The nullity of the Romish faith, or A blow at the root of the Romish ChurchHen, 1667 - 344 pages |
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... Doctors , then a Proteftant may fatisfy his confcience and venture his falvation upon it , that all thefe propofitions are falfe , being denied by far more then that number of learned Doctors . At least this must be granted , that it ...
... Doctors , then a Proteftant may fatisfy his confcience and venture his falvation upon it , that all thefe propofitions are falfe , being denied by far more then that number of learned Doctors . At least this must be granted , that it ...
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... are fpurious : This is the great Argument of Stapleton , and all other Romish Doctors . + In like manner I argue the writings of the In 36 The Nullity of the Romish Faith . fummon and bear both parties, it cannot compell tranfgreffors ...
... are fpurious : This is the great Argument of Stapleton , and all other Romish Doctors . + In like manner I argue the writings of the In 36 The Nullity of the Romish Faith . fummon and bear both parties, it cannot compell tranfgreffors ...
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... Doctor , either in fpeaking , or writing ( which all the Papifts grant ) how can either any , or moft of them , who have no other : capacity but that of a private Doctor be exempt from a poflibility of crring ? And confequently the ...
... Doctor , either in fpeaking , or writing ( which all the Papifts grant ) how can either any , or moft of them , who have no other : capacity but that of a private Doctor be exempt from a poflibility of crring ? And confequently the ...
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... Doctors , viz.Sal- meron , Canus , Cofterus , Stapleton , and Bellarmine , are the Church of Rome , or that five of our English Doctors are the Church of England , nay all the Proteftant World , as that five of the Fathers made up the ...
... Doctors , viz.Sal- meron , Canus , Cofterus , Stapleton , and Bellarmine , are the Church of Rome , or that five of our English Doctors are the Church of England , nay all the Proteftant World , as that five of the Fathers made up the ...
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... Doctors of the Sor bon ( fo you fee it is no particular fancy , but a received opinion ) where ( faith he ) that Author expreffely afferts , that the Church therefore receives the Scriptures , because , and fo far as they are ...
... Doctors of the Sor bon ( fo you fee it is no particular fancy , but a received opinion ) where ( faith he ) that Author expreffely afferts , that the Church therefore receives the Scriptures , because , and fo far as they are ...
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Page 177 - ... or the wonder come to pafs, ' whereof he fpake unto thee, faying, Let us
Page 197 - Sat. i. 4, 100.] I suppose they will not tell a Pagan or a Mohammedan this story ; at least I heartily wish that men would not suffer themselves to be so far transported by their private interest as to forget the general concernments of Christianity. " We cannot," say they, " know the Scripture to be the word of God but by the authority of the church of Rome ;" and all men may easily assure themselves that no man had ever known there was such a thing as a church, much less that it had any authority,...
Page 152 - Spirit, but a£red by the rulers of the darknefle of this world, the fpirit that now worketh in the Children of difobedience.
Page 104 - The following passage, from a valuable work of an old writer, gives a statement of their perplexities and inconsistencies upon this subject : — " There is another shift which some subtle Romanists have lately invented, who, perceiving how their brethren have been beaten out of the field by strength of Scripture and argument, in the contest about the infallibility of the Pope or Council, come in for their succour with an universal tradition, and the authority of the present Church.
Page 110 - Church, by which traditions come to us, is infallible, from ft divine revelation, because it is evident from the Scripture that the Church is infallible ;' and this was the constant doctrine of the Romish masters in all former ages. Now come a new generation, who, finding the notion of infallibility hard beset, and the pillar shaken, support their cause with a quite contrary position...