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A brief and impartial account of the nature of the Protestant religion its present…
A brief and impartial account of the nature of the Protestant religion its present state in the world, its strength and weakness, with the ways and indications of the ruin or continuance of its public national profession / by a Protestant.A brief and impartial account of the nature of the Protestant religion its present state in the world, its strength and weakness, with the wayes and indications of the ruine or continuance of its publick national profession / by a Protestant.
London: printed by J.A., 1682
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.
Upon these Principles, Protestants confidently propose their Religion unto the Trial of all mankind. If in any thing it be found to deviate from them, if it exceeds in any Instance what is so revealed, taught and commanded; If it be defective in the Faith or Practice of any thing that is so revealed or commanded, they are ready to renounce it. Here they live and dye, from this Foundation they will not depart: This is their Religion.
Upon these Principles, Protestants confidently propose their Religion unto the Tryal of all mankind. If in any thing it be found to deviate from them, if it exceeds in any Instance what is so revealed, taught and commanded; If it be defective in the Faith or Practice of any thing that is so revealed or commanded, they are ready to renounce it. Here they live and dye, from this Foundation they will not depart: This is their Religion.
And if these Principles will not secure us, as unto our present acceptance with God in Religion, and the Eternal Enjoyment of him, he hath left all Mankind at an utter uncertainty to make a blind venture for an invisible World; which is altogether inconsistent with his Infinite Wisdom, Goodness and Benignity.
Being in possession of these Principles of Truth and Security from Christ and his Apostles, it belongs unto the Protestant Religion not to change or forgo them, and to repose our confidence in the Infallibility or Authority of the Pope of Rome, or of the Church whereof he is the Head. For these Principles of Assurance are such as every way become the Wisdom and Goodness of God; and such as that our Nature is not capable in this life, of those ⟨p. 6⟩which are higher, or of a more illustrious Evidence. Let the contrary unto either of these be demonstrated, and we will renounce the Protestant Religion. To forgo them for such as are irreconcilable unto Divine Wisdom and Goodness, as also to the common Reason of Mankind, is an effect of the highest Folly and of strong Delusion.