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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.
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.]
The Council of Trent say, Sess. 21. c. 1.2. that [This power was alway in the Church, that in dispensing the Sacraments, saving the substance of them, it might ordain or change things as it should judge most expedient to the profit of the receiver.] (So that they may change any thing that God appointeth about Sacraments, except the substance: And it were well if they would have left that unchanged.)