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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.
So Epist. 188. l. 6. He saith [I have said that he cannot have place with us, if he corrected not the vanity of that superstitious and ambitious word which hath been invented by the first Apostate. And to speak nothing of the injury done to your honour, if a Bishop be called universal, that universal once falling the universal Church must also fall.] Here it is especially to be noted that this very reason by which Gregory condemneth universal Episcopacy, is now used by the learned Papists to prove the Popes infallibility: For they argue that the Pope cannot err de fide in Cathedra, because else the universal Church should fail with him if he fail.
So Epist. 188. l. 6. He saith [I have said that he cannot have place with us, if he corrected not the vanity of that supersticious and ambitious word which hath been invented by the first Apostate. And to speak nothing of the injury done to your honor, if a Bishop be called universal, that universal once falling the universal Church must also fall.] Here it is especially to be noted that this very reason by which Gregory condemneth universal Episcopacy, is now used by the learned Papists to prove the Popes infallibity: For they argue that the Pope cannot err de fide in Cathedra, be•ause else the universal Church should fail with him if he fail.
The same Gregory in Epist. 78. saith [It is a thing too hard to endure that our Brother and fellow Bishop, should be alone called Bishop in contempt of all the rest: And what other thing doth this arrogancy portend, but that the time of Antichrist approacheth already, in so far as he imitated him who disdaining the company of Angels assayed to ascend to the top of singularity?]
A man would think that all this should be plain enough to resolve us beyond all further doubting, that the Popes Universal Episcopacy is new. But to t the Papis have no thing to say, but a foolish