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…

Of the several points of difference between us and our adversaries, wherein some in the Church erred, but not the whole Church.

For neither did that Church, wherein our Fathers lived and dyed • hold that Canon of Scripture, which the Romanists now urge; nor that in sufficiency they now charge it with; nor corruption of the Originals, nor necessity of following the vulgar Translation; nor the Heresies touching mans creation brought into the Church by certain barbarous Schoolmen, as that there are three different estates of men; the first of pure nature, without addition of Grace, or sin; and two other, the one of Grace, the other of Sin: That all those evils that are found in the nature of man, since his fall, as Ignorance, Concupiscence, Contrariety between the better and meaner faculties of the Soul, difficulty to do well, and proneness to do evil, were all natural, the conditions of pure nature, that is, of nature, as considered in it self, it would come forth from God: That these evils are not sinful, nor had their beginnings from sin, that they were the consequents ⟨p. 376⟩of nature in the state of creation, but restrained by addition of supernatural Grace, without which the integrity of nature was full and perfect: That men in the state of pure nature, that is, as they might have been created of God in the integrity of Nature, without addition of Grace, and in the estate of Original sin, differ no otherwise, but as they that never had, and they that have lost rich and precious clothing; so that Original sin is but the loss of that, without which natures integrity may stand: That no evils are brought in by the fall, but nature left to her self to feel that which was before, but not felt, nor discerned while the addition of Grace bettered nature: None of these errors, touching the estate of mans creation, were the Doctrines of the Church, but the private fancies and conceits of men.

FOr neither did that Church, wherein our Fathers lived and dyed • hold that Canon of Scripture, which the Romanists now urge; nor that in sufficiency they now charge it with; nor corruption of the Originals, nor necessity of following the vulgar Translation; nor the Heresies touching mans creation brought into the Church by certain barbarous Schoolmen, as that there are three different estates of men; the first of pure nature, without addition of Grace, or sin; and two other, the one of Grace, the other of Sin: That all those evils that are found in the nature of man, since his fall, as Ignorance, Concupiscence, Contrariety between the better and meaner faculties of the Soul, difficulty to do well, and proneness to do evil, were all natural, the conditions of pure nature, that is, of nature, as considered in it self, it would come forth from God: That these evils are not sinful, nor had their beginnings from sin, that they were the consequents