A27015:926
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.
13. In affirming that mortality was natural to man before the fall (which yet is not from God the author of nature.)
- 13. A posse mori, and a posse non mori were not then Natural: But a non posse mori, or an actual non mori were to be the reward of obedience; and is now given by Christ. And a non posse non mori, or an actual death, are the fruits of sin.
14. In placing Paradise where the waters of the flood did not reach it (which yet covered all the earth, and were fifteen cubits higher then the highest mou• taines.)
- 14, 5. I would they would prove this Tradition to be Apostolical
5. Forsooth they would have that Paradise (or Eden) yet untouched, that it may be a pleasant habitation to Hen•ch and Elijah, yet living in mortal bodies (where they place them as behind the stage, that they may be ready to act their parts in the fable o• Antichrist)
5. Forsooth they would have that Paradise (or Eden) yet untouched, that it may be a pleasant habitatian to Hen•ch and Elias, yet living in mortal bodies (where they place them as behind the stage, that they may be ready to act their parts in the fable o Antichrist)