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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.
This is their all, the first and last, for ought I can find (that's worth the repeating) and of how little value this arguing is, me thinks should be very easy to apprehend.
This is their all, the first and last, for ought I can find (thats worth the repeating) and of how little value this arguing is, me thinks should be very easie to apprehend.
1. Look back to the stating of the Question, and remember how far we say the Church is fallible, and how far infallible, and it may suffice to confute all this.
2. Its not all one to be absolutely infallible, and to be actually Not-mistaken. Nor to be certain of some things, and to be certain of all things that ought to be known or believed: Nor to be certain by such external evidence of verity and internal ⟨p. 352⟩grace, as is ordinary to the faithful, and to be certain by a pretended privilege above all the rest of the world; even knowing the conclusion as such without knowing the medium. We are certain that Scripture is Gods word: and certain that we are certain; and therefore pro tempore infallibly certain: And if we should say that we are certain that no true Believer shall ever fall from this certainty, we should speak more agreeably to the Protestant doctrine then to yours, who say that they may fall away. And we maintain that there is still an Objective certainly or Infallibility (if I may use the word actively) in the word of God and every sentence of it, which can never fail, if our faith should fail. And we can manifest to our hearers such grounds of their belief, as are infallible, and will never deceive those that trust in them