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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.
Basil was far from resolving his faith into the Popes infallibility when he wrote his Ascetica (or at least Eustathius Sebastienus, if they be his) when (pag. 195.1 Tom. 2. translat. Musculi, Basil) he saith [It is a manifest lapse of faith, and apparent vice of pride, either to refuse any thing which the Scripture containeth, or to bring in any thing which is not written: seeing Christ saith, My sheep hear my voice, and premiseth, But another they will not follow, but fly from him, because they know not a strangers voice.] And pag. 193. he saith, that sometimes he had used unwritten sayings against heretics [But never alien from the Scripture sense, &c.] and that now he was resolved [To make use of what he had learned from Scripture, and but sparingly, to use the very names and words which are not literally conform to the divine Scripture, though they do retain the Scripture sense.] The same Basil Epist. 80. To. 2. p. mihi. 74.2 renouncing the argument from custom, saith [Let us stand therefore to the arbitration of the Scriptures inspired from God: and with whomsoever is found the opinions which are agreeable to the Divine oracles, to him let the sense (or sentence) of truth be wholly adjudged.] This is Basils judgement of the judge of controversies.
Basil was far from resolving his faith into the Popes infallibility when he wrot his Ascetica (or at least Eustathius Sebastienus, if they be his) when (pag. 195.1 Tom. 2. translat. Musculi, Basil) he saith [It is a manifest lapse of faith, and apparent vice of pride, either to refuse any thing which the Scripture containeth, or to bring in any thing which is not written: seeing Christ saith, My sheep hear my voice, and premiseth, But another they will not follow, but flye from him, because they know not a strangers voice.] And pag. 193. he saith, that sometimes he had used unwritten sayings against hereticks [But never aliene from the Scripture sence, &c.] and that now he was resolved [To make use of what he had learned from Scripture, and but sparingly, to use the very names and words which are not literally conform to the divine Scripture, though they do retain the Scripture sence.] The same Basil Epist. 80. To. 2. p. mihi. 74.2