A27015:846
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.
Ambrose having mentioned the diversity of Heresies agreeing in una perfidia, giveth us this direction for cure: Itaque tanquam boni gubernatores quo tutius praetermeare possimus fidei vela tendamus Scriptuarumque relegamus ordinem. Amb. de fide li. 1. cap. 4. pag. 56. And many more express passages he hath: as [Quae in Scripturis sanctis non reperimus, ea quemadmodum usurpare possemus?] This citation I take on trust from others that have before produced it, having before mentioned more.
Athanasius in his Orat. against the Gentiles in the beginning saith [The holy and Divinely inspired Scriptures are sufficient for all instruction of verity] And afterward he addeth that the writings of the Fathers and our Teachers do help us to interpret and understand Scripture.
Hippolytus (in Bibliothec. Patrum Tom. 3. Edit. col. p. 20.21.) saith [Unus Deus est, quem non aliunde agnoscimus, quam ex sacris scripturis. Quemadmodum enim siquis vellet sapientiam hujus seculi exercere, non aliter hoc consequi poterit, nisi dogmata Philosophorum leg at: sic quicunque volumus pietatem in Deum exercere non aliunde discimus quam in scripturis Divinis] i e. [There is one God, whom we no other way know, *but by the holy Scriptures: For as he that will exercise the wisdom of this world, cannot ⟨p. 363⟩otherwise attain it, but by reading the opinions of the Philosophers i• so those of us that will exercise piety towards God, do no other way learn it but in the Divine Scriptures.
Hippolytus (in Bibliothec. Patrum Tom. 3. Edit. col. p. 20.21.) saith [Ʋnus Deus est, quem non aliunde agnoscimus, quam ex sacris scripturis. Quemadmodum enim siquis vellet sapientiam hujus seculi exercere, non aliter hoc consequi poterit, nisi dogmata Philosophorum leg at: sic quicunque volumus pietatem in Deum exercere non aliunde discimus quam in scripturis Divinis] i e. [There is one God, whom we no other way know,