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The church of Rome, no safe guide, or, Reasons to prove that no rational…
The church of Rome, no safe guide, or, Reasons to prove that no rational man, who takes due care of his own eternal salvation, can give himself up unto the conduct of that church in matters of religion by John Owen ...
London: printed for Nathaniel Ponder, 1679
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 that with respect unto the Governors and Governments of them.
and that with respect unto the Governours and Governments of them.
Among many other considerations, which offer themselves unto the same Purpose, and which shall be produced, if occasion is given; I shall add one more and close this Discourse; And this is, that the foundation of all the Religious worship, which this Guide directs unto, whence all other parts of it do proceed, and whereon they do depend, consists of the overthrow of one of the principle Articles of the Christian faith. And this is, that our Lord Jesus hath by one offering, for ever perfected them that are sanctified; as it is expressed by the Apostle; Heb. 10. 14. In direct opposition hereunto, the Ground and Reason of their Mass and the Sacrifice therein, which is the Life, Soul, Centre, and Foundation of all their Religious worship, lies in this, that there is a Necessity that Christ be offered often, yea every day, in places innumerable, without which, they say, the Church can neither be Sanctified or perfected. Such a Guide is this Church, as that it lays the foundation of all its sacred worship in the overthrow of the principal foundation of the Christian faith.
Among many other considerations, which offer themselves unto the same Purpose, and which shall be produced, if occasion is given; I shall add one more and close this Discourse; And this is, that the foundation of all the Religious worship, which this Guide directs unto, whence all other parts of it do proceed, and whereon they do depend, consists of the overthrow of one of the principle Articles of the Christian faith. And this is, that our Lord Jesus hath by one offering, for ever perfected them that are sanctified; as it is expressed by the Apostle; Heb. 10. 14. In direct opposition hereunto, the Ground and Reason of their Mass and the Sacrifice therein, which is the Life, Soul, Centor, and Foundation of all their Religious worship, lyes in this, that there is a Necessity that Christ be offered often, yea every day, in places innumerable, without which, they say, the Church can neither be Sanctified or perfected. Such a Guide is this Church, as that it lays the foundation of all its sacred worship in the overthrow of the principal foundation of the Christian faith.