A30241:2874
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, or, Christs prayer before his passion explicated, and both practically and polemically improved by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656
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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.
First, That their differences are not in substantial things, they are only in secondary points. But
First, So we say, The Protestants truly so called (for we cannot tell how to call the Socinians Christians) do agree in Fundamentals; so that although there be great disputes in their circa fundamentalia, yet the foundation it self they fall not upon.
Secondly, We say, They have dissented in Fundamentals; for is not that a principle of Religion with them, Whether the Pope be above the Council? ⟨p. 592⟩And yet there have been hot differences amongst them in this point; And therefore some have asserted, The Pope may be deposed by the Council, and deputed for an Heretic: Now certainly with them, either the Pope, or a Council is the general Head of the Church, and it's of the necessity of salvation to be in obedience to such an Head, yet they cannot agree who that is.
Secondly, We say, They have dissented in Fundamentals; for is not that a principle of Religion with them, Whether the Pope be above the Councell? ⟨p. 592⟩And yet there have been hot differences amongst them in this point; And therefore some have asserted, The Pope may be deposed by the Councel, and deputed for an Heretique: Now certainly with them, either the Pope, or a Councell is the generall Head of the Church, and it's of the necessity of salvation to be in obedience to such an Head, yet they cannot agree who that is.