Truths victory over error, or, An abridgement of the chief controversies in religion which since the apostles days to this time, have been, and are in agitation, between those of the Orthodox faith, and all adversaries whatsoever, a list of whose names are set down after the epistle to the reader : wherein, by going through all the chapters of The confession of faith, one by one, and propounding out of them, by way of question, all the controverted assertions, and answering by yes, or no, there is a clear confirmation of the truth, and an evident confutation of what tenets and opinions, are maintain'd by the adversaries : a treatise, most useful for all persons, who desire to be instructed in the true Protestant religion, who would shun in these last days, and perillous times, the infection of errors and heresies, and all dangerous tenets and opinions, contrary to the word of God.
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Truths victory over error, or, An abridgement of the chief controversies in religion which since the apostles days to this time, have been, and are in agitation, between those of the Orthodox faith, and all adversaries whatsoever, a list of whose names are set down after the epistle to the reader : wherein, by going through all the chapters of The confession of faith, one by one, and propounding out of them, by way of question, all the controverted assertions, and answering by yes, or no, there is a clear confirmation of the truth, and an evident confutation of what tenets and opinions, are maintain'd by the adversaries : a treatise, most useful for all persons, who desire to be instructed in the true Protestant religion, who would shun in these last days, and perillous times, the infection of errors and heresies, and all dangerous tenets and opinions, contrary to the word of God.
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Dickson, David, 1583?-1663.
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Edinburgh :: Printed by John Reid,
1684.
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Religion -- Early works to 1800.
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"Truths victory over error, or, An abridgement of the chief controversies in religion which since the apostles days to this time, have been, and are in agitation, between those of the Orthodox faith, and all adversaries whatsoever, a list of whose names are set down after the epistle to the reader : wherein, by going through all the chapters of The confession of faith, one by one, and propounding out of them, by way of question, all the controverted assertions, and answering by yes, or no, there is a clear confirmation of the truth, and an evident confutation of what tenets and opinions, are maintain'd by the adversaries : a treatise, most useful for all persons, who desire to be instructed in the true Protestant religion, who would shun in these last days, and perillous times, the infection of errors and heresies, and all dangerous tenets and opinions, contrary to the word of God." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35959.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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Quest. IX.
ARE Ecclesiastick Persons ex∣empted from due obedience to the Magistrate?
Well then, do not the Papists err, who main∣tain, that the Clergy (as they call them) and their goods are altogether free, by the Law of God from Secular Powers?
Yes.
By what reasons are they confuted?
(1) Because, the command of obedience is general, and universal. let every soul be sub∣ject; Rom. 13. 1. (2) Because, Christ com∣manded the Pharisees, who were of the Clergy, to render unto Cesar, the things which are Cesars; Matth. 22. 21. Nay Christ himself, payed tribute money, to wit, a Sta∣ter, in value two shillings, and three pence, which Peter found in the fishes mouth, when
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he opened it; Matth. 17, 27. (3) Because, Paul did acknowledge himself subject to the Magistrate, when he appealled unto Cesar; Acts 25. 11. (4) From the example of the Priests who were subject to their Kings. Did not Abiather at Solomons command, go to Anothoth? 1 Kings 2. 26.
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