A few plain reasons why a Protestant of the Church of England should not turn Roman Catholick by a real Catholick of the Church of England.
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             A few plain reasons why a Protestant of the Church of England should not turn Roman Catholick by a real Catholick of the Church of England.
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           A
           FEW
           PLAIN
           REASONS
           WHY
           A
           PROTESTANT
           OF
           THE
           CHURCH
           of
           ENGLAND
           ,
           Should
           not
           Turn
           
             Roman
             Catholick
          
           .
        
         
           By
           a
           real
           Catholick
           of
           the
           CHURCH
           of
           ENGLAND
           .
        
         
           
             
               1
               Thess.
               5.21
            
             .
          
           
             Prove
             all
             things
             ,
             hold
             fast
             that
             which
             is
             good
             .
          
        
         
           IMPRIMATUR
           .
           Jo.
           Battely
           .
           Septemb.
           15.
           1687.
           
        
         
           LONDON
           ,
           Printed
           for
           
             R.
             Clavel
          
           ,
           at
           the
           Peacock
           at
           the
           West
           End
           of
           St.
           
           Paul's
           .
           MDCLXXXVIII
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
         
           
             My
             Reverend
             Friend
             ,
          
        
         
           I
           Received
           Yours
           ,
           wherein
           you
           tell
           me
           ,
           That
           some
           Emissaries
           have
           of
           late
           earnestly
           solicited
           some
           of
           your
           Parish
           ,
           (
           and
           so
           belonging
           to
           your
           Cure
           and
           Charge
           )
           to
           desert
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           and
           turn
           (
           as
           they
           would
           be
           call'd
           )
           Roman
           Catholicks
           .
        
         
           The
           Motives
           (
           amongst
           some
           others
           )
           they
           principally
           insist
           upon
           ,
           (
           you
           say
           )
           are
           these
           Two
           :
           First
           ,
           That
           if
           they
           return
           to
           their
           Mother
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           they
           will
           have
           (
           what
           they
           say
           ,
           Protestants
           neither
           have
           ,
           nor
           pretend
           to
           )
           
             a
             sure
             and
             Infallible
             Guide
          
           to
           secure
           them
           from
           all
           Error
           and
           Heresies
           ;
           which
           will
           be
           a
           great
           Blessing
           and
           comfort
           to
           them
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           They
           will
           free
           themselves
           from
           the
           great
           and
           mortal
           sin
           of
           Schism
           :
           For
           the
           Protestants
           (
           they
           say
           )
           neither
           have
           ,
           nor
           can
           have
           any
           just
           reason
           to
           desert
           the
           Catholick
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ;
           and
           so
           their
           Separation
           from
           it
           ,
           is
           evidently
           Schismatical
           .
        
         
           You
           desire
           me
           ,
           to
           give
           You
           some
           directions
           ,
           how
           to
           Reply
           to
           these
           Pretences
           ,
           and
           fortifie
           your
           People
           against
           them
           ,
           who
           are
           not
           skilled
           in
           such
           Controversies
           .
           You
           should
           rather
           have
           apply'd
           your self
           to
           your
           Diocesan
           ;
           for
           his
           Abilities
           ,
           and
           immediate
           concern
           to
           assist
           you
           ,
           being
           more
           than
           mine
           ,
           I
           doubt
           not
           ,
           but
           he
           would
           willingly
           have
           assisted
           you
           .
        
         
           But
           seeing
           you
           say
           ,
           you
           are
           not
           particularly
           known
           to
           him
           ,
           and
           therefore
           not
           willing
           (
           by
           any
           such
           Address
           )
           to
           trouble
           him
           ;
           and
           seeing
           we
           are
           bound
           to
           give
           a
           *
           reason
           of
           the
           hope
           and
           faith
           which
           is
           in
           us
           ,
           
           for
           the
           Confirmation
           of
           some
           ,
           and
           Conviction
           of
           others
           ;
           I
           shall
           (
           in
           obedience
           to
           your
           Command
           )
           crave
           leave
           to
           say
           a
           few
           things
           ,
           and
           leave
           the
           management
           of
           them
           to
           your
           Prudence
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           several
           Circumstances
           of
           Persons
           ,
           Times
           ,
           and
           Places
           wherein
           You
           may
           have
           occasion
           to
           make
           use
           of
           any
           of
           them
           .
           And
           here
           ,
        
         
           1.
           
           In
           the
           general
           ,
           I
           shou'd
           advise
           ;
           That
           when
           you
           have
           occasion
           to
           discourse
           of
           any
           of
           these
           Points
           ,
           with
           the
           Romish
           Priests
           and
           Emissaries
           ,
           who
           endeavour
           to
           seduce
           any
           of
           your
           Parishioners
           ;
           you
           remember
           and
           observe
           that
           good
           Rule
           in
           the
           *
           Gospel
           —
           
             If
             any
             man
             be
             overtaken
             in
             a
             fault
             ,
          
           You
           
             who
             are
             spiritual
             restore
             him
             (
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             )
             in
             the
             spirit
             of
             meekness
             .
          
           All
           railing
           ,
           all
           bitter
           and
           provoking
           language
           should
           be
           avoided
           ;
           and
           then
           by
           your
           good
           Reasons
           ,
           and
           a
           Christian
           and
           Meek
           urging
           of
           them
           ,
           you
           may
           possibly
           bring
           your
           Adversary
           to
           see
           the
           Errors
           of
           his
           own
           Church
           ,
           which
           he
           endeavours
           to
           propagate
           in
           Ours
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           For
           the
           Infallibility
           of
           their
           ‖
           Church
           (
           of
           which
           they
           continually
           ,
           and
           (
           without
           any
           thing
           like
           a
           good
           reason
           )
           so
           vainly
           boast
           of
           .
           )
           I
           consider
           ,
        
         
           1.
           
           That
           if
           it
           did
           (
           which
           neither
           does
           ,
           nor
           even
           can
           )
           really
           appear
           ,
           that
           they
           had
           an
           Infallible
           Guide
           ,
           we
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           are
           not
           so
           irrational
           as
           not
           to
           follow
           an
           Infallible
           Guide
           ;
           nor
           so
           simple
           ,
           to
           take
           an
           
             ignis
             fatuus
          
           ,
           for
           a
           real
           and
           true
           fire
           ,
           and
           believe
           they
           have
           such
           a
           Guide
           ,
           because
           (
           against
           evident
           reason
           )
           they
           confidently
           say
           so
           .
        
         
         
           2.
           
           They
           are
           not
           yet
           agreed
           amongst
           themselves
           ,
           who
           is
           their
           Infallible
           Guide
           :
           And
           can
           they
           think
           it
           possible
           for
           them
           to
           perswade
           us
           ,
           that
           they
           have
           an
           Infallible
           Guide
           ,
           when
           they
           themselves
           know
           not
           who
           it
           is
           ?
           For
           ,
        
         
           1.
           
           Many
           of
           them
           place
           this
           Infallibility
           in
           the
           Pope
           ,
           so
           Gratian
           (
           and
           the
           Canonists
           who
           follow
           him
           )
           who
           tells
           us
           :
           That
           (a)
           
             all
             the
             Pope's
             Sanctions
             are
             to
             be
             taken
             as
             if
             they
             had
             been
             confirmed
             by
             the
             divine
             mouth
             of
             S.
          
           Peter
           .
           And
           the
           (b)
           Gloss
           ,
           and
           (c)
           
             Marginal
             note
          
           ,
           in
           another
           place
           ,
           tells
           us
           ,
           That
           
             to
             dispute
             or
             doubt
             of
             the
             goodness
             of
             any
             of
             the
             Pope's
             actions
             is
             a
             mortal
             sin
             ,
             and
             sacrilege
             .
          
           So
           we
           have
           it
           in
           the
           best
           (d)
           Edition
           of
           their
           Canon-Law
           with
           the
           Glosses
           .
           So
           Pope
           Leo
           10.
           in
           his
           Bull
           against
           Luther
           ,
           tells
           us
           ,
           That
           
             neither
             the
             Roman
          
           (e)
           Church
           ,
           nor
           any
           of
           the
           (f)
           Popes
           ever
           err'd
           in
           any
           of
           their
           Constitutions
           .
           And
           to
           this
           purpose
           ,
           the
           Jesuits
           make
           the
           Popes
           as
           
           Peter's
           Successors
           ,
           Infallible
           ;
           
             not
             only
             in
             matters
             of
             Faith
             ,
             but
             of
             Fact
             too
             :
          
           as
           appears
           by
           their
           famous
           (g)
           Theses
           publickly
           defended
           in
           France
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           Many
           place
           the
           Infallibility
           in
           the
           Pope
           and
           Church
           ,
           or
           General
           Council
           concurring
           :
           So
           the
           Clergy
           (h)
           of
           France
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           Others
           in
           a
           
             General
             Council
          
           without
           the
           Pope
           :
           So
           the
           Council
           of
           Pisa
           and
           Constance
           ,
           and
           Basil
           ,
           in
           which
           several
           Popes
           are
           condemn'd
           as
           Hereticks
           ,
           Schismaticks
           ,
           &c.
           and
           the
           supream
           Power
           to
           be
           in
           the
           (i)
           Council
           ,
           and
           that
           Infallible
           .
        
         
           Now
           is
           it
           not
           unreasonable
           for
           them
           to
           boast
           of
           an
           Infallible
           Judge
           of
           Controversies
           ,
           and
           think
           to
           perswade
           
           us
           to
           believe
           it
           ;
           when
           they
           themselves
           know
           not
           who
           that
           Judge
           is
           .
           If
           Sempronius
           were
           very
           sick
           ,
           and
           Caius
           coming
           to
           him
           ,
           and
           pitying
           his
           condition
           ,
           should
           tell
           him
           ,
           that
           there
           was
           an
           excellent
           Physician
           in
           that
           City
           ,
           but
           knew
           not
           who
           he
           was
           ,
           nor
           where
           to
           find
           him
           :
           Sempronius
           would
           have
           little
           comfort
           or
           benefit
           from
           such
           a
           story
           .
           No
           more
           can
           we
           from
           them
           ,
           who
           tell
           us
           (
           with
           great
           confidence
           ,
           but
           without
           any
           just
           proof
           or
           probability
           )
           that
           they
           have
           an
           Infallible
           Guide
           in
           their
           Church
           ,
           but
           can
           neither
           tell
           us
           who
           it
           is
           ,
           or
           where
           to
           find
           him
           .
        
         
           But
           to
           manifest
           the
           exceeding
           vanity
           of
           their
           pretence
           to
           an
           Infallible
           Guide
           ;
           there
           are
           certain
           ,
           and
           (
           to
           all
           Impartial
           Judges
           )
           evident
           reasons
           to
           demonstrate
           ,
           That
           neither
           the
           Pope
           ,
           nor
           Council
           ,
           nor
           both
           together
           are
           Infallible
           .
        
         
           
           1.
           
           For
           the
           Pope
           ,
           they
           say
           ,
           that
           he
           is
           Infallible
           as
           S.
           
           Peter's
           Successor
           ,
           and
           (
           as
           Peter
           was
           )
           Vicar
           of
           Christ.
           But
           this
           is
           
             gratis
             dictum
          
           ,
           without
           any
           just
           proof
           or
           probability
           .
           For
           ,
        
         
           1.
           
           Admit
           S.
           Peter
           was
           25
           years
           (
           as
           they
           say
           )
           Bishop
           of
           Rome
           ;
           (
           which
           is
           evidently
           untrue
           )
           yet
           that
           he
           left
           Infallibility
           to
           his
           Successor
           there
           ,
           is
           an
           Assertion
           which
           has
           no
           ground
           in
           Scripture
           ,
           or
           Antiquity
           ;
           the
           Popes
           themselves
           not
           so
           much
           as
           pretending
           to
           Infallibility
           ,
           for
           a
           thousand
           years
           after
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           S.
           Paul
           was
           an
           Apostle
           ,
           and
           as
           Infallible
           as
           Peter
           ,
           and
           planted
           many
           Churches
           in
           
             Asia
             ,
             Macedonia
          
           ,
           and
           
             Achaia
             ,
             &c.
          
           and
           left
           his
           Successors
           there
           :
           But
           it
           is
           confess'd
           ,
           that
           S.
           Paul
           did
           not
           leave
           his
           Infallibility
           to
           any
           of
           his
           Successors
           ,
           (
           not
           to
           Timothy
           at
           Ephesus
           ,
           nor
           Titus
           in
           Crete
           )
           and
           therefore
           ,
           
           that
           Peter
           should
           (
           which
           S.
           Paul
           did
           not
           )
           leave
           his
           Infallibility
           to
           his
           Successor
           ,
           is
           a
           Position
           for
           which
           they
           neither
           bring
           ,
           nor
           can
           bring
           any
           just
           proof
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           They
           say
           ,
           that
           Peter
           was
           (
           before
           he
           came
           to
           Rome
           )
           Bishop
           of
           Antioch
           7
           years
           ;
           and
           't
           is
           certain
           and
           confess'd
           ,
           that
           his
           Successors
           at
           Antioch
           ,
           (
           tho'
           that
           was
           his
           first
           Bishoprick
           )
           had
           no
           such
           Infallibility
           left
           them
           by
           Peter
           ;
           and
           therefore
           I
           desire
           to
           know
           ,
           how
           his
           Successors
           at
           Rome
           (
           his
           second
           Bishoprick
           )
           come
           to
           have
           the
           privilege
           of
           Infallibility
           ,
           which
           his
           Successors
           at
           Antioch
           (
           his
           first
           Bishoprick
           )
           had
           not
           ?
           most
           certain
           it
           is
           ,
           that
           Infallibility
           is
           a
           personal
           privilege
           ,
           depending
           solely
           and
           wholely
           on
           the
           free
           grace
           and
           gift
           of
           God
           ;
           nor
           had
           ever
           any
           Prophet
           or
           Apostle
           power
           to
           transfer
           it
           to
           their
           Successors
           ,
           or
           any
           body
           else
           ;
           and
           therefore
           unless
           they
           can
           make
           it
           appear
           from
           Scripture
           ,
           or
           some
           Divine
           Revelation
           (
           which
           is
           impossible
           )
           that
           God
           has
           granted
           and
           given
           Infallibility
           to
           the
           Pope
           ,
           as
           
           Peter's
           Successor
           and
           Christ's
           Vicar
           ,
           their
           pretence
           to
           it
           ,
           will
           be
           (
           what
           indeed
           it
           is
           )
           very
           irrational
           .
        
         
           4.
           
           And
           this
           Position
           (
           that
           the
           Pope
           is
           not
           Infallible
           )
           does
           farther
           appear
           (
           to
           say
           nothing
           of
           particular
           Writers
           )
           by
           the
           clear
           and
           undeniable
           Testimonies
           of
           National
           and
           General
           Councils
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           The
           Church
           of
           France
           in
           a
           *
           late
           and
           National
           Assembly
           of
           her
           Clergy
           ,
           expresly
           denyes
           the
           Popes
           Infallibility
           ,
           as
           much
           as
           we
           Protestants
           ,
           whom
           they
           are
           pleased
           commonly
           to
           miscal
           Hereticks
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           Their
           General
           Council
           of
           Basil
           tells
           us
           ;
           That
           ‖
           
             several
             Popes
          
           have
           fall'n
           into
           Errors
           and
           Heresies
           .
        
         
         
           And
           again
           ,
           it
           often
           *
           
             happens
             ,
             and
             may
             happen
          
           (
           as
           that
           Council
           says
           )
           
             That
             the
             Pope
             may
             err
          
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           Their
           General
           Council
           of
           Constance
           ,
           (
           amongst
           other
           crimes
           )
           declares
           Pope
           Benedict
           13.
           a
           ‖
           
             Notorious
             Schismatick
          
           ,
           incorrigible
           ,
           and
           a
           pertinacious
           Heretick
           .
        
         
           4.
           
           To
           omit
           Pope
           Vigilius
           condemn'd
           for
           Heresie
           in
           the
           Fifth
           General
           Council
           ,
           (
           which
           is
           by
           *
           Dr.
           Crakanthorp
           fully
           and
           evidently
           proved
           )
           I
           shall
           only
           add
           (
           which
           is
           undeniable
           and
           authentick
           Authority
           against
           the
           Popes
           Infallibility
           )
           That
           the
           Sixth
           General
           Council
           ,
           (
           held
           at
           Constantinople
           in
           Trullo
           )
           did
           condem
           and
           ‖
           Anathematize
           Pope
           Honorius
           .
           And
           tho'
           some
           Zealots
           for
           Rome
           and
           the
           Popes
           Infallibility
           ,
           (
           such
           as
           Bellarmine
           and
           Baronius
           )
           have
           endeavoured
           to
           excuse
           Honorius
           ,
           and
           question
           the
           Authority
           of
           the
           Council
           ,
           and
           the
           Truth
           of
           those
           things
           ,
           which
           in
           the
           Council
           were
           urged
           against
           him
           :
           yet
           the
           evidence
           on
           which
           they
           condemned
           Honorius
           for
           an
           Heretick
           ,
           was
           undoubtedly
           good
           ,
           even
           his
           own
           Epistles
           read
           in
           the
           Council
           (
           which
           Bellarmine
           pretends
           were
           fictitious
           )
           But
           both
           the
           Authority
           of
           the
           Council
           ,
           and
           of
           Honorius
           his
           Epistles
           ,
           (
           which
           were
           the
           Evidence
           on
           which
           they
           condemn'd
           him
           )
           are
           so
           fully
           and
           evidently
           justified
           (
           to
           omit
           many
           others
           )
           by
           a
           *
           Learned
           Sorbon
           Doctor
           ,
           and
           a
           Roman
           Catholick
           ,
           that
           I
           neither
           need
           ,
           nor
           shall
           say
           any
           more
           of
           this
           particular
           ,
           but
           refer
           the
           Reader
           (
           who
           desires
           more
           satisfaction
           )
           to
           that
           Judicious
           and
           learned
           Author
           .
        
         
         
           I
           shall
           only
           add
           (
           in
           short
           )
           two
           things
           ,
           which
           to
           me
           seem
           very
           material
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           That
           notwithstanding
           ,
           that
           Sixth
           General
           Council
           condemned
           Honorius
           for
           an
           Heretick
           ,
           yet
           it
           was
           approv'd
           and
           receiv'd
           as
           a
           General
           Council
           by
           Pope
           Leo
           the
           second
           ,
           (
           the
           next
           Successor
           (
           save
           one
           )
           to
           Honorius
           )
           as
           evidently
           appears
           by
           his
           own
           Epistle
           *
           to
           the
           Emperors
           ,
           and
           ‖
           
             their
             own
          
           Roman
           Breviary
           ,
           of
           their
           most
           *
           correct
           Edition
           .
           And
           to
           make
           it
           more
           evident
           that
           the
           Sixth
           Synod
           ,
           and
           the
           condemnation
           of
           Pope
           Honorius
           for
           Heresie
           ,
           was
           anciently
           approv'd
           even
           in
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ;
           their
           own
           General
           Council
           ,
           the
           Second
           of
           Nice
           ,
           is
           a
           witness
           beyond
           exception
           ,
           as
           by
           the
           words
           and
           place
           in
           the
           Margin
           ‖
           may
           evidently
           appear
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           But
           that
           which
           may
           seem
           strange
           ,
           (
           tho'
           it
           be
           most
           true
           )
           by
           the
           Decree
           of
           the
           Council
           of
           Constance
           ,
           every
           Pope
           at
           his
           Consecration
           ,
           was
           to
           take
           a
           
             solemn
             Oath
             to
             believe
             and
             maintain
          
           (
           amongst
           other
           Councils
           )
           the
           *
           6.
           
           Synod
           (
           of
           which
           we
           are
           now
           speaking
           )
           
             and
             every
             part
             and
             particle
             of
             it
          
           ;
           and
           consequently
           they
           were
           bound
           to
           approve
           that
           Synod
           ,
           and
           their
           Condemnation
           of
           Pope
           Honorius
           ,
           as
           an
           Heretick
           .
           For
           this
           condemnation
           of
           Honorius
           it
           was
           evidently
           an
           Act
           of
           the
           6
           Synod
           ;
           and
           the
           Popes
           (
           by
           the
           said
           Decree
           of
           the
           Council
           of
           Constance
           )
           were
           bound
           (
           amongst
           other
           Councils
           mentioned
           in
           the
           Decree
           )
           to
           believe
           and
           profess
           the
           Acts
           of
           that
           sixth
           Synod
           ,
           
             Vsque
             ad
             unum
             Apicem
          
           ,
           for
           so
           the
           Decree
           expresly
           says
           .
        
         
         
           The
           Premisses
           consider'd
           ,
           I
           believe
           it
           may
           ,
           and
           will
           appear
           to
           all
           intelligent
           and
           impartial
           Judges
           ,
           that
           the
           Opinion
           of
           the
           Popes
           Infallibility
           ,
           is
           not
           only
           without
           ,
           but
           against
           manifest
           reason
           .
           For
           ,
        
         
           1.
           
           'T
           is
           certain
           ,
           that
           the
           
             Greek
             ,
             Asiatick
          
           and
           Aethiopick
           Churches
           never
           believ'd
           ,
           but
           expresly
           oppos'd
           it
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           For
           the
           Western
           or
           Latin
           Church
           ,
           it
           is
           evident
           ,
           by
           their
           General
           Councils
           of
           
             Nice
             ,
             Pisa
             ,
             Constance
          
           and
           Basil
           (
           in
           which
           several
           Popes
           have
           been
           declar'd
           Hereticks
           )
           that
           they
           were
           so
           far
           from
           believing
           it
           ,
           (
           tho'
           Pope
           Gregory
           the
           7
           th
           was
           for
           it
           )
           that
           they
           condemn'd
           ,
           and
           Synodically
           declar'd
           against
           it
           ,
           for
           1500
           years
           ,
           till
           Leo
           the
           10
           th
           in
           his
           Lateran
           Council
           ,
           in
           the
           year
           1513.
           did
           again
           set
           on
           foot
           that
           Apocryphal
           opinion
           of
           the
           Popes
           Infallibility
           :
           So
           that
           it
           is
           not
           only
           erroneous
           ,
           but
           a
           very
           late
           and
           novel
           invention
           .
        
         
           
           That
           a
           General
           Council
           is
           not
           Infallible
           ,
           is
           a
           truth
           (
           from
           many
           cogent
           and
           undeniable
           reasons
           )
           so
           evident
           ,
           that
           as
           there
           is
           no
           need
           I
           shou'd
           ,
           so
           it
           is
           not
           my
           purpose
           to
           say
           much
           :
           only
           I
           shall
           (
           in
           short
           )
           say
           a
           few
           things
           ,
           and
           refer
           them
           to
           your
           prudence
           ,
           to
           make
           use
           of
           all
           ,
           or
           any
           of
           them
           ,
           as
           to
           you
           (
           circumstances
           consider'd
           )
           may
           seem
           convenient
           .
           Here
           then
           I
           desire
           it
           may
           be
           consider'd
           ,
        
         
           1.
           
           That
           a
           General
           Council
           is
           never
           so
           much
           as
           named
           in
           Scripture
           ,
           nor
           any
           promise
           of
           Infallibility
           given
           it
           .
           The
           *
           Council
           of
           the
           Apostles
           (
           which
           was
           no
           General
           Council
           )
           was
           Infallible
           ,
           and
           might
           truly
           say
           *
           
             Sic
             visum
             est
             spiritui
             sancto
             &
             nobis
             .
          
           Because
           the
           Apostles
           had
           the
           Infallible
           Assistance
           of
           the
           Holy
           Ghost
           .
           But
           that
           any
           General
           Council
           had
           any
           such
           Assistance
           ,
           truly
           to
           say
           ,
           after
           their
           Decrees
           ,
           
             Sic
             visum
             est
             Spiritui
             Sancto
             &
             nobis
          
           ;
           (
           Tho'
           
           that
           of
           *
           Trent
           ,
           and
           others
           vainly
           pretend
           to
           it
           )
           is
           an
           Assertion
           without
           all
           proof
           or
           probability
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           But
           there
           is
           no
           necessity
           of
           such
           an
           Infallible
           Guide
           ,
           as
           a
           General
           Council
           ;
           because
           Christians
           for
           several
           Ages
           ,
           have
           attain'd
           Heaven
           and
           Eternal
           Salvation
           ,
           who
           never
           had
           any
           General
           Council
           to
           be
           their
           Guide
           .
           For
           't
           is
           certain
           ,
           and
           on
           all
           sides
           confess'd
           ,
           that
           the
           first
           Nicene
           Council
           ,
           which
           was
           held
           
             An.
             Christ.
          
           325.
           was
           the
           first
           General
           Council
           ,
           the
           Christian
           Church
           ever
           had
           .
           Now
           I
           desire
           to
           know
           (
           and
           you
           may
           ask
           those
           who
           endeavour
           to
           seduce
           your
           Parishioners
           )
           whether
           the
           Christians
           in
           those
           325.
           years
           ,
           (
           when
           there
           was
           no
           General
           Council
           )
           were
           saved
           or
           not
           ?
           If
           they
           were
           saved
           ,
           then
           't
           is
           evident
           that
           a
           General
           Council
           is
           not
           necessary
           to
           guide
           us
           to
           Heaven
           ;
           seeing
           Christians
           for
           325.
           years
           obtain'd
           Salvation
           ,
           and
           yet
           in
           all
           that
           time
           ,
           there
           was
           no
           General
           Council
           to
           guide
           them
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           it
           be
           said
           ,
           Christians
           (
           for
           want
           of
           a
           General
           Council
           to
           guide
           them
           )
           were
           not
           saved
           in
           those
           three
           Centuries
           ;
           Then
           ,
        
         
           1.
           
           They
           contradict
           the
           sense
           of
           Christendom
           ,
           and
           the
           constant
           testimony
           of
           Fathers
           and
           Historians
           ,
           who
           universally
           tell
           us
           of
           thousands
           ,
           not
           only
           of
           pious
           Christians
           ,
           but
           of
           many
           hundred
           thousands
           of
           pious
           Confessors
           and
           Martyrs
           .
           Now
           to
           say
           that
           they
           were
           not
           saved
           ,
           who
           laid
           down
           their
           lives
           for
           Christ
           and
           his
           Gospel
           ,
           is
           such
           an
           uncharitable
           and
           unchristian
           Censure
           ,
           as
           no
           sober
           Christian
           ever
           did
           ,
           or
           (
           I
           believe
           )
           ever
           will
           be
           guilty
           of
           .
        
         
         
           2.
           
           They
           contradict
           their
           own
           Martyrologies
           ,
           their
           Missals
           and
           Breviaries
           ,
           wherein
           they
           acknowledge
           many
           hundred
           Saints
           and
           Martyrs
           who
           lived
           and
           dyed
           in
           those
           3
           Centuries
           ,
           and
           in
           their
           Offices
           pray
           to
           them
           ,
           as
           to
           glorify'd
           Saints
           and
           Martyrs
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           But
           to
           put
           the
           case
           (
           in
           short
           and
           )
           beyond
           dispute
           ,
           it
           is
           certain
           there
           never
           was
           any
           truly
           General
           Council
           ,
           or
           any
           Synod
           wherein
           the
           Representatives
           of
           the
           Universal
           Church
           did
           meet
           and
           determine
           Controversies
           .
           The
           greatest
           Council
           the
           Christian
           Church
           ever
           had
           ,
           was
           only
           Imperial
           ,
           of
           the
           Roman
           Empire
           ,
           not
           Universal
           of
           all
           Christendom
           ;
           few
           ,
           if
           any
           ,
           out
           of
           the
           Roman
           Empire
           being
           ever
           call'd
           ,
           or
           coming
           to
           any
           of
           those
           Councils
           we
           now
           call
           General
           or
           Oecumenical
           .
           'T
           is
           true
           ,
           there
           are
           several
           Councils
           (
           as
           the
           first
           of
           Nice
           ,
           that
           of
           Constantinople
           ,
           that
           of
           Ephesus
           and
           
             Chalcedon
             ,
             &c.
          
           )
           which
           we
           commonly
           call
           Oecumenical
           or
           General
           Councils
           ;
           but
           then
           the
           word
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           (
           whence
           we
           call
           a
           Council
           Oecumenical
           )
           must
           be
           taken
           in
           that
           signification
           it
           has
           in
           *
           St.
           
             Luke
             ,
             There
             came
             a
             Decree
             from
          
           Augustus
           ,
           
             that
             (
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             )
             the
             whole
             World
             should
             be
             taxed
             .
          
           Now
           't
           is
           evident
           ,
           that
           by
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           there
           ,
           the
           Roman
           world
           only
           must
           be
           meant
           ,
           or
           the
           Roman
           Empire
           ;
           for
           Augustus
           had
           neither
           intention
           ,
           nor
           any
           Authority
           to
           tax
           any
           ,
           but
           his
           own
           Subjects
           .
           So
           when
           the
           Emperours
           call'd
           Councils
           (
           as
           is
           evident
           they
           did
           call
           all
           the
           first
           ‖
           Oecumenical
           Councils
           )
           they
           had
           neither
           Intention
           ,
           nor
           any
           Authority
           to
           call
           those
           Christians
           which
           were
           out
           of
           their
           Empire
           ,
           and
           none
           of
           their
           Subjects
           .
           Now
           't
           is
           evident
           that
           when
           the
           
           Nicene
           Council
           was
           call'd
           ,
           and
           others
           after
           it
           ,
           a
           very
           great
           part
           of
           Christendom
           was
           without
           the
           bounds
           of
           the
           Roman
           Empire
           ,
           whose
           Bishops
           as
           they
           were
           never
           call'd
           ,
           so
           they
           never
           came
           ,
           as
           may
           appear
           by
           the
           Subscriptions
           to
           the
           Councils
           themselves
           .
        
         
           4.
           
           Is
           it
           not
           irrational
           for
           them
           to
           boast
           of
           the
           Infallibility
           of
           their
           General
           Councils
           ?
           when
           their
           greatest
           *
           Writers
           ,
           and
           Publishers
           of
           their
           Councils
           ,
           ridiculously
           contradict
           themselves
           ,
           and
           give
           us
           this
           distinction
           of
           General
           Councils
           .
           1.
           
           
             Generalia
             Concilia
             approbata
          
           .
           2.
           
           
             Concilia
             Gen.
             reprobata
          
           .
           3.
           
           
             Concilia
             Gen.
             partim
             approbata
             ,
             partim
             reprobata
             .
          
           4.
           
           
             Concilium
             Gen.
             nec
             approbatum
             nec
             reprobatum
             .
          
           They
           mean
           the
           first
           of
           Pisa
           ,
           about
           the
           year
           ,
           1409
           which
           they
           will
           not
           ‖
           approve
           nor
           reject
           .
           In
           short
           ,
           if
           General
           Councils
           may
           be
           reprobate
           and
           rejected
           ,
           then
           sure
           they
           are
           not
           Infallible
           .
        
         
           5.
           
           It
           seems
           your
           Emissaries
           (
           to
           perswade
           your
           People
           to
           desert
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           )
           tell
           your
           Parishioners
           ,
           that
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           is
           in
           a
           miserable
           condition
           for
           want
           of
           (
           what
           they
           have
           )
           an
           Infallible
           Guide
           and
           Judge
           of
           Controversies
           .
        
         
           For
           hence
           it
           is
           (
           say
           they
           )
           that
           our
           Church
           is
           divided
           into
           so
           many
           Sects
           and
           Factions
           ,
           some
           being
           Presbyterians
           ,
           some
           Independents
           ,
           some
           Quakers
           ,
           &c.
           
           To
           this
           you
           may
           with
           great
           reason
           and
           truth
           reply
           ;
           That
           they
           have
           in
           the
           Roman
           Church
           ,
           more
           Sects
           and
           Factions
           ,
           than
           we
           have
           in
           England
           ;
           &
           they
           differing
           in
           things
           of
           an
           higher
           nature
           ,
           such
           as
           concern
           the
           Being
           of
           the
           Papacy
           .
        
         
         
           For
           ,
           to
           say
           nothing
           of
           the
           late
           great
           ,
           and
           hot
           differences
           and
           disputes
           between
           the
           Jansenists
           and
           Molinists
           ,
           between
           the
           Dominicans
           and
           their
           Adherents
           on
           the
           one
           side
           ,
           and
           the
           Jesuits
           and
           Franciscans
           on
           the
           other
           :
           Their
           Church
           is
           divided
           into
           great
           Sects
           and
           Factions
           ,
           which
           differ
           in
           things
           which
           concern
           the
           foundation
           of
           their
           Church
           and
           Papacy
           .
        
         
           For
           ,
           (
           to
           omit
           others
           )
           many
           in
           their
           Church
           publickly
           affirm
           and
           maintain
           ,
           1.
           
           That
           the
           Pope
           is
           Infallible
           .
           2.
           
           That
           he
           is
           the
           Supream
           Head
           of
           their
           Church
           above
           all
           General
           Councils
           ,
           and
           that
           no
           Appeal
           lies
           from
           him
           to
           the
           Council
           .
           3.
           
           That
           his
           Supremacy
           is
           not
           only
           in
           this
           Ecclesiastical
           ,
           but
           (
           at
           least
           indirectè
           )
           in
           temporals
           too
           .
           4.
           
           That
           he
           has
           power
           to
           depose
           Kings
           ,
           (
           as
           for
           other
           causes
           so
           )
           for
           Heresie
           ;
           5.
           and
           to
           absolve
           their
           Subjects
           from
           their
           Oaths
           of
           Allegiance
           ,
           and
           give
           away
           their
           Kingdoms
           .
        
         
           And
           altho'
           these
           Opinions
           pass
           (
           with
           approbation
           )
           at
           Rome
           ,
           yet
           they
           are
           all
           (
           of
           them
           )
           deny'd
           and
           condemn'd
           by
           the
           Church
           of
           *
           France
           ,
           and
           thousands
           more
           ,
           who
           publickly
           and
           in
           Print
           declare
           against
           them
           as
           Erroneous
           and
           Impious
           ,
           highly
           prejudicial
           to
           the
           Rights
           of
           Kings
           and
           temporal
           Princes
           ,
           and
           Inconsistent
           with
           the
           Peace
           of
           Christendom
           .
           Now
           if
           our
           Sects
           in
           England
           ,
           have
           risen
           and
           continued
           ,
           because
           we
           have
           no
           Infallible
           Judge
           to
           determine
           the
           Controversie
           ;
           Then
           (
           by
           a
           parity
           of
           Reason
           )
           seeing
           their
           great
           Sects
           and
           differences
           in
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           remain
           undetermin'd
           ,
           it
           must
           follow
           ,
           that
           they
           want
           an
           Infallible
           Judge
           to
           determine
           those
           Controversies
           .
           So
           that
           it
           is
           (
           to
           give
           it
           no
           worse
           name
           )
           a
           very
           strange
           confidence
           in
           your
           Roman
           Emissaries
           ,
           to
           think
           they
           can
           perswade
           Protestants
           to
           desert
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           because
           there
           are
           some
           Sects
           and
           
           Divisions
           in
           it
           ;
           and
           yet
           perswade
           them
           to
           Communicate
           with
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           in
           which
           there
           are
           far
           more
           and
           more
           material
           Sects
           ,
           and
           undetermin'd
           Divisions
           :
           for
           this
           were
           (
           as
           the
           Country
           Proverb
           is
           )
           to
           perswade
           us
           out
           of
           the
           Frying
           Pan
           into
           the
           fire
           ,
           and
           (
           instead
           of
           bettering
           it
           )
           to
           put
           us
           in
           a
           worse
           condition
           .
        
         
           Let
           them
           make
           it
           appear
           ,
           that
           they
           are
           indeed
           at
           Unity
           amongst
           themselves
           ,
           and
           no
           Sects
           or
           Divisions
           amongst
           them
           ;
           then
           this
           Argument
           may
           have
           some
           more
           shew
           of
           Probability
           ;
           but
           (
           as
           the
           case
           now
           stands
           )
           it
           is
           not
           only
           irrational
           ,
           but
           ridiculous
           .
           I
           say
           ,
           some
           more
           shew
           of
           Probability
           ,
           yet
           no
           just
           proof
           .
           For
           admit
           they
           were
           at
           Unity
           amongst
           themselves
           ,
           yet
           there
           are
           many
           other
           gross
           Errors
           and
           Superstitions
           ,
           which
           (
           while
           retain'd
           by
           their
           Church
           )
           makes
           all
           Communion
           with
           them
           impossible
           ;
           but
           enough
           of
           this
           (
           if
           not
           too
           much
           )
           for
           nothing
           can
           be
           (
           to
           an
           Intelligent
           and
           Impartial
           Judge
           )
           more
           evident
           than
           this
           ;
           That
           since
           the
           decease
           of
           the
           Apostles
           ,
           there
           never
           was
           any
           Man
           or
           Congregation
           or
           Council
           of
           Men
           ,
           who
           pretended
           to
           Infallibility
           for
           above
           a
           thousand
           years
           after
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           .
        
         
           But
           the
           Roman
           Church
           is
           so
           far
           from
           having
           (
           what
           she
           commonly
           and
           vainly
           boasts
           of
           )
           Infallibility
           ,
           that
           there
           neither
           is
           ,
           nor
           ever
           was
           any
           Christian
           Church
           in
           the
           world
           in
           such
           a
           miserable
           condition
           ;
           for
           the
           great
           incertainty
           of
           her
           Faith
           and
           Religion
           ;
           which
           incertainty
           arises
           from
           her
           own
           Principles
           ,
           approv'd
           and
           receiv'd
           by
           the
           Supream
           Authority
           of
           that
           Church
           ,
           and
           they
           are
           two
           ,
           
             
               1.
               
               From
               their
               requiring
               the
               Intention
               of
               the
               Minister
               ,
               as
               necessary
               to
               the
               real
               Being
               of
               every
               Sacrament
               .
            
             
               2.
               
               Their
               denying
               the
               certainty
               of
               our
               Senses
               .
            
          
        
         
         
           1.
           
           For
           the
           first
           ,
           that
           the
           Intention
           of
           the
           Minister
           is
           necessarily
           requir'd
           to
           the
           real
           Being
           of
           any
           Sacrament
           ;
           We
           have
           the
           Decree
           of
           *
           Pope
           Eugenius
           expresly
           affirming
           it
           ;
           and
           he
           says
           (
           tho'
           ‖
           untruly
           )
           that
           it
           was
           
             approbante
             Concilio
          
           ;
           Their
           *
           Trent
           Council
           confirms
           the
           same
           ,
           as
           do
           other
           of
           their
           ‖
           Authentick
           Books
           .
           Now
           this
           Principle
           being
           (
           as
           it
           is
           )
           by
           them
           granted
           ,
           it
           evidently
           follows
           ,
        
         
           1.
           
           That
           no
           man
           in
           their
           Church
           can
           be
           certain
           that
           he
           is
           a
           Christian
           ,
           or
           that
           there
           is
           any
           one
           true
           Christian
           in
           the
           whole
           Church
           of
           Rome
           .
           For
           if
           they
           be
           not
           baptiz'd
           ,
           then
           't
           is
           certain
           they
           are
           no
           Christians
           ,
           nor
           Members
           of
           the
           Visible
           Church
           ;
           and
           that
           they
           are
           truly
           Baptiz'd
           is
           impossible
           for
           man
           certainly
           to
           know
           .
           For
           if
           the
           Minister
           who
           Baptiz'd
           him
           ,
           did
           not
           intend
           it
           ,
           he
           is
           not
           Baptiz'd
           ;
           and
           what
           the
           Minister
           intended
           ,
           God
           only
           (
           who
           knows
           the
           heart
           and
           our
           Intentions
           )
           can
           certainly
           know
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           true
           ,
           if
           I
           Baptize
           any
           Person
           ,
           I
           may
           certainly
           know
           my
           own
           Intentions
           ,
           that
           I
           did
           intend
           to
           baptize
           him
           ;
           and
           so
           I
           may
           be
           certain
           he
           is
           truly
           Baptiz'd
           ;
           but
           whether
           he
           who
           Baptiz'd
           me
           ,
           did
           intend
           it
           ,
           is
           impossible
           for
           me
           certainly
           to
           know
           .
           So
           that
           although
           I
           may
           certainly
           know
           that
           another
           man
           is
           truly
           Baptiz'd
           ,
           yet
           no
           man
           in
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           can
           be
           certain
           that
           he
           is
           so
           .
           All
           the
           assurance
           I
           can
           have
           ,
           that
           I
           am
           truly
           Baptiz'd
           ,
           and
           a
           Member
           of
           the
           Christian
           Church
           ,
           is
           ,
           from
           the
           Minister
           who
           Baptiz'd
           me
           .
           But
           he
           being
           always
           Fallible
           ,
           and
           (
           for
           ought
           I
           do
           or
           can
           know
           )
           may
           
           be
           false
           ;
           such
           a
           testimony
           cannot
           assure
           me
           that
           I
           am
           truly
           Baptiz'd
           ,
           and
           indeed
           a
           Christian
           ,
           within
           the
           Church
           ;
           and
           then
           seeing
           —
           
             Extra
             Ecclesiam
             non
             est
             salus
          
           ,
           it
           follows
           ,
           that
           (
           for
           ought
           I
           do
           or
           can
           know
           )
           I
           am
           in
           a
           miserable
           and
           damnable
           condition
           .
        
         
           Now
           suppose
           a
           General
           Council
           ,
           call'd
           by
           the
           Pope
           or
           Emperor
           ,
           if
           they
           are
           not
           Christians
           ,
           I
           may
           be
           sure
           they
           are
           not
           Infallible
           Judges
           ;
           God
           (
           as
           is
           and
           must
           be
           confess'd
           )
           having
           never
           promised
           Infallible
           assistance
           to
           any
           without
           the
           Christian
           Church
           :
           and
           that
           they
           are
           Christians
           I
           can
           never
           certainly
           know
           ,
           because
           't
           is
           impossible
           for
           me
           to
           be
           assur'd
           that
           they
           have
           been
           truly
           Baptiz'd
           ,
           by
           any
           Minister
           really
           intending
           it
           .
        
         
           Now
           admit
           they
           were
           Infallible
           Judges
           ,
           yet
           they
           cannot
           be
           so
           to
           me
           ;
           who
           can
           never
           be
           sure
           they
           are
           so
           .
           For
           I
           can
           have
           no
           more
           Assurance
           of
           their
           Infallibility
           ,
           than
           I
           have
           of
           their
           Christianity
           ,
           of
           which
           't
           is
           impossible
           for
           me
           to
           be
           assur'd
           ,
           seeing
           it
           is
           impossible
           for
           me
           certainly
           to
           know
           ,
           whether
           they
           be
           Baptiz'd
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           Upon
           the
           same
           Principle
           it
           is
           impossible
           for
           any
           certainly
           to
           know
           ,
           whether
           there
           be
           any
           one
           true
           Priest
           in
           the
           whole
           Papacy
           ;
           and
           consequently
           that
           there
           is
           any
           true
           Bishop
           ,
           (
           for
           it
           is
           certain
           ,
           every
           true
           Bishop
           must
           be
           a
           Priest
           )
           now
           if
           none
           can
           be
           certain
           that
           there
           is
           any
           true
           Bishop
           or
           Priest
           in
           the
           Roman
           Church
           ;
           then
           (
           seeing
           it
           is
           certain
           ,
           that
           Bishops
           and
           Priests
           ,
           and
           true
           Orders
           are
           necessary
           to
           the
           Being
           of
           a
           True
           Church
           )
           it
           evidently
           follows
           ,
           that
           they
           are
           so
           far
           from
           being
           certain
           ,
           that
           their
           Church
           is
           Infallible
           ;
           that
           they
           neither
           are
           ,
           nor
           can
           be
           certain
           ,
           that
           their
           Church
           is
           any
           True
           Church
           at
           all
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           Upon
           the
           same
           Principle
           ,
           (
           Marriage
           being
           with
           them
           a
           Sacrament
           ,
           and
           the
           Intention
           of
           the
           Minister
           
           who
           marries
           any
           ,
           being
           necessary
           to
           make
           the
           Marriage
           good
           and
           valid
           )
           all
           marryed
           People
           in
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           for
           ought
           they
           do
           ,
           or
           can
           know
           (
           not
           knowing
           the
           Intention
           of
           the
           Priest
           who
           marryed
           them
           )
           may
           live
           in
           perpetual
           fornication
           ,
           and
           their
           children
           (
           if
           they
           have
           any
           )
           illegitimate
           ,
           as
           begot
           by
           Fornication
           ,
           and
           not
           in
           lawful
           Marriage
           .
        
         
           4.
           
           And
           on
           the
           same
           Principle
           ,
           none
           in
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           can
           be
           certain
           ,
           that
           the
           Bread
           in
           the
           Eucharist
           is
           truly
           Consecrate
           ,
           (
           because
           the
           Priests
           intention
           ,
           who
           Consecrates
           ,
           cannot
           possibly
           be
           known
           to
           them
           )
           and
           if
           it
           be
           not
           truly
           Consecrate
           ,
           it
           (
           as
           is
           confess'd
           )
           remains
           Bread
           ,
           and
           then
           (
           as
           is
           confess'd
           too
           )
           they
           in
           Worshipping
           it
           ,
           are
           most
           impious
           Idolaters
           ,
           worse
           than
           they
           of
           *
           Lapland
           ,
           who
           worship
           a
           piece
           of
           Red
           Cloth
           ,
           &c.
           
           So
           that
           this
           is
           the
           miserable
           condition
           of
           all
           Communicants
           in
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           that
           (
           for
           ought
           they
           do
           ,
           or
           can
           certainly
           know
           )
           they
           are
           most
           impious
           Idolaters
           .
        
         
           Now
           let
           any
           intelligent
           and
           pious
           Person
           judge
           ,
           whether
           our
           most
           wise
           and
           gracious
           God
           hath
           left
           his
           Church
           in
           such
           a
           miserable
           condition
           ,
           that
           it
           shou'd
           be
           in
           the
           power
           of
           wicked
           Ministers
           ,
           to
           make
           all
           his
           People
           abominable
           Idolaters
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           The
           Second
           thing
           I
           nam'd
           ,
           from
           which
           the
           great
           incertainty
           of
           the
           Roman
           Churches
           Religion
           (
           tho'
           they
           vainly
           brag
           of
           Infallibility
           )
           arises
           ,
           is
           their
           denying
           the
           certainty
           of
           our
           Senses
           .
           For
           this
           being
           deny'd
           ,
           it
           will
           evidently
           follow
           ,
           that
           the
           Roman
           Catholicks
           neither
           have
           ,
           nor
           can
           have
           any
           certainty
           of
           their
           Religion
           :
           That
           this
           may
           appear
           ,
           consider
           ,
        
         
         
           1.
           
           That
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           ordain'd
           his
           Apostles
           to
           be
           *
           Witness
           of
           his
           Resurrection
           ,
           and
           that
           he
           had
           a
           real
           Body
           ,
           and
           was
           not
           a
           Spirit
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           And
           that
           they
           might
           be
           sufficient
           Witnesses
           ,
           He
           appear'd
           several
           times
           to
           them
           ,
           that
           they
           might
           ‖
           see
           ,
           and
           touch
           ,
           and
           handle
           *
           him
           ;
           blames
           them
           for
           not
           believing
           those
           who
           had
           seen
           him
           after
           his
           Resurrection
           ;
           and
           S.
           Luke
           tells
           us
           ,
           that
           these
           ‖
           
             were
             infallible
             proofs
          
           of
           his
           Resurrection
           ,
           &c.
           and
           so
           thinks
           S.
           *
           John
           too
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           The
           Roman
           Catholicks
           deny
           this
           certainty
           of
           our
           Senses
           ,
           and
           tell
           us
           ;
           that
           the
           Bread
           in
           the
           Eucharist
           after
           Consecration
           ,
           is
           not
           Bread
           ,
           but
           the
           very
           glorifyed
           Body
           of
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           ;
           (
           tho'
           all
           our
           Senses
           assure
           us
           ,
           That
           't
           is
           Bread
           still
           )
           and
           tell
           us
           that
           we
           must
           not
           trust
           our
           Senses
           ,
           but
           believe
           it
           to
           be
           his
           Body
           .
           Well
           ,
           ask
           them
           how
           they
           know
           it
           is
           his
           Body
           ?
           they
           say
           by
           Faith
           ;
           but
           how
           came
           they
           by
           that
           Faith
           ?
           They
           say
           (
           as
           the
           Text
           saith
           )
           by
           *
           hearing
           :
           But
           then
           1.
           
           Sense
           (
           they
           say
           )
           is
           no
           certain
           Assurer
           of
           what
           we
           have
           by
           it
           .
           2.
           
           If
           all
           my
           five
           Senses
           may
           be
           deceiv'd
           ,
           in
           judging
           the
           Wafer
           to
           be
           Bread
           ,
           certainly
           their
           Hearing
           ,
           (
           which
           is
           but
           one
           )
           may
           be
           deceiv'd
           :
           And
           then
           all
           their
           Faith
           ,
           and
           the
           certainty
           of
           it
           ,
           depending
           upon
           their
           Hearing
           (
           none
           of
           the
           Senses
           according
           to
           their
           Principles
           ,
           being
           to
           be
           trusted
           in
           matters
           of
           Faith
           ,
           because
           they
           may
           deceive
           us
           )
           it
           manifestly
           follows
           ,
           That
           they
           are
           so
           far
           from
           Infallibility
           ,
           that
           they
           neither
           have
           ,
           nor
           can
           have
           any
           (
           so
           much
           as
           moral
           )
           certainty
           of
           any
           thing
           they
           Believe
           .
           But
           (
           if
           not
           too
           much
           )
           enough
           of
           this
           .
           For
           indeed
           ,
           their
           pretences
           to
           Infallibility
           are
           so
           weak
           ,
           that
           they
           deserve
           no
           confutation
           .
        
         
         
           I
           come
           now
           to
           the
           second
           thing
           ,
           which
           you
           desir'd
           me
           to
           do
           ;
           that
           is
           ,
           to
           give
           some
           Reasons
           to
           justifie
           
             our
             Separation
             from
             Rome
          
           ,
           that
           it
           may
           appear
           ,
           that
           we
           are
           not
           (
           what
           they
           commonly
           miscal
           us
           )
           Schismaticks
           .
           And
           here
           it
           is
           to
           be
           consider'd
           ,
        
         
           1.
           
           That
           Schism
           (
           to
           pass
           by
           all
           other
           significations
           of
           the
           word
           )
           is
           a
           
             Criminal
             or
             sinful
          
           violation
           ,
           or
           a
           breach
           of
           Ecclesiastical
           or
           Church-Union
           ,
           which
           Union
           is
           two
           fold
           ,
           
             
               1.
               
               Internal
               ,
               consisting
               in
               an
               Union
               of
               Judgment
               ,
               and
               that
               mutual
               Love
               and
               Charity
               which
               Christians
               ought
               to
               have
               mutually
               one
               to
               another
               .
            
             
               2.
               
               External
               ,
               consisting
               in
               an
               outward
               profession
               of
               the
               same
               Faith
               ,
               Communion
               in
               the
               same
               Liturgies
               and
               Sacred
               Offices
               and
               Sacraments
               .
            
          
        
         
           2.
           
           Schism
           ,
           (
           as
           now
           we
           speak
           of
           it
           )
           does
           not
           consist
           in
           a
           violation
           or
           breach
           of
           that
           Internal
           Union
           of
           Judgment
           and
           Love
           (
           tho'
           this
           may
           ,
           and
           is
           call'd
           Schism
           *
           in
           Scripture
           ,
           and
           is
           a
           sin
           )
           for
           such
           Internal
           Divisions
           ,
           and
           breach
           of
           the
           Union
           of
           Love
           and
           Judgment
           ,
           are
           not
           of
           humane
           cognizance
           ,
           nor
           can
           the
           Church
           know
           who
           are
           ,
           or
           censure
           ,
           such
           Schismaticks
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           But
           Schism
           (
           in
           the
           sense
           we
           now
           speak
           of
           )
           consists
           in
           a
           Violation
           or
           breach
           of
           the
           External
           Church-Union
           ,
           when
           men
           refuse
           to
           Communicate
           with
           their
           Fellow-Christians
           ,
           in
           the
           Belief
           of
           the
           same
           Creed
           ,
           coming
           to
           the
           same
           publick
           Prayers
           ,
           and
           receiving
           the
           same
           Sacraments
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           4.
           
           This
           Schism
           must
           be
           a
           Criminal
           or
           Sinful
           Separation
           ;
           when
           those
           who
           separate
           have
           no
           Rational
           
           and
           firm
           grounds
           to
           justifie
           their
           Separation
           .
           For
           if
           any
           Church
           hath
           Apostatiz'd
           from
           the
           Ancient
           and
           true
           Christian
           Faith
           ,
           and
           (
           as
           necessary
           conditions
           of
           her
           Communion
           )
           require
           of
           her
           Members
           ,
           to
           believe
           any
           thing
           
             in
             fide
          
           erroneous
           ,
           or
           to
           do
           any
           thing
           
             in
             facto
          
           impious
           ;
           then
           Separation
           from
           such
           a
           corrupted
           Church
           ,
           is
           so
           far
           from
           being
           Schismatical
           and
           sinful
           Impiety
           ;
           that
           it
           is
           a
           *
           
             necessary
             duty
          
           .
           This
           is
           on
           all
           sides
           ‖
           confessed
           ,
           that
           't
           is
           no
           Schism
           to
           Separate
           from
           an
           erroneous
           Church
           ;
           It
           being
           evident
           that
           no
           Christian
           can
           be
           bound
           to
           Communicate
           with
           any
           Church
           in
           Errors
           or
           Impieties
           ;
           and
           therefore
           may
           without
           any
           Schism
           ,
           lawfully
           Separate
           from
           such
           Churches
           ,
           whether
           that
           Church
           disbelieve
           and
           deny
           any
           Articles
           of
           the
           Ancient
           and
           True
           Christian
           Faith
           ,
           or
           (
           which
           the
           Pope
           and
           his
           party
           do
           )
           add
           new
           ones
           ,
           inconsistent
           with
           it
           ,
           and
           the
           truth
           of
           the
           Gospel
           ,
           and
           that
           Faith
           which
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           and
           his
           Apostles
           deliver'd
           to
           the
           Christian
           Church
           .
        
         
           The
           Premisses
           concerning
           the
           Nature
           of
           Schism
           ,
           consider'd
           ,
           and
           (
           as
           they
           are
           and
           must
           be
           )
           granted
           :
           I
           say
           ,
           That
           the
           Errors
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           are
           so
           many
           ,
           and
           grievous
           ,
           that
           they
           are
           a
           just
           ground
           to
           condemn
           Her
           ,
           and
           to
           justifie
           our
           Separation
           from
           her
           .
           I
           shall
           only
           instance
           in
           some
           few
           ;
           and
           the
           first
           *
           concern
           the
           
             Sacred
             Scripture
          
           ;
           which
           ,
        
         
           1.
           
           Many
           of
           her
           Writers
           speak
           most
           irreverently
           of
           the
           Sacred
           Scriptures
           (
           tho'
           they
           be
           on
           all
           sides
           confess'd
           to
           be
           the
           Holy
           Word
           of
           God
           )
           calling
           them
           nasus
           ‖
           
             Cereus
             ,
             Regula
             Lesbia
             ,
             Vnsens'd
             Characters
             ,
          
           &c.
           
           These
           and
           many
           more
           such
           occur
           in
           their
           greatest
           Writers
           ,
           as
           is
           notoriously
           known
           ,
           
           and
           cannot
           be
           deny'd
           .
           Sure
           I
           am
           ,
           that
           She
           her self
           *
           tells
           us
           —
           
             That
             the
             reading
             of
             Scripture
             in
             any
             Vulgar
             tongue
             ,
             has
             (
             by
             reason
             of
             mens
             rashness
             )
             done
             more
             mischief
             than
             good
             .
          
           And
           therefore
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           forbids
           all
           Reading
           the
           Scriptures
           in
           any
           Vulgar
           Tongue
           ;
           which
           consequence
           (
           notwithstanding
           her
           Infallibility
           )
           is
           most
           irrational
           ,
           and
           not
           better
           than
           this
           —
           None
           shall
           drink
           any
           Wine
           ,
           because
           many
           ,
           through
           their
           temerity
           and
           drunkenness
           abuse
           it
           ,
           to
           their
           great
           hurt
           and
           detriment
           .
           But
           this
           is
           not
           all
           ,
           nor
           (
           tho'
           bad
           enough
           )
           the
           worst
           of
           it
           .
           Other
           ‖
           of
           their
           Authors
           (
           approv'd
           at
           Rome
           )
           tell
           us
           ;
           That
           the
           reading
           of
           Scripture
           in
           a
           vulgar
           Tongue
           ,
           is
           so
           far
           from
           being
           profitable
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           pernicious
           to
           the
           people
           :
           Nay
           (
           
             horresco
             referens
          
           )
           They
           farther
           say
           —
           That
           the
           permitting
           of
           the
           People
           to
           read
           the
           Bible
           was
           the
           
             Invention
             of
             the
             Devil
          
           ,
           and
           
             a
             likelier
             means
             to
             build
             Babylon
             ,
             than
             Jerusalem
             .
          
           Having
           thus
           given
           so
           foul
           a
           character
           of
           the
           
             Holy
             Scriptures
          
           ,
           to
           fright
           men
           foom
           reading
           them
           as
           dangerous
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           People
           pernicious
           ;
           they
           do
           in
           the
           next
           place
        
         
           2.
           
           Absolutely
           *
           prohibit
           the
           reading
           or
           hearing
           the
           Bible
           ,
           or
           any
           Summary
           or
           Compendium
           of
           it
           ,
           in
           any
           vulgar
           Tongue
           ,
           understood
           by
           the
           People
           ;
           and
           if
           any
           have
           any
           prohibited
           Books
           ,
           they
           are
           to
           bring
           them
           to
           the
           Bishop
           or
           Inquisitor
           ,
           who
           are
           presently
           to
           see
           them
           burnt
           ,
           ‖
           (
           the
           Bible
           not
           excepted
           )
           for
           it
           is
           ,
           all
           *
           prohibited
           Books
           whatsoever
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           Now
           this
           giving
           such
           an
           irreverent
           character
           of
           Holy
           Scripture
           ,
           and
           prohibiting
           the
           reading
           or
           hearing
           
           it
           in
           any
           vulgar
           Tongue
           ,
           is
           not
           only
           erroneous
           ,
           but
           highly
           unjust
           ,
           and
           (
           to
           the
           People
           ,
           who
           are
           deny'd
           the
           *
           benefit
           and
           comfort
           they
           might
           receive
           by
           reading
           the
           Scriptures
           )
           pernicious
           ,
           which
           will
           evidently
           appear
           ;
           because
           such
           prohibition
           of
           reading
           or
           hearing
           the
           Bible
           ,
           in
           any
           vulgar
           Language
           ,
           is
           expresly
           contrary
           
             
               1.
               
               To
               the
               Scripture
               it self
               .
            
             
               2.
               
               To
               the
               command
               and
               precepts
               of
               God
               in
               It.
               
            
             
               3.
               
               To
               the
               practice
               of
               the
               Church
               of
               God
               ,
               (
               both
               Jewish
               and
               Christian
               )
               as
               may
               and
               (
               to
               intelligent
               and
               impartial
               Judges
               )
               will
               evidently
               appear
               .
            
          
        
         
           1.
           
           For
           the
           Jewish
           Church
           ;
           't
           is
           undeniably
           certain
           ,
           
           That
           the
           Sacred
           Books
           of
           the
           Old
           Testament
           ,
           were
           (
           either
           immediately
           by
           God
           himself
           ,
           or
           mediately
           by
           his
           Prophets
           ▪
           )
           given
           to
           the
           Jews
           in
           their
           own
           vulgar
           Tongue
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           That
           they
           were
           not
           given
           only
           to
           the
           Levites
           ,
           or
           learned
           amongst
           the
           Jews
           ,
           but
           to
           ‖
           
             all
             Israel
             (
             Levites
          
           or
           Laity
           )
           Remember
           (
           saies
           the
           Prophet
           )
           
             the
             Law
             of
             Moses
             ,
             which
             I
             commanded
             in
             Horeb
             for
             all
             Israel
             ,
             with
             the
             Statutes
             and
             Judgments
             .
          
        
         
           3.
           
           And
           by
           the
           express
           *
           
             command
             of
             God
          
           ,
           they
           were
           bound
           to
           read
           that
           Law
           ,
           in
           that
           vulgar
           Language
           ,
           to
           all
           Israel
           ,
           men
           ,
           women
           ,
           and
           children
           ,
           and
           to
           that
           end
           ,
           that
           they
           might
           ‖
           learn
           to
           fear
           the
           Lord
           ,
           and
           keep
           his
           Statutes
           .
        
         
           4.
           
           And
           accordingly
           (
           
             in
             praxi
             &
             de
             facto
          
           )
           it
           was
           read
           in
           their
           vulgar
           Tongue
           ,
           to
           men
           ,
           *
           women
           and
           children
           ;
           and
           afterwards
           both
           the
           Law
           and
           Prophets
           were
           read
           in
           every
           Synagogue
           ,
           every
           ‖
           Sabbath
           day
           .
        
         
           5.
           
           And
           that
           they
           had
           the
           Scriptures
           in
           the
           vulgar
           Tongue
           ,
           and
           could
           read
           and
           be
           directed
           by
           them
           (
           as
           
           divine
           Oracles
           )
           was
           the
           *
           greatest
           and
           most
           profitable
           privilege
           ,
           and
           the
           ‖
           man
           is
           Bless'd
           ,
           who
           read
           and
           did
           meditate
           in
           them
           day
           and
           night
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           The
           Premisses
           consider'd
           ,
           I
           think
           't
           is
           evident
           ,
           that
           their
           undervaluing
           the
           Scriptures
           ,
           and
           prohibiting
           the
           reading
           them
           in
           any
           vulgar
           Tongue
           ,
           is
           directly
           contradictory
           to
           the
           express
           command
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           practice
           of
           
             the
             Jewish
             Church
          
           (
           the
           only
           true
           Church
           then
           )
           before
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           had
           constituted
           the
           Christian
           Church
           of
           Jews
           and
           Gentiles
           .
        
         
           
           2.
           
           Concerning
           the
           Christian
           Church
           ;
           That
           the
           Scriptures
           were
           had
           and
           read
           by
           Christians
           ,
           (
           either
           in
           the
           Originals
           ,
           or
           in
           Versions
           ,
           and
           Translations
           into
           other
           vulgar
           Tongues
           )
           is
           an
           undeniable
           truth
           ,
           and
           indeed
           confess'd
           .
           For
           't
           is
           manifest
           ,
           that
           all
           Churches
           in
           Christendom
           *
           anciently
           had
           ,
           and
           (
           except
           the
           Roman
           )
           to
           this
           day
           have
           the
           Scriptures
           ,
           and
           read
           them
           ,
           in
           their
           vulgar
           Tongues
           ;
           and
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           had
           ,
           and
           read
           the
           Scriptures
           in
           Latin
           ,
           (
           which
           was
           for
           many
           ages
           their
           vulgar
           Tongue
           )
           till
           it
           did
           degenerate
           into
           Italian
           .
           2.
           
           The
           Apostle
           commends
           Timothy
           ,
           that
           he
           had
           
             known
             the
             Scriptures
             from
             a
          
           ‖
           
             child
             ,
             and
             that
             they
             were
             able
             to
             make
             him
             wise
             unto
             Salvation
          
           ;
           or
           (
           as
           S.
           James
           expresseth
           it
           *
           )
           
             able
             to
             save
             his
             soul.
          
           The
           Scriptures
           ,
           which
           Timothy
           is
           said
           to
           know
           from
           a
           child
           ,
           were
           the
           Scriptures
           of
           the
           Old
           Testament
           ,
           (
           little
           ,
           if
           any
           ,
           of
           the
           New
           being
           then
           writ
           ,
           when
           he
           was
           a
           child
           )
           which
           he
           had
           and
           read
           in
           vulgar
           Tongue
           ;
           and
           such
           reading
           was
           so
           far
           from
           being
           (
           what
           the
           Popish
           Writers
           ,
           and
           the
           Popes
           themselves
           say
           of
           them
           )
           dangerous
           and
           pernicious
           to
           his
           Soul
           ;
           that
           (
           if
           we
           will
           believe
           the
           
           Apostle
           )
           it
           was
           a
           happy
           and
           powerful
           means
           for
           the
           Salvation
           of
           it
           .
           3.
           
           St.
           Paul
           *
           preaches
           the
           Gospel
           to
           the
           Jews
           at
           Berea
           :
           they
           had
           ,
           and
           daily
           search'd
           the
           Scriptures
           ,
           whether
           those
           things
           which
           Paul
           preach'd
           ,
           were
           so
           .
           The
           Apostle
           commends
           them
           for
           it
           ,
           and
           shews
           them
           the
           great
           benefit
           and
           blessing
           they
           gain'd
           by
           doing
           it
           .
           
             They
             daily
             searched
             the
             Scriptures
             ,
             Therefore
          
           (
           says
           he
           )
           
             Many
             of
          
           ‖
           
             them
             believed
          
           .
           Their
           having
           and
           reading
           the
           Scriptures
           (
           the
           Old
           Testament
           )
           in
           their
           vulgar
           Tongue
           ,
           was
           a
           happy
           and
           powerful
           cause
           and
           means
           of
           their
           Believing
           the
           Gospel
           ,
           which
           S.
           Paul
           preach'd
           .
           4.
           
           S.
           John
           assures
           us
           ,
           that
           the
           Gospel
           was
           by
           him
           writ
           to
           that
           very
           end
           ,
           That
           *
           
             we
             might
             believe
             ,
             and
             have
             eternal
             Life
             .
          
        
         
           The
           Reading
           and
           Knowing
           of
           the
           Scriptures
           was
           the
           means
           God
           himself
           had
           appointed
           to
           bring
           us
           to
           true
           Faith
           and
           Salvation
           :
           and
           therefore
           to
           forbid
           all
           reading
           or
           hearing
           the
           Scriptures
           in
           a
           vulgar
           and
           (
           to
           the
           People
           )
           intelligible
           Language
           ,
           is
           to
           contradict
           God
           and
           his
           Apostles
           ,
           and
           to
           deprive
           men
           of
           the
           great
           and
           effectual
           means
           of
           their
           Salvation
           .
           5.
           
           S.
           Peter
           writing
           to
           the
           dispersed
           Jews
           (
           who
           by
           God's
           appointment
           had
           ,
           and
           read
           the
           Scriptures
           in
           their
           vulgar
           Tongue
           )
           he
           admonisheth
           and
           requires
           them
           ;
           
             That
             as
             new-born
             babes
             they
             should
          
           ‖
           
             desire
             the
             sincere
             milk
             of
             the
             word
             ,
             that
             they
             might
             grow
             thereby
             .
          
           As
           the
           Mothers
           milk
           is
           a
           wholesom
           nourishment
           for
           young
           Children
           ,
           to
           preserve
           and
           promote
           a
           temporal
           life
           ;
           so
           (
           in
           S.
           
           Peter's
           Judgment
           )
           the
           Scriptures
           are
           a
           wholesom
           nourishment
           for
           young
           Christians
           to
           preserve
           and
           promote
           a
           Spiritual
           Life
           ,
           and
           therefore
           he
           exhorts
           them
           to
           desire
           the
           sincere
           
             milk
             of
             the
             word
             ,
             that
             they
             may
             grow
             thereby
             :
          
           And
           farther
           ,
           as
           to
           take
           away
           Milk
           from
           new-born
           Children
           ,
           were
           evidently
           injust
           
           in
           it self
           ,
           and
           pernicious
           to
           the
           Children
           ;
           so
           to
           take
           away
           the
           Scriptures
           from
           young
           Children
           in
           Christ
           ,
           would
           be
           equally
           (
           or
           rather
           more
           )
           impious
           in
           him
           who
           should
           take
           them
           away
           ,
           and
           more
           pernicious
           to
           them
           from
           whom
           they
           are
           taken
           .
           Because
           taking
           away
           the
           Mothers
           milk
           from
           Infants
           ,
           and
           young
           Children
           ,
           is
           only
           prejudicial
           to
           the
           Body
           ,
           and
           a
           temporal
           Life
           ;
           but
           to
           take
           away
           the
           Scriptures
           from
           young
           (
           or
           any
           )
           Christians
           ,
           is
           prejudicial
           to
           their
           Souls
           and
           Salvation
           .
           6.
           
           But
           altho'
           S.
           Peter
           exhorts
           the
           Jews
           to
           desire
           the
           sincere
           milk
           of
           the
           Word
           ,
           that
           is
           to
           read
           and
           understand
           it
           ,
           for
           the
           benefit
           of
           their
           Souls
           ;
           for
           he
           well
           knew
           that
           they
           had
           the
           Scriptures
           given
           by
           God
           himself
           ,
           in
           their
           vulgar
           Tongue
           ,
           and
           that
           there
           was
           none
           then
           ,
           who
           would
           hinder
           them
           to
           read
           them
           .
           And
           tho'
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           *
           commanded
           the
           Jews
           
             to
             search
             the
             Scriptures
          
           ,
           to
           bring
           them
           to
           the
           knowledge
           and
           belief
           that
           he
           was
           the
           true
           Messiah
           ,
           and
           so
           to
           eternal
           Life
           .
           And
           altho'
           S.
           Paul
           commands
           the
           Colossians
           that
           ‖
           his
           Epistle
           to
           them
           be
           read
           to
           the
           Brethren
           in
           Laodicea
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           Epistle
           from
           *
           Laodicea
           be
           read
           to
           the
           Colossians
           .
           Now
           tho'
           those
           Epistles
           were
           writ
           in
           Greek
           ,
           a
           vulgar
           and
           well
           known
           language
           to
           the
           Colossians
           ,
           and
           Laodiceans
           ;
           yet
           S.
           Paul
           commands
           that
           they
           be
           publickly
           read
           in
           both
           Churches
           .
           But
           let
           Peter
           and
           Paul
           ,
           and
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           himself
           ,
           say
           what
           he
           will
           for
           diligently
           reading
           and
           searching
           the
           Scriptures
           in
           any
           vulgar
           ,
           and
           (
           to
           the
           people
           )
           known
           Tongue
           ;
           his
           pretended
           Vicar
           ,
           in
           contradiction
           to
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           and
           his
           Apostles
           ,
           does
           absolutely
           condemn
           all
           such
           Reading
           of
           Scripture
           ,
           as
           dangerous
           ,
           and
           (
           to
           the
           people
           )
           pernicious
           .
        
         
         
           Lastly
           ,
           you
           may
           (
           if
           you
           think
           it
           convenient
           ,
           and
           have
           an
           opportunity
           )
           propose
           this
           case
           to
           your
           Popish
           Emissary
           (
           who
           ever
           he
           be
           )
           that
           endeavours
           to
           seduce
           your
           Parishioners
           from
           truth
           ,
           and
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           .
           Suppose
           Sempronius
           ,
           a
           great
           and
           very
           rich
           man
           ,
           make
           his
           last
           Will
           and
           Testament
           ,
           and
           divide
           his
           estate
           amongst
           his
           Children
           ,
           and
           give
           many
           considerable
           Legacies
           to
           his
           Friends
           and
           Servants
           ;
           and
           in
           his
           Will
           particularly
           expresses
           what
           ,
           and
           to
           whom
           ,
           and
           upon
           what
           conditions
           his
           Legacies
           are
           bequeath'd
           :
           now
           Sempronius
           dyes
           ,
           and
           some
           great
           man
           has
           got
           his
           Will
           into
           his
           hand
           and
           keeping
           ,
           and
           (
           it
           being
           a
           Will
           in
           a
           Language
           not
           understood
           by
           the
           Legatees
           )
           will
           neither
           let
           them
           have
           the
           Will
           ,
           nor
           a
           true
           and
           attested
           copy
           of
           it
           ,
           in
           a
           Language
           they
           understand
           :
           So
           that
           they
           cannot
           be
           assur'd
           ,
           nor
           any
           way
           certainly
           know
           ,
           either
           who
           are
           (
           by
           the
           Will
           )
           Legatees
           ,
           or
           what
           the
           Legacies
           are
           ,
           or
           upon
           what
           conditions
           they
           are
           given
           ;
           save
           only
           ,
           as
           he
           who
           keeps
           the
           Will
           ,
           shall
           be
           pleased
           to
           signifie
           to
           them
           ;
           who
           (
           if
           he
           be
           not
           an
           honest
           man
           )
           may
           cheat
           and
           cousin
           them
           ,
           and
           they
           have
           no
           remedy
           to
           secure
           their
           right
           ,
           especially
           ,
           if
           he
           who
           keeps
           the
           Will
           be
           ,
           or
           pretend
           to
           be
           a
           supream
           Power
           ,
           from
           whom
           lyes
           no
           appeal
           to
           any
           superiour
           Judge
           ,
           who
           might
           examine
           the
           cause
           ,
           and
           do
           them
           justice
           .
           In
           this
           case
           ,
           't
           is
           most
           evident
           ,
           that
           he
           who
           keeps
           the
           Will
           is
           unjust
           in
           himself
           ,
           and
           injurious
           to
           the
           Legatees
           ,
           in
           keeping
           them
           from
           the
           knowledge
           of
           the
           Testators
           Will
           ,
           and
           so
           from
           the
           knowledg
           of
           what
           he
           has
           given
           them
           .
           This
           being
           granted
           ,
           (
           as
           of
           necessity
           it
           ought
           and
           must
           )
           you
           may
           desire
           him
           (
           as
           a
           like
           case
           )
           to
           consider
           ,
        
         
           1.
           
           That
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           even
           as
           Man
           ,
           and
           our
           Mediator
           was
           very
           *
           great
           ,
           the
           
             Prince
             of
             Peace
          
           ,
           and
           
             head
             of
             his
             Church
          
           .
        
         
         
           2.
           
           That
           he
           liv'd
           and
           dy'd
           for
           his
           Church
           ,
           and
           in
           his
           Will
           ,
           left
           exceeding
           great
           Legacies
           to
           his
           Saints
           and
           Servants
           ,
           with
           the
           conditions
           he
           required
           of
           the
           Legatees
           ,
           to
           make
           them
           capable
           of
           those
           Legacies
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           That
           the
           Gospel
           was
           his
           last
           Will
           and
           Testament
           ,
           in
           which
           ,
           who
           are
           Legatees
           ,
           and
           upon
           what
           conditions
           their
           Legacies
           become
           due
           ,
           are
           particularly
           express'd
           .
        
         
           4.
           
           His
           Will
           was
           writ
           in
           a
           Language
           the
           People
           do
           not
           now
           understand
           ;
           and
           the
           Bishop
           of
           Rome
           having
           got
           it
           into
           his
           hand
           ,
           and
           pretending
           that
           he
           (
           as
           Vicar
           of
           Christ
           )
           is
           the
           sole
           *
           
             Supream
             keeper
          
           of
           it
           ,
           does
           absolutely
           deny
           the
           People
           any
           copy
           of
           it
           in
           any
           vulgar
           Language
           ,
           by
           them
           understood
           ;
           and
           so
           deprives
           them
           of
           the
           knowledge
           of
           their
           Blessed
           Saviour's
           Will
           and
           Testament
           ,
           of
           the
           gracious
           Promises
           ,
           and
           great
           Legacies
           given
           in
           it
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           holy
           Precepts
           and
           conditions
           required
           of
           the
           People
           ,
           to
           give
           them
           a
           right
           to
           those
           Legacies
           .
           So
           that
           (
           in
           contradiction
           to
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour's
           express
           command
           )
           they
           must
           neither
           search
           or
           read
           ,
           or
           have
           the
           Gospel
           (
           in
           any
           vulgar
           Tongue
           by
           them
           understood
           )
           upon
           pain
           of
           Excommunication
           .
           They
           are
           not
           permitted
           to
           read
           the
           Gospel
           ,
           nor
           must
           they
           trust
           to
           their
           own
           eyes
           and
           understanding
           ,
           (
           tho'
           given
           them
           by
           God
           for
           that
           purpose
           )
           but
           they
           must
           believe
           the
           Church
           ,
           and
           the
           Pope
           (
           or
           rather
           an
           ordinary
           Priest
           from
           him
           )
           must
           tell
           them
           ,
           what
           Legacies
           are
           given
           ,
           and
           what
           Duties
           are
           requir'd
           
           by
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           in
           the
           Gospel
           .
           Now
           in
           the
           former
           case
           ,
           if
           the
           keeping
           Sempronius
           his
           Will
           from
           the
           Legatees
           was
           evidently
           unjust
           ,
           and
           injurious
           to
           the
           Legatees
           :
           much
           more
           will
           the
           detaining
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour's
           Will
           from
           his
           People
           (
           the
           Salvation
           of
           whose
           Souls
           ,
           are
           so
           highly
           concern'd
           in
           it
           )
           be
           unjust
           in
           the
           Pope
           and
           his
           party
           ;
           and
           not
           only
           injurious
           ,
           but
           pernicious
           to
           the
           People
           .
           For
           in
           Sempronius
           his
           Will
           ,
           the
           Legacies
           were
           only
           temporal
           things
           ,
           and
           so
           the
           loss
           of
           them
           less
           considerable
           :
           But
           in
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour's
           Will
           and
           Testament
           ,
           the
           Legacies
           are
           Spiritual
           ,
           the
           promises
           of
           Grace
           here
           ,
           and
           eternal
           Glory
           hereafter
           ;
           and
           therefore
           to
           take
           away
           the
           Gospel
           from
           the
           People
           in
           any
           Language
           understood
           by
           them
           ,
           so
           that
           they
           cannot
           certainly
           know
           the
           Promises
           ,
           or
           their
           duties
           requir'd
           for
           the
           attaining
           of
           them
           ;
           is
           (
           as
           I
           said
           )
           not
           only
           injurious
           but
           pernicious
           to
           the
           poor
           people
           ,
           detain'd
           from
           the
           only
           means
           to
           know
           those
           things
           ,
           which
           (
           in
           order
           to
           their
           Salvation
           )
           they
           are
           (
           by
           the
           Law
           of
           God
           and
           the
           Gospel
           )
           bound
           to
           know
           .
           For
           1.
           
           Without
           the
           knowledge
           of
           Christ
           ,
           and
           belief
           in
           him
           ,
           there
           is
           no
           possibility
           of
           Salvation
           ,
           (
           Joh.
           3.16
           .
           Act.
           10.43
           .
           Joh.
           17.3
           .
           )
           And
           2.
           such
           knowledge
           of
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           ,
           whereon
           we
           may
           fiducially
           ,
           and
           with
           certainty
           rely
           ,
           can
           no
           where
           be
           had
           but
           in
           Scripture
           ,
           the
           only
           Infallible
           rule
           of
           our
           Faith.
           3.
           
           Now
           the
           Pope
           and
           his
           party
           ,
           severely
           prohibiting
           the
           People
           to
           read
           ,
           or
           have
           the
           Scriptures
           (
           or
           any
           part
           of
           them
           )
           in
           any
           vulgar
           Language
           which
           they
           understand
           ,
           do
           by
           consequence
           deprive
           them
           of
           the
           only
           sure
           ,
           and
           certain
           means
           of
           their
           Salvation
           .
           Which
           how
           unbecoming
           it
           is
           ,
           the
           pretended
           Successor
           of
           S.
           Peter
           
           (
           who
           was
           commanded
           by
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           ,
           to
           feed
           his
           Sheep
           ,
           not
           to
           famish
           them
           ,
           by
           taking
           the
           Scriptures
           from
           them
           )
           and
           how
           pernicious
           to
           the
           poor
           People
           ,
           let
           the
           Reader
           judge
           .
           4.
           
           And
           that
           the
           Pope
           (
           
             quantum
             in
             se
             est
          
           )
           deprives
           the
           People
           of
           the
           knowledge
           of
           Scripture
           (
           besides
           what
           is
           above
           said
           )
           I
           shall
           only
           add
           a
           signal
           passage
           out
           of
           a
           late
           Popes
           Bull
           ,
           wherein
           he
           condemns
           a
           French
           Translation
           of
           their
           own
           vulgar
           Latine
           in
           these
           words
           ,
           *
           
             The
             said
             Gallican
             Version
             of
             the
             New
             Testament
             ,
             wheresoever
             Printed
             ,
             or
             hereafter
             to
             be
             Printed
             ,
             as
             rash
             ,
             and
             mischievous
             ,
             differing
             from
             the
             vulgar
             Latin
             ,
             and
             scandalous
             to
             the
             ignorant
             ;
             We
             (
             by
             our
             Apostolical
             Authority
             )
             condemn
             and
             prohibit
             :
             so
             that
             hereafter
             ,
             none
             ,
             of
             what
             Degree
             or
             condition
          
           ‖
           
             soever
             he
             be
             ,
             under
             pain
             of
             Excommunication
             ,
             shall
             dare
             ,
             or
             presume
             to
             read
             ,
             have
             ,
             sell
             ▪
             print
             ,
             or
             cause
             it
             to
             be
             printed
             :
             and
             whosoever
             has
             that
             French
             Translation
             of
             the
             N.
             Testament
             ,
             he
             is
             bound
             under
             pain
             of
             Excommunication
             to
             deliver
             it
             presently
             to
             the
             Ordinary
             of
             the
             place
             ,
             or
             the
             Inquisitors
             ,
             notwithstanding
             any
             thing
             whatsoever
             ,
             which
             may
             be
             to
             the
             contrary
             .
          
           Thus
           Pope
           Clement
           the
           9
           th
           .
           (
           about
           20
           years
           since
           )
           condemns
           and
           prohibits
           the
           Gospel
           of
           Jesus
           Christ
           in
           French
           ,
           (
           a
           vulgar
           Tongue
           )
           and
           we
           are
           told
           by
           a
           great
           and
           learned
           Casuist
           of
           their
           own
           ,
           that
           long
           before
           him
           ,
           Innocent
           the
           3
           d.
           condemned
           ,
           
           and
           prohibited
           a
           French
           Translation
           of
           the
           Bible
           .
           *
           Azorius
           (
           in
           the
           place
           cited
           )
           gives
           the
           reasons
           ,
           why
           the
           Scriptures
           are
           not
           to
           be
           permitted
           to
           be
           read
           ,
           or
           had
           in
           any
           vulgar
           Tongue
           ;
           where
           his
           irreverent
           speeches
           of
           the
           holy
           Word
           of
           God
           ,
           are
           so
           many
           and
           horrid
           ,
           that
           I
           shall
           not
           offend
           the
           pious
           Reader
           ,
           nor
           pollute
           these
           papers
           with
           them
           :
           he
           ,
           who
           would
           be
           satisfied
           ,
           may
           see
           them
           in
           the
           place
           ‖
           cited
           .
        
         
           The
           Premisses
           consider'd
           ,
           I
           believe
           that
           intelligent
           and
           impartial
           Judges
           ,
           (
           who
           love
           and
           seek
           truth
           )
           will
           think
           ,
           that
           we
           had
           just
           reason
           to
           forsake
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           which
           unjustly
           (
           in
           contradiction
           to
           Scripture
           and
           the
           practice
           of
           all
           Christian
           Churches
           ,
           (
           except
           her self
           )
           took
           the
           Holy
           Scriptures
           from
           us
           ,
           and
           consequently
           depriv'd
           us
           of
           the
           happiness
           which
           God
           himself
           had
           given
           us
           ,
           to
           be
           a
           sure
           and
           sufficient
           ground
           of
           our
           spiritual
           comfort
           ,
           and
           hope
           of
           Heaven
           .
           For
           (
           tho'
           they
           are
           pleas'd
           to
           contradict
           it
           )
           the
           Apostle
           *
           
             assures
             us
             ,
             That
             whatever
             things
             were
             written
             aforetime
             ,
             were
             written
             for
             our
             Learning
             ,
             that
             we
             through
             patience
             ,
             and
             comfort
             of
             the
             Scriptures
             ,
             might
             have
             hope
             .
          
           The
           Scriptures
           were
           dictated
           by
           the
           Holy
           Ghost
           ,
           and
           given
           to
           the
           Church
           (
           not
           to
           be
           lockt
           up
           in
           an
           unknown
           Language
           ,
           but
           )
           for
           our
           Learning
           ,
           and
           a
           firm
           foundation
           of
           our
           comfort
           and
           hope
           of
           Heaven
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           The
           Gospel
           was
           dictated
           by
           the
           Holy
           Ghost
           ,
           and
           given
           to
           this
           very
           end
           ,
           that
           it
           might
           be
           an
           effectual
           and
           
             powerful
             means
             to
             bring
             us
             to
             true
             Faith
             ,
             and
             
             by
             it
             to
             eternal
             life
          
           ;
           So
           the
           *
           Apostle
           (
           or
           Holy
           Spirit
           by
           him
           )
           tells
           us
           —
           
             These
             things
             are
             written
             ,
             that
             you
             might
             believe
             that
             Jesus
             is
             the
             Christ
             ,
             and
             believing
             them
             might
             have
             life
             .
          
        
         
           3.
           
           Nor
           is
           the
           Scripture
           an
           imperfect
           and
           defective
           means
           ,
           or
           (
           without
           Traditions
           )
           unable
           to
           beget
           such
           a
           Faith
           ,
           as
           will
           bring
           us
           to
           eternal
           life
           :
           For
           the
           Apostle
           (
           who
           knew
           better
           )
           expresly
           tells
           Timothy
           ,
           ‖
           That
           the
           
             Scriptures
             were
          
           *
           
             ABLE
             to
             make
             him
             wise
             unto
             Salvation
             .
          
        
         
           4.
           
           Lastly
           ,
           Nor
           are
           the
           Scriptures
           so
           obscurely
           penn'd
           ,
           (
           as
           they
           are
           commonly
           ,
           and
           most
           unjustly
           slander'd
           by
           our
           Adversaries
           )
           that
           to
           ordinary
           people
           ,
           and
           understandings
           they
           are
           unintelligible
           .
           I
           shall
           not
           go
           about
           to
           prove
           this
           ,
           (
           being
           abundantly
           done
           by
           many
           of
           our
           Protestant
           Divines
           already
           ,
           )
           I
           shall
           only
           add
           one
           testimony
           of
           a
           Cardinal
           (
           I
           mean
           Bessarion
           )
           who
           at
           the
           Council
           of
           ‖
           Florence
           ,
           in
           a
           Speech
           to
           his
           Countrey-men
           ,
           expresly
           says
           ;
           
             That
             in
             Scripture
             ALL
             Doctrines
             of
             Faith
             ,
             are
             either
             plainly
             explain'd
             ,
             or
             if
             they
             be
             hid
             ,
             they
             may
             without
             difficulty
             be
             found
             out
             .
          
           This
           Assertion
           of
           Bessarion
           ,
           is
           (
           to
           me
           and
           all
           Protestants
           )
           an
           evident
           and
           clear
           truth
           ;
           and
           is
           more
           considerable
           ,
           in
           that
           a
           Roman
           Cardinal
           dares
           ,
           and
           does
           publickly
           attest
           it
           ,
           in
           contradiction
           to
           the
           receiv'd
           Doctrine
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           .
           And
           while
           I
           am
           writing
           this
           ,
           there
           providentially
           comes
           in
           my
           way
           ,
           something
           concerning
           the
           taking
           away
           the
           Scriptures
           from
           the
           people
           ,
           which
           (
           if
           I
           mistake
           not
           )
           is
           very
           pertinent
           to
           our
           present
           purpose
           .
           For
           ,
        
         
           1.
           
           I
           find
           that
           *
           Dioclesian
           in
           his
           Bloody
           Persecution
           of
           the
           Christians
           ,
           published
           an
           Edict
           ;
           that
           the
           Christians
           should
           bring
           in
           their
           Bibles
           ,
           to
           be
           ‖
           
             publickly
             burnt
          
           .
           They
           knew
           (
           by
           the
           suggestion
           of
           Satan
           
           and
           their
           Pagan
           Priests
           )
           that
           the
           Scriptures
           were
           the
           great
           and
           most
           effectual
           means
           to
           convert
           Pagans
           to
           Christianity
           ,
           and
           confirm
           them
           in
           it
           ;
           and
           therefore
           they
           did
           cunningly
           and
           impiously
           endeavour
           to
           deprive
           the
           Christians
           of
           the
           Benefit
           of
           those
           Sacred
           Books
           ;
           because
           no
           other
           Books
           were
           so
           destructive
           of
           their
           Pagan
           Religion
           ,
           and
           therefore
           they
           might
           not
           read
           them
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           And
           let
           sober
           and
           pious
           men
           consider
           ,
           whether
           the
           Pope
           does
           not
           for
           the
           same
           reason
           forbid
           the
           Scriptures
           to
           the
           People
           ;
           because
           no
           other
           Books
           make
           a
           clearer
           discovery
           of
           their
           Errors
           .
           For
           they
           absolutely
           *
           forbid
           the
           Bible
           in
           any
           vulgar
           Language
           whatsoever
           ;
           so
           that
           none
           of
           their
           Superiors
           could
           ‖
           Licence
           them
           to
           have
           it
           ,
           and
           yet
           *
           permit
           the
           abominable
           Turkish
           Alcoran
           to
           be
           read
           in
           a
           vulgar
           Tongue
           .
           This
           may
           justly
           seem
           strange
           ,
           that
           the
           Gospel
           of
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           Jesus
           Christ
           ,
           shall
           be
           absolutely
           prohibited
           ,
           and
           yet
           the
           Turkish
           Alcoran
           permitted
           to
           be
           read
           in
           a
           vulgar
           Tongue
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           Tho'
           the
           Pagans
           permitted
           not
           the
           Christians
           to
           have
           the
           Scriptures
           ,
           yet
           never
           any
           Christian
           Church
           (
           no
           not
           the
           Roman
           )
           for
           above
           1000
           years
           after
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           ,
           depriv'd
           the
           People
           of
           the
           use
           and
           benefit
           of
           the
           Sacred
           Scriptures
           .
           In
           *
           France
           they
           had
           the
           Scriptures
           in
           their
           vulgar
           Tongue
           ,
           till
           Pope
           Innocent
           the
           third
           ,
           (
           which
           was
           somewhat
           above
           1200
           ‖
           years
           after
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           )
           condemn'd
           and
           prohibited
           the
           reading
           or
           hearing
           the
           Scriptures
           in
           any
           vulgar
           Idiome
           .
           And
           amongst
           impertinent
           things
           (
           which
           they
           mis-call
           
           reasons
           )
           which
           they
           then
           (
           and
           others
           since
           )
           alledg'd
           against
           reading
           Scripture
           in
           a
           vulgar
           Tongue
           ;
           this
           was
           one
           ;
           —
           That
           such
           *
           
             reading
             of
             the
             Scriptures
             would
             be
             the
             cause
             of
             several
             Heresies
             ,
             Seditions
             ,
             Schisms
             ,
             and
             almost
             infinite
             other
             mischiefs
             .
          
           Certainly
           all
           good
           Christians
           ,
           who
           (
           as
           surely
           they
           are
           bound
           )
           love
           God
           and
           the
           Gospel
           of
           Jesus
           Christ
           ,
           will
           judge
           this
           to
           be
           (
           what
           indeed
           it
           is
           )
           not
           sober
           reasoning
           ,
           but
           railing
           at
           ,
           and
           reviling
           the
           Holy
           Scriptures
           ,
           and
           that
           Holy
           Spirit
           who
           did
           dictate
           them
           ,
           to
           be
           a
           proper
           and
           powerful
           means
           ,
           to
           bring
           us
           to
           the
           knowledge
           of
           the
           truth
           ,
           and
           ‖
           Salvation
           by
           it
           .
           For
           if
           the
           Scripture
           be
           not
           a
           good
           means
           to
           procure
           such
           an
           end
           ,
           then
           they
           must
           say
           ,
           (
           which
           if
           they
           do
           ,
           't
           is
           no
           better
           than
           blasphemy
           )
           That
           the
           Holy
           Spirit
           could
           not
           ,
           or
           would
           not
           give
           a
           good
           means
           for
           that
           end
           ,
           for
           which
           he
           intended
           it
           .
           But
           it
           is
           certain
           ,
           that
           the
           Holy
           Scriptures
           are
           so
           far
           from
           being
           (
           what
           they
           untruly
           say
           )
           a
           cause
           of
           Heresie
           ,
           Sedition
           or
           Schism
           ,
           that
           no
           Book
           in
           the
           world
           ,
           does
           ,
           or
           can
           condemn
           those
           crimes
           ,
           with
           that
           clear
           evidence
           and
           Authority
           ,
           which
           the
           Bible
           doth
           .
           Especially
           seeing
           the
           Scripture
           is
           the
           sole
           authentick
           Rule
           to
           know
           ,
           what
           Doctrines
           are
           
             de
             fide
          
           ,
           and
           what
           heretical
           ;
           and
           therefore
           I
           have
           often
           wonder'd
           ,
           what
           Heresies
           they
           mean
           ,
           when
           they
           say
           that
           reading
           the
           Scripture
           ,
           is
           the
           cause
           of
           Heresie
           ;
           seeing
           no
           Doctrine
           is
           ,
           or
           can
           be
           
             de
             fide
          
           ,
           a
           Doctrine
           or
           Article
           of
           our
           Christian
           Faith
           ,
           which
           is
           not
           contain'd
           in
           Scripture
           (
           that
           being
           the
           adequate
           Rule
           and
           measure
           of
           our
           Christian
           Faith
           )
           nor
           can
           any
           thing
           be
           truly
           and
           properly
           Heresie
           ,
           which
           is
           not
           contrary
           to
           some
           Divine
           truth
           reveal'd
           
           in
           Scripture
           :
           But
           *
           Azorius
           (
           and
           others
           )
           tell
           me
           ,
           that
           
             Articles
             of
             Faith
             and
             Heresies
             are
             not
             to
             be
             measured
             and
             defined
             by
             their
             agreement
             or
             disagreement
             with
             Scripture
             only
             ,
             but
             also
             by
             their
             agreement
             and
             disagreement
             with
             the
             Doctrinal
             definitions
             of
             the
             Church
             of
          
           Rome
           .
           So
           that
           not
           only
           the
           Articles
           of
           the
           Apostles
           Creed
           ,
           of
           that
           of
           Nice
           ,
           of
           Constantinople
           ,
           and
           Chalcedon
           ,
           are
           
             de
             fide
          
           ,
           and
           all
           contrary
           Doctrines
           ,
           Heresies
           :
           (
           in
           which
           we
           and
           they
           agree
           )
           but
           also
           all
           the
           Articles
           of
           their
           
             new
             Trent
          
           *
           Creed
           ,
           (
           first
           published
           by
           Pope
           Pius
           the
           4
           th
           .
           in
           the
           year
           1564.
           )
           are
           at
           Rome
           ‖
           
             de
             fide
          
           ,
           and
           all
           Doctrines
           contrary
           to
           any
           Article
           of
           that
           new
           Creed
           ,
           they
           call
           Heresies
           ,
           and
           condemn
           them
           .
           Here
           I
           consider
           ,
        
         
           1.
           
           That
           all
           Protestants
           do
           believe
           and
           profess
           many
           Doctrines
           contradictory
           to
           the
           Articles
           of
           their
           New
           
           Trent-Creed
           ,
           as
           is
           confess'd
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           And
           the
           Sacred
           Scriptures
           are
           the
           reason
           and
           ground
           why
           we
           do
           so
           ;
           which
           (
           in
           express
           terms
           ,
           or
           by
           evident
           consequence
           )
           condemns
           many
           of
           their
           Doctrines
           (
           as
           their
           worshipping
           of
           Images
           ,
           denying
           the
           Cup
           to
           the
           Laity
           ,
           and
           to
           Priests
           ,
           that
           do
           not
           Consecrate
           ,
           forbidding
           the
           Clergy
           to
           marry
           ,
           &c.
           )
           And
           yet
           they
           mis-cal
           us
           Hereticks
           ,
           and
           our
           Doctrines
           maintain'd
           against
           them
           (
           tho'
           consonant
           to
           the
           Sacred
           Scripture
           )
           Heresies
           ,
           and
           accuse
           Scripture
           as
           the
           cause
           of
           Heresies
           ,
           not
           that
           it
           is
           the
           cause
           of
           Heresies
           properly
           
           and
           truly
           so
           call'd
           ,
           which
           are
           errors
           contrary
           to
           the
           infallible
           Rule
           of
           Faith
           ,
           (
           for
           this
           would
           make
           Scripture
           contradict
           it self
           )
           but
           because
           it
           is
           the
           true
           ground
           and
           reason
           why
           we
           believe
           and
           profess
           many
           Doctrines
           ,
           which
           are
           contrary
           to
           the
           erroneous
           definitions
           of
           their
           Church
           ;
           so
           that
           we
           confess
           the
           Scripture
           is
           the
           cause
           of
           those
           things
           ,
           which
           (
           tho'
           real
           truths
           )
           they
           mis-cal
           Heresies
           .
           But
           to
           deprive
           the
           People
           of
           the
           benefit
           ,
           and
           comfort
           of
           the
           Scriptures
           ,
           upon
           so
           irrational
           and
           frivolous
           a
           pretence
           ,
           is
           evidently
           injust
           in
           them
           ,
           and
           not
           only
           dangerous
           ,
           but
           pernicious
           to
           the
           people
           .
           So
           that
           ,
           had
           we
           no
           other
           reason
           but
           this
           (
           the
           depriving
           the
           people
           of
           the
           use
           and
           benefit
           of
           the
           Scriptures
           )
           it
           were
           abundantly
           sufficient
           ,
           to
           justifie
           our
           Separation
           from
           Rome
           .
        
         
           
             
               reason
            
             2
          
           But
           Secondly
           ,
           The
           Church
           of
           Rome
           does
           not
           only
           deprive
           the
           People
           of
           the
           benefit
           and
           comfort
           of
           Scriptures
           (
           prohibiting
           the
           reading
           or
           having
           them
           in
           any
           vulgar
           Language
           by
           them
           understood
           ,
           )
           but
           ,
           for
           the
           same
           reason
           they
           deprive
           them
           of
           the
           benefit
           ,
           and
           Edification
           ,
           they
           might
           ,
           and
           ought
           to
           have
           had
           ,
           in
           the
           publick
           service
           of
           God
           ;
           all
           their
           Liturgies
           ,
           and
           publick
           Sacred
           Offices
           (
           Missals
           ,
           Breviaries
           ,
           &c.
           )
           being
           in
           Latin
           ,
           a
           Language
           not
           understood
           by
           the
           people
           (
           and
           many
           times
           not
           by
           the
           *
           Priests
           themselves
           )
           who
           not
           understanding
           the
           Language
           in
           which
           the
           Publick
           Service
           of
           God
           was
           celebrated
           ,
           could
           not
           possibly
           know
           to
           whom
           ,
           (
           whether
           to
           God
           ,
           or
           Saint
           ,
           or
           Angels
           )
           
           or
           for
           what
           ,
           the
           Priest
           prayed
           ;
           and
           so
           could
           not
           (
           which
           the
           Apostle
           thinks
           they
           should
           in
           publick
           Prayers
           and
           Thanksgiving
           ,
           )
           say
           *
           
             Amen
             to
             any
             thing
             said
             by
             him
             ,
          
           who
           did
           officiate
           .
           For
           this
           practice
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           (
           in
           having
           their
           Liturgies
           in
           a
           Tongue
           not
           understood
           by
           the
           People
           )
           that
           it
           is
           unjust
           in
           them
           ,
           and
           pernicious
           to
           the
           People
           ,
           I
           shall
           only
           say
           two
           things
           :
        
         
           1.
           
           That
           it
           is
           expresly
           against
           Scripture
           ,
           and
           the
           directions
           ‖
           the
           Apostle
           has
           given
           against
           it
           .
           He
           spends
           a
           whole
           Chapter
           to
           this
           purpose
           ,
           and
           with
           so
           much
           zeal
           ,
           and
           so
           many
           reasons
           demonstrates
           ,
           that
           publick
           Prayers
           ,
           and
           Divine
           Service
           ought
           not
           to
           be
           in
           an
           unknown
           Language
           ;
           that
           it
           is
           a
           wonder
           ,
           that
           any
           ,
           who
           pretend
           to
           be
           Christians
           ,
           should
           (
           as
           they
           of
           Rome
           do
           )
           dare
           to
           contradict
           an
           Apostle
           of
           Jesus
           Christ
           ,
           and
           that
           Holy
           Spirit
           by
           which
           he
           spoke
           .
           I
           know
           ,
           that
           some
           of
           the
           greatest
           *
           Writers
           for
           Rome
           ,
           and
           the
           Vindication
           of
           their
           Sacred
           Offices
           in
           an
           unknown
           Tongue
           ,
           indeavour
           to
           Answer
           the
           Apostles
           reasons
           in
           this
           Chapter
           ,
           but
           with
           such
           insignificant
           ,
           and
           miserable
           shifts
           ,
           that
           you
           will
           easily
           see
           that
           they
           indeavour
           that
           which
           they
           cannot
           possibly
           do
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           And
           that
           it
           was
           as
           manifestly
           against
           the
           practice
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           God
           (
           Jewish
           and
           Christian
           )
           in
           all
           Ages
           ,
           is
           as
           manifest
           ,
           and
           by
           sober
           and
           ingenuous
           persons
           of
           the
           Roman
           Communion
           ,
           confess'd
           .
           Now
           do
           you
           consider
           ,
           how
           pernicious
           this
           must
           needs
           be
           to
           the
           People
           to
           deprive
           them
           of
           that
           
           great
           comfort
           ,
           and
           edification
           ,
           which
           they
           might
           ,
           and
           ought
           to
           have
           had
           by
           the
           publick
           Service
           of
           God
           in
           a
           Language
           by
           them
           understood
           ;
           especially
           seeing
           Cardinal
           Contarenus
           and
           Cajetan
           (
           convinced
           of
           this
           truth
           )
           confess
           in
           the
           places
           now
           cited
           ;
           that
           if
           the
           Sacred
           Offices
           ,
           and
           publick
           Prayers
           were
           in
           a
           known
           Tongue
           ,
           it
           would
           tend
           much
           more
           to
           the
           Edification
           and
           benefit
           of
           the
           People
           .
        
         
           
             
               reason
            
             3
          
           Thirdly
           ,
           While
           we
           were
           in
           the
           Communion
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           the
           one
           half
           of
           the
           Sacrament
           of
           the
           Lord's
           Supper
           was
           taken
           from
           us
           ;
           therefore
           we
           had
           good
           reason
           to
           separate
           from
           their
           Communion
           .
           The
           Cup
           in
           the
           Eucharist
           ,
           was
           taken
           from
           the
           Laity
           ,
           and
           all
           Priests
           too
           ,
           (
           save
           him
           who
           did
           *
           Consecrate
           )
           and
           this
           is
           most
           unjust
           and
           illegal
           :
           1.
           
           Because
           it
           is
           against
           the
           express
           Institution
           ,
           and
           Command
           of
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           ,
           who
           says
           ,
           ‖
           
             Drink
             ye
             All
             of
             this
          
           ;
           and
           S.
           Mark
           particularly
           observes
           ,
           that
           
             they
             did
          
           *
           
             All
             drink
             of
             it
          
           .
           So
           that
           they
           might
           (
           tho'
           with
           no
           just
           reason
           ,
           yet
           )
           with
           more
           pretence
           ,
           have
           taken
           away
           the
           Bread
           ;
           For
           't
           is
           never
           said
           ,
           
             Eat
             ye
             All
             of
             this
          
           ,
           nor
           express'd
           that
           they
           did
           all
           eat
           of
           it
           .
           And
           the
           Decree
           of
           the
           Council
           of
           ‖
           Constance
           (
           the
           first
           Council
           that
           took
           away
           the
           Cup
           from
           the
           Laity
           ,
           in
           the
           year
           1415.
           )
           is
           most
           intolerable
           ;
           for
           they
           command
           (
           upon
           pain
           of
           Excommunication
           )
           that
           none
           should
           Communicate
           the
           Laity
           in
           both
           kinds
           )
           in
           express
           contradiction
           to
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour's
           command
           .
           *
           
             Non
             obstante
             Institutione
             Christi
          
           .
           They
           say
           indeed
           ,
           that
           the
           whole
           ‖
           Body
           and
           blood
           of
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           ,
           
           is
           truly
           contain'd
           as
           well
           under
           the
           species
           of
           Bread
           ,
           as
           the
           species
           of
           Wine
           .
           But
           admit
           this
           (
           which
           is
           a
           great
           error
           )
           that
           the
           whole
           Body
           and
           Blood
           be
           really
           and
           truly
           in
           the
           Bread
           ,
           so
           that
           the
           Laity
           in
           their
           Wafer
           receive
           both
           the
           Body
           and
           Blood
           ;
           then
        
         
           1.
           
           Why
           did
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           institute
           it
           ,
           in
           both
           kinds
           ?
           if
           the
           Apostles
           receiv'd
           his
           body
           and
           blood
           in
           the
           Bread
           ,
           why
           did
           he
           give
           the
           blood
           a
           second
           time
           in
           the
           Cup
           ?
        
         
           2.
           
           If
           the
           Laity
           receive
           the
           whole
           Sacrament
           (
           the
           body
           and
           blood
           of
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           ▪
           )
           in
           the
           Wafer
           ,
           why
           needs
           the
           Priest
           who
           Consecrates
           ,
           receive
           any
           more
           ?
        
         
           3.
           
           But
           admit
           that
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour's
           blood
           were
           wholly
           in
           the
           Wafer
           ,
           and
           the
           Body
           in
           the
           Cup
           (
           as
           the
           Fathers
           of
           Constance
           say
           ,
           )
           yet
           by
           their
           own
           receiv'd
           Principles
           ,
           the
           blood
           is
           not
           *
           Consecrated
           in
           the
           Wafer
           ,
           nor
           his
           Body
           in
           the
           Cup
           :
           (
           their
           form
           of
           Consecrating
           the
           bread
           in
           the
           Wafer
           ,
           being
           different
           from
           the
           form
           of
           Consecrating
           the
           blood
           in
           the
           Cup
           )
           and
           then
           admit
           ,
           that
           the
           blood
           were
           in
           the
           Wafer
           ,
           yet
           it
           is
           not
           Consecrated
           in
           the
           Wafer
           ,
           and
           therefore
           is
           not
           Sacramental
           blood
           ,
           or
           any
           part
           of
           the
           Sacrament
           as
           it
           is
           in
           the
           Wafer
           ,
           and
           therefore
           the
           Lay-men
           who
           receive
           only
           the
           Bread
           or
           Wafer
           ,
           do
           not
           receive
           the
           whole
           ,
           but
           only
           one
           part
           of
           the
           Sacrament
           ,
           and
           so
           (
           contrary
           to
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour's
           command
           )
           are
           depriv'd
           of
           the
           Blood
           ,
           the
           other
           part
           of
           the
           Sacrament
           .
        
         
         
           4.
           
           But
           however
           it
           is
           most
           certain
           and
           evident
           ,
           that
           
             they
             do
             not
             drink
             the
             blood
             in
             the
             wafer
             ,
          
           and
           therefore
           disobey
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour's
           command
           ,
           who
           expresly
           says
           ,
           
             Drink
             ye
             All
             of
             this
          
           .
        
         
           By
           the
           Premisses
           ,
           I
           think
           it
           may
           and
           (
           to
           impartial
           Judges
           )
           will
           appear
           ,
           That
           the
           taking
           away
           the
           Cup
           from
           the
           Laity
           ,
           is
           a
           kind
           of
           Sacriledg
           in
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ;
           as
           being
           against
           the
           Institution
           ,
           and
           express
           command
           of
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           :
           Nor
           is
           this
           all
           ,
           for
           it
           is
           as
           much
           contrary
           to
           the
           practice
           
             
               1.
               
               Of
               the
               Apostles
               ;
               and
            
             
               2.
               
               Of
               the
               Christian
               Churches
               after
               them
               .
            
          
        
         
           For
           the
           first
           ,
           S.
           Paul
           hath
           two
           signal
           things
           concerning
           this
           Subject
           .
           For
           writing
           to
           the
           Corinthians
           about
           the
           Sacrament
           of
           the
           Lord's
           Supper
           ,
           (
           and
           he
           tells
           them
           that
           he
           had
           *
           
             received
             of
             the
             Lord
          
           ,
           what
           he
           writ
           to
           them
           )
           he
           says
           ,
        
         
           1.
           
           That
           the
           Host
           (
           to
           use
           their
           word
           )
           was
           
             only
             Bread
          
           ,
           and
           not
           the
           
             very
             Body
             and
             Flesh
          
           of
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           .
           For
           in
           two
           Chapters
           to
           the
           Corinthians
           he
           
             calls
             it
             Bread
          
           ‖
           
             five
             times
             after
             Consecration
          
           ;
           and
           we
           may
           be
           sure
           ,
           he
           call'd
           it
           what
           he
           thought
           it
           was
           ;
           and
           what
           both
           his
           own
           ,
           and
           all
           their
           Senses
           manifestly
           saw
           ,
           and
           judg'd
           it
           to
           be
           .
           It
           is
           true
           ,
           the
           Apostle
           in
           the
           same
           Chapter
           says
           ;
           That
           the
           eating
           of
           the
           Bread
           is
           the
           Communion
           of
           the
           *
           Body
           of
           Christ.
           Not
           
             Communio
             propria
             &
             substantialis
          
           ,
           as
           if
           they
           had
           really
           eaten
           the
           very
           substance
           of
           our
           Saviour's
           flesh
           ;
           but
           
             Communio
             typica
             &
             Sacramentalis
          
           ;
           they
           eat
           his
           Body
           in
           eating
           the
           bread
           which
           was
           a
           Sacramental
           sign
           of
           his
           Body
           .
           So
           a
           little
           before
           in
           the
           same
           Chapter
           ,
           he
           says
           ,
           that
           the
           Jews
           (
           in
           Moses
           his
           time
           )
           eat
           the
           same
           ‖
           
             spiritual
             meat
          
           ,
           and
           drank
           the
           same
           
             spiritual
             drink
          
           ,
           for
           they
           drank
           of
           the
           
             spiritual
             Rock
             ,
             which
             was
             Christ.
          
           
           Not
           that
           they
           did
           ,
           or
           could
           then
           ,
           really
           and
           properly
           eat
           or
           drink
           his
           Flesh
           and
           Blood
           (
           for
           it
           was
           above
           1400
           years
           before
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           had
           any
           flesh
           or
           blood
           )
           but
           they
           eat
           his
           flesh
           ,
           and
           drank
           his
           blood
           
             in
             signis
             &
             typis
             Sacramentalibus
          
           .
           They
           eat
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour's
           Body
           in
           the
           Manna
           ,
           which
           was
           a
           type
           only
           ,
           and
           our
           Saviour
           himself
           the
           true
           *
           Manna
           ,
           Sacramentally
           signify'd
           by
           it
           ;
           so
           he
           says
           ,
           the
           Rock
           was
           Christ
           ,
           that
           is
           (
           the
           Sign
           having
           the
           Name
           of
           the
           thing
           signified
           ,
           as
           is
           most
           usual
           )
           a
           type
           of
           Him.
           
        
         
           2.
           
           It
           is
           evident
           by
           the
           places
           ‖
           cited
           )
           that
           the
           Corinthians
           (
           by
           the
           Apostles
           directions
           )
           receiv'd
           the
           Cup
           as
           well
           as
           the
           Bread.
           But
           besides
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour's
           Institution
           of
           the
           Sacrament
           in
           both
           kinds
           ,
           and
           the
           Apostles
           directions
           (
           which
           are
           obligatory
           and
           commands
           )
           that
           it
           should
           be
           so
           receiv'd
           ;
           there
           is
           one
           thing
           more
           which
           aggravates
           the
           error
           and
           injustice
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           in
           taking
           away
           the
           Cup
           from
           the
           Laity
           ,
           which
           they
           do
           in
           contradiction
           to
           all
           other
           Christian
           Churches
           ,
           which
           (
           ever
           since
           the
           Apostles
           time
           to
           this
           day
           )
           have
           approv'd
           and
           practis'd
           the
           receiving
           the
           Sacrament
           in
           both
           kinds
           .
           Nay
           in
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           itself
           for
           above
           1200
           years
           after
           our
           Saviour
           ,
           all
           (
           both
           Lay
           and
           Clergy
           )
           received
           in
           both
           kinds
           .
           I
           shall
           not
           take
           any
           pains
           to
           prove
           this
           ,
           because
           it
           is
           a
           truth
           so
           evident
           ,
           that
           many
           Roman
           Catholicks
           ,
           and
           they
           (
           both
           for
           Learning
           and
           Dignity
           )
           eminent
           persons
           have
           confess'd
           it
           .
           Cardinal
           *
           Bona
           ,
           in
           a
           book
           by
           him
           lately
           publish'd
           ,
           has
           a
           signal
           passage
           to
           our
           Purpose
           ;
           his
           own
           words
           you
           have
           faithfully
           
           cited
           in
           the
           margin
           .
           And
           for
           the
           meaning
           of
           the
           words
           in
           the
           Margin
           —
           
             Cum
             offerebant
             ,
             &
             de
             oblatis
             participabant
             ,
          
           if
           you
           consult
           *
           Cassander
           ,
           he
           will
           tell
           you
           ;
           
             Quod
             omnes
             Laici
             qui
             aderant
          
           ‖
           
             offerebant
             ,
             &
             Diaconi
          
           *
           
             &
             omnis
             populus
             de
             calice
             communicabant
             .
          
        
         
           For
           farther
           confirmation
           of
           this
           truth
           ,
           that
           anciently
           in
           the
           Roman
           Church
           ,
           the
           Laity
           had
           the
           Cup
           for
           above
           1200
           years
           ;
           I
           shall
           refer
           you
        
         
           1.
           
           To
           the
           27.
           
           Canon
           *
           of
           the
           Lateran
           Council
           ,
           under
           Alexander
           the
           third
           ,
           in
           the
           year
           1180.
           
        
         
           2.
           
           Can.
           28.
           
           Concilii
           ‖
           
             Claromontani
             celebrati
             ,
             anno
          
           1095.
           
        
         
           3.
           
           
             Petrum
             de
             Marca
             ,
             de
             Primatu
             Lugdunensi
             ,
             pag.
          
           441
           ,
           442
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           4.
           
           
             Cassandrum
             vid.
             in
             Consultatione
             ,
             de
             utraque
             specie
             Sacramenti
             ,
             pag.
          
           182.
           
        
         
           5.
           
           
             Lindanum
             vid.
             Panoptiae
             lib.
          
           4.
           pag.
           342.
           
        
         
           6.
           
           Lastly
           ,
           Greg.
           *
           
             de
             Valentia
          
           goes
           farther
           than
           some
           of
           his
           followers
           will
           ,
           and
           plainly
           confesses
           ,
           That
           the
           custom
           of
           Communicating
           in
           one
           kind
           only
           ‖
           began
           to
           be
           general
           ,
           a
           little
           before
           the
           Council
           of
           Constance
           ,
           (
           in
           his
           Tract
           
             de
             legitimo
             usu
             Eucharistiae
             ,
             cap.
          
           8.
           
           &
           10.
           )
           and
           that
           Council
           sate
           ,
           and
           made
           that
           bold
           Decree
           ,
           to
           take
           away
           the
           Cup
           ,
           An.
           1414.
           
           And
           here
           it
           is
           very
           observable
           ,
           that
           altho'
           it
           was
           the
           express
           command
           of
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Apostle
           S.
           Paul
           from
           him
           ,
           that
           all
           should
           receive
           the
           Cup
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           Bread
           ;
           and
           although
           it
           was
           the
           practice
           and
           custome
           of
           all
           other
           Christian
           Churches
           in
           the
           World
           to
           this
           day
           ,
           to
           receive
           it
           so
           ,
           and
           (
           as
           
             Greg.
             de
             Valentia
          
           confesses
           )
           of
           the
           
           Roman
           Church
           ,
           till
           a
           little
           before
           the
           Council
           of
           Constance
           ;
           yet
           that
           Council
           (
           in
           *
           contradiction
           to
           all
           this
           )
           ‖
           grounds
           the
           prohibition
           of
           the
           Cup
           ,
           upon
           (
           which
           is
           most
           false
           )
           a
           most
           ancient
           and
           approv'd
           custome
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           to
           receive
           only
           in
           one
           kind
           ;
           which
           custome
           (
           they
           say
           )
           has
           the
           obligation
           of
           a
           Law
           ,
           and
           ought
           to
           be
           observ'd
           .
           This
           Decree
           of
           the
           Council
           (
           to
           say
           no
           worse
           )
           is
           highly
           irrational
           .
           For
           can
           any
           intelligent
           person
           think
           ,
           that
           a
           
             late
             custom
          
           of
           a
           particular
           (
           the
           Latin
           )
           Church
           ,
           should
           be
           sufficient
           to
           warrant
           Communion
           in
           one
           kind
           ,
           and
           taking
           away
           the
           Cup
           from
           the
           Laity
           ;
           when
           the
           institution
           ,
           and
           express
           command
           of
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           ,
           and
           his
           Apostles
           ,
           did
           (
           as
           't
           is
           evident
           S.
           Paul
           did
           )
           require
           the
           People
           to
           receive
           in
           both
           kinds
           ;
           and
           
             the
             perpetual
             practice
          
           and
           custome
           of
           the
           
             Vniversal
             Church
          
           of
           Christ
           ,
           (
           even
           of
           Rome
           herself
           )
           for
           above
           1200
           years
           ,
           was
           to
           give
           the
           Sacrament
           in
           both
           kinds
           :
           However
           what
           was
           most
           erroneously
           decreed
           at
           Constance
           ,
           is
           confirm'd
           at
           Trent
           ,
           and
           the
           Cup
           taken
           from
           the
           Laity
           ,
           though
           both
           the
           *
           Emperour
           and
           the
           King
           of
           France
           (
           by
           their
           Bishops
           in
           that
           Council
           )
           earnestly
           desir'd
           that
           it
           might
           be
           restored
           .
           Seeing
           then
           ,
           that
           (
           the
           Premisses
           consider'd
           )
           it
           is
           ,
           or
           (
           ●o
           Impartial
           Judges
           )
           may
           be
           evident
           ;
           That
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           injuriously
           forbids
           the
           Laity
           and
           all
           Priests
           (
           save
           he
           who
           Consecrates
           )
           to
           drink
           of
           the
           Cup
           in
           the
           Sacrament
           ,
           and
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           expresly
           commands
           
           the
           contrary
           ,
           saying
           ,
           —
           
             Drink
             ye
          
           *
           
             All
             of
             this
          
           ,
           and
           in
           obedience
           to
           his
           command
           
             they
             did
             All
          
           ‖
           
             drink
             it
          
           .
           I
           suppose
           we
           may
           justly
           say
           to
           the
           Pope
           *
           and
           his
           party
           ,
           what
           the
           Apostles
           (
           on
           the
           like
           occasion
           )
           said
           to
           the
           high
           Priest
           ,
           and
           the
           Council
           of
           the
           
             Jews
             :
             It
             is
             better
          
           ‖
           
             to
             obey
             God
             than
             men
          
           ,
           and
           to
           separate
           from
           the
           Communion
           of
           that
           Church
           ,
           which
           (
           with
           great
           wrong
           and
           Iniquity
           )
           denyes
           us
           the
           Communion
           of
           the
           Cup
           ,
           which
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           commands
           us
           to
           drink
           in
           Remembrance
           of
           him
           .
        
         
           
             
               reason
            
             4
          
           4.
           
           Another
           Reason
           ,
           to
           justifie
           our
           Separation
           from
           Rome
           ;
           
           that
           it
           was
           not
           Sinful
           nor
           Schismatical
           ,
           may
           be
           taken
           from
           their
           denying
           Matrimony
           to
           the
           Clergy
           ;
           against
           the
           light
           of
           Nature
           ,
           of
           Scripture
           ,
           and
           the
           Judgment
           ,
           and
           Practice
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           God
           ,
           (
           Jewish
           and
           Christian
           )
           in
           all
           Ages
           .
           Concerning
           this
           ,
           I
           shall
           only
           set
           down
           some
           few
           particulars
           ,
           in
           short
           ;
           and
           leave
           them
           to
           your
           prudence
           ,
           to
           use
           these
           ,
           or
           add
           such
           other
           particulars
           ,
           as
           (
           circumstances
           consider'd
           )
           may
           seem
           to
           you
           more
           convenient
           .
           And
           here
           I
           consider
        
         
           1.
           
           That
           here
           in
           England
           ,
           not
           only
           in
           the
           Saxon
           ,
           but
           also
           in
           the
           Norman
           times
           ,
           the
           Secular
           Clergy
           were
           married
           ;
           concerning
           which
           ,
           we
           have
           a
           signal
           passage
           in
           Matth.
           *
           Paris
           .
           (
           out
           of
           
             Rog.
             Wendover
          
           )
           as
           also
           in
           our
           ‖
           other
           Historians
           .
           
             Matth.
             Paris
          
           .
           tells
           us
           ,
        
         
         
           1.
           
           That
           Pope
           Gregory
           the
           7
           th
           .
           in
           a
           General
           Council
           ,
           prohibited
           all
           married
           Priests
           to
           celebrate
           any
           Divine
           Offices
           ,
           and
           forbid
           the
           Laity
           to
           hear
           any
           of
           their
           Masses
           ,
           which
           was
           in
           the
           year
           1074.
           
        
         
           2.
           
           That
           this
           was
           a
           
             New
             thing
          
           ,
           and
           an
           Innovation
           brought
           into
           the
           Church
           by
           that
           Pope
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           That
           
             many
             believed
          
           it
           to
           be
           a
           rash
           and
           
             inconsiderate
             act
          
           of
           that
           Pope
           against
           the
           
             Judgment
             of
             the
             Holy
             Fathers
          
           .
        
         
           4.
           
           And
           then
           he
           tells
           of
           the
           
             horrid
             effects
          
           and
           
             ill
             consequences
          
           which
           follow
           upon
           it
           .
           However
           (
           to
           say
           nothing
           of
           the
           Ethiopick
           or
           Greek
           Churches
           ,
           who
           never
           did
           receive
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           the
           Roman
           Church
           concerning
           the
           Celibacy
           of
           their
           Priests
           )
           by
           the
           Premisses
           ,
           it
           is
           certain
           ,
           that
           even
           in
           the
           Roman
           Church
           ,
           for
           above
           1000
           years
           after
           Christ
           ,
           Priests
           were
           some
           of
           them
           marry'd
           ,
           and
           afterwards
           when
           they
           were
           prohibited
           to
           marry
           ,
           it
           was
           judged
           to
           be
           (
           as
           the
           Historian
           tells
           us
           )
           1.
           
           An
           Innovation
           .
           2.
           
           A
           Rash
           and
           
             Inconsiderate
             act
          
           .
           3.
           
           Against
           the
           Judgment
           of
           the
           
             Holy
             Fathers
          
           .
           4.
           
           And
           that
           it
           had
           
             mischievous
             consequences
          
           ;
           scarce
           
             any
             Heresie
          
           having
           made
           a
           greater
           
             Schism
             in
             the
             Church
          
           ,
           than
           this
           
             Prohibition
             of
             Priests
             marriages
          
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           But
           however
           the
           Popes
           prohibition
           of
           Priests
           marriages
           was
           censur'd
           then
           ;
           yet
           it
           prevail'd
           afterwards
           in
           the
           Roman
           Church
           ,
           as
           may
           appear
           (
           to
           omit
           others
           )
           by
           the
           Council
           of
           Trent
           .
           For
           that
           Council
           (
           tho'
           the
           *
           French
           were
           earnest
           for
           the
           marriage
           of
           the
           Clergy
           )
           condemns
           all
           those
           ,
           who
           say
           that
           the
           Priests
           ‖
           marriages
           are
           lawful
           ,
           or
           valid
           if
           they
           do
           marry
           .
           This
           (
           they
           know
           )
           all
           Protestants
           
           say
           ,
           and
           (
           as
           they
           have
           good
           reason
           )
           believe
           ,
           and
           so
           they
           lye
           under
           the
           Councils
           Anathema
           .
           But
           tho'
           they
           are
           so
           fierce
           against
           their
           Priests
           Marriages
           ;
           yet
           their
           Canon-Law
           will
           allow
           him
           who
           has
           no
           wife
           ,
           to
           keep
           a
           *
           Concubine
           ,
           and
           it
           shall
           be
           no
           hindrance
           to
           him
           ,
           but
           he
           may
           receive
           the
           Sacrament
           of
           the
           Lord's
           Supper
           ,
           in
           contradiction
           to
           the
           Apostle
           ,
           1
           Cor.
           5.11
           .
           But
           of
           late
           ,
           they
           will
           not
           allow
           (
           at
           least
           they
           will
           not
           publickly
           own
           it
           )
           the
           keeping
           of
           Concubines
           ,
           yet
           they
           do
           say
           ,
           that
           ‖
           
             if
             a
             Priest
             keep
             a
             Concubine
             ,
             and
             commit
             fornication
             ,
          
           (
           tho'
           it
           be
           a
           sin
           ,
           yet
           )
           it
           is
           a
           less
           sin
           ,
           than
           to
           have
           a
           wife
           of
           his
           own
           ;
           that
           is
           (
           in
           plain
           and
           true
           English
           )
           it
           is
           a
           greater
           sin
           with
           them
           ,
           to
           disobey
           the
           Pope
           and
           his
           party
           ,
           who
           disapprove
           and
           prohibit
           Priests
           Marriages
           ;
           than
           to
           disobey
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           and
           his
           Apostles
           ,
           who
           approve
           ,
           and
           in
           some
           cases
           (
           as
           to
           avoid
           *
           burning
           ,
           and
           preserve
           Chastity
           )
           expresly
           command
           it
           ,
           as
           shall
           hereafter
           evidently
           appear
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           And
           here
           it
           will
           be
           worth
           our
           time
           and
           pains
           diligently
           to
           consider
           ,
           what
           the
           reason
           and
           cause
           is
           ,
           why
           the
           Pope
           and
           his
           party
           so
           severely
           forbid
           the
           Marriages
           of
           their
           Clergy
           .
           For
        
         
           1.
           
           It
           cannot
           be
           for
           Religion
           ,
           and
           Reformation
           of
           their
           Clergy
           ,
           to
           make
           them
           and
           their
           lives
           more
           conformable
           to
           the
           Gospel
           ,
           and
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           primitive
           and
           purer
           Christianity
           .
           For
           't
           is
           evident
           ,
           that
           the
           Gospel
           approves
           the
           Marriages
           of
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           and
           several
           of
           the
           ‖
           Apostles
           themselves
           were
           marryed
           ,
           and
           so
           were
           the
           Bishops
           and
           Priests
           in
           the
           Primitive
           and
           purest
           times
           of
           Christianity
           ;
           as
           is
           both
           in
           itself
           evident
           ,
           and
           *
           confess'd
           by
           our
           Adversaries
           ,
           even
           by
           
           the
           Jesuites
           ,
           the
           most
           zealous
           Advocates
           for
           the
           Errors
           of
           the
           Roman
           Church
           .
           So
           that
           the
           disapproving
           and
           prohibition
           of
           Priests
           Marriages
           ,
           is
           so
           far
           from
           being
           a
           matter
           of
           True
           Religion
           ,
           and
           Reformation
           of
           them
           and
           their
           lives
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           Gospel
           ,
           and
           purest
           times
           of
           Christianity
           ;
           that
           't
           is
           directly
           contrary
           to
           it
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           Nor
           can
           the
           Prohibition
           of
           Priests
           Marriages
           be
           for
           this
           end
           and
           reason
           ,
           to
           make
           their
           Clergy
           better
           men
           and
           more
           pious
           Christians
           .
           For
           (
           upon
           our
           Adversaries
           own
           principles
           )
           it
           deprives
           them
           of
           the
           good
           means
           ,
           which
           God
           himself
           has
           instituted
           ,
           for
           their
           Justification
           and
           Salvation
           .
           For
           ,
           First
           ,
           The
           Trent
           Fathers
           tell
           us
           ;
           That
           all
           *
           
             true
             justice
          
           is
           either
           begun
           ,
           or
           increas'd
           ,
           or
           repair'd
           by
           the
           Sacraments
           .
           Secondly
           ,
           They
           say
           ,
           that
           Matrimony
           is
           a
           Sacrament
           instituted
           by
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           ,
           and
           ‖
           confers
           grace
           .
           And
           therefore
           the
           forbidding
           the
           Clergy
           to
           marry
           ,
           deprives
           them
           of
           that
           means
           ,
           which
           (
           by
           their
           own
           confession
           )
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           instituted
           to
           confer
           Grace
           ;
           and
           therefore
           the
           Celibate
           and
           single
           Life
           of
           the
           Priests
           cannot
           be
           a
           means
           to
           make
           them
           better
           men
           ,
           or
           more
           pious
           Christians
           ;
           seeing
           it
           deprives
           them
           of
           the
           means
           which
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           instituted
           to
           make
           them
           such
           .
           If
           it
           be
           said
           ,
           that
           Matrimony
           was
           not
           a
           Sacrament
           instituted
           for
           Priests
           ,
           as
           the
           Sacrament
           of
           Orders
           was
           not
           for
           the
           Laity
           .
           To
           this
           I
           say
           ,
           First
           ,
           If
           Matrimony
           was
           (
           as
           they
           say
           )
           a
           Sacrament
           instituted
           by
           our
           Blessed
           Saviour
           to
           confer
           Grace
           ,
           then
           whoever
           was
           legally
           married
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           mind
           of
           Christ
           ,
           and
           the
           Law
           of
           the
           Gospel
           ,
           received
           Grace
           by
           it
           Secondly
           ,
           Several
           of
           the
           Apostles
           and
           Primitive
           Bishops
           and
           Priests
           were
           so
           legally
           married
           ,
           and
           so
           had
           the
           Sacrament
           of
           Matrimony
           ,
           
           which
           (
           in
           the
           judgment
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           )
           did
           really
           confer
           Grace
           to
           all
           ,
           
             qui
             non
          
           *
           
             ponebant
             obicem
          
           ,
           who
           by
           their
           own
           Impiety
           did
           not
           hinder
           the
           gracious
           effect
           of
           that
           Sacrament
           .
           Whence
           we
           may
           evidently
           conclude
           ;
           that
           if
           the
           Sacrament
           of
           Marriage
           did
           (
           as
           our
           Adversaries
           say
           it
           did
           )
           confer
           Grace
           on
           all
           ,
           whose
           impiety
           did
           not
           hinder
           the
           effect
           of
           it
           ;
           then
           certainly
           it
           conferr'd
           Grace
           on
           the
           Apostles
           ,
           and
           the
           Apostolical
           Bishops
           and
           Priests
           in
           their
           time
           ;
           it
           being
           irrational
           and
           uncharitable
           to
           think
           ,
           that
           the
           impiety
           of
           those
           excellent
           and
           Divinely
           inspired
           Persons
           ,
           should
           be
           so
           great
           ,
           as
           to
           hinder
           the
           effect
           of
           that
           Sacrament
           .
           Now
           if
           the
           married
           Apostles
           did
           receive
           Grace
           signified
           and
           sealed
           to
           them
           by
           that
           Sacrament
           ,
           so
           might
           their
           Successors
           too
           ,
           to
           this
           very
           day
           ,
           had
           not
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           by
           prohibiting
           Priests
           to
           marry
           ,
           depriv'd
           them
           of
           that
           Sacrament
           ,
           and
           so
           of
           that
           Grace
           and
           Spiritual
           Benefit
           they
           might
           have
           received
           by
           it
           .
           So
           that
           although
           the
           Pope
           and
           his
           party
           might
           pretend
           the
           pious
           ends
           above
           mention'd
           ,
           for
           their
           prohibition
           of
           Priests
           marriages
           ,
           (
           as
           they
           want
           not
           fair
           pretences
           for
           foul
           Actions
           )
           yet
           't
           is
           evident
           ,
           they
           were
           but
           vain
           pretences
           ,
           seeing
           the
           prohibition
           of
           those
           marriages
           ,
           is
           so
           far
           from
           being
           a
           means
           to
           attain
           those
           ends
           ,
           that
           it
           utterly
           overthrows
           them
           both
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           But
           the
           true
           reason
           why
           at
           Trent
           they
           prohibited
           the
           Clergy
           to
           marry
           ,
           was
           ;
           because
           the
           Popes
           greatness
           and
           interest
           in
           all
           Countreys
           where
           Popery
           prevail'd
           ,
           would
           be
           lost
           ,
           if
           Priests
           were
           permitted
           to
           marry
           ;
           as
           evidently
           appears
           ,
           by
           the
           reason
           given
           in
           the
           Trent
           Council
           ,
           by
           the
           greatest
           Advocates
           for
           Rome
           ,
           why
           the
           marriage
           of
           the
           Priests
           was
           deny'd
           (
           tho'
           the
           ‖
           Emperor
           and
           the
           French
           desir'd
           it
           )
           for
           Father
           Paul
           of
           Venice
           ,
           thus
           expresses
           it
           ,
           *
           
             It
             is
             plain
          
           
           (
           say
           the
           great
           Advocates
           for
           Rome
           ,
           and
           the
           Popes
           Authority
           )
           
             that
             marryed
             Priests
             will
             turn
             their
             affections
             to
             their
             Wives
             and
             Children
             ,
             and
             by
             consequence
             ,
             to
             their
             house
             and
             Countrey
             ,
             so
             that
             the
             strict
             dependence
             which
             the
             Clergy
             hath
             upon
             the
             Apostolick
             See
             ,
             would
             cease
             ;
             and
             to
             grant
             marriage
             to
             Priests
             ,
             would
             destroy
             the
             Ecclesiastical
             Hierarchy
             ,
             and
             make
             the
             Pope
             to
             be
             Bishop
             of
             Rome
             only
             .
          
           So
           that
           their
           prohibition
           of
           marriages
           was
           to
           make
           the
           Clergy
           faithful
           *
           subjects
           to
           the
           Pope
           ,
           and
           to
           depend
           upon
           him
           ,
           and
           not
           on
           their
           King
           and
           Country
           where
           they
           were
           born
           and
           lived
           .
           And
           hence
           came
           the
           Papal
           exemptions
           of
           the
           Clergy
           from
           the
           Jurisdiction
           of
           all
           temporal
           Princes
           ;
           so
           far
           ,
           that
           they
           deny
           the
           Clergy
           to
           be
           Subjects
           to
           Kings
           ,
           and
           therefore
           cannot
           be
           guilty
           of
           any
           Treason
           against
           them
           .
           They
           condemn
           this
           Proposition
           as
           erroneous
           (
           if
           not
           Heretical
           )
           ‖
           
             Sacerdotes
             Principibus
             Jure
             Divino
             subditi
          
           .
           But
           this
           Rebellious
           doctrine
           is
           so
           generally
           and
           publickly
           aspersed
           by
           their
           Canonists
           ,
           Casuists
           ,
           and
           other
           approved
           Writers
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           that
           I
           neither
           need
           ,
           nor
           shall
           say
           any
           more
           to
           prove
           it
           .
        
         
           By
           the
           Premisses
           it
           may
           appear
           ,
           that
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           in
           disapproving
           Priests
           marriages
           (
           especially
           ,
           for
           such
           unjust
           and
           unworthy
           ends
           )
           is
           erroneous
           ,
           and
           their
           practice
           the
           occasion
           *
           of
           great
           scandal
           .
           Which
           will
           farther
           appear
           ,
           because
           our
           infinitely
           good
           and
           gracious
           God
           has
           ever
           
           approved
           ,
           and
           his
           Church
           in
           all
           Ages
           practised
           the
           contrary
           .
           And
           here
           consider
           ,
        
         
           1.
           
           That
           Marriage
           was
           instituted
           by
           God
           himself
           before
           the
           Fall
           ,
           while
           Adam
           was
           in
           Innocence
           ;
           so
           that
           the
           Institution
           of
           Marriage
           is
           divine
           ,
           whereas
           the
           Prohibition
           of
           it
           ,
           is
           only
           humane
           (
           as
           is
           confess'd
           )
           and
           for
           unjust
           and
           unworthy
           ends
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           In
           the
           Patriarchal
           Ages
           before
           Moses
           and
           the
           Law
           ,
           there
           were
           Priests
           as
           well
           as
           Lay
           people
           ;
           and
           the
           Primogenitus
           ,
           or
           First-born
           (
           as
           is
           known
           and
           confess'd
           )
           had
           Imperium
           and
           Sacerdotium
           ,
           was
           both
           Prince
           and
           Priest.
           So
           that
           the
           Priests
           (
           in
           that
           interval
           of
           time
           )
           were
           certainly
           married
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           Under
           the
           Mosaical
           Law
           ,
           it
           is
           as
           certain
           (
           and
           confess'd
           )
           that
           the
           Priests
           and
           Levites
           were
           marryed
           ,
           and
           the
           Succession
           of
           them
           continued
           
             per
             Generationem
             Naturalem
          
           .
           For
           had
           their
           Marriages
           been
           prohibited
           ,
           one
           Tribe
           had
           necessarily
           perished
           .
        
         
           4.
           
           In
           the
           time
           of
           the
           Gospel
           the
           Marriage
           of
           the
           Clergy
           was
           *
           approved
           by
           God
           ,
           and
           (
           as
           is
           ,
           and
           must
           be
           confess'd
           )
           was
           practised
           by
           the
           ‖
           Apostles
           ,
           and
           Apostolical
           Clergy
           .
           Nor
           are
           such
           Marriages
           only
           approved
           ,
           but
           to
           avoid
           Fornication
           ,
           expresly
           *
           commanded
           in
           the
           Gospel
           .
           Continence
           is
           
             Dei
             donum
          
           ,
           a
           gift
           which
           he
           has
           not
           ‖
           given
           to
           all
           ,
           (
           as
           is
           evident
           and
           confess'd
           )
           and
           then
           Marriage
           is
           the
           ‖
           Means
           appointed
           by
           God
           to
           preserve
           Chastity
           ,
           and
           where
           that
           is
           forbidden
           (
           as
           in
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           it
           is
           )
           abominable
           pollutions
           will
           be
           the
           fatal
           consequence
           ;
           seeing
           nothing
           can
           be
           more
           irrational
           ,
           than
           to
           think
           ,
           that
           of
           so
           many
           hundred
           thousands
           to
           whom
           Marriage
           is
           forbid
           in
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           (
           men
           and
           women
           in
           the
           strength
           and
           
           flourish
           of
           their
           Age
           )
           all
           should
           have
           ability
           to
           live
           Chastly
           ,
           neglecting
           the
           means
           which
           God
           himself
           has
           appointed
           to
           preserve
           it
           .
        
         
           To
           conclude
           this
           point
           ,
           This
           Prohibition
           of
           the
           Clergy
           to
           Marry
           (
           had
           we
           no
           other
           reason
           )
           were
           sufficient
           to
           justifie
           our
           Separation
           from
           the
           Roman
           Communion
           ;
           especially
           ,
           seeing
           such
           Prohibition
           of
           Marriage
           is
           declared
           to
           be
           a
           mark
           and
           indelible
           *
           character
           of
           Antichrist
           ,
           from
           whose
           Communion
           we
           are
           ‖
           commanded
           to
           separate
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A30976-e160
           
             *
             1
             Pet.
             3.15
             ,
             16.
             
          
           
             *
             Gal.
             6.1
             .
             1
             Pet.
             3.15
             .
          
           
             ‖
             
               That
               the
               Church
               of
            
             Rome
             
               was
               Infallible
               ,
               no
               man
               before
            
             Gregory
             the
             7
             
               th
               .
               ever
               said
               .
               He
               tells
               us
               indeed
               ,
               in
               his
            
             Dictatus
             Papae
             .
             Num.
             22.
             —
             Quod
             Romana
             Ecclesia
             nunquam
             erravit
             ,
             nec
             (
             Scriptura
             Teste
             )
             in
             perpetuum
             errabit
             .
             Vide
             Edmundi
             Richerii
             
               Historiam
               Concil
               .
               Generalium
               cap.
            
             13.
             pag.
             197.
             
             
               Edit
               .
               Colon.
            
             1680.
             
          
           
             (a)
             Sic
             omnes
             Apostolicae
             sedis
             Sanctiones
             accipiendae
             sunt
             ,
             tanquàm
             ipsius
             divini
             Petri
             voce
             firmatae
             .
             
               Can.
               Sic
               omnes
            
             2
             Dist.
             19.
             
          
           
             (b)
             
               Glossa
               ,
               Quia
               enim
               .
               Dist.
            
             40.
             cap.
             1.
             
          
           
             (c)
             
               Ib.
               pag.
            
             2113.
             
             
               Ed.
               Par.
            
             1612.
             
          
           
             (d)
             Par.
             1612.
             
             Greg.
             13.
             
               jussie
               editum
               ,
               &
               ad
               exemplar
               Romanum
               diligentèr
               recognitum
               .
            
          
           
             (e)
             
               Vid.
               Conc.
               per.
               Pet.
               Crab
               Tom.
            
             3.
             p.
             717.
             col
             .
             1.
             
          
           
             (f)
             Ib.
             p.
             718.
             col
             .
             1.
             
          
           
             (g)
             
               See
               the
               Jesuits
               printed
               Theses
               defended
               in
               their
               Colledge
               of
            
             Clermont
             ,
             Decem.
             12.
             1662.
             
             Thes.
             19
             ,
             20.
             
          
           
             (h)
             
               See
               the
               Declaration
               of
               the
               French
               Clergy
               ,
               Mar.
            
             23.
             1662.
             
             Art.
             4.
             
          
           
             (i)
             
               Vid.
               Concil
               .
               Basil.
               apud
               Pet.
               Crab.
               Tom.
            
             3.
             p.
             146.
             col
             .
             1.
             
             &
             148.
             col
             .
             1.
             
          
           
             ●
             .
             The
             Pope
             not
             Infallible
             .
             
               Vid.
               Nic.
               Lyranum
               in
               Matth.
            
             16.
             
             
               &
               Jo.
               Launoium
               Epist.
               part
            
             .
             8.
             
             Ep.
             13.
             pag.
             387.
             
               &
               alibi
               passim
            
             ,
          
           
             *
             In
             the
             Declaration
             of
             the
             French
             Clergy
             Mar.
             23.
             1662.
             before
             cited
             .
          
           
             ‖
             
               Nonnulli
               summi
               Pontifices
               in
               Hareses
               &
               Errores
               lapsi
               leguntur
               .
               P.
               Crab.
               Concil
               .
               Tom.
            
             3.
             p.
             146.
             col
             .
             1.
             
          
           
             *
             
               Sape
               contingit
               .
               &
               contingere
               potest
               .
               Papam
               errare
               .
            
             Ib.
             p.
             148.
             col
             .
             1.
             
          
           
             ‖
             
               Notorium
               Schismaticum
               ,
               incorrigibilem
               &
               pertinacem
               Haereticum
               ,
               à
               fide
               devium
               ,
            
             Concil
             .
             Constant.
             Sess.
             14.
             
          
           
             *
             In
             his
             Book
             
               de
               Vigilio
               Dormitante
            
             .
          
           
             ‖
             Synodus
             6.
             
               in
               Trullo
               ,
               Act.
            
             4.
             
             
               &
               Act.
            
             13.
             the
             words
             in
             the
             Council
             are
             ,
             
               Anathema
               Honorio
            
             ,
             &c.
             
             He
             being
             a
             Monothelite
             ,
             and
             for
             that
             Heresie
             condemn'd
             .
          
           
             *
             
               Vid.
               Ed.
               Ricberium
               in
               Historia
               Concil
               .
               Generalium
               ,
               cap.
            
             10.
             
               per
               tot●m
               :
               praecipue
               Num
            
             15
             ,
             
               &c.
               
               &
               Num.
            
             25.
             
             
               Vbi
               objectionibus
               Bellarmini
               &
               Baronii
               respondet
               .
            
          
           
             *
             
               Extat
               apud
               Jov
               ▪
               rium
               Conc.
               part
               .
            
             1.
             p.
             84
             col
             .
             4.
             
               in
               sine
               Synodi
            
             6.
             
             
               In
               editione
               Conciliorum
               Romana
               &
               Surianae
               .
            
          
           
             ‖
             
               In
               festo
               Leonie
               Papae
            
             Junii
             28.
             
             Lection
             .
             3.
             
             Sanctus
             Leo
             probavit
             Acta
             6.
             
             Synodi
             :
             
               Ergo
               damnationem
            
             Honorii
             baeretici
             .
          
           
             *
             
               Brev.
               Rom.
               ex
               Decreto
               Concilii
               Trident.
               restitutum
               ,
               à
               Pio
            
             5.
             
               editum
               ,
               à
               Clemente
            
             8.
             
             
               &
               Vrbano
            
             8
             recognitum
             ,
             Antwerp
             .
             1660.
             
          
           
             ‖
             
               Pradicamus
               quemadmodum
               sexta
               Synodus
               definivis
               ,
               detestamurque
               cum
               ea
               ,
               Sergium
               ,
               Honorium
               ,
            
             &c.
             
               impios
               istos
               Pietatis
               impugnatores
               Anathematizamus
               ,
               Synodus
            
             Nicena
             2.
             
               apud
               Joverium
               de
               Conciliis
               part
            
             .
             1.
             pag.
             106.
             
          
           
             *
             
               Conc.
               Const.
               in
               forma
               professionis
               fidei
               à
               Papa
               facienda
               ,
               sess
               .
            
             39.
             
             Ego
             N.
             juro
             me
             credere
             &
             tenerefidem
             cath
             .
             Sanctorum
             8.
             
             Conc.
             Niceni
             ,
             Constant.
             &c.
             quinti
             &
             sexti
             ,
             &c.
             &
             illam
             fidem
             usque
             ad
             unum
             apicem
             immutilatam
             servare
             .
             
               Decretum
               hoc
               ,
               de
               Professione
               fidei
               à
               Papa
               facienda
               condium
               est
               Anno
            
             1417.
             
          
           
             2.
             
             
               A
               General
               Council
               not
               Infallible
            
             .
          
           
             *
             Acts
             15.28
             .
          
           
             *
             Acts
             15.28
             .
          
           
             *
             Deus
             ad
             Ecclesiae
             suae
             directionem
             Sanctis
             Patribus
             inspirare
             dignatus
             est
             ,
             
               &c.
               
               Ita
            
             Pius
             4.
             
               in
               Bulla
               super
               forma
               Juramenti
               Professionis
               fidei
               in
               Concil
               .
               Trident.
               Ed.
               Antw.
            
             1633.
             p.
             450.
             
               and
               elsewhere
            
             ,
             Synodus
             à
             Deo
             edocta
             statuit
             ,
             
               &c.
               
               Vid.
               Conc.
               Trident
               ▪
               sess
               .
            
             13.
             
               de
               eucharistia
               in
               decreto
               ,
               p.
            
             121
             ,
             122.
             
               dictae
               editionis
               ,
               &
               sess
            
             .
             21.
             
               de
               Communione
               ,
               cap.
            
             1.
             p.
             203.
             
          
           
             *
             Luke
             2.1
             .
          
           
             ‖
             This
             is
             confess'd
             ,
             &
             learnedly
             proved
             by
             a
             Roman
             Catholick
             and
             Sorbon
             Doctor
             ,
             
               Edmund
               .
               Richerius
               in
               Hist.
               Conc.
               Gen.
               Ed.
               Coloniae
            
             1680.
             cap.
             1.
             
             Sect.
             7.
             p.
             6.
             
             And
             what
             he
             says
             there
             ,
             he
             afterwards
             particularly
             proves
             .
          
           
             *
             
               Vid
               Bellarm.
               de
               Concil
               .
               &c.
               lib.
            
             1.
             cap.
             6
             ,
             7.
             
          
           
             ‖
             
               Vid.
               Longum
               à
               Coriolano
               in
               compendio
               Conciliorum
               Rom.
            
             1624.
             p.
             290
             ,
             291.
             
             They
             will
             not
             approve
             it
             ,
             because
             it
             condemn'd
             and
             depos'd
             2
             Popes
             ,
             as
             Schismaticks
             and
             Hereticks
             ,
             and
             they
             dare
             not
             condemn
             it
             ,
             because
             it
             made
             Alexander
             the
             5
             th
             Pope
             ,
             whom
             they
             reckon
             in
             the
             Series
             of
             their
             true
             Popes
             ;
             which
             he
             could
             not
             be
             ,
             if
             that
             Council
             had
             not
             a
             just
             power
             to
             make
             him
             so
             .
          
           
             *
             
               In
               their
               Declaration
               of
            
             March
             23.
             1662.
             
          
           
             *
             
               Sacramentum
               tribusperficitur
               ,
               Materia
               ,
               Forma
               ,
               &
               Intentione
               Ministri
               .
               Quorum
               si
               aliquod
               desit
               ,
               non
               perficitur
               Sacramentum
               .
               Apud
               Binium
               Concil
               .
               Tom.
            
             8.
             p.
             865.
             col
             .
             1.
             
             
               Ded.
               Paris
            
             .
             1636.
             
          
           
             ‖
             
               Vid.
               D.
            
             Crakanthorp
             .
             
               contr
               Spalateus
               .
               cap.
            
             72.
             p.
             530
             ,
             531.
             
             
               &
               Christoph.
               à
               capite
               Fontium
               de
               neces
               .
               correct
               .
               Theol.
               Scholasticae
               ,
               p.
            
             51.56
             .
          
           
             *
             
               Concil
               .
               Trident.
               Sess.
            
             7.
             
               de
               Sacramentis
               ,
               can
            
             .
             11.
             
          
           
             ‖
             
               Rituale
               Rom.
               Antw.
            
             1652.
             p.
             6.
             
             
               Missale
               Romanum
               Antw.
            
             1619.
             
               in
               principio
               ,
               de
               defectibus
               circa
               Missam
               .
            
             7.
             
          
           
             *
             
               Si
               in
               Eucharistia
               ,
               Verum
               Corpus
               Christi
               noncontineatur
               ,
               Adoratio
               ejus
               talis
               erit
               Idololatria
               ,
               qualis
               in
               orbe
               terrarum
               nunquam
               audita
               erat
               .
               Tolerabilior
               enim
               erit
               eorum
               error
               ,
               qui
               pro
               Deo
               colunt
               statuam
               auream
               ,
               vel
               pannum
               rubrum
               in
               hasta
               elevatum
               ,
               quod
               de
               Lappis
               narratur
               ,
               &c.
               
            
             Ita
             Costerus
             in
             Enchiridio
             controversiarum
             ,
             
               Colon.
               Agrip.
            
             1587.
             cap.
             8.
             pag.
             301.
             
          
           
             *
             Luke
             24.48
             .
             Act.
             1.8.22
             .
          
           
             ‖
             Luk.
             24.39
             .
             Joh.
             20.27
             .
          
           
             *
             Mar.
             16.14
             .
          
           
             ‖
             Act.
             1.3
             .
          
           
             *
             1
             John
             1.1
             .
          
           
             *
             Rom.
             10.17
             .
          
           
             *
             1
             Cor.
             1.10
             .
             where
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             refers
             to
             the
             mind
             ,
             and
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             to
             the
             will
             ,
             (
             for
             the
             word
             does
             properly
             and
             usually
             signifie
             the
             will
             )
             and
             so
             ,
             some
             Learned
             Papists
             render
             the
             words
             ;
             
               In
               eadem
               sententia
               ,
               &
               eadem
               voluntate
            
             So
             
               Hen.
               Holden
            
             ,
             a
             Sorbon
             Dr.
             on
             this
             place
             ,
             1
             Cor.
             1.10
             .
             in
             his
             Notes
             .
          
           
             *
             
               Vid
               Rev
            
             18.4
             
          
           
             ‖
             
               Sine
               Schismate
               decedere
               possumus
               ab
               iis
               ,
               qui
               à
               veritate
               deviant
               —
               vid.
            
             Joverium
             
               de
               Conc.
               part
            
             .
             1.
             p.
             203.
             col
             .
             2.
             
          
           
             *
             1.
             
             Reason
             ,
             From
             their
             vilifying
             and
             prohibiting
             the
             Scripture
             in
             any
             vulgar
             tongue
             .
          
           
             ‖
             
               Vid.
               Fighium
               ,
               controver
            
             .
             3
             
               de
               Ecclesia
               ,
               p.
            
             71.
             col
             .
             2.
             ed.
             1542.
             
             And
             there
             his
             impious
             Blaspheming
             of
             the
             Holy
             Scriptures
             .
          
           
             *
             
               Vid.
               Indicem
               Librorum
               prohibitorum
               ex
               Cone
               .
               Trident.
               praescript
               .
               &c.
               &
               ibi
               Regul
               .
            
             4.
             
             
               Si
               Sacra
               Biblia
               vulgari
               lingua
               passim
               sine
               discrimine
               permittantur
               ,
               plus
               inde
               ob
               hominum
               temeritatem
               Detrimenti
               quam
               Vtilitatis
               oriri
               .
            
          
           
             ‖
             The
             Authors
             ,
             and
             their
             words
             and
             Books
             where
             they
             are
             to
             be
             found
             ,
             are
             punctually
             (
             and
             truly
             )
             quoted
             to
             my
             hand
             ,
             by
             D.
             
               Crakanthorp
               cont
               .
               Archiep.
               Spalat
               .
               c.
            
             13.
             
             S.
             13.
             p
             61.
             
               vid.
               Azor
               .
               Inst.
               moral
               .
               Tom.
            
             1.
             lib.
             8.
             cap.
             26.
             p.
             83.
             
          
           
             *
             
               vid.
               Regulam
            
             4.
             
             
               Indicis
               dicti
               ,
               supra
               citatam
               ,
               &
               observationem
               ad
               dictam
               Regulam
               ,
               &
               Bullam
            
             Clem.
             8.
             
               datam
               Tusc.
            
             17.
             
             Oct.
             1595.
             
          
           
             ‖
             
               V.
               Bull.
            
             Greg.
             15.
             
               dat
               .
               Rom.
               dec
            
             .
             30.
             
             A.
             1622.
             
          
           
             *
             
               Libros
               quomodolibet
               prohibitos
            
             ;
             So
             the
             title
             of
             that
             Bull
             ,
             and
             the
             Bull
             it self
             .
          
           
             *
             Rom
             15.4
             .
          
           
             1.
             
             
               The
               Jewish
               Church
            
             .
          
           
             ‖
             Mal.
             4.4
             .
          
           
             *
             Deut.
             31.11
             .
          
           
             ‖
             vers
             .
             12.13
             .
          
           
             *
             Neb.
             8.2
             ,
             3.
             
          
           
             ‖
             Act.
             13.15.27
             .
          
           
             *
             Rom.
             3.1
             ,
             ●
             .
          
           
             ‖
             Psal.
             1.1
             ,
             2.
             
             Joshua
             1.8
             See
             that
             signal
             place
             to
             this
             purpose
             .
             Hosea
             8.12
             .
             condemning
             their
             neglect
             of
             reading
             Scriptures
             ,
             which
             God
             gave
             them
             for
             that
             end
             ,
             that
             they
             should
             read
             and
             consider
             them
             .
          
           
             2.
             
             
               The
               Christian
               Church
            
             .
          
           
             *
             Vid.
             Brerewood's
             
               Inquiries
               ,
               cap.
            
             26.
             p.
             190
             ,
             191.
             
               &c.
               ed.
               
               Lond.
            
             1633.
             
          
           
             ‖
             2
             Tim.
             3.15
             .
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             
               statim
               ab
               Infantia
            
             .
          
           
             *
             James
             1.21
             .
          
           
             *
             Acts.
             7.11
             ,
             12.
             
          
           
             ‖
             vers
             .
             12.
             
          
           
             *
             Joh.
             20.31
             .
          
           
             ‖
             1
             Pet.
             2.2
             .
             
               &
               Vide
               Occumenium
               ,
               Pareum
               ,
               Estium
               ,
               Gagnaeium
               in
               Locum
               .
            
          
           
             *
             Joh.
             5.39
             .
             Joh.
             10.25
             ,
             26
             ,
             28.
             
          
           
             ‖
             Col.
             4.16
             .
             
               The
               Epist.
               to
               the
               Coloss
               .
               was
               writ
               ,
               An.
               Christ.
            
             60.
             
          
           
             *
             The
             1.
             
             
               Epist.
               to
               Timothy
               was
               writ
               from
               Laodicea
               (
               A.
               Chr.
            
             52.
             )
             
               Vide
               subscriptionem
            
             ,
             1.
             
             
               Ep.
               ad
               Timoth.
            
             
          
           
             *
             Matth.
             28.18
             .
             Phil.
             2.8
             ,
             9
             ,
             10.
             
          
           
             *
             
               See
               that
               signal
               Bull
               of
               Pope
            
             Clement
             the
             9th
             
               dated
               at
            
             Rome
             ,
             An.
             1668.
             
               in
               which
               we
               have
               these
               words
               ,
            
             —
             Debitum
             Pastoralis
             Officii
             ,
             quo
             Ecclesiae
             Catholicae
             per
             Universum
             orbem
             diffusae
             regimini
             ,
             divina
             dispositione
             presidemus
             ,
             exigit
             ,
             ut
             Sacras
             Scripturas
             in
             puritate
             illibatas
             custodire
             satagamus
             ▪
             &c.
             
             
               In
               which
               Bull
               be
               condemus
               the
               Translation
               of
               the
               vulgar
               Latin
               into
               French
               ,
               because
               the
               differences
               of
               the
               vulgar
               Latin
               from
               the
               Greek
               are
               noted
               .
            
          
           
             *
             
               See
               the
               Bull
               of
            
             Clement
             the
             9
             
               th
               .
               cited
               a
               little
               before
               ,
               where
               the
               Pope
               says
            
             —
             Librum
             Versionis
             Gallicanae
             N.
             Testamenti
             ,
             ubicunque
             impressum
             ,
             vel
             imprimendum
             ,
             tanquam
             temerarium
             ,
             damnosum
             ,
             à
             vulgata
             editione
             deformem
             ,
             &
             offendicula
             simplicium
             continentem
             ,
             authoritate
             Apostolicâ
             damnamus
             ,
             &
             prohibemus
             :
             ita
             ut
             nemo
             deinceps
             ,
             cujuscunque
             gradûs
             aut
             conditionis
             existat
             ,
             sub
             poena
             Excommunicationis
             latae
             sententiae
             ipso
             facto
             incurrendae
             illum
             legere
             ,
             retinere
             ,
             vendere
             ,
             aut
             imprimere
             ,
             vel
             imprimi
             facere
             audeat
             vel
             praesumat
             ;
             sed
             sub
             eadem
             poena
             ,
             quicunque
             illum
             habeat
             ,
             locorum
             ordinariis
             ,
             seu
             inquisitoribus
             ,
             statim
             exhibere
             teneatur
             :
             In
             contrarium
             facientibus
             non
             obstantibus
             quibuscunque
             .
             
               Bulla
               data
               est
               Romae
            
             20
             April
             .
             1668.
             
          
           
             ‖
             
               Even
               Kings
               and
               Princes
               are
               forbid
               (
               under
               pain
               of
               Excommunication
               )
               to
               have
               ,
               or
               read
               the
               Scriptures
               in
               any
               vulgar
               Tongue
               :
               contrary
               to
               the
               express
               command
               of
               God
               ,
               Deut.
            
             17.18
             ,
             19.
             
          
           
             *
             
               Azorius
               Institutionum
               moral
               .
               Tom.
            
             1.
             lib.
             8.
             c.
             26.
             quaest
             .
             4.
             pag.
             830
             ,
             831.
             
          
           
             ‖
             
               And
               much
               more
               in
               many
               others
               ,
               especially
               in
            
             Alphonsus
             à
             castro
             adversus
             Haereses
             ,
             lib.
             1.
             c
             13.
             
               à
               p.
            
             78.
             
               ad
               p.
            
             83.
             
               inclusivè
               ,
               edit
               .
               Paris
            
             .
             1571.
             
               &
               vide
               Hosium
               de
               Expos
               Dei
               verbi
               ,
               p
            
             640.
             
             
               Where
               he
               says
               ,
               that
               to
               permit
               the
               people
               to
               read
               the
               Scripture
               ,
            
             est
             margaritas
             orcis
             conculcandas
             projicere
             —
             But
             tho'
             Hosius
             
               (
               and
               the
               Pope
               too
               )
               be
               of
               that
               opinion
               ,
               that
               the
               people
               are
               Hogs
               and
               Swine
               —
               yet
               S.
            
             Peter
             
               was
               of
               another
               opinion
            
             ,
             1
             Pet.
             2.9
             .
          
           
             *
             Rom.
             15.4
             .
          
           
             *
             Job
             .
             20.31
             .
          
           
             ‖
             2
             Tim
             3.15
             .
          
           
             *
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             Ib.
             
          
           
             ‖
             
               In
               Sacris
               Scripturis
               omnis
               fidei
               veritas
               aut
               plane
               explicata
               est
               ,
               aut
               Iarcus
               ,
               sine
               difficultate
               exui
               potest
               ,
               vid.
            
             Joverium
             ,
             
               Conciliorum
               Part.
            
             1
             ▪
             p.
             203.
             col
             .
             3.
             
          
           
             *
             
               Eusebius
               Hist.
               Eccl.
               i.
            
             8.
             c.
             2.
             p.
             293.
             
               edit
               .
               Vales.
            
             
          
           
             ‖
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             ,
             
               Ib.
               p.
            
             294.
             
             
               See
               Nicepborus
               ,
               lib.
            
             7.
             cap.
             3.
             
          
           
             *
             
               Vid.
               Indicem
               librorum
               prohibitorum
               Alexandri
            
             7.
             
             Romae
             ,
             1664.
             
               verbo
               Biblia
            
             .
             Ubi
             prohibentur
             Bibliaquocunque
             vulgari
             idiomate
             scripta
             .
          
           
             ‖
             
               Vide
               Regulas
               Indici
               librorum
               Prohibitorum
               Tridentino
               praesixas
               ,
               in
               observatione
               ad
               Reg.
            
             4.
             
          
           
             *
             
               Vide
               dictum
               Indicem
               Alexandri
            
             7.
             
             Romae
             ,
             1664.
             
               verbo
               Alchoran
               '
               (
               ubi
               sic
               habetur
            
             —
             Alchoranus
             Mahometis
             Lingua
             vulgari
             ex
             concessione
             Inquisitorum
             liaberi
             possit
             .
          
           
             *
             Vid.
             Azorium
             
               Iust
               Moralium
               .
               Tom.
            
             1.
             l.
             8.
             c.
             26
             Quaest.
             4.
             p.
             830.
             
             
               Ed.
               Lugd.
            
             1625.
             
          
           
             ‖
             Pope
             Innocent
             
               the
               third
               was
               made
               Pope
               ,
               An.
            
             1198.
             
          
           
             *
             
               Variae
               haeresium
               &
               errorum
               causae
               nascerentur
               ,
               ac
               infinita
               propemodum
               alia
               incommoda
               ac
               mala
               provenirent
               ,
            
             Azorius
             
               before
               cited
               ,
               p.
            
             830
             ,
             831.
             
          
           
             ‖
             Joh.
             20.31
             .
             2
             Tim.
             3.15
             ,
             16.
             
             Jam.
             1.21
             .
             Act.
             17.11
             ,
             12.
             
          
           
             *
             
               Quares
               ,
               quid
               nomine
               Fidei
               catholicae
               veniat
            
             ?
             Respondeo
             ,
             
               Quicquid
               est
               in
               Ecclesia
               propositum
               tanquam
               fide
               credendum
               ,
               quales
               sunt
               Articuli
               fidei
               .
               &
               quae
               sacrae
               lite●ae
               tradiderunt
            
             ;
             aut
             quae
             generalis
             Ecclesiae
             consensus
             definivit
             .
             
               Azorius
               Iustit
               .
               Moralium
               .
               Tom.
            
             1.
             lib.
             8.
             cap.
             26.
             pag.
             828.
             
             D.
             
          
           
             *
             This
             new
             Trent
             .
             Creed
             in
             most
             editions
             of
             that
             Council
             ,
             is
             placed
             at
             the
             end
             of
             that
             Council
             ;
             But
             in
             the
             Edition
             at
             Antw.
             1633.
             't
             is
             placed
             (
             and
             most
             properly
             )
             Sess.
             24.
             
               de
               Reformatione
               cap.
            
             12.
             at
             the
             end
             of
             the
             
               chap.
               pag.
            
             450
             ,
             451.
             
          
           
             ‖
             
               Haec
               est
               Fides
               Catholica
               ,
               extra
               quam
               non
               est
               salus
               ;
               contraria
               omnia
               &
               haereses
               ab
               Ecclesia
               damnatus
               ,
               pariter
               damno
               .
               Ibid.
               pag.
            
             452.
             
          
           
             *
             Which
             evidently
             appears
             by
             this
             ,
             that
             now
             of
             later
             times
             ,
             the
             words
             in
             their
             Missals
             and
             Breviaries
             are
             accented
             ,
             that
             their
             Priests
             might
             pronounce
             the
             words
             right
             ,
             which
             otherwise
             ,
             it
             seems
             ,
             they
             could
             not
             .
             So
             they
             print
             Hominis
             ,
             lest
             the
             Priest
             should
             call
             it
             Hominis
             .
          
           
             *
             1
             Cor.
             14
             16.
             
          
           
             ‖
             1
             Cor.
             14.
             
          
           
             *
             
               Vid.
               Azorium
               Iust.
               Moralium
               Tom.
            
             1.
             lib.
             8.
             c.
             26.
             p.
             830.
             
             
               A
               B.
            
             Sure
             I
             am
             (
             to
             say
             nothing
             of
             
               Erasmus
               ,
               Cassander
               ,
               &c.
               )
               Card.
            
             Contarenus
             
               in
               Catechis
               .
               Interrogat
               .
               ultima
               ,
               operum
               ,
               p.
            
             545.
             
               and
               Card.
            
             Cajetan
             
               on
               this
               Chap.
               confess
            
             ,
             that
             to
             have
             publick
             Prayers
             in
             a
             known
             tongue
             ▪
             
               is
               more
               for
               the
               edification
               of
               the
               People
            
             :
             and
             after
             the
             year
             1215
             ,
             Innocent
             the
             3
             d.
             is
             of
             the
             same
             opinion
             ,
             
               vid.
               Concil
               .
               Lateran
               .
               sub
            
             Innocentio
             3.
             
             Can.
             9.
             
          
           
             *
             
               Vid.
               Concil
               .
               Const.
               Sess.
            
             13.
             p
             65.
             
               edit
               .
               per
               Job
               .
               Petit.
               Paris
               .
            
             1514.
             
          
           
             ‖
             Matt.
             26.27
             .
          
           
             *
             Mark
             14.23
             .
          
           
             ‖
             
               Concil
               .
               Const.
               Sess.
            
             13.
             
             Junii
             15.
             1415.
             
          
           
             *
             
               Licet
               Christus
               tost
               coenam
               instituerit
               ,
               &
               Discipulis
               sub
               utraque
               specie
               administraverit
               ,
               hoc
               tamen
               non
               obstante
               ,
               &c.
               
            
             Where
             the
             giving
             it
             after
             Supper
             is
             only
             an
             indifferent
             circumstance
             ,
             no
             part
             of
             the
             Institution
             which
             consists
             in
             these
             words
             —
             
               Drink
               Ye
               All
               of
               This.
            
             
          
           
             ‖
             
               Non
               dubitandum
               integrum
               Christi
               corpus
               &
               sanguinem
               ,
               tam
               sub
               specie
               vini
               ,
               veracitèr
               contineri
               .
            
             Ibid.
             
          
           
             *
             
               Vid.
               Missale
               Romanum
               in
               Canone
               missae
               ,
               &
               Catechis
               .
               Trident.
               part
               .
            
             2.
             cap.
             4.
             
               de
               Eucharistia
               Sect.
            
             19.
             where
             the
             Consecrating
             of
             the
             Bread
             ,
             is
             in
             these
             words
             ,
             
               Hoc
               est
               Corpus
               meum
            
             .
             But
             the
             Consecration
             of
             the
             Blood
             is
             in
             many
             more
             ,
             and
             other
             words
             (
             Sect.
             21.
             )
             To
             wit
             in
             these
             ,
             
               Hic
               est
               calix
               Sanguinis
               mei
               ,
               novi
               &
               aeterni
               Testamenti
               ,
               mysterium
               fidei
               ,
               qui
               pro
               vobis
               .
               &
               pro
               multis
               effunditur
               in
               Remissionem
               Peccatorum
               .
            
          
           
             *
             1
             Cor.
             11.23
             .
          
           
             ‖
             1
             Cor.
             10.16
             ,
             17.
             and
             1
             Cor.
             11.26
             ,
             27
             ,
             28.
             
          
           
             *
             1
             Cor.
             10.16
             
          
           
             ‖
             1
             Cor.
             10.2
             ,
             3.
             
          
           
             *
             Joh.
             6.31
             ,
             32.
             
          
           
             ‖
             1
             Cor.
             10.16
             ,
             17
             ,
             21.
             and
             1
             Cor.
             11.26
             ,
             27
             ,
             28.
             
             
               Vide
               Lyraenum
               in
               dictum
               ver
            
             .
             28.
             
          
           
             *
             
               Certum
               est
               omnes
               Clericos
               &
               Laicos
               ,
               viros
               &
               mulieres
               ,
               sub
               utraque
               specie
               Sacra
               mysteria
               antiquitus
               sumpsisse
               ,
               cum
               solenni
               corum
               celebrationi
               aderant
               ,
               &
               offerebant
               ,
               &
               de
               oblatis
               participabant
               :
               nec
               hoc
               negare
               potest
               ,
               qui
               vel
               levissima
               rerum
               Ecclesiasticarum
               notitia
               imbutus
               sit
               ▪
               semper
               enim
               &
               ubique
               ab
               Ecclesiae
               primordiis
               usque
               ad
               ●eculum
            
             12.
             
               sub
               specie
               Panis
               &
               Vini
               communicarunt
               fideles
               .
            
             Card.
             Bona
             rerum
             Liturgicarum
             .
             lib.
             2.
             c.
             18.
             p.
             491
             ▪
             492
             ▪
             Ed.
             Paris
             .
             1672.
             vid.
             ib.
             in
             Append.
             p.
             555.
             in
             Liturgia
             Romana
             Antiqua
             .
          
           
             *
             
               Vid
               Ordinem
               Romanum
               de
               Officiis
               Misse
               apud
            
             Cassandrum
             ,
             
               operum
               p.
            
             106.
             
          
           
             ‖
             
               Ibid.
               pag.
            
             107.
             
          
           
             *
             
               Ibid.
               pag.
            
             112
             ,
             113
             ,
             124.132
             .
             vid.
             G.
             Watsii
             
               adversaria
               ad
            
             Matth.
             Parisiensem
             ,
             
               ad
               Hist.
               pag.
            
             9.
             lin
             .
             6.
             
          
           
             *
             
               Apud
               Pet.
               Craeb
               .
               Conciliorum
               ,
               Tom.
            
             2.
             pag.
             843.
             
          
           
             ‖
             
               Apud
               Binium
               Conc.
               Tom.
            
             7.
             part
             .
             1.
             p
             507.
             col
             .
             2.
             
          
           
             *
             Consuetudo
             communicandi
             sub
             Altera
             tantum
             specie
             ,
             in
             Ecclesia
             Latina
             coepit
             esse
             generalis
             ,
             non
             multo
             ante
             tempora
             Concilii
             Constantiensis
             .
          
           
             ‖
             
               Et
               vid.
               Synodicon
               Ecclesiae
               Parisiensis
               .
               Paris
            
             1674.
             p.
             6.
             
               inter
               decreta
               Odonis
               de
               Soliaco
               qui
               floruit
               circa
               An.
            
             1208.
             
               quo
               tempore
               Laici
               calicem
               habebant
            
             .
          
           
             *
             
               Hoc
               non
               obstante
               ,
               Canonum
               Authorit●s
               laudabilis
               ,
               &
               approbata
               consuetudo
               Ecclesiae
               ,
               servat
               &
               servavit
               ,
               &c.
               
            
             Sess.
             13.
             
          
           
             ‖
             
               Vnde
               cum
               bujusmodi
               consuetudo
               ab
               Ecclesia
               &
               Sanctis
               Patribus
               rationabilitèr
               introducta
               ,
               &
               diutissimè
               observata
               sit
               ,
               habenda
               est
               pro
               Lege
               ,
               &c.
               
            
             Concilium
             Constan.
             Ibid.
             Sess.
             13.
             
          
           
             *
             
               See
               the
               History
               of
               the
               Council
               of
            
             Trent
             ,
             
               by
               Father
            
             Paul
             of
             Venice
             ,
             sub
             Pio
             4.
             ad
             An.
             1561.
             p.
             458.
             
               of
               the
               Translation
               ,
               (
               if
               you
               have
               not
               the
               Original
               )
               and
               pag.
            
             459.
             
          
           
             *
             Matt.
             26.27
             .
          
           
             ‖
             Mark
             14.23
             .
          
           
             *
             
               Vid.
               Concil
               .
               Trident.
               S●ss
            
             .
             22.
             
               de
               Reformat
               .
               cap.
            
             11.
             
             Where
             the
             Council
             refers
             it
             to
             the
             Pope
             ,
             to
             consider
             of
             the
             restitution
             of
             the
             Cup
             to
             the
             Laity
             ;
             who
             has
             been
             considering
             above
             120.
             years
             ,
             and
             as
             yet
             nothing
             done
             ,
             to
             give
             satisfaction
             to
             the
             Church
             .
          
           
             ‖
             Act.
             4.19
             .
          
           
             
               à
               Matrimonio
               Clericis
               prohibito
            
             .
          
           
             *
             
               Matth.
               Par.
               ad
               An.
            
             1074.
             p.
             9.
             
               in
               edit
               .
               Watsii
            
             ,
             Iste
             Papa
             (
             Gregorius
             7.
             )
             in
             Synodo
             Generali
             Sacerdotes
             Uxoratos
             à
             divino
             officio
             removit
             ,
             &
             Laicis
             missas
             eorum
             audire
             interdixit
             .
             Novo
             exemplo
             ,
             &
             ut
             multis
             visum
             est
             .
             Inconsiderato
             judicio
             ,
             contra
             Sanctorum
             Patrum
             sententiam
             .
             Ex
             qua
             re
             ,
             tam
             grave
             oritur
             scandalum
             ,
             ut
             nullius
             haeresis
             tempore
             Sancta
             Ecclesia
             graviori
             schismate
             sit
             discissa
             .
          
           
             ‖
             Vid.
             Tho.
             Walsingham
             
               Hypodig
               .
               Neustria
               ad
               An.
            
             1074.
             p.
             439.
             
          
           
             *
             
               V.
               Hist.
               Conc.
               Trid.
               sub
            
             Plo
             4.
             
               versionis
               Angl.
               p.
            
             677.
             
               ad
               Ann.
            
             1563.
             
          
           
             ‖
             
               Conc.
               Triden
               .
               Sess.
            
             24.
             
               de
               Sacramento
               Matrimonti
               ,
               in
               Initio
               can
               .
            
             9.
             
          
           
             *
             
               Is
               qui
               non
               habet
               uxorem
               ,
               &
               pro
               uxore
               Concubinam
               habet
               ,
               à
               communione
               non
               repellatur
               ;
               si
               una
               concubina
               sit
               contentus
               ,
            
             Can.
             Is
             qui
             4.
             
             Diss.
             34.
             
          
           
             ‖
             
               Sacerdos
               si
               fornicetur
               ,
               aut
               domi
               concubinam
               foveat
               ,
               tametsi
               gravi
               Sacrilegio
               se
               obstringat
               ,
               gravius
               tamen
               peccat
               ,
               si
               contrabat
               matrimonium
               .
            
             Cost
             .
             in
             Euch.
             c.
             15.
             propos
             .
             9.
             p.
             459.
             
          
           
             *
             1
             Cor.
             7.2
             ,
             9.
             
          
           
             ‖
             1
             Cor.
             9.5
             .
          
           
             *
             
               Antiquissimis
               Ecclesiae
               temporibus
               ,
               viventibus
               adhuc
               Apostolis
               ,
               &
               post
               Apostoles
               aliquot
               adbuc
               annis
               admissi
               sunt
               ad
               sacros
               ordines
               viri
               conjugati
               .
            
             Costerus
             Jesuita
             in
             Euch.
             c.
             15.
             propos
             .
             2.
             p.
             448.
             ed.
             
             Col.
             1587.
             
          
           
             *
             
               Per
               Sacramenta
               omnis
               vera
               justitia
               vel
               incipit
               ,
               vel
               coepta
               augetur
               ,
               vel
               amissa
               reparatur
               .
            
             Conc.
             Trid.
             Sess
             7.
             de
             Sacramentis
             in
             Prooemio
             ,
             &
             Can.
             6.7
             .
          
           
             ‖
             
               Si
               quis
               dixerit
               Matrimonium
               non
               esse
               verè
               Sacramentum
               à
               Christo
               institutum
               ,
               neque
               gratiam
               conferre
               ,
               Anathema
               sit
               .
            
             Conc.
             Trid.
             Sess.
             24.
             de
             Matrim
             .
             Can.
             1.
             
          
           
             *
             
               Sacramenta
               novae
               legis
               gratiam
               quam
               significant
               omnibus
               ,
               obicem
               non
               ponentibus
               conserunt
               .
            
             Conc.
             Trid.
             Sess.
             7.
             in
             Decreto
             de
             Sacram
             .
             Can.
             6.
             
          
           
             ‖
             
               See
               the
               Hist.
               of
               the
               Council
               of
               Trent
               .
               ad
               An.
            
             1563.
             
          
           
             *
             
               See
               the
               said
               Hist.
               ad
               dictum
               An.
            
             1563.
             pag.
             680.
             
          
           
             *
             The
             Popish
             Bishops
             take
             an
             oath
             of
             absolute
             Allegiance
             to
             the
             Pope
             .
             
               Vide
               Pontif.
               Rom
               ▪
               de
               Consec
               .
               Episc.
               p.
            
             57.
             edit
             .
             Romae
             Anno
             1611.
             
          
           
             ‖
             So
             the
             Spanish
             and
             Portugal
             Indices
             
               Librorum
               prohibit
               ▪
            
             command
             this
             Proposition
             to
             be
             blotted
             out
             of
             the
             Index
             of
             Chrysostome
             .
          
           
             *
             Their
             own
             sober
             Authors
             sadly
             complain
             of
             the
             impure
             lives
             of
             their
             unmarried
             Clergy
             ;
             
               Hanis
               .
               Orichovius
               in
               oratione
               de
               coelibatu
               pag.
            
             108
             ,
             110
             ,
             189.
             hath
             these
             words
             —
             
               Scorta
               Romae
               quotannis
               tributa
               conferunt
               ;
               earum
               censum
               cum
               anno
               abhinc
               sexto
               ageret
               Praefectus
               Lictorum
               urbis
               ,
               censa
               sunt
               merotricum
               capitae
            
             55000.
             and
             
               Honorius
               Augustodunensis
               ,
               Dialogo
               de
               praedestinat
               .
               &
               libero
               arbitrio
               ,
               ait
               ,
               Verte
               te
               ad
               Clerum
               ,
               videbis
               in
               eis
               bestiae
               tentorium
               ,
               Sacerdotium
               per
               Immunditiam
               polluunt
               .
               Contemplare
               Monachorum
               conciliabula
               ,
               immunditiae
               sordibus
               computrescunt
               ,
               Aspice
               habitacula
               monialium
               :
               hae
               à
               tenera
               aetate
               impudicitiam
               discant
               ,
               &c.
               
            
             But
             you
             may
             see
             this
             ,
             and
             much
             more
             in
             Dr.
             
               Crakanthorp's
               Logick
               ,
               de
               Syllogismo
               probabili
               ,
               cap.
            
             12.
             
             Sect.
             18
             p.
             414
             ,
             415.
             
               edit
               .
               London
               ,
               Anno
            
             1641.
             
          
           
             *
             1
             Tim.
             3.2
             .
             4.12
             .
             Titus
             1.5
             ,
             6.
             
          
           
             ‖
             1
             Cor.
             9.5
             .
          
           
             *
             1
             Cor.
             7.2
             ,
             9.
             
          
           
             ‖
             1
             Cor.
             7.9
             .
          
           
             ‖
             1
             Cor.
             7.9
             .
          
           
             *
             1
             Tim.
             4.13
             .
          
           
             ‖
             Rev.
             18.4
             .