Charity commended, or, A catholick Christian soberly instructed by J.C.

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Title
Charity commended, or, A catholick Christian soberly instructed by J.C.
Author
Collop, John.
Publication
London :: [s.n.],
1667.
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Subject terms
Catholic Church -- Controversial literature.
Charity -- Early works to 1800.
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"Charity commended, or, A catholick Christian soberly instructed by J.C." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34014.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 28, 2025.

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Sect. 59. (Book 55)

Monachism prevails not so much in the sustentation of Popery: as what is call'd Arminianism might against it. I cannot think Bernevelt lesse the tongue and Geni∣us

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of Holland, because they could separate both from the body Politick: nor that they inlarg'd not ignorance while they confin'd Grotius, and learning, and excellence suffer'd no lesse then by an Ostracism in this admirable Hugo. Men born to raise the Low-Countries, a pitch of excellence above their neighbours, had not the envy of their neighbours conspiring with headstrong ignorance, cast them below themselves; but that which rais'd a tu∣mult there, and gilded a war here, hath subdued even the Conquerors: There is scarce a souldier but defends it; and by it repels, not introduces Popery into the Land.

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