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…

The Dispute which we have hitherto managed being only against Popery in the gross, and two or three branches of it only in particular, I had thought to have annexed a Brief enumeration of the particular errors of the Papists, that the vulgar might observe and avoid them; and therein I thought to have endeavoured the true stating of the differences between us, both for the avoiding of error on the other extreme, and also that we may take out of the Papists hands the greatest of all their advantages against us, which is the false-opposed opinions and unsound Arguments of such as thus err on the other side: But perceiving how it would lengthen this work beyond the intended limits, and how certainly all those that so run into extremes would fall a quarrelling with me for not stating the controversies according to their fancies, I have thought best for answering all my ends at cheaper rates to give you the chief of the Popish errors in the words of Doctor Field, and to that end to transcribe his seventh Chapter of the third Book; that so the simple Reader may have some help to inform him without a commixed means to pervert him. And for those that desire to see the Protestant Doctrine solidly defended, and cannot have time to read many books, I know not of any one that they may more profitably and safely read to that end then the said Book of Doctor Field on the Church; and especially the Appendix to the third part, which is ⟨p. 374⟩but the Defence of this very Chapter, proving it in particulars, that the Western Church was Protestant and not Popish even in the worst times before Luther's Reformation; and that the Papists were but a seducing tyrannical party in the Church, endeavouring to obtrude their errors against the mind of the generality of good men: In which he hath quite broken down those pretences of Universality and [All the Church] which the Papists do so fondly boast in.

THe Dispute which we have hitherto managed being only against Popery in the gross, and two or three branches of it onely in particular, I had thought to have annexed a Brief enumeration of the particular errors of the Papists, that the vulgar might observe and avoid them; and therein I thought to have endeavored the true stating of the differences between us, both for the avoiding of error on the other extream, and also that we may take out of the Papists hands the greatest of all their advantages against us, which is the false-opposed opinions and unsound Arguments of such as thus erre on the other side: But perceiving how it would lengthen this work beyond the intended limits, and how certainly all those that so run into extreams would fall a quarrelling with me for not stating the controversies according to their fancies, I have thought best for answering all my ends at cheaper rates to give you the chief of the Popish errors in the words of Doctor Feild, and to that end to tranribe his seventh Chapter of the third Book; that so the simple Reader may have some help to inorm him without a commixed means to pervert him. And for those that desire to see the Protestant Doctrine solidly defended, and cannot have time to read many books, I know not of any one that they may more profitably and safely read to that end then the said Book of Doctor Field on the Church; and especially the Appendix to the third part, which is