Sect. 16. (Book 16)
I may believe him conceiv'd of the Holy
Charity commended, or, A catholick Christian soberly instructed by J.C.
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- Charity commended, or, A catholick Christian soberly instructed by J.C.
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- Collop, John.
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- London :: [s.n.],
- 1667.
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- Charity -- Early works to 1800.
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Ghost, yet may safely neither believe the Popes and some Pontificians, nor the con∣ceptions of our Enthusiasticks of the holy spirit.
I can believe Christ born of a Virgin Mary▪ yet need not believe a Virgin Maries Temple born by Angels to Loretto; nor doubting the truth of the Virgins milk, with which the Popish Priests impose on the vulgar, may impose the stigma of in∣fidel on me, and deprive me of the milk of the word of truth.
He who had respect unto her humility, will not have respect unto them who too much humble her; since the glory of Hea∣ven overshadow'd, and the Bridegroom of our souls shined forth from the closet of her womb.
Nor exalt them, who her that was humbled in her own eyes, exalt in theirs above their Creator; Casheer his name to admit hers in the Psalter, while an Ave Mary can bring a Te deum Laudamus out of fashion, and Christ himself must stil be in pupillage.
May we all provide innocent, spotlesse, and Virgin hearts for a Saviour to be born in; so that we all may have by the over∣shadowing of the holy spirit a right Con∣ception of him, whose Conception could
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not be without it,* 1.1 and be accounted for the mother and brethren of the Lord, while wee do the will of his Heavenly Father.
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* 1.1
Mat. 12. v. 50.