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condemn them of horrible wickedness therein Doth not the Romish Church allow the reading of the Scripture Wheresoever the Pope rules absolutely he forbids the people to read the Holy Scripture and in the Index of prohibited Books made by the Council of Trent and approved of by the said Pius Quartus it is expresly declared That if the Holy Bible were allowed to all indifferently in the Vulgar Tongue there would come more hurt than good of it This is an express and direct opposition to our Lord Jesus Christ who saith to all indifferently Search the Scriptures for in them you think to have eternal life and they are they that testifie of me And to his holy Apostles who address their Epistle not only to Bishops but also to all those that call upon the name of the Lord Jesus and not only to men but also to women young folk and children adjuring them by the Lord that they be read to all the holy brethren Whence we argue thus All who forbid Christian people to read the holy Scripture do directly and formally oppose Jesus Christ and his holy Apostles But the Pope and his Creatures forbid Christians to read the holy Scriptures therefore they directly and formally oppose Jesus Christ and his Apostles But doth not the Church of Rome own the holy Scripture to be the word of God Nevertheless she hath falsified and corrupted it in many places As for example in Heb. 11.21 It is said that Jacob worshipped leaning upon the top of his staff but the Romish Bible saith that Jacob worshipped the top of his staff thereby to confirm the adoration of creatures which is the same abuse which is found in Psal. 132. where David saith worship at his footstool the Romish Bible says worship his footstool Jesus Christ when he gave the Cup said This Cup is the New Testament of my blood which is shed for you but the Romish Bible reads it which shall be shed for you left it might be perceived that Jesus Christ speaks of the effusion of his Sacramental blood For he did not then really shed his blood which he began to shed in his passion In Gen. 3.15 God says that the seed of the woman which is Jesus Christ shall bruise the serpents bead The Romish translation saith The woman shall bruise the serpents head attributing that to the Virgin Mary which belongs to Christ. To establish the uncertainty of salvation the vulgar translation reads the first verse of Eccles. 9. thus man knows not whether he be worthy of love or hatred but all things are reserved in uncertainty for the future But the Hebrew Text is this No man knows either love or hatred by all that is before them To establish mans merit the Romish Bible corrupts the 13. verse of Heb. 16. And to the same purpose they have curtail'd the 6. verse of Rom. 11. leaving out two links for these words of the Apostle If it be of Works then it is no more of Grace otherwise work is no more work are rased out and omitted in their vulgar translation A great collection might be made of many other passages and of Romes enormities in her like practices Yet is not the Church of Rome the mother and mistress of all Churches No For the preaching of Christ was to begin at Jerusalem in the Prophesie of Isaiah 2.2 Mic. 4.2 and in the completion in Luke 24.47 Nor was it Rome but Antioch in which the Disciples were first called Christians Act. 11.26 So there was a Church at Antioch before there was one at Rome And it is expresly affirmed by Gildas an Author very much revered by the Romanists themselves that Christianity was in Britain in the latter time of Tiberius Caesar and 't is known St. Peter remained in Jury some time after his death so that Rome which pretends to be a Mother Church could be no more at best when she was Christian indeed than a Sister Church and not the eldest Sister neither And as for the pretended Universality of the Roman that is to say of a particular Church it began with Boniface the third whose vile compliance with Phocas that Heretick and murtherer of Mauritius their Master and Emperor was both the bribe and price that bought that Title and not out of respect to the Pope but in displeasure to Cyriacus of Constantinople who from John his predecessor had first usurped that Title of Universal Bishop So that Gregory the Great of Rome writing to Mauritius touching the name of Universal which the said Bishop of Constantinople had taken unto himself calls it a wicked profane and blasphemous Title a Title importing that the times of Anti-Christ were at hand little thinking that Pope Boniface after his decease would presently usurp the same and prove the Pope to be Anti-Christ by the confession of a Pope And have not the successors of that heretical traiterous bloudy Boniface exactly followed his steps to this present age Beside if we look back to the beginning we find that Paul was equal at least to Peter when he withstood him to the face and rebuked him in publick for his dissimulation Gal. 2.11 12 13 14. Nay St. Peter as well as James and John who were his peers perceiving the grace that was given to Paul gave to Paul and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship Gal. 2.9 and good reason for Peter was but one of the many Apostles of the Jews whereas Paul was much more the great Apostle of the Gentiles to whom the Jews were no more than a river to the ocean Moreover Cyprian positively affirms the Apostles were every one of equal authority and St. Jerom is as express That all Bishops in all places whether at Rome Constantinople Rhegium or Eugubium are of the same merit as to the quality of their office though they may differ in point of revenue Nay by the Canons of the two first general Councils Nice and Constantinople every Patriarch and Bishop is appointed to be chief in his proper Diocess And a strict Injunction is laid on all none excepted that they presume not to meddle in any Diocess but their own And the very primacies of order were granted to Rome and Constantinople not for their being Sees of such or such an Apostle but for being the two seats of the two great Empires Did not the Church of England first depart from the Church of Rome They of Rome by their excommunications and barbarous murders and hostilities properly first departed from us separating from the primitive Church of Christ and we then made a secession that we might not be partaker of their Schism and Heresies What difference is there between the Reformed Church and the Church of Rome They are very many I shall only hint some as first The Reformed Church gives addresses which may be followed and exhorts men to study and strives to instruct them in the holy Scripture and conceals nothing from the