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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 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.]
And li. 4. de Trinitate, pag. 29. col. 1. when he sheweth that the hereticks use to plead Scripture misunderstood, he doth not send them to Rome for a judgement of the sence▪ 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 hereticks perverseness, and all their foolish and deadly institutions, by the testimonies of the Gospel and of the Apostles.]
And the same Hilary doth largely persuade to a close adhering to the Gospel,1 and the sum of Faith called the Apostles Creed, without adding or altering, under any pretence of amending, and showeth the divisions and depravations that have followed since the Council of Nice would make one emendation, and on their example other Councils had made and mended, done and undone so oft, that they had marred all by it: and he persuadeth the Emperor *to hearken to the ancient Gospel faith and not to Synods. His words are in Epist. vel Lib. ad Constant. August. pag. (Edit. Paris.) 307.308. where having showed how he had ⟨p. 328⟩erred in looking after Councils, he saith [Recognosce fidem quam, &c. that is, Reacknowledge that Belief which thou desirest to hear from the Bishops but hearest not. For they of whom it is required do write their own things, and do not preach the things of God; they have drawn about an endless and perpetual circle. For the modesty of humane infirmity should have contained all mysteries of divine knowledge in those bounds of conscience only, which he believed in, and not after a Belief confessed and sworn in Baptism, in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, to doubt or innovate any thing else. — Under the improbable occasion of this necessity