A27015:890
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.
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 ⟨p. 380⟩symbolo continentur: solummodo Romanam Ecclesiam blasphemant et Clerum.
That is [Among all the Sects that yet are and have been there is not a more pernicious to the Church then that of the Lyonists, and that for three causes. 1. Because it is the more […] (or of longer continuance) for some […] it hath endured from the time of Sylvester; other from the time of the Apostles. 2. Because it is more general, for there is scarce any land in which this sect •s not. 3. Because, when all other sects do by the immanity of their blasphemy bring horror into the hearers; this of the Lyonists hath a great show of godliness; in that they live righteously before all men, and they believe all things well concerning God, and all the articles that are contained in the Creed: only they blaspheme the Roman Church, and the Clergy.
That is [Among all the Sects that yet are and have been there is not a more pernicious to the Church then that of the Lyonists, and that for three causes. 1. Because it is the more 〈…〉 (or of longer continuance) for some 〈…〉 it hath endured from the time of Silvester; other from the time of the Apostles. 2. Because it is more general, for there is scarce any land in which this •ect •s not. 3. Because, when all other sects do by the immanity of their blasphemy bring horror into the hearers; this of the Lyonists hath a great shew of godliness; in that they live righteously before all men, and they believe all things well concerning God, and all the articles that are contained in the Creed: onely they blasphem the Romane Church, and the Clergy.