The blessedness of the death of these that die in the Lord and more…The blessednesse of the death of these that die in the Lord and more…

for if the one of those translations be infallibly true, the other must needs be infallibly false, or if they should still say, which it seems they cannot have the e•rontry to do, that they are both infallibly true, then their Popes will not only be made infallible, but (if it did not involve a blasphemous repugnancy) superomnipotent, by attributing to them a power to make, most really, plainly, and palpably contradictory propositions true at once (So that we need not henceforth wonder, that their Canon-law stileth the Pope, Our Lord God the Pope); besides that several of these pretended infallible Popes, have by the published confessions of their own writers, been found ⟨image 6⟩respectively guilty of grossest Heresy, Simony, Perjury, Adultery, Sodomy, Necromancy, Sacrificing to Idols and Devils, and of other most vile and abominable villainies; yea, their great Champion Baronius at the year 897; expressly sayeth, that for the space of an hundred and fifty years together, the Popes were rather Apostates then Apostolics, and that they were thrust into the papal chair, by the power of harlots, and by the violence of the Princes of Tuscany; which Sandy foundation of alleged infallibility being overturned, all the rotten and tottering superstructure of his false doctrines reared up thereon, as so many castles of come-down, must needs fall to the ground; It is indeed a wonder that any rational man should have the confidence to own such a fancy, but a greater wonder that any professing himself to be a Christian, should make it a grand article of his belief, and a basis of the eternal salvation of his immortal soul; alas! its to be feared that an evil conscience cauterized, and some predisposition to Atheism, are with many, the great inductives to it. About the authority of the sacred Scriptures, which they will have wholly as to us, to depend upon the authority of the Church, that is to say at bottom, of the Pope, blasphemously alleging, that the authority of the Pope is above the authority of the Scriptures, that no book, nay, nor chapter in the whole Bible, is to be held for canonical, without the Popes authority, and that the authority of the Scriptures is no more to be ⟨image 7⟩valued then Aesops Fables^†, unless it were for the Testimony of their Church.