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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
Appendix › Bishop G.D. Chap. 7. A Catalogue of the Errors of the Church of Rome.
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.
15.1 That the authority of the Catholic Church (that is, the Roman) is greater •en of the Scriptures: •nd the Popes authority greater then the Church.
15.1 That the authority of the Catholike Church (that is, the Romane) is greater •en of the Scriptures: •nd the Popes authority greater then the Church.
- 115. The last clause (that the Popes authority is greater then the Churches) the French do not hold. And so they are divided in their foundation.
16.1 That the Church is ancienter than the Scripture (that is, then the word of God which is now written because ⟨p. 386⟩it is ancienter then the writing of it. As if it were not the same word of God, which was first delivered by voice, That is now then in writing.
- 116. They yield that the Doctrine is elder then the Church, and we yield that the Church is elder then •••ings. But we affirm that the doctrine as fetched from these writings is now before the present Church in order of nature, as the cause of it, at least as to the generality of members.