A60427:144
Transubstantiation examined and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preached in…Transusbstantiation examin'd and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preach'd in…
Transubstantiation examined and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preached in the reign of Queen Elizabeth by H. Smith, sometime preacher at St. Clement Danes.Transusbstantiation examin'd and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preach'd in the reign of Queen Elizabeth by H. Smith, sometime preacher at St. Clement Danes.
London: printed by J. Wallis, 1688
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.
By their success: for if they be not of God they will come to nought, as the Arians, and Manichees and Pelagians are vanished, as if they had never been: fortune shall wear out every Doctrine that is not Truth. This is thy rule to try other spirits.
By their success: for if they be not of God they will come to nought, as the Arrians, and Manichees and Pelagians are vanished, as if they had never been: fortune shall wear out every Doctrine that is not Truth. This is thy rule to try other spirits.
Thou shalt try thine own Spirit by the motions that it hath to good or evil. For as a good stomach turneth all that it eats ⟨p. 38⟩into nutriment; and a bad stomach turneth all that it eats into raw humours; so likewise a good mind converteth all that it heareth, and that it seeth, and all that it feeleth, unto some profit: but a bad mind maketh a temptation of every thing: therefore it is said, To the clean all things a clean, and so, to the unclean nothing is clean; that is, they defile themselves with every thing.1
Secondly, By the first cause or preparation which thou hadst unto it; for whatsoever it be, thy thoughts will be where thou lovest: to verify that saying, Where are mans treasure is, there will be his 1