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…

Argu. 7. If the very substance of Popery be nothing but a fardel of errors brought in by the Pope and his Council to corrupt the Christian Religion among them, then certainly the Pope and his Council may err: But the Antecedent is true: Therefore so is the consequent.

Argu. 7. If the very substance of Popery be nothing but a fardell of errors brought in by the Pope and his Council to corrupt the Christian Religion among them, then certainly the Pope and his Council may erre: But the Antecedent is true: Therefore so is the consequent.

All the Question being of the Antecedent, and it being proved before in the former disputation, and fully by our writers against them, I shall thither for brevity refer you. What impudency is it to introduce such abundance of corruptions contrary to the express word of God and after all this to say, they cannot err when they have so plagued the Church with their errors? They teach men to serve God in an unknown tongue, and speak and hear they know not what, to worship the Bread with divine Worship, to ⟨p. 258⟩receive only the bread, when Christ ordained that they should have the cup, and so do abolish one half of the Sacrament, they adore the Virgin Mary and other Saints, they plead for justification by the merit of their own works, as having a condignity of the reward; they make the Church a new thing by making a new head and centre of unity and a new and daily mutable Religion, in a word they poison both Church policy, Worship and Doctrine by their errors; and when they have done they stand to it that they cannot err. Like a Leper that should maintain he cannot possibly be Leprous, when he is covered with it already: or like a swearing or drunken beast, that should swear that he never did swear nor was drunk, nor ever can be, when he lieth drunk in the dirt, and breaths out his oaths. What need any impartial discerning man any other proof that the Pope and the Church of Rome is not infallible, then actually to observe the swarm of their errors that have troubled the Church?

All the Question being of the Antecedent, and it being proved before in the former disputation, and fully by our writers against them, I shall thither for brevity refer you. What impudency is it to introduce such abundance of corruptions contrary to the express word of God and after all this to say, they cannot erre when they have so plagued the Church with their errors? They teach men to serve God in an unknown tongue, and speak and hear they know not what, to worship the Bread with divine Worship, to