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IV. CERTAIN IRREFRAGABLE PROPOSITIONS, WORTHY OF
SERIOUS CONSIDERATION.
Dedication to the King
501
Seven Irrefragable Propositions, concerning Oaths and Covenants.... 502
Two, as undoubted, Propositions, concerning Church-Government. 504
V. EPISCOPACY BY DIVINE RIGHT, ASSERTED.
Dedication to King Charles
INTRODUCTION.
Section
1. An Expostulatory Entrance into the Question.......
...... 507
..... 510
2. The Difference of the Condition of Foreign Churches and
Divines, from those of our Northern Neighbours.............. 512
3. The Judgment of the German Reformers, concerning the retain-
ing of Episcopacy .....
514
4. The Attestation of Famous Divines abroad to our Episcopacy... 515
5. The Particularity of the Difference in our Freedom, and the
Benefit of a Monarchical Reformation
6. The Project and Substance of the Treatise following
Part First. PoSTULATA.
1. The First Ground, or Postulate:
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....... 521
That Government, whose Foundation is laid by Christ, and
whose Fabric is raised by the Apostles, is of Divine In-
stitution
..........
2. The Second Ground:
The Practice and Recommendation of the Apostles, is sufficient
Warrant for an Apostolical Institution
3. The Third Ground:
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523
The Forms, ordained for the Church's Administration by the
Apostles, were for Universal and Perpetual Use ............ 524
4. The Fourth Ground:
The Universal Practice of the Church immediately succeed-
ing the Apostolic Times, is a sure Commentary upon the
Practice of the Apostles, and our best Direction.-The
Two Famous Rules of Tertullian and St. Augustine, to
this purpose, asserted
5. The Fifth Ground:
The Primitive Saints and Fathers neither would nor durst set
up another Form of Government, different from that they
received of the Apostles
6. The Sixth Ground:
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531
If the next Successors would have innovated the Form
of Government; yet they would not, in so short a space,
have diffused it through the whole Christian World. .... 533
7. The Seventh Ground:
The Ancientest Histories of the Church and Writings of the
First Fathers, are rather to be believed in the report of
the Primitive State of the Church, than the latest Authors 534
8. The Eighth Ground;
Those, whom the Ancient Church of God and all the Holy
Fathers of the Church since, have condemned for Heretics,
are no fit guides for us to follow, in that their judgment of
the Government for which they were so condemned....... 536
9. The Ninth Ground:
The Accession of Honourable Titles and Compatible Privi-
leges, makes no Difference in the substance of a Lawful
and Holy Calling ...
10. The Tenth Ground:
Those Scriptures, whereon a New and Different Form of Go-
vernment is raised, had need to be more evident and unques-
tionable, than those which are alleged for the former that is
rejected
11. The Eleventh Ground:
If Christ had left this pretended Order of Government, it
would have, ere this time, been agreed upon, what that
Form is, and how to be managed..........
12. The Twelfth Ground:
If this, which is challenged, be the Kingdom of Christ; then,
those Churches, which want any essential part of it, are
mainly defective; and that there is scarce any at all en-
tire......
13. The Thirteenth Ground:
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539
540
True Christian Policy requires not any thing absurd or im-
possible to be done.....
ib.
New Pretences of Truths never before heard of, especially in
Main Points, carry just Cause of Suspicion...........
541
14. The Fourteenth Ground:
15. The Fifteenth Ground:
To depart from the Judgment and Practice of the Universal
Church of Christ ever since the Apostles' Times, and to
betake ourselves to a New Invention, cannot but be, be-
sides the danger, vehemently scandalous..........
Part Second. PROOFS.
542
1. The Terms and State of the Question, settled and agreed upon 544
2. Church Government begun by our Saviour in a manifest Im-
parity..
550
548
3. The Execution of this Apostolical Power, after our Saviour's
Ascent into Heaven..
4. The Derivation of this Power and Majority, from the Apostles
to the succeeding Bishops.........
551
5. The clear Testimonies of Scripture for this Majority, especially
those out of the Epistles to Timothy and Titus, urged..... 554
6. Some Elusions of these Scriptures met with, and answered......... 557
7. The Testimony of St. John, in his Revelation, pressed.............. 560
8. The Estate and Order of Episcopacy deduced from the Apos-
tles to the Primitive Bishops.......
9. The Testimony and Assent of Bucer, and some famous French
Divines.
10. The Superiority and Jurisdiction of Bishops, proved by the
Testimony of the First Fathers and Apostolical Men: and,
first, of Clemens, the Partner of the Apostles.......
563
565
567
11. The Pregnant and Full Testimonies of the Holy Saint and Mar-
tyr Ignatius, urged.......
569
12. The Testimony of the Ancient Canons, called the Apostles'. 578
13. The State and History of the Next Age...
14. Proofs of the confessed Superiority of Bishops, from several
Arguments out of Antiquity.........
15. Power of Ordination only in Bishops.....
16. Power of Jurisdiction appropriated to the Bishops, from the first 585
17. Exceptions against our Episcopacy answered, and, particularly
of the Dissimilitude of our Bishops to the Primitive; espe-
cially in their Pomp and Perpetuity...
587
18. The Practice of the Whole Christian Church, in all Times and
Places, is for this Government by Bishops.....
591
19. Of the Suppression of Contrary Records: and the Sole Oppo-
sition of the Heretic Erius.........
594
CONTENTS OF VOL. IX.
POLEMICAL WORKS.
PART FIRST: ON THE QUESTIONS BETWEEN THE CHURCH
OF ENGLAND. AND THE CHURCH OF ROME.
I. A SERIOUS DISSUASION FROM POPERY. To W. D. re- VOLTED, &c.........
II. NO PEACE WITH ROME. WHEREIN IS PROVED, THAT, AS
TERMS NOW STAND, THERE CAN ΒΕ ΝΟ RECONCILIATION
OF THE REFORMED RELIGION WITH THE ROMISH: AND
THAT THE ROMANISTS ARE IN ALL THE FAULT. WRITTEN
FIRST IN LATIN, AND NOW ENGLISHED.
Dedication to the True, Sound, and Holy Church of God............
Opinion of George Cassander
INTRODUCTION:
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Sect. I. THE STATE OF THE NOW ROMAN CHURCH 29
Sect. 2. THE COMMODITIES AND CONDITIONS OF
РЕАСЕ........
Chap. I. Impossibility of Reconciliation, from the OBSTI-
NATE AND ADVERSE DISPOSITION OF THE
ROMANISTS........
Chap. II. Impossibility of Reconciliation, from the NATURE
OF THE MATTERS CONTROVERTED.
32
33
Sect. 1. FROM THE IMPURATION OR CORRUPTION
OF THE ROMAN CHURCH...
Sect. 2. FROM THE WILFUL FABLE OF THE POPE'S
INFALLIBILITY................
Sect. 3. FROM THOSE OPINIONS OF THE ROMAN-
ISTS, WHICH CHIEFLY RESPECT MEN:- 43
Concerning
(5.) Purgatory......
................
(6.) Indulgences and Pardons........
(7.) Mortal and Venial Sins........
Sect. 4. FROM THOSE OPINIONS OF THE ROMAN-
ISTS, WHICH CHIEFLY RESPECT GOD: 59
(1.) Concerning Scripture:...
[1] Its Canon......
[2.] Its Insufficiency.
[3. Its Authority......
(2.) Concerning the Person and Offices of Christ: 63
[1.] Against his Person, are
(a.) Transubstantiation......
(b.) The Multi-presence of his Body 64
[2] Against his Priestly Office, are
(a.) The Sacrifice of the Mass........ 66
(b.) The Number of Mediators, and
the Invocation of Saints........ 67
(3) Concerning the Superstitious, Heathenish,
and Ridiculous Worship of the Papists.. 69
Chap. III. Impossibility of the MEANS of Reconciliation......... 72
HI. THE HONOUR OF THE MARRIED CLERGY, MAINTAIN-
ED AGAINST THE MALICIOUS CHALLENGES OF C. E., MASS-
PRIEST OF, THE APOLOGY WRITTEN SOME YEARS SINCE
FOR THE MARRIAGE OF PERSONS ECCLESIASTICAL, MADE
GOOD, AGAINST THE CAVILS OF C. E. PSEUDO-CATHOLIC
PRIEST.
Dedication to the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.
The Answer to the Advertisement....
Book I.......
79
87
142
Rotomagensis Anonymus. An liceat Sacerdotibus inire Matrimo-
nia.....
202
Englished.........
207
212
Judgment of Erasmus....
IV. REVERENDISSIMO VIRO D° MARCO ANTONIO DE DOMI-
NIS, ARCHIEPISCOPO SPALATENSI, EPISTOLA DISCESSUS
SUI AD ROMAN DISSUASORIA...
V. THE OLD RELIGION: A TREATISE, WHEREIN IS LAID DOWN
THE TRUE STATE OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWIXT THE RE-
FORMED AND ROMAN CHURCH, AND THE BLAME OF THIS
SCHISM IS CAST UPON THE TRUE AUTHORS SERVING FOR
THE VINDICATION OF OUR INNOCENCE, FOR THE SETTLING
OF WAVERING MINDS, FOR A PRESERVATION AGAINST PO-
PISH INSINUATIONS. WITH AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR SUCH
READERS, AS FORMERLY STUMBLED AT SOME PASSAGES IN
THE BOOK.
Dedication to the Diocese of Exeter.........
214
223
Sect. 1. The Extent of the Differences betwixt the Churches 228
Sect. 2. The Original of the Differences betwixt the Churches 230
Sect. 3. The Reformed unjustly charged with Novelty, He-
resy, Schism.......
233
Sect. 4. The Church of Rome guilty of this Schism..........................
............. 236
Chap. I. On JUSTIFICATION BY INHERENT RIGHTEOUSNESS..... 238
Sect. 1. Its Newness.
239
242
244
245
246
247
Chap. III. On the Doctrine of TRANSUBSTANTIATION............... 248