Rhemes against Rome: or, The remoouing of the gagg of the new Gospell, and rightly placing it in the mouthes of the Romists, by the Rhemists in their English translation of the Scriptures. Which counter-gagg is heere fitted by the industrious hand of Richard Bernard ...

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Rhemes against Rome: or, The remoouing of the gagg of the new Gospell, and rightly placing it in the mouthes of the Romists, by the Rhemists in their English translation of the Scriptures. Which counter-gagg is heere fitted by the industrious hand of Richard Bernard ...
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Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.
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At London :: Imprinted by Felix Kingston, for Ed. Blackmore, and are to be sold at his shop at the great south doore of Pauls,
1626.
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Heigham, John. -- Gagge of the new Gospel -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
Heigham, Roger.
Catholic Church -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
Bible. -- English -- Versions. -- Douai -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
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"Rhemes against Rome: or, The remoouing of the gagg of the new Gospell, and rightly placing it in the mouthes of the Romists, by the Rhemists in their English translation of the Scriptures. Which counter-gagg is heere fitted by the industrious hand of Richard Bernard ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09287.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.

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Contraried by Antiquitie.

Austin. in Enchirid. cap. 79. speaking of sinnes which might seeme small, saith, They might bee thought very light, but that in the Scriptures they are demonstrated greater then wee doe imagine. But that the truth speakes it, who would thinke (saith hee) that for a man to call his Brother foole, is guiltie of hell-fire?

The ancient Fathers earnestly exhort to beware of counting any sinnes light or small.

Basil. qu. Contract. qu. 4. No sinne is to bee accounted as small: for that (saith hee) it is the sting of death. See for this, Austin. Epist. 108. and in Ioh. 11. 13. Chrysost. on Gal. 1.

Ierome in Epist. ad Caelantiam: It is very safe to beware of

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small sinnes, as if they were great, &c. Neither doe I know, saith he, whether we may call any sinne small, seeing it is com∣mitted with a kinde of contempt of God. And he is most pru∣dent, who respects not so much the quantitie of the thing com∣manded, as the dignitie of the Commander.

See Master Perkins his Demonst. of his Probl. of veniall sin; and therein many testimonies of the Ancients.

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