A27015:787
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.
1Polycarp in his Epistle to the Philippians, persuadeth ⟨p. 336⟩that Church [to be subject to the Presbyters and Deacons as to God and Christ] not mentioning any other superior Bishop, much less an universal Bishop to whom also they must be subject. And whereas Valens one of their Presbyters was fallen (with his wife) into some sin which Polycarp professeth his sorrow for, he doth not direct them to seek remedy at any higher power, but persuadeth them to reduce him themselves as a straying member. And having before mentioned divers heresies of those times, be addeth as the Remedy, not an advice of appeal to Rome, or to seek for their determination, or to hold to their infallibility, but [[Greek or Hebrew]] i. e. [Wherefore leaving the vanity of many, and false doctrines, let us return to that Word which from the beginning was delivered to us.] It is to the first word, and not to Rome that this blessed Disciple of John doth send the Philippians for stability against errors.
1Policarp in his Epistle to the Philippians, perswadeth ⟨p. 336⟩that Church [to be subject to the Presbyters and Deacons as to God and Christ] not mentioning any other superior Bishop, much less an universal Bishop to whom also they must be subject. And whereas Valens one of their Presbyters was faln (with his wife) into some sin which Policarpe professeth his sorrow for, he doth not direct them to seek remedy at any higher power, but perswadeth them to reduce him themselves as a straying member. And having before mentioned divers heresies of those times, be addeth as the Remedy, not an advice of appeal to Rome, or to seeke for their determination, or to hold to their infallibility, but [〈non-Latin alphabet〉] i. e. [Wherefore leaving the vanity of many, and false doctrines, let us return to that Word which from the beginning was delivered to us.] It is to the first word, and not to Rome that this blessed Disciple of John doth send the Philippians for stability against errors.
- 1Policarpus Epist. ad Phil.