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A59819 A discourse concerning the nature, unity, and communion of the Catholick Church wherein most of the controversies relating to the church are briefly and plainly stated / by William Sherlock. Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707. 1688 (1688) Wing S3291; ESTC R25626 35,974 70

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Octavo A Collection of Letters of Gallantry Twelves Leonard's Reports in Four Parts The Second Edition Folio The Compleat Child containing the best Forms of all sorts of Presidents for Conveyanees and Assurances and other Instruments now in Use and Practice Quarto Sir Simon Degges Parsons Counsellor with the Law of Tithes and Tithing In Two Books The Fourth Edition Octavo An Answer to the Bishop of Condom now of Meaux his Exposition of the Catholick Faith c. wherein the Doctrine of the Church of Rome is Detected and tha● of the church of England Expressed from the Publick Acts of both Churches To which are added Reflections on his Pastoral Letter THE Doctrines and Practices of the Church of Rome truly Represented in Answer to a Book intituled A Papist Misrepresented and Represented c. Quarto Third Edition An Answer to a Discourse intituled Papists protesting against Protestant Popery being a Vindication of Papists not Misrepresented by Protestants And containing a particular Examination of Monsieur de Meaux late Bishop of Condom his Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of Rome in the Articles of Invocation of Saints Worship of Images occasioned by that Discourse Quarto Second Edition An Answer to the Amicable Accommodation of the Differences between the Representer and the Answerer Quarto A View of the whole Controversie between the Representer and the Answerer with an Answer to the Representer's last Reply in which are laid open some of the Methods by which Protestants are Misrepresented by Papists Quarto The Doctrine of the Trinity and Transubstantiation compared as to Scripture Reason and Tradition in a new Dialogue between a Protestant and a Papist the first Part Wherein an Answer is given to the late Proofs of the Antiquity of Transubstantiation in the Books called Consensus Veterum and Nubes Testium c. Quarto The Doctrine of the Trinity and Transubstantiation compared as to Scripture Reason and Tradition in a new Dialogue between a Protestant and a Papist the Second Part Wherein the Doctrine of the Trinity is shewed to be agreeable to Scripture and Reason and Transubstantiation repugnant to both Quarto An Answer to the Eighth Chapter of the Representer's Second Part in the first Dialogue between him and his Lay-Friend Of the Authority of Councils and the Rule of Faith. By a Person of Quality With an Answer to the Eight Theses laid down for the Tryal of the English Reformation in a Book that came lately from Oxford Sermons and Discourses some of which never before Printed The Third Volume By the Reverend Dr. Tillotson Dean of Canterbury 8 o. A Manual for a Christian Souldier Written by Erasmus and Translated into English. Twelves A new and easie Method to learn to Sing by Book whereby one who hath a good Voice and Ear may without other help learn to Sing true by Notes Design'd chiefly for and applied to the promoting of Psalmody and furnished with Variety of Psalm-Tunes in Parts with Directions for that kind of Singing A Book of Cyphers or Letters Reverst being a Work very pleasant and useful as well for Gentlemen as all sorts of Artificers Engravers Painters Carvers Chacers Embroiderers c. Where you may find a Cypher for any Name whatsoever curiously composed after the newest Mode By Jeremiah Marlow Price Bound 5 s. A Perswasive to frequent Communion in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper By Dr. Tillotson Dean of Canterbury In Octavo Price 3 d. A Discourse against Transubstantiation In Octavo Price 3 d. The State of the Church of Rome when the Reformation began as it appears by the Advices given to Paul III. and Julius III. by Creatures of their Own. With a Preface leading to the matter of the Book 4 o. A Letter to a Friend Reflecting on some Passages in a Letter to the D. of P. in Answer to the Arguing Part of his first Letter to Mr. G. The Reflecter's Defence of his Letter to a Friend against the Furious Assaults of Mr. I. S. in his second Catholic Letter In four Dialogues 4 o. A Discourse concerning the Nature of Idolatry in which the Bishop of Oxford's true and only Notion of Idolatry is Considered and Confuted 4 o. The Protestant Resolv'd or a Discourse shewing the Vnreasonableness of his Turning Roman Catholick for Salvation Second Edition 4 o. A Sermon Preached at the Funeral of the Reverend Benj. Calamy D. D. and late Minister of St. Lawrence-Jury Lond. Jan. 7th 1685 6. A Vindication of some Protestant Principles of Church-Unity and Catholick-Communion from the Charge of Agreement with the Church of Rome In Answer to a late Pamphlet Intituled An Agreement between the Church of England and the Church of Rome evinced from the Concertation of some of her Sons with their Brethren the Dissenters 2d Edition A Preservative again●t Popery being some Plain Directions to Unlearned Protestants how to Dispute with Romish Priests The First Part. The Fourth Edition The Second Part of the Preservative against Popery shewing how contrary Popery is to the True Ends of the Christian Religion Fitted for the Instruction of Unlearned Protestants The Second Edition These Four last by William Sherlook D. D. Master of the Temple Johan Launoius Nicolao Gatinaeo Ep. 13. Vol. 8.
sure that Church which at that time is visible is not the indefectible Church and thus I am sure it may be whether it has been or not but if it may be the Argument is naught 2. And so is that Argument to prove the Church to be infallible because it is indefectible That it cannot err because it never shall so grievously err as to cease to be a Church The indefectibilty of the Church as you have already heard does not necessarily prove that there shall be any one visible organized Church which shall never fail for the Church does not fail while there are any true Christians in the World it may be preserved in a number of single and concealed Christians who are neither known to one another nor much less to the World. And therefore if indefectibility proves infallibility it proves only that there shall be some private infallible Christians not that there is any visible infallible Church For it can prove only those to be infallible who are indefectible and therefore since it does not necessarily prove that any visible organized Church shall be indefectible it cannot prove any such Church to be infallible neither The infallibility of private Christians the Church of Rome will not allow and yet if indefectibility prove infallibility this is all the infallibility which the indefectibility of the Church can prove that there shall always in the greatest degeneracy of the Church be a number of private infallible Christians who shall continue in the true Faith and Worship of Christ. When our Saviour says that the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against his Church we may consider it either as a Promise or a Prophecy or both that there always shall be some sound and orthodox Believers in the world who in the greatest degeneracy of the Church shall be the Seeds of a Reformation and a new visible resurrection of it now I hope Christ can make good such a Promise if we consider it as a Promise without bestowing infallibility upon any Christians for men may be orthodox Christians without being infallible and if we consider it as a Prophecy I hope Christ can certainly foretel things which have no necessary causes and then he can foretel that there shall never want true Believers tho' it is possible there might be none that all Christians shall not err tho' they are all fallible and therefore may err and then neither the Promise nor the Prophecy can prove the infallibility of any Christians and this is all that Protestants can mean when they say that the Catholick Church cannot err in Fundamentals not that there is any visible Society of Christians which is infallible in its definitions of fundamental Doctrines but that the Catholick Church or the whole number of Christians shall never err fundamentally that is that there shall always be some true and orthodox Believers in the Church 3. Nor is it a good Argument to prove any Church to be a new upstart Church because after some time of concealment it reassumes its visibility and appears openly in the World. The stabbing Question as the Church of Rome thinks to the Reformed Churches is Where was your Church before Luther Those who own the Church of Rome with all her Corruptions to be a true Church have a plain and easie Answer to this That the Church was before Luther where it was afterwards for they did not make a new Church but only reformed that part of the old which consented to such a reformation they profess the same Faith still have the same Sacraments and the same Christian Worship but purged from those Innovations and Corruptions which had deformed the visible Communion of the Roman Church which can no more make a new Church than a man's washing off the dirt makes a new-Face And I confess I think those who deny the visible organized Church of Rome to be a True Church do not want a good Answer neither For during the degeneracy of that Church the Church might subsist in those private Christians who preserved themselves in a great measure from the corruption of that Church which might more easily be done before the Reformation than since for many of their Doctrines and Practices were not then so peremptorily decreed by their Councils nor so strictly imposed upon the consciences of men as the Council of Trent has since done And there are Evidences enough that there never wanted some in all Ages who have condemned their Innovations and that profound Ignorance wherein that Church brought up honest and devout men was the true reason why there were not more now all these men may be reckoned the Seeds of the Reformation out of which a visible Church would spring as soon as a new light broke in upon the World. There was no failure of the Church tho' it was obscured and concealed we may as well say that it is a new Sun which rises every Morning not that which set at Night as make a new Church of the visible Resurrection of old and primitive Christianity the Profession of which was never lost thô the Professors of it were not so visible If the true Church be indefectible and never fails it can never be new again and if the indefectibility of the Church may be preserved in some private and unknown Christians the want of a visible Society of such pure and orthodox Christians cannot prove that the Church has failed and then when the old Christian Church appears again with a new glory it is ridiculous to call it new only because for some years it has been concealed Thus I have considered the true Notion of the Catholick Church on Earth which there is so much talk of in our Disputes with the Church of Rome and I hope have made it appear how little Service this can do them FINIS Books Printed for and are to be sold by W. Roger. Bp Wilkins his Fifteen Sermons Octavo Dr. Wallis of the Necessity of Regeneration In Two Sermons to the University of Oxford Quarto His Defence of the Royal Society and the Philosophical Transactions particularly those of July 1670. In Answer to the Cavils of Dr. William Holder Quarto The Necessity Dignity and Duty of Gospel-Ministers discoursed of before the University of Cambridge By Tho. Hodges B. D. Quarto The Peaceable Christian. A Sermon Quarto Price 3 d. A Treatise of Marriage with a Defence of the 32d Article of the Church of England viz. Bishops Priests and Deacons are not commanded by God's Law either to Vow the State of Single Life or to Abstain from Marriage c. By Tho Hodges B. D. Octavs History of the Affairs of Europe in this present Age but more particularly of the Republick of Venice By Battista Nani Cavalier of St. Mark. Fol. Sterry's Freedom of the Will. Folio Light in the Way to Paradise with other Occasionals By Dudley the 2d late Lord North. Octavo Molins of the Muscles with Sir Charles Scarborough ' s Syllabus Musculorum