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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 in the very conclusion of the Chapter and Book Eusebius recites many more of the words of that old writer among the which there are these against the heretics of those times for presuming to correct and so deprave the Scriptures, which methinks, should touch the Romanists to the quick: [Belike they are altogether ignorant what presumption is practised in this wicked deed of theirs. For either they persuade themselves that the holy Scriptures were not indicted by the instinct of the Holy Ghost, and so are they Infidels, or else they think themselves wiser then the Holy Ghost; and what other thing do they in that than show themselves possessed of the Devil?]
And in the very conclusion of the Chapter and Book Eusebius recites many more of the words of that old writer among the which there are these against the hereticks of those times for presuming to correct and so deprave the Scriptures, which methinks, should touch the Romanists to the quicke: [Belike they are altogether ignorant what presumption is practised in this wicked deed of theirs. For either they perswade themselves that the holy Scriptures were not indicted by the instinct of the Holy Ghost, and so are they Infidels, or else they think themselves wiser then the Holy Ghost; and what other thing do they in that than shew themselves possessed of the Devil?]
So that if we must go to the Arbitration of the Pope to know whether the Scriptures were indited by the Holy Ghost. We must go to him to know whether we must be Infidels or not? For they that deny this are Infidels. But I hope all the world will not remain Infidels, till they know the Arbitrement of the Pope, or till his Authority move them to be Christians. For its an impossibility and contradiction, that any man should believe in Christs pretended Vicar, as his Vicar, and believe an authority and infallibility which he or his Church of Rome hath received from Christ, before they believe in Christ himself.