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Satan's sophistry answered by our Saviour Christ and in divers sermons further manifested /…Satans sophistrie ansuuered by our Sauiour Christ and in diuers sermons further manifested /…
Satan's sophistry answered by our Saviour Christ and in divers sermons further manifested / by that worthy man Master William Perkins ; to which is added, a comfort for the feeble minded, wherein is set down the temptations of a Christian.Satans sophistrie ansuuered by our Sauiour Christ and in diuers sermons further manifested / by that worthy man Maister William Perkins ; to which is added, a comfort for the feeble minded, wherein is set downe the temptations of a Christian.
London: printed by Richard Field for E.E., 1604
SATANS SOPHISTRY ANSWERED BY OUR SAVIOUR CHRIST.SATANS SOPHISTRIE ANSWERED BY OVR SAVIOVR CHRIST.
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4 She saith, that they hold the word of God, and the writings of the Apostles: but it will appear in their writings, that they hold ⟨p. 63⟩it but in show, not in truth: for in the main grounds of religion they overturn the doctrine of the Prophets & Apostles. Again, they hold the Scriptures but as a lantern holds the candle, not for it self, but for those that pass by: so the Church of Rome have the word of God, not for themselves, but for the good of Gods children, which ever lye hid in the middest of Popery.
4 She saith, that they hold the word of God, and the writings of the Apostles: but it will appeare in their writings, that they hold ⟨p. 63⟩it but in shew, not in truth: for in the maine grounds of religion they ouerturne the doctrine of the Prophets & Apostles. Againe, they hold the Scriptures but as a lanthorn holds the candle, not for it selfe, but for those that passe by: so the Church of Rome haue the word of God, not for themselues, but for the good of Gods children, which euer lye hid in the middest of Poperie.
5 She brags that she is the mother-church of many Churches: I answer; we must consider that city, as Rome is, and as Rome was: the old Rome which was in the time of Paul, was the true Church of God; but as for that old Rome, it is dead and buried, and this new Rome is that whore of Babylon, & no mother-church, but a cruel step-mother to Religion. By all this we may see, that the present church of Rome, is no Church of God, but only in name and outward show.
5 She brags that she is the mother-church of many Churches: I answer; we must consider that citie, as Rome is, and as Rome was: the old Rome which was in the time of Paul, was the true Church of God; but as for that old Rome, it is dead and buried, and this new Rome is that whore of Babylon, & no mother-church, but a cruell step-mother to Religion. By al this we may see, that the present church of Rome, is no Church of God, but onely in name and outward shew.