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Speculum theologiæ in Christo, or, A view of some divine truths which are either…
Speculum theologiæ in Christo, or, A view of some divine truths which are either practically exemplified in Jesus Christ, set forth in the Gospel, or may be reasonably deduced from thence / by Edward Polhill ..., Esq.
London: printed by A.M. and R.R. for Tho. Cockerill, 1678
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.
so it was not an ejection, but a going out by consent, to honour the Sacraments of their own making. But our Saviour did not cast them out in their own way; but whether they would or not, by his Almighty Power. It is further to be noted, that soon after the Death of our Saviour, the Devils Oracles were struck Dumb. The ⟨p. 111⟩Oracle told Augustus, That the Hebrew- Child bid him leave that house, and be gone to Hell, no more answers were to be expected from thence. Whereupon Augustus erected an Altar in the Capitol, with this inscription upon it, Haec ara est primogeniti Dei; the Altar of the first-begotten of God. The Evangelical light made the Oracles cease, the Priests of Delphos were brought to beggary. Plutarch, 1writing touching the ceasing of Oracles, at last cometh to this point, That the Spirits were mortal, and by their Death the Oracles ceased. Oh! what an one was our Saviour, who made the Pagan Gods shrink and hide their heads? What a Divine Light was he who chased away those false Lights? These Works were for Greatness, such as became God manifest in the flesh.
so it was not an ejection, but a going out by consent, to honour the Sacraments of their own making. But our Saviour did not cast them out in their own way; but whether they would or not, by his Almighty Power. It is further to be noted, that soon after the Death of our Saviour, the Devils Oracles were struck Dumb. The ⟨p. 111⟩Oracle told Augustus, That the Hebrew- Child bid him leave that house, and be gone to Hell, no more answers were to be expected from thence. Whereupon Augustus erected an Altar in the Capitol, with this inscription upon it, Haec ara est primogeniti Dei; the Altar of the first-begotten of God. The Evangelical light made the Oracles cease, the Priests of Delphos were brought to beggery. Plutarch, 1writing touching the ceasing of Oracles, at last cometh to this point, That the Spirits were mortal, and by their Death the Oracles ceased. Oh! what an one was our Saviour, who made the Pagan Gods shrink and hide their heads? What a Divine Light was he who chased away those false Lights? These Works were for Greatness, such as became God manifest in the flesh.