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2. But how doth this Disputer prove his Minor, that we have no Succession? Only by a stark falsehood: forsooth [by the Concession of the most Learned Adversaries, who freely and unanimously Confess, that before Luther made his separation from the Church of Rome for nine hundred or one thousand years together, the whole world was Catholic, and in obedience to the Pope of Rome.

2. But how doth this Disputer prove his Minor, that we have no Succession? Only by a stark falshood: forsooth [by the Concession of the most Learned Adversaries, who freely and unanimously Confess, that before Luther made his separation from the Church of Rome for nine hundred or one thousand years together, the whole world was Catholick, and in obedience to the Pope of Rome.

Answ. O horrid boldness! that a man that pleads for the sanctity of his Church, dare thus speak so notorious an untruth in the face of the world! At this rate of Disputing, the man might have saved the labour of writing his Book, and have as honestly at once have persuaded his Disciples, that his Adversaries unanimously confess that the Papists cause is best. What if the fifteen cited by him had said so, when I can bring him one thousand five hundred of another mind, and cite him fifteen for one of another mind, is that the unanimous confession of his Adversaries? But unless his Adversaries were quite beside themselves, there is not one of them could say as he feigneth them to say. For doth not the world know, that the Eastern and Southern Churches, far exceeding the Romanists in number, did deny obedience to the Pope of Rome? Would this persuade his poor Disciples that we all confess, that there are, or were no Christians in the world but Protestants and Papists? His first cited Confession is Calvins [that all the Western Churches have defended Popery] A fair proof! Doth this Disputer believe in good sadness, that the Western Churches are all the world, or a sixth part of the world? But this is the Popish arguing. What Calvin speaks of the Western Churches, that is, the prevailing power in each Nation of them, he interprets of all the world. So he deals with Dr. White, who expressly in the words before those which he citeth, affirmeth the visibility of the Churches of Greece, Ethiop, Armenia, and Rome; but only saith, that at all times there hath not been visible distinct companies free from all corruption: which one would think every penitent man should grant that knows the corruption of his own heart and life. It would be tedious to stand to show his odious abuse of the rest: when they that say most of the word [world] but as it is used,