A27015:977
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.
5. Yea that they may stablish that monstrous opinion of Transubstantiation, they feign him to have a body that can neither be seen, nor felt, nor circumscribed, that is in innumerable places at once: which is not made of the substance of the blessed Virgin, but of bread (as wine of that water, Joh. 2.9.) and which sustaineth the accidents of bread (as their subject) For they can devise no other subject after the transubstantiation of the bread: Whence it follows, that they are no more accidents of bread but of Christs body.
6.1 And as to Christs Office, they teach that Christ is Mediator only according to his humane nature.
6.1 And as to Christs Office, they teach that Christ is Mediator onely according to his humane nature.
- 16, 7. Saints on earth must intercede under Christ for others, especially Pastors whose office it is. And we may pray them to pray for us: But not the Saints departed.
7. They deny Christ to be the only Mediator of intercession but join with him Angels and Saints.
7. They deny Christ to be the onely Mediator of intercession but joyn with him Angels and Saints.