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A71235	The pamphlet entituled, Speculum ecclesiasticum, or, An ecclestiastical prospective-glass, considered, in its false reasonings and quotations	Wharton, Henry, 1664-1695.	1688 (1688)	Wing W1568; ESTC R1230	19,142	32

yet even our Author will grant that Prayers are not in a strict and proper sense to be addressed In this Fire of Devotion saith he let us fall down to their Reliques let us embrace their Repositories for even the Repositories of Martyrs have great Virtue as the Bones of Martyrs have great Force These Rhetorical Apostrophes are frequent to all Orators and ought not to be drawn into Dogmatical Propositions I return now to consider our Authors Columns separately The Second is about the Primacy of the Pope and consists of some Testimonies of the Fathers which abating the spurious ones insinuate no more than that St. Peter was Prince or First of the Apostles the Foundation upon which the Church was built and the Keeper of the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven all this we readily acknowledg None ever denied a Primacy of Order to St. Peter the Scripture assures us that the Apostles were all Foundations of the Church and our Saviour committed the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven to them all If any of these Testimonies seem to attribute somewhat greater and more eminent to St. Peter we are to consider that Orators seldom contain themselves within the severe bounds of truth when they set themselves to make an Encomium of any The Ancients speak no less things of St. Paul and attribute to him no less swelling Titles as might easily be proved if our intended brevity would permit it I will produce only some passages of St. Chrysostom who calls him The Tongue of the World the Light of the Churches the Foundation of Faith the Pillar and Ground of Truth the Vessel of Election the Temple of God the Mouth of Christ the Harp of the Holy Ghost the Doctor of the World the Teacher of Divine Opinions the Schoolmaster of the World upon whom the eyes of the whole World were cast and upon whom the care of all the Churches in the World depended to whose Government God had committed the whole World to whom the whole World was committed and all the Churches under the Sun who governed all the Churches People Nations and Cities of the Earth to whom none can be equalled who had the Primacy greater than all others to Michael was committed the Government of the Jews but to Paul the Earth the Sea both the habitable and inhabitable World the Illuminator of the World the greatest of all Men who alone possessed all the perfections of the other Patriarchs Apostles Saints and Martyrs who is admired and honoured beyond all the other Apostles None of them was greater than him yea none was equal to him I am confident no passages can be found in all Antiquity in favour of St. Peter which can equal these produced out of one Author in favour of St. Paul. The most express passage which our Author alledgeth is that of Tertullian where he is supposed to call the Pope Chief Pastor Bishop of Bishops and Blessed Pope But alas all these are Ironical Expressions directed to not the Pope but the Bishop of Carthage as hath been invincibly proved by a Learned Man now of our Church The more express Testimonies which remain are only the first and the last of this Column The first our Author thought so considerable that he chose against his usual custom to give it us in Latin It is part of the Inscription of St. Ignatius's Epistle to the Romans wherein he calls them the sanctified and illuminated Church which presides in the Country of the Romans These inscriptions of Epistles were according to the Custom of the Eastern Nations filled with great and swelling Titles of which unhappily this to the Romans was one of the most modest for he bestows far greater Titles upon other Churches in some of his Epistles and particularly calls the Church of the Philadelphians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 raised to the utmost pitch of perfection as for the word illuminated it is a Title which the Ancient Christians bestowed upon all Baptized Persons whom they called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Baptism was commonly called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And then for presiding in the Countrey of the Romans every particular Episcopal See presideth in her own Diocess and therefore Ignatius doth not say which presideth in the whole World but which presideth in the Province of Rome The last Testimony is taken from Socrates and Sizomen attesting that the Eastern Synods were not valid unless confirmed by the Pope that he had a peculiar Priviledge of restoring Bishops unjustly deposed and that to him belonged the care of all the Churches But first neither of the Historians affirm That the Pope had any such priviledge which was not common to the other Patriarch For it was the constant custom of the Ancient Church that in all emergent occasions of the Church the Patriarchs should interpose their judgments as being more peculiarly obliged to it by that eminent station which they held among other Bishops Not that the judgment of every one was authoritative or immediately put in execution for their judgments were oft-times contrary but they thereby only declared what they thought just and Canonical which if it was not performed they with the Bishops subject to them used to deny communion to the other party Besides there was a particular reason in the case mentioned by these Historians For Athanasius being deposed by the Arians both Catholicks and Arians had submitted the Arbitration of the whole cause to Pope Julius As for the confirmation of Councils no Council could be General till approved by all the Patriarchs therefore if a Synod were held in the East wherein the Roman Patriarchs was present neither by himself nor by his Legates no wonder if the Decrees of it obliged not the Western Patriarchate till confirmed by the Pope For no more did the Western Synods oblige the Eastern Churches till confirmed by the Eastern Patriarchs The Fifth Column treateth of Transubstantiation wherein most of the Testimonies produced by our Author say no more than that the Eucharistical elements after Consecration are the Body and Blood of our Lord. This we also assert and believe but then the question remaineth still in what sense they are the body and blood of Christ of the remaining citations the most express are those of Just in Martyr St. Ambrose and St. Augustin The first even in the words cited by our Author affirms That our Flesh and Blood are nourished by the Eucharistical elements and therefore could not believe Transubstantiation The Second indeed saith that a preternatural change is made in the elements after Consecration and the Bread then becomes the Body of Christ which was born of the Virgin Mary was crucified and buried But that he means his typical not natural body is manifest from the beginning of this Chapter where he compares this heavenly food to Manna or the Bread of Angels and prefers it because that is subject to corruption if it be kept

Motives to the Roman Obedience 8vo The Decree made at ROME the Second of March 1679. condemning some Opinions of the Jesuits and other Casuists 4 o. A Discourse concerning the Necessity of Reformation with respect to the Errors and Corruptions of the Church of Rome 4 o. First and Second Parts A Discourse concerning the Celebration of Divine Service in an Unknown Tongue 4 o. A Papist not Misrepresented by Protestants Being a Reply to the Reflections upon the Answer to A Papist Misrepresented and Represented 4 o. An Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England in the several Articles proposed by the late BISHOP of CONDOM in his Exposition of the Doctrine of the Catholick Church 4 o. A Defence of the Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England against the Exceptions of Mons de Meaux late Bishop of Condom and his Vindicator 4 o. A CATECHISM explaining the Doctrine and Practices of the Church of Rome With an Answer thereunto By a Protestant of the Church of England 8vo A Papist Represented and not Misrepresented being an Answer to the First Second Fifth and Sixth Sheets of the Second Part of the Papist Misrepresented and Represented and for a further Vindication of the CATECHISM truly representing the Doctrines and Practices of the Church of Rome 4 o. The Lay-Christian's Obligation to read the Holy Scriptures 4 o. The Plain Man 's Reply to the Catholick Missionaries 24 o. An Answer to THREE PAPERS lately printed concerning the Authority of the Catholick Church in Matters of Faith and the Reformation of the Church of England 4 o. A Vindication of the Answer to THREE PAPERS concerning the Unity and Authority of the Catholick Church and the Reformation of the Church of England 4 o. Mr. Chillingworth's Book called The Religion of Protestants a safe way to Salvation made more generally useful by omitting Personal Contests but inserting whatsoever concerns the common Cause of Protestants or defends the Church of England with an exact Table of Contents and an Addition of some gennine Pieces of Mr. Chillingworth's never before printed viz. against the Infallibility of the Roman Church Transubstantiation Tradition c. And an Account of what moved the Author to turn Papist with his Confutation of the said Motives The Pillar and Ground of Truth A Treatise shewing that the Roman Church falsly claims to be That Church and the Pillar of That Truth mentioned by S. Paul in his first Epistle to Timothy Chap. 3. Vers 15. 4to The Peoples Right to read the Holy Scripture Asserted 4to A Short Summary of the principal Controversies between the Church of England and the Church of Rome being a Vindication of several Protestant Doctrines in Answer to a Late Pamphlet Intituled Protestancy destitute of Scripture Proofs 4to Two Discourses Of Purgatory and Prayers for the Dead An Answer to a Late Pamphlet Intituled The Judgment and Doctrine of the Clergy of the Church of England concerning one Special Branch of the King's Prerogative viz. In dispensing with the Penal Laws 4to The Notes of the Church as laid down by Cardinal Bellarmin examined and confuted 4to Preparation for Death Being a Letter sent to a young Gentlewoman in France in a dangerous Distemper of which she died The Difference between the Church of England and the Church of Rome in opposition to a late Book Intituled An Agreement between the Church of England and Church of Rome A PRIVATE PRAYER to be used in Difficult Times A True Account of a Conference held about Religion at London Sept. 29. 1687. between A. Pulton Jesuit and Tho. Tenison D. D. ss also of that which led to it and followed after it 4to The Vindication of A. Cressener Schoolmaster in Long-Acre from the Aspersions of A. Pulton Jesuit Schoolmaster in the Savoy together with some Account of his Discourse with Mr. Meredith A Discourse shewing that Protestants are on the safer side notwithstanding the uncharitable Judgment of their Adversaries and that Their Religion is the surest Way to Heaven 4to Six Conferences concerning the Eucharist wherein is shewed that the Doctrine of Transubstantiation overthrows the Proofs of Christian Religion A Discourse concerning the Pretended Sacrament of Extreme Vnction with an Account of the occasions and beginnings of it in the Western Church In three Parts With a Letter to the Vindicator of the Bishop of Condom The Pamphlet entituled Speculum Ecclesiasticum or an Ecclesiastical Prospective-Glass considered in its False Reasonings and Quotations There are added by way of Preface two further Answers the First to the Defender of the Speculum the Second to the Half-sheet against the Six Conferences In the Press A Second Defence of the Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England against the new Exceptions of Mons de Meaux late Bishop of Condom and his Vindicator The FIRST PART in which the Account that has been given of the Bishop of Meaux's Exposition is fully Vindicated the Distinction of Old and New Popery Historically asserted and the Doctrine of the Church of Rome in Point of Image-worship more particularly considered 4 o. The Incurable Scepticism of the Church of Rome By the Auther of the Six Conferences concerning the Eucharist 4 o. * Fascic Temp. Perfidia Epist ad Ephes * De Persecut Vandal l. 2. † A prefat ad Reginon a De Script Eccl. cap. 25. b Concil Tom. II. p. 844. a Institut Sacerd. tit de necess Confes Lect. 2. O exterminanda cordis caecatio O perditionis animarum occasio l. 2. c. 8. a Ad an 252. a Hist Eccl. l. 7. c. 2. b Hist Con. Nic. l. 2. c. 30. c Prefat ad Version d L. 4. c. 57. e Adv. Marcion l. 4. c. 40. * De Ecclesiast Hierarch c. 7. * Orat. de SS Bernic Prosdoce * Hom. in Rom. xvi 3. in terra mot Laz. in Paulum c. Hom. ad eos qui scandalizati sunt Hom. de esemos collat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 † Lib. de Pudic. * Alix Dissert de Script Tertul. p. 70. a De initandis cap. 9. a Comm. in Psal 33. Sacramenta praedicabat ‖ De curand affect Graec. Orat. 8.