A27015:862
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.
Innocent. 3. Decret. de conces. prebend. tit. 8. c. proposuit, saith [Secundum plenitudinem potestatis de jure supra jus possumus dispensare] According to the fullness of our power we can dispense with the Law above Law.] And the Gloss addeth [For the Pope dispenseth against the Apostle, and against the old Testament, as also in vows and oaths] And another Gloss saith [The Pope dispenseth with the Gospel, in interpreting it.] More such Glosses you may find, if not yet more gross and impious; which I'll not stand to recite.
Innocent. 3. Decret. de conces. prebend. tit. 8. c. proposuit, saith [Secundum plenitudinem potestatis de jure supra jus possumus dispensare] According to the fullness of our power we can dispense with the Law above Law.] And the Glosse addeth [For the Pope dispenseth against the Apostle, and against the old Testament, as also in vows and oaths] And another Gloss saith [The Pope dispenseth with the Gospel, in interpreting it.] More such Glosses you may find, if not yet more gross and impious; which I'le not stand to recite.
Gregory de Valentia Tom. 4. disp. 6. qu. 8. p. 5. § 10. saith [Et certe quaedam posterioribus temp•ribus rectius constituta esse in Ecclesia quam initio se haberent] That is [And certainly some things are more rightly constituted in the Church in the latter times then they were in the beginning.]
Andradius Defens. Concil. Trident. lib. 2. pag. (mihi) 236. saith [Unde etiam liquet minime eos errasse qui dicunt Romanos Pontifices posse nonnunquam in legibus dispensare a Paulo, primisque quatuor Conciliis ad Ecclesiam exornandam, moresque componendos pro temporum necessitate edictis, qualis est illa quae interdicit, ut digamos creari ne liceat Episcopos.] i. e. [Whence ⟨p. 367⟩