A27015:855
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 for the judgement of the Reformed Churches, I shall say no more then what I before mentioned out of their own Polidore Virgil [That they are called Evangelical, because they maintain that no Law is to be received in matters of salvation, but what is delivered by Christ or his Apostles] And this is in the Scripture fully contained and safely delivered to us (which kind of Tradition of the books of the old and new Testament as Canonical, saith Molinaeus we readily receive, which is so far from being an addition to Scripture, that it tells us that nothing is to be added thereto) Compare this with the Fathers judgment before laid down.
As for the Papists judgement you shall have it in their own words, lest we seem to wrong them.
Vasquez Tom. 2. Disp. 216. N. 60. saith [Licet concederemus ho• fuisse Apostolorum praeceptum, nihil•minus Ecclesia & summus Pontifex potuerunt illud justis de causis abrogare: Neque enim maj•r fuit potestas Apostolorum, quam Ecclesiae & Pontificis inferendis praeceptis] That is [Though we should grant that this was a precept of the Apostles, nevertheless the Church and the Pope might upon just causes abrogate it: For the power of the Apostles was not greater then that of the Church, and Pope in making precepts.]