DedicationTo the Kings moſt Excellent Majeſty, CHARLES By the grace of God King of Great Britain and Ireland, &c.…
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PrefaceTHE PREFACE. Occaſion of Cardinal du Perron's Book. Anſwer to the two Prefaces, which he premiſeth before…
Compendium of passages refutedA Pattern of Falſifications and depravations of paſſages alledged by the L. Cardinal Du Perron, in his Book…
TextThe Confeſsion of three POPES.
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Book 1BOOK I. OF THE ANSWER TO Cardinal du Perron, TREATING Of the Church, and of her Marks, of the Authority of…
Chapter 1CHAP. 1. Of the Nature of the Queſtion of the Church.
Chapter 2CHAP. 2. Of the word Church, and of the ſeveral ſignifications thereof.
Chapter 3CHAP. 3. That there is a Church of Elect or Predeſtinate perſons.
Chapter 4CHAP. 4. Reaſons of the Adverſaries againſt the Church of the Elect.
Chapter 5CHAP. 5. Reaſons of Cardinal du Perron againſt the Church of the Elect in the ninth Chapter of his Book.
Chapter 6CHAP. 6. Whether the Societies of Hereticks, and Schiſmaticks, or Idolatrous Chriſtians, muſt be called…
Chapter 7CHAP. 7. How this Propoſition muſt be underſtood: That out of the Church there is no Salvation.
Chapter 8CHAP. 8. Whether the True Church be alwayes in Sight? State of the Queſtion.
Chapter 9CHAP. 9. That the Church to which we muſt join, that we may be ſaved, is not alwayes eminent and expoſed to…
Chapter 10CHAP. 10. Places of the Fathers upon that Subject.
Chapter 11CHAP. 11. Teſtimonies and Reaſons of the Adverſaries for the perpetual Viſibility of the Church.
Chapter 12CHAP. 12. Anſwer to that Queſtion made to us; Shew us where your Church was before Luther, remounting from…
Chapter 13CHAP. 13. Whether the Church can Err?
Chapter 14CHAP. 14. That the Roman Church hath erred, and erreth.
Chapter 15CHAP. 15. OF THE ANTIQUITY OF THE ROMAN CHURCH. A Treatiſe wherein it is ſhewed that the Ceremonies of the…
31 sectionsChapter 16CHAP. 16. Reaſons why Cardinal du Perron, making little account of the three firſt ages, confines himſelf…
Chapter 17CHAP. 17. Of the authority of the Church, And whether ſhe muſt have more authority with us then the holy…
Chapter 18CHAP. 18. Proofs that the Word of God contained in the holy Scriptures, is above the Church, and ought to…
Chapter 19CHAP. 19. Reaſons of our Adverſaries to the contrary.
Chapter 20CHAP. 20. Examination of the places of the Ancients which M. du Perron objecteth to this purpoſe.
Chapter 21CHAP. 21. Of the Authority of the Church to interpret Scripture infallibly.
Chapter 22CHAP. XXII. Seven differences between our Interpretations of Scripture, and thoſe of the Roman Church.
Chapter 23CHAP. XXIII. Examination of the Reaſons which Cardinal du Perron brings in the fifth chapter, for the…
Chapter 24CHAP. 24. Of the authority of the Church, to alter that which God commandeth in Scripture. Confutation of…
Chapter 25CHAP. 25. Which and of what nature muſt the marks of the Church be.
Chapter 26CHAP. 26. Of the true Mark to diſcern the true Church.
Chapter 27CHAP. 27. Teſtimonies of the Fathers. Confutation of the Cardinals anſwer.
Chapter 28CHAP. 28. Reaſons of the Cardinal and others, to prove that the true Doctrine and conformity to the word of…
Chapter 29CHAP. 29. That the word Catholick cannot be a mark of the true Church.
Chapter 30CHAP. 30. Of the word Catholick, and in what ſenſe the Church is called Catholick by the Ancients. That…
Chapter 31CHAP. 31. Of holineſs in doctrine.
Chapter 32CHAP. 32. Of the ſucceſsion of chairs. Whether it be a mark of the true Church? And what that ſucceſsion…
Chapter 33CHAP. 33. What the Succeſsion was, and what the calling of thoſe who in our Fathers time took in hand the…
Chapter 34CHAP. 34. That in the time of Jeſus Chriſt and his Apoſtles, and in the ages next to the Apoſtles, many…
Chapter 35CHAP. 35. A difference to be obſerved, between the office of Paſtor of the Church, and the means to enter…
Chapter 36CHAP. 36. That the Popes have a falſe title, and without any Word of God, to the ſucceſsion of St. Peter,…
Chapter 37CHAP. 37. Of the ſucceſsion of Popes and Cardinals. By what ways the Popedom uſeth to be obtained. Of…
Chapter 38CHAP. 38. Of the wayes whereby Cardinals and other Prelates come to their Charges.
Chapter 39CHAP. 39. Of the perpetual Duration, which M. du Perron calleth Indefectibility.
Chapter 40CHAP. 40. Of the multitude and great number; and that the multitude is not a mark of the true Church.
Chapter 41CHAP. 41. Examination of the proofs which M. du Perron brings to prove that the true Church had alwayes the…
Chapter 42CHAP. 42. Of Miracles.
Chapter 43CHAP. 43. Of Union in the viſible Church.
Chapter 44CHAP. 44. Whether the Univerſal Church muſt be called Roman.
Chapter 45CHAP. 45. Of Antiquity, whether it be a mark of the true Church.
Chapter 46CHAP. 46. Of the Fathers and Antient Doctors, and of their Authority.
Chapter 47CHAP. 47. That our Adverſaries condemn the Fathers, and by conſequent cannot have them for Judges.
Chapter 48CHAP. 48. That the Roman Church oppoſeth her ſelf to the conſent of antient Doctors.
Chapter 49CHAP. 49. Doctrines in which the Roman Church rejecteth every Father in particular.
24 sectionsChapter 50CHAP. 50. How far the Ancient Church was from the belief which is now received in the Roman Church.…
Chapter 51CHAP. 51. Of the pretended power and authority of the Church to add unto Scripture. And of the unwritten…
Chapter 52CHAP. 52. That the holy Scripture contains the whole doctrine neceſſary to ſalvation. Examination of the…
Chapter 53CHAP. 53. Teſtimonies of Fathers of the ſufficiency of Scripture againſt unwritten Traditions.
Chapter 54CHHP. 54. The Cardinals reaſons for Traditions againſt the perfection of Scripture. And firſt of the…
Chapter 55CHAP. 55. Texts of the New Teſtament which Cardinal du Perron brings for the Traditions not contained in…
Chapter 56CHAP. 56. Doctrines held in the Chriſtian Church, which the Cardinal ſaith are not contained in Scripture.
Chapter 57CHAP. 57. Of the Traditions which the Fathers allow.
Chapter 58CHAP. 58. Of the prohibition of reading holy Scripture. Shifts of Cardinal du Perron.
Chapter 59CHAP. 59. Defence of the purity and truth of Scripture againſt the Cardinals accuſations and falſifications.
Chapter 60CHAP. 60. Of Canonical and Apocryphal books. Proofs by Gods word that Tobit, Judith, the Maccabes, &c. are…
Chapter 61CHAP. 61. Untruths and errors in the books called the Apocrypha.
8 sectionsChapter 62CHAP. 62. That the Cardinal attributes weak objections to us, and defends that which we do not impugne.
Chapter 63CHAP. 63. That we reject not the Apocrypha becauſe they are contrary to us; And that they are rather…
Chapter 64CHAP. 64. Belief of the Ancient Greek Church about the Canonical Books.
Chapter 65CHAP. LXV. Belief of the Fathers of the Latine or Weſtern Church about the Canonical books. And that the…
Chapter 66CHAP. 66. Confutation of the Cardinals ſhifts.
Chapter 67CHAP. 67. Of the opinion of St. Auſtin concerning the Canonical books. And of the Canon of the third…
Chapter 68CHAP. 68. Of the Canon of the holy Scriptures defined by Pope Innocent the I. And of the Decretal Epiſtle…
Chapter 69CHAP. 69. That the Popes have put their Canons and Decrees not only in the ſame rank as Canonical…
Book 2BOOK II. Wherein is TREATED OF St. Peters Primacy, And of his Abode at ROME.
Chapter 1CHAP. 1. That the Government of the Univerſal Church cannot, and muſt not be Monarchical.
1 sectionChapter 2CHAP. II. That St. Peter had no jurisdiction over the other Apoſtles, and was not Monarch of the Univerſal…
1 sectionChapter 3CHAP. 3. Teſtimonies of Fathers upon this ſubject. An excellent place of St. Ambroſe falſified by the…
Chapter 4CHAP. 4. Examination of the text of Matth. 16.18. Thou art Peter and upon this rock, &c.
1 sectionChapter 5CHAP. 5. Six reaſons of the Cardinal to prove that by this Stone the Perſon of Peter is underſtood.
Chapter 6CHAP. 6. Other proofs brought by the Cardinal out of Scripture.
Chapter 7CAHP. VII. Of Cyprians opinion about Peters primacy, and that the Cardinal hath not underſtood it. And how…
Chapter 8CHAP. VIII. Of St. Peters being at Rome. Examination of the Cardinals reaſons.
Chapter 9CHAP. 9. Falſifications of the Cardinal about this matter in his fifty ſixth Chapter.
Notice to the readerAdvertiſement to the Reader.
Book 3BOOK III. Which is the FIRST PART OF THE HISTORY of PAPACY: WHEREIN So much of the Hiſtory of the Antient…
Chapter 1CHAP. I. That in the firſt Age the Biſhop of Rome was not acknowledged Head of the Univerſal Church.
Chapter 2CHAP. II. That the Biſhop of Rome in the ſecond Age was not acknowledged Head of the Univerſal Church.…
Chapter 3CHAP. III. That in the third Age the Biſhops of Rome were not acknowledged Heads of the Univerſal Church.
Chapter 4CHAP. 4. That the Cardinal would not make uſe of the authority of the Decretals to prove the Popes primacy…
Chapter 5CHAP. 5. The firſt cauſe why M. du Perron would not make uſe of the Decretal Epiſtles of the Biſhops of…
Chapter 6CHAP. 6. Other cauſes why the Cardinal would make no uſe of the Decretals of the three firſt Ages. Of the…
Chapter 7CHAP. 7. Evident untruths in the Decretals of the three firſt Ages. The groſs ignorance in hiſtory of him…
Chapter 8CHAP. 8. That many of our Adverſaries have acknowledged the untruth of theſe Decretals.
Chapter 9CHAP. 9. Of the Popes motives for cauſing theſe falſe Decretals to be forged, and when and by whom they…
Book 4BOOK IV. PROVING By the HISTORY of the BISHOPS OF ROME FROM The year 300. of the Lord, till two years after…
Chapter 1CHAP. I. Of the Idolatry of Marcellinus Biſhop of Rome, and of the Council of Sinueſſa.
Chapter 2CHAP. 2. Of the Judges given by Conſtantine to Cecilian, and to the Donatiſts. And of the Council of Arles.
Chapter 3CHAP. 3. Of the deliverance and eſtabliſhment of the Church under Conſtantine.
Chapter 4CHAP. 4. Of Arius, and of Hoſius ſent to Alexandria. Of Sylveſter, and of the Roman Council.
Chapter 4CHAP. 4. Of the diverſity of the Churches in obſerving the day of Eaſter.
Chapter 5CHAP. 5. Of the Convocation of the Council of Nice. Anſwer to Cardinal du Perron.
Chapter 6CHAP. 6. That the Biſhop of Rome did not preſide in the Council of Nice. Confutation of the Cardnials…
Chapter 7CHAP. 7. Of the Canon of Nice, which ſets limits to the Roman Biſhoprick: and of the ſuburbicary Churches.…
Chapter 8CHAP. 8. Of the Convocation of the Council of Tyre.
Chapter 9CHAP. 9. Death of Sylveſter Biſhop of Rome. How little his authority was.
Chapter 10CHAP. 10. Baptiſm and death of Conſtantine.
Chapter 11CHAP. 11. How poor and weak and few are the proofs which Cardinal du Perron brings out of the three firſt…
Chapter 12CHAP. 12. Shewing how our Adverſaries being deſtitute of true proofs of the Popes Primacy in the time that…
Chapter 13CHAP. 13. Of Conſtantines donation, and the untruth of it.
Chapter 14CHAP. 14. Of the Baptiſm of Conſtantine mentioned in the ſame Donation.
Book 5BOOK V. PROVING BY THE Eccleſiaſtical Hiſtory From the year of our Lord 340. unto the year 400. That then…
Chapter 1CHAP. 1. Of the perſecutions happened to Athanaſius. And how Julius Biſhop of Rome would make himſelf Judge…
Chapter 2CHAP. 2. Three points which the Cardinal finds in this Hiſtory to eſtabliſh the Popes Primacy. And the…
Chapter 3CHAP. 3. Of the Council of Sardica.
Chapter 4CHAP. 4. Of the Convocation of the Council of Sardica. How much the Cardinal is miſtaken in it.
Chapter 5CHAP. 5. Of the Preſidency in the Council of Sardica.
Chapter 6CHAP. 6. Of Liberius Biſhop of Rome, and of the Schiſme after his death.
Chapter 7CHAP. 7. Of the Fathers famous in that time, Hoſius, Athanaſius, Meletius, Gregory Nazianzen.
Chapter 8CHAP. 8. Of Damaſus Biſhop of Rome, and of Baſil Arch-biſhop of Ceſarea. Ignorance of the Cardinal in the…
Chapter 9CHAP. 9. Of Peter Biſhop of Alexandria, and of his retreat to Rome, and of Gregory Nazianzen Patriarch of…
Chapter 10CHAP. 10. Of the Convocating of the firſt Council of Conſtantinople, which is the ſecond Univerſal Council.…
Chapter 11CHAP. 11. Of the invitation and requeſt of Damaſus Biſhop of Rome, whereby he deſired the Biſhops aſſembled…
Chapter 12CHAP. 12. Remarkable paſſages in the Council of Conſtantinople.
Chapter 13CHAP. 13. Of Hierom, And of the title of Pontifex left by the Emperor Gratian.
Chapter 14CHAP. 14. Of the abolition of the Penitentiary Prieſt by Nectarius.
Chapter 15CHAP. 15. Of Epiphanius Biſhop of Cyprus, and of John Chryſoſtom.
Chapter 16CHAP. 16. Of Ambroſe Biſhop of Milan; and that in his time the Church of Milan was not ſubject unto the…
Chapter 17CHAP. 17. Contention of Paulinus and Flavianus, Competitors of the Patriarchat of Antioch.
Chapter 18CHAP. 18. Obſervations upon the Hiſtory of the four firſt Ages. And how the Cardinal hath found nothing in…
Book 6BOOK VI. PROVING BY THE PAPAL HISTORY From the year of our Lord 400. unto the Council of Chalcedon, which…
Chapter 1CHAP. 1. A Narration of that which hapned to John Chryſoſtom Patriarch of Conſtantinople.
Chapter 2CHAP. 2. Of the power of the Patriarcks of this fifth Age.
Chapter 3CHAP. 3. Of the Milevitan Council, and of the prohibition there made to Appeal unto Rome. The Cardinals…
Chapter 4CHAP. 4. Of the Schiſm happened at Rome, between Bonifacius and Eulalius.
Chapter 5CHAP. 5. Of the Council of Carthage, called the ſixth. Of the Appeals from Africa to Rome. The…
Chapter 6CHAP. 6. Examination of the LII. Chapter of the firſt Book of Cardinal du Perron, about the above mentioned…
Chapter 7CHAP. 7. Notes upon the forty eighth and forty ninth Chapters of the firſt Book of Cardinal du Perron. His…
Chapter 8CHAP. 8. Of St. Auſtin Biſhop of Bona in Africa. Whither he did acknowledge the Biſhop of Rome Head of the…
Chapter 9CHAP. 9. Of the Epiſtles of the Biſhops of Africa (of whom St. Auſtin was one) to Innocent the firſt Biſhop…
Chapter 10CHAP. 10. A place examined of Auſtins, 162. Epiſtle.
Chapter 11CHAP. 11. Of Neſtorius Patriark of Conſtantinople. Of the Convocation of the firſt Council of Epheſus,…
Chapter 12CHAP. 12. Of the Convocation of the firſt Council of Epheſus. The Cardinals falſifications.
Chapter 13CHAP. 13. That none but the Emperor could or ought to convocate an Univerſal Council; and that the Biſhop…
Chapter 14CHAP. 14. Of the Patriarchs that were preſent in the firſt Council of Epheſus; and of the ſtrife between…
Chapter 15CHAP. 15. Of the order of ſitting in the firſt Council of Epheſus. And in what quality Cyrillus did preſide…
Chapter 16CHAP. 16. Some incidencies happened in the firſt Council of Epheſus, or by occaſion of the ſame, conducing…
Chapter 17CHAP. 17. Occaſion of the ſecond Council of Epheſus, and by whom it was Convocated.
Chapter 18CHAP. 18. Of the things happened in the II. Council of Epheſus, and who preſided in it.
Chapter 19CHAP. 19. Of the Appeal of Flavianus, and of Theodoret Biſhop of Cyr, to Leo Biſhop of Rome. And of the…
Chapter 20CHAP. 20. Of the excommunication that Dioſcorus Patriarch of Alexandria fulminated againſt Leo Biſhop of…
Chapter 21CHAP. 21. Of the Letters, and of the Law of Valentinian the third. And of the Law of the Emperor Leo,…
Chapter 22CHAP. 22. Of the Ordination of the Patriarch of Antioch by that of Conſtantinople.
Chapter 23CHAP. 23. Of the aſſembling of the Council of Chalcedon, which is the IV. Univerſal Council.
Chapter 24CHAP. 24. Who preſided in the Council of Chalcedon.
Chapter 25CHAP. 25. Of that which paſt in the Council of Chalcedon, and of the Canons made in the ſame about the…
Chapter 26CHAP. 26. Of the XXVIII. Canon of the Council of Chalcedon, and of the proteſtation which the Legats of Leo…
Chapter 27CHAP. 27. Anſwer to the nullities which M. du Perron brings againſt this Canon of Chalcedon.
Chapter 28CHAP. 28. A Confutation of the Expoſition which M. du Perron giveth to the Canon of the Council of Chalcedon.
Chapter 29CHAP. 29. Of the Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, and of the little credit which ought to be given to the…
Chapter 30CHAP. 30. Anſwer to the examples which Cardinal du Perron brings in the 34. ch. to prove, that…
Chapter 31CHAP. 31. A ſummary Anſwer to the examples poſteriour to the IV. Univerſal Council, brought by the Cardinal…
Chapter 32CHAP. 32. A multitude of falſifications of Cardinal du Perron.
Book 7BOOK VII. WHEREIN Divers Controverſies are examined, HANDLED BY Cardinal Du PERRON IN His Second, Third,…
Controversy 1FIRST CONTROVERSY OF THE Invocation of SAINTS.
15 chaptersControversy 2Second Controverſie, OF THE SEVENTH BOOK. OF IMAGES.
6 chaptersControversy 3Third Controverſie, OF THE SEVENTH BOOK. In Anſwer to the third inſtance of the fourth Book of Cardinal DU…
2 chaptersControversy 4Fourth Controverſie, OF THE SEVENTH BOOK. OF THE Celibat of Clarks & Monks.
11 chaptersControversy 5Fifth Controverſie, OF THE SEVENH BOOK. OF FASTING.
8 chaptersControversy 6Sixth Controverſie, OF THE SEVENH BOOK. OF Auricular Confeſsion, and Of the ſecrets of Confeſsion.
6 chaptersControversy 7Seventh Controverſie, OF THE SEVENTH BOOK. OF The Authority and Power of the Paſtors of the Church to…
5 chaptersControversy 8Eighth Controverſie, OF THE SEVENTH BOOK. OF Penitential Satisfaction. Where alſo it is ſpoken of…
13 chaptersControversy 9Ninth Controverſie, OF THE SEVENTH BOOK. Of the NECESSITY OF BAPTISM.
5 chaptersControversy 10Tenth Controverſie, OF THE SEVENTH BOOK. Of the SACRIFICE Of the EUCHARIST.
6 chaptersControversy 11Eleventh Controverſie, OF THE SEVENTH BOOK. Of the Real Preſence of CHRISTS Body IN THE SACRAMENT, AND Of…
25 chaptersControversy 12Twelfth Controverſie, OF THE SEVENTH BOOK. OF The Communion under one kind. And of the Power which Cardinal…
Controversy 13Thirteenth Controverſie, OF THE SEVENTH BOOK OF Private Maſſes.
3 chaptersControversy 14Fourteenth Controverſie, OF THE SEVENTH BOOK. THE ANTIBARBAROƲS, OR, Of unknown Language, both in the…
TreatiseA TREATISE OF The uſe of an unknown Tongue in Prayers and Gods Service.
14 chapters- Back matter
Prayer of thanksgivingThe Authors thankſgiving to God for the finishing of this Work.
IndexAn Alphabetical Table OF THE Principal Matters contained in this BOOK.