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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.
Should there be a School erected, pretending unto an easy certain way of teaching all Sciences, Divine and Humane, should it pretend a Grant that nothing of this nature should be taught or learned but in and by it; yet if I saw the posts ⟨p. 13⟩of the house hung like Shambles with the limbs of slaughtered person; if the ground about it be strewed with the bones and ashes of men burned to death; here lying one strangled, there another stabbed, a third poisoned; all for no other cause, but either because they would not submit to the teaching thereof, or would not learn things foolish and wicked, I should avoid such a School and its Power so far as I were able. But yet because there hath of late among us a great accession been made really unto this Guidance by persons formerly professing the Protestant Religion, I shall a little enquire into the Causes of it, or the Means whereby it hath been brought about. And I shall not fear to say, that as unto the most of them who have relinquished the Protestant Religion, they are these that follow.
Should there be a School erected, pretending unto an easie certain way of teaching all Sciences, Divine and Humane, should it pretend a Grant that nothing of this nature should be taught or learned but in and by it; yet if I saw the posts ⟨p. 13⟩of the house hung like Shambles with the limbs of slaughtered person; if the ground about it be strewed with the bones and ashes of men burned to death; here lying one strangled, there another stabbed, a third poisoned; all for no other cause, but either because they would not submit to the teaching thereof, or would not learn things foolish and wicked, I should avoid such a School and its Power so far as I were able. But yet because there hath of late among us a great accession been made really unto this Guidance by persons formerly professing the Protestant Religion, I shall a little enquire into the Causes of it, or the Means whereby it hath been brought about. And I shall not fear to say, that as unto the most of them who have relinquished the Protestant Religion, they are these that follow.