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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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Sermon 10: THE CHAMBER of IMAGERY IN THE Church of ROME laid open; OR AN Antidote against Popery.…
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Jesuits and their Associates, have been for an hundred years, contriving Methods and Arts for the dispossessing Nations and Churches of the Truth which they have received, and the introducing the Romish Superstition. They have written Books about it, and practised according to their Principles in every Kingdom and State of Europe, who own the Protestant Religion. But the folly of most of their pretended Arts and Devices unto this end, hath been ridiculous and unsuccessless; and what they have added hereunto of Force, hath been divinely defeated.
The Jesuites and their Associates, have been for an hundred years, contriving Methods and Arts for the dispossessing Nations and Churches of the Truth which they have received, and the introducing the Romish Superstition. They have written Books about it, and practised according to their Principles in every Kingdom and State of Europe, who own the Protestant Religion. But the folly of most of their pretended Arts and Devices unto this end, hath been ridiculous and unsuccessless; and what they have added hereunto of Force, hath been divinely defeated.
There is but one way, one effectual Engine to deprive any People of the Profession of the Truth which they have once received; and that is, by leading them into such Profaneness and Ignorance, as whereby they may lose all Experience of its Power and Efficacy in communicating the Grace of God unto their Souls, and therein of all sense of the advantage which ⟨p. 221⟩they might have had by it. When this is done, men will as easily lay aside the Profession of Religion, as burdensome Clothes in Summer.
There is but one way, one effectual Engine to deprive any People of the Profession of the Truth which they have once received; and that is, by leading them into such Prophaneness and Ignorance, as whereby they may lose all Experience of its Power and Efficacy in communicating the Grace of God unto their Souls, and therein of all sense of the advantage which ⟨p. 221⟩