The Religion of Protestants
A Safe Way to Salvation
A Safe Way to Salvation
Or an answer to a booke entitled Mercy and Truth, or, Charity maintain’d by Catholiques, which pretends to prove the contrary. By William Chillingworth (1602-44).
There are two files available. The 1638 is a photocopy, 37mb, and the 1888 is plain text, 2mb. The latter is all new and modern, with updated spellings, punctuation, nearly all italic passages changed to standard case, phrases modernized, changed or dropped, capital letters manipulated etc., etc., by a London publisher. Footnotes of both editions could not be included in the 1888 due to poor and aged printing.
The 1931 ed. of Funk & Wagnals New Standard Encyclopedia writes: “English theologian, born at Oxford, England. After gaining a fellowship at Oxford University in 1628, he joined the Roman Catholic Church. In 1630 he went to Douai, and a year later left it and in 1634 returned to the Anglican Church. In 1637 Chillingworth’s famous book, The Religion of Protestants was brought out. In 1638 he was made chancellor of Salisbury. At the outbreak of the civil war he accompanied the king’s forces....”
Internet gossip says he was captured in the war and taunted by Jesuits in prison where he died.
The text format, seven dual chapters, is point by point correspondence.
There are two files available. The 1638 is a photocopy, 37mb, and the 1888 is plain text, 2mb. The latter is all new and modern, with updated spellings, punctuation, nearly all italic passages changed to standard case, phrases modernized, changed or dropped, capital letters manipulated etc., etc., by a London publisher. Footnotes of both editions could not be included in the 1888 due to poor and aged printing.
The 1931 ed. of Funk & Wagnals New Standard Encyclopedia writes: “English theologian, born at Oxford, England. After gaining a fellowship at Oxford University in 1628, he joined the Roman Catholic Church. In 1630 he went to Douai, and a year later left it and in 1634 returned to the Anglican Church. In 1637 Chillingworth’s famous book, The Religion of Protestants was brought out. In 1638 he was made chancellor of Salisbury. At the outbreak of the civil war he accompanied the king’s forces....”
Internet gossip says he was captured in the war and taunted by Jesuits in prison where he died.
The text format, seven dual chapters, is point by point correspondence.