A69075:2675
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.
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.
No verily: it beareth only the name of it; for the Scripture giueth the name to a thing according to that it hath beene: 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 prophaned, but that it had beene holy: so wee confesse there hath beene a true Church in Rome, which is now no Church of Christ, but the Synagogue of Satan.
Which is the other effect?
He boasteth that he is God, as the Popes flatterers in the Canon law call him, Our Lord God the Pope. Neither is this his church-pride only, in challenging the name of God, but also he challengeth to himself things proper to God, as the title of holiness: also to forgive sins, and to carry infinite souls to hell, without check or controlment; and to make of nothing something, and the scripture to be no scripture, and no scripture to be scripture at his pleasure; yea, to make of a creature the Creator.