A27015:749
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.
And thus he goes on and proves at large by the Scriptures the true Church; fitting all as meet to the present schism of the Papists, almost as if he had seen and named it.
And thus he goes on and proves at large by the Scriptures the true Church; fitting all as meet to the present schisme of the Papists, almost as if he had seen and named it.
Cap. 18. Begins thus [Because therefore the holy Church is manifestly known in the Scriptures, &c.] Remotis ergo omnibus, &c. Laying aside therefore all such matters, let them demonstrate their Church if they can; not in the speeches and rumours of the Africans, not in the Councils of their Bishops, not in the writings of any disputers, not in signs and fallacious Miracles, because we are prepared and cautioned against such things by the word of God:1 but in the writings of the Law, in the predictions of the prophets, in the Psalms, in the words of our Pastor himself, in the preachings and labours of the Evangelists, that is, in all the Canonical authorities of the sacred Books.]
Cap. 18. Begins thus [Because therefore the holy Church is manifestly known in the Scriptures, &c.] Remotis ergo omnibus, &c. Laying aside therefore all such matters, let them demonstrate their Church if they can; not in the speeches and rumors of the Africans, not in the Councils of their Bishops, not in the writings of any disputers, not in signes and fallacious Miracles, because we are prepared and cautioned against such things by the word of God:1 but in the writings of the Law, in the predictions of the prophets, in the Psalms, in the words of our Pastor himself, in the preachings and labors of the Evangelists, that is, in all the Canonical authorityes of the sacred Books.]
- 1Cap. 18.