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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.
I conclude this rank of testimonies in the words of Tertullian [Credunt sine Scripturis ut credant contra Scripturas] They believe without the Scripture,1 that they may believe against the Scriptures. Had Scripture been for the Pope and Papists, then the Pope and they would have been for Scriptures; and then we might have spared all this ado. But because it is against them, no wonder if they be against it.
I conclude this ranke of testimonies in the words of Tertullian [Credunt sine Scripturis ut credant contra Scripturas] They believe without the Scripture,1 that they may believe against the Scriptures. Had Scripture been for the Pope and Papists, then the Pope and they would have been for Scriptures; and then we might have spared all this ado. But because it is against them, no wonder if they be against it.
- 1Tertull. de praescript.
I shall next give a touch more of some passages of Councils concerning this controversy. And first it is known that the first Councils did commonly decree that appeals should be from a Bishop to a Synod, or the Metropolitan, and that if the Synod of Comprovincials disagreed, that the Metropolitan should call some of the next Province to assist them, and that was the highest, unless there were a more general Council, as Concil. Antiochen. Can. 14. and divers more, beyond doubt, declare: So that here was no appeal to the Pope. Yea in the 6. Canon of that Council of Antioch, it is decreed that till an offending Priest, Deacon, or Layman, be reconciled to his own Bishop, or else have given satisfaction to a Synod, that no other Bishop shall receive him: so that Rome it self may not receive him: much less absolve him.
I shall next give a touch more of some passages of Councils concerning this controversie. And first it is known that the first Councils did commonly decree that appeals should be from a Bishop to a Synod, or the Metropolitane, and that if the Synod of Comprovincials disagreed, that the Metropolitane should call some of the next Province to assist them, and that was the highest, unless there were a more general Council, as Concil. Antiochen. Can. 14. and divers more, beyond doubt, declare: So that here was no appeal to the Pope. Yea in the 6. Canon of that Council of Antioch, it is decreed that till an offending Priest, Deacon, or Layman, be reconciled to his own Bishop, or else have given satisfaction to a Synod, that no other Bishop shall receive him: so that Rome it self may not receive him: much less absolve him.