A Disputation On Holy Scripture: Against the Papists, Especially Bellarmine and Stapleton - Couverture souple
Présentation de l'éditeur
There have been many heretofore, illustrious Cecil, who have defended the papal interest and sovereignty with the utmost exertion, the keenest zeal, and no mean or vulgar erudition. But they who have played their part with most address, and far outstripped almost all others of their own side, are those men who now, for some years back, have been engaged most earnestly in this cause; a fresh supply of monks, subtle theologians, vehement and formidable controvertists; whom that strange and, in former times, unheard of Society of Jesus hath brought forth, for the calamity of the church and the christian rehgion. For when, after that black, deadly, baneful, and tedious night of popish superstition and antichristianism, the clear and cheerful lustre of the gospel had illuminated with its rays some portions of the christian world, attracting, and by its incredible charms at the same time moving all, to gaze on, admire, and cleave to it; on a sudden, these men sprang up to obscure with pestilential vapours, and ravish, if possible, from our view, this light, so hateful to themselves, so hostile and prejudicial to their interests. So indeed had John, that holy disciple of Christ, predicted in the A pocalypse, that a star, which had fallen from heaven, and received the key of the infernal pit, should remove the covering of the abyss, and cause a mighty smoke to issue forth, like the smoke of a great furnace, shedding darkness over the sun and heaven.
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