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Show 183 their faith wore as a shield and smote the enemies of God. Although the first third of The Sacred Shield is devoted to discussion of faith, Gibson's major applications: Faith constitutes the arguments for a is in its concern historical contemporary military framing device within jihad against Spain and an which he pins his the Roman Church. In Chapter I Gibson alludes to his ultimate purpose when he declares: In so much that all that people, now are that thus enemies to God's Church and of sin, that bloody and cruel Anti christ of Rome with all Papists his followers, being led by his only power and authority, whether foreign enemies, or domesare alltogether as Satan's fiery darts, thrown by his tical, hand, that is, wholly guided and directed by his power, to over as principally man ... , . . . throw God's true Church and Although his prose is somewhat less than The "just" that people.90 primitive Church, according were fought "pro lege, As far as sent God's "true war is the people, them, as 89 90 " to rege, et grege, a : " for wars piety, prince and concerned, Catholic triple justification. are If the English repre- "Antichrist" person- "Therefore, all pacificators and reconcil- Popes and the Christian Princes, that p. 39. is clear. Gibson, considered those are are come out from ,,91 of God himself condemned. p. 4. Ibid., s . . golden, Gibson's meaning between Papists and Protestants, Ibid. . and if Rome and her allies only alternative. iators between the 89 . Gibson's readers would have been Spain would have fit perfectly such ified, people 91 Ibid., p. 76. |
