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Show 172 its organization and its doctrines. Frequently, as in the following passage, emphases coalesce: the 'two you may see plainly how closely she [the true Church] is to that bold and impudent strumpet, the Whore of Bable, even that ... idolatrous Church of Rome, which maintaineth with sharp instru and ments, even with fire & sword, that men have free will power of themselves, being once assisted by Grace to run unto . Christ. reformed, Bable, " filthy harlot condemneth this [the true Church] holy heresy because she will not herein join with her. 60 to Gifford's severe filthy, stinking " Calvinism, "all and loathsome. ,,61 which would draw which would lead men men to toward free-will and "works." has ,been received she can stand major conclusion dedicated to Essex: Not and domestic, the chief only More by nature unclean, closer to The proud salvation, is their and the "harlot of .respective attitudes harlot believes that alone; the humble virgin dependence once of the Grace "Song of 62 upon her lover. can be deduced from the three works Gifford are the Roman Church and her menace Settlement, which Gifford men are A chief difference between the "Church damnation, Solomon" realizes 'and accepts her One . The virgin of According . allies, foreign to the Tudor Reformation and the Elizabethan since 1591 had come to accept, albeit reluctantly. important, the "harlot of Bable" is Antichrist personified, the arch- enemy of God. 60 Ibid., 62 Ibid. Her false doctrines must be p. 32. her influence recognized, 61 Ibid _1_. , pp. 26-27. destroyed. |
