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…

I never saw the place, but sure that Town hath some admirable excellency in it, that the God of Heaven should so much set his heart upon it, as to endow it with such a stupendous Prerogative, that no man should be saved from everlasting Torment that doth not Believe in the Bishop of that City, and obey him as the universal head. Its a wonder to me, that he that set not his heart so much on his Temple at Jerusalem, or on that chosen people, as not to forsake ⟨p. 4⟩them for their sins, and that hath the Heavens for his Throne, and to whom the Sun it self is as Darkness, should yet be so taken with a Town called Rome, built and long inhabited by Idolaters, defiled with the blood of thousands of Martyrs, against which the fouls under the Altar cry out [How long Lord Holy and true wilt thou not avenge our blood &c.] as to ordain that no man in the remotest parts of the world, even the Antipodes that never heard of the name of Rome, can be saved, though he should never so much believe in Jesus Christ, unless he Believe in the Bishop of this Town and obey him when yet with Andradius and other Papists, its a hard question whether a man may not be saved in those heathen Countries without believing in Christ himself. Is it not a marvel that we never read that Rome was once named by Christ himself, and that it never was put into our Creed as one of the necessary Articles to salvation? especially when we find there the Catholic Church, and Communion of Saints, which sure would have been some way intimated to be the Roman Church or that which is headed by their Bishop, if it had been so indeed. I find but three names (strictly so called) in the Creed, and the Popes or Roman Churches is none of them: One is Jesus Christ, and the other is hers that bore him, and the third is his, that Judged him to death; and this indeed was a Roman name, and if the honour of it in the Creed will do them any service, let them make their best of it.

I never saw the place, but sure that Town hath some admirable excellency in it, that the God of Heaven should so much set his heart upon it, as to endow it with such a stup•ndious Prerogative, that no man should be saved from everlasting Torment that doth not Believe in the Bishop of that City, and obey him as the universal head. Its a wonder to me, that he that set not his heart so much on his Temple at Jerusalem, or on that chosen people, as not to forsake ⟨p. 4⟩