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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.
1The General Council of Nice before this (according to such Canons as are now extant) C. 6. doth give the Patriarchs of Alexandria power over Egypt, Libya & Pentapolis, quoniam quidem & Episcopo Romano parilis mos est, Because the Bishop of Rome hath the like custom, so that the Bishop of Rome is equalized with them, and his power restrained to his own Patriarchate, or the Ecclesiae suburbicariae (of the extent whereof read Salmasius his learned Treatise against Sirmondus de Ecclesiis subuarbicariis) which was so plain to Cusanus a Cardinal of Rome, that it made him say, hereupon [Videmus quantum Romanus Pontifex ultra sacras observationes, ex usu & consuetudine subjectionalis obedientiae hodie •cquisivit] That is [We see how much the Pope of Rome hath at this day gotten beyond the sacred observations by use and custom of subjectional obedience.2] And Barth. Caranza having mentioned this Canon in his sum. Council. p. 48. had no other evasion but this, that among all the Greek and Latin Copies which he searched, Cardinal Marcellus a Legate at the Trent Council, showed him one Latin Copy that had [Metropolitan] instead of [Roman?] But is this much to the purpose? Or if it were, is one Latin Copy in a Cardinals hand more credible then all the rest in the world, that have c••e to light?
1The General Council of Nice before this (according to such Canons as are now extant) C. 6. doth give the Patriarchs of Alexandria power over Egypt, Libia & Pentapolis, quoniam quidem & Episcopo Romano parilis mos est, Because the Bishop of Rome hath the like custome, so that the Bishop of Rome is equalized with them, and his power restrained to his own Patriarchate, or the Ecclesiae suburbicariae (of the extent whereof read Salmasius his learned Treatise against Sirmondus de Ecclesiis subuarbicariis) which was so plain to Cusanus a Cardinal of Rome, that it made him say, hereupon [Videmus quantum Romanus Pontifex ultra sacras observationes, ex usu & consuetudine subjectionalis obedientiae hodie •cquisivit] That is [We see how much the Pope of Rome hath at this day gotten beyond the sacred observations by use and custome of subjectional obedience.