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A32854 Mr. Chillingworths letter touching infallibility Chillingworth, William, 1602-1644. 1662 (1662) Wing C3888; ESTC R18524 4,488 13

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to it selfe and each part heretical and schismatical to the other what direction could I then an ignorant man have found from that Text of Scripture Unless he hear the Church let him be unto thee as an heathen 〈◊〉 a Publican Or from another Text Upon this R●●k will I build my Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it 2 Again give me leave to wonder that neither S. Paul writing to the Romans should so much as intimate this their priviledg of Infallibility but rather on the contrary put them in fear in the 11 th Chapter that they as well as the Iews were in danger of falling away 3 That S. Peter the pretended Bishop of Rome writing two Catholick Epistles mentioning his departure should not once acquaint the Christians whom he writes to what Guide they were to follow after he was taken from them 4 That the Writers of the New Testament should so frequently forewarn men of Hereticks false Christs false Prophets and not once arme them against them with letting them know this onely sure meanes of avoiding their danger 5 That so great a part of the New Testament should be employed about Antichrist and so little and indeed none about the Vicar of Christ and the guide of the faithful 6 That our Saviour should leave this onely means for the ending of Controversies and yet speak so obscurely and ambiguously of it that ●ow our Judge is the greatest Controversie and ●●e greatest hindrance of ending of them 7 That there should be better evidence in the Scripture to entitle the King to this office who disclaims it then the Pope who pretends it 8 That Saint Peter should never exercise over the Apostles any act of Jurisdiction nor they ever give him any one title of Authority over them 9 That if the Apostles did know that S. Peter was made Head of them when our Saviour said Thou art Peter and on this Rock c. they should still contest who should be greatest and that our Saviour should never tell them that S. Peter was the man 10 That S. Paul should say that he was nothing inferior to the very chief of the Apostles 11 That the Catechumeni or Novices in the Primitive Church should never be taught this foundation of their faith that the Church of Rome was the guide of their faith 12 That the Fathers Tertullian S. Ierome and Optatus when they flew highest in commendation of the Romane Church should attribute no more to her then to all other Apostolical Churches 13 That in the Controversie about Easter the Bishops and Churches of Asia should be so ill catechized as not to know this principle of Christian Religion the necessity of conformity in Doctrine with the Church of Rome 14 That they should never be pressed with any such necessity of conformity in all things but only with the particular tradition of the Western Churches in that point 15 That Irenaeus and many other Bishops notwithstanding Ad hanc Ecclesiam necesse est omnem convenire Ecclesiam should not yet think that a necessary Doctrine nor a sufficient ground of Excommunication which the Church of Rome thought to be so 16 That S. Cyprian and the Bishops of Africa should be so ill instructed in their faith as not to know this foundation of it 17 That they likewise were never urged with any such necessity of conformity with the Church of Rome nor ever charged with heresie or error for denying of it 18 That when Liberius joyned in communion with the Arrians and subscribed their heresie the Arrians should not then be the Church and guide of faith 19 That never any Hereticks for five Ages after Christ were pressed with this Argument of the Infallibility of the present Church of Rome or charged with the denyal of it as a distinct Heresie so that Aeneas Sylvius who was himself as Pope should have cause to say Ante tempora Concilii Nicaeni quisque sibi vivebat parvus respectus habebatur ad Ecclesiam Romanam 20. That the Ecclesiastical story of those times mention no Acts of Authority of the Church of Rome over other Churches as if there should be a Monarchy and the King for some ages together should exercise no Act of Jurisdiction in it 21. That to supply this defect the decretal Epistles should be so impudently forged which in a manner speak nothing else but Reges atque Monarchas I mean the Popes making Lawes for and exercising authority over all other Churches 22. That the Africane Churches in St. Austins time should be ignorant that the Pope was head of the Church and judg of Appeals Iure divino and that there was a necessity of conformity with that Church in this and all other points of doctrine 23. Nay that the Popes themselves should be so Ignorant of the true ground of this their Authoritie as to pretend to it not upon Scripture or Universal Tradition but upon an Imaginary pretended non-such Canon of the Councel of Nice 24 That Vincentius Lirinensis seeking for a guide of his faith and a preservation from Heresie should be ignorant of this so ready a one the Infallibility of the Church of Rome All these things and many more are very strange to me if the infalliblity of the Roman Church be indeed and were alwayes by Christians acknowledged the foundation of our Faith and therefore I beseech you pardon me if I chuse to build mine upon one that is much firmer and safer and lies open to none of these objections which is Scripture and Universal Tradition and if one who is of this Faith may have leave to do so I will subscribe with hand and heart Your very loving and true Friend W. C. Imprimatur M. FRANCK R. in Christo P. Dom. Episc. Lond. à Sacris Domesticis Sextil 5. 1662.