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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77634	Sacred principles, services, and soliloquies or, a manual of devotions made up of three parts: I. The grounds of Christian religion, and the doctrine of the Church of England, as differing from the now-Roman. II. Daily, and weekly formes of prayers fortified with Holy Scriptures, meditations and rules to keep the soule from the common roads of sin, and carry it on in a mortified course. III. Seven charges to conscience, delivering (if not the whole body) the main limbs of divinity, which is the art not of disputing, but living well.	Brough, W. (William), d. 1671.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4991; Thomason E1339_1; ESTC R209131	186,268	487

all the West Are there no Christians there but Papists I aske then Can I not be saved because I am not of such a Particular Church in the West Nor a Papist then because He is not of the Church of the East I may be saved then if I be a Christan-Catholique though not a Romane because I am saved by being of the Catholique Church of Christ that is by being a Christian 2. If they say my Church is New I Antiquity aske what makes One Old Are not the Apostles more ancient then their Successors And the Bishops of Rome of the 400 yeares next after them then those who came some 100 years after those Bishops And is that Church then New which professeth Christian Religion according to the Apostles Doctrine and Primitive Times And particularly I aske if these be not New points in the Romane Church Is not worshipping Images New established Concil ● Nic. 2. Ann. 787. Conc. Later Ann. 1215. Conc. Flor. 1438. v. ● Conc. Const An. Conc. Trid. Ann. 1563. about 800 years ago And Transubstantiation New defined about 400 And Purgatory New which came in a little after And Communion in one kind more New decreed about 200 And all that most New which came in but about 100 Yea and for the great point of Supremacy was not Gregory * L. 4. Epist 36. the First who proclaimed it Anti-Christian at Constantinople Ann. 600. And all the Bishops before him of whom not one ever challenged it before the Succeeding Popes in the last thousand yeares who laid claime to it after them 3. If they say We are but lately Visible Visibility I aske Whether As a Man So a Church may not be visible in severall formes foule and faire And whether a Church be worse for growing visibly faire that was foule Then I demand Whether if the Romane Church should Reforme what many of themselves as well as we confesse to be foule it should be said thenceforth to be a Visible Church And why then others who have done so are denied before to be visible And whether visibility of the Church of Rome may not as well be denied because as now it appeares it was not allwaies visible 4. And since if another teare my Schisme Coate it is not I but He that maketh the Rent I aske whether are they the Schismaticks that cause or suffer the Schisme Whether Dangerous Corruptions being discovered and a Reformation desired and sought to prevent and cure a growing Schisme they which Decline and Detest and oppose all Reformation or they who Protest thereupon against them for it are more the cause And againe May the Romane Church depart from the purity of the Primitive Church to corruptions and Innovations without Schisme And cannot the Reformed return from those corruptions and Innovations to that Ancient puriety but with it 5. And since Vnity in Opinion is the Unity priviledge of Minds Triumphant above of which the Churches of the Apostles themselves on earth were not free but some of Paul some of Apollos and some of Cephas Is not Vnity in Foundation in the Reformed as well as the Romane And Diversity and Contrariety of opinions in the Roman as well as the Reformed Yea in high points of their faith as well as opinions I ask then 1. Touching the Immaculate conception of the Blessed Virgin Whether the Dominicans be not as hot against it as the Franciscans are for it both famous Orders of Romane Catholicks 2. Touching the Aids Operations of Grace c. Whether the Lutheran be more fiery against the Calvinist then the Jesuite is against Dominican And whether even in the horrid point of Absolute Reprobation it self Bannes doe not outgoe Calvin and Lessius goe along with Luther Both Famous Roman Catholicks of their orders 3. Touching the Popes Supremacy Whether the Doctors of Sorbon stand not as much against it as the Doctors of Lovaine are for it Both Romane-Catholick Universities and Schooles Whether Venice be as much for the Popes power and Prerogative as Rome Both Romane Catholick Cities and States Whether the French Papist professe and give as much Subjection to the Pope as the Spanish Both Romane Catholick Countries and Churches Nay whether Gregory the first the Saint was not as fierce to condemne as Gregory the 7. was furious to maintain it Both Romane Catholick Bishops and Popes 4. Touching the Popes Infallibility Whether some place it Not in a Councell but the Pope some not in the Pope but a Councell Some in both Councell and Pope All Catholicks Doctors and Champions in their severall Countries 5. Touching the Bible it self of the Vulgar Translation Whether Sixtus the fift having damned all that use other or vary but a syllable from his Gregory the 8. did not put out another and curse all that use any other but it So that according to their Rules of Infallibility in the Pope the Papist must be damn'd that makes use of any Bible For both these were Bishops of Rome and Popes 2. And for Unitie in affection and Spirit Doe our foulest-mouth'd Sectaries raile more at Church-men and Orders than the Secular Priests at the Jesuites and they at the Seculars both of them Papists did ever or doe the Cruellest of their Faction shew more inhumane rage against their Opposites then Sergius * As Luitprandus Baronius sayes Beniface did against his Predecessour Formosus Damning all that he had done before as he did by Stephanus and raising him out of his Grave and setting him up in his Pontificall habit to damne him and wreak his barbarous spight and malice upon him * Cut off his three fingers cast him into Tyber c. See Baronius and these also were Popes of Rome Are these signes of all Unity amongst them 3. If they trouble me lastly with their trivial and frighting argument to weak and tender Soules saying By our Confession some may be saved in their Church but say they None can be saved in Ours Theirs therefore is the safer Religion I aske whether they mistake not us and know what themselves say For all ours say not so and did they all it were nothing For 1. When we say some of them may be saved holding to the Christianity amongst them and groaning under the Corruption as no doubt some doe Is not this in effect to say None are saved in the Romane Church but Protestants in heart For sure He that is Detestant of the corruption in it had he liberty would be Protestant against it Do we say that any are saved by or for their Corruptions that is as merepure-Papists holding and doing all things in opposition to us and not because of the Common Christianity betwixt us Doe we not say of those Corruptions that Salvation is absolutely impossible by them and exceedingly difficult and dangerous for them because the Christianity which should Save is so incorporated and mixt with the Corruptions that Destroy But with us no such danger and