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truth_n	age_n	church_n	time_n	2,142	5	3.6322	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10907	An answer to Mr. Fisher the Iesuite, his fiue propositions concerning Luther. By Mr. Rogers, that worthy Oxford diuine. VVith some passages also of the said Mr. Rogers with the said Mr. Fisher. Hereunto is annexed Mr. VV.C. his dialogue of the said argument, wherein is discouered Fishers folly	Rogers, Henry, ca. 1585-1658.; Crashaw, William, 1572-1626. aut	1623 (1623)	STC 21177; ESTC S116093	13,598	35

the dayes of Luther 1. Doctor White to begin first with him in his book intituled The Way to the true Church Digression 52. sheweth that the present Religion of the Romane Church was obserued and resisted in all ages as it came in and increased naming withall the persons that made resistance and the points wherein and the time when from fiftie yeares to fiftie throughout all ages since Christ compendiously obserued out of history for the satisfying of their error that so much conceit the antiquitie of Papistrie and thinke it was neuer controlled till Luthers time And Digression 48 Sect. 50. the said Doctor White setteth downe a briefe and direct answer to the Papists when they say we cannot assigne a visible company professing the same faith in euery point that we doe euer since Christ till now without interruption 2. Flacius Illyricus the second I named in his booke intituled Catalogus testim veritatis A Catalogue of the witnesses of the truth augmented twice by Simon Goulartius and by him the second time set out in one volume in a large Folio sheweth that the present rel gion of the Romane Church wa● obserued and resisted in all ages as it came in and increased naming withall the persons that made the resistance and the points wherein and the time when from an hundred yeares to an hundred throughout all ages since Christ compendiously obserued out of history for the satisfying of their error that so much conceit the antiquitie of Papistrie and thinke it was neuer controlled till Luthers time 3. The third is Doctor Reinolds that light of Oxford in his fift Conclusion quinta Conclus in English ioyned to the end of his Conference with Hart but far more ●●lly in his fift Latin Thesis quinta Thes of the last augmented Edition sheweth that the present Church of Rome is neither the holy Catholicke Church nor a sound member of the Catholicke Church that the present Religion of the Romane Church was obserued and resisted in all ages bringeth in abundantly proofes and testimonies out of the ancient Fathers Councels and records good Authors School-men the Papists owne writings c. in all the controuerted points betwixt the Protestants and Papists 4. The fourth is Amandus Polanus his Symphonia Catholica though named the last yet as admirable as the rest yea in one thing more admirable viz. in bringing in the ancient Fathers in all the controuerted points betwixt Protestants and Papists in all ages most fully E. You come to the point indeed and say more then euer I heard and I hope these your foure bookes wil make all this good that you haue named D. They will indeed most plentifully take them away with you and keepe them euen so long as you please E. I thanke you most heartily good Sir you bring me to a feast indeed● what varietie of daintie dishes haue you set before me D. God in Christ Iesus blesse them vnto you An Advertisement to the Reader concerning Polanus his Symphonia Catholica and Mr. Robert Cooke his booke concerning counterfet Fathers Polanus his Symphonia Catholica is written in common-place manner out of the ancient Fathers and other good Authors from the dayes of Christ and his Apostles to the times of Luther handling the principall controuerted points methodically betwixt the Protestants and the Papists written purposely to satisfie that demand of Papists Where was the Protestants religion before the times of Luther Oh that some good religious Scholler or other would translate it into English for the common profite of the Church of England against the insulting brags of Fisher and other Papists who say we had no religion before Luthers times that hee hatched it c. I wish likewise that M. Robert Cooke his Latin Treatise concerning counterfet Fathers was translated into English for the good of those who vnderstand not Latin Papists alledging counterfet Fathers so often FINIS