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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.
QUERY. Whether the Reformed Catholic Christian Religion, commonly called Protestant, be a safe way to Salvation?
QUERY. Whether the Reformed Catholike Christian Religion, commonly called Protestant, be a safe way to Salvation?
THE great business of the Devil the Enemy of Mankind, is to keep man from that Salvation, which Christ hath so dearly purchased, so graciously offered, and hath appointed us such excellent helps to attain: To which end it is his first endeavour, that men may not know or Believe that there is such a Felicity, and what it is, and how much to be desired; and his next, to keep them from knowing the way to it, and the last is, to keep them from walking in that way when they know it. ⟨p. 2⟩By the first means he keeps from Salvation, all Atheists and Heathens that know not, or believe not the life to come: by the second, all Infidels that Believe not Christ to be the way, and all Heretics that Believe not those Truths which are of absolute necessity in subordination to Christ: and by the third, all Hypocrites and unsanctified, ungodly, impenitent men, in the visible Church, that yet have a superficial Belief of these Truths.
THE great business of the Divel the Enemy of Mankinde, is to keep man from that Salvation, which Christ hath so dearly purchased, so graciously offered, and hath appointed us such excellent helpes to attain: To which end it is his first endeavor, that men may not know or Believe that there is such a Felicity, and what it is, and how much to be desired; and his next, to keep them from knowing the way to it, and the last is, to keep them from walking in that way when they know it. ⟨p. 2⟩By the first means he keeps from Salvation, all Atheists and Heathens that know not, or believe not the life to come: by the second, all Infidels that Believe not Christ to be the way, and all Hereticks that Believe not those Truths which are of absolute necessity in subordination to Christ: and by the third, all Hypocrites and unsanctified, ungodly, impenitent men, in the visible Church, that yet have a superficial Belief of these Truths.