This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ...this: " Ye falsely and wickedly lead the people ye are apostates: ye are heretics: ye are impudent and rebellious children: ye are despisers of God: mockers of your mother: and perverters of the apostles: ye utter lies: ye speak blasphemies." At the last ye say, " The devil dwelleth in our hearts, as in his ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ...this: " Ye falsely and wickedly lead the people ye are apostates: ye are heretics: ye are impudent and rebellious children: ye are despisers of God: mockers of your mother: and perverters of the apostles: ye utter lies: ye speak blasphemies." At the last ye say, " The devil dwelleth in our hearts, as in his shop." This is a hasty kind of logic, M. Harding. He must needs be hardhearted, that will not yield to such arguments. To leave other your waste words, of Vigilantius, Jovi-nian, Manichee, Aerius, and such others, in the end yc pronounce your definitive sentence, as a judge, and condemn us for heretics, for that we have taken down your shops and gainful booths, which ye call the holy altars of God. Verily this must needs be thought either extreme rigour, or great folly, of the removing of a stone to make an heresy. Such heresies, I trow, St. Augustine, St. Ambrose, Optatus, and other learned fathers knew but few. Neither is there any good sufficient reason to be shewed, wherefore it should more be heresy in us to take down your needless and superstitious walls, which ye had erected of yourselves, without commission, than it was lately in you, to tear in sunder, and to burn our communion tables: in the erection and use whereof we had the undoubted example, both of Christ himself, and also of the ancient catholic fathers. I say nothing of your cruelty in burning so many Bibles, and books of God's holy word: so many of your brethren's bodies: so many temples of the Holy Ghost. As for the altars, which Optatus saith the Donatists brake down, they were certainly tables of wood, such as we have, and not heaps of stones, such as ye have: as in my former Reply made unto you it may better appear. St. Au-- a-"vi-. " 3 rl j6. Supra gustine, ...
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Add this copy of The Works of John Jewel, D.D., Bishop of Salisbury, to cart. $65.09, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Nabu Press.
