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6 But what need we go any further? we will begin with him at lis first Century, and so to the second, and if he can prove that Jesus Christ, or the Virgin Mary, or John Baptist, or the Apostles, or any one of the rest that he hath named, were Papists, (much more all of them) I am resolved presently to turn Papist. But unless the man intended to provoke his reader to an unreverent laughter about this abuse of holy things, one would think he should not have named John Baptist, that was dead not only before Rome had a Church, but also before the time that Bellarmine and his Brethren pretend that Peter received ⟨p. 140⟩his Commission, to be the universal Head. And did not this writer know that Protestants can give him the same names as for them? and if printing them be proof, their proof is as good: If it be not, what proof shall we have? Our proof is the Holy Scriptures, written by the Inspiration of the Holy Ghost in those times. Thence we prove that the first Church held the same belief as we have: yea, though it be not incumbent on us, we will thence prove that the Catholic Church was not then Papists. Why else do we still appeal to Scriptures, and they refuse to stand to the trial of it any otherwise then as expounded by the Pope, but that we are confident, and they diffident of them▪ We know the Apostles faith from the Apostles; but the Papists will not know it but from the present Church of Rome. They tell you the Apostles were for them: but how know we that? Why by the testimony of the next age: and where is that testimony? Why the third age received it; and how is that proved? Why because the fourth age was of their mind; And how prove you that? Why in the upshot, because the present age is of their mind: Why but most Christians of the present age, are against them: yea, but they are none of the Church: It is only the present Church of Rome. Well! but the present Church of Rome represented in a General Council may err. I, but the Pope cannot in Cathedra and in approving a Council. So that the sum is this: If the Pope himself may be judge, the Apostles were Papists: But if the Apostles may be heard themselves, they were none.

6 But what need we go any further? we will begin with him at lis first Century, and so to the second, and if he can prove that Jesus Christ, or the Virgin Mary, or John Baptist, or the Apostles, or any one of the rest that he hath named, were Papists, (much more all of them) I am resolved presently to turn Papist. But unless the man intended to provoke his reader to an unreverent laughter about this abuse of holy things, one would think he should not have named John Baptist, that was dead not only before Rome had a Church, but also before the time that Bellarmine and his Brethren pretend that Peter received