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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.
And Cateches. 18. pag. 220, 221, 222. See how he describeth the Catholic Church without the least intimation of the Roman description.
And Cateches. 18. pag. 220, 221, 222. See how he describeth the Catholike Church without the least intimation of the Romane description.
August. Cont. literas Petiliani li. 3. cap. 6. pag. Edit. Paris. 127.) col. 1.
[Proinde sive de Christo, sive de ejus Ecclesia, sive de quacunque alia re quae pertinet ad fidem utramque nostram;1 non dicam nos, nequaquam comparandi ei qui dixit, Licet si nos, sed omnino quod secutus adjecit, Si Angelus de caelo vobis annunciaverit preterquam quod in Scripturis legalibus & Evangelicis accepistis, anathema sit.2 Hac vobiscum & cum omnibus quos Christo lucrati cupimus actitantes, atque inter caetera sanctam Ecclesiam quam in Dei lieris promissam legimus & sicut promissa est in omnibus g•ntibus reddi cernimus, praedicantes, ab iis quos ad ejus pacificum gremium attrahi cupimus, pro actione gratiarum flammas meruinnus odiorum.] That is [Moreover, whether it be of Christ, or of his Church, or of any other thing which pertaineth to our faith and life, I say ⟨p. 359⟩not [if we] who are not to be compared to him who said [Though we] but that which he next added [If an Angel from heaven shall preach to you any other thing then that which you have received in the Scriptures of the Law and the Gospel, let him be accursed. While we deal thus with you and with all men whom we desire to win to Christ, and among other things, do preach the holy Church, which we find promised in Gods Scriptures, and which we see to be placed in all Nations as was promised, we have deserved (or procured) the flames of hatred from those whom we desire to draw into its pacific bosom in stead of thanks.] And he proceedeth [as if it were we that so long before had bid the Prophets and Apostles that they should not put in their books any Testimonies, by which the faction (or party) of Donatus is proved to be the Church of Christ.]