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Again,¹ in that he saith, without controversy, or confessedly,² Great is the Mystery of Godliness: here we may know then, what Truths are to be entertained as Catholic universal Truths; those that without question are received. Then, if the question be, which is the Catholic Truth; Popery, or our Religion: I say, not Popery, but our Religion; I prove it from hence: That which without controversy, all Churches have held from the Apostles time, (yea, and the adversaries and opposites of the Church) that is Catholic. But it hath been in all times, and in all Churches, even among the adversaries held, the positive points of our Religion; That the Scripture is the Word of God; That it is to be read; That Christ is the Mediator; That Christ hath reconciled God and man, &c. all the positive parts of our Religion have been confessed, without controversy, ever since the Apostles times, of all Writers, and are still, even among the Papists themselves; for they hold all the positive points that we do: They hold the reading of the Scripture, but not in the Mother Tongue: They hold, that the Scripture is the Word of God, but not alone, but traditions also: That Christ is Mediator, but not alone: so they add their part, but they hold the positive parts that we hold. Therefo•• I ground that from the Text: That which without controversy hath been held in all times, and ages of the Church, and without controversy held by our selves and the adversaries, it is more Catholic, and general, then those things wherein ⟨p. 48⟩they dissent from us, that were neither held from the Apostles times, for they were the inventions of Popes, one after another: their fooleries, wherein they differ from us, they are late inventions, and we hold them not; they are less Catholic then that that they, and we, and all Christians hold ever since the Apostles times. But to come to a use of practice.

Againe,¹ in that he sayth, without controversie, or confessedly,² Great is the Mysterie of Godlinesse: here we may know then, what Truths are to be entertained as Catholike universall Truths; those that without question are received. Then, if the question be, which is the Catholike Truth; Poperie, or our Religion: I say, not Poperie, but our Religion; I proove it from hence: That which without controversie, all Churches have held from the Apostles time, (yea, and the adversaries and opposites of the Church) that is Catholike. But it hath beene in all times, and in all Churches, even among the adversaries held, the positive points of our Religion; That the Scripture is the Word of God; That it is to be read; That Christ is the Mediator; That Christ hath reconciled God and man, &c. all the positive parts of our Religion have beene confessed, without controversie, ever since the Apostles times, of all Writers, and are still, even among the Papists themselves; for they hold all the positive points that we do: They hold the reading of the Scripture, but not in the Mother Tongue: They hold, that the Scripture is the Word of God, but not alone, but traditions also: That Christ is Mediator, but not alone: so they adde their part, but they hold the positive parts that we hold. Therefo I ground that from the Text: That which without controversie hath beene held in all times, and ages of the Church, and without controversie held by our selves and the adversaries, it is more Catholike, and generall, then those things wherin