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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32855	Reasons against popery in a letter from Mr. William Chillingworth, to his friend Mr. Lewger, persuading him to return to his mother, the Church of England, from the corrupt Church of Rome.	Chillingworth, William, 1602-1644.	1673 (1673)	Wing C3889; ESTC R32611	5,656	13

testifie subscribed their Heresie and joyned in communion with them or in the Division betwixt the Greek and Roman Church about the Procession of the Holy Ghost when either side was the Church to it self and each part Schismatical and Heretical to the other what direction could I then an ignorant man have found from the Text of Scripture Unless he hear the Church let him be unto thee as an Heathen or a Publican Upon this Rock will I build my Church and the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it Again Give me leave to wonder that neither S. Paul writing to the Romans should so much as intimate this their priviledge of Infallibility but rather on the contrary put them in fear in the 11 Chapter that they as well as the Jews were in danger of falling away That St. 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 That the Writers of the New Testament should so frequently warn men of Hereticks false Christs false Prophets and not once arm them against them with letting them know this onely sure means of avoiding their danger That so great a part of the New Testament should be imployed about Antichrist and so little and indeed none at all about the Vicar of Christ and the Guide of the Faithful That our Saviour should leave this only means for the Ending of Controversies and yet speak so obscurely and ambiguously of it that now our Iudge is the greatest Controversie and the greatest hindrance of ending of them That there should be better evidence in the Scripture to justifie the King to this Office who disclaims it than the Pope who pretends to it That St. Peter should never exercise over the Apostles any one Act of Iurisdiction not they ever give him any one Title of Authority over them That if the Apostles did know that St. Peter was made Head of them when our Saviour said Thou art Peter they should still contend who should be the First and that our Saviour should never tell them that St. Peter was the man That St. Paul should say he was nothing inferiour to the very chief Apostles That the Catechumeni in the Primitive Church should never be taught this Foundation of their Faith that the Church of Rome was the Guide of their Faith That the Fathers Tertullian St. Ierom and Optatus when they flew highest in recommendation of the Roman Church should attribute no more unto her than to all Apostolical Churches That in the Controversie about Easter the Bishops and Churches of Asia should be so ill Catechised as not to know this Principle of Christian Religion The necessity of Conformity of Doctrine with the Church of Rome That they should never be pressed with any such Conformity in all things but only with the particular Tradition of the Western Churches in that point 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 That St. Cyprian and the Bishops of Affrick should be so ill-instructed in their Faith as not to know this Foundation of it That they likewise were never urged with any such necessity of Conformity with the Church of Rome nor ever charged with Heresie or Errour for denying of it That when Liberius joyned in Communion with the Arrians and subscribed their Heresie the Arrians then should not be the Church and the Guide of the Faith 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 denial of it as a distinct Heresie so that AEneas Sylvius should have cause to say Ante tempora Concilii Niceni quisque sive vivebat parvus respectus habebatur ad Ecclesiam Romanam That the Ecclesiastical Story of these times mentions no Act 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 Iurisdiction in it That to supply this defect the Decretal Epistles should be so impudently forged which in a manner speak nothing else but Reges Monarchas I mean the Popes making Laws to exercise Authority over all other Churches That the Affrican Churches in Saint Austin's time should be ignorant that the Pope was Head of the Church and Judge of Appeals Iure Divino and that there was a necessity of Conformity with the Church in this and all other points of Doctrine Nay that the Popes themselves should be so ignorant of the ground of this their Authority as to pretend to it not upon Scripture or Universal Tradition but upon an imaginary pretended non-such-Non-such-Canon of the Council of Nice That Vincentius Lirinensis seeking for a Guide of his Faith and a Preservation from Heresie should be ignorant of this so ready an one the Infallibility of the Church of Rome All these things and many more are very strange to me if the Infallibility of the Roman Church be indeed and were always by Christians acknowledged the Foundation of our Faith and therefore I beseech you pardon me if I chose 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 that is of this Faith may have leave so to do I will subscribe with hand and heart Your very Loving and True Friend W. Chillingworth FINIS A Catalogue of some Books Printed for and sold by Robert Pawlet at the Bible in Chancery-lane near Fleet-street EPiscopacy not prejudicial to Regal Power Written by the special Command of the late King By Robert Sanderson late Lord Bishop of Lincolne The Gentleman 's Calling Writen by the Author of The Whole Duty of Man The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety Or an Impartial Survey of the Ruines of Christian Religion undermin'd by Uncristian Practice By the Author of the Whole Duty of Man A Scholastical History of the Canon of the Holy Scripture Or the certain and Indubitate Books thereof as they are received in the Church of England By Dr. Gosin Lord Bishop of Durham Golden Remains of the ever Memorable Mr. Iohn Hales of Eton-College with Additions from the Authors own hand Divine Breathings or a Pious Soul thirsting after Christ in an hundred excellent Meditations Hugo Grotius de Rebus Belgicis Or the Annals and History of the Low-Country Wars in English wherein is manifested that the United Netherlands are indebted for the glory of their Conquests to the Valour of the English A Treatise of the English Particles shewing much of the variety of their significations and uses in English and how to render them into Latine according to the propriety and elegancy of that Language with a Praxis upon the same By William Walker B. D. School-Master of Grantham The Royal Grammar commonly called Lillies Grammar explained opening the meaning of the Rules with great plainness to the understanding of Children of the meanest capacity with choice observations on the same from the best Authors By W. Walker B. D. Author of the Treatise of English Particles A Catalogue of the names of all the Parliaments or reputed Parliaments from the year 1640. A Narrative of some Passages in or relating to the Long Parliament by a Person of Honour Sober Inspections into the Long Parliament By Iames Howel Esquire Dr. Sprackling against the Chymists Nemesius's Nature of Man in English By G. Withers Gent. Inconveniences of Toleration A Letter about Comprehension A Rationale on the Book of Common-prayer of the Church of England By Anth. Sparrow Lord Bishop of Exon. The Bishop of Exons Caution to his Diocese against false doctrines delivered in a Sermon at his Primary Visitation A Thanksgiving Sermon Preach'd before the King by I. Dolben D. D. Dean of Westminster and Clerk of the Closet Bishop Brownrigs Sermon on the Gunpowder Treason A Letter to a person of Quality concerning the Fines received by the Church at its Restauration wherein by the Instance of one of the pichest Cathedrals a fair guess may be made at the receipts and disbursements of all the rest A Narrative of the Burning of London 1666. with an account of the Losses and a most remarkable Parallel between it and MOSCO both as to the Plague and Fire Lluellyns three Sermons on the Kings Murder A Collection of the Rules and Orders now used in Chancery A Charge given by the most Eminent and Learned Sir Francis Bacon at a Sessions for the Verge declaring the Jurisdiction thereof and the offences therein inquirable as well by the Common-Law as by the several Statutes Mr. Whites learned Tract of the Laws of England Graphic● Or the Use of the Pen and Pensil in Designing Drawing and Painting By Sir William Sanderson Knight Hypocrates Aphorismes in English The Communicant instructed for worthy Receiving the Lords Supper By Tho. Trot of Barkston near Grantham Petavius's History of the World Military and Maritine Discipline All sorts of LAW-BOOKS FINIS