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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08826	Christianographie, or The description of the multitude and sundry sorts of Christians in the vvorld not subiect to the Pope VVith their vnitie, and hovv they agree with us in the principall points of difference betweene us and the Church of Rome.	Pagitt, Ephraim, 1574 or 5-1647.	1635 (1635)	STC 19110; ESTC S113912	116,175	260

a tempore Innocencii 3. retinuerunt that the Maronites of mount Lybanus only of the East kept faith to the Church of Rome And this may serve to confute them that would empale the Church of God within the limmits of the Roman Church and pretend that all the Christians of the world are subiect to the Pope but only a few Protestants in Europe for here you may see that the Church of God is not tied to Rome onely but that it is Catholike and vniversall dispersed vpon the face of the whole earth and as God hath been mercifull to vs and caused his face to shine vpon vs so his wayes are knowne vpon earth and his saving health amongst all Nations therefore let the earth prayse thee O God yea let all nations praise thee To this relation of the habitations of the Christians not subiect to the Pope I thinke good to give the Reader this Caveat towit The Pope to make his Iurisdiction to shew greater then it is giveth many titles to his followers of those Churches which he hath not to doe with all As to one he giveth the title of the Patriarch of Constantinople to another of Aethiopia Bermudes was called Patriarch of Aethiope Smith of Calcedon Fleming Archbishop of Dublin c. so also he gives the title of other Bishopricks in Greece England and Ireland c. So also their writers in some of their bookes Write false stories tales to make his Iurisdiction Church seeme greater then it is as for example In a booke printed at Coloin intituled Relationes historicae duae duarū illustrium legaticuum c. Cardinall Baronius writeth a booke and therein publisheth to the world the submission of the Patriarch of Alexandria and of the Aegiptians and Aethiopians which never was which Treatise is intituled A relation of the Legats of the Church of Alexandria to the Apostolike See The Cardinall in the beginning of the said booke setteth downe the great providence of God in governing his Church for whereas a few franticke people had forsaken the Roman See now the Patriarch of Alexandria and all the Provinces of Aegipt and Aethiopia had submitted themselves to the Roman Church and he setteth downe the submission of the Patriarch in these words In the name of the Father Sonne and holy spirit of one God In the name of God most compassionate and mercifull Everlasting glorie be to God salvation is from the Lord O God give vs thy Salvation Humble Gabriell by the grace of God servant of the See of Saint Marke in the Citie of Alexandria in Aegipt and in all other places thereunto adjoyning in the south Maritime and in Ethiopia the 97 of the Patriachs successor to S. Marke the Evangelist wisheth health and offereth the spirituall kisse to the Father Lord Father of Fathers Prince of Patriarchs being the 13 of the Apostles of our glorious Lord Iesus Christ And of the Evangelist the fifth Successor to St. Peter the Apostle He after setteth downe his submission at large in this Treatise which is published by it selfe and also set downe in the latter end of his sixt Tome of his Annalls Thom a Iesu de conv omn gent lib. 7. pa. 1. cap. 6. pag. 363. Tempore Clementis 8 legatio ficta Alexandrinae ecclesiae ad Romanum pontificem de lataest quae Marcus Patriarcha et cū●o omnes Aegipti provintiae aliaeque sibi coniunctae ipsum ut par est summum ecclesiae caput universasemque agnoscebant Pastorē ut late in fine 6 Tom. Annal. Cardinalis Baronius scripsit Re tamen postea diligentius examinata cuiusdam Bartouis impostoris fuisse mendatium ac figmentum apparuit which historie is meere false and feigned as Thomas the Iesuit saith In the time of Pope Cement the 8. a feigned embassage was brought from the Church of Alexandria to the Roman Bishop in which the Patriarch and all the provinces of Aegipt and others adjoyning did acknowledge him as it was fitting the cheife and universall Pastor of the Church as Cardinall Baronius hath writton in the end of his 6 to me but the matter being more dilligently examined appeared to be a meere lye and a fiction of a certeine Imposture Bartouis In Africa are The Cophtie Vnder the Patriarch of Alexandria And the Abassin christians in Aethiope Vnder theire Abunna or Patriarch America and the Christians therein AMerica was discovered about 142 yere ago discovered Anno 1492. in which the King of Spaine hath four regions with some Ilands the Regions are new Spaine Castilla del Oro Peru and part of Brasile which are supposed to be a sixt part of America In the first 40 yeare after the discoverie thereof these regions with the Ilands were almost depopulated the Natives being either slaine consumed in the mines Nos autem pro certo affirmare a● demus iis quadraginta annis quibus Iberi cruentam suam tyr annidem 〈◊〉 ercuerunt ultra d●odecim milliones hominum fato sunctos esse in narratione rerū indicarum pag 7. or carred into captivitie Bishop Casaus in his booke to Philip Prince of Spaine writeth of the consumption of 12 millions of men and that in Hispaniola there were not 300 natives left and of a very small remaine in the other Ilands and in New Spaine it selfe Complaint being made to the noble Emperor Charles the fift he by his proclamation freed these Indians from slaverie and gave them the state of free men For the conversion of these Christians it seemeth to be coact Oviedo histor Indiae occidental's lib. 1 cap 4 Oviedo reporteth that in Cuba there was scarce any one or but vey few that became Christians willingly And what manner of Christians these were you may iudg by Benzos report of New Spaine Benzo histor novi orbis lib. 2 cap. 19 apud Brer viz that they had nothing almost belonging to Christianitie but onely the bare name of Christians I hope it is better now This Church is Governed by foure Archbishops and foure and twentie inferior Bishops In America there be divers plantations of the English Dutch and French and there are now more English in Virginea onely then were left of the Natives in New-Spaine after the depopulation before named I reade of abovt eight thousand Natives remaining there then CHAP. III. THESE Christians agree with us in the maine points of religion they are all baptized in the name of the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost c. And in the principall points of controversie betweene the Roman Church you shall see how they agree with us and differ from them In this Chapter I will set downe therefore 1 The principall differences betweene vs the Church of Rome 2 How the Churches before named agree with vs in the cheife points in controversie 3 I find these Churches not Hereticall but Orthodoxall in the maine 4 Of the agreement of the Protestants among themselves 5 Of the difference amongst the Papists 6