Christianography, Table of contents
The Contents of the firſt Chapter.
THe ſeverall ſorts of Chriſtians in the World not ſubject to the Pope, or differing in Religion from him.
Firſt in EVROPE, Protestants, Greekes, and Muſcovites.
Secondly, in ASIA, The Chriſtians under the Patriarch of
Ieruſalem.
Antioch.
The Armenians.
The Georgians
The Mengrellians.
The Cinaſsians.
The Chriſtians in Aſia the leſse.
Muſcovite Chriſtians in Aſia.
Chriſtians under the Patriarch of Muſall.
The Jacobites.
Chriſtians of St. Thome.
The Maronites.
Beſides the Curdi, Morduites, Druſi, and the Christians of Taprobana.
Thirdly, in AFRICA.
The Cophti under the Patriarch of Alexandria.
The Abaſsines, or Ethiopian Chriſtians.
The contents of the ſecond Chapter.
The ſeverall habitations of theſe Chriſtians, in Europe, Aſia, and Africa.
The contents of the third Chapter.
The Vnitie, and how theſe Churches agree with us in the principall points wherein wee differ from the Church of Rome. Jn this chapter is ſet downe;
1 The principall differences betweene the Church of Rome and us.
2 The points in which theſe Churches agree with us, with ſome of their Liturgies.
3 That I finde theſe Churches are not hereticall, but orthodox in the maine.
4 Of the harmony of the Proteſtants among themſelves.
5 Of the differences, and want of Vnity, amongſt the Romanists.
6 Our Ʋnity with the ancient Eaſt, Weſt, and South Churches; and eſpecially with Gregory, who is pretended to be the founder of the Romiſh Religion amongſt us.
7 Our agreement with the ancient Britans, our forefathers.
8 The lives and converſations of thoſe Churches comparatively.
The Contents of the fourth Chap.
Of the Antiquity of theſe Churches.
1 Some of them are more ancient then the Romiſh Church.
2 The old Church of Rome, and the now church, are not one, but different.
3 The now church of Rome as it is a new church, ſo likewiſe it hath new Articles of Faith, &c.
The Contents of the fift Chapter.
A Succeſsion of Biſhops in Hieruſalem.
Antioch
Alexandria.
Rome, for 600. yeeres.
In Conſtantinople for ſome yeeres.
The Metropolites and Biſhoprickes of Conſtantinople.
Antioch.
Hieruſalem.
Africa.
The Biſhops of Conſtantinople, from Stachys to this day.
That the Roman Biſhops ſince Gregory, differ in Title, Iuriſdiction, Life, and Doctrine from the former.
A Succeſsion of the Emperors of Conſtantinople, and of Aethiopia.
The Contents of the ſixt Chapter.
By what meanes the Papall Monarchie hath beene raiſed, and how it hath been, and is upheld; in which is ſet downe.
1. The primitive eſtate of the Roman Biſhops.
2. How they got the title of head of all other Churches: and how they increaſed their Juriſdiction.
3 The Popes Temporalties.
4 How the Pope got Superiority above the Emperors.
5 Of their inventions to get money.
6 Of the Popes ſtate and magnificence.
7 Of the Popes munificence and gifts.
8 Guicchardines relation of the Popes riſing.
9 How the Popes keepe that they have.
Jn giving of Kingdomes to Princes.
In diſpenſing with marriages, and oathes.
Their Corrupting the Fathers.
Suppreſsing the reading of holy Scriptures. Their inventing ſcandalous lies and Bookes &c.
The Concluſion.
A letter ſent from the Patriarch of Alexandria, to the late Lord Archbiſhop of Canterbury, and his Anſwer to the ſame.
CHRISTIANOGRAPHIE, or the deſcription of the ſundrie ſorts of Chriſtians in the world, not ſubject to the Pope.
AMongſt the uſuall and falſe pretences, wherewith our Adverſaries of Rome have long gone about to deceive the ſimple and ignorant. One of the principall, is the Paucitie of the Profeſſors of the Reformed Religion, and the Multitude and Amplitude of them, and their Religion, as if all the Chriſtian Kings, Emperouns, and Biſhops, before King Henry the Eight, and Archbiſhop Cranmer, and alſo the whole Church of God had beene ſubiect to the Biſhop of Rome: but onelyonly a few Proteſtants, ſhut up in an obſcure corner of Europe: To diſcover the falſhood of theſe, their vaine and glorious boaſting. I purpoſe to ſet downe.
1 The Churches of Chriſtians in the world, not ſubiect to the Pope, or differing in Religio from him.
2 The places of their Dwellings, and large Habitations.
3 Their VNITIE, and how they do agree with us in the principall points in Controverfie betweene the Church of Rome and its.
4 The ANTIQVITY of theſe Churches, ſome of them being more ancient then the Church of Rome.
5 A SVCCESSION of Biſhops in ſome of their Patriarchall Churches, and other Epiſcopall Sees.
6 How the Church of Rome hath beene advanced above other Churches, and how it hath beene ſince ſupported and held up.