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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.
I come to the Arguments by which I prove the Affirmative, that [The Reformed Catholic Christian Religion, commonly called Protestant, is a safe way to salvation.
I come to the Arguments by which I prove the Affirmative, that [The Reformed Catholike Christian Religion, commonly called Protestant, is a safe way to salvation.
Arg. 1. That Religion which best agreeth with the word of God, above all other Religions in the world, is a safe, yea the safest way to salvation: But the Reformed Catholic Christian Religion ⟨p. 12⟩commo••• called Protestant, doth best agree wit• the word of God: therefore it is the safest way to salvation.
Arg. 1. That Religion which best agreeth with the word of God, above all other Religions in the world, is a safe, yea the safest way to salvation: But the Reformed Catholike Christian Religion ⟨p. 12⟩commo••• called Protestant, doth best agree wit• the word of God: therefore it is the safest way to salvation.
One would think among Christians the Major should be unquestionable: But here the corrupt Romanists have presumed to make a new word of God, that so the determination of the case might be impossible, unless we will go up to these Philistines to sharpen our weapons: For they deny the holy Scripture to be the whole word of God, or sufficient to be the Rule for deciding of controversies in matter of saith, and tell us, that unwritten Traditions are another part: And those Traditions are such as are received by the whole Church as delivered down from the Apostles; and that whole Church is only the Roman party: and thus do they by their own Authority undertake to damn all the rest of the Christian world, and make themselves only the Catholic Church: and by this trick of wit they have got one half of Gods word into their closets, and that it is his word, which they say is his word: And that you may know that they are no blabs or revealers of secrets, they have for some hundred years kept this close as a secret to themselves, yea from themselves as well as to us: so that when the common Proverb takes that to be a secret which one or two knows, but not when three know it; yet these men have a word of God which all the Catholic Church is the keeper of, and yet those that keep it, know it not themselves, much less can we that stand by come to the knowledge of it; but we must all wait till the last Pope have breathed out his last determination, before the Catholic Church that is said to keep it can come to know what is the