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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07949	The tryall of the nevv religion Contayning a plaine demonstration, that the late faith and doctrine of the Church of Rome, is indeede the new religion. By Thomas Bell.	Bell, Thomas, fl. 1593-1610.	1608 (1608)	STC 1832; ESTC S101552	27,259	56

THE Tryall of the New RELIGION Contayning a plaine Demonstration that the late Faith and Doctrine of the Church of Rome is indeede the New Religion By Thomas Bell. PRVDENTIA AT LONDON Printed by William Iaggard dwelling in Barbican 1608. The Contents of the Chapters following CHapter 1. Of the name Pope Chap. 2. Of the Popes superoyall power Chap. 3. Of the marriage of Priests Chap. 4. Of Popish pardons Chap. 5. Of Popish Purgatory Chap. 6. Of Popish auricular confession Chap. 7. Of Popish veniall sinnes Chap. 8. Of Popish fayth Chap. 9. Of the condigne merrite of workes Chap. 10. Of transubstantiation in popish Masse Chap. 11. Of Popish inuention of Saints Chap. 12. Of the Communion vnder one kind Chap. 13. Of priuate Masse Chap. 14. Of Pope 〈◊〉 ●●●pensation Chap. 15. Of worshipping of Images Chap. 16. Of Church seruice in the vulgar tongue Chap. 17. Of the antiquitie of Popish Masse and the parts thereof Chap. 18. Of the mysteries of popish Masse Chap. 19. Of kissing the Popes foote Chap. 20. Of praying vpon Beades Chap. 21. Of changing the Priestes name Chap. 22. Of the Paschall Torch Chap. 23. Of the Popish Paxe Chap. 24. Of the Popes Bulls Chap. 25. Of the popish Agum Dei Chap. 26. Of C●●●●lmasday Chap. ●● Of the 〈◊〉 made to the Pope Chap. ●● Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p●pish L●nt-fast Chap. ●● Of 〈…〉 ing of Wedlocke Chap. ●● Of 〈◊〉 power of a Generall Councell To the Right Worshipfull and my approoued good friendes Sir Charles Hayles and Sir Cuthbert Pepper Knights and worthy pillers of his Maiesties honorable Counsell established in the North-parts of England ⁂ THE visible Church as writeth Egesippus remained a Virgin free from all heresies and corruptions during the life of the Apostles that is to say about one hundred yeeres after Christ to which time S. Iohn the Euangelist was liuing But after the death of the Apostles saith he Errors by little and little crept into the Church as into a voyde and desert house This Assertion is dolefull enough and yet very profitable against all Popish Recusants of our time as who are not ashamed impudently to avouch that after so many hundred yeeres from Christes Ascention there hath been no Error at all in their Romish Babylon If any demaund the cause heereof the aunswere is at hand viz. That many without due examination receiuing negligently and carelesly the Doctrine of them that went before them haue vnawares brought Errors into the Church So writeth Eusebius of Errors in his time that Papius a man of no sound iudgement was the Authour of the Chiliasts who fondly grosly first inuented that there should be a thousand yeeres after the Resurrection To which Errour though most palpable Iraeneus and sundry others otherwise well learned gaue place onely for antiquity sake This sottish imitatien without all rime and reason was is and will be the cause of many Errours which many not of the meanest sort of Papists haue both grauely prudently considered For this cause did that great Shoolemaister Melchior Canus oppose himselfe against all the Chanists and Scotists both the old latter Papists For this cause did Cardinall C●●eranus a man of high esteeme in the Church of Rome both in his litterall exposition of Genesis an in his other bookes roundly reiect the multitude of fo●mer Commentaries For this cause said their learned 〈◊〉 and Schoole-Doctor Victoria that hee reputed nothing certaine albeit all Writers agreed therevnto vnlesse he could find it in the holy Scriptures For this cause did their famous Canonist Nauarrus peremptorily condemne the common opinion when it was not grounded vppon right reason For this cause grauely wrote S. Augustine that he reputed no mans writings wholy free from Errours saue onely the Writers of the holy Scriptures For this cause wrote theyr owne Roffensis that it is lawfull to appeale from Austen Cyprian Hierom and all the rest because they are men and doe not want theyr imperfections I saith S. Augustine doe not repute S. Cyprians wrytings as Canonicall but iudge them by the Canonicall and whatsoeuer doth not agree with the Scriptures that by his leaue doe I refuse And for this cause is it that so many silly follish rude and ignorant Papists doe at this day terme late vpstart Popery the Old Religion They onely respect the externall face of the Church as it was in the late dayes of their forefathers And for want of skill and reading of auncient Councells Fathers and histories of the Church they deeme that to be very olde which is indeede very new Hence commeth it that nothing more moueth the rude vulgar people to embrace Popery then this theyr fond perswasion that it is the old Religion In regard hereof right Worshipfull I haue taken vppon me for the glory of GOD the peace of his Church and the common good of my natiue Country to set before the eyes of all indifferent Readers as cleerely as in a glasse of Christall the originall and daily excrements of Popery and that it is not the Old but the New Religion I haue prooued succinctly and euidently first that the name Pope was common to the Fathers of the Church for the space of 528 yeeres after Christ and afterward vsurped as peculiar to the Bishop of Rome Secondly that the Popes superoyall power was vnknowne to the world for the space of 607. yeeres vntill Phocas the Emperour of Rome 3. That the Priests Bishops were euer married in the East Church and in the West Church for the space of 385. yeeres 4. That Popish pardons were vnknowne 1300. yeeres 5. That Purgatorie was neuer beleeued of the Greeke Church nor yet of the Latine Church for the space of 250. yeeres about which time Origen too much adicted to his allegorical Speculation ●eyned many odde thinges touching Purgatory After Origen others began to call the matter into question others rashly to beleeue it others to adde many thing to Origens conceit and so by little little it incre●s●d till the late Bishops of Rome presumed to make it an Article of Popish sayth That auriculer cōfession was no Article of Popish fayth for the space of 1215. yeeres 7. That Popish veniall sinnes were first invented by Pope Pius the fift of that name that is to say 1566. yeeres after Christ. 8. That the Article of Popish sayth that the Pope cannot erre in matters of fayth iudicially was neuer knowne to the Church for the space of 1500. yeeres 9. That the cōdigne merit of mans works was not an Article of Popish fayth for the space of a thousand fiue hundred and forty yeeres 10. That the popish Transubstantiation was first hatched in the Councell of Lateran 1215. yeeres after Christ. 11. That Popish invocation of Saints was neuer knowne nor heard of for the space of 1047. yeeres 12. That the Communion vnder one kind was neuer knowne for the space of 1230. yeeres neither was it an Article