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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.
6. And it is not in lesser, probable, or controverted points: but in those great necessary points, which the Church hath wholly, every where, in all ages agreed in.
6. And it is not in lesser, probable, or controverted points: but in those great necessary points, which the Church hath wholly, every where, in all ages agreeed in.
7. Note diligently, that one of the cases he putteth is this, cap, 4. [Quid si novella aliqua contagio ⟨p. 371⟩non jam portiunculam tantum, sed totam pari•er Ecclesiam commaculare conetur?] i. e. [But what if any novel contagion, shall not only stain a small part of the Church, but also the whole Church?] A presumptuous Question in the Papists sense! But what saith he to it? doth he say, it is impossible? no but [Tunc item providebit, ut Antiquitati inhaeteat: quae prorsus jam non potest ab ulla novitatis fraud seduci] i. e Then let him see that he stick to antiquity, which cannot at all now be seduced by any fraud of novelty.] Here 1. he supposeth that the present Church may all err; 2. He makes the remedy to be an appeal to the ancient Church, and not as the Papists, to appeal in all cases to the present Church or Pope. (Costerus seeks by a citation out of Tertullian in his Annot. to detort both.)
7. Note diligently, that one of the cases he putteth is this, cap, 4. [Quid si novella aliqua contagio ⟨p. 371⟩non jam portiunculam tantum, sed totam pari•er Ecclesiam commaculare conetur?] i. e. [But what if any novel contagion, shall not onely stain a small part of the Church, but also the whole Church?] A presumptuous Question in the Papists sence! But what saith he to it? doth he say, it is impossible? no but [Tunc item providebit, ut Antiquitati inhaeteat: quae prorsus jam non potest ab ulla novitatis fraude seduci] i. e Then let him see that he stick to antiquity, which cannot at all now be seduced by any fraud of novelty.] Here 1. he supposeth that the present Church may all erre; 2. He makes the remedy to be an appeal to the ancient Church, and not as the Papists, to appeal in all cases to the present Church or Pope. (Costerus seeks by a citation out of Tertullian in his Annot. to detort both.)