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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.
Yea one word to Master Knot and those of his ⟨p. 348⟩that will resolve their faith into the Miracles of the present Rome Church. If those Miracles which they glory in be indeed regardable, then the Church of Rome is not infallible; for the author of those Miracles do witness them to be fallible. The old Saint Austin and the rest of his time and before, whose testimonies about Miracles they bring in, as I have sufficiently proved are against their usurped jurisdiction and infallibility. Their Saint Maud saith, that the Roman Church shall ere long Apostatize from the faith totally and openly, which did obscurely Apostatize of a long time before. Their Saint Elizabeth saith, That Christ the head of the Church crieth out but his members are dead:1 that the Apostolic seat is possessed with pride, and the flocks go astray. The supposed Prophet Abbot Joachim saith There is yet another figtree withered by the curse of prevarication; the Latin Church, or the Ship of Peter, whose temporal leaves are made covers to excuse sin, with which both Adam the Pope, and Eve the subjects of the Church do cover the dishonesty of their lives,2 and miserably hide themselves in the wood of Ecclesiastical Glory.]
Yea one word to Master Knot and those of his ⟨p. 348⟩that will resolve their faith into the Miracles of the present Rome Church. If those Miracles which they glory in be indeed regardable, then the Church of Rome is not infallible; for the author of those Miracles do witness them to be fallible. The old Saint Austin and the rest of his time and before, whose testimonies about Miracles they bring in, as I have sufficiently proved are against their usurped jurisdiction and infallibility. Their Saint Maud saith, that the Romane Church shall ere long Apostatize from the faith totally and openly, which did obscurely Apostatize of a long time before. Their Saint Elizabeth saith, That Christ the head of the Church cryeth out but his members are dead:1 that the Apostolike seat is possessed with pride, and the flocks go astray. The supposed Prophet Abbat Joachim saith There is yet another figtree withered by the curse of prevarication; the Latin Church, or the Ship of Peter, whose temporal leaves are made covers to excuse sin, with which both Adam the Pope, and Eve the subjects of the Church do cover the dishonesty of their lives,