A27015:747
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.
This place of Austin doth confirm the French Papists as well as the Italian, that they have nothing to say against it, that without mere impudency can be thought to be of any weight. What is vainly said by them, you may see answered in A.B. Laud's Book against Fisher and A.C. Pag. 240, 241, 242.
This place of Austin doth confirm the French Papists as well as the Italian, that they have nothing to say against it, that without meer impudency can be thought to be of any weight. What is vainly said by them, you may see answered in A.B. Laud's Book against Fisher and A.C. Pag. 240, 241, 242.
In Austin's Book against Petilianus the Donatist the very question debated, is, How they may know where the true Church is? And is it not a wonder that Austin never remembered to direct them to Rome, or to the Popes infallibility, if that had been the approved way? Here then what way Austin went Cap. 2.1 pag. (mihi Edict. Paris) 141. Quaestio c••te inter nos versatur, ubi sit Ecclesia? utrum apud nos, an apud illos? — Quid ergo facturi sumus? in verbis nostris eam quaesituri, an in verbis capiris sui Domini nostri Jesu Christi: & puto quod in illius, &c, that is, The question handled between us is where is the Church? with us or with them? What must we do then? must we seek it in our words, or in the words of our Lord Jesus Christ our head? I think in his who is truth it self, and best knows his own body, 1 Tim. 3. The Lord knoweth who are his—] Cap. 3. p. 142. Sed ut dicere caeperam, non audiamus, haec dico, haec dicis, sed audiamus, haec dicit dominus, &c. That is, But as I began to say, Let us not hear, I say this, and you say that, but let us hear, Thus saith the Lord. There are certainly the Lords Books, to whose authority we both consent, we both believe them, we both obey them; there let us seek the Church, there let us discuss our cause. — Auferantur, ergo illa de medio, &c. Away with those things from among us, which we bring against one another, not out of the Divine Canonical Books, but from elsewhere — Quia nolo humanis documentis, &c. Because I will not have the holy Church to be demonstrated by humane documents, but by Gods Oracles. For if the holy Scriptures have placed