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Of schism the true nature of it discovered and considered, with reference to the…Of schisme the true nature of it discovered and considered, with reference to the…
Of schism the true nature of it discovered and considered, with reference to the present differences in religion. / By John Owen D.D.Of schisme the true nature of it discovered and considered, with reference to the present differences in religion. / By John Owen D.D.
Oxford: printed by L.L. for T. Robinson, 1657
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3. Contrary to common Honesty, 1the first principles of Reason, with violence to the evident dictates of the Law of nature, they will in confidence of these principles have the word & sentence of a Pope, though a beast, a witch, a Conjurer, as by their own confession many of them have been, to be implicitly submitted to in & about things which he neither knoweth, nor loveth, nor careth for: ⟨p. 187⟩being yet such in themselves as immediately, and directly concern the everlasting condition of the souls of men. And this is our second return to their pretence of being the Catholic Church; to which I add
3. Contrary to common Honesty, 1the first principles of Reason, with violence to the evident dictates of the Law of nature, they will in confidence of these principles have the word & sentence of a Pope, though a beast, a witch, a Conjurer, as by their own confession many of them have been, to be implicite•y submitted to in & about things which he neither knoweth, nor loveth, nor careth for: ⟨p. 187⟩being yet such in themselves as immediately, and directly concerne the everlasting condition of the soules of men. And this is our second returne to their pretence of being the Catholick Church; to which I adde
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3. That their plea is so far from truth, 1that they are, and they only the Catholic Church, that indeed they belong not to it, because they keep not the Unity of the faith, which is required to constitute any person whatever a member of that Church, but fail in all the conditions of it. For