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A30399	The Protestant's companion, or, 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 B5845; ESTC R29606	32,970	68

who saw and heard our Blessed Saviour and not that the Fathers should be of more authority than the Scriptures Ioh. Gerson de vitâ Sp. Lect. 2. Hic aperitur modus c. Ioh. Driedo de Eccl. Script Dogm l. 4. c. 4. Th. Wald. Doctrinal l. 2. c. 21. Sufficiat universali Ecclesiae pro preconio potestatis suae modernae c. who is very smart upon such as held the contrary Idem Epist. 48. Tom. 2. Epist. 19. Cyril Alex. l. 7. adv Iulian Theodoret Dial. 2. Id. Qu. 45. in Genes Theophilus Alexand. in 2 Pasch. Homil. Cyril Hieros Cat. 4. Vincentius Lirinensis contra Haeres cap. 2. c. 41. Iustus Orgelitanus in c. 4. Cantic Gregorius Magnus in Ezekiel l. 1. Hom. 9. Tom. 2. Id. Moral l. 8. c. 8. Id. in Cant. c. 5. Id. Moral l. 16. c. 17. Tom. 1. Id. l. 4. Ep. 40. ad Theod. Medic. Tom. 2. Id. Epist. ad Leand. c. 4. Praefat. in Iob. Tom. 1. That the Holy Scriptures could not be corrupted but those corruptions would have been discover'd See Augustin de utilit credendi c. 3. Id. c. Faustum l. 11. c. 2. and Confess'd by Bellarmin That the Scriptures could not be corrupted but those Corruptions would be discovered by Catholicks de V. D. l. 2. c. 7. Consult in this point Bishop Iewel 's Treatise of the Holy Scriptures who in his excellent Apology handles all the main points in Controversie betwixt us and the Church of Rome and Article 15. against Harding Dr. Stillingfleet's Rational Account of the Grounds of Protestant Religion reprinted in 1681 Part 1. c. 7 8 9. Chillingworth's Religion of the Protestants a safe way to Salvation Part 1. Chap. 2. Lively Oracles by the Author as it 's said of the Whole Duty of Man SECT II. WE receive no other Books of Scripture for Canonical in the Church of England than such as of whose authority there was never any doubt in the Church The Church of Rome doth make the Books commonly call'd Apocrypha of equal authority with those of the Old and New Testament which neither the Iews to whom were committed the Oracles of God nor the Primitive Church nor any General Council nor any Doctor in the Ages succeeding till about 120 years ago in the Council of Trent nor the Greek Church to this day did ever receive as Canonical Apocrypha receiv'd as Canonical by the Papists is Contrary to the Fathers Melito apud Euseb. Histor. Eccles. l. 4. c. 25. Graec. 26. Origen in Psal. 1. Athanasius Epist. 39. in 2 Tom. Oper. Synops. Sacr. Scriptur Hilarius in Prol. Explanat in Psalmos Cyril Hierosol in Catech. 4. de Sacrâ Scripturâ Concil Laodic Canon 59. Epiphanius Haeres 8. contr Epicur Haeres 76. contra Anomaeos lib. de mens pond Basil. in Philocal c. 3. Gregor Nazianzen de veris genuinis libris S. Scripturae divinitus inspiratae in libro Carminum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Amphilochius in Epist. ad Seleucum inter Canonicas Epistolas à Balsamone not at p. 1082. Gr. Lat. Hieronymus in Prol. Galeato sive Praefat. in lib. Regum Ruffinus in Symbol Apostol Sect. 35 36. Iunilius Africanus de part divinae legis l. 1. c. 3. Tom. 6. Bibl. patr part 2. Colon. 1618. Gregorius Magnus Moral l. 19. c. 17. Occam who liv'd above 700 after Gregory viz. about Anno Dom. 1320 explains Gregory's Judgment that Iudith Tobias the Maccabees Ecclesiasticus and the Book of Wisdom are not to be receiv'd for the confirmation of Faith Dial. part 3. Tract 1. l. 3. c. 16. Confessed By Cardinal Cajetan who liv'd but Eleven years before the Council of Trent That the Apocryphal Books are not Canonical in libro Esther sub finem Et in hoc loco terminamus c. And afterwards Nam ad Hieronymi limam scil in Prol. Galeato where he owns no Books for Canonical but such as ws receive in that sense reducenda sunt tam verba Conciliorum quàm Doctorum Confessed by Catharine who was in the Council of Trent and by Stapleton who liv'd after Catharine That the Apostles never received nor confirmed the Apocrypha And this will quite ruine their Cause when we have produced Bellarmin confessing That the Church hath no power to make a Book Canonical which was not so before Consult the Learned Bishop Cosin's Scholastical History of the Scripture-Canon upon this Subject SECT III. WE Worship the only God as we are taught to believe in him and none other The Church of Rome enjoyns those that live in its Communion to pray to their fellow Creatures who know not our thoughts and necessities to Hero's and Saints of whom they feign so many ridiculous Stories and to the Blessed Virgin to whom they use such abominable expressions Yea a great Cardinal doth not blush to say That it is not absurd that holy men be called Redeemers after a sort Invocation of Saints or Angels is Contrary to Scripture Matth. 11. 27 28. Ioh. 6. 37 14. 13. 16 23 24. Acts 10. 25 26. 14. 13 14 15. Rom. 8. 27. Ephes. 3. 20. Col. 2. 18. 1 Tim. 2. 5. 1 Ioh. 2. 1 2. And Contrary to the Fathers who tho' they might sometimes use Rhetorical Apostrophe's and Poetical flourishes are far from the Popish Tenet of Invocation Fathers against this Doctrine Ignatius in Epist. ad Philadelph Iustin Martyr Apol. 2. Theophilus Antiochenus ad Autolycum l. 1. Irenaeus l. 2. c. 57. Origen c. Celsum l. 5. p. 233 236. Concil Laodicenum Can. 35. Ambrose de obit Theodos. Id. de interpellat l. 3. c. 12. Id in Rom. 1. Tom. 5. p. 174. Ierome To. 7. in Prov. c. 2. Augustin de civit Dei l. 8. c. 27. l. 9. c. 15. c. 23. l. 10. c. 1. l. 20. c. 10. l. 22. c. 10. Id. l. 2. de visit infirm Id. Confess l. 10. c. 42. Theodoret in 2 3. Coloss. Dracontius Poetic Hexameron Confessed By some of the most Learned Papists That it is a Doctrine neither expresly nor covertly contained in the Scripture Spalatensis confesseth That Religious Invocation of Saints is Heathenism and meer civil Invocation of them tho' not so bad yet dangerous Cardinal Perron confesseth That there are no footsteps of it either in the Scriptures or in the Fathers before the first four General Councils none of which were call'd till 320 years after our Saviour's Incarnation Bellarmin confesseth That Invocation of Saints was not so much begun by any Law as by Custom This is to the purpose But yet further Wicelius saith That the Invocation of Saints is to be cast out of the Church because it ascribes God's Honour and Attributes to his Creatures and derogates from the Office and Glory of Christ by making Saints Mediators and Intercessors What Protestant could have opposed this vain Doctrine with greater strength of