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Which is the true church? the whole Christian world, as headed only by Christ…
Which is the true church? the whole Christian world, as headed only by Christ ... or, the Pope of Rome and his subjects as such? : in three parts ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London : Printed, and are to be sold by Richard Janeway ..., 1679
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.
Reader, mark the truth and c•ndor of these men! When we tell them that the Greeks, Armenians, Syrians, Jacobites, Georgians, Copts, Abassines, are of the same Church with us (because they have the same Head, and the same essential faith), the Papists (in their talk and writings) tell us, that they are more of their mind than of ours; and that indeed they are not Heretics, but well-meaning-men. But when we tell them then how two or three parts of the Church is against their Popes pretended universal power, they number all these then with Heretics, as not to be regarded.
Reader, mark the truth and c•ndor of these men! When we tell them that the Greeks, Armenians, Syrians, Iacobites, Georgians, Copties, Abassines, are of the same Church with us (because they have the same Head, and the same essential faith), the Papists (in their talk and writings) tell us, that they are more of their mind than of ours; and that indeed they are not Hereticks, but well-meaning-men. But when we tell them then how two or three parts of the Church is against their Popes pretended universal power, they number all these then with Hereticks, as not to be regarded.
But abundance of their own Writers, yea such as have lived among them at Jerusalem and other parts, do vindicate the generality of these foreign Christians from the charge of Heresy.
But abundance of their own Writers, yea such as have lived among them at Ierusalem and other parts, do vindicate the generality of these foreign Christians from the charge of Heresie.
2. But doth not the world know, that a man is supposed to be rightful Pope as soon as the Cardinals (an upstart sort of things) have chosen him, before ever any of the people of Europe, even Papists, do consent? But perhaps he'll say, that the people consent that these shall be the choosers; sure they did not so till Hildebrands days; nor since any otherwise than by silence or non-resistance, where they have no places to speak, nor power to resist, even as the Country-men consent to the conquering Armies that oppress them.