Seventeen Sermons Against Popery, Preached at Salters-Hall, in the Year MDCCXXXV (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Seventeen Sermons Against Popery, Preached at Salters-Hall, in the Year MDCCXXXV Now I may venture to tell you in the general, and at present. That you may expect to hear, so far as these Sermons go, the Protestant Religion defended, and the Popish Religion fairly charg'd, fully heard, and solemnly condemned, as the grand Apostacy of the Christian Church, a gross Corruption of Gospel Simplicity, and a wicked Design to raise the Authority of Men upon the Ruins of the Authority of Christ, and to increase their Wealth, Power, and Grandeur in the World, at the Expence of all Civil and Religious Liberty. So odious and dangerous a Thing is Popery, and therefore Papists must excuse us, who are thoroughly persuaded of this fad Truth, if we expose and treat it accordingly. Yet this I will venture to say, and I would chuse to say it here. That we bear no ill Will to the Persons of Papists, and how ill soever we think of their Religion, we pity them who profess it, as deluded People, and are grieved for the Blindness that has happen'd to them and for the Hardness of their Hearts: They very well know, that much has been said and written by Protestants for their Conviction, and to take off the Veil from their Faces, and we charitably believe concerning many of them, that could they get rid of the Prejudices of Education, could they come at more and better Light, might they search the Scriptures, and were not their Inquiries prevented by the terrifying Apprehensions of Censure and Punishment, and were they not intoxicated with the Arts and Sophistry of crafty and designing Men, they would forsake this idolatrous and impure Communion, and readily embrace the Protestant Reformation. 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.