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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.
*That the like passages are frequent in Gerson is so well known that I need not mention them. And in Cardinal de Aliaco, and many other Cardinals, Bishops, and Schoolmen of their own, the like passages are well known, and so oft cited already, that I shall forbear to recite them.
- *Occham & Almain in 3. sent D. 24. Conc. 6. dub. 6. There are many heretical Docretals Alph. a • astro adv. har. l. 1. c. 4. Waldens. Doct. fid. l 2. ar 2. c. 19. § 1. § 38. N. 4. Leg. Card. de Alliaco de reform. Eccles. Picus in quest. ves. per. Adco ut jam borrendam quorundam proverbium est al cum statum devenisse Ecclesiam, ut non fit digna regi nisi per reprobos inquit Card. de Alliaco.Occham & Almaine in 3. sent D. 24. Conc. 6. dub. 6. There are many heretical Docretals Alph. a • astro adv. har. l. 1. c. 4. Waldens. Doct. fid. l 2. ar 2. c. 19. § 1. § 38. N. 4. Leg. Card. de Alliaco de reform. Eccles. Picus in quest. ves. per. Adco ut jam borrendam quorundam proverbium est al cum statum devenisse Ecclesiam, ut non fit digna regi nisi per reprobos inquit Card. de Alliaco.
I have oft times observed how they have alleged Durandus, as pleading that the last resolution of our faith is into this primo creditum, that the Church is guided by the holy Ghost, and that therefore we believe the Scripture to be Gods word e. g. the Gospel of Matthew rather then that of Nicodemus, because the Church approveth it, who is guided by the spirit. But I find that even there Durandus destroyeth ⟨p. 347⟩the Roman cause. For he immediately addeth, that [Hoc quod dictum est de approbatione Scripturae per Ecclesiam intelligitur solum de Ecclesia quae fuit tempore Apostolorum, qui fuerunt repleti spiritu sancto, & nihilominus viderunt Miracula Christi & audierunt ejus doctrinam, & ob hoc fuerunt convenientes testes omnium quae Christus fecit aut douit ut per eorum testimonium scriptura continens facta & dicta Christi approbaretur] That is,