A27015:742
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 that it was the same place or name which the Bishop of Constantinople would have had, which Boniface after got, and not as Bellarmine feigneth, a quite different thing. Nay I cannot perceive any probable evidence that Boniface himself had any thought of that Universal Jurisdiction, which now is arrogated, but only to be the Greatest and Highest of all Bishops, and in that sense called the Head or the universal Bishop.
So that it was the same place or name which the Bishop of Constantinople would have had, which Boniface after got, and not as Bellarmine feigneth, a quite different thing. Nay I cannot perceive any probable evidence that Boniface himself had any thought of that Universal Jurisdiction, which now is arrogated, but onely to be the Greatest and Highest of all Bishops, and in that sence called the Head or the universal Bishop.
If they knew the Pope to be the supreme infallible head of all the Church, why did the Council of Calcedon (the fifth general Council) examine Leo's Epistle,1 and profess to receive it only on its agreement with former doctrine? Yea why did this Council condemn Pope Vigilius his judicious sentence de 3 capitulis? Yea and anathematize all that condemned not Theodorus, of whom Vigilius was one? and this in a Doctrinal Point, Whether Heretics may be condemned after death? Yea they pronounce the Pope and his adherents defenders of impiety, and such as cared not for Gods decrees, or the Apostles pronunciations, or the Fathers Traditions. If these 165. Bishops had believed the Popes infallibility, they would rather have craved his Definitive sentence. And why did the Council of Calcedon also Decree without the Popes consent, that the Bishop of Constantinople was equal with him; and the 5-sixth general Council confirm it?
If they knew the Pope to be the supreme infallible head of all the Church, why did the Council of Calcedon (the fifth general Council) examin Leo's Epistle,1