Eight reasons why I believe that he was not a saved Character , Various have been the opinions of good men concerning the elder son: some suppose it must mean the elect angels, who, though holy beings, yet were envious of the high honors conferred on man who was so far beneath them.  He took not on him the nature of angels, but, as the son of God, he took on him the seed of Abraham; and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself to the death of the cross.  But to form such an opinion of

I believe and confess, that, through the peculiar care of this Christian magistracy, and wise government of Cologne, and the active industry and assistance of the holy Augustin fathers, I have been entirely brought over from my heretical life and religion, to the true church of Rome, the only one in which salvation can be obtained; and I do publicly declare, to the whole world, that I embrace this faith freely and without compulsion. “I confess and believe, that the Pope is Christ’s vicar, and h