A27107:1167
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author
London: printed for Edward Brewster, 1695
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THE PRACTICE OF PIETY. › Now followeth the Practice of Piety in dying for the Lord.
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.
23. That Ipse, Christ, the God of Peace: and not Ipsa, the Woman, should bruise the Serpent's Head, Rom. 16. 20.
24. That every soul must of conscience be subject, and pay Tribute to the higher powers, that is, the magistrates which bear the Sword, Rom. 13. 1, 2. &c. and therefore the Pope and all Prelates must be subject to their Emperors, Kings and Magistrates, unless they will bring damnation upon their souls, as Traitors, that resist God and his Ordinance, Rom. 13. 2.
25. That Paul (not Peter) was ordained by the grace of God, to be the chief Apostle of the Gentiles, and consequently of Rome, the chief City of the Gentiles, *Rom. 15. 15, 16, 19, 20, &c. Rom 11. 14. Rom. 16. 4.
- *It seems by Rom. 15. •0, 29. and the whole last Chapter, that the Christians who were in Rome before Paul came thither, were converted by those Preachers whom he had sent thither before him: for he calls them his helpers, v. 3, 9. kinsmen, v. 7, 13. fellow-prisoners, v. 7. the first fruits of Achaia, where he had preached v. 7. all familiar to him, and to Tertius, who writ the Epistle, v. 22. And therefore they came so joyfully to meet Paul […] Appi Forum, hearing that he was coming towards Rome,