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…

1. They vow and swear that [All other things delivered, defined, and declared by the sacred Canons, and Ecumenical Councils, and especially the Holy Synod of Trent, they do without doubting receive and profess] When as many of these Canons and Councils are contrary each to other, one undoing what another did, as shall hereafter be shown: and yet they swear to receive them all. 2. They swear to receive them even [without doubting] when as they are thus contradictory, and when they confess that a true faith even in the written word of God, may have doubting mixed with it. 3. They vow and swear that [They will never take and interpret the Holy Scriptures, but according to the unanimous ⟨p. 173⟩consent of the Fathers.] When as 1. The Fathers do not unanimously consent among themselves concerning the sense of the greatest part of Scripture▪ and so they are sworn to take it in no sense, because the fathers are not unanimous. 2. He that knows not the unanimous sense of the Fathers, where they are unanimous, is sworn hereby to take and interpret the Scripture in No sense. 3. If by [The Church] whose sense they also swear to admit, be meant the present Roman Church, then that Church and the Fathers do differ in the Interpretation of many Scriptures: so that in one Article they must needs be forsworn. 4. Nay there are divers particulars of the Popish faith, yea which in this oath they swear to, which are against (much more without) the unanimous consent of the Fathers. The Fathers never consented to this very Article, that we must take and interpret the Scripture only in the unanimous sense of the Fathers: They never consented that the Bread and Wine are truly really and substantially the whole Body and Blood of Christ by Transubstantiation? Nay the consent of the Fathers is against these: And yet these wretches swear not to take and interpret Scripture but in the unanimous sense of the Fathers, and withal swear the contrary in particulars; even that they believe that which the Fathers never consented to, but against. Never did the Fathers consent that [There are seven truly and properly Sacraments Instituted by Christ.] Never did the Fathers consent (who lived a thousand or fourteen hundred years before) that the Council of Trent did not err, or could not err:

1. They vow and swear that [All other things delivered, defined, and declared by the sacred Canons, and Oecumenical Councils, and especially the Holy Synod of Trent, they do without doubting receive and profess] When as many of these Canons and Councils are contrary each to other, one undoing what another did, as shall hereafter be shewn: and yet they swear to receive them all. 2. They swear to receive them even [without doubting] when as they are thus contradictory, and when they confess that a true faith even in the written word of God, may have doubting mixt with it. 3. They vow and swear that [They will never take and interpret the Holy Scriptures, but according to the unaniomous