Christian Institutes
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ISBN13: 9780217456715
Paperback|9780217456715
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. OF THE CHURCH OF ROME; BY SIR EDWIN SANDYS, Knt. CONTENTS. I. The Church of Rome; its Head Assertions. II. Its means to strengthen them. III. Its ways to fit all affections and humours. IV. Its particular projects as they respect Princes' Marriages, and the dis pensing with Oaths. I. But to come now to the view of their Ecclesiastical Government, not so much as it is referred to the conduct of souls to their true happiness, though this be the natural and proper end of that a This extract is from Europse Speculum; or, a View or Survey of the State of Religion in the Western parts of the World, by Sir Edwin Sandys, Knt.?London, 1673. 8vo. p. 25?19. The whole treatise is extremely interesting and valuable. It is deeply imbued with the religious and philosophic spirit of Hooker, so that you recognise every where in the scholar the workings of his master's mind; as might be expected from a pupil worthy of the lessons of that great and holy man. After the grievous loss which the Church of England, or rather, we ought to say, which the united cause of religion, and truth, and liberty sustained, through the sacrilegious havoc which was most wickedly committed on two out of the three last books of the Ecclesiastical Polity, ?it is much to be regretted that the intended Survey of the Reformed Churches, designed to impart to the world the fruit of Sir Edwin's observations in travel amongst them, and in which there is no doubt we should have possessed, on a subject similar to Hooker's, much of the mind and wisdom of Hooker, and which he promises at the close of this volume, does not appear to be extant; the present Work is addressed to Archbishop Whitgift, and bears date, Paris, April 9, 1599. regimen; but rather as it is addressed to the upholdin...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217456715 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217456715 |
| Weight | 2.05 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.42 In |
| List Price | $39.90 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 642 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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