A27015:889
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.
Whereas the Papists have little else to say to us, but only to call still for a Catalogue of Professors to prove the successive visibility of our Church; we require of them first an answer to those Writings that have been extant so long on this subject: especially Bishop Usher de successione & Statu Eccles. and his answer to the Jesuits challenge (Defended by Master Sing and Master Puttock) Doctor Fields Treat. of the Church, especially the Appendix to the third part: Simon Birkbeck's Protestants evidence: Doctor Whites Way to the true Church. Abbot against▪ Hill. Illiricus his Catalogues testium veritatis. Mornay's two Treatises of the Church, and the Mystery of iniquity (to say nothing of that of the Mass) Johan. Lidii Waldens. Nicol. Vignier Ecclesiast. Histor. And the confessions of your own Writers: Your after Pope Aeneas Sylvius Histor. Bohem. and that commonly cited passage of your inquisitor Rainnerius, which I will adjoin.
WHereas the Papists have little else to say to us, but onely to call still for a Catalogue of Professors to prove the successive visibility of our Church; we require of them first an answer to those Writings that have been extant so long on this subject: especially Bishop Ʋsher de successione & Statu Eccles. and his answer to the Jesuits challenge (Defended by Master Sing and Master Puttock) Doctor Fields Treat. of the Church, especially the Appendix to the third part: Simon Birkbecks Protestants evidence: Doctor Whites Way to the true Church. Abbot against▪ Hill. Illiricus his Catalogues testium veritatis. Mornays two Treatises of the Church, and the Mystery of iniquity (to say nothing of that of the Mass) Johan. Lidii Waldens. Nicol. Vignier Ecclesiast. Histor. And the confessions of your own Writers: Your after Pope Aenaeas Sylvius Histor. Bohem. and that commonly cited passage of your inquisitor Rainnerius, which I will adjoyn.
Rainerius contr. Waldens. cap 4. Inter omnes sectas que adhuc sunt & fuerunt, non est perniciosior Ecclesiae quam ea Leonistarum, idque tribus de causis. 1. Quia est diuturnior: aliqui enim dicunt quod duravit a tempore Silvestri: alii a tempore Apostolorum. 2. Quia est generalior: fere enim nulla terra est in qua haec secta non sit. 3. Quia cum omnes aliae sectae immanitate Blasphemiarum in Deum audientibus horrorem inducant; haec scilicet Leonistarum magna habet speciem pietatis, eo quod coram omnibus juste vivant, & bene omnia de Deo credant, & omnes articules qui in