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Roman tradition examined, as it is urged as infallible against all mens senses, reason,…
Roman tradition examined, as it is urged as infallible against all mens senses, reason, the Holy Scripture, the tradition and present judgment of the far greatest part of the Universal Church; in the point of transubstantiation; in answer to a book called A rational discourse of transubstantiation.Roman tradition examined, as it is urged as infallible against all mens senses, reason, the Holy Scripture, the tradition and present judgment of the far greatst part of the Universal Church; in the point of transubstantiation; in answer to a book called A rational discourse of transubstantiation.
S.l. : s.n., 1676
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.
As Benedictus Spinosa, who assaulted the Scripture, did at once also assault all Civil Government; and taught men, that he that could get the Crown had best right to it; and that a Man may kill any that stand in the way of his desires, and break any Vows when they are against those desires (which are his Interest,) God mercifully so ordering it, that he that will depose Christ, shall with him be permitted to depose all Kings and Governors; Even so God in mercy to preserve Princes, in their wits, from turning Papists, hath permitted the same Men that first by Council condemned common Sense, and made God the deceiver of Sense, and of the World, and new brought Transubstantiation into the Faith, to make a Decree also (such as never Turks, or Cannibals made) That all Men that will not renounce all their Senses (that is, their animality, and their humanity) shall be exterminated; and all Princes deposed that will have such (as renounce not humanity) for their Subjects.
As Benedictus Spinosa, who assaulted the Scripture, did at once also assault all Civil Government; and taught men, that he that could get the Crown had best right to it; and that a Man may kill any that stand in the way of his desires, and break any Vows when they are against those desires (which are his Interest,) God mercifully so ordering it, that he that will depose Christ, shall with him be permitted to depose all Kings and Governours; Even so God in mercy to preserve Princes, in theirwits, from turning Papists, hath permitted the same Men that first by Council condemned common Sense, and made God the deceiver of Sense, and of the World, and new brought Transubstantiation into the Faith, to make a Decree also (such as never Turks, or Canniballs made) That all Men that will not renounce all their Senses (that is, their animality, and their humanity) shall be exterminated; and all Princes deposed that will have such (as renounce not humanity) for their Subjects.
Several things are said to this, by Men that think that if they do but open their Mouths, and speak, though it be to prove that Murder is Mercy and Piety, they have conquered.