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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.
These were the Principles whereon Christian Religion as it is Protestant, was reintroduced into the World, after it had been not only obscured, but almost excluded out of it, as unto it's public Profession. And these Principles are avowed by all true Protestants, as those whereon they are ready at all times, to put their Cause and Profession on the Trial.
These were the Principles whereon Christian Religion as it is Protestant, was reintroduced into the World, after it had been not only obscured, but almost excluded out of it, as unto it's publick Profession. And these Principles are avowed by all true Protestants, as those whereon they are ready at all times, to put their Cause and Profession on the Trial.
The Way whereby the Profession of this Protestant Religion was introduced on these Principles and made public in the World under the Antichristian Apostasy, was the same whereby Christian Religion entered the World under Paganism; Namely, by the Prayers, Preaching, Writings, Sufferings and Holiness of Life of them who embraced it and were called to promote it. And herein their Sufferings for the number of them that suffered, and variety of all Cruel Preparations of Death, are inexpressible. It is capable of a full Demonstration▪ that those who were Slain by the Sword and otherwise destroyed for their Testimony unto Christ and the Gospel, in opposition unto the Papal Apostasy and Idolatry, did far exceed the number of them that Suffered for the Christian Religion in all the Pagan Persecutions of Old. A Plant so soaked and Watered with the Blood of the Martyrs, will not be so easily plucked up as some Imagine. Nay it is probable it will not go out without more blood (of sufferers I mean) than it was introduced by; which yet no man knows how to conceive or express.
The Way whereby the Profession of this Protestant Religion was introduced on these Principles and made publick in the World under the Antichristian Apostasie, was the same whereby Christian Religion entred the World under Paganisme; Namely, by the Prayers, Preaching, Writings, Sufferings and Holiness of Life of them who embraced it and were called to promote it. And herein their Sufferings for the number of them that suffered, and variety of all Cruel Preparations of Death, are inexpressible. It is capable of a full Demonstration that those who were Slain by the Sword and otherwise destroyed for their Testimony unto Christ and the Gospel, in opposition unto the Papal Apostasie and Idolatry, did far exceed the number of them that Suffered for the Christian Religion in all the Pagan Persecutions of Old. A Plant so soaked and Watered with the Blood of the Martyrs, will not be so easily plucked up as some Imagine. Nay it is probable it will not go out without more blood (of sufferers I mean) than it was introduced by; which yet no man knows how to conceive or express.