Wit against reason: or, The Protestant champion, the great, the incomparable Chillingworth, not invulnerable, a treatise, in which are laid open the noble adventures of that immortal man in defence of the Bible [in The religion of Protestants a safe way to salvation] by H. E.1735 |
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الصفحة iv - Whatsoever else they believe besides it, and the plain irrefragable, indubitable consequences of it, well may they hold it as a matter of opinion : but as matter of faith and religion, neither can they with coherence to their own grounds believe it themselves, nor require the belief of it of others, without most high and most schismatical presumption. I, for my part, after a long, and (as I verily believe and hope) impartial search of the true way to eternal happiness...
الصفحة 23 - The Bible, I say, the Bible only, is the religion of protestants ! Whatsoever else they believe besides it, and the plain irrefragable, indubitable consequences of it, well may they hold it as a matter of opinion : but as...
الصفحة xxvi - ... of the world, prevailed and enlarged itself in a very short time all the world over ; whereas it is too apparent, that your church hath got, and still maintains, her authority over men's consciences, by counterfeiting false miracles, forging false stories, by obtruding on the world supposititious writings, by corrupting the monuments of former times, and defacing out of them all which any way makes against you, by wars, by persecutions, by massacres, by treasons, by rebellions ; in short, by...
الصفحة 29 - I conceive this doctrine not fundamental ; because if a man should believe Christian religion wholly and entirely, and live according to it, such a man, though he should not know or not believe the Scripture to be a rule of faith, no, nor to be the word of God, my opinion is, he may be saved ; and my reason is, because he performs the entire condition of the new covenant, which is, that we believe the matter of the gospel, and not that it is contained in these or these books.
الصفحة iv - I. Of Faith in the Holy Trinity. THERE is but one living and true God, everlafting, without body, parts, or paffions ; of infinite power, wifdom and goodnefs ; the Maker and Preferver of all things both vilible and invifible.
الصفحة 108 - ... church, supposed to want nothing necessary, require me to profess against my conscience, that I believe some error, though never so small and innocent, which I do not believe, and will not allow me her communion but upon this condition ; in this case the church for requiring this condition is schismatical, and not I for separating from the church.
الصفحة 10 - From a child thou haft known the holy Scriptures -which are able to make thee -wife unto falvation...
الصفحة 65 - Popes, councils againft councils, fome fathers againft others, the. fame fathers againft themfelves, a confent of fathers of one age againft a confent of fathers of another age, the church of one age againft the church of another age. Traditive interpretations of fcripture are pretended ; but there are few or none to be found. No tradition but only of fcripture...
الصفحة 125 - Let all men believe the Scripture, and that only, and endeavour to believe it in the true sense, and require no more of others ; and they shall find this not only a better, but the only means to suppress heresy, and restore unity.
الصفحة i - Wit against Reason ; or the Protestant Champion, the great, the incomparable Chillingworth, not invulnerable, being a Treatise in which are laid open the noble Adventures and inimitable Exploits of that immortal man in defence of The Bible, as he is pleas'd to call it ; or rather, of all the new and contradictory Religions in Christendom, against the Church of Home.