The Protestant Family-piece; Or a Picture of Popery:: Drawn from Their Own Principles, Exprest in the Very Words of Their Popes, Councils, Canons, and Celebrated Writers, Faithfully Collected & Translated. by which it Appears, that Roman-Catholics are Bound to be the Worst Subjects, and the Worst Neighbors..

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E. Matthews at the Bible in Pater-noster-Row; J. Noon, and T. Sharpey, at the White Hart in Cheapside., 1716 - Popes - 259 pages
 

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Page 39 - God made two great lights in the firmament of heaven, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; each of them great, but one the greater of the two. For the firmament of the heaven, therefore, that is of the universal Church, God made two great lights...
Page 81 - Christian faith ; and all other heretics, by whatsoever name they are called, and of whatsoever sect they be ; as also, their adherents, receivers, favourers, and generally, any defenders of them ; together with all who, without our authority, or that of the Apostolic See, knowingly read, keep, print, or, anyways, for any cause whatsoever, publicly or privately, on any pretext or colour, defend their books containing heresy, or treating of religion...
Page 69 - Paul, and of chastity and continence only excepted;) and also such oaths by you taken, and by you and them to be taken, in all times coming, that you and they cannot profitably keep: By other works of piety, as to him shall seem expedient towards God, and for the peace of your and their souls. Be it, therefore, utterly unlawful to any upon earth, to annul this our grant, or by any act of temerity to controvert the same. And be it known to any one, that presumptuously attempts so to do, that he forthwith...
Page 21 - This delineation Petrarch confirms by several facts. In another place he says, " Whatever perfidy and treachery, whatever barbarity and pride, whatever immodesty and unbridled lust you have ever heard or read of ; — in a word, whatever impiety and immorality either now is, or ever was scattered over all the world, you may find here, amassed in one heap.
Page 65 - The counsels with which they trust me, I will not disclose to any man, to the hurt of the Pope and his successors. " I will assist to maintain the royalties of St Peter against all men.
Page 52 - ... these proceedings, Wickliff doubtless was concerned, and the attention given to his arguments on these subjects, which then so deeply agitated the public mind, must have * Bellarmine goes further, he says : " Though the pope should err in enjoining vices, and prohibiting virtues, yet would the church be bound to believe the vices to be virtues, and the virtues vices, if it would avoid sinning against its own conscience.
Page 215 - God ; neither was there amongst these prelates any one remarkable for learning ; some of them were lawyers, perhaps learned in that profession, but of little understanding in religion; few divines, but of less than ordinary sufficiency ; the greater number, gentlemen or courtiers ; and for their dignities some were only titular, and the major part bishops of so small cities, that, supposing every one to represent his people, it...
Page 81 - Chapters, by whatfoever name they are called ; who Appeal from the Orders or Decrees of Us, or the Popes of Rome, for the time being, to a future General Council ; and Thofe alfo, by whofe aid, or favor, the Appeal was made.
Page 87 - The third sort of attention is better than the second, and the second is better than the...
Page 113 - ... was well learned and skilled in singing and in binding books. When he drew near to death he asked that a taper might be lighted quickly and given into his hands, and holding this above his breast he began to say devoutly and often to repeat: " Mary, Mother of Grace, Mother of Mercy, do thou protect us from the enemy and receive us in the hour of death," and having said this, he breathed forth his soul.

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