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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.
For if we return to *the Head and Original of Gods tradition, humane error ceaseth, and whatsoever was in cloudy darkness, it opened in the light of truth — If the water Pipes be stopped, do we not run to the fountain to see what's the matter. — So now must the Priests of God that keep his commandment, that if in any point Truth have changed or wavered, we may return to the original, even the Tradition by the Lord, by the Gospel and by the Apostles: and the Reason of our action may rise from thence from whence both order and beginning did arise.] So far Cyprian.
For if we return to *the Head and Original of Gods tradition, humane error ceaseth, and whatsoever was in cloudy darkness, it opened in the light of truth — If the water Pipes be stopt, do we not run to the fountain to see what's the matter. — So now must the Priests of God that keep his commandement, that if in any point Truth have changed or wavered, we may return to the original, even the Tradition by the Lord, by the Gospel and by the Apostles: and the Reason of our action may rise from thence from whence both order and beginning did arise.] So far Cyprian.
- *That is, the Scriptures.
If the Papists can make their followers now believe that Cyprian believed the Popes infallibility, or that the Church of Rome was the only keeper of Tradition, or that Traditions were not to be tried by the Scriptures, then you may see to what purpose it is ⟨p. 302⟩that they must needs be the judges of Controversy and the sense of Scripture, and why they call it a Nose of wax; even that it may be at their service, and so flexible as to yield to what sense they will put upon it, when they will needs exercise the same Authority on the Fathers themselves who in their familiar Epistles speak as plain as they can.