A41330:789
The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner,…
The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entitled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templars sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entituled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templers sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1681
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3ly. That one Prelate is as subject to corruption in Doctrine, and conversation, as other Ministers; and who shall repair him? the Presbyters being inferior to him, they must not be so saucy; that kind of Creature whom you call the Metropolitan, is as subject to corruption, as the other Prelate.
3ly. That one Prelate is as subject to corruption in Doctrine, and conversation, as other Ministers; and who shall repair him? the Presbyters being inferior to him, they must not be so sawcy; that kind of Creature whom you call the Metropolitan, is as subject to corruption, as the other Prelate.
As to the proof you give, p. 26, 27. There is a greater probability of an union of judgments, when all within a certain precinct lye under an obligation to be determined by the reason of one, &c.
A. I thank you for this, saith the now Pope Innocent; this helps to strengthen my old worm-eaten Chair, weak in the joints, and ready to crack. Heresy and Schism must be avoided in the Universal Church, as well as in the Church in your Precinct; but if the Bishops in your several Precincts differ in their Judgments about Heresy and Schism as they have done, and will do, now what more probable way for union of Judgments, than to have them lye under an obligation to be determined by the reason of one; and who should that one be, but my self? this is but the same reason that Bellarmine hath given for Pontifex Maximus.
A. I thank you for this, saith the now Pope Innocent; this helps to strengthen my old worm-eaten Chair, weak in the joints, and ready to crack. Heresie and Schism must be avoided in the Ʋniversal Church, as well as in the Church in your Precinct; but if the Bishops in your several Precincts differ in their Judgments about Heresie and Schism as they have done, and will do, now what more probable way for union of Judgments, than to have them lye under an obligation to be determined by the reason of one; and who should that one be, but my self? this is but the same reason that Bellarmine hath given for Pontifex Maximus.