William Chillingworth
Published: 2015-06-27
Total Pages: 523
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Excerpt from The Religion of Protestants: A Safe Way to Salvation To say that the Creed contains all points necessarily to be believed, is neither pertinent to the question in hand, nor in itself true; Wherein is shewed that the Creed contains all necessary points of mere belief; That Luther, Calvin, their associates, and all who began or continue the separation from the external communion of the Roman Church, are guilty of the proper and formal sin of schism; The separation of Protestants from the Roman Church, being upon just and necessary causes, is not any way guilty of schism; That Luther and the rest of Protestants have added heresy unto schism; That Protestants are not heretics; In regard of the precept of charity towards ones self, Protestants are in a state of sin as long as they remain separated from the Roman Church; That Protestants are not bound by the charity which they owe to themselves to re-unite themselves to the Roman Church; The Conclusion. 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.
