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THE RELIGION OF PROTESTANTS A Safe way to Salvation.
OR, An ANSWER to a Book Entituled Mercy and Truth, or, Charity maintain'd by Catholiques: Which pretends to prove the Contrary.
To which is Added in this Third Impression The Apostolical Institution of Episcopacy.
AS ALSO, IX. SERMONS, The First Preached before His Majesty King CHARLES the First, the other Eight upon special and eminent Occasions.
BY William Chillingworth Master of Arts of the University of OXFORD.
Isaac. Casaubon. in Epist. ad Card. Perron. Regis JACOBI nomine scriptâ.Rex arbitratur, rerum absolutè necessariarum ad salutem, non magnum esse numerum. Quare existimat ejus Majestas, nullam ad incundam concordiam breviorem viam fore, quàm si diligentèr, separentur necessaria à non necessariis, & ut de necessariis conveniat, omnis opera insumatur: in non necessariis libertati Christianae locus detur. Simplicitèr necessaria Rex appellat, quae vel expressè verbum Dei praecipit credenda faciendave, vel ex verbo Dei necessariâ consequentiâ vetus Ecclesia elicuit.—Si ad decidendas hodiernas Controversias haec distinctio adhiberetur, & jus divinum à positivo seu Ecclesiastico candidè separaretur; non videtur de iis quae sunt absolutè necessaria, inter pios & moderatos viros, longa aut acris contentio futura. Nam & pauce illa sunt, ut modò dicebamus, & ferè ex aequo omnibus probantur, qui se Christianos dici postulant. At{que} istam distinctionem Sereniss. Rex tanti putat esse momenti ad minuendas Controversias, quae hodiè Ecclesiam Dei tantopere exercent, ut omnium pacis studiosorum judicet officium esse, diligentissimè hanc explicare, docere, urgere.
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