The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholic religion against popery proving…The safe religion, or, Three disputations for the reformed catholike religion against popery proving…

So that Popery is not the same thing in one Country as it is in another; nor the same thing at Rome it self in one age as it is at another.

To give you a fresh example: How long have the Dominicans and Jesuits, the Jansenists, and the Molinists been in contention about Predestination, Freewill, Predetermination, Universal Redemption, &c. and one party condemned the other, professing their opinions to be heretical, and destructive to the Catholic faith? as is to be seen in the writings between Petavius, Ricardus, and Vincentius, Lenis, alias Fremondus, with many more before them: But when they speak to us about these matters they persuade us that it is only about certain Shall points that they differ, and not about any points of faith: For they are not points of faith to us till the Pope have determined them. And while the eager contenders on either side endeavour to have the Pope determine the controversy on their side, no Pope durst do it for fear of losing the reputation of his infallibility with the adverse party; and so the unmerciful Popes have long suffered their Doctors to live in contention, and to write voluminously against one another, and their Roman Church to be broken into parties, because they would not once open their mouths to decide the difference. But now at last it pleased Pope Innocent the tenth (though he durst not touch the principal points) to favour his Jesuits so far as to determine five of the controverted points for the Molinists against the Jansenians (when Pope Clement was once about determining all for the Dominicans as they thought) Mark here the agreement of the Papists, and the stability of their faith. Before the determination each party maintained ⟨p. 139⟩their way as de fide, and accused the other as Heretical: some boldly prognosticated (as our Thomas Anglus alias White) that the Pope would never determine the controversy about Predetermination. And now the Pope hath tried the stomachs of his Dominicans with the Determination of these five Articles. First, to see how they will digest them before he went further: And he pronounceth them to be Heretical, and some of them temerarious, impious, and blasphemous too, condemning them with Anathema: Now those become points of faith on one side, and Heresies on the other which were none before. Till this Determination the Church of Rome wanted five Articles of their Creed, or had five fewer then now they have: