The Grotian religion discovered, at the invitation of Mr. Thomas Pierce in his Vindication. With a preface, vindicating the Synod of Dort from the calumnies of the new Tilenus; and David, Peter, &c. And the Puritanes, and sequestrations, &c. from the censures of Mr. Pierce. / By Richard Baxter, Catholick.

SECT. LI.

DIscuss. pag. 71. he tels us what it is * 1.1 that he aimeth at. The Churches that joyn with Rome have not only the Scri∣ptures, but the Dogmata explained in the Councils, and the Popes Decrees against Pelagius, &c. [Receperunt etiam constitu∣tiones egregias Conciliorum & Patrum, in quibus abundè est unde vitia corrigantur: sed non omnes iis utuntur quantum oportet. Manent illae plerumque conditae in chartis, ut in vagina gladius: Et hoc est quod omnes pietatis & pacis amantes corrigi velint:] and tells us of the example of Car. Bor∣romaeus, as oft he doth. So that Borromaeus Reformation is plainly it that Grotius would be contented with. I am as ready as ano∣ther to think that this Cardinal was a Saint indeed; (and it seemeth Saints are rare at Rome even among the Clergy and the Car∣dinals, when this one mans Piety and Re∣formation must be noted by a Canonizati∣on.) But I am confident that the Pope

would never have Sainted him, had he been better then he was, if he had not taken him for a Papist: We have his Canons at large in B••nnius, in which are many things that shew him to be a Christian, and not a few that shew him to be a Papist. And the Pa∣pists would take it for no small injury, if you would ••ob them of this Saint.

Notes

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  §. 51.