. Did ever Christ direct the world to go to the Church of Rome to know whether he be the Christ, or whether the Scripture be his word or not?
Quest 17. Do you believe that the Lord Jes• Christ understood the doctrine of your Papal Authority and infallibility, when he so chid his Apostles fo• ⟨p. 293⟩striving who should be greatest: and telleth them so expresly, that the Kings of the Gentiles exercise Authority over them, and are called, Gracious Lords: but with you it shall not be so: And when he sets before them a little child, and telleth them that he that will be greatest among them, must be as that child: that is, that humility is the thing that they must strive to be great or excell in, and so to serve one another in love. Also when he commandeth them to call no man on earth Father or Master, that is, of their Faith. Did ever Christ direct the world to go to the Church of Rome to know whether he be the Christ, or whether the Scripture be his word or not?
Quest. 18. Where is the Faith of the Church when the Pope is dead, and when there are three or four at a time, and when there is an interruption by Schism thirty years together, as it is known there hath been: Hath not the Church then lost her faith by losing the foundation of it? Or whether then must poor Pagans have recourse to know that Scripture is the Word of God? If Infallibility survive in other Pastors, then it seems it is not the Pope only that is infallible, but others as well as he.