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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.
Select Arguments, AND REASONS, &c. › Reasons to resolve any considerate Man against Popery.
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.
Reas. 6. Their Religion tendeth greatly to mortify Christianity, and turn it into a dead Image by destroying much of its life and power; by befriending Ignorance, locking up the Scriptures blind devotion and external formalities.
Reas. 6. Their Religion tendeth greatly to mortifie Christianity, and turn it into a dead Image by destroying much of its life and power; by befriending Ignorance, locking up the Scriptures blind devotion and external formalities.
Reas. 7. They plead for a Church that never had a being in the World, that is all Christians Headed by one Pope, when all the Christian World did never take him for their Head, nor were governed by him to this day.
Reas. 8. They dreadfully injure the holy Scriptures; as if Jesus Christ, and the Prophets and Apostles in those sacred Records had not skill or will to speak intelligibly, and plainly to deliver to us the Doctrines necessary to Salvation, but they make their voluminous counsels more intelligible and sufficient as if they had done it better, And whereas Men must only discern God• Laws, and judge causes by the Law, they make themselves Judge• of the Law it self; by which they must one day be judged.