A pleasant purge for a Roman Catholike to evacuate his evill humours consisting of a century of polemicall epigrams, wherein divers grosse errors and corruptions of the Church of Rome are discovered, censured, refuted, in a facetious yet serious manner / by William Prynne ...

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A pleasant purge for a Roman Catholike to evacuate his evill humours consisting of a century of polemicall epigrams, wherein divers grosse errors and corruptions of the Church of Rome are discovered, censured, refuted, in a facetious yet serious manner / by William Prynne ...
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Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
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Printed at London :: By R.C. for Michael Sparke, Senior ...,
1642.
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Catholic Church -- Controversial literature.
Epigrams, English.
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"A pleasant purge for a Roman Catholike to evacuate his evill humours consisting of a century of polemicall epigrams, wherein divers grosse errors and corruptions of the Church of Rome are discovered, censured, refuted, in a facetious yet serious manner / by William Prynne ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56191.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.

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On Popish blind obedience. [ 22]

PApists mustl ne're once doubt what Priests have told: Why tell they then Priests money, weigh their gold? Belike their Doctrine's currant, not their scale: Their Cayne not Doctrine, needes both Weights and Tale. If they may erre, cheate, prove false in their coyne; Why may they not then in faith erre, purloine? [Which they than money lesse mind, and esteeme;] Its safe to try their faith by weight and Beame. Them Noble wise Bereans heretofore By Scripture try'd Pauls Doctrine, you much more

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Then ought ton prove your Priests by Scriptures test, Since they are sinnefull, erring men at best.

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