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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.
How many and large Orations, Apologies and other discourses do we find in the Fathers writings for the Christian Faith, to convince the unbelieving world? in Clem Alexand. Tertullian, Origen, Athenagoras, Tatianus, Minutius Faelix, Arnobius, Lactantius Greg Nazianz. Nissen, Athanasius, Basil, Eusebius, Cyril Alexandr. Augustine, and many others? And can any man of brains imagine that if the infallibility, •ea or but the authority of the Roman Pope or Church must needs be known before we can believe the Scripture or the Christian faith, and that it must be received upon the credit of that Church, that all these Fathers and others defenders and propagators of the Faith, would have quite forgotten and left out this great and necessary point? What! Would all the preachers and defenders of the faith, overlook and omit the very foundation into which all mens faith must be resolved? Undoubtedly, if this had been then thought to be true which the Papists now teach, we should have had the first part, and a great if not the greatest part of all tho•e Apologies and discourses, laid out in the proof of the Roman ⟨p. 297⟩infallibility. What man will go to evince a whole system of doctrines to be true, and quite forget that medium, by which only it is first to be proved? Would not this have found one place at least if not the chief among Eusebius his Preparations or Demonstrations? Where was there ever in all Antiquity found such an Argument as this to convince an unbeliever? [Whatsoever the Pope and Church of Rome determineth is true: But they do determine that Scripture is the word of God, or that Christianity is the right Religion: therefore this is true.]
How many and large Orations, Apologies and other discourses do we find in the Fathers writings for the Christian Faith, to convince the unbelieving world? in Clem Alexand. Tertullian, Origen, Athenagoras, Tatianus, Minutius Faelix, Arnobius, Lactantius Greg Nazianz. Nissen, Athanasius, Basil, Eusebius, Cyril Alexandr. Augustine, and many others? And can any man of brains imagin that if the infallibility, •ea or but the authority of the Romane Pope or Church must needs be known before we can believe the Scripture or the Christian faith, and that it must be received upon the credit of that Church, that all these Fathers and others defenders and propagators of the Faith, would have quite forgotten and left out this great and necessary point? What! Would all the preachers and defenders of the faith, overlook and omit the very foundation into which all mens faith must be resolved? Undoubtedly, if this had been then thought to be true which the Papists now teach, we should have had the first part, and a great if not the greatest part of all thoe Apologies and discourses, laid out in the proof of the Romane