A Discourse Penned by a Romish Priest, Table of contents – Title page 2
A TABLE OF THE SPECIALL CONTENTS.
LOcks that are scrued with letters are most troublesome to unlocke if we know not the particular letters by the setting whereof together the wards flye open: such is the ensuing discourse, consisting of very many heads doubling or trebling the Alphabet as appeare by the marginall notes, yet, without any summaary contents premised or directorie Titles serving in stead of signall letters to open the severall parts and Sections thereof, It was thought therefore requisite to supply that defect in the Romish Authour by this table wherein the Reader may readily and easily finde those remarkable points which either are professedly handled, or occasionally touched therein.
First in the Preface, pag. 3.
Secondly in the Treatise, pag. 16.
Sect. 1. pag. 26.
Sect. 2. pag. 57.
Sect. 3. pag. 82.
Thirdly in the Appendix, pag. 143.
First in the Preface.
The originall of Recusancie in England,
pag. 6.
The Rescripts of seven Popes in the case all erroneous.
pag 7.
The determination of generall Councels of great authoritie, yet not infallible,
pag. 12.
Secondly in the Treatise.
The state of the question touching going to Church with men of a different religion, explicated.
pag. 16.
Naamans fact bowing in the temple of Rimmon …iscussed.
pag. 17.
The words of the Prophet, 2 Kings 5.19. goe in peace diversly expounded.
pag. 18.
None may dissemble his Religion, no not in feare of death.
pag. 21.
The res…lution …f the Sorbon Doctors in the case of Recusancie.
pag. 24.
SECT. 1.
The definition of scandall,
pag. 26.
Severall divisions of Scandall,
pag. 27.
The distinction of veniall and mortall sinne refuted,
pag. 28.
Evangelicall Councels as they call them, are not distinct from precepts,
pag. 29.
Povertie in it selfe is not scandalous,
pag. 31
Whether our Liturgie be any part of the Missall,
pag. 33.
Prayers ought to be made in a knowne tongue,
pag. 34.
What is meant by appearance of evill, 1 Thess. 5.22.
pag. 35.
In what case the eating meates offered unto Idols is forbidden by the Apostle, 1 Cor. 8.
pag. 39.
The definition of an heretique,
pag. 51.
That the faith of Protestants is no way defective,
pag. 53.
The Romish Clergie is grosly ignorant,
pag. 54
The Protestants manner of preaching in many respects to be preferred before the Romish.
pag. 55.
SECT. 2.
Recusancie is no distinctive signe betweene a Papist and a Protestant.
pag. 57.
The Protestants Sacrament is not a bare signe; nor the holy Eucharist common bread,
pag. 60.
The body and blood of Christ is truly given in the Sacrament.
pag. 61.
The popish carnall manner of eating Christs flesh with the mouth, is repugnant to faith, reason and common sense.
pag. 62.
The Apostle by the Lords Supper, 1 Cor. 11.20. meaneth not the Agapae or Love-feasts,
pag. 64.
A foule practise and high misdemeanour of Davenport, alias à Sancta Clara, in procuring a surreptitious Bull against Day the Franciscan,
pag. 75.
SECT. 3.
That Papists attribute religious worship to images themselves,
pag. 85.
That a man being questioned of his faith, though before an incompetent Iudge is bound to answer the truth,
pag. 98.
That we may not dissemble with dissemblers, nor play the Fox with Foxes,
pag. 99.
That Papists trust in their owne merits, though some at their death have renounced them,
pag. 104.
The Oath of Allegiance divided into eight branches and every branch justified by Papists themselves,
pag. 109.
The Oath of Supremacie divided into foure branches,
pag. 114.
In what sense Protestants teach the King to be Head of the Church,
pag. 115.
Who are meant by forreiners in the Statute,
pag. 120.
That no Papist can take the Oath of Supremacie, but that he must renounce a fundamentall point of his Religion,
pag. 138.
Thirdly, in the Appendix.
1. A forme of Recantation injoyned the Lollards in the 19. yeere of King Richard the second taken out of the Records in the Tower,
pag. 143.
The Resolutions of the Fathers in the Councell of Trent,
pag. 145.
The Oathes of Supremacie Enacted 35. Hen. 8. & 1 Elizabeth,
pag. 148.150.
A proviso for Expounding the Oath, 5. Elizabeth,
pag. 151.
The Admonition annexed to the Injunctions, Elizabeth. 1.
pag. 152.
The Conclusion of the Authour of the Animadversions to the Reader,
pag. 154.
Errata sic corrige,
P. 7. in marg. state r. flat. p. 8. lin. 11. p. 7. r. 12. p. 15. l. 9. Ignorattia r. ignorantia p. 22. l. 22. the r. they p. 28. l. 15. dele the p. 42. l. 17. rejoice r. rejoyne p. 54 l. 35. proposition r. praeposition p. 64. l. 14. Apollorum r. Apostolorum p. 76. l. 6. adde foreign p. 85. l. 12. sede r. sedè p. 97. marg. l. 6. doth r. doe p. 99. l. 11. marg. adeo r. adde l. 12. r. wizards p. 140. marg. l. 6. d the appendix.
A aNay rather a Babylonish Marchant putting away a good conscience concerning faith making shipwrack…, 1 Tim. 1.19. For this book with the title thereof resembleth the Apothecaries boxes, quorum tituli remediae habe…t, pyxides …. Lactant. divin. institut. l. 3. c. 14.SAFEGARD FROM SHIPWRACKE, TO A bAccording to that prudence which Saint Iames brandeth with those three marks▪ Earthly, sensuall, and devillish Iam. 3.15.PRVDENT CATHOLIKE.
Wherein is PROOVED THAT A cBy Catholike, he meaneth a Papist, begging after their manner, that which is indeed the maine question between us, namely, whether Papists are Catholikes: For if he take Catholikes in that sense in which the word is used by the ancient Fathers, for a right beleever or Orthodox Christian in opposition to all heretikes and schismatikes; neither are Romanists such Catholikes: and such Catholikes living within his Majesties Dominions, not only may but ought to come to our Protestant Churches▪ and take the Oathes both of Allegiance and Supremacie, when they are legally tendered unto them.Catholique may goe to the Protestant Church, And Take both the Oathes of Allegiance and Supremacie.
Matth. 10.16.
Be ye wise as Serpents, and dIf the author had not here rubd his forehead, hee would never have set this text in the frontispice of his book, for whether we translate the Greek word foreign innocent or simple, in neither sense it befitteth either the person of the Author and his Associates, or the argument of his book. How innocent Papists are, it is sufficiently known to all the world by the Massacre at Paris, Powder plot in England, and the present Rebellion in Ireland. As for their simplicitie, let the Iesuits manifold Apologies of Equivocation speak, and this Priests Treatise in hand, wherein he endeavoureth through the whole to proove it to be lawfull to double in point of Gods worship, and juggle in matter of most sacred and solemne oathes.Simple as Doves.
LONDON, Printed by I. L. for Nicholas Bourne at the South entrance to the Royall Exchange, 1642.