The Religion of Protestants: A Safe Way to Salvation (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover
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Upon the first news of the publication of your book, I used all diligence with speed to procure it and came with such amind to the reading of it, as St. Austin, before he was a settled catholic, brought to his conference with Faustus the Manichee. For as he thought that if anything more than ordinary might be said in defence of the Manichean doctrine, Faustus was the man from whom it was to be expected so my persuasion concerning you was, Si Pergama dextra defendi possum, certe hac defensa eidebo. For I conceived, that among the champions of the Roman church, the English 1n reason must be the best, or equal to the best, as being by most expert maste1s trained up purposely for this war, and per petually practised m it. Among the English, I saw the Jesuits would yield the first place to none and men so wise in their generation as the Jesuits were, if they had any Achilles among them, I pre sumed, would make choice of him for this service. And besides, I had good assurance, that in the framing of this building, though you were the only architect, yet you wanted not the assistance Dof many diligent hands to bring you in choice materials towards it; nor of many careful and watchful eyes to correct the errors of your work, if any should chance to escape you. Great reason, therefore, had I to expect great matters from you, and that your book should have m it the spirit and elixir of all that can be said in defence of your church and doctrine and to assure myself, that if my resolu tion not to believe it were not built upon the rock of evident grounds and reasons, but only upon some sandy and deceitful appearances, now the wind, and storm, and floods were coming which would undoubtedly overthrow it. B2 preface TO the author OF charity maintained.'
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Upon the first news of the publication of your book, I used all diligence with speed to procure it and came with such amind to the reading of it, as St. Austin, before he was a settled catholic, brought to his conference with Faustus the Manichee. For as he thought that if anything more than ordinary might be said in defence of the Manichean doctrine, Faustus was the man from whom it was to be expected so my persuasion concerning you was, Si Pergama dextra defendi possum, certe hac defensa eidebo. For I conceived, that among the champions of the Roman church, the English 1n reason must be the best, or equal to the best, as being by most expert maste1s trained up purposely for this war, and per petually practised m it. Among the English, I saw the Jesuits would yield the first place to none and men so wise in their generation as the Jesuits were, if they had any Achilles among them, I pre sumed, would make choice of him for this service. And besides, I had good assurance, that in the framing of this building, though you were the only architect, yet you wanted not the assistance Dof many diligent hands to bring you in choice materials towards it; nor of many careful and watchful eyes to correct the errors of your work, if any should chance to escape you. Great reason, therefore, had I to expect great matters from you, and that your book should have m it the spirit and elixir of all that can be said in defence of your church and doctrine and to assure myself, that if my resolu tion not to believe it were not built upon the rock of evident grounds and reasons, but only upon some sandy and deceitful appearances, now the wind, and storm, and floods were coming which would undoubtedly overthrow it. B2 preface TO the author OF charity maintained.'
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- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 0656519320
- ISBN 13 9780656519323
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages521
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