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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.
The Council of Constance took the cup from the Laity [Licet in primitiva Ecclesia hujusmodi sacramentum reciperetur a fidelibus sub utraque specie.] Though in the primitive Church this Sacrament was received of the faithful under both kinds.] So that they confess they contradict the Primitive Church.
Bellarmine plainly saith li. 4. de Pontif. c. 5. [Si Papa erraret in praecipiendo vitia, vel prohibendo virtutes, teneretur Ecclesia credere vitia esse bona & virtutes malas, nisi vellet contra conscientiam peccare.] That is [If the Pope should err in commanding vices, and forbidding virtues, the Church were bound to believe that vices are good, and virtues ⟨p. 364⟩[…] ⟨p. 365⟩[…] ⟨p. 366⟩bad, unless they would sin against conscience.] And against Barclay cap. 31. he saith [In bono sensu dedit Christus Petro Potestatem faciendi de peccato non peccatum, & de non peccato, peccatum] That is [In a good sense Christ hath given power to Peter to make sin no sin, and no sin to be sin.] (compare this doctrine with the Fathers.)
Bellarmine plainly saith li. 4. de Pontif. c. 5. [Si Papa erraret in praecipiendo vitia, vel prohibendo virtutes, teneretur Ecclesia credere vitia esse bona & virtutes malas, nisi vellet contra conscientiam peccare.] That is [If the Pope should erre in commanding vices, and forbidding virtues, the Church were bound to believe that vices are good, and vertues ⟨p. 364⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 365⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 366⟩