A64622:8069
A body of divinity, or, The sum and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded,…A body of divinitie, or, The summe and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded,…
A body of divinity, or, The sum and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded, and explained, by way of question and answer : methodically and familiarly handled / composed long since by James Usher B. of Armagh, and at the earnest desires of divers godly Christians now printed and published ; whereunto is adjoined a tract, entitled Immanuel, or, The mystery of the incarnation of the Son of God heretofore written [sic] and published by the same author.A body of divinitie, or, The summe and substance of Christian religion catechistically propounded, and explained, by way of question and answer : methodically and familiarly handled / composed long since by James Vsher B. of Armagh, and at the earnest desires of divers godly Christians now printed and published ; whereunto is adjoyned a tract, intituled Immanvel, or, The mystery of the incarnation of the Son of God heretofore writen [sic] and published by the same authour.
London: printed by M.F. for Tho. Downes and Geo. Badger, 1645
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That whosoever are partakers of the sins of Rome, are also under the same curse; and therefore such as have lived in Popery should examine our selves if we have truly repented us of it, first, by the change of our understanding; as whether we have grown in the knowledge of the truth: And secondly, by the change of our affections, as whether we hate Popery, and love the truth unfeignedly, and so let every one judge himself, that he be not judged, and that with harder judgment, Rom. 2. 4. according as God hath been the longer patient towards us.
That whosoever are partakers of the sins of Rome, are also under the same curse; and therefore such as have lived in Popery should examine our selves if we have truely repented us of it, first, by the change of our understanding; as whether we have grown in the knowledg of the truth: And secondly, by the change of our affections, as whether we hate Popery, and love the truth unfainedly, and so let every one judge himselfe, that he be not judged, and that with harder judgment, Rom. 2. 4. according as God hath been the longer patient towards us.
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That there can be no sound agreement betwixt Popery and the profession of the Gospel, no more then betwixt light and darkness, falsehood and truth, God and Belial, and therefore no reconciliation can be devised betwixt them: for if the members of Antichrist shall be destroyed, we cannot in any sort communicate with them in their errors, unless we will bear them company in their destruction also.