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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 about the perfection and perspicuity thereof in all things necessary to Salvation, which they endeavour to disgrace, by the impious imputations of imperfection and obscurity, calling them a Black Gospel, Incken Divinity, and a Nose of Wax*. About the necessity of unwritten traditions in matters of faith, as proceeding from the same divine authority, and to be received with the same divine belief, and under the same pain of divine wrath and damnation, that the divinely and infallibly inspired Scriptures are; For the Council, or rather causelessly cursing Conventicle, at Trent, sayeth, that they are to be received with the same reverence. About the unwarrantablenesse of translating the Scriptures into vulgar languages, and of the peoples reading of them, in point blank-contradiction to the Scriptures themselves; and whatever be pretended, mainly intended to keep them still in gross ignorance of divine Scripture-truths, and in utter incapacity to discover, detasse, and abandon their abominable errors; and how dare the people presume to read the Scriptures? Since his holiness Pope Innocent belloweth out like a beast this fine infallible interpretation of that Scripture, anent the beasts not touching the mountain whereon the Law was given, This mountain (saith ⟨image 7⟩he) which must not be touched by the beasts, is the high and holy Scriptures, which the unlearned must not read: And their Doctors commonly affirm, that the People must not be suffered to read the Scriptures, because forsooth, We must not give holy things to dogs, nor cast pearls before swine: such account make these Pastors of the people, as to rank them amongst beasts even the vilest of them, dogs and swine; which sayeth, such Pastors are fitter to feed and keep dogs and swine, then to feed and watch over rational men and women that have immortal souls: And one of them, Alphonsus de Castro, asserts, that from the reading of the Scriptures, all heresies come; though this hath been ordinarily more through the fault of learned men then of the common people, and in neither, through any fault of the Scriptures; They are so mad angry at the translation of the Bible into vulgar languages, that some of them have boldly belched out this blasphemy, That peoples being permitted to read the Bible, was the invention of the Devil*; there is an English Pamphlet printed Anno 1663.