A69075:2673
Christian religion
Christian religion: substantially, methodically[e,] [pla]inlie, and profitably treatisedChristian religion: substantially, methodicalli[e,] [pla]inlie, and profitablie treatised
London: printed by Felix Kingston for Thomas Man, 1611
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
What are the effects of this his pride?
They are two: first, he sitteth in the Church as God, when as he bindeth the consciences of men by his decrees, which no Princes laws, merely civill, can do; for these, men are discharged of in the payment of the penalty prescribed in them.
They are two: first, hee sitteth in the Church as God, when as hee bindeth the consciences of men by his decrees, which no Princes lawes, meerely ciuill, can do; for these, men are discharged of in the paiment of the penaltie prescribed in them.
By this it seemeth that the Church of Rome is yet the Church of God, although corrupt, seeing it is said that he sitteth in the temple of God?
No verily: it beareth only the name of it; for the Scripture giveth the name to a thing according to that it hath been: as when Christ saith the abomination shall stand in the holy place; he meaneth not that the temple was then holy, which at that time, being no figure nor shadow of Christ, and his Church, was profaned, but that it had been holy: so we confess there hath been a true Church in Rome, which is now no Church of Christ, but the Synagogue of Satan.