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A43805	Hill, Samuel, 1648-1716.	The necessity of heresies asserted and explained in a sermon and clerum / by the author of the Catholic balance and published as a consolatory to the Church of England in the days of her controversie ...	1688		.xml	application/xml	10499	339	56	Nay , that , which more astonisheth , is , that the very Mediator of our Peace , the great Henoticon of the whole World , in reconciling all Mankind in one Body unto God , of whose days it was prophesied , that the Lamb should lie down with the Lyon , tells his Apostles , at their first mission , (c) That he came not to give peace , but a sword ; to set a man at variance against his Father , and the Daughter against the Mother , &c. And when we consider the malevolent nature of those Seeds of Discord in matters of Religion against all Societies , either Sacred , or Secular , and the blessed means of Eternal Life also ; that these Mischiefs should become necessary , and the result of Christianity it self , seems a stupifying Riddle , and ( that which fills me with all horror ) gives colour for the publick allowance of all Heresies and Blasphemies whatsoever . Whereupon we must search out for such a necessity of Heresies , as is imputable , not to the operative Determination of God , but the Evils of Men : Since there must be Heresies , they must be ours , not God's ; They must derive from an unclean , and puddled , not from a Divine Fountain , or Original : For , Let God be true , and every man a lyar .	cache/A43805.xml	txt/A43805.txt
