Which is the True Church, Table of contents
The Contents of the first Part.
CHAP. 1.
Sect. 1. HIs Explication of the terms CATHOLICK CHURCH.
1. He excludeth all from Christs Universal Church, and Christianity, that are no Members of Christian Congregations: Yet meaneth not only Churches, but Families, Ships or any civil Assemblies. Damning all solitary Christians, or that are alone among Infidels.
2. He maketh subjection to the supreme Pastor necessary, and yet saith the Votum of it alone will serve.
Sect. 2. He unchurcheth Parish-Churches. He maketh dependance on lawful Pastors in general necessary, but not on the Pope particularly.
Sect. 3 What Faith must be in a Church-member. His implicite discourse of implicite faith, which indeed is no faith of any particular Article. Several senses of implicite faith opened His general faith proved, No particular faith. In what sense we believe all that God hath revealed, Sect. 8. His instances explained, Sect. 9. When virtual repentance sufficeth, Sect. 10. His avoiding to answer, Sect. 11.
The Papists Church invisible Sect. 12.
His strange Doctrine of generals. Sect. 13.
What Christianity is, is no point of faith with them, Sect. 14.
The invisibility of their Church further proved, Sect. 15.
Their contradictions about receiving all faith on the Churches Authority. Sect. 16. 17.
The true method of believing. Sect. 18.
Humane faith is joyned with Divine. Sect. 20.
What the Essentials of Christianity are. Sect. 21.
Papists utterly disagreed what a Christian is, and confounded, and their Church invisible, Sect. 22. Notes of great moment hereupon. The baptizing of men that believe only that [there is a rewarding God] is a new false baptism.
Sect. 23. Q 3. Who are the Pastors whose rejection unchurcheth men? Of Parish Priests.
Q. 4. How shall all the world be sure that Popes and Priests had a just Election or ordination. Sect. 24, 25, 26, 27, 28.
CHAP. 2. Their sense of the word HERESY.
Whether Heresie be in will or understanding. Sect. 1. Hereticks by their definition are unknown, Sect. 2. The power of judging of the [Sufficiency] of proposals, make's the Clergie Masters of all men lives, Sect. 3.
He maketh none Hereticks that deny not Gods Veracity. Sect. 4. And all Hereticks to deny it; Yea all that receive not every truth safficiently proposed. Yet unsaith all, and saith, that not culpable neglect of sufficient proof of all, but contradiction to the known proposal of lawful superiours, makes a Heretick. Sect. 7.
Q. What sufficient proposal is. Sect. 8. 9.
He saith that the true Church-Governours may be known without Revelation. Sect. 10. Sufficiency further examined. Sect. 11. He hereticateth themselves or none. Sect. 12.
Whether every misunderstanding of an intelligible Text of Scripture be Heresie. Sect. 13. What Heresie is indeed. Sect. 14.
CHAP. 3. Their meaning of the word POPE.
Sect. 1. Popes judged Herteicks by many Councils.
Where Christs institution of the Papacy must be found. Sect. 2.
Who ad esse must elect the Pope. Sect. 3. W. J. cannot and dare not tell Consecration denyed to be necessary to the Pope. Sect. 6.
Neither Papal nor Episcopal Iurisdiction, he saith, depends on Papal or Episcopal ordination. Sect. 7. So they may be Laymen. What such jurisdiction is.
Sect. 8. What notice or proof is necessary to the subjects.
CHAP. 4. Their sense of the word BISHOP.
The Pope is not of Gods ordaining, in their way. Sect. 1. 2. Their Bishop of Calcedons testimony put off. Sect. 3. They make all men that will, or no men to be Bishops. His great confusion and contradictions. Saying, we want not Episcopal Consecration, but Election, Confirmation, Vocation, Missions, Jurisdiction. All these explained. Sect. 8. He makes the Chapters in Queen Elizabeth days to have had the power of choosing all the Parish Priests. Popes no Popes for want of common consent. Sect. 9. who must choose a Monark of all the earth. Sect. 10. Their succession interrupted. Sect. 11. 12. Is it essential to a Bishop to have many Congregations, parishes or presbyters. By affirming this he nullifieth all the first Bishops, who were Bishops before they made presbyters under them, and so denyeth all succession by denying the root.
CHAP. 5. What they mean by TRADITION.
Sect. 1. He thinks the Tradition of all the world may be known by every Christian; as easily as the Tradition of the Canonical Scripture. Sect. 2.
Tradition against Popery. Sect. 4. The Protestants, Abassines, Armenians, Greeks, &c. are of one Church. Sect. 4. The contradictions of W. J. The unity of all other Christians, as such, greater than the unity of Papists as Papists, Sect. 5.
CHAP. 6. What they mean by a General COUNCIL.
His definition of a general Council is no definition. Sect. 2. Councils of old not called by the Pope, Sect. 3. His confusion and contradictions. Sect. 4. General Councils were but of the Empire, proved. Sect. 5. The impossibility and utter unlawfulness of a true universal Council of the whole Christian world, proved. Sect. 6. How many make an universal Council. Sect. 7. They make presbyters uncapable of voteing in councils, and yet the highest ancient part of the Papacy (viz. to preside in councils) is oft deputed to presbyters, Sect. 8. The council of Basil that had presbyters rejected by them for other reasons. Sect, 9.
CHAP. 7. What they mean by SCHISM.
Papists acquit all from schism who separate not from the Whole visible Church of Christ, Sect. 1. We separated not from the Greeks, Arminians, &c. Sect. 3. He absurdly requireth that we should have our Mission and Jurisdiction from them, if we have communion with them, Sect. 4. We have the same faith with them, Sect. 5. How far we separate from Rome, Sect. 6. They were not our lawful pastors, Sect. 7. Of hearing the pharises, Sect. 8. We infer not Rebellion against Authority by our rejecting trayterous Usurpers, Sect. 9. Whether the first Reformers knowingly and wilfully separated from the whole Church on earth, Sect. 10. He pretendeth that the Churches unity is perfect, and therefore that it is impossible there should be any schism in it, but only from it, when their own sect had a schisme by divers Popes for forty years. Whether all that followed the wrong Pope those forty years were out of the Church and damned, Sect. 11. His definition of schism agreeth best to the Papists, who separate from all the Church save their own sect, Sect. 12. An admonition to others, Sect. 13. My Reasons unanswered by which I proved. 1. That we interrupted not our Church succession when we broke off from Rome. 2. That the Roman Church is changed in Essentials.
PART. II.
The PREFACE.
ALL was not well said or done by every Bishop, or Council of old, Sect. 1, 2, 3. Of the considerableness of the extra-Imperial Churches of old. Sect. 4, 5. The plea of Peters supremacy, and their succession, overthrown: There never were twelve Patriarchal seats as the successors of the twelve Apostles. No one Patriarch claimed to be an Apostles successor but Rome and Antioch, and Antioch never claimed supremacy on that account, Sect. 6. The true state of the controversie about the Churches perpetual visibility, Sect. 7. Papists make Christians no Christians, for not obeying the Pope, and no Christians to be Christians if they will be his subjects, Sect. 8, 9. What I maintain, Sect. 10. A discourse republished proving that Christs Church hath no Universal Head but himself, (Pope nor Council)
CHAP. 1. The Confutation of W. I's. Reply.
Twelve instances confu…ing the wild fundamental principle of W. J. that [whatever hath been ever in the Church by Christs institution, is essential to it] Sect. 4.
By this he unchurcheth Rome, Sect. 5. He saith that every such thing is essential to the Church, but not to every member of the Church, but to such as have sufficient proposal, confuted, Sect 6. By this their Church cannot be known, or the faith of a few may make others Christians, Sect. 7. His assertion further confuted, Sect. 8. His Logical proof shamed [that every accident is separable] and therefore all that Christ instituted to continue is no accident, Sect. 9.
Whether the belief of every institution for continuance, be essential to the Church, Sect. 10.
They unchurch themselves, Sect. 11.
He acknowledgeth that all Christian Nations are not bound to believe the Popes supremacy expresly, but implicitely in subjecting themselves to them that Christ hath instituted to be their lawful pastors. Five notable consequents of this: The true method of believing, Sect. 12.
The instance of the conversion of the Iberians and Indians vindicated. He supposeth that every revealed truth was taught them by lay-persons, Sect. 13.
The instance of Peters not preaching his own supremacy, Act. 2. vindicated, Sect. 14.
The Indians converted by the English and Dutch are taught the true faith, Sect. 15. And so are the Abassines, Sect. 16.
His Doctrine against Christs visible reign, containeth many gross errors commonly called Heresies. And by making the Christian world a Monster if it have not one Papal Head, he maketh the humane world a Monster because it hath not one humane King. Sect. 17.
CHAP. 2. Our Churches visibility confessed.
Theirs to be by them proved. How far any Protestants grant the power of Patriarchs, and the Pope as Patriarch, Sect. 1.
He biddeth me but prove that any Church which now denieth the Popes Soveraignty hath been always visible, and he is satisfied, whether that Church always denyed it or not, Sect. 2. Notes hereon.
Whether they should exclaim against Christ as an invisible Head, who make him as visible in the Eucharist to every receiver, as a King is in his cloathes, Sect. 3.
Whether a Ministry be essential to the universal Church, Sect. 4.
His Argument against our Christianity re-examined, and confuted by divers instances of such fallacies, Sect. 5.
He requireth an instance of any Church-Unity, though without a humane head: which endeth the controversie, Sect. 6. More differences and greater amongst Papists than among all the other Churches, Sect. 7. He hath no evasion, but saying that these Churches are not Christians (because they depend not on the Pope) from which he before said that he abstracted, Sect. 8.
He denieth us (with the Abassines, Greeks, Armenians, &c.) to have been of the Church, and of one Church, both fully proved, Sect. 9. The charge of Nestorianism and Eutichianism on many Churches, examined, Sect. 10.
His shameful calling for the names of sects, and requiring proof of the Negative, that they are not such, Sect. 11.
CHAP. 3. More of our Unity.
Of the speech of Celestines Legat at Ephesus, Sect. 1, 2. His saying and unsaying, Sect. 3. His instances of Goths, Danes, Swedes, examined, Sect. 4, 5.
Whether extra Imperial Churches were under the Pope, Sect. 5. In what cases some were, and which.
His pretence to the Indians, Armenians, and Persians, examined, Sect. 6.
The Tradition of these Churches is against Popery, Sect 7.
His notorious fictions about the subjection of the Indians, Armenians, and Abassines, to Rome, Sect. 9. 10. Of Pisanus, Arabick, Nicene Canons, Sect. 11.
He intended to write a Tractate to prove that extraneous Bishops were at the Councils. But that put-off goeth for an answer, Sect. 12.
He confesseth that the very Gallicane and Spanish Liturgies mention not the Popes Soveraignty, no more than the Ethiopick, Sect. 13.
When Constantine intreated the King of Persia for the Churches there, the Pope did not command there, Sect. 14.
Whether before Gregory's Mission, the British Church was ever subject to the Pope, or heretical, Sect. 15.
Reynerius words vindicated, viz. [The Churches of the Armenians, Ethiopians, and Indians, and the rest which the Apostles converted, are not under the Church of Rome. Sect. 16.
The 28. Can. of the Council of Calcedon vindicated, which declareth the Pope to be but the first Patriarch in the Empire, by humane right, for the sake of the Imperial City, Sect. 17. 18, 19, 20.
His brave attempt to prove that extra-Imperial Bishops were summoned to the Councils, At Nice of John Persidis, Armenians, Gothia; At Ephes. 1. Thebamnon Bishop of Coptus, Sect. 21. 22. His other citations confuted, Sect. 23. Of Eusebius his circular Letter, Sect. 24.
CHAP. 4. The Emperors and not the Pope called the old Councils, Sect. 1.
Myraeus his Notitia Episcopat against him, Sect. 2. Of the authority over the barbarous given, Con. Calced. c. 28.
Proof that the Papal power was held to be but jure humano, Sect. 5. He was over but one Empire, Sect. 6. No councils but of one Empire.
Prospers testimony examined, & caput mundi expounded, Sect. 7.
Pope Leo's words examined, Sect. 8, 9.
The Decretal Epistles shew the Popes ruled not the world, Sect. 10. More of Ethiopia and Pisanus's Canons, Sect. 11.
CHAP. 5. The Case re…eated. The uselesness of his Testimonies therein.
CHAP. 6. The Vanity of his proofs that Councils were called General as to all the world, and not only to the Empire. From the words [totius orbis] from the end, the peace of the World: and the rest, Sect. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
His Question answered, what Hereticks are Christians, Sect. 8, 9, 10, 11.
He saith that no Heretick believeth for the authority of God revealing; and so acquitteth all that do but believe that God is true, which is all that believe indeed that there is a God, Sect. 12.
Of sufficiency of proposal of truths. It is not equal. He absolveth Hereticks. And maketh Hereticks of the Papists, Sect. 13, 14, 15.
Whether the Papists and Protestants are one Church. Whether the Pope and Christ are two heads. Whether a King that saith God hath made me the Vice-god of all the earth, set not up a policy destinct from Gods, Sect. 16.
One called a Papist may be a Christian, and another not, Sect. 17. 18.
CHAP. 7. Whether we separate from the Church, as the old Hereticks did, Sect. 1.
Whether we separate from other Churches as we do from the Papal, Sect. 2. Arrians separate from the Church as Christian, Sect. 3. Why they-call us Schismaticks, Sect. 4. 5. Papists agree not whether Hereticks are in the Church, Sect. 6. What we hold herein, Sect. 6. His absurd answer, Sect. 7. Whether every man deny Christs veracity who receiveth not every truth sufficiently proposed, Sect. 8, 9.
He maketh it a grand novelty of mine, to say that there may be divisions in the Church, and not from the Church, because the Church is a most perfect unity. The shame of this charge, Sect. 10, 11.
His charge of Eutychianisme on the Abassines, &c. Sect. 12.
Of self-conceited hereticating wits, Sect. 12.
Whether the Abassines confess themselves Eutichianes, Sect. 14.
Of the Greek Churches rejecting us, Sect. 16.
The Greek Church claimed not Soveraignty over all the world, but in the Empire Sect. 17, 18, 19.
Whether every child, subject, or neighbour, must judg Hereticks, and avoid them unsentenced, Sect. 20.
His false answer to the testimony of their own writers, that free the Greeks from heresie, Sect. 21.
The witness of the Council of Florence, That the Greeks meant Orthodoxly, Sect. 23.
Nilus testimony vindicated, Sect. 24 Our unity with Greeks and others, Sect. 25.
A notable passage of Meletius Patriarch of Alexandria and Constantinople, for the sole Headship of Christ, and the Popes usurpation, novelties, and forsaking tradition, which (with Cyril's testimony) W. J. passed over, Sect. 26.
The Answer to W. J's second part of his Reply.
Sect. 1. SUfficient answers to all his citations pretermitted in terms.
Sect. 2. Because I cite a Patriarch and Councils excommunicating a Pope by the Emperor Theodosius countenance, he saith, I plead for Rebellion.
Sect. 4. His instances of the Popes extraneous power confuted.
Sect. 5. His particular proofs (before promised in a special Tract) examined, 1. His error of Theophilus Gothiae, Sect. 6. 2. Of Domnus Bosphori his gross error, Sect. 7. 3. Of Joh. Persidis, Sect. 8. 4. Of Bishops of Scythia, Sect. 9. 5. Of Etherius Anchialensis (for Sebastianus), Sect. 10. 6. Of Phaebamnon Copti. Sect. 11. 7. Of Theodulus Esulae (so falsly called), Sect. 12. 8. Of Theodorus Gadarorum, Sect. 13. 9. Of Antipater Bostrorum, Sect. 14. 10. Of Olympius Schythopoleos, Sect. 15. 11. Of Eusebius Gentis Saracenorum, Sect. 16. 12. Constantinus Bostrorum, Sect. 17. 13. One pro Glaco Gerassae. All shew his gross ignorance of the Bishopricks of the Empire.
Sect. 19. The Nestorians Epistle at the Council Ephes. to Callimores Rex, expounded.
Sect. 20, 21. Remarks upon passages in the first Ephisine Council.
Sect. 22. Remarks of the Council of Calcedon.
Sect. 23. Of the Titles, Caput Mundi, Mater omnium Ecclesiarum, Primatus Apostolicus, &c. given to Antioch and Jerusalem.
Sect. 24. Binnius confession, that at Conc. Const. 1. The Pope presided not, per se vel per Legatos.
Sect. 25. His assertion, that the Councils pretended to jurisdiction over the Church through all the World, examined.
Sect. 26. The vanity of his first proof. Sect. 27, 28. Of his second and third. More Notes of the Council. Calced. Sect. 29. His fourth instance confuted. Sect. 30. His fifth confuted. Sect. 31. His sixth confuted. Sect. 32. His last instance vain.
Sect. 33. He could not disprove the Roman Church from being really two Churches (named one) as having two supreme Heads.
Sect. 34. I could not intreat him by any provocation, to prove the continued visibility of the Church as Papal.
PART. III.
A Defence of my Arguments, for our continued visibility.
Sect. 1. WHether all Believers are Christians.
Sect. 2. The vanity of his next Cavil against my definition.
Sect. 3. My definition of Protestants vindicated.
Sect. 4. One may have communion with faulty Churches.
Sect. 5. His shameful reformation of Syllogisms, and pretence of Logical form.
Sect. 6. He denieth Protestants to be of the Church of Christ. I prove it. His silly cavils at the form of the Argument.
Sect. 7. Protestants profess all the Essentials of Christianity. Proved. His cavils shamed.
Sect. 8. His oft repeated Reason confuted, of not receiving the Churches expositions.
Sect. 9. The novelty and discord of Popery. The confusions in Councils.
Sect. 10. My second Argument's to prove, that we hold all essentials: The Popish faith explained.
Sect. 12. My third Argument, Creed and Scriptures are with them too little; and yet, an insufficient proposal makes Christianity it self unnecessary.
Sect. 12. He giveth up his Cause, confessing the sufficiency of our explicite belief.
Sect. 13. My fourth Argument, His ridiculous denying, that to deny the minor, is to deny the antecedent.
Sect. 14. The minor proved: All Protestants, as such, profess to love God: Ergo, sincere Protestants do love him. What miracles believing in the Pope doth.
Sect. 15. He had no way to deny that Protestants profess true faith, but by his impudent denying, 1. That we profess to love God. 2. And that we feel that we do love him.
Sect. 20. My second Argument, to prove the perpetual visibility of our Church, confoundeth him.
Sect. 21. Scripture sufficiency.
Sect. 22. My third Argument, and his shameful Answer.
Sect. 25. My fourth Argument proveth the visibility of our Church, not only as Christian, but as without Popery. Ten sub-arguments for that, 1 From the twentyeighth Canon of Conc. Calced. 2. From the silence of the old Writers against Hereticks.
Sect. 28. 3. From Tradition proved. 4. From Churches never subject to Rome. His citations briefly confuted.
S…ct. 30. 5. From the non-subjection, even of the Imperial Churches.
Sect. 32. 6. From Gregory the first's testimony.
Sect. 33. 7. From their confessions, Aen. Silvius, Reynerius, Canus, Binnius, vindicated.
Sect. 38. 8. Phocas giving the Primacy to Boniface. Sect. 39, 9. Their Liturgy new.
Sect. 40. Twelve instances of new Articles of the Papists Faith, which he durst not Answer.
S…ct. 42. The tenth Argument, he yieldeth the cause in sense.
S…ct. 43. Notable testimonies unanswered.
S…ct. 44. Papists differ de fide.
Sect. 47. What Hereticks are, or are not in the Church; fully opened: His shameful exclaiming against me for distinguishing.
Sect. 48. Fifty six of Philastrius Heresies, named, many being small matters, and many notorious certain truths.
Sect. 49. The woful work of Hereticating Councils.
Sect. 50. Councils hereticated Popes and one another: Almost all the Christian world hereticate one another.
Sect. 55. His reasons answered for unchurching all Hereticks.
Sect. 60. Their Doctrine of sufficient proposal fullier confuted, and their hereticating and unchurching themselves, evinced.