A treatise of civil policy

Jesuits teach, The Pope is not the Antichrist. 2. Christ locally descended to Hell, to free some out of that prison. 3. It was sin to separate from Babylonish Rome. 4. We are justified by works. 5. The merit of fasting is not to be condemned. 6. The Mass is no idolatry. 7. The Church is the judge of controversies. 8. All the Arminian points are safer to be believed, then the contrary; yea, and all the substantials of Popery are true, and Catholic doctrine to be preached and Printed: The Prelates and Court-Divines, and this Prelate conspireth, in all these with the Jesuits, as is learnedly and invincibly proved in the Treatise, called [Greek or Hebrew] the Canterburian self-conviction: to which no man of the Prelatical and Romish Faction durst ever make answer for their hearts: and see then who are Jesuits. 3. This doctrine was taught by Lawyers, Protestants, yielded to by Papists before any Jesuit was whelped in rerum naturâ. Never learned man wrote of policy, till of late; but he held power of Government, by the light of nature must be radically and originally, in a Community: the P. Prelate saith, Jesuits are not the father of this opinion, Cap. 1. pag. 12. How then can the Liar say, that the Puritan conspireth with the Jesuit? Suarez the Jesuite de primat. sum. pontifi. l. 3. c. 2. n. 10. Non est novum, aut a Cardinali Bellarmino inventum. The Jesuit Tannerus will not have their Family the mother of this opinion, Tom. 2. disp. 5. de leg. q. 5. in 12. q. 95, 96. Dubi. 1. n. 7. Sine dubio communis omnium Theologorum & Jurisperitorum sententia, &c. The Jesuit Tolet, in Rom. 13. taketh it for a ground, That the Civill powers are from God, by the natural mediation of men, and Civill Societies. 4. Jesuits teach, That there is no lawful Christian society truly politic that hath a near and formal power, to choose and ordain their own Magistrates, but that which acknowledgeth subjection, and the due regulation of their creating of Magistrates, to be due and proper to the Pope of Rome. We acknowledge ⟨p. 414⟩no ways the Bishop of Rome, for a lawful Bishop and Pastor at all: But this Popish Prelate doth acknowledge him, for he hath these words, Cap. 5. pag. 58. It is high presumption in the Pope, to challenge to himself, the Title or Right of Christs universal Vicar on earth, by Divine right.

Jesuites teach, The Pope is not the Antichrist. 2. Christ locally discended to Hell, to free some out of that prison. 3. It was sin to separate from Babylonish Rome. 4. We are justified by works. 5. The merit of fasting is not to be condemned. 6. The Masse is no idolatry. 7. The Church is the judge of controversies. 8. All the Arminian points are safer to be beleeved, then the contrary; yea, and all the substantials of Popery are true, and Catholick doctrine to be preached and Printed: The Prelates and Court-Divines, and this Prelate conspireth, in all these with the Iesuites, as is learnedly and invincibly proved in the Treatise, called the Canterburian self-conviction: to which no man of the Prelaticall and Romish Faction durst ever make answer for their hearts: and see then who are Iesuites. 3. This doctrine was taught by Lawyers, Protestants, yeilded to by Papists before any Iesuite was whelped in rerum naturâ. Never learned man wrote of policy, till of late; but he held power of Government, by the light of nature must be radically and originally, in a Communitie: the P. Prelate saith, Iesuites are not the father of this opinion, Cap. 1. pag. 12. How then can the Liar say, that the Puritan conspireth with the Iesuite? Suarez the Iesuite de primat. sum. pontifi. l. 3. c. 2. n. 10. Non est novum, aut a Cardinali Bellarmino inventum. The Iesuite Tannerus will not have their Family the mother of this opinion, Tom. 2. disp. 5. de leg. q. 5. in 12. q. 95, 96. Dubi. 1. n. 7. Sine dubio communis omnium Theologorum & Iurisperitorum sententia, &c. The Iesuite Tolet, in