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The blessedness of the death of these that die in the Lord and more…The blessednesse of the death of these that die in the Lord and more…
The blessedness of the death of these that die in the Lord and more especially in an evil time excellently discoursed in seven very searching but sweet sermons on Revel. 14, v. 13 : wherein several weighty cases relating to death in general and to dying in Lord in particular are succinctly, solidly and satisfyingly handled / by James Durham.The blessednesse of the death of these that die in the Lord and more especially in ane evil time excellently discoursed in seven very searching but sweet sermons on Revel. 14, v. 13 : wherein several weighty cases relating to death in genereal and to dieing in Lord in particular are succinctly, solidly and satisfieingly handled / by James Durham.
Glasgow? : s.n., 1681
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.
and ⟨image 5⟩that the Laws which established the Protestant, and abolished the Popish Religion, cannot be otherwayes altered but by an equal power with that from whence they had their being, King and Parliament, who by agreeing, no more prejudge the public in order to Heaven, then they did before, that being only accidental and extrinsical to the substance of Religion, by which alone, and not by forms or ceremonies, men are to be saved. What? are there no material and highly momentuous doctrinal differences betwixt Papists and Protestants? As about the Pope his arrogantly claimed & Usurped universal, Civil, & Ecclesiastic supremacy, whereby he taketh on him to transfer Kingdoms, to depose Kings and Emperors, and to loose subjects from their sworn allegiances to them; to interdict as to all sacreds, and on the matter to excommunicate, not only particular persons the greatest crowned heads not excepted, but whole Christian Kingdoms at his pleasure, none being warranted to say, what, or why doest thou? And all this as Christs Vicar on earth, whereas indeed he is the Arch-enemy of Christ, even that Antichrist to whom all his characters assigned by the Apostles Paul and John, do most exactly and punctually agree. About his fondly fancied infallibility, times and ways out of number to the conviction of the World, not only fallibilized, but grossly falsified and belied; as for instance undeniably appears in a matter of very great moment, to wit, the different translation of the old vulgar latin ⟨image 6⟩Bible by Pope Sixtus the fifth, and by Pope Clement the eight, some three years only intervening betwixt the one and the other†; each of which translations, is in the preface or bull thereto prefixed, declared to be authentic and obligatory of the whole Christian World, to own the same as such; the printing or publishing of any other translation, being under the pain of the greater excommunication severely discharged; and yet these two translations, are not only in a multitude of places, upward of a thousand, different the one from the other, but in many expressly contrary the one to the other; so that the Popes pretended infallibility, doeth infallibly prove fallible, and falls down flat;
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