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Meditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many years sinceMeditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many yeares since
Meditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many years since by Edward Reynolds then fellow of Merton College in Oxford.Meditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many yeares since by Edvvard Reynolds then fellow of Merton College in Oxford.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Robert Bostock, 1638
MEDITATIONS ON THE HOLY SACRAMENT OF THE LORDS LAST SUPPER. › Chapter 19
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Lastly, That were it not so that omne mendacium est pellucidum, and hath ever something in it to bewray it self, yet it could not be operaepretium for them to lie in publishing a Doctrine whereby they ⟨p. 213⟩got nothing but shame, stripes, imprisonment, persecution, Torments, Death. Especially since the holiness of their lives, their humility, in denying all glory to themselves, and ascribing all to God, must needs make it appear to any reasonable man, that they did not lay any project for their own glory, which they purposely disclaimed, refused to receive from the hands of such as offered it, yea, and registered their own infirmities upon perpetual Records.
Lastly, That were it not so that omne mendacium est pellucidum, and hath ever something in it to bewray it selfe, yet it could not bee operaepretium for them to lie in publishing a Doctrine whereby they ⟨p. 213⟩got nothing but shame, stripes, imprisonment, persecution, Torments, Death. Especially since the holinesse of their lives, their humility, in denying all glory to themselves, and ascribing all to God, must needs make it appeare to any reasonable man, that they did not lay any project for their owne glory, which they purposely disclaymed, refused to receive from the hands of such as offered it, yea, and registred their owne infirmities upon perpetuall Records.
With these and many other the like arguments is the Church furnished to prepare the minds of men, swayed with but ordinary ingenuity, and respect to common Reason, at the least to look further, and make some sad inquiry into the Doctrine of the Gospel. There being therein especially promises of good things made without money or price, of incomprehensible value, and of eternal continuance.
With these and many other the like arguments is the Church furnished to prepare the mindes of men, swayed with but ordinary ingenuity, and respect to common Reason, at the least to looke further, and make some sad inquiry into the Doctrine of the Gospell. There being therein especially promises of good things made without monie or price, of incomprehensible value, and of eternall continuance.