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A09869	Want of charitie iustly charged, on all such Romanists, as dare (without truth or modesty) affirme, that Protestancie destroyeth salvation in answer to a late popish pamphlet intituled Charity mistaken &c. / by Christopher Potter ...	Potter, Christopher, 1591-1646.	1633 (1633)	STC 20135.3; ESTC S4420	135,510	274

f Apell pro Dom. Banne per Ariviere Doct. Paris Lugd. An. 1630. Vide etiam Andr. Rivet sum Controv Tract 4. quaest 6. Sorbonist who hath published by way of parallel the exact argiement of Dominicus Bannes and Others with Calvin in this matter quoting and comparing their very words For the Canon of Scripture it is true our Church admits of no other Bookes in the Old Testament as divine and Canonicall but onely those which Rom. 3. 2. were commended by God himselfe to his owne people the Church of the Jewes Wherein we have the consent of the most ancient g Clem. Rom. Const lib. 2. ca. 57. Melito Sard. ap Euseb Hist lib. 4. cap. 27. Grae. Origen ap Eund lib. 6. cap. 25 Sec. Graec. Athanas. in Synopsi Nazianz. in Carm. Cyrill Hieros Catech. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epiphan de Mensu Ponderibus num 4. edit Paris Concil Laodic Can. ult Ruffin in Expos Symb. Hieron in Praefat. ad lib. Regum ad libros Salom. in Prol. Galeato Damasc de fid Orth. lib. 4. cap. 18. Glossa in dist 16. Canones Lyra. Prolog primo Rich. à S. victore Exceptionum lib. 2. c. 9. Caietan in com hist v. Test fine Vide Canum l. 2. c. 10. c. Christian Churches Writers for the most part who expressely exclude the Apocryphall and by name the h Hicr Praefat in lib. Salom Iudith Tobiae Machabaeorum libros legit quidem Ecclesia sed cos inter Canonicas Scripturas non recipit August lib. 2. Contr. Epist Gaudent cap. 23. Scriptura Machabae orum recepta est ab Ecclesia non inutiliter si sobriè legatur audiatur Greg M. moral li. 19. cap 17. Macch. vocat Libros non Canonicos Machabees whereof the Mistaker makes so great esteema The Bookes of the New Testament are fitly severed by Eusebius into three rankes 1. Some were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whose authority or Authors were never debated 2. Others were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doubted of not by the Church so much as by Some in the Church rather for their Authors then their authority as the Epistles to the Hebrewes of S. James the latter of S. Peter c. 3. Others were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rejected by consent of all as the Pastor of Hermes the pretended Gospells of S. Thomas S. Bartholomew and the like The doubts of the Second ranke are now long since cleared and all Euseb Hist lib. 3. cap. 3. those Scriptures generally received by all Christians in their Westerne parts at least and particularly by the Lutherans at least by the best learned among them who admit the Epistle of S. Iames and the rest as Canonicall which the Mistaker may learne for it seemes He knowes it not from their owne Writers and by name from their learned Dr k Exeges Plen. Locor Loc. 1. de Scrip. S. §. 279. 280. 281. Gerhard The Mistaker ends his Discourse as He began it with Rhetorique and Passion But this weapon wounds not being commonly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the reasoning of them that want better reasons I shall conclude with a part of my daily prayers humbly beseeching the Father of mercies who is the lover of soules and hath said that he delights in mercy and sworne that he takes no pleasure in the death of them that die being not willing that any should perish but willing that all men should be saved and come to the knowledge of his truth that he would be pleased to looke with the eyes of his compassion upon all those miserable Nations that sit in ignorance and infidelitie in darkenesse and in the shadow of death calling them out of darkenesse into his marveilous light out of the power of Sainto the Kingdome of his deare Sonne that it would also please Him to take away out of his Church all dissention and discord all Heresies and Schismes all abuses and false doctrines all idolatrie superstition and tyranny and to unite all Christians in one holy bond of truth and peace faith and charity that so with one minde and one mouth we may all joyne in his service and for ever glorify the holy name of the most glorious and holy Trinity Amen Amen FINIS