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A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…
A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton, 1662
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Our Lord Christ was traduced as an enemy to Caesar, a man refractory to the Roman Laws, and a Non-conformist to the Religion and Laws of his Country.] Thus and more that Author. So that it is no new thing for the most innocent and holy and excellent persons to suffer as enemies to the Government where they lived; nay it hath been the common case: nor is it strange to hear Religion and Holiness charged with these crimes which they are most against.
Our Lord Christ was traduced as an enemy to Caesar, a man refractory to the Roman Laws, and a Non-conformist to the Religion and Laws of his Countrey.] Thus and more that Author. So that it is no new thing for the most innocent and holy and excellent persons to suffer as enemies to the Government where they lived; nay it hath been the common case: nor is it strange to hear Religion and Holiness charged with these crimes which they are most against.
As for the malicious slanders of the Papists against the Reformed Churches, as if they had promoted all their Reformations by Rebellion, they have been confuted sufficiently by many. At this time, I shall only desire the Reader that would be satisfied in this, and understand the Protestant doctrine in these points, to read Bishop Bilsons [Difference between Christian subjection, and unchristian Rebellion:] Especially pag. 382. and from 494. to 522. Also Hookers Eccles. Polit. the last Book (lately published.)
And if he would know whether it be an Article of the very Religion of the Papists, that the Pope may give away the Dominions of Temporal Lords that deny Transubstantiation, or hold such like points which he calleth Heresy, or that will not exterminate all that hold them out of their Dominions, and that he may discharge their subjects and vassals from their Allegiance: I only entreat him with his own eyes to read the Decrees of their approved general Council at the Lateran under Pope Innocent 3. and set him but believe his eye-sight. And for their case and confutation, let him also read King James his Answer to Perron's Oration.