Pagano-Papismus; Or, an Exact Parallel Between Rome-Pagan and Rome-Christian, in Their Doctrines and Ceremonies

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First, Whether the Parish Assemblies of England generally be true visible Churches; which Mr. O. denied. But had the learned and religious Doctor prevailed nothing at all with his Adversary, but that Hart had been so hardened in all Popish Errors, as to renounce none of them, as he did what he could by Sophisms and Lies, by Fraud and Falshood to out-face the Truth, as Confer. c. 7. divis. 7. p. 377. Dr. Reynolds justly chargeth him; yet we cannot but account it an happy effect of their Dispute, that it produced in print so excellent a Book as the Report of that Conference is, so full of all kinde of Learning pertinently ap­plied, and meeting with the shuffling shifting Papists at every turn.

The Parsons Guide, on the Law of Tithes, by W. S. Esq; printed for Will. Lee, D. Pakemere, and G. Bedel, at their shops in Fleetstreet, printed 1654. in 4 to. To such questions may pertinently be applied the censure of Nazianzen, they are so wretchedly affected Greg. Naz. vol. 1. orat. 33. p. 431. (saith he) that they make it their delight to make trifling disputes of divine matters, and are as presumptuous many times in resolving of curious questions, as rash in proposing them to the triall of dis­putation; Idem. Orat. 35. p. 561. whose precipitation and temerity he thinketh very fit to be bridled and restrained. The Civil Right of Tiths, by Charles Enterfield, for John Holden at the Anchor in the N. Exchange. 1650. in 4 to. Wycliffe at first merely defended the complete independence of the temporal power from the church and only advanced to a criticism of churchly dogmas after he had become convinced that the question would never be settled without a bold break with papism.But we must make a long leap into the new Testament, else we shall stay too long, and make our questions too many. Mr. Walker. I desire then another Adversary, some of the Priests here present, that we may dispute on equal terms; I hold the cal­ling of a Protestant Preacher and Divines, more honourable then a­ny Popish Priesthood; and therefore if your Priests think them­selves too good to dispute with me, you shall not brag that your Lay­men are fit matches to dispute with Protestant Preachers and Di­vines.

CHAP. I. How some have been and are averse from, or adverse to disputations in Religion: how farre and for what reasons. Ans. A Franciscan of Bourdeaux Apol. for Hero­dot. l. 1. c. 33. p. 260. Because he would not suffer his fellowes to rob Christ when he fled into Egypt. An answer to a Letter by Sam. Turner, concerning the Church and Revenue ther­of, printed 1647. in 4 to. First for the Turk, Mahomet, (that famous impostor and false Prophet, the founder of that impious and impure Sect of the Mahametans) not onely forbids all disputes about the Religion of his Bible, (rather Babell) the Alcoran, but instructs his deluded disciples how to answer them who are disposed to dispute: Tecum dispu­tare volentibus dic, Deum so [...] omnes tuo; actus agnoscere, qui die postremo lites omnes & contrarietates discutiet. Alcaroni. c. 32. Say unto them, (saith he) God alone knowes all thy acts, and at the last day will discusse all controversies and contrarieties. Again, r to incredulous men say thus, I follow not your Law nor you mine; therefore let me alone with that which is mine, and I will let you alone with yours. CHAP. VII. Of the Disputation at Kenelmworth, betwixt John Brian Doctor in Divinity, Minister at Coventry, and John Onley Pastor of a Church at Lawford (as he styles himself.) How it was occasioned, undertaken, and continued at divers monthly meetings there.To these two we may adde two more out of the same Jesuit; but because they are not so modest as the former, I had rather make a marginall note of them, in the Latine words of the Au­thor, then expresse any part of them in my English text: yet be would seem very bashfull to the Popish Bishop Abulensis To­status, who discusseth so obscene a question about circum­cision, that he cannot for shame make mention of it, and there­fore thinketh it best to passe it over in silence; and so do I: there are many of that sort in Sanchez his great bellied book de mat [...]imonio, which maketh good the words of De delectati­one praeputia­torum, &c. Ita pudenda est il­lius oratio & disputatio, ut praester ca silentio praeteriri. Perer. in Genes. 17. disp. 2. p. 596. v. 1. Cū coelibatum profiteantur, nimis [...]e muliebrium rerum peritos testantur. Pareus in Gen. 19. v. 33. Pareus, of the badnesse of such as pretending to live chastly single shew themselves by their discourses too well acquainted with wo­mens matters. An Apology for pious and painful Ministers, printed for John Wright at the Kings head in the Old Bayly, printed 1653. in 4 to. Aquin. prim. part. vol. 3. 2. q. 60. ar. 3. Whether Angels love themselves with a naturall or an elective dilection. Menot, Serm. fol. 47. col. 4.Because he had nor cunning enough to use it; for he cut off Malchus his care when he should have cut off his head.

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