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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.
If this be not plain still against Papal, and all Archiepiscopal government of Bishops, I know not how a man should speak plain.
The Council of Carthage (saith Gratian Dist. 99) saith [Even the Pope of Rome must not be called the universal Bishop.]
Gregory called the great Bishop of Rome, but a few years before Boniface claimed the universal Episcopacy, wrote thus against John of Constantinople who would have had some such title [None of my predecessors would use this profane word (viz. Universal Bishop) because if one will call himself universal Patriarch,1 the name of Patriarch is stolen from others: But far be it from a Christian soul ⟨p. 306⟩that any should falsely ascribe to himself that whereby he diminisheth any thing from the honour of his Brethren To consent to that unjust speech is no other thing then to fall from the faith. One thing we owe to the unity of the faith, and another to suppress pride. And I say boldly that he who calleth himself universal Pastor or desireth so to be called surpasseth the Antichrist in pride—]
Gregory called the great Bishop of Rome, but a few years before Boniface claimed the universal Episcopacy, wrote thus against John of Constantinople who would have had some such title [None of my predecessors would use this prophane word (viz. Universal Bishop) because if one will call himself universal Patriarch,1 the name of Patriarch is stoln from others: But far be it from a Christian soul ⟨p. 306⟩