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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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Neither will this Idol be ever cast out of the Church, until the Generality of Christians become spiritually sensible of the Authority of Christ, exerting it self in the Rule of the Church, by his Spirit and his Word, unto all the Ends of Unity, Order, Peace, and Edification; until that be done, a Pope or something like him, will be thought necessary unto these Ends.
Neither will this Idol be ever cast out of the Church, until the Generality of Christians become spiritually sensible of the Authority of Christ, exerting it self in the Rule of the Church, by his Spirit and his Word, unto all the Ends of Unity, Order, Peace, and Edification; until that be done, a Pope or somthing like him, will be thought necessary unto these Ends.
But never was there a more horrid deformed Image made of so beautiful and glorious an Head: All the Craft of Satan, all the Wits of men cannot invent any thing more unlike Christ, as the Head of the Church, than this Pope is. A worse Figure and Representation of him cannot possibly be made.
This is he, of whom, nothing not great, nothing common, nothing not exceeding the ordinary state of Mankind, on the one hand or the other, is thought or spoken. Some say, he is the Head and Husband of the Church, the Vicar of Christ, over the whole World, God's Vicegerent a Vice-God, Peter's Successor, the Head and Centre of Unity, unto the whole Catholic Church, endued with a plenitude of Power, with other Ascriptions of the same nature innumerable; whereon it is necessary unto every Soul under pain of Damnation, to be subject unto him.
This is he, of whom, nothing not great, nothing common, nothing not exceeding the ordinary state of Mankind, on the one hand or the other, is thought or spoken. Some say, he is the Head and Husband of the Church, the Vicar of Christ, over the whole World, God's Vicegerent a Vice-God, Peter's Successor, the Head and Center of Ʋnity, unto the whole Catholick Church, endued with a plenitude of Power, with other Ascriptions of the same nature innumerable; whereon it is necessary unto every Soul under pain of Damnation, to be subject unto him.