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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.
3. There is at the same instant proposed unto us by this Guide, the Doctrine of Transubstantiation, with the Sacrifice of the Mass thereon depending. This they say we must believe, at least avow that we do believe on pain of eternal and temporal destruction also. But herein they require of us, that on the mere credit of their conduct, we must renounce the use of our senses, the exercise of our Reason, and actings of Faith on Divine Revelations, all things whereby we are either Men or Christians, that we may become blind Idolaters. But they who pretending to be our Guides in Religion, do thereon impose this monstrous Imagination on our credulity, with the Idolatrous Practice wherein it issues, had need give us better security of their Divine Infallibility, than the Angels in Heaven can do. For if an Angel from Heaven should preach this Doctrine unto us, we may safely esteem him accursed, Gal. 1. 8.
3. There is at the same instant proposed unto us by this Guide, the Doctrine of Transu•stantiation, with the Sacrifice of the Mass thereon depending. This they say we must believe, at least avow that we do believe on pain of eternal and temporal destruction also. But herein they require of us, that on the meer credit of their conduct, we must renounce the use of our senses, the exercise of our Reason, and actings of Faith on Divine Revelations, all things whereby we are either Men or Christians, that we may become blind Idolaters. But they who pretending to be our Guides in Religion, do thereon impose this monstrous Imagination on our credulity, with the Idolatrous Practice wherein it issues, had need give us better security of their Divine Infallibility, than the Angels in Heaven can do. For if an Angel from Heaven should preach this Doctrine unto us, we may safely esteem him accursed, Gal. 1. 8.
4. The last thing I shall instance in of this kind is, the Adoration or Worship of Images. God says concerning it expressly, Thou shalt not make unto thy self any graven Images, thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them. They say