Dialogue Between a Popish Priest and an English Protestant Wherein the Principal Points and Arguments of Both Religions Are Truly Proposed, and Fully Examined (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Dialogue Between a Popish Priest and an English Protestant: Wherein the Principal Points and Arguments of Both Religions Are Truly Proposed, and Fully Examined The controversies between your church and ours ara, by God's blessing upon the endeav ours of his ministers, brought to this pass, that I am persuaded there is nothing wanting to the conviction of divers of you, but a free and diligent perusal of their books, Without pre judice and partiality. This your priests know ing, it is their great design to keep you from looking into them; and to that end to possess you With this principle, that you need not trouble yourselves to inquire into books; you are safe enough so long as you believe as the church believes and follow the guidance of your priests and fathers. If this be an error, ' it is a dangerous one, and may prove damna ble. That it is so, and that it Will prove but a broken reed When you lean upon it, I hope you Will see there 18 reason to believe, if you Will but do your souls that justice not pro digally to cast them away upon blind and wilful mistakes, and take the pains to read these ensuing lines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.