A key for Catholics, to open the juggling of the Jesuits, and satisfy all…A key for Catholicks, to open the jugling of the Jesuits, and satisfie all…

But your common saying is, that the Greeks, Protestants, and all the rest were once of your Church, and departing from it, they can have no Tradition but yours, for their spring is with you. To which we answer. 1. The vanity of this your fiction shall by and by be answered by it self. 2. You say so, and they say otherwise: why should we believe you that are a smaller, partial and corrupted part? 3. Well then let us go to former ages, seeing it is not the present Church whose voice you will regard (only by the way, I pray forget not, 1. That you do ill then to call us still to the Judgement of the present Church, and dare not stand to it. 2. And that you do ill to persuade men that the greater part of the Church cannot err, if you sentence the ⟨p. 100⟩greater part as Schismatics or Revolters.) But how shall we know the way and mind of the ages past? If by the present age, then the greater part giveth us in their sense against you. If by the Records of those times, we are content to hear the Testimony of these. And first when we look into the Ancients themselves, we find them generally against you; and we find in that which is antiquity indeed, no footsteps of your usurped Sovereignty, but a contrary frame of Government, and a consent of antiquity against it. 2. When we look into later History we find, how by the advantage of Romes temporal greatness and the Emperors residence there your greatness begun, and preparation was made to your usurpation, and how the translation of the Imperial Seat to Constantinople made them your Competitors, yea to begin in the claim of an universal Headship; and we find how it being once made a question, you got it by a murdering Emperor resolved on your side for his own advantage. We find that it was long, even till Hildebrands days, before you could get any great possession, for all this sentence. It would but be tedious here to recite our Historical Evidence: we refer you to what is done already by Goldastus and Bishop Usher de statu & success. Ecclesiar. and in his Answer to the Jesuits Challenge, and in his Discourse of the Ancient Religion of Ireland, &c. specially by Blondel in his French Treatise of Primacy, and Dr. Field, and many others that have already given you the testimony of Antiquity. More then you can give a reasonable answer to, I have produced in my Book called the safe Religion.

But your common saying is, that the Greeks, Protestants, and all the rest were once of your Church, and departing from it, they can have no Tradition but yours, for their spring is with you. To which we answer. 1. The vanity of this your fiction shall by and by be answered by it self. 2. You say so, and they say otherwise: why should we believe you that are a smaller, partial and corrupted part? 3. Well then let us go to former ages, seeing it is not the present Church whose voice you will regard (only by the way, I pray forget not, 1. That you do ill then to call us still to the Judgement of the present Church, and dare not stand to it. 2. And that you do ill to perswade men that the greater part of the Church cannot err, if you sentence the