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A Case for the Spectacles · Humphrey Lynde

A Case for the Spectacles, Table of contents 1 – Errata 1

The CONTENTS of the first Part.

In the Epistle to I. R.

FAlsifications objected by the Iesuit, answerd and retorted. pag. 2.

Personall succession of visible Professors is no certaine note of a true Church. pag 3.

The second Commandement is morall, and the Iesuits leaving it out of the Decalogue, is unexcusable. pag. 8.

In the Answer to the Preface.

The Iesuits answer is full of railing, slanders, sophismes, and tergiversations. pag. 16.

CHAP. I. The Articles of the Roman Creed, published by Pope Pius the fourth, were never anciently received. pag 25.

The 39 Articles of the Church of England justified. pag. 30.

Papists teach, that the Pope hath power to create new Articles of Faith. pag. 33.

Many Doctrines of Poperie are new, by the confession of Papists themselves. pag. 38.

Protestants have a certaine rule of Faith, Papists have not. pag. 45.

The Roman translation of the Bible, is most corrupt. pag. 51.

Three sorts of corruptions, and abuses of ancient Fathers. 1. By foysting bastard Treatises, & entitling them to the Fathers. 2. By falsifying their undoubted Treatises by additions, detractions, or mutations. 3. By alleaging passages and places out of them, which are not extant in their Workes: and of all these three kinds, Romanists are proved guiltie. pag. 64.

Corruptions, and falsifications of ancient Writers, by Papists:

In the first Age. pag. 65.

In the 2. Age. pag. 67.

In the 3. pag. 68.

In the 4. pag. 73.

In the 5. pag. 77.

In the 6. pag. 89.

In the 7. pag. 90.

In the 8. pag. 92.

In the 9. pag. 105.

In the 10. pag. 109.

In the 11. pag. 110.

In the 12. pag. 111.

In the 13. pag. 112.

In the 14. pag. 114.

In the 15. pag. 115.

In the 16. pag. 122.

Of implicit Faith, and blind Obedience, maintained by Papists. pag. 143.

CHAP. II. Papists their bitternesse against reformed Churches, is causlesse. pag. 148.

The definition of Heretikes agreeth to Papists, but no way to Protestants. pag. 151.

Rome confessed to be Babylon, by learned Romanists. pag. 157.

CHAP. III. Cassander and Caesenus are justified. pag 164.

Corruption in Faith as well as manners, are confessed to have been in the Roman Church by the learned of that partie. pag. 165.

The Councell of Trent intended a reformation of Faith as well as manners. pag. 173.

CHAP. IV. The Catholike Faith is not so indivisible, but that a man may renounce it in part, though not in all, as many learned Romanists have renounced the Trent Faith in part. pag. 178.

Priests marriage is lawfull. pag. 181.

CHAP. V. Romanists prefer their own interpretations of Scriptures, before the ancient Fathers. pag. 188.

CHAP. VI. Many errours have crept into the Church, whose first Authors cannot be named. pag. 191.

The difference between Heresie and Apostacie. pag. 196.

CHAP. VII. The petty degree of the Romish Faith is drawne from the ancient Heretikes, namely; the Osseni Helchescite, the Capernaites, the Manichees, the Angelici, the Collyridians, the Tacians, and the Cathorists. pag. 219.

CHAP. VIII. The Antiquitie, and Vniversalitie of the Protestant Faith in generall is proved by the testimonies of our learned Adversaries. pag. 253.

There are but 22 Canonicall books of the old Testament, as is proved by the testimonies of the ancient Fathers, both of the Greeke and Latine Church. pag. 276.

Errata in the first Part.

PAge 42. line 8. reade his. lin. 17. r. authority, in marg. l. 2. r. ad Dard. p. 57. lin. 11. r. their foreseene. p. 66. l. 4. r. the deepe. p. 75. l. 20. r. Angles. p 92 in mar. l. 8. r. alius, in text, l. 29. r. rejected. p. 93. l. 16. r. serve. p. 109. l. 23. r. making him speake. p. 131. in mar. l. 12. r. veniali. p. 138. l. 25. r. very corruptly. p. 139. l. 25. in marg. r. repurgata: p. 153. l. 22. r. homoousians. p. 164 in marg. l. 25. r. vicesimi tertii. p. 173. l. 23. r. operierunt. p. 189. in mar. l. 17 sequinitur. p. 218. l. 2. r. Vitalian. p. 219. l. 18. in marg. r. regnum. p. 224. in marg. l. 10. r. minus. p. 248. in marg. l. 12. r. curvat. & l. 14. r. pronus. & l. 18. r. iudico. p. 25 1. l. 6. r. argument. p. 255. l. 3. r. ingenuously. p 257. l. 12. r. true body. & l. 21. r. is. & l. 22. dele and. p. 270. l. 4. r. looke. p. 271. l. 29. r. of the. p. 273. l. 3. dele to the p. 279. l. 22. r. when.