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The scriptures sufficiency to determine all matters of faith, made good against the Papist
The scriptures sufficiency to determine all matters of faith, made good against the Papist: or, That a Christian may be infallibly certain of his faith and religion by the Holy Scriptures. By that great and famous light of Gods Church, William Twice D.D. and prolocutor of the late assembly of divines.The scriptures sufficiency to determine all matters of faith, made good against the Papist: or, That a Christian may be infallibly certain of his faith and religion by the Holy Scriptures. By that great and famous light of Gods Church, William Twisse D.D. and prolocutor of the late assembly of divines.
London: printed for Matthew Keynton, 1656
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THE Doubting Conscience Resolved. In Answer to a (pretended) Perplexing Question.
Consideration.
IT is an old saying, that Universus Mundus exercet histrioniam, but I think never more verified in any Age than in this. There was a time when the Devil plaid his part in the shape of a Dragon with seven heads and ten horns, Rev. 12.3, 7, 9. But after the war ⟨p. 2⟩in heaven between Michael and his Angels on the one side, and the Dragon and his Angels on the other, the Dragon was cast out into the earth, and his Angels were cast out with him. But he continued to play the part of an old Serpent still which deceiveth the whole world, 1Adversarius qui in apertis inefficax persecutionibus tecta nocendi art desaevit; and no marvel if intelligent spirits are very subdolous and full of craft, 2Eum nimis astutum fecit tam natura subtilis, quam longa exercitatio malitiae ejus. And afterwards he found as powerful means to do mischief to the Church of God, Gladio oris, by the sword of the mouth, as formerly he had done ore Gladii, by the mouth or edge of the sword, even by another Beast who had two horns like the Lamb, Rev. 13.11, 13. but spake like the Dragon. And ⟨p. 3⟩this Beast first was operative by deceit: For he did great wonders, so that he made fire to come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, and deceived them that dwelt on earth by the means of his miracles. This is that Man of Sin St. Paul speaks of, whose coming was in the effectual power of Satan, in signs and lying wonders, and in all deceivableness of unrighteousness,