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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.
[Greek or Hebrew], &c. i. e. For concerning Divine things, and the holy mysteries of faith, nothing, no not the smallest thing ought to be delivered without the Divine Scriptures; nor to be brought forth by simple probability,1 nor by a train of words. Nay do not simply believe me my self when I speak of these things to thee, unless thou receive a demonstration of the things which I speak from the Divine Scriptures For the very safety of our faith, resteth not on the elegance of speech, but on the proof of Divine Scriptures.]
〈non-Latin alphabet〉, &c. i. e. For concerning Divine things, and the holy mysteries of faith, nothing, no not the smallest thing ought to be delivered without the Divine Scriptures; nor to be brought forth by simple probability,1 nor by a train of words. Nay do not simply believe me my self when I speak of these things to thee, unless thou receive a demonstration of the things which I speak from the Divine Scriptures For the very safety of our faith, resteth not on the elegancy of speech, but on the proof of Divine Scriptures.]
- 1☜ If the Tongue of man can speak plain this is plain.
And pag. 36. Sect de Sacra Script. he telleth you what Scriptures he meaneth earnestly dissuading from the Apocryphal books, and numbering the same only which we own as Canonical, save that he saith [[Greek or Hebrew]] and omitteth the Epist. to Hebrews and the Apocalypse.
And pag. 36. Sect de Sacra Script. he telleth you what Scriptures he meaneth earnestly disswading from the Apocryphal books, and numbering the same onely which we own as Canonical, save that he saith [〈non-Latin alphabet〉] and omitteth the Epist. to Hebrews and the Apocalypse.