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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 One and Fiftieth 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.
1. Rev. 7.3. Hurt not the Earth, nor the Trees, till we have sealed, (we read ⟨p. 171⟩signed,) the Servants of our God in their foreheads.
Is here any mention of Crossing or Blessing with the Cross? An Angel in prophetical Vision, is bid to mark or seal the Servants of God, as those that are not to be destroyed, when God commissioneth other Angels to destroy the Persecutors: Therefore the Priest must sign all Christians with the Cross. And I would they did not infer as one did from Ezek. 9.4, 5. [And to the other he said, go ye after him through the City and smite; let not your Eye spare, neither have ye pity, stay utterly Old and Young, and little Children and Women; but come not near any man on whom is the mark, and begin at my Sanctuary.] And thus whatever Plague or Death God bid Angels execute on his uncurable Enemies, Idolaters, and Persecutors, the Devil will teach men, that Priests and their Hang-men may execute on all that are not marked in the Forehead with a Cross? But as long as Rome is so like to Babylon, they were better teach men a truer Exposition of the Revelations. Thus they can prove, that the Scripture is but like a Nose of Wax, by using it as if it were so. It was Idolatrous Persecuting Rome that was to be destroyed, and it was those that had Gods ⟨p. 172⟩mark, and not the Beasts that were to be secured. And who is that Idolatrous persecuting Beast?
The next Text is Mark 10.16