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Excerpt from An Humble and Serious Address to the Princes and States of Europe, for the Admission, or at Least Open Toleration of the Christian Religion in Their Dominions: Containing I. A Demonstration, That None of Them Do, Properly Speaking, Admit or Openly Tolerate the Christian Religion in Their Dominions at This Day; II. The True Occasions, Why It Is Not Admitted, or Openly Tolerated by Them
Gion, you will find, him to follow the Augsburg Confeffion, or that Set of Doétrines and Rules which was agreed off by the Lutheran: at that particular City of Germany, in the particular Year 1530. And if, upon your comparing Things together, you reprefent to him, that you have been fiudying the Scriptures of the New' Tellament,' and all the other mol't Primitive Re? Mains of Chriliianity, but cannot poffibly find that many of the Contents of that Confe¿ion have any Foundation there, nay, that fome of them are vifibly contrary to it, and therefore that, iof'hye be of the Cbrz'¿z'nn Religion, as he a¿irm'd he was, he ought to follow the Chrifti an Notions and Chrifiian Rules, but not thofe of Luther and his Alfociates; he will probably' be re. Far 'from thanking you for your Informa tion; and from impartially comparing the aug/z 5urg Confeffion with the Chri¿iian Records, in order to his own Improvement, and the Refor mation of his own Mil'takes; that he will rather grow warm upon it: He will affirm that, to be fure, the Chriliian Records do agree with the Augsburg Confeflionz, and that for certain, fnch great and good Men as thofe Lutherans who\ framed it, were not permitted by Pro i¿ake in thefe Matters. Na 'tis.
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