C H A P.Z. An Expo fit jar, vpon the fecond V a MI. ment, an heretique; yet in his publike,decifions pronoun. ced e Cathedrd, hee is, as Prophets and Apofzles, ofvn_ erring fpirir. Such vertue hath that chaire had, euer fince the dayes of Pope bane. 2 Next, that to the Pope fo refoluing, the people owe ciecam fidem, as regulars to fuperiours, blinde obedience : what is, if this be nc.r, firong infatuation ? 2 2 ertinacie and incorrigible flifnefl'e, paralell to that of hardened Iewes,whom neither fulfilling of Prophecies, nor power of Chills miracles, nor evidence of truth, nor fanRitie of his life, nor blufhing of heauen, nor quaking of earth, nor renting of temple, nor any thing could bring from Ferfwafion of t'!e Mefahs temporali kingdome,nor win ro embracing of Iefus for the Chri%t of the Lord. No lcflè is fiiffeneffe of errour in the vatais of Antichrili. Maywe fay in Panifls ? Whom neither evidence of Scrip- ture, nor fui rage of Fathers, nor coulent of Councils, nor blood of Martyres, nor fword of Magifirate, nor dilcoue- ry of Antichrifl, nor confumption of his kingdorne, nor, I am perfwaded, ruin of that Babylon, can win from paI- pablefl errour. Wonder not to fee Papitis vnreclaineable, its firong deletion fent vpon them. i know not how their very per - tinacie preuailes with many ; and halle perfwades they haue cleare evidence of truth,fuffering for their religion to loft of goods, of libertie,ofcountrie,of life. Let me relate what once pafied from a Papifl,after much conference and hot cifpute,brought to ffagger,& halle inclined to change his Religion : that if he turned, hewould fare turne `Puri tan; Sic vitant fulti vitia: And why ? In them only of all the party aduerfe to Popery,he had obferued force con - fcience; bccaufe force fuffering for their profelïon : the refi he obferued (flanderoufly I hope) Time feruers. In Re- ligion,as Cufhi in policy, a whom the Lord and this people and the men of Judah Jail choofe, his will I be. Oh woe is me, that euer it ./hould be heard in oath, or publifhed in the fireets of :I hope, I perfwad my felfe better things of many. That delufonfhould preuaile more with Pa . ifis,
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