C H A P.2. Epiflle to the rheifaloniana. E R.3. 103 ieedion : if 'Fapifls themfelues may be beleeued in the quell ion of perfeaerance. Such Caueats to other ofGods people, more then intimatetheir.poflìble Apoflafe : at leafl as they generally apprehend them. 3 What when the great Antichrifl bath ereaed his E- pifcotall See vpon that i77cI .*ov : and hath begun to the Kings of the earth in the cup of damnable errours, and do- chines of Diuels ? Are we then bound to adhxre to the Faith and Religion of Rome ? or fhall it not be our wife - dome to come ont of that Babylon ? Apoc.18.4. 4 TheirApoftafie de fallo,1 (pare to inf fi on. Be plea - fed to compare the Doetrine of the Tridentine Counfell touching faith and worlhip,with that extant in 'Pauls Epi- the to the Romans ; thou wilt be ready to fweare, the ('itie that once was faithful/ ,n now become an harlot: that Bethel is become Beth -Amen. As to the teftimonies of fathers, produced to euidence the prercgatiue of that Church : read what that thrice re- uerend Doctor Whitaker of blcffed metnorie, bath fully anfwered : this onely added : a fet apartyou mull the te- flimonies which Popes giu: of themfelues:for what Court alloweth amans owne Teflimonie in his owne Caufe ? 2 Belecue not the Epif}les Decretall to be theirs , on whom they are fathered : Bifhops of chofe times were not fo vnlettered, fo vntutored, as in euerie page to doe Prif ian violence. Not fo befotted, as to fend let- ters to the dead : nor, you mull thinke, fo Propheti- call, as to alledge for tel imonie the fayings of men yet vnborue. As to other Fathers of Greeke and Latine Church , they mull be confefled to fpeake many things encomiafli- cally of the Roman Church in their times : caufe they had then fufficient, it being yet moflly orthodoxe. Yet what fumes in their writings to found, as they would now haue the Bels to ring, thinke, and you (hall not erre, they fpake rather froth voluntarie reuerence,then froth opinion of ne- cefFary obligation. Apoflafie,vnderliand from the Faith Catholique taught on
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