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…

Having seen thus how little their great Champion hath to say for the Popes infallibility, I could willingly have looked about me into some of the rest of them, to see if they can say any more; but that its known that most of them tread the same path Only I may not over pass the new way that some of them have taken up of late, to prove their infallibility, and to avoid their common Circle. And this you may see in the Jesuits late superficial answer to Chilling worth. Forsooth, they tell us, that when they prove the infallibility of their Church from Scripture, it is but for our sakes because we confess the Authority of Scripture, but not of their Church. But when they go according to the true nature and order of the matter, then they set the Church before the Scripture, and independently of it.] The reason of this Jesuit (supposed to be Knot) is this [Because the Church is before the Scripture, and because the ⟨p. 222⟩Miracles wrought by the Apostles did first prove their own infallibility, and from thence secondarily the infallibility of their Doctrine. And when we are in high expectations of the proofs of the Roman infallibility by his Arguments which are Independent of Scripture, and before the belief of it, he tells •s that it is by the like Arguments as the Apostles proved their infallibility, which he thus enumerateth So the Church of God by the like still continued Arguments and Notes, of many great and manifest Miracles, Sanctity, Sufferings Victory over all sorts of enemies, conversion of Infidels, all which Notes are daily more and more, conspicuous and convincing, and shall be increasing the longer the world shall last] And withal he tells us, that [These Miracles, &c. prove them to be infallible in All things, and not only in some, or else we cannot know which those some be, and what to believe and what not.]

Having seen thus how little their great Champion hath to say for the Popes infallibility, I could willingly have look't about me into some of the rest of them, to see if they can say any more; but that its known that most of them tread the same path Only I may not over pass the new way that some of them have taken up of late, to prove their infallibility, and to avoid their common Circle. And this you may see in the Jesuites late superficial answer to Chilling worth. Forsooth, they tell us, that when they prove the infallibility of their Church from Scripture, it is but for our sakes because we confess the Authority of Scripture, but not of their Church. But when they go according to the true nature and order of the matter, then they set the Church before the Scripture, and independantly of it.] The reason of this Jesuite (supposed to be Knot) is this [Because the Church is before the Scripture, and because the