A27036:13
Select arguments and reasons against popery
Select arguments and reasons against popery by R. Baxter.
London printed : s.n., 1675?
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Arg. 5. The Doctrine of Popery derogateth from the written word of God, and settleth the decrees of Men above it, enabling them to contradict it's most express Institutions, and therefore is no way to salvation.
Arg. 5. The Doctrine of Popery derogateth from the written word of God, and setleth the decrees of Men above it, enabling them to contradict it's most express Institutions, and therefore is no way to salvation.
Arg. 6. Popery is Idolatry teaching Men to worship the Creature with divine Worship, as the consecrated Host or Bread in their Mass, 'Tis true they tell us, That it is no longer Bread but the Body of Christ, but this is a Fiction, consider these Reasons, If the Bread were Christs real Body, then Christ had two real bodies, a sense and an insensible body both at once, and then the Apostles did tear Christs true flesh, and draw out his blood as well as the Jews, and thence it will follow that Christs glorified body is corruptible, and may be digested by a Mans Stomach and become sinful as being a natural part of a sinner, for the Bread and Wine do nourish us, and turn into our substance, and that a Creature (the Baker or Priest) may make God, and that the Scriptures are not true, which witness that the Heavens must receive him till the restitution of all things, Acts 3. 21. with many other abominable absurdities.
Arg. 7. The Doctrine of Popery teacheth Men to turn the most of Gods Worship into mere unreasonable ceremonies and vain formalities of Mans devising, and who can think that the holy and blessed God will be delighted in their vain babblings and childish cantings, and affected repetitions of words, and saying and hearing we know not what.
Arg. 7. The Doctrine of Popery teacheth Men to turn the most of Gods Worship into meer unreasonable ceremonies and vain formalities of Mans devising, and who can think that the holy and blessed God will be delighted in their vain bablings and childish cantings, and affected repetitions of words, and saying and hearing we know not what.