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A Serious and Compassionate Inquiry Into the Causes of the Present Neglect and Contempt of the Protestant Religion and Church of England
A Serious and Compassionate Inquiry Into the Causes of the Present Neglect and Contempt of the Protestant Religion and Church of England Author:John Goodman Subtitle: With Several Seasonable Considerations Offer'd to All English Protestants ... General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1680* Original Publisher: Printed by M. Flesher for Richard Royston Subjects: Dissenters, Religious Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and ... more »there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAP. IV. That thofe that find fault with the Confti- tution of this Church, will never be able to find out or agree upon a better. IT was feafonable advice which a Member of the Long Parliament is faid to have propounded then when all were for pulling down, and Defolation was called Reformation ; That they jbould doe well to let the old Building ft and till they had Materials in readinefi, and were agreed upon a model of a Fabric k to be fet up in the ftead of what they deftroyed. And not unlike was the Glofs of the Lord Bacon upon the words of the Prophet Jeremy, Ch. 6.16. Stand upon the ways and inquire for the good way,« less