Meditations upon the marks of the true Church of Christ: or, Motives of credibility in behalf of the true religion: and, the easiest way to finde it out. / By H.W.
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Meditations upon the marks of the true Church of Christ: or, Motives of credibility in behalf of the true religion: and, the easiest way to finde it out. / By H.W.
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H. W.
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Paris, :: [s.n.],
Printed, with licence. 1655.
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Catholic Church -- Apologetic works -- Early works to 1800.
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The third Point.
Consider now, the sad condition of Sectaries; argued out of their having no share at all in this full table of sweet and comfortable promises, foretold by the prophets: for this evidently shews that they are not the Church of Christ, nor members of it: On the contrary, they have just reason to fear, that the heavy denounciations and threats of the prophets (for in this kinde onely they are like to fulfill prophesies;) will fall upon them: for as their novell o∣pinions (fond and prophane images of their own fancies, made by their private spirit) have some semblance of those Idols, to which the Jews (sometimes falling from the wor∣ship of the true God) Sacrificed:
So let these modern imitatours of them take heed, they be not delivered over to a reprobate sense, and the like spirituall punishment with them.
And can you still persist in that pervers∣nesse? away with these fancies; yeeld to truth; and say with the repenting Jewes (and in this they may by you be well imita∣ted) Signa nostra non videmus, jam non est propheta: Psal. 73. v. 10. We acknowledge we have no signes, nor miracles in behalf of our sects: We grant there are no propheticall men amongst us: We see not the marks of Christs Church upon our Sects: We confesse the prophesies are not fulfilled by us: And therefore from hence forth we will resolve, and choose rather to be abject in the house of God, his Church, than to dwell in the Taber∣nacks of sinners, of Sectaries any longer.