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…

But note here what a pass this learned Cardinal hath brought his great cause to. 1. The text speaks but of one thing and not of two: Faith is one thing, and Cathedral determination is another. Doth Christ mean both, when he names but one? Expressly it is only the first privilege that he promiseth Peter, and saith not a word of the later: It was his Heart, and not his tongue that was the seat of faith, and that Christ establisheth: which is also evident by the issue: for sure his tongue failed by speaking against the faith, when he curst and swore that he knew not the man. 2. Bellarmine confesseth that this privilege [that his own faith should not fail] extendeth not perhaps to the Popes: so that for all this their faith may fail: If so 1. Then the only privilege mentioned in the Text extendeth not to them: For it speaks of no more: The text promiseth them nothing to the Pope, but what it never promised ⟨p. 217⟩to Peter. 2. And if it did promise both privileges to Peter (that neither Faith nor tongue should fail) how can Bellarmine prove that one part belongeth to the Pope, when he confesseth the other doth not? The Text speaks but to the same person, and not in one half to one, and in the other half to others. I may well argue therefore in this manner: To whomsoever Christ here promiseth that his faith shall not fail, to him only doth he speak in this text: But he promiseth only to Peter here that his faith should not fail, therefore it is only Peter and not the Popes that he speaks of. The Major is clear according to the intelligible sense of the words (and Bellarmine hath not yet proved a mystical sense) The Minor is confessed by himself.

But note here what a pass this learned Cardinal hath brought his great cause to. 1. The text speaks but of one thing and not of two: Faith is one thing, and Cathedral determination is another. Doth Christ mean both, when he names but one? Expresly it is onely the first priviledge that he promiseth Peter, and saith not a word of the later: It was his Heart, and not his tongue that was the seat of faith, and that Christ establisheth: which is also evident by the issue: for sure his tongue failed by speaking against the faith, when he curst and swore that he knew not the man. 2. Bellarmine confesseth that this priviledge [that his own faith should not fail] extendeth not perhaps to the Popes: so that for all this their faith may fail: If so 1. Then the onely priviledge mentioned in the Text extendeth not to them: For it speaks of no more: The text promiseth them nothing to the Pope, but what it never promised