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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.
In the Council of Carthage, 87. Bishops decreed expressly against the sentence of the Bishop of Rome. And Cyprian in Council speaks thus [Let every man speak his judgement, judging no man, nor removing any man from the right of communion, that thinks otherwise: For none of us takes himself to be a Bishop of Bishops; or by a tyrannical fear doth compel his Colleagues to obey: seeing every Bishop hath by licence free choice of his own liberty and power, and can neither be judged of another, nor can judge another: But let us all expect the judgement of our Lord Jesus Christ, who only and solely hath power to set us over his Church ⟨p. 305⟩in Government, and to judge of our actions.
In the Council of Carthage, 87. Bishops decreed expresly against the sentence of the Bishop of Rome. And Cyprian in Council speaks thus [Let every man speak his judgement, judging no man, nor removing any man from the right of communion, that thinks otherwise: For none of us takes himself to be a Bishop of Bishops; or by a tyrannical fear doth compell his Colleagues to obey: seeing every Bishop hath by licence free choice of his own liberty and power, and can neither be judged of another, nor can judge another: But let us all expect the judgement of our Lord Jesus Christ, who onely and solely hath power to set us over his Church ⟨p. 305⟩in Government, and to judge of our actions.
If this be not as plain as need be spoken against the Papal usurpation, I know not what can be accounted plain.
Yea Cyprian and the Council say the like to the Pope himself [These things dear brother we speak to thy conscience for the common honour and for simple love — But we know that some men will not lay down that which they have once drunk in,