Rome ruin'd by VVhite Hall, or, The papall crown demolisht

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Rome ruin'd by VVhite Hall, or, The papall crown demolisht
Author
Spittlehouse, John.
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Printed at London :: by Thomas Paine, and are to be sold at his house in Goold [sic] Smiths Alley in Redcrosse Street,
1650. [i.e. 1649]
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Presbyterianism
Great Britain -- Church history
Catholic Church -- Controversial literature
Church of England -- Government -- Early works to 1800.
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"Rome ruin'd by VVhite Hall, or, The papall crown demolisht." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A93702.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.

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SECT. 3.

7. THat when Miracles are wrought, yet a Pretender may worke a Miracle for the contrary, like the Sorcerers of Aegypt against Moses; and Antichrist is rather spoken to come with Signes and Wonders of the two then Christ; so that there shall be a losse to any that thinke to beleeve meerly by a Miracle, the Spirit being only that which must make us beleeve, beyond all power of Miracle, which can give out its power but upon the sence at the farthest, being meerly outward, and visible.

8. That the Scriptures of the Gospel, or New Testament, are* 1.1 of such a divine, and even Spirituall glory in the letter, as no other word. There is a power to discover the reasons, and secrets of the heart, which the reason and heart of man witnesseth unto; there is a power to convince, and advise, to terrifie, and comfort; cleerly, undeniably, and experimentally knowne.

9. The Scriptures we have, as they are, doe make a discovery* 1.2 of such a way of religions Reason, as was never yet in any age at∣tained unto; for the men of purest reason, as the old Philoso∣phers, never attained further then the knowledge of some things infinite, which they did not know; a Religion of Morall righte∣ousnesse and purity, and some Sacrifices of attonement, &c. and there is not any Religion in the world, Jewish or Turkish, but they are made up of carnall principles, and are founded upon reason and nature; but this Gospel Religion, hath opened a new

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way to salvation, a way of worship, crosse to all Methods, and* 1.3 wyes of reason; the word opening new wayes by a new Spirit, purifying naturall reason into more divine and glorious notions, then reason ever attained; bringing in a way of beleeving, and placing a Religion, placed upon a spirituall perswasion called faith, which is more proportionable to an infinite God, and an infinite way and depth of Salvation, then reason ever invented. For the Soule to beleeve upon one, even Jesus Christ, in whom God hath laid up all love, and fulnesse, and so for man to come one with him, who is God, and Man. And there cannot be a more rationall way for man to become one with God, then by one, that is both God, and Man.

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