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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.
But they make the Pope also the chief Prophet and Pastor, King and Monarch, and Priest. Whence it follows that the Pope is not only opposed to Christ as his adversary, but as his Rival.
But they make the Pope also the chief Prophet and Pastor, King and Monarch, and Priest. Whence it follows that the Pope is not onely opposied to Christ as his adversary, but as his Rival.
111. And they make other sacrificing Priests also of the New Testament, having an external visible Priesthood, and that according to the order of Melchizedek: whose office it is to sacrifice Christ again and offer him to his Father.
111. And they make other sacrificing Priests also of the New Testament, having an external visible Priesthood, and that according to the order of Melchizedeck: whose office it is to sacrifice Christ again and offer him to his Father.
- 111. All Christians are Priests to God, to offer up spiritual sacrifice, metaphorically so called: And Pastors offer up Christ Representatively, Commemoratively and Sacramentally, but not really. The name Priest is not worth contending about.
12. That the (unchangeable) Priesthood of Christ the eternal Priest, is made eternal by the succession of such Priests.