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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.
This whole Book of Austin is written, as if it had been purposed as a confutation of the Papists that will have the Church to contain only the Roman faction, and exclude all the rest of the world, and will try the Scripture by the Church, and not the Church by the Scripture, but fly to I know not what visions and pretended miracles to prove their Church which Austin professeth are not a proof no not of the true Church, though there be much more then there to boast of: so that the Papists cannot here say that Austin thus dealeth with the Donatists because they denied the Church of Rome and believed the Scripture: he expressly enough preventeth all such expositions of his words.
This whole Book of Austin is written, as if it had been purposed as a confutation of the Papists that will have the Church to contain onely the Romane faction, and exclude all the rest of the world, and will try the Scripture by the Church, and not the Church by the Scripture, but fly to I know not what visions and pretended miracles to prove their Church which Austin professeth are not a proof no not of the true Church, though there be much more then there to boast of: so that the Papists cannot here say that Austin thus dealeth with the Donatists because they denyed the Church of Rome and believed the Scripture: he expresly enough preventeth all such expositions of his words.
1August. con. Cresconium li. 2. cap. 33. p. 177. Saith ⟨p. 315⟩[Ego hujus Epistolae, &c. I am not bound by the authority of this Epistle (of Cyprians ad Jubai:) because I take not Cyprian's Epistles be Canonical, but by the Canonical I consider them, and that in them which agreeth to the authority of the Divine Scriptures, I accept with his praise, but that which disagreeth I refuse with his peace. And so if thou hadst recited those things which he wrote to Jubajan out of some Canonical book of the Apostles or Prophets, I should have had nothing at all to gain-say: But now, seeing what thou recitest is not Canonical, by that liberty to which the Lord hath called us, I refuse it, &c.] And he compareth it to Peters compelling the Gentiles to Judaize