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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.
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.
How Tertullian lib. de Pudicitia c. 21. takes up the Pope, if he pretend to his pardoning power from Do tibi claves, or supra hanc Petram, I shall for brevity refer you to the place in him.
And Origen upon Math. on the words, is large and full against them, I refer you to the words themselves in him.
I conclude this rank of testimonies in the words of Tertullian [Credunt sine Scripturis ut credant contra Scripturas] They believe without the Scripture,1