A discourse shewing that Protestants are on the safer side, notwithstanding the uncharitable judgment of their adversaries and that their religion is the surest way to heaven.
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- A discourse shewing that Protestants are on the safer side, notwithstanding the uncharitable judgment of their adversaries and that their religion is the surest way to heaven.
- Author
- Beaulieu, Luke, 1644 or 5-1723.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for Richard Chiswell ...,
- 1687.
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- Catholic Church -- Controversial literature.
- Protestantism -- Early works to 1800.
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"A discourse shewing that Protestants are on the safer side, notwithstanding the uncharitable judgment of their adversaries and that their religion is the surest way to heaven." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A27169.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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The PREFACE.
COming accidentally into a Family always frequented, and of late much disturbed by some Roman Ca∣tholicks, who by fulminating Damnation against all Protestants, had terrified some Friends, I applied my self to clear their Doubts, and to remove those Fears wherewith the Noise and Threats of Hell-fire had affected their Minds; This engaged me into a long Debate with one of the Parties who was very positive and earnest in maintaining the utter Impossibility of being saved out of the Church of Rome. And upon that it came to be enquired, Whether it be their Re∣lation to Rome, or their Relation to Christ, that Men are to be saved by? Whether our State of Eternity depends up∣on the Talk, or Confidence, or hard Censures of Men, or or upon the Truth of our Religion, and our Sincerity in pro∣fessing of it? Whether it be the ever-living God, or any mortal Men that make true Religion? Whether that be not the Best which best agrees with the Divine Revelation? And, whether our Saviour had referr'd us to Rome, and the Papal Authority, for the knowledg of Saving Truth; or plainly taught by Himself, and by his Apostles, all that is requisit and sufficient to Salvation?
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About these we differ'd: but yet agreed upon the whole, that the great odds in point of safety, which they appre∣hend to be betwixt them and us, must be grounded upon the Excellency of their Religion above ours; and must there∣fore appear in their Faith, Worship, and Morals, which are the essential parts of Religion, and make it right or wrong, according as they are themselves.
The Talk I then had about this Subject, and the occasion of it, put me upon writing the ensuing Discourse. Wherein my chiefest Aim hath been to fix my Reader upon that which is positive with us, and is maintained on all sides, that being altogether requisit, and of it self sufficient to make a Man a good Christian: And then to consider those Points in belief and practice, about which we differ, and to shew on which side lies the Advantage for means of Grace, and certainty of Salvation.