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A Reformed Catholic
A reformed Catholic: or, A declaration showing how near we may come to the present Church of Rome in sundry points of religion: and wherein we must for ever depart from them with an advertisement to all favourers of the Roman religion, showing that the said religion is against the Catholic principles and grounds of the catechism.A reformed Catholike: or, A declaration shewing how neere we may come to the present Church of Rome in sundrie points of religion: and vvherein we must for euer depart from them with an advertisment to all fauourers of the Romane religion, shewing that the said religion is against the Catholike principles and grounds of the catechisme.
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1598Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1598
To the reader: THE AUTHOR TO THE Christian Reader.To the reader: THE AVTHOR TO THE Christian Reader.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE AUTHOR TO THE Christian Reader.
THE AVTHOR TO THE Christian Reader.
BY a Reformed Catholic, I understand any one that holds the same necessary heads of religion with the Roman Church: yet so, as he pares off and rejects all errors in doctrine whereby the said religion is corrupted. How this may be done, I have begun to make some little declaration in this small Treatise: the intent whereof is to show how near we may come to the present Church of Rome in sundry points of religion: and wherein we must for ever dissent.
BY a Reformed Catholike, I vnderstand any one that holds the same necessarie heades of religion vvith the Romane Church: yet so, as he pares off and reiects all errours in doctrine vvhereby the said religion is corrupted. Hovv this may be done, I haue begunne to make some little declaration in this small Treatise: the intent whereof is to shevve howe neere we may come to the present Church of Rome in sundrie points of religion: and wherein we must for euer dissent.
My purpose in penning this small discourse is threefold. The first is, to confute all such Politics as hold and maintain, that our religion and that of the Roman Church differ not in substance, and consequently that they may be reconciled: yet my meaning is not here to condemn any Pacification that tends to persuade the Roman church to our religion. The second is, that the papists which ⟨image 4⟩think so basely of our religion, may be won to a better liking of it: when they shall see how near we come unto them in sundry points. The third, that the common protestant might in some part see and conceive the point of difference between us and the Church of Rome: an know in what manner and how far forth, we condemn the opinions of the said Church.