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A30358	An impartial survey and comparison of the Protestant religion as by law established, with the main doctrines of popery wherein is shewn that popery is contrary to scripture, primitive fathers and councils ... / by a true son of the Protestant Church of England as established by law.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1685 (1685)	Wing B5804; ESTC R37520	34,751	80

though they were learned and pious men yet they were but men and consequently were lyable to error as well as other men And herein the Advice of S. Austin is to be followed to wit to follow (23) Neminem velim sic amplecti mea omnia ut me sequatur nisi in eis quibus me non errare perspexerit August de persever Sanct. cap. 21. tom 27. him and such as himself no further than they follow Truth and Holy Scripture Solis eis Scripturarum libris qui jam Canonici appellantur didici hunc timorem honoremque deserre ut nullum eorum autorem Scribendo aliquid errasse firmissime credam August 1 Epist 19. which ought still to be preferred before them And yet S. Augustin was neither the worst nor the meanest of those Christian Hero's Thus do we reverence but do not idolize them and only preferr the Scriptures before them whereas the Papists value their late Papal Decrees before the Primitive Doctors These things being premised I shall renew that fivefold Challenge about the Popes Supremacy formerly propounded by a Reverend and Learned Bishop of our Church which the Papists ought first to answer before they can justly obtain what they in vain pretend to as Consequences of that Supremacy For they failing to prove this which I think they will never be able to do their Attempts in the points depending thereon must needs be fruitless and ineffectual The Challenge is this 1. Whether our Saviour before his Ascension did constitute S. Peter his Vicar and gave him a monarchical Supremacy over the Apostles and the whole Church 2. Whether the Papists can prove that St. Peter while he lived exercised such Power and Supream Jurisdiction even over the Apostles In such Cases as these Idem est non esse non apparere 3. Whether if St. Peter exercised any such Authority it was not temporary and ceased with his Person as the Apostleship did 4. Whether if all these were true as they are wholly the contrary they can make it appear That the Bishop of Rome was the Successour of St. Peter and not the Bishop of Antioch and whether ever he was at Rome or no 5. Whether they can make it appear That our Blessed Saviour when on Earth exercised such a temporal Monarchy as the Pope now challengeth Confessions of the Popish Doctors in this Case To the first and second Queries it is Confessed by (25) Cusan de Concil Cath. 2.3 Cardinal Cusanus That St. Peter received no more Authority and then he could not exercise any Authority over his Fellows than the rest of the Apostles To the 3d and 4th Queries it is Confessed by (26) Aen. Sylvius de gestis Concil Basil Aeneas Sylvius afterwards Pope by the name of Pius 2. That the Pope's Succession is not revealed in Scripture and then it cannot be proved jure divino positivo And by Bellarmin (27) De Rom. Pont l. 4. c. 4. That neither Scripture nor Tradition habet allows then farewell Papal Supremacy That the Apostolic Seat or Chair was so fixed at Rome which I really believe as well as he that it could not be taken from thence And then why might it not be at Antioch or Jerusalem as well as Rome Confessed by him (28) Idem de Pontif. l. 2. c. 29. further That as long as the Emperors were Heathen the Pope was subject to them in all Civil Causes And That for above One thousand years his (29) Id. de Rom. Pont. l. 4. c. 2. Sect. Secunda Opinio Judgment was not esteemed Infallible nor (30) Idem de Concil l. 2. cap. 13. his Authority above that of a General Council Where was then the exercise or acknowledgment of this Supremacy and Infallibility of the Popes Was all the world a-sleep or ignorant so long of this Power which they now challenge to themselves Jure Divino No but the Pope I warrant you had not yet the opportunity to usurp and challenge it as he hath done since To four of these you see they have plainly yielded and the last they can never make good either from Scripture or Ecclesiastical History Add to these the Confession of that Learned Papist (31) Barns's Catholico-Romanus Pacificus MS. Sect. 31. Father Barns That allowing the Bishop of Rome to have Supremacy elsewhere yet the Pope hath no Supremacy in Britain Insula autem Britanniae gavisaest olim privilegio Cyprio ut nullius Patriarchae Legibus subderetur And afterwards Videtur pacis ergô retineri debere sinè dispendio Catholicismi absque Schismatis ullius notâ What can the Papists say to this so plain an acknowledgment But not designing to treat at large upon the Pope's Supremacy I have not as in the following Subjects produced the Testimonies of Fathers and Councils against this Doctrine of Rome but shall advise the Reader to consult herein Bishop Jewel against Harding Article 4. Archbishop Bramhal 's Schism Guarded against Will. Serjeant Dr. Barrow of the Pope's Supremacy and the Bishop of Lincoln 's Brutum Fulmen who will give him full satisfaction in that point THE CONTENTS Of the following TREATISE SECT I. OF the Scriptures Sufficiency Page 1. SECT II. Of the Scripture Canon p. 5. SECT III. Of Invocation of Saints and of the Blessed Virgin p. 8. Of Image Worship p. 10. Of Adoration of the Host p. 12. SECT IV. Of the Three Creeds and how the Pope imposes new Articles of Faith upon his followers p. 15. SECT V. Of the number of Sacraments and of Communion in one kind p. 17. SECT VI. Of Transubstantiation p. 21. SECT VII Of Purgatory p. 24. Of Indulgences p. 28. Of the Sacrifice of the Mass p. 29. Of Justification by Faith ibid. Of Merits p. 31. SECT VIII Of Prayers in an unknown Tongue p. 34. SECT IX Of the Marriage of Priests p. 37. Of Auricular Confession p. 44. SECT X. Of Obedience to Governors p. 47. THE Protestants Companion SECTION I. THE Protestant Church of England our Holy Mother admits of no other Rule for Faith and practice than the (1) Articles of the Church of England published Ann. Dom. 1562 for the avoiding of diversities of opinions and for the establishing of consent touching true Religion Article 6 20. 2d Book of Homilies Hom. 2. Holy Scriptures which according to (2) 2 Tim. 3.15 the Apostles are able to make us wise unto Salvation The Church of Rome doth equal unwritten (3) Concil Trident. Sess 4. Decret 1. Traditions with the Holy Scriptures whom (4) Pighius Eccles Hierarch L. 3. C. 3. some of that Church do call a nose of Wax (5) Bellarmine di verbo Dei l. 4. c. 4. Another and that no less man than a Cardinal affirms That the Scripture is no more to be believed in saying that it comes from God than Mahomet's Alcoran because that saith so too Another (6) Pool de Primatu Romanae Ecclesiae fol. 92. Cardinal saith That the