Baxter - BX1763 B28

C I S o', "not the Unity of theholy Church of Rome and that. LC all tholeVirtues are maimed to him that refufeth to "obey the Pope ofRome ; though he lye in Sackcloth rc andPiffles, and fait and prayboth Day andNight, and cç feem in the ref or other things to fulfil the Law of ", God. (Bellarrine faith de Ecclef. 1. 3.c. 5.) that ["No man, "though he would, can be fubjed to Chrift, that is not fubjeó to the Pope.] And therefore he faith that our Baptifm implicitely fübjedeth us to the Pope ; or we are fobaptized to him. And faith Gonzal. Ròdericus in Godignus de rebua Aba f fin. 1.2. c. 18. p. 323. to the Emperours Mother, [i deny- ed that any one is rubjed to ChriFt that is not fubjeót to his Vicar.) But laid the old Woman to him, [Neither Inor mine do denyobedience to sf eter: we are in the fame Faith now that we were in from the beginning: if that w'ts not the right, why ma there no one found in fo many Ages and Generations that wold warn its ofour Errour ? ] ('See here what Tradition is, and whether the Papal Church and Charge was UniverfaI.) The Jefuite an- fwered, [rhe Pope of Rome who is Pallor of the whole Church of Chrift, could not in the years that are by-pall fend 'Teachers intoAbaffia, becaufe the Mahoinetans in- eomrmpafed all, and had left no payage to them ; but now the Maritime w to Ethiopia is open, they can do that which they couldnot do before.) So that it feemeth, 1. Chrill hathmade the PopeGo- vernour of Countries that he cannot fend to, and let the poor man an impoffble task. 2. He hashmade it necefiary to falvation to whole Kingdoms to believe in a. Pope that they could never hear from ; . nor whether therewere fucha Man or. City in theworld. ;. Or elfe- their

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