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The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard BaxterThe Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter
The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Daniel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1692
Protestant Religion Truly Stated, and Justified, &c. › The Eight and Fortieth accused Point.
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.
Ans. This Lie hath conquered the blushing Passion. 1. Can such men believe ⟨p. 163⟩that there are no Protestant Painters? Are there none of their Shops in London, or Holland? Do none but Papists make or sell Pictures? Are not the Statues of Kings at the Exchange, the Stocks-Market, Charing-Cross? Are there no Images on our Coin? Nor our Banners? Nor on the Escutcheons of the Nobility and Gentry of this and other Lands: Are there no Images at the Sign-posts in all London, nor in all the Cities, and Market-Towns in the Kingdom? Nor in any of the Church-Windows?
Ans. This Lie hath conquered the blushing Passion. 1. Can such men believe ⟨p. 163⟩that there are no Protestant Painters? Are there none of their Shops in London, or Holland? Do none but Papists make or sell Pictures? Are not the Statues of Kings at the Exchange, the Stocks-Market, Chaering-Cross? Are there no Images on our Coyn? Nor our Banners? Nor on the Escutcheons of the Nobility and Gentry of this and other Lands: Are there no Images at the Sign-posts in all London, nor in all the Cities, and Market-Towns in the Kingdom? Nor in any of the Church-Windows?
But perhaps they will say, tho' we speak so universally (to deceive the ignorant,) yet we meant it of Images of Religious signification and use. Ans. And do not all the Lutherans keep them in their Churches? Are they not continued in most Church-Windows in England?
Obj. But at least it's true of the Calvinists or Puritans? Ans. 1. And will you therefore slander the rest? 2. But we must not hastily believe any thing that false accusers say? Have not the Holland Calvinists multitudes of Pictures? Did you never see Beza and others, Icons virorum illustrium, nor Mr. Samuel Clerk's Lives with Images? Nor the Puritans English Geneva Bible, with the Images of the Histories?