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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.
§ 2. Of the Belief.
The Parts of Theology are 1. Of faith, or things to be believed. 2. Of Charity, or things to be done.
Matters of faith are 1. Of God & his works. 2. Of the Church.
The works of God are specially 1. Of Creation and Government of the world. 2. Of Redemption of mankind.
1.1 About the Creation the Papists err in ⟨p. 388⟩saying that concupiscence was then natural to man (though John saith that it is not of God, 1 Jo. 2.16. and themselves sometime confess it to be evil and contrary to nature.