Which is the true church? the whole Christian world, as headed only by Christ…

6. Note here whether the Roman Religion be mutable or not? and whether constancy be a note of their verity? When he professeth that the ancient Doctors, and the Recentiors (or Novelists) do differ about the very essence of Christianity. Have these Recentiors antiquity to boast of?

7. Note also from hence the validity of their common argument from Tradition, As if all their Church were now and always of one mind! when at present they are divided about the essence of Christianity; and the Recentiors forsake the Ancients. But had these Ancients Tradition for their opinion or not? If they had, how come the Recentiors to forsake it? If not, what an insufficient thing is your Tradition, that hath not told you what a Christian or Church-member is? And yet we must take this Tradition as sufficient to tell us what orders and ceremonies Peter settled at Rome.

7. Note also from hence the validity of their common argument from Tradition, As if all their Church were now and always of one mind! when at present they are divided about the essence of Christianity; and the Recentiors forsake the Ancients. But had these Ancients Tradition for their opinion or not? If they had, how come the Recentiors to forsake it? If not, what an insufficient thing is your Tradition, that hath not told you what a Christian or Church-member is? And yet we must take this Tradition as sufficient to tell us what orders and ceremonies Peter setled at Rome.

8. I pray you note, that even their ancient Doctors opinion (which is all that must keep his cause from utter shame) he durst not describe in answer to my question; but having named five words, God, the whole Trinity, Christ, his Passion, and Resurrection, he craftily shuts it up with an E• caetera; so that if you suppose him to say that these five things are all that they require, he may deny it, because he added an &c. If you ask, what are the est? you, are where we begun, an &c. is all the answer.