A27015:867
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.
Cardinal Tolet saith [Cum certum sit non omnia q•ae Apostoli instituerunt jure Divino esse instituta] i. e. [It is certain that all things which the Apostles instituted were not instituted by Divine right.]
And the Council of Trent hath showed its usurpation of power above Scripture, in dispensing with the degrees of Marriage in Lev. 18. & 20. adding to what God hath prohibited, and relaxing what God hath restrained, and that [To Great Princes and for a public cause] When they make it sin to other men.
And the Council of Trent hath shewed its usurpation of power above Scripture, in dispensing with the degrees of Marriage in Lev. 18. & 20. adding to what God hath prohibited, and relaxing what God hath restrained, and that [To Great Princes and for a publike cause] When they make it sin to other men.
These and many more of their gross sayings and usurpations against Scripture and above it: they have been long ago told of by Jewell, Reignolds, Whittakers, Molinaeus, and others; and how sleight their evasions are, the considerate and impartial may discern.