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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.
And most fully lib. 4. de Trinitate pag. 31. col. 2. Nemini autem dubium esse oportet, &c. that is, No man ought to doubt but that we must use Gods doctrine for the knowing of divine things. For humane weakness cannot of it self attain the knowledge of heavenly things. — It is God himself that we must believe concerning himself, and those things which he offereth to our knowledge, of himself, must we obey. For either we must deny him as the Gentiles do, if we disallow his testimonies; or if he be believed to be God, as he is, nothing of God can be understood, but as he hath witnessed of himself; Let mens own opinions therefore cease (or be laid by) and let not mens judgements extend themselves beyond Gods constitutions — For the understanding of sayings, must be fetched from the causes of the speech, because the thing is not subject to the words, but the words to the matter]
And most fully lib. 4. de Trinitate pag. 31. col. 2. Nemini autem dubium esse oportet, &c. that is, No man ought to doubt but that we must use Gods doctrine for the knowing of divine things. For humane weakness cannot of it self attain the knowledge of heavenly things. — It is God himself that we must believe concerning himself, and those things which he offereth to our knowledge, of himself, must we obey. For either we must deny him as the Gentiles do, if we disallow his testimonies; or if he be believed to be God, as he is, nothing of God can be understood, but as he hath witnessed of himself; Let mens own opinions therefore cease (or be laid by) and let not mens judgements extend themselves beyond Gods constitutions — For the understanding of sayings, must be fetcht from the causes of the speech, because the thing is not subject to the words, but the words to the matter]
And li. 4. de Trinitate, pag. 29. col. 1. when he showeth that the heretics use to plead Scripture misunderstood, he doth not send them to Rome for a judgement of the sense▪ but still concludeth [Respondendum esse existimo haereticorum perversitati, & omnes corum stultas ac mortiferas institutiones Evangelicis atque Apostolicis Testimoniis coarguendas: That is, I judge that we must answer heretics perverseness, and all their foolish and deadly institutions, by the testimonies of the Gospel and of the Apostles.]