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A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of…
A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of divinity, in a method entirely new. / By the late Reverend Mr. Jonathan Edwards, president of the College of New Jersey[.]
Boston: printed by Draper & Folsom, 1782
A HISTORY Of the WORK of REDEMPTION. › Period 3 › Part 2 › Section 1
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yea, and obliged not to own him any more, on pain of excommunication; and not only so, but any man might kill him where ever he found him. And further, the Pope was believed to have power to damn men a• pleasure; for whoever died under his excommunication, was looked upon a• certainly damned. And several emperors were actually deposed, and ejected, and died miserable by his means; and if the people of any state or kingdom did not please him, he had power to lay that state or kingdom under an interdict, which was a sentence pronounced by the Pope against that state or kingdom, whereby all sacred administrations among them could have no validity. There could be no […] baptisms, or sacraments, or prayers, or preaching, or pardons, till that interdict was taken off; so that that people remained, in their apprehension, in a miserable, damnable state and therefore dreaded it as they would a storm of fire and brimstone from heaven. In order to execute his wrath on a prince or people with whom the Pope was displeased, other princes must also be put to a great deal of o•ble and expense.
yea, and obliged not to own him any more, on pain of excommunication; and not only so, but any man might kill him where ever he found him. And further, the Pope was believed to have power to damn men a• pleasure; for whoever died under his excommunication, was looked upon a• certainly damned. And several emperors were actually deposed, and ejected, and died miserable by his means; and if the people of any state or kingdom did not please him, he had power to lay that state or kingdom under an interdict, which was a sentence pronounced by the Pope against that state or kingdom, whereby all sacred adminis•rations among them could have no validity. There could be no 〈…〉 baptisms, or sacraments, or prayers, or preaching, or pardons, till that interdict was taken off; so that that people remained, in their apprehension, in a miserable, damnable state and therefore dreaded it as they would a storm of fire and brimstone from heaven. In order to execute his wrath on a prince or people with whom the Pope was displeased, other princes must also be put to a great deal of o•ble and expence.