A Faithful Portrait of Popery By Which It is Seen to Be the Reverse of Christi
A Faithful Portrait of Popery By Which It is Seen to Be the Reverse of Christi
William Warburton
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The [ *3 1 The Chriftian Church, in its Infancy, breath-, ed nothing but Concord, Lovej and Charity. It had then a Spirit as pure, and innocent, as the State of Childhood itfelf. The holy Bre- thren were, in Malice ', Children \ howbeit, in Under/landing, that is, in rational Faith, in vigorous Virtue, and in fober Knowledge, they were Men. And thus was the new Jerufalem built like a City, that is at Unity in itjelf. No Difputes, no Strife, no Emulation, but who fhould moil excel in Works of Ch...arity and Piety. But, alas ! this glorious rifing of the Gofpel, which came with Healing in its Wings, and promifed the Arrival of that long-wifhed-for Day of everla fling Peace, was of afudden over- caft, and nothing but Tempefts and Storms fucceeded. For our evil Genius, the Prince cf the Air, was early at work to obfeure and deface the promifed Triumphs of the Sun of Righteoujnejs. Nor was the Engine he em- ployed to defeat Man's Reflcration, different from that, with which he procured his Fall: It was, full, Knowledge without its Regulator, Temperance.
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