A27045:524
The successive visibility of the church of which the Protestants are the soundest members…
The successive visibility of the church of which the Protestants are the soundest members I. defended against the opposition of Mr. William Johnson, II. proved by many arguments / by Richard Baxter ; whereunto is added 1. an account of my judgement to Mr. J. how far heretics are or are not in the church, 2. Mr. Js. explication of the most used terms, with my queries thereupon, and his answer and my reply, 3. an appendix about successive ordination, 4. letters between me and T.S., a papist, with a narrative of the success.The successive visibility of the church of which the Protestants are the soundest members I. defended against the opposition of Mr. William Johnson, II. proved by many arguments / by Richard Baxter ; whereunto is added 1. an account of my judgement to Mr. J. how far hereticks are or are not in the church, 2. Mr. Js. explication of the most used terms, with my queries thereupon, and his answer and my reply, 3. an appendix about successive ordination, 4. letters between me and T.S., a papist, with a narrative of the success.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1660
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Well! if this be not as p••in as Protestants speak against Popery, I will never hope to understand a Pope
I only add, that Gregory makes this usurpation of the name of an Universal Bishop a forerunner of Antichrist: And that Pope Pelagius condemned it before him; which Gratian puts into their Decrees, or Canon Law.
And that he took the Churches authority to be greater then his own, when he tells John, [Sed quoad in mea correptione despicior, restat ut Ecclesiam debeam adhibere.]
And that he took the Churches authority to be greater then his own, when he tells Iohn, [Sed quoad in mea correptione despicior, restat ut Ecclesiam debeam adhibere.]
Lib. 7. Ep. 30. Dixi nec mihi vos, nec cuiquam alteri tale aliquid scribere debere: & ecce in praefatione epistolae quam ad meipsum qui prohibui direxistis, s•perbae appellationis verbum, Universalem me Papam dicentes, imprimere curastis. Quod peto dulcissima sanctitas vestra, ultra non faciat: quia vobis subtrahitur, quod alteri plusquam ratio exigit, praebetur.] See then whether it be not judged by him undue to himself as well as to others.