The History of the Variations of the Protestant Churches, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Bénigne Bossuet, Jacques

 
9781333365813: The History of the Variations of the Protestant Churches, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

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Protestant Religion and the vanations of it. Tne discover of them usejful to true doctrine and the peace of the human mind. The Authors to whom reference is made in this History. If Protestants knew thoroughly how their religion was formed; with how many variations and with what inconstancy their confessions of faith were drawn up; how they first separated themselves from us, and afterwards from one another; by how many subtilties, evasions, and equivocations they laboured to repair their divisions, and to re-unite the scattered members of their disjointed reformation ;this reformation of which they boast would afford them but little satisfaction, or rather, to speak my mind more freely, it would excite in them only. feelings of contempt. It is the history of these variations, these subtilties, these equivocations, and these artifices, which I design to write; but in order to render this detail more useful to them, some principles must be laid down which they cannot contravene, and which the current of a narration would not permit me to deduce, when once engaged in it. 2. Variations in faith a certain proof of falsehood. Those of the Arians Steadiness of the Catholic Church. When in expositions of faith variations were seen among Christians, they were ever considered as a mark of falsehood and inconsistency, if I may so speak, in the doctrine propounded. Faith speaks with simplicity; the Holy Ghost sheds pure light; and the truth which he teaches has a language always uniform. Whoever is but the least conversant in the history of the Chufch, must know she opposed to each heresy appropriate and precise expositions which she never altered; and if we attend to the expressions by which she condemned heretics, it will appear that they always pro VOL i I.
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9781171119098: The history of the variations of the Protestant churches. By James Benign Bossuet, Bishop of Meaux, ... In two parts. Translated from the sixth ... at Paris, MDCCXVIII. ... Volume 1 of 2

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ISBN 10 :  1171119097 ISBN 13 :  9781171119098
Editeur : Gale Ecco, Print Editions, 2010
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