Meditations divine & morall by H.T. ...

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Meditations divine & morall by H.T. ...
Author
Tubbe, Henry, 1617 or 18-1655.
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London :: Printed for Robert Gibbs ...,
1659.
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Meditations -- Early works to 1800.
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"Meditations divine & morall by H.T. ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A63822.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 29, 2024.

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LXXXVIII. (Book 88)

The Schismatick is a crea∣ture that abhors the very name of a Counsel or a Synod. He

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cannot endure the weight of an obligation to any Law: for he thinks himself advanced in an higher degree of glory then weakly to submit to the tuition of an external govern∣ment: He hath found out a nearer way to heaven then by following the doctrine of the Catholick Church. He makes no account of Canonical obe∣dience, but as a quality only fit for them that weare the livery and mark of the Beast. Subordination to a Superiour power, whether civil or Ec∣clesiastical sounds worse with him then chains or shakels, as destructive to the liberty of Saints, and the freedom of a Christian fellowship. In brief, he is such a piece of confusi∣on that he knows not himself

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what he is, and we are ex∣treamly perplexed to think what he may be when he comes in the way of our Meditations.

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