A
Letter
of
Advice
,
&c.
MADAM
,
I
Know
the
law
of
Custom
has
made
it
not
only
an
usual
favour
,
but
an
expected
duty
,
to
complement
at
least
,
if
not
flatter
,
such
Women
as
Men
write
to
,
especially
the
Great
Ladies
,
who
think
none
write
well
,
that
do
not
praise
them
much
,
and
those
write
best
,
who
extol
them
most
:
high
Praises
being
like
good
Poetry
,
Musick
in
words
,
the
sound
of
which
may
be
agreable
,
but
truly
to
deserve
them
,
requires
such
a
Gygantick
size
of
merit
,
as
is
very
unproportionable
to
the
slender-wasted
Vertues
of
most
Ladies
,
who
are
over-eager
to
receive
Praises
,
and
overcareless
in
meriting
any
:
and
the
grand
reason
is
,
because
they
know
they
usually
have
them
without
it
;
and
that
Custome
must
give
it
,
though
Reason
cannot
.
So
obliging
is
the
common
courtesie
of
England
to
Ladies
,
that
it
allows
them
to
pretend
to
all
praises
as
their
due
,
though
few
deserve
any
as
their
right
.
In
a
word
,
our
English
Ladies
must
have
their
Characters
writ
,
just
as
the
Dutch
Madams
will
have
their
Pictures
drawn
,
that
is
,
very
handsom
,
though
they
themselves
be
never
so
ugly
.
But
,
Madam
,
for
your
part
,
I
know
your
perfections
so
abundantly
,
and
my
own
heart
so
truly
,
as
I
must
beg
the
Law
of
Custome
pardon
here
;
it
being
beyond
my
power
to
flatter
or
complement
,
since
I
can
neither
overpraise
your
high
merit
,
or
outspeak
the
real
love
,
and
true
esteem
,
I
have
both
for
you
and
them
;
so
that
knowing
all
manner
of
praises
to
be
justly
due
to
your
merits
,
I
find
I
cannot
here
make
you
a
present
of
any
,
without
doing
you
an
injury
,
by
intitling
you
to
those
praises
by
gift
,
which
all
know
are
your
own
by
right
.
For
truly
,
Madam
,
the
whole
progress
of
your
actions
have
still
been
so
highly
vertuous
,
and
religiously
strict
,
and
ever
believed
and
proclaimed
such
,
that
though
your
Beauty
might
make
bad
Men
wish
you
ill
,
yet
your
Vertues
hinder
the
worst
from
daring
to
think
you
so
:
for
if
they
did
,
their
own
hearts
must
at
the
same
time
condemn
their
own
thoughts
,
and
declare
your
innocency
;
like
Pilate
,
who
with
the
same
breath
he
condemned
our
Saviour
,
said
,
he
found
no
fault
in
him
.
But
,
Madam
,
tho
your
vertuous
life
is
so
transparantly
excellent
,
yet
for
all
that
,
you
ought
to
look
on
your
unsoil'd
Reputation
as
no
small
blessing
of
preservation
in
these
scandalous
times
,
where
so
few
handsom
Ladies
escape
censure
,
and
so
many
deserve
it
:
for
now
the
extravagancies
of
Romance-Amours
are
not
only
daily
read
,
but
almost
hourly
practised
;
and
Women
act
more
than
Romances
can
write
;
whilst
the
sober
Rules
of
Vertue
,
and
pious
Duties
of
Religion
,
are
seldom
thought
on
,
and
most
ralely
practised
;
our
Youth
being
generally
grown
such
fond
friends
of
Mr.
Hobbes
his
Books
,
as
they
are
become
meer
strangers
to
our
Saviour's
Gospel
;
they
living
as
if
they
were
all
bodies
,
and
had
no
souls
,
or
had
them
but
to
lose
,
turning
Religion
into
Raillery
,
and
Gospel
into
Romances
:
for
thus
in
short
they
mangle
Scripture
,
that
part
which
is
chiefly
Historical
,
that
is
their
meer
Gospel-part
;
and
that
which
is
the
Gospel-part
,
is
their
meer
Historical-part
;
and
because
they
cannot
bring
the
Gospel
to
prove
their
Atheistical
reasons
,
pretend
to
prove
by
Reason
,
that
there
is
no
Gospel
:
and
if
some
of
them
now
and
then
look
over
a
Chapter
,
they
only
pass
through
it
,
as
a
Spie
doth
an
Enemies
Country
,
with
a
mischievous
design
;
and
if
they
can
but
find
in
Scripture
a
seeming
Contradiction
,
that
they
presently
bring
on
the
Stage
,
as
they
do
Fools
in
Plays
,
to
railly
with
,
and
make
sport
at
:
so
great
a
Jest
our
Young
Sparks
now
make
of
their
Salvation
,
as
to
be
pleas'd
in
the
meer
displeasing
God
;
without
considering
,
't
is
not
onely
Atheistical
madness
,
but
Devillish
folly
,
to
make
that
their
Jest
,
which
they
may
be
damn'd
for
in
earnest
.
Thus
our
Youth
throw
away
their
Souls
;
and
for
their
Time
,
they
care
not
how
they
spend
it
,
(
always
provided
it
be
not
religiously
)
and
therefore
they
wast
it
most
in
the
company
of
vain
Women
;
and
are
so
eager
and
zealous
in
their
pursuit
,
and
so
constant
in
their
service
,
as
if
they
fancied
God
was
mistaken
,
and
intended
creating
man
for
the
woman
,
rather
than
the
woman
for
the
man
.
But
though
all
know
God
made
the
Woman
for
the
Man
,
yet
what
Critick
can
tell
us
whether
our
New
Mode
has
made
the
Gallant
for
the
Mistress
,
or
the
Mistress
for
the
Gallant
?
But
of
this
we
are
all
sure
,
They
are
so
plentifully
made
for
one
another
,
that
the
Eastern
Country-Laws
allow
not
with
more
freedom
plurality
of
Wives
,
than
our
new
English
Customs
admit
plurality
of
Mistresses
.
Nay
,
I
may
yet
venture
to
say
more
,
That
the
Liberty
of
our
men
exceeds
theirs
:
for
they
are
permitted
no
more
Wives
than
they
can
well
keep
,
but
ours
allow
themselves
as
many
Mistresses
as
they
can
any
way
get
.
For
indeed
,
the
Names
of
Tom
and
Bess
are
hardly
more
familiar
here
,
than
those
of
Gallant
and
Mistress
;
and
are
so
far
from
being
esteemed
Names
of
discredit
,
that
many
of
our
Mode-Ladies
look
on
their
Gallants
as
Beauty-marks
,
rather
than
stains
of
Reputation
.
And
for
all
they
cannot
but
know
,
that
the
infection
of
Gallants
is
as
bad
an
Enemy
to
Credit
,
as
the
Small-pox
to
Beauty
,
a
common
ruiner
of
it
:
And
though
Womens
Gallants
are
in
plain
English
no
better
than
the
publick
Executioners
of
their
reputations
;
and
indeed
no
woman
will
allow
them
,
but
such
as
are
willingly
condem'd
to
suffer
(
and
women
that
slight
reputation
are
seldom
fond
of
Chastity
)
Yet
these
abusers
of
love
,
and
murderers
of
fame
,
by
their
fair
words
and
base
arts
,
have
so
insinuated
themselves
into
their
favour
,
as
the
women
now
forsooth
,
call
their
Gallants
their
Friends
;
and
if
common
report
may
be
credited
they
are
indeed
their
bosom-ones
;
(
and
such
women
as
value
little
what
others
say
,
seldom
care
much
what
they
themselves
do
:
)
Custom
having
brought
many
of
our
women
to
that
pass
,
as
they
now
glory
in
the
number
of
their
Gallants
,
esteeming
them
rather
so
many
Vouchers
of
their
Beauty
,
than
so
many
Robbers
of
their
Honour
;
the
so
usual
practice
of
this
scandal
,
having
taken
away
womens
sense
,
that
like
blackness
amongst
the
Aethiopians
,
its
Commonness
has
removed
its
deformity
:
And
there
is
now
such
a
forward
Love-spring
in
the
Nurseries
of
our
Young
Ladies
,
as
the
very
little-ones
learn
to
spell
Amour
with
their
Fescue
,
and
will
pretend
to
entertain
their
Young
Gallants
,
in
the
dark
walks
of
Love
,
and
in
the
Labyrinth
of
its
Intrigues
,
before
they
well
know
what
the
thing
Love
is
,
or
the
name
of
Gallant
means
;
and
would
have
Servants
come
to
them
,
before
they
come
to
the
Teens
,
(
the
ripeness
of
their
minds
outrunning
that
of
their
bodies
)
and
fancy
men
so
mad
as
to
believe
,
't
is
expectation
makes
a
Blessing
dear
.
But
that
dull
Presbyterian
way
of
Love
,
is
now
quite
out
of
Fashion
,
and
the
loves
of
our
Young
Gallants
are
grown
as
fickle
,
and
meer
skin-deep
,
as
their
Mistresses
Fancies
and
Beauties
;
and
Love-wounds
that
are
but
skin-deep
,
can
never
hurt
the
heart
;
and
therefore
though
every
day
we
hear
of
Hundreds
of
Gallants
that
are
dying
for
Love
in
their
Mistresses
company
,
yet
we
cannot
read
of
one
these
many
Ages
that
dyed
for
love
in
the
Weekly-Bills
of
Mortality
;
the
obliging
carriage
of
the
Ladies
of
the
times
having
made
our
Young
Men
so
healthfully
wise
,
so
forwardly
bold
,
or
at
least
so
impatiently
hasty
,
as
they
expect
now
a-days
to
take
Young
Women
,
as
great
Armies
do
weak
Towns
,
only
by
Summons
,
or
Assaults
;
as
not
esteeming
them
worthy
the
time
and
trouble
of
a
Love-siege
,
though
their
Mistresses
were
as
yielding
as
Rome
it self
,
which
Writers
say
,
was
never
besieged
without
being
taken
:
that
is
,
in
short
,
they
hold
handsome
Women
worth
enjoying
,
but
not
wooing
.
And
that
makes
our
Young
Men
so
eager
and
inconstant
in
their
Amours
,
as
really
t
is
a
very
hard
measuring-cast
to
tell
whether
your
Young
Gallants
use
now
more
art
,
or
speed
,
in
the
getting
or
forgetting
of
their
Mistresses
.
But
the
best
of
it
is
,
that
the
inconstancy
of
both
Sexes
are
now
so
equally
match'd
,
that
I
cannot
write
more
of
their
Gallants
inconstancies
,
than
their
Mistresses
make
good
of
their
own
:
For
they
deal
with
their
Gallants
,
as
their
Fashions
;
that
which
comes
latest
,
is
still
lik'd
best
,
and
us'd
most
.
In
a
word
,
the
constancy
and
inconstancy
of
Young
Men
and
Women
,
are
just
like
water
and
ice
,
where
one
still
makes
the
other
;
and
their
loves
(
Ice-like
)
never
last
long
;
and
as
soon
as
't
is
dissolv'd
,
turns
immediately
to
the
same
it
was
before
,
without
any
alteration
or
prejudice
:
Nor
can
water
be
more
apt
and
ready
by
the
coming
of
Frost
to
turn
to
Ice
,
than
our
Young
Men
and
Womens
hearts
are
apt
and
enclin'd
to
return
to
love
,
at
the
approach
of
fresh-fancied
Beauty
.
And
truly
the
inconstancy
of
our
Young
Men
cannot
be
so
great
,
nor
their
inclinations
so
ill
,
but
the
tongues
of
many
of
our
Young
Women
are
grown
as
bad
:
For
now
if
a
Young
Maid
be
but
cry'd
up
for
handsom
,
and
resolves
to
continue
vertuous
,
and
therefore
will
not
turn
vain
,
and
deserve
censure
,
as
much
as
the
rest
,
they
will
be
sure
to
speak
her
as
bad
as
the
worst
;
and
if
they
cannot
with
justice
wound
her
Vertue
,
they
will
attempt
by
ill
arts
to
murder
her
Reputation
,
(
Envy
being
the
parent
of
wicked
invention
)
it
being
now
a
Mode-principle
amongst
most
of
our
handsom
Women
,
that
no
Woman
that
enjoys
a
large
proportion
of
Beauty
,
but
must
,
a●
an
unavoidable
appurtenance
,
carry
with
it
a
load
of
scandalous
censures
(
a
false
Character
of
some
,
though
too
true
a
one
of
most
)
which
occasions
their
not
caring
how
unjustly
they
increase
anothers
burthen
,
in
hope
to
lessen
their
own
load
;
and
by
overstretching
the
miscarriages
of
others
greater
than
they
should
be
,
hope
to
shrink
theirs
less
than
really
they
are
;
vainly
fancying
,
that
spattering
with
dirt
and
reproach
other
Womens
reputations
,
were
a
kind
of
wiping
clean
their
own
;
which
suits
not
at
all
with
the
mild
and
moderate
rules
of
Vertue
,
which
only
allows
Women
to
correct
each
others
faults
,
by
their
good
Examples
,
but
not
to
increase
them
by
their
bad
censures
.
For
,
scandalous
censures
,
like
Mushooms
,
grow
without
any
root
;
so
tender
and
mutable
a
thing
is
a
handsom
Womans
good
Name
:
there
's
no
taking
its
true
Elevation
by
any
certain
outward
Rules
and
measures
,
since
it
depends
more
on
her
Neighbours
good
or
bad
report
,
than
on
her
vertuous
or
ill
actions
;
and
more
on
what
they
say
,
than
what
she
does
.
And
really
such
reports
are
usually
so
sophisticated
with
self-concerns
,
and
so
strongly
byass'd
by
aversion
or
inclination
,
as
you
may
daily
hear
in
common
Discourse
,
both
Men
and
Women
turn
Vertue
into
Vice
,
and
Vice
into
Vertue
;
and
so
characterize
Good
Women
to
be
bad
,
and
bad
Women
to
be
good
;
speaking
not
as
Women
deserve
,
but
as
they
fancy
;
and
therefore
it
often
happens
,
that
many
Women
save
their
reputations
,
even
by
a
speedy
losing
their
chastity
,
whilst
other
Women
lose
their
reputation
in
their
very
defence
of
it
;
that
is
,
in
short
,
more
Women
lose
their
reputation
in
admitting
to
be
much
courted
(
though
that
be
all
)
than
by
being
ill
injoyn'd
:
And
the
reason
is
plain
,
Because
the
Courtship
is
publick
to
all
,
but
the
injoyment
is
only
private
to
themselves
;
and
't
is
more
rational
two
concerned
persons
should
keep
their
own
counsel
,
than
many
unconcern'd
should
keep
it
for
them
;
so
that
it
cannot
necessarily
follow
,
that
the
roported
reputation
or
disreputation
of
handsom
Women
must
needs
be
the
true
issue
of
their
merits
,
but
often
the
by-blow
of
chance
;
and
therefore
common
report
can
be
no
right
rule
to
measure
Womens
reputations
by
:
For
many
reports
have
much
of
the
Devils
nature
in
them
,
who
is
a
lyar
from
the
beginning
.
And
indeed
,
if
we
but
truly
consider
,
we
shall
find
Women
general
censure
one
another
,
not
as
they
are
really
faulty
,
but
as
they
appear
,
and
are
esteemed
handsom
;
and
therefore
ugly
Women
have
the
priviledge
of
Popes
,
who
cannot
err
,
but
may
do
what
they
will
,
and
take
what
liberty
they
please
;
and
handsom
Women
will
be
as
far
from
censuring
their
actions
,
as
Young
Men
from
praising
their
persons
:
So
that
really
in
effect
,
we
find
most
Womens
censures
are
not
proportionable
to
the
ill
others
act
,
but
rather
suitable
to
the
Beauty
they
possess
;
which
by
their
leave
is
a
way
of
judging
,
that
's
both
iriational
and
uncharitable
;
since
I
am
sure
none
can
deny
,
but
there
are
some
unhandsom
Women
unchast
;
and
some
chast
Women
handsom
:
For
Vertue
and
Beauty
are
not
so
declar'd
enemies
,
but
they
sometimes
meet
;
though
I
cannot
deny
,
but
that
Vertue
which
in
former
Ages
was
esteemed
one
of
the
greatest
adornments
of
the
soul
,
is
now
so
Eclipsed
by
the
outward
Beauty
of
the
Body
,
as
Vertue
and
Piety
(
the
true
inward
Beauty
)
cannot
shine
out
:
A
good
Soul
being
nothing
now
in
comparison
of
a
good
face
;
Beauty
being
now
the
Great
Empress
that
commands
the
whole
World
,
and
makes
the
Supremest
of
men
become
subjects
to
Her
.
And
yet
this
so
ador'd
Beauty
,
(
which
all
Women
are
so
ambitious
of
,
and
all
Men
so
court
)
has
at
best
no
intrinsick
value
in
it
,
but
just
like
riches
,
they
enjoy
most
,
that
are
contented
with
least
;
since
't
is
not
much
,
but
enough
,
that
's
the
true
measure
of
satisfaction
.
But
Madam
,
't
is
now
more
than
time
to
beg
your
pardon
;
for
I
find
I
am
stray'd
both
beyond
the
time
,
and
beside
the
road
of
my
design'd
Discourse
,
which
is
not
to
present
you
a
Character
,
or
List
of
the
fine
Ladies
,
and
Mode-vices
of
the
times
;
they
will
require
a
much
wittier
Pen
than
I
pretend
to
be
Master
of
,
and
a
larger
Volume
than
I
design
to
trouble
you
with
:
but
this
Character
which
indeed
merits
Volumes
of
Praises
,
I
am
sure
I
can
give
you
,
without
needing
wit
,
or
abusing
of
time
;
and
if
I
could
here
cast
up
the
sum
total
of
all
the
vices
that
your
Sex
are
eitheir
guilty
of
,
or
scandaliz'd
with
,
(
which
I
'le
assure
you
are
more
than
a
few
)
their
number
might
be
tedious
to
read
,
but
need
not
be
disagreeable
for
you
to
bear
,
since
by
naming
all
those
faults
they
are
infected
with
,
I
should
but
tell
all
those
you
are
free
from
.
But
,
Madam
,
my
design
is
now
to
remove
my
Battery
,
and
change
my
Scene
of
Writing
,
as
you
have
your
place
of
Living
;
and
to
level
my
Discourse
,
not
at
the
vices
and
pleasures
of
London
,
nor
the
pastimes
of
the
Court
,
but
at
your
Country-Neighbours
,
the
Woods
and
Mountains
of
Macroome
,
which
renders
it
a
place
much
fitter
to
exercise
your
past-time
,
than
satisfie
your
delight
,
were
you
of
the
humour
of
most
Ladies
;
but
all
know
you
are
not
only
an
excellent
Woman
,
but
an
extraordinary
wife
,
I
mean
in
Goodness
,
(
for
't
is
rare
now
to
meet
a
wife
that
's
not
extraordinary
)
for
you
take
as
much
satisfaction
in
the
cares
of
well
managing
and
improving
your
Estate
,
as
most
other
Ladies
delight
,
in
the
lavishing
theirs
;
so
that
I
can
truly
say
,
you
have
not
only
brought
your
Lord
a
large
sum
of
money
for
your
Portion
,
but
a
continued
increase
of
Rent
by
your
Industry
.
And
I
am
sure
,
Madam
,
if
you
were
now
askt
as
the
Philosopher
was
,
Where
was
his
home
?
you
would
answer
now
,
as
he
did
then
,
My
home
is
still
where
my
chief
business
is
.
So
that
now
your
chief
Concerns
and
Family
,
(
which
is
still
the
good
Wives
Treasure
(
being
at
Macroome
,
I
must
conclude
your
heart
is
there
also
.
A
place
,
where
in
lieu
of
London
,
crowds
of
good
Company
,
and
swarms
of
divertisements
,
you
must
prepare
to
meet
with
,
and
do
Penance
to
your self
,
among
the
Flocks
of
Priests
and
Fryars
,
against
whose
Popish
insinuations
,
and
infectious
perswasions
,
I
here
present
you
a
small
,
but
necessary
Collection
of
Arguments
to
carry
about
you
,
as
a
Preservatitive
in
your
own
Religion
,
and
an
Antitode
against
theirs
;
and
though
I
cannot
pretend
this
pocket-Pistol
is
a
sufficient
Battering-piece
,
to
beat
down
their
infallible
Church
,
yet
I
doubt
not
but
it
will
at
least
be
a
sufficient
Life-guard
to
defend
you
and
your
Chamber
against
their
assaults
.
They
are
most
of
them
argumentative
reasonings
I
pickt
out
of
Mr.
Chillingworth
,
as
one
that
reasons
best
,
and
satisfies
me
most
,
of
any
I
ever
read
;
and
knowing
you
want
a
Collection
of
choice
Flowers
,
I
heartily
wish
that
these
I
have
gathered
out
of
his
Garden
,
and
here
sorted
and
made
up
to
present
you
in
a
Nosegay
,
may
serve
you
against
the
unpleasing
savour
of
Popish
Doctrine
:
And
I
wish
they
may
not
altogether
degenerate
from
common
nature
of
Flowers
,
which
the
Naturalist
tells
us
,
grow
larger
and
better
by
being
transplanted
;
so
that
I
hope
you
will
not
find
them
the
worse
,
nor
like
them
the
less
,
for
being
transplanted
,
but
receive
these
Arguments
just
as
you
do
your
Rents
,
without
caring
whether
your
Tenants
have
the
Money
out
of
their
own
bags
,
or
borrow
it
,
so
you
have
it
to
supply
your
occasions
.
Truly
,
Madam
,
I
have
taken
some
pains
,
and
spent
much
time
in
reading
the
Discourses
of
Papists
against
our
Religion
;
and
though
I
have
consider'd
their
Arguments
without
the
least
Byas
,
or
antedated
prejudice
;
yet
I
can
give
no
better
a
character
of
them
,
than
I
do
of
ill
Dealers
,
The
more
I
have
to
do
with
them
,
the
worse
I
like
them
:
They
savour
much
of
Self-interest
,
teaching
Church-Government
,
before
Gospel-Obedience
;
witness
their
holding
Marriage
a
greater
crime
in
a
Priest
,
than
Fornication
:
The
one
is
but
forbid
by
their
Churches
Law
,
which
they
all
know
is
disputable
,
the
latter
by
the
Law
of
Christ
,
which
they
cannot
but
know
,
ought
to
be
past
all
dispute
.
And
truly
,
Madam
,
if
you
please
to
admit
your
reason
to
make
but
a
short
progress
into
the
Popish
Religion
,
you
shall
find
much
to
create
your
wonder
,
but
little
to
satisfie
your
reason
or
belief
;
for
the
Gospel
of
Christ
is
the
Gospel
of
Truth
,
and
therefore
ought
still
to
be
pictur'd
naked
as
Truth
,
without
any
Art
of
Roman
Dresses
,
which
are
only
obscure
shadings
of
the
true
light
of
Scripture
,
by
making
dark
Paraphrases
on
the
plainest
Gospel-Commands
,
which
in
all
reason
ought
to
be
plain
enough
for
the
meanest
capacity
:
For
God
forbid
it
should
be
otherwise
;
for
the
meanest
Christian
must
be
saved
or
damned
,
for
keeping
or
not
keeping
them
;
and
sure
God's
Justice
will
never
send
persons
t●
Hell
,
for
not
doing
what
they
could
not
understand
was
his
Will
they
should
do
;
that
were
such
a
cruelty
,
as
if
a
man
should
torment
his
Servant
for
not
doing
his
Errant
,
when
he
knew
he
did
not
understand
his
Message
;
yet
the
Papist
must
not
take
these
plain
Gospel-Commands
as
such
,
but
as
they
are
distill'd
in
the
mysterious
politick
Lymbeck
of
the
Popish
interest
:
Indeed
Mystery
and
Obedience
is
so
interwoven
in
that
Religion
,
that
Papists
must
take
what
their
Priest
tells
them
,
as
Men
do
Wives
,
for
better
,
for
worse
,
and
must
marry
their
Faith
to
their
Churches
infallibility
,
which
allows
that
only
to
be
Gospel
,
which
their
Church
says
shall
be
,
not
what
the
Apostles
write
is
so
;
for
the
Papists
must
obey
the
Pope
,
though
no
where
commanded
in
the
Gospel
;
but
must
not
read
the
Gospel
,
though
they
are
commanded
there
to
do
it
.
Nay
,
when
once
the
Papist
can
but
touch
the
small
Needle
of
any
ones
reason
with
the
great
Loadstone
of
the
Harmonious
Doctrine
of
a
necessary
Obedience
to
their
infallible
Church
,
then
they
make
such
follow
it
,
to
every
point
of
the
Compass
,
be
it
good
,
bad
,
or
indifferent
;
and
so
they
sail
all
their
life
,
in
a
Trade-wind
of
ignorance
and
superstition
,
and
must
believe
their
Priests
words
before
their
own
senses
,
in
the
plainest
objects
of
them
;
as
in
the
Miracle
of
Transubstantiation
,
where
you
must
have
eyes
and
see
not
,
and
hands
and
feel
not
,
but
must
believe
in
a
moment
real
Bread
and
Wine
to
be
turned
into
perfect
Flesh
and
Blood
,
though
you
cannot
see
the
least
change
whatsoever
:
yet
they
are
bound
to
believe
their
Priest
,
before
their
eyes
,
smell
,
tast
;
nor
dare
their
Priest
say
,
that
the
Consecrated
Bread
(
which
they
esteem
the
real
Body
of
Christ
)
will
be
less
mouldy
,
or
more
uncertain
of
corruption
after
Consecration
than
before
;
and
the
jest
of
it
is
,
that
at
the
same
time
the
Papists
believe
that
Miracle
,
they
also
believe
this
Scripture
,
That
God
will
not
suffer
his
Holy
One
to
see
corruption
.
And
tho
for
these
and
many
other
reasons
,
I
cannot
believe
this
Transubstantiation-Miracle
;
yet
I
cannot
but
admire
this
Miracle
that
belongs
to
Transubstantiation
,
which
is
,
how
the
Pope
can
bring
so
many
,
that
have
sense
and
reason
to
believe
it
.
But
I
shall
pass
by
their
adoring
this
Sacrament
,
their
praying
to
Saints
,
and
a
multitude
of
their
superstitious
observances
never
used
in
the
Primative
Church
;
&
shall
only
desire
you
,
Madam
,
to
observe
in
general
,
that
the
Papists
follow
the
Gospel
,
just
as
they
read
Hebrew
,
that
's
back
ward
;
for
God
plainly
commands
,
that
all
should
search
the
Scripture
.
And
our
Blessed
Saviour
ordered
the
Sacrament
to
be
administred
in
both
kinds
,
1
Cor
.
11.28
.
And
St.
Paul
forbids
publick
Prayers
in
an
unknown
Language
,
but
that
which
is
most
for
Edification
,
1
Cor
.
14.15
,
16.
But
these
plain
positive
commands
do
not
hinder
the
Church
of
Rome
from
declaring
,
that
unlearned
men
shall
not
read
and
search
the
Scriptures
;
but
if
we
believe
St.
Paul
before
the
Pope
,
we
may
read
in
the
17th
of
the
Acts
,
11.
how
he
commended
the
noble
Bereans
for
searching
the
Scriptures
;
and
therefore
if
searching
the
Scriptures
had
not
been
not
only
lawful
,
but
a
commendable
act
,
certainly
St.
Paul
would
never
have
commended
them
for
so
doing
.
So
that
the
Popish
Clergy
forbids
the
reading
the
Scriptures
,
under
pretence
that
their
Laity
might
not
truly
understand
them
.
Next
,
the
Church
of
Rome
allows
only
their
Clergy
(
except
free
Princes
,
for
they
are
excepters
of
Persons
,
though
God
is
not
)
to
receive
the
Communion
but
in
one
kind
,
tho
our
Saviour
commands
,
that
all
drink
of
the
Cup
;
and
the
Papists
cannot
deny
,
but
that
the
Communion
was
taken
in
both
kinds
in
all
Christian
Churches
for
above
a
Thousand
Years
after
Christ
.
And
lastly
,
for
the
poor
vulgar
sort
,
they
shall
only
hear
their
publick
Prayers
in
an
unknown
Tongue
,
viz.
Latine
,
which
a
Tenth
part
of
them
do
not
understand
;
and
therefore
how
that
can
be
most
for
Edification
,
let
the
Papists
tell
if
they
can
;
I
am
sure
we
cannot
,
nor
do
we
believe
they
can
,
without
the
help
of
another
Transubstantiation-Miracle
,
and
making
an
unknown
Language
to
most
to
be
chang'd
at
the
same
time
into
a
common
known
Language
to
all
.
And
now
,
Madam
,
I
shall
humbly
desire
you
to
consider
in
general
,
that
tho
the
Papists
do
out-noise
us
(
as
shallow
Rivers
do
still
the
deepest
)
with
the
high
and
mighty
Rodomontades
of
their
Churches
Infallibility
;
yet
such
high
Rants
,
without
true
proof
,
are
but
like
Schoolboys
paper-Kites
,
which
soar
high
and
lofty
,
but
have
nothing
else
worth
taking
notice
of
.
They
will
have
the
confidence
to
tell
you
,
that
their
Popish
Church
is
the
Roman
Catholick
,
and
only
true
Christian
Church
in
the
whole
World
:
But
the
Protestants
Answer
to
this
their
boasting
,
is
,
that
all
the
Christian
Churches
in
the
whole
World
(
besides
the
Popish
Churches
,
tho
more
in
number
than
they
)
declare
quite
contrary
.
They
will
ask
you
,
where
your
Protestant
Church
was
before
Luther
;
which
was
wittily
answered
by
one
;
(
where
the
Papist
Church
never
was
)
in
the
Bible
.
The
Papists
do
divert
themselves
very
much
at
our
stiling
our
King
,
Head
of
the
Church
,
as
we
do
,
for
their
doing
so
:
for
we
esteem
our
King
Head
only
in
his
own
Dominions
,
without
the
Popes
title
of
infallible
;
and
sure
't
is
more
rational
that
those
of
a
Kingdom
should
allow
their
King
to
be
Head
of
the
Church
in
his
own
Kingdoms
,
than
that
a
few
Cardinals
should
make
the
Head
of
the
Church
over
all
Kingdoms
.
And
for
all
their
jeasting
,
I
am
sure
we
can
shew
(
in
sober
earnest
)
Scripture-presidents
for
Kings
being
Heads
of
Churches
in
their
own
Dominions
,
which
is
more
than
the
Papists
can
shew
for
their
Pope
,
or
his
Churches
infallibility
:
For
sure
they
cannot
object
against
it
as
new
Doctrine
(
though
Doctrine
that
's
new
is
their
greatest
Trade
)
that
the
Kings
of
Judah
,
and
the
first
Christian
Emperors
were
Heads
of
the
Jewish
Churches
,
and
in
their
own
Dominions
:
And
Solomon
tells
us
,
That
a
Divine
Sentence
is
in
the
lips
of
the
King
,
and
his
mouth
transgresseth
not
in
Judgment
:
(
which
I
am
sure
Popes
have
not
,
witness
Liberius
)
and
Solomon
gives
the
reason
,
because
the
Heart
of
the
King
is
in
the
Hand
of
the
Lord
.
If
the
Papists
will
pretend
so
much
Scripture
for
their
Pope
,
I
shall
only
answer
,
't
is
more
than
ever
Protestants
read
,
or
the
Apostles
writ
.
The
Papists
will
tell
you
with
a
great
deal
of
confidence
,
though
we
say
the
Bible
is
the
Religion
of
Protestants
,
yet
there
is
no
Protestant
Religion
,
or
Church
,
mentioned
in
the
whole
Creed
,
which
are
the
Articles
of
the
Christian
Faith
:
And
they
will
tell
you
,
that
their
Church
is
the
Catholick
Church
;
and
to
believe
the
Catholick
Church
,
was
an
Article
of
the
Christian
Faith
from
the
very
infancy
of
the
Church
in
the
beginning
of
the
Apostles
time
.
Now
let
the
Papists
tell
us
,
if
they
bring
this
as
an
Argument
against
the
Protestant
Religion
in
the
Bible
,
or
not
;
if
not
,
what
cause
have
they
to
name
it
,
or
what
need
have
we
to
answer
it
?
but
if
it
be
one
,
we
make
this
reply
;
That
the
Roman
Church
is
no
more
named
in
the
Apostles
Creed
,
than
the
Protestant
Church
is
;
for
the
Apostles
Creed
was
made
before
the
Roman
Church
was
a
Church
;
and
this
I
am
sure
they
cannot
deny
;
so
that
since
the
Catholick
Church
wa●…
then
in
being
,
and
the
Roman
Church
not
in
being
,
it
must
necessarily
follow
,
that
the
Roman
Church
cannot
be
the
Catholick
Church
mentioned
in
the
Apostles
Creed
and
consequently
is
not
the
Mother-Church
,
as
the
Papist●…
would
have
her
to
be
:
Thus
the
Papists
have
so
overcharg'd
this
Argument
to
shoot
at
us
,
as
it
recoils
and
flyes
in
their
own
faces
.
And
of
kin
to
this
,
is
their
grand
Battering-piece
of
all
,
which
so
thunders
in
the
ears
of
all
Papists
,
and
makes
the
Popes
power
so
absolute
,
and
the
poor
credulous
Papist
so
obedient
,
and
that
is
the
power
given
by
our
Saviour
to
St.
Peter
,
in
the
16th
of
St.
Matthew
,
beginning
the
18th
Verse
,
Thou
art
Peter
,
and
on
this
Rock
I
will
build
my
Church
,
and
give
thee
the
Keys
of
the
Kingdom
of
Heaven
;
and
whomsoever
thou
shalt
bind
on
Earth
,
shall
be
bound
in
Heaven
;
and
whomsoever
thou
shalt
loose
on
Earth
,
shall
be
loosed
in
Heaven
;
and
these
words
the
Papists
understand
literally
,
that
St.
Peter's
person
is
the
Rock
that
Christ
builds
his
Church
on
;
which
cannot
possibly
be
,
by
the
verses
just
following
:
For
there
when
our
Saviour
tells
his
Disciples
of
his
going
to
Jerusalem
,
where
he
must
suffer
many
things
,
and
be
killed
,
and
raised
again
the
Third
day
;
Peter
took
him
,
and
rebuke
him
,
Be
it
far
from
thee
,
Lord
,
this
shall
not
be
unto
thee
:
But
our
Saviour
turned
,
and
said
unto
Peter
,
Get
thee
behind
me
,
Satan
,
thou
art
an
offence
to
me
,
for
thou
savourest
not
the
things
that
he
of
God
,
but
those
that
be
of
men
.
By
which
words
't
is
most
clear
and
evident
,
that
our
Saviour
did
not
mean
Peters
person
could
be
the
Rock
of
the
Christian
Church
:
For
if
Peter's
person
had
been
that
Rock
meant
,
sure
our
Saviour
would
never
have
removed
it
behind
him
;
and
it
would
be
not
only
irrational
,
but
impious
,
to
believe
that
Christ
would
build
his
Church
on
Satan
,
for
so
he
calls
St.
Peter's
person
;
and
it
were
as
unreasonable
to
believe
that
the
Rock
of
Christ's
Church
could
be
an
offence
to
him
,
as
St.
Peter's
person
was
;
and
as
improbable
again
as
all
this
,
that
Christ's
Church
,
the
Foundation
of
all
Christianity
,
should
savour
,
not
of
the
things
that
be
of
God
,
but
those
that
are
of
Men
,
as
Peter's
person
did
.
Therefore
if
you
but
please
to
read
the
words
of
our
Saviour
carefully
,
you
shall
find
they
are
most
plain
:
for
Verse
13th
.
When
Jesus
came
into
the
Coast
of
Caesarea
,
He
ask'd
his
Disciples
,
Whom
do
men
say
that
I
am
?
and
they
said
,
Some
say
that
thou
art
John
the
Baptist
,
some
Elias
,
and
others
Jeremias
,
or
one
of
the
Prophets
:
but
whom
say
ye
that
I
am
?
and
Simon
Peter
answered
and
said
,
Thou
art
Christ-the
Son
of
the
Living
God
:
And
I
say
also
unto
thee
,
that
thou
art
Peter
,
and
upon
this
Rock
,
(
not
this
person
)
I
will
build
my
Church
;
that
is
(
upon
this
Rock
of
Faith
)
that
I
am
Christ
the
Son
of
the
Living
God
,
I
build
my
Church
,
and
the
Gates
of
Hell
shall
not
prevail
against
it
.
Now
this
must
necessarily
relate
to
his
faith
,
not
his
person
;
for
the
gates
of
Hell
,
that
's
the
power
of
evil
,
did
prevail
against
Peter's
person
,
or
he
had
not
deny'd
and
forsworn
his
Lord
and
Master
again
and
again
;
and
been
afterwards
proved
blame-worthy
by
St.
Paul
to
his
face
,
and
indeed
as
blame-worthy
as
any
of
his
Disciples
.
So
that
't
is
most
plain
,
that
Christ's
words
(
of
making
him
the
Rock
of
the
Christian
Church
)
related
not
to
his
person
,
but
his
faith
of
Christ's
being
the
Son
of
the
Living
God
.
And
for
the
other
part
;
whereas
the
Papists
believe
a
particular
favour
and
power
,
given
by
our
Saviour
to
St.
Peter
;
of
the
Keys
of
Heaven
;
that
was
given
as
much
to
the
Eleven
Disciples
,
as
to
him
,
as
you
may
read
in
the
18th
of
St.
Matthew
,
and
in
the
20th
of
St.
John's
Gospel
,
Vers
.
23
,
24.
As
my
Father
hath
sent
me
,
even
so
send
I
you
:
and
when
he
had
said
this
,
he
breathed
on
them
,
and
saith
unto
them
,
Receive
ye
the
Holy
Ghost
:
whosesoever
sins
ye
remit
,
they
are
remitted
unto
them
,
and
whosesoever
sins
ye
retain
,
they
are
retained
.
So
that
you
see
this
power
is
general
to
the
Disciples
,
and
not
in
particular
to
St.
Peter
,
more
than
to
any
of
the
rest
,
as
the
Papists
misbelieve
.
The
Papists
have
many
such
Questions
,
which
I
am
sure
,
Madam
,
you
have
neither
the
patience
to
read
,
nor
I
the
time
to
write
;
but
those
that
are
most
material
of
them
,
you
will
find
I
have
here
presented
you
,
truly
answer'd
,
by
pure
Scripture
,
clear
reasons
,
plain
arguments
,
and
all
in
few
words
,
fit
for
the
weakest
memory
,
or
smallest
pocket
,
to
carry
about
them
:
For
true
reason
doth
not
consist
in
large
Volumes
,
long
Gowns
,
or
gray
Beards
;
for
many
live
to
One
and
twenty
,
without
attaining
to
years
of
discretion
;
the
degrees
of
Age
being
not
still
the
measures
of
Wisdom
:
For
the
World
will
never
be
without
old
Fools
and
young
Philosophers
.
And
truly
,
Madam
,
for
my
part
,
I
cannot
so
much
as
think
of
the
Papists
Religion
without
wonder
,
that
so
many
rational
men
of
them
should
rather
fasten
their
faith
of
salvation
on
the
pretended
infallibility
of
their
Church
(
which
is
deny'd
by
most
Christians
)
than
on
the
Holy
Scripture
,
which
is
granted
by
all
,
to
be
the
will
and
word
of
God
,
and
the
very
Foundation
of
their
Churches
Foundation
,
as
containing
in
it
all
things
necessary
to
our
salvation
.
And
we
Protestants
have
at
least
this
satisfaction
and
advantage
,
that
not
only
the
Papists
,
but
all
sorts
of
Christians
that
are
in
the
circumference
of
the
whole
World
,
meet
and
joyn
with
us
in
this
center
of
Faith
,
That
the
Scriptures
contain
all
things
necessary
to
our
salvation
;
which
being
a
general
granted
Truth
,
I
confess
I
admire
how
any
Papist
can
make
the
least
scruple
,
which
is
the
safest
Heavenly
Guide
,
the
Pope
,
or
the
Gospel
.
If
there
be
any
rational
man
so
extravagant
as
to
put
them
in
the
same
ballance
,
and
to
commit
a
rape
upon
his
Reason
,
I
shall
only
desire
him
to
consider
this
plain
Question
.
If
he
were
to
go
a
Journey
in
an
unknown
way
,
would
he
not
think
it
more
rational
and
safe
to
follow
a
certain
true
Guide
,
that
all
the
Christians
in
the
World
declare
is
certainly
able
and
ready
to
shew
him
the
right
way
,
than
to
follow
a
pretended
Guide
,
which
the
greatest
part
of
the
Christians
in
the
World
assures
him
will
lead
him
out
of
it
.
And
this
being
the
real
difference
between
the
Papist
and
Protestant
in
gross
,
concerning
the
Heavenly
Guide
,
the
Bible
,
and
the
Pope
,
I
think
I
need
now
say
no
more
,
because
so
many
have
already
said
so
much
,
and
I
am
sure
enough
to
satisfie
any
,
except
such
,
who
will
believe
a
crooked
Rule
is
better
to
draw
a
straight
line
by
,
than
a
right
one
.
And
now
,
Madam
,
I
shall
only
beg
so
much
of
your
patience
,
as
to
let
me
tell
you
,
that
the
plot
and
Heads
of
this
following
discourse
,
I
have
Extracted
out
of
the
worthy
Collingworth
.
Before
I
begin
the
discourse
it self
,
I
know
,
in
writing
a
Play
,
to
have
Rank'd
the
plot
in
the
Front
of
it
,
and
to
make
the
whole
design
of
the
Prologue
to
be
the
Key
to
uncipher
the
plot
of
the
Play
,
(
though
anciently
in
use
)
had
been
now
,
not
only
out
of
fashion
,
but
beside
reason
:
For
the
design
of
Plays
aiming
chiefly
to
please
the
senses
,
they
ought
to
be
compounded
and
mixt
with
hopes
and
fears
,
certainties
and
uncertainties
,
expectations
and
delays
of
the
event
of
the
plot
;
which
being
all
so
interwoven
together
,
creates
the
agreeableness
of
the
Play
;
for
when
once
the
whole
plot
is
discovered
,
the
pleasure
of
the
Play
is
ended
;
like
Hare-Hunting
,
the
sport
lies
not
in
presently
taking
the
Hare
,
but
in
following
him
,
in
all
his
Rings
and
Doubles
.
And
those
that
love
Plays
,
and
such
Huntings
,
resemble
jealous
men
,
who
eagerly
pursue
what
they
apprehend
to
overtake
;
or
as
old
Age
,
which
we
all
pray
to
attain
,
but
fear
to
approach
.
But
now
I
come
to
soar
my
discourse
to
a
much
higher
pitch
,
and
a
more
Elevated
Subject
,
and
to
treat
of
the
most
noble
part
of
man
,
the
Soul
;
and
of
true
Religion
the
only
way
to
Heavenly
felicity
:
For
without
Holiness
,
no
man
shall
see
the
Lord
.
We
must
therefore
now
,
Madam
,
change
the
Scene
of
sense
for
a
spiritual
one
,
and
climb
where
earthly
nature
can
never
follow
us
,
to
the
pure
and
high
Region
of
Heaven
;
which
will
inform
us
that
the
earlier
discovering
our
plot
of
attaining
Heaven
,
will
but
better
the
play
;
and
the
more
speed
,
the
better
success
:
For
the
joys
of
Heaven
are
everlasting
,
and
admit
of
no
increase
or
diminution
:
not
like
the
divertisements
of
Stage-plays
,
or
Hunting
,
or
any
earthly
delights
,
which
cannot
last
but
for
a
season
,
and
decay
in
our
very
injoying
them
,
and
must
soon
leave
us
,
or
we
them
:
But
Heavenly
thoughts
,
the
more
and
longer
we
practice
them
,
the
better
we
shall
like
them
;
Heavenly
joys
so
far
exceeding
all
we
can
here
leave
,
as
they
are
all
we
can
ever
aspire
to
have
:
This
we
all
know
,
but
few
of
us
practice
;
and
we
all
love
God
,
but
few
love
to
keep
his
Commandments
.
I
shall
therefore
now
,
Madam
,
tell
you
,
as
the
Prologue
to
my
insuing
discourse
,
that
the
grand
Plot
,
and
whole
design
of
it
,
moves
chiefly
on
these
two
hinges
.
First
,
in
confirming
you
,
that
the
foundation
of
the
Protestant
Religion
is
built
on
God's
holy
Word
,
the
Scriptures
;
which
we
Protestants
esteem
to
be
a
perfect
Rule
of
Faith
,
and
guide
to
our
actions
,
and
true
Touch-stone
to
try
all
matters
by
,
that
relate
to
the
good
of
our
Souls
;
as
certainly
containing
in
it
all
●…
hings
necessary
to
our
salvation
.
The
second
thing
I
chiefly
design
to
prove
,
is
,
that
neither
the
Pope
or
the
Popish
Church
are
infallible
:
and
these
two
shall
make
up
the
principle
stories
,
in
the
little
Model
of
this
small
●…
uilding
.
The
pretended
infallibility
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
is
the
grand
perswasive
Argument
and
lure
to
in●…
ite
men
to
it
,
and
the
strongest
commanding
Garrison
●…
n
all
the
Popes
power
;
and
all
other
Arguments
and
Perswasions
,
are
but
like
the
small
open
Villages
about
●…
his
Garrison
,
which
must
be
servants
to
them
,
that
are
masters
of
it
;
and
if
a
Papist
can
be
but
once
convinc'd
,
●…
hat
neither
the
Pope
,
nor
the
Popish
Church
are
in●…
allible
,
they
will
soon
be
brought
to
reason
,
and
our
remaining
differences
will
not
be
very
considerable
:
I
●…
hall
therefore
only
lightly
discourse
on
them
,
and
shall
●…
o
further
trouble
you
,
Madam
,
than
briefly
to
answer
●…
hem
in
my
own
defence
,
as
I
meet
them
,
or
as
they
●…
ollow
me
;
and
shall
only
do
as
the
Wolf
does
when
●…
ursued
,
snap
and
bite
in
his
own
defence
,
against
all
●…
pposers
,
without
altering
his
pace
,
or
changing
his
●…
oad
:
I
shall
neither
meddle
with
the
Papists
,
but
as
●…
meet
them
in
the
way
,
or
towards
making
of
my
way
●…
o
my
two
designed
points
,
which
are
(
as
I
said
before
)
●…
o
prove
the
Scripture
to
be
a
perfect
Rule
of
Faith
,
and
●…
uide
to
our
actions
;
and
to
answer
,
as
I
go
,
the
Papists
main
Arguments
and
Objections
against
it
.
Next
,
that
't
is
against
all
Scripture
,
and
Reason
,
that
ei●…
her
the
Pope
,
or
the
Popish
Church
should
be
infallible
;
which
is
the
main
design
of
this
discourse
:
and
if
I
can
by
God's
assistance
make
but
the
Papists
believe
reason
,
(
when
●…
gainst
their
own
Church
,
)
I
doubt
not
but
by
this
little
Pigmie-discourse
(
as
very
dwarfish
as
't
is
,
)
not
only
to
hinder
many
tottering
Protestants
from
turning
Papists
,
●…
ut
to
bring
some
stubborn
Papists
to
turn
Protestants
,
or
●…
t
least
not
to
have
such
an
infallible
good
opinion
of
their
Church
,
and
so
damnable
a
bad
one
of
ours
.
And
now
,
Madam
,
't
is
requisite
that
this
my
discourse
●…
hould
be
ended
,
as
soon
as
your
Patience
;
and
therefore
●…
ll
that
I
shall
add
,
either
to
the
excusing
my self
,
or
justifying
Mr.
Chillingworth
,
is
,
that
thus
far
of
this
discourse
being
my
own
writing
,
I
confess
,
deserves
only
my
Apology
,
and
scarce
your
perusal
;
but
the
following
discourse
being
extracted
out
of
Mr.
Chillingworth
,
deserves
your
reading
,
but
needs
not
any
Apology
.
And
because
I
find
the
word
Protestant
is
so
badly
and
over-largely
interpreted
;
I
shall
first
acquaint
you
,
that
w●…
are
not
to
understand
by
the
word
Protestant
,
the
Doctrin●…
of
Luther
,
or
Calvin
,
or
Geneva
,
or
only
the
Articles
o●…
the
Church
of
England
,
but
that
wherein
they
all
agre●…
with
perfect
Harmony
,
That
the
Bible
is
a
perfect
Rul●…
of
our
Faith
,
and
guide
to
our
Actions
;
and
this
(
afte●…
having
made
the
most
diligent
and
impartial
search
of
th●…
true
way
to
Eternal
happiness
)
I
fully
believe
,
and
tha●…
we
can
never
find
any
convincing
satisfaction
,
but
on
thi●…
Rock
of
God's
word
,
the
Bible
,
which
I
conceive
to
b●…
the
only
true
Religion
of
Protestants
.
If
the
Pope
were
indeed
(
what
he
unjustly
says
he
is
and
the
Papists
unreasonably
believe
him
to
be
,
)
an
infallible
guide
,
then
there
needed
no
Bible
;
but
if
the
Bible
be
then
there
needs
no
Pope
:
For
if
I
were
to
go
a
Journey
,
an●…
had
a
guide
that
could
not
err
,
what
need
I
be
taught
th●…
way
?
and
having
such
a
guide
,
what
need
I
apply
m●…
self
to
another
?
So
that
,
in
a
word
,
let
us
inform
ou●…
selves
the
best
we
can
,
and
consider
as
much
as
we
please
the
more
consideration
we
take
,
the
more
confirmation
we
shall
find
,
that
there
is
no
other
foundation
fo●…
a
considering
Christian
to
build
an
assured
dependency
on●…
than
the
Scriptures
:
For
I
am
fully
assur'd
that
God
doe
not
(
and
therefore
man
ought
not
to
)
require
of
an●…
more
than
this
,
to
believe
the
Scripture
to
be
the
word
o●…
God
,
to
use
our
best
indeavours
to
find
the
true
sense
of
it
,
and
to
live
to
our
utmost
according
to
it
.
This
I
am
sure
in
reason
we
ought
to
believe
;
a
wiser
choice
than
if
I
should
guide
my self
by
the
Roman
Churches
Authority
,
and
Infallibility
;
when
really
they
have
nothing
of
certainty
,
but
their
uncertainty
;
witnes●…
Pope
against
Pope
,
Councils
against
Councils
,
some
of
their
Fathers
against
others
;
and
rather
then
fail
,
some
against
themselves
▪
new
Traditions
inrolled
,
and
old
ones
Cashiered
;
in
a
word
,
one
Church
against
another
,
and
(
if
●…
hat
be
not
enough
)
the
Church
of
one
Age
,
against
the
Church
of
another
:
whereas
the
Scripture
being
true
and
unalterable
,
and
containing
all
things
necessary
to
our
Salvation
;
I
am
secure
,
that
by
believing
nothing
else
,
I
shall
believe
no
falshood
in
matter
of
Faith
;
and
if
I
mistake
the
●…
rue
sense
of
Scripture
,
and
so
fall
into
error
;
yet
I
am
secured
●…
rom
any
dangerous
error
,
because
whilst
I
am
truly
endea●…
ouring
to
find
the
true
ground
of
Scripture
,
I
cannot
but
●…
old
my
error
without
obstinacy
,
and
be
ready
to
forsake
●…
t
,
when
more
probable
and
true
sense
shall
appear
unto
me
:
and
then
being
assur'd
,
that
all
necessary
truths
are
plainly
●…
et
down
in
Scripture
,
I
am
certain
by
believing
the
Scripture
,
●…
o
believe
all
necessary
truth
:
and
he
that
does
so
,
if
his
life
be
●…
nswerable
to
his
Faith
,
how
is
it
possible
he
should
fail
of
Salvation
?
And
tho
the
Roman
Church
pretend
to
be
a
perfect
guide
of
Faith
,
and
teacher
of
all
Divine
Truths
;
yet
sure
that
●…
itle
might
much
better
,
and
more
justly
be
given
to
the
Scirptures
,
as
their
Teacher
and
Master
.
The
Roman
Church
brags
how
ancient
their
Church
is
;
but
doubtless
they
cannot
deny
but
the
Scripture
is
more
ancient
,
●…
f
they
will
but
allow
the
Mother
to
be
older
than
the
Child
.
The
Papists
say
their
Church
is
a
means
of
keeping
Christians
at
unity
,
so
are
also
the
Scriptures
,
to
those
that
be●…
ieve
them
in
unity
of
belief
,
in
matters
necessary
.
The
Papists
say
their
Church
is
Catholick
:
certainly
the
Scripture
is
more
Catholick
;
for
all
true
Christians
in
the
universal
world
do
now
,
and
ever
did
believe
the
Scriptures
to
be
the
Word
of
God
,
so
much
at
least
,
as
to
contain
all
things
necessary
to
salvation
;
whereas
the
Papists
say
,
They
only
are
the
true
Church
;
and
all
other
Christians
(
tho
more
than
they
)
give
them
the
lye
for
saying
so
.
By
following
the
Scriptures
,
I
follow
that
whereby
the
Papists
prove
their
Churches
Infallibility
:
For
were
it
not
for
Scripture
,
what
pretence
could
the
Papists
have
for
it
,
or
what
true
Notion
could
they
receive
of
it
?
So
that
by
so
dong
,
the
Papists
must
plainly
confess
,
That
they
themselves
are
surer
of
the
Truth
of
Scripture
,
than
of
their
Churches
Authority
;
for
we
must
be
surer
of
the
proof
,
than
of
the
thing
proved
,
or
else
't
is
no
proof
.
So
that
following
Scripture
,
I
follow
that
which
must
be
true
,
if
the
Papists
Church
be
true
;
for
their
Church
allows
it
's
truth
:
Whereas
if
I
follow
the
Roman
Church
,
I
must
follow
that
,
which
tho
the
Scripture
be
true
,
may
be
false
,
nay
more
,
must
be
false
,
if
the
Scripture
be
true
,
because
the
Scipture
is
against
it
.
Following
the
Papists
Church
,
I
must
be
a
servant
to
my
Saviour
,
and
a
subject
to
my
King
,
only
at
the
pleasure
of
the
Pope
;
and
renounce
my
Allegiance
,
when
the
Popes
will
is
to
declare
him
an
Heretick
;
nay
,
I
must
believe
Vertue
Vice
,
and
Vice
Vertue
,
if
he
pleases
;
for
he
both
makes
and
unmakes
Scripture
as
he
thinks
convenient
;
witness
the
Apocripha
,
which
hath
not
past
for
Canonical
,
but
of
late
years
,
in
the
Papist●…
Church
,
who
interpret
Scripture
according
to
their
Doctrine
,
but
will
not
judge
their
Doctrine
according
to
Scripture
;
for
none
like
to
weigh
light
Mony
in
true
scales
.
In
short
,
the
Pope
adds
,
and
lessen
,
and
interprets
Divine
Laws
as
he
pleases
;
and
they
must
stand
for
Laws
,
and
be
obeyed
as
such
;
so
that
in
effect
he
rules
his
people
by
his
own
Laws
,
and
his
own
Laws
by
his
own
Lawyers
,
his
Clergy
,
who
dare
not
speak
nor
uphold
them
,
other
than
just
such
as
the
Pope
would
have
them
;
and
indeed
Cardinal
Richelieu
gave
the
reason
why
more
hold
the
Pope
above
the
Councils
,
than
the
Councils
above
the
Pope
;
Because
the
Pope
gave
Archbishopricks
and
Bishopricks
,
but
the
Councils
had
none
to
give
:
And
tho
the
Papists
say
,
his
Holiness
cannot
err
,
yet
let
not
the
Papists
forget
what
God
says
in
the
Scripture
,
if
(
not
only
the
Pope
,
but
if
)
angel
from
Heaven
shall
preach
any
thing
against
the
Gospel
of
Christ
,
let
him
be
accursed
.
In
following
the
Scripture
we
have
God's
express
command
,
and
no
colour
of
any
prohibition
:
but
to
believe
the
Papish
Church
infallible
,
we
have
no
Scripture-command
at
all
,
much
less
an
express
one
.
Following
the
Popish
Church
,
we
must
believe
many
things
not
only
above
reason
,
but
against
reason
,
witness
Transubstantiation
;
whereas
following
the
Scripture
,
we
shall
believe
Many
mysteries
,
but
no
impossibilities
;
many
things
above
our
reason
,
but
nothing
against
it
.
Nay
,
we
need
not
believe
any
thing
,
which
reason
will
not
convince
us
we
ought
to
believe
▪
for
reason
will
convince
any
sober
Christian
,
that
the
Scripture
is
the
Word
of
God
;
and
there
's
no
reason
can
be
greater
than
this
,
That
God
says
it
,
therefore
it
must
be
true
.
In
a
word
,
we
Protestants
believe
that
all
things
necessary
to
our
salvation
are
evidently
contain'd
in
Scripture
,
&
what
is
not
there
evidently
contained
,
cannot
be
necessary
to
be
believed
;
and
our
reason
is
just
and
clear
,
Because
nothing
can
challenge
our
Belief
,
as
to
salvation
,
but
what
hath
descended
to
us
from
our
Blessed
Saviour
Christ
Jesus
,
by
original
and
universal
Tradition
.
Now
nothing
but
Scripture
hath
thus
descended
to
us
,
therefore
nothing
but
Scripture
can
challenge
our
Belief
.
Now
the
grand
difference
between
the
Papists
and
us
,
concerning
the
Scripture
,
is
this
:
We
hold
the
Scripture
to
be
the
only
perfect
rule
whereby
to
judge
of
controversies
.
The
Papists
say
,
That
they
acknowledge
the
Scuriptures
to
be
a
perfect
rule
:
only
they
deny
that
it
excludes
unwritten
Tradition
;
which
in
effect
is
this
:
they
say
,
't
is
as
perfect
a
Rule
,
as
a
Writing
can
be
,
only
they
deny
it
to
be
as
perfect
a
Rule
as
a
Writing
may
be
.
Either
they
must
revoke
their
acknowledgment
,
or
retract
their
contradiction
of
it
,
for
both
cannot
possibly
stand
together
:
For
if
they
will
but
stand
to
what
they
have
granted
,
That
Scripture
is
as
perfect
a
Rule
of
Faith
as
a
Writing
can
be
,
they
must
then
grant
it
so
compleat
,
as
it
needs
no
addition
;
and
so
evident
that
it
needs
no
interpretation
:
for
both
these
properties
are
requisite
to
a
perfect
Rule
.
And
that
a
writing
is
capable
of
both
these
properties
and
perfections
,
is
most
plain
:
for
he
that
denies
it
,
must
say
,
that
something
may
be
spoken
which
cannot
be
written
;
for
if
such
a
compleat
evident
rule
of
Faith
may
be
delivered
by
word
of
mouth
,
as
the
Papists
pretend
may
,
&
is
,
and
whatsoever
is
delivered
by
word
of
mouth
,
may
also
be
written
;
then
such
a
compleat
and
evident
rule
of
Faith
,
may
also
be
written
:
For
the
Argument
is
most
plain
,
Whatsoever
may
be
spoken
may
be
written
;
a
perfect
rule
of
Faith
has
been
spoken
,
therefore
a
perfect
rule
of
Faith
may
be
written
.
If
the
Papists
cannot
see
this
plain
Conclusion
,
they
had
best
desire
more
light
to
be
added
to
the
Sun.
The
Papists
pretend
their
Church
to
be
the
infallible
teacher
of
all
Divine
Truths
,
and
an
infallible
Interpreter
of
all
obscurities
in
the
Faith
:
But
the
Papists
will
,
I
hope
give
us
leave
to
admire
,
how
they
can
pretend
to
Teach
them
in
all
places
,
without
writing
them
down
;
that
is
certainly
beyond
the
reach
of
their
power
to
do
,
as
well
as
our
belief
that
't
is
to
be
done
.
And
for
the
Papists
saying
there
must
be
a
living
authority
beside
the
Scripture
,
or
else
controversies
cannot
be
ended
;
Protestants
answer
:
Necessary
controversies
are
and
may
be
decided
;
and
if
they
be
not
,
't
is
not
the
defect
of
the
rule
in
Scripture
,
but
the
default
of
men
;
so
that
if
necessary
controversies
be
ended
,
't
is
no
matter
if
the
unnecessary
be
not
:
for
doubtless
if
God
had
required
it
,
he
would
also
have
provided
some
means
to
effect
it
;
but
sure
it
does
not
stand
with
any
reason
it
should
be
the
Pope
,
because
he
cannot
be
a
Judge
,
being
a
party
:
indeed
in
civil
controversies
,
a
Judge
without
being
a
party
may
end
them
;
but
in
controversies
of
Religion
,
a
Judge
of
necessity
must
be
a
concerned
party
;
and
I
am
sure
the
Pope
to
us
is
the
chief
,
and
most
concerned
party
,
being
really
concerned
as
much
as
his
Popedom
is
worth
.
Now
we
Protestants
make
the
Papists
this
plain
answer
,
that
the
means
of
agreeing
differences
,
must
necessarily
be
,
either
by
the
appointment
of
God
,
or
men
:
men
sure
it
cannot
be
,
for
then
rational
wise
Protestants
may
do
as
well
as
Papists
;
for
let
the
Papists
shew
us
if
they
can
,
where
God
hath
appointed
that
the
Pope
alone
,
or
any
confirm'd
by
the
Pope
,
or
that
Society
of
Christians
which
adhere
to
him
,
shall
be
the
infallible
Judge
of
Controversies
:
we
desire
the
Papists
,
if
they
can
,
to
let
us
see
any
of
those
assertions
plainly
set
down
in
Scripture
,
as
in
all
reason
a
thing
of
this
nature
ought
to
be
,
or
at
least
delivered
with
a
full
consent
of
Fathers
;
nay
let
them
so
much
as
shew
us
where
't
is
in
plain
terms
taught
by
any
one
Father
in
Four
hundred
years
after
our
blessed
Saviour
Christ
:
and
if
the
Papists
cannot
do
this
,
as
we
believe
they
cannot
;
where
I
pray
is
their
either
Scripture
or
Reason
,
that
the
Pope
or
his
Councils
should
obtrude
themselves
as
Judges
over
us
Protestants
.
Next
,
we
would
desire
to
know
from
the
Papists
,
whether
they
do
certainly
know
,
or
not
,
the
sense
of
those
Scriptures
by
which
they
are
led
to
the
knowledge
of
their
Church
;
for
if
they
do
not
,
how
come
they
to
know
their
Church
is
infallible
?
but
if
they
do
,
then
sure
they
ought
to
give
us
leave
to
have
the
same
means
and
ability
to
know
other
plain
places
in
Scripture
,
which
they
have
to
know
theirs
:
for
if
all
Scriptures
be
obscure
,
how
come
they
to
know
the
sense
of
those
places
?
but
if
some
place
of
it
be
plain
,
why
pray
may
not
Protestants
understand
them
as
well
as
Papists
?
The
Papists
say
,
That
the
Scriptures
are
in
themselves
true
and
infallible
,
yet
without
the
direction
of
the
Church
we
have
no
certain
means
to
know
which
Translations
be
faithful
and
Canonical
,
or
what
is
the
true
meaning
of
Scriptures
:
and
this
is
the
common
Argument
and
general
Belief
of
all
Papists
.
To
which
the
Protestants
answer
,
That
yet
all
these
things
must
first
be
known
,
before
we
can
know
the
directions
of
their
Church
to
be
infallible
:
for
the
Papists
cannot
pretend
any
other
proof
of
it
,
but
only
some
Texts
of
Canonical
Scripture
,
truly
interpreted
;
therefore
either
they
must
be
mistaken
in
thinking
there
is
no
other
means
to
know
these
things
,
but
their
Churches
infallible
direction
;
or
else
we
must
be
excluded
from
all
means
of
knowing
her
directions
to
be
infallible
:
for
the
proof
must
be
surer
than
the
thing
to
be
proved
,
or
't
is
no
proof
.
And
upon
better
consideration
,
I
am
confident
the
Papists
dare
not
deny
,
but
that
't
is
most
certain
,
Faith
hath
been
given
by
other
means
than
the
Church
:
for
sure
they
will
not
say
,
that
Adam
received
Faith
by
the
Church
,
nor
Abraham
,
nor
Job
,
who
received
Faith
by
Revelation
;
and
also
the
Holy
Apostles
,
who
received
Faith
by
the
Miracles
and
Preaching
of
our
Blessed
Saviour
:
So
that
you
see
,
and
they
cannot
deny
,
but
their
general
Doctrine
is
contradictory
.
And
to
make
it
yet
plainer
,
I
desire
to
know
of
the
Papists
,
if
they
should
meet
with
a
man
that
believed
neither
Scripture
,
Church
,
nor
God
,
but
declares
he
is
both
ready
and
willing
to
believe
them
all
,
if
the
Papist
can
shew
him
sufficient
grounds
to
build
his
Faith
upon
;
will
the
Papist
tell
such
a
man
,
there
are
no
certain
grounds
how
he
may
be
converted
to
their
Church
,
or
there
are
?
if
the
Papists
say
there
are
none
,
they
make
Religion
an
uncertain
thing
:
but
if
they
say
there
are
,
then
they
must
necessarily
either
argue
woman-like
,
that
their
Church
is
infallible
,
because
it
is
infallible
;
or
else
shew
there
are
other
certain
grounds
besides
saying
the
Church
is
infallible
,
to
prove
its
Infallibility
.
The
Papists
demand
of
the
Protestants
,
If
they
believe
the
Apostles
wrote
all
the
Scriptures
:
for
if
they
did
not
,
how
come
we
to
call
and
believe
them
Apostolical
,
and
not
the
Writings
of
those
that
writ
them
?
To
which
we
answer
;
Though
all
the
Scriptures
were
not
written
by
the
Apostles
themselves
,
yet
they
were
all
confirm'd
by
them
;
and
tho
a
Clerk
writes
a
Statute
,
and
the
King
,
Lords
and
Commons
confirm
it
in
Parliament
;
I
believe
they
would
esteem
it
very
improper
to
call
it
the
Statute
of
such
a
Clerk
,
tho
writ
by
him
,
but
an
Act
of
Parliament
,
because
it
was
confirm'd
by
all
their
censents
,
and
becomes
their
Act
,
not
the
Clerks
.
The
Papists
desire
us
to
tell
them
in
what
Language
the
Scriptures
remained
uncorrupted
;
and
we
desire
them
to
satisfie
us
whether
it
be
necessary
to
know
it
,
or
not
necessary
:
if
it
be
not
,
I
hope
we
may
do
well
without
it
;
but
if
it
be
necessary
,
we
desire
first
that
they
will
please
to
tell
us
what
became
of
their
Church
for
One
thousand
five
hundred
Years
together
,
all
which
time
they
must
confess
,
they
had
no
certainty
of
Scripture
;
till
the
time
that
Pope
Clement
the
8th
.
set
forth
their
approved
Edition
of
the
vulgar
Translation
;
and
none
sure
can
have
the
confidence
to
deny
,
but
that
there
was
great
variety
of
Copies
currant
in
divers
parts
of
their
Church
,
and
read
so
;
which
Copies
might
be
false
in
some
things
,
but
more
than
one
sort
of
them
could
not
possibly
be
true
in
all
things
.
And
Pope
Sixtus
Quintus
his
Bible
differ'd
from
Pope
Clement
his
Bible
,
in
a
multitude
of
places
;
which
makes
us
desire
to
be
satisfied
of
the
Papists
,
whether
before
Pope
Sixtus
Quintus
his
time
,
their
Church
had
any
defined
Canon
of
Scriptures
or
not
:
for
if
they
had
not
,
then
't
is
most
evident
that
their
Church
was
a
most
excellent
keeper
of
Scripture
,
for
Fifteen
hundred
years
together
,
that
had
not
all
that
time
defin'd
what
was
Scripture
,
and
what
was
not
;
but
if
the
Papists
say
they
had
,
then
we
demand
,
Was
that
set
forth
by
Pope
Sixtus
Quintus
,
or
was
it
set
forth
by
Pope
Clement
?
or
if
by
a
third
different
from
them
both
,
why
do
they
not
name
him
?
if
it
were
that
set
forth
by
Pope
Sixtus
,
then
't
is
now
condemn'd
by
Pope
Clement
;
if
that
of
Clement
,
't
was
condemned
by
that
of
Sixtus
:
So
that
error
must
necessarily
be
betwixt
them
,
let
them
chuse
which
side
they
please
.
And
for
the
Book
of
Maccabees
,
I
hope
they
will
allow
it
defin'd
Canonical
before
St.
Gregorie's
time
,
though
he
would
not
allow
it
Canonical
,
but
only
for
the
Edification
of
the
Church
.
We
further
desire
to
be
satisfied
of
the
Papists
,
if
the
Books
of
Ecclesiasticus
,
and
Wisdom
,
and
the
Epistle
to
St.
James
,
were
by
the
holy
Apostles
approved
Canonical
,
or
not
:
if
they
were
approved
by
the
Apostles
Canonical
,
sure
the
Papists
cannot
deny
,
but
they
had
a
sufficient
difinition
and
authority
,
not
to
question
them
,
and
therefore
err'd
in
doing
so
.
And
if
they
were
not
approved
Canonical
by
the
Apostles
,
with
what
impudence
dare
the
Roman
Church
now
approve
them
as
Canonical
,
and
yet
pretend
that
all
their
Doctrine
is
Apostolical
?
And
if
they
say
these
Books
were
not
questioned
,
they
should
do
well
to
tell
which
Books
they
mean
,
which
were
not
always
known
to
be
Canonical
,
but
have
afterwards
been
receiveed
by
the
Roman
Church
to
be
such
:
so
that
this
Argument
reaches
those
,
as
well
as
these
.
And
further
we
are
to
consider
,
that
there
is
not
the
same
reasons
for
the
Churches
absolute
Infallibility
,
as
for
the
Apostles
and
Scriptures
:
for
if
the
Church
falls
into
an
error
,
it
may
be
reformed
by
comparing
it
with
the
Rules
of
the
Apostles
Doctrine
in
Scripture
;
but
if
the
Apostles
have
err'd
in
delivering
the
Doctrine
of
Christianity
in
Scripture
;
then
the
Roman
Church
cannot
be
infallible
:
For
Apostles
,
Prophets
,
and
Canonical
Writers
,
and
the
foundation
of
the
Church
,
as
St.
Paul
says
't
is
built
upon
the
foundation
of
Apostles
and
Prophets
.
And
now
to
conclude
this
part
of
my
discourse
in
very
few
words
,
let
the
Papists
answer
,
if
they
can
,
but
these
five
words
.
All
Scripture
is
Divinely
inspired
.
Let
them
shew
us
so
much
for
the
Roman
Church
,
and
shew
us
if
they
can
,
where
't
is
written
in
Scripture
,
that
all
the
decrees
of
the
Popish
Church
are
Divinely
inspired
,
and
all
our
Controversies
will
be
at
an
end
:
but
I
believe
they
can
never
do
that
without
another
Transubstantiation-Miracle
of
words
.
The
Papists
desire
us
to
shew
them
an
exact
Catalogue
of
our
fundamentals
;
to
which
we
answer
,
That
God
may
be
sufficiently
known
to
one
,
and
not
sufficiently
declared
to
another
,
and
consequently
,
that
may
be
fundamental
and
necessary
to
one
,
which
is
not
to
another
;
which
variety
of
circumstances
renders
it
impossible
to
set
down
an
exact
Catalogue
of
Fundamentals
:
for
God
requires
more
of
them
to
whom
he
gives
more
,
and
less
of
those
to
whom
he
gives
less
;
more
of
a
commander
of
a
Kingdom
,
than
a
poor
simple
Turnspit
.
't
is
a
plain
revelation
of
God
to
us
Protestants
,
that
the
Sacrament
of
the
Eucharist
should
be
administred
in
both
kinds
,
1
Cor
.
11.28
.
&
that
the
publick
Hymns
and
Prayers
of
the
Church
should
be
in
such
a
Language
as
is
most
for
Edification
,
1
Cor
.
14.15
,
16.
yet
the
Church
of
Rome
,
not
seeing
this
,
by
reason
of
the
vail
,
would
be
very
angry
if
we
told
them
't
would
prejudice
their
supposed
Infallibility
.
We
read
in
St.
Matthew
,
that
the
Gospel
was
to
be
Preacht
to
all
Nations
;
and
this
was
a
truth
revealed
before
our
Saviours
Ascention
:
yet
if
the
Church
had
been
asked
,
before
the
conversion
of
Cornelius
,
they
would
have
certainly
told
you
,
it
had
not
been
necessary
to
teach
all
Nations
;
for
't
is
most
apparent
out
of
Acts
11.
they
all
believed
so
,
until
St.
Peter
was
better
informed
by
a
vision
from
Heaven
,
and
the
conversion
of
Cornelius
;
and
then
they
turn'd
quite
of
a
differing
belief
,
and
esteemed
it
necessary
to
teach
all
Nations
;
and
yet
were
still
a
Church
.
The
Papists
are
pleased
to
say
,
the
Protestants
differ
in
Fundamentals
;
which
indeed
appears
to
us
very
irrational
:
For
if
they
say
,
We
Protestants
differ
in
Fundamentals
,
how
then
can
they
say
,
We
are
members
of
the
same
Church
,
one
with
another
,
more
than
they
are
with
ours
,
or
ours
with
theirs
?
and
why
do
they
object
our
difference
more
with
one
another
,
than
with
themselves
?
and
if
we
do
not
differ
in
Fundamentals
,
why
do
they
upbraid
us
with
Fundamental
differences
amongst
our selves
?
We
believe
the
Catholick
Church
cannot
perish
,
yet
we
believe
she
may
and
did
err
,
as
I
prov'd
just
before
:
but
thus
much
we
Protestants
declare
in
general
,
That
we
esteem
it
sufficient
for
any
mans
salvation
,
to
believe
God's
Word
,
the
Scripture
,
and
that
it
contains
all
things
necessary
to
our
salvation
;
and
that
we
do
our
utmost
endeavours
to
find
,
believe
,
and
follow
the
true
sense
of
it
;
and
being
we
are
sure
that
all
that
is
any
way
necessary
is
there
,
believing
all
that
is
there
,
we
are
sure
we
believe
all
that
is
necessary
.
And
therefore
't
is
but
reasonable
to
say
,
that
any
private
person
,
who
truly
believes
the
Scriptures
,
and
heartily
endeavours
to
know
the
Will
of
God
,
and
to
do
it
,
is
as
secure
,
nay
securer
from
the
danger
of
erring
in
Fundamentals
,
than
the
Roman
Church
▪
for
't
is
impossible
any
man
so
qualified
should
fall
into
an
error
that
can
prove
damnable
to
him
;
for
God
requires
no
more
of
any
man
to
his
salvation
,
but
only
his
true
and
best
endeavours
to
be
saved
.
And
for
the
Papists
Sacrament
of
Confession
,
which
they
hold
is
so
absolute
and
nenessary
,
and
so
much
upbraid
us
for
the
want
of
it
;
we
answer
:
We
know
no
such
absolute
necessity
of
it
;
but
yet
we
hold
,
we
must
not
only
confess
our
sins
,
but
forsake
them
,
or
we
shall
not
find
mercy
:
And
we
Protestants
farther
believe
,
that
they
that
confess
their
sins
,
shall
find
mercy
,
though
they
only
confess
them
to
God
,
and
not
to
Man
:
And
more
,
that
they
who
confess
them
both
to
God
and
Man
,
and
do
not
in
time
forsake
them
,
shall
not
find
mercy
.
And
so
for
the
Papists
Sacrament
of
Repentance
for
Remission
of
sins
;
tho
we
Protestants
know
no
such
,
yet
we
allow
&
observe
the
same
Duty
,
but
publick
before
the
Church
;
which
was
the
constant
practice
of
the
primitive
Church
;
and
Rhenanus
himself
,
though
so
great
a
Champion
for
the
Papists
,
writes
,
That
the
confession
then
used
,
was
before
the
Church
;
and
that
Auricular
confession
was
not
then
in
the
World
.
The
Papists
will
tell
you
that
our
Bishops
have
not
the
true
power
of
Ordination
:
but
that
has
been
so
clearly
answered
,
and
so
truly
proved
at
large
by
so
many
already
,
as
I
shall
not
need
here
so
much
as
to
name
it
:
only
let
me
in
a
word
remember
the
Papists
,
that
they
cannot
well
deny
,
but
that
the
Donatists
themselves
,
whom
the
Papists
esteemed
as
bad
as
us
,
as
being
Hereticks
and
Schismaticks
;
yet
St.
Austin
,
and
Optatus
Bishop
of
Rome
,
did
both
acknowledge
that
they
had
the
same
Baptism
,
Creed
,
and
Sacrament
;
and
that
these
Donatist
Fathers
,
tho
Schismaticks
and
Hereticks
,
gave
true
Ordination
,
or
else
some
of
these
were
not
then
esteemed
Sacraments
;
therefore
let
them
take
which
they
please
,
there
must
be
error
of
one
side
.
The
Papists
pretend
they
have
an
unanswerable
Objection
against
Protestants
,
which
is
,
That
we
have
discords
in
matters
of
Faith
,
without
any
means
of
agreement
:
To
which
we
answer
,
That
the
Scripture
does
not
let
us
want
solid
means
of
agreement
in
matters
nessary
to
salvation
;
and
for
our
agreement
in
all
controversies
of
Religion
,
either
they
must
say
we
have
means
to
agree
about
them
,
or
we
have
not
:
if
they
say
we
have
,
why
did
they
before
deny
it
?
if
they
say
we
have
no
means
,
why
are
they
so
unjust
to
find
fault
with
us
for
not
agreeing
,
when
they
themselves
say
we
have
no
means
to
agree
?
But
for
a
Plaister
to
this
Saor
,
they
are
so
extraordinary
civil
,
as
to
tell
us
,
we
may
come
to
their
Church
;
and
they
agree
in
matters
of
faith
:
But
the
plain
truth
of
it
is
,
that
they
define
all
matters
of
faith
to
be
those
wherein
they
agree
;
so
that
to
say
the
Roman
Church
does
agree
in
matters
of
faith
,
is
but
to
say
,
they
do
agree
in
those
things
they
do
agree
in
:
and
sure
they
cannot
deny
,
but
we
Protestants
do
the
same
.
But
we
must
desire
the
Papists
to
give
us
leave
to
tell
them
,
that
they
most
grosly
mistake
,
if
they
say
,
they
agree
in
matters
of
Faith
:
as
for
proof
;
some
of
them
hold
it
against
Faith
,
to
take
the
Oath
of
Allegiance
,
others
't
is
against
Faith
to
refuse
that
Oath
.
Some
hold
it
of
Faith
,
that
the
Pope
is
Head
of
the
Church
by
Divine
Law
;
others
the
contrary
:
some
hold
it
of
Faith
that
the
blessed
Virgin
was
free
from
actual
sin
,
others
the
contrary
;
some
that
the
Popes
power
over
Princes
in
Temporalities
is
de
fide
,
others
the
contrary
:
some
that
't
is
universal
Tradition
that
the
Virgin
Mary
was
conceived
in
actual
sin
,
others
the
contrary
.
And
how
the
Jesuits
and
Franciscans
,
and
other
Orders
differ
to
this
day
,
I
am
sure
needs
no
memorandum
;
and
the
best
Jest
of
all
is
,
the
Papists
have
not
so
much
as
yet
agreed
in
their
very
pretended
means
of
agreement
,
and
yet
have
the
confidency
to
pretended
an
Unity
more
than
the
Protestants
;
for
some
of
them
say
,
The
Pope
with
a
Council
may
determine
all
Controversies
,
others
deny
it
:
Some
hold
,
That
a
general
Council
,
without
a
Pope
,
may
do
so
;
others
deny
this
:
Others
say
,
Both
in
conjunction
are
infallible
Determiners
,
others
deny
this
:
And
some
among
the
Papists
hold
,
The
acceptation
of
the
Decrees
of
Councils
by
the
Universal
Church
,
is
the
only
way
to
decide
Controversies
;
which
others
deny
,
by
denying
their
Church
to
be
infallible
;
and
yet
every
part
pretends
to
be
part
of
the
Church
.
In
a
word
,
can
the
Papish
deny
,
but
that
there
has
been
Popes
against
Popes
,
Councils
against
Councils
;
Nay
,
Councils
confirmed
by
Popes
,
against
Popes
confirmed
by
Councils
:
And
lastly
,
the
Church
of
some
Ages
,
against
the
Church
of
other
Ages
?
And
since
every
part
of
the
Body
is
so
out
of
order
,
methinks
they
should
not
brag
of
so
perfect
a
health
as
they
do
.
The
Papists
say
(
and
do
but
say
it
)
that
their
Doctrine
is
held
Catholick
;
and
therefore
they
esteem
it
an
insolent
madness
of
us
Protestants
,
to
dispute
against
the
practice
of
the
whole
Church
.
First
,
That
their
Doctrine
is
Catholick
;
we
answer
,
That
the
greatest
number
of
Christians
in
the
world
deny
it
;
so
that
they
cannot
truly
say
,
we
dispute
against
the
practice
of
the
whole
Church
.
And
farther
we
say
,
Supposing
we
should
in
Complement
to
them
grant
,
that
their
Church
is
Catholick
and
Universal
;
yet
we
say
,
That
is
no
sufficient
proof
it
came
Originally
from
the
Apostles
;
witness
the
Doctrine
of
the
Millenaries
,
and
the
necessity
of
the
Eucharist
for
Infants
;
which
was
generally
taught
by
the
Universal
Church
,
&
believed
as
an
Apostolical
Tradition
,
but
yet
contradicted
by
the
Universal
Church
afterwards
:
This
,
I
am
sure
,
the
Papists
dare
not
deny
;
so
that
we
unavoidably
cast
the
Papists
upon
this
Rock
,
That
they
must
either
conclude
the
Apostles
were
Fountains
of
contradictory
Doctrines
,
or
that
the
Universal
Doctrine
of
the
present
Church
is
no
sufficient
proof
that
it
came
originally
from
the
Apostles
,
because
the
Church
Universal
of
one
time
,
and
the
Church
Universal
of
another
time
did
differ
.
Next
,
for
their
saying
,
't
is
insolent
madness
to
dispute
against
the
practice
of
the
whole
Church
;
First
,
we
are
sure
,
we
can
bring
more
Christian
witnesses
that
deny
they
are
the
whole
Church
,
than
they
can
bring
to
prove
it
:
but
supposing
we
were
as
mad
as
they
say
we
are
,
and
would
have
us
to
be
,
to
dispute
against
the
whole
practice
of
the
Church
;
yet
I
hope
we
may
desire
to
know
of
the
Papists
,
if
they
can
deny
but
that
't
was
the
practice
of
the
whole
Church
in
St.
Austin's
time
,
and
esteemed
then
an
Apostolical
Tradition
even
by
St.
Austin
himself
,
that
the
Eucharist
should
be
administred
to
Infants
?
And
then
let
them
tell
us
,
Whether
it
be
insolent
madness
to
dispute
against
the
practice
of
the
whole
Church
,
or
is
it
not
?
If
it
be
not
,
why
do
they
accuse
us
for
it
?
But
if
it
be
insolent
madness
,
how
mad
and
insolent
is
the
Papists
Church
,
not
only
to
dispute
against
this
practice
of
the
Universal
Church
,
of
administring
the
Eucharist
to
Infants
,
but
utterly
abolishing
the
practice
of
it
?
So
that
the
very
worst
the
Papists
can
say
of
us
,
allowing
what
they
say
to
be
true
,
is
,
that
we
but
do
,
what
they
themselves
own
already
to
have
done
.
And
tho
the
Papists
are
pleased
to
say
that
the
Holy
Scriptures
,
and
ancient
Fathers
,
assign
separation
from
the
visible
Church
as
a
mark
of
Heresie
,
yet
they
cannot
shew
one
plain
Text
of
Scripture
to
confirm
it
.
And
for
the
Papists
bragging
of
the
Antiquity
and
Universality
of
their
Churches
Doctrine
,
(
tho
we
allow
it
very
ancient
,
bating
the
primitive
times
)
we
answer
first
as
to
its
Antiquity
,
we
desire
to
see
what
Antiquity
they
can
shew
for
their
giving
the
Communion
but
in
one
kind
,
when
they
know
that
the
administring
it
in
both
kinds
,
was
the
practice
of
the
Church
for
a
Thousand
years
after
Christ
;
what
Antiquity
for
the
lawfulness
and
expediency
of
the
Latine
Service
;
for
the
present
use
of
Indulgences
;
for
the
Popes
power
in
Temporalities
over
Princes
;
for
the
Picturing
the
Trinity
;
for
the
lawfulness
of
worshipping
Pictures
and
Images
;
for
their
Beads
;
for
their
whole
worship
of
the
blessed
Virgin
;
for
their
Oblations
,
in
the
notion
of
Sacrifices
to
her
and
other
Saints
;
for
their
saying
Pater
Nosters
and
Creeds
to
the
Honour
of
them
,
and
Ave
Maries
to
the
Virgin
Mary
;
for
the
infallibility
of
the
Bishop
or
Church
of
Rome
;
for
their
Doctrine
of
the
blessed
Virgins
Immunity
from
actual
sin
;
for
the
necessity
of
Auricular
confession
;
for
the
necessity
of
the
Priests
intention
to
obtain
benefit
by
any
of
their
Sacraments
;
and
lastly
,
for
their
licentious
Doctrine
,
in
holding
,
that
tho
a
man
lives
and
dies
without
the
practice
of
any
Christian
Vertue
,
and
with
the
Habits
of
many
damnable
sins
unmortified
;
yet
if
at
the
last
moment
of
his
life
he
has
any
sorrow
for
his
sins
,
and
joyn
confession
to
it
,
he
shall
certainly
be
saved
:
This
is
a
Doctrine
may
keep
many
Souls
out
of
Heaven
,
but
I
doubt
will
scarce
carry
any
one
there
.
So
that
the
Papists
Doctrine
being
ancient
,
is
nothing
,
as
long
as
't
is
evident
that
they
hold
many
dangerous
errors
:
As
for
instance
,
the
Millenaries
,
and
the
Communicating
Infants
was
more
ancient
than
their
Doctrine
;
and
't
is
plain
that
Antiquity
,
unless
it
be
absolute
and
primative
,
is
not
a
certain
sign
of
true
Doctrine
,
and
the
very
Apostles
themselves
,
assure
us
,
that
in
their
days
the
mystery
of
Iniquity
was
working
.
The
Papists
demand
how
comes
it
to
pass
that
their
Doctrine
is
so
Universal
,
(
forgetting
that
weeds
spread
faster
than
good
herbs
:
)
And
we
ask
them
how
the
errours
of
the
Millenaries
,
and
the
Communicating
Infants
became
so
universal
?
let
them
tell
us
this
,
and
we
will
tell
them
that
:
for
what
is
done
in
some
,
may
be
done
in
others
.
The
Papists
ask
us
where
our
Ch.
was
before
Luther
;
and
tell
us
,
because
't
was
no
Ch.
before
him
,
therefore
it
can
be
no
true
Church
at
all
.
To
which
we
answer
,
That
this
cause
is
no
cause
:
for
tho
Luther
had
no
being
before
Luther
,
yet
none
can
deny
,
but
that
he
was
when
he
was
,
tho
he
could
not
be
before
he
was
.
So
there
may
be
a
true
Church
after
Luther
,
tho
there
was
none
for
some
Ages
before
him
:
as
since
Columbus
his
time
there
have
been
Christians
in
America
,
tho
there
were
none
for
many
Ages
before
.
For
it
does
not
follow
,
that
nothing
but
a
Church
can
possibly
get
a
Church
,
nor
that
the
present
being
of
a
true
Church
depends
necessarily
upon
the
perpetuity
of
a
Church
in
all
Ages
.
For
though
I
cannot
deny
the
Churches
perpetuity
,
yet
that
's
not
here
necessary
to
rur
difference
:
but
that
a
false
Church
(
by
Gods
providence
over-ruling
it
)
may
preserve
a
means
of
confuting
their
own
Heresies
,
and
so
reduce
men
to
Truth
,
and
raise
a
true
Church
,
(
I
mean
the
integrity
of
the
Word
of
God
with
Men
.
)
Thus
the
Jews
preserve
means
to
make
men
Christians
,
and
Papists
preserve
means
to
make
men
Protestants
,
and
the
Protestants
false
Church
(
as
the
Romans
call
it
)
preserves
men
Papists
.
Nor
does
it
appear
that
the
perpetuity
of
the
Church
is
the
truth
of
the
Papists
Church
:
for
they
speak
as
if
they
were
the
only
Christians
in
the
World
before
Luther
;
when
the
whole
World
knows
,
that
this
is
but
talk
,
and
that
there
were
other
Christians
besides
the
Papists
that
might
have
perpetuated
the
Church
,
tho
there
had
not
been
then
one
Papist
in
being
.
For
sure
there
was
a
Catholick
Church
before
the
Roman
one
.
Next
,
the
Papists
say
,
To
hold
that
the
Visible
Church
is
not
perpetual
,
is
a
Heresie
;
so
that
Luther's
Reformation
being
but
particular
,
and
not
universal
,
nor
but
of
late
date
;
it
can
have
nothing
to
do
with
the
visible
and
perpetual
Church
.
Which
the
Protestants
answer
thus
.
To
say
the
visible
Church
is
not
perpetual
,
is
properly
a
Heresie
;
but
the
Papists
cannot
deny
,
but
that
the
Apostles
who
preach'd
the
Gospel
in
the
beginning
,
did
believe
the
Church
universal
,
tho
their
preaching
at
the
beginning
was
not
so
.
So
Luther
also
might
well
believe
the
Universal
Church
,
though
his
Reformation
was
but
particular
;
the
Church
in
the
Apostles
time
being
universal
de
jure
of
right
,
but
not
de
facto
in
fact
.
Nor
did
Luther
and
his
followers
(
as
the
Papists
are
pleased
to
mis-call
many
Protestants
)
forsake
the
whole
Church
,
but
the
corruptions
of
it
,
in
renouncing
some
of
their
corrupt
practices
;
and
this
the
Protestants
say
they
did
without
Schism
,
because
they
had
cause
to
do
it
;
and
no
man
can
have
cause
to
be
a
Schismatick
,
because
he
is
only
one
who
leaves
the
Church
without
a
cause
:
for
't
is
not
only
separation
,
but
a
causeless
separation
from
the
Church
,
that
is
Schismatical
:
and
I
think
't
will
not
be
amiss
,
before
I
go
any
farther
,
to
distinguish
the
difference
between
Heresie
and
Schism
.
Heresie
is
an
obstinate
defence
of
any
error
against
any
necessary
Article
of
the
Christian
Faith
.
Schism
is
a
causeless
separation
of
one
part
of
the
Church
from
another
.
Now
we
Protestants
say
still
,
That
we
never
forsook
the
whole
Church
,
or
the
external
Communion
of
it
,
but
only
that
part
of
it
which
is
corrupted
,
and
is
to
be
fear'd
will
still
continue
so
,
viz.
The
Papists
Church
;
and
forsook
not
,
but
only
reformed
another
part
,
which
part
they
themselves
were
.
And
sure
the
Papists
will
not
say
,
the
Protestants
forsook
themselves
,
nor
their
own
Communion
:
and
therefore
the
Papists
Argument
must
be
very
weak
,
in
urging
that
the
Protestants
joyned
themselves
to
no
other
part
of
the
Church
,
therefore
they
must
separate
from
the
whole
Church
;
which
the
Protestants
say
is
a
false
conclusion
,
in
as
much
as
they
themselves
were
part
of
it
,
and
still
continue
so
;
and
therefore
the
Protestants
could
no
more
separate
from
the
whole
,
than
from
themselves
.
So
that
by
the
rule
of
Reason
,
if
Protestants
be
Schismaticks
,
because
they
differ
from
one
part
of
the
visible
Church
;
by
the
same
reason
the
Protestants
may
say
that
the
Roman
Church
is
in
a
manner
made
up
of
Schismaticks
:
for
the
Jesuits
are
Schismaticks
from
the
Dominicans
,
and
the
Dominicans
from
the
Jesuits
,
and
the
Jesuits
from
the
Canonists
;
the
Franciscans
from
the
Dominicans
,
and
the
Dominicans
from
the
Franciscans
:
for
all
these
(
as
the
world
knows
)
differ
in
point
of
Doctrine
,
and
betwixt
them
there
is
an
irreconcilable
contradiction
;
and
therefore
one
part
must
be
in
error
.
And
if
the
Papists
will
but
stand
to
justifie
what
they
declare
as
truth
,
That
every
error
against
a
revealed
Truth
is
a
Heresie
;
they
holding
for
certain
as
a
revealed
Truth
,
the
Immaculate
Conception
of
the
Virgin
Mary
,
then
consequently
the
Dominicans
that
hold
and
declare
it
an
error
in
Doctrine
,
must
necessarily
hold
a
Heresie
.
Now
it
may
be
a
fault
to
be
in
error
,
because
it
many
times
proceeds
from
a
fault
;
but
sure
Protestants
forsaking
error
,
it
cannot
be
a
sin
,
unless
to
be
in
error
,
be
a
Vertue
:
So
hardly
do
Papists
deal
with
us
Protestants
,
as
they
will
either
damn
us
in
making
us
follow
their
false
opinions
,
or
else
brand
us
as
Schismaticks
for
leaving
them
.
And
yet
the
rational
sort
of
Papists
can
hardly
deny
,
but
the
Protestant
Religion
must
be
a
safer
Religion
than
theirs
,
in
worshipping
Pictures
,
in
Invocating
Saints
and
Angels
;
in
denying
the
Lay-men
the
Communion
in
both
kinds
,
as
was
commanded
by
our
blessed
Saviour
;
in
celebrating
their
Church-Service
in
an
unknown
Tongue
,
which
was
condemned
by
St.
Paul
;
in
adoring
the
Sacrament
:
and
in
all
these
a
rational
Papist
cannot
deny
,
but
he
is
on
the
more
dangerous
side
,
as
to
the
committing
of
sin
;
and
the
Protestant
in
the
more
secure
way
,
as
to
the
avoiding
it
.
For
in
all
these
things
,
if
Protestants
say
true
,
the
Papists
do
that
which
is
impious
;
but
on
the
other
side
,
if
the
Papists
were
in
the
right
,
yet
the
Protestants
might
be
secure
enough
too
:
for
their
fault
would
be
only
this
,
that
they
should
only
not
do
some
things
which
the
Papists
themselves
confess
is
not
altogether
necessary
to
be
done
.
And
truly
the
Protestants
are
so
Charitably
civil
,
as
only
to
say
of
Papists
,
as
St.
Austin
did
of
the
Donatists
,
That
Catholicks
approved
the
Doctrine
of
the
Donatists
,
but
abhorred
their
Heresie
of
Rebaptization
.
So
Protestants
approve
the
Fundamental
and
necessary
Truths
which
the
Papists
retain
,
by
which
many
good
Souls
among
them
may
be
saved
;
but
abhor
the
many
superstitions
they
use
in
their
Religion
.
And
supposing
these
Errors
of
the
Popish
Church
were
in
themselves
not
damnable
,
to
them
that
believe
as
they
profess
;
yet
for
us
Protestants
to
profess
what
we
do
not
believe
,
and
esteem
those
as
Divine
Truths
,
which
we
believe
not
to
be
either
Divine
or
true
;
would
be
doubtless
damnable
as
to
us
:
for
't
is
certain
,
Two
men
may
do
the
same
thing
,
and
it
may
be
sinful
to
one
,
and
not
to
the
other
:
as
suppose
a
married
Woman
gives
herself
out
to
be
a
Widow
,
and
one
knowing
her
Husband
to
be
alive
,
marries
her
,
doubtless
his
injoyment
of
her
was
adulterous
:
but
a
second
man
comes
,
and
after
seeing
her
pretended
Husband
buried
,
marries
her
,
and
dies
without
the
least
information
of
her
first
Husbands
being
then
alive
;
his
ignorance
sure
protected
him
from
sin
,
and
the
second
Husbands
knowledg
of
the
sin
he
acted
,
condemned
him
of
Adultery
;
&
tho
his
fault
might
be
palliated
with
some
excuses
,
yet
it
can
never
be
defended
by
any
just
Apoligy
.
And
so
tho
we
read
in
Scripture
,
that
it
was
St.
Paul's
Judgment
,
that
meat
offered
to
Idols
might
lawfully
be
eaten
;
yet
he
says
;
if
any
should
eat
it
with
a
doubtful
Conscience
,
he
should
sin
,
and
be
condemned
for
so
doing
.
And
supposing
we
Protestants
ought
not
to
have
forsook
the
Papists
Church
,
for
sin
,
and
errours
,
if
she
had
not
injoyn'd
and
imposed
them
on
us
;
yet
since
she
does
maintain
them
with
such
obstinacy
,
and
imposes
them
with
such
tyranny
,
we
ought
certainly
to
say
with
St.
Peter
,
and
St.
John
,
't
is
better
to
forsake
men
than
God
;
and
leave
the
Popish
Church-Communion
,
rather
than
commit
or
profess
known
errors
as
Divine
Truths
;
for
as
the
Prophet
Ezekiel
tells
us
,
that
to
say
The
Lord
hath
said
so
,
when
the
Lord
hath
not
said
so
,
is
a
high
presumption
,
and
great
sin
,
be
the
matter
never
so
small
;
and
therefore
when
St.
Paul
spoke
concerning
Virgins
abstaining
from
marriage
,
he
said
,
He
had
no
commandment
of
the
Lord
,
but
I
declare
my
own
judgment
of
it
.
Now
if
St.
Paul
had
given
this
as
God's
command
,
surely
we
might
have
justly
contradicted
him
,
and
made
a
distinction
between
Divine
Revelation
,
and
Humane
Judgment
.
So
that
for
a
Protestant
to
abide
in
the
Communion
of
the
Roman
Church
,
is
so
far
from
securing
him
from
errour
,
as
that
if
I
or
any
Protestant
should
continue
in
it
,
I
am
confident
I
could
not
be
saved
by
it
:
and
the
reason
is
,
because
the
Papists
will
not
admit
of
my
Communion
,
without
professing
the
entire
Popish
Doctrine
to
be
true
:
and
profess
this
I
cannot
,
but
I
must
perpetually
exulcerate
my
Conscience
:
&
tho
the
errours
of
the
Roman
Church
were
not
in
themselves
damnable
,
yet
for
me
to
resist
known
Truths
,
and
to
continue
in
the
Profession
of
known
errours
and
falshoods
,
is
certainly
a
capital
sin
,
and
of
great
affinity
with
the
sin
which
shall
never
be
forgiven
.
In
short
,
if
the
errours
of
the
Roman
Church
did
not
warrant
our
departure
,
yet
the
tyrannous
imposition
of
them
would
be
our
sufficient
justification
;
for
they
force
us
either
to
forsake
the
Papists
Communion
,
or
profess
as
Gospel-truths
what
our
Conscience
assures
us
is
very
little
akin
to
them
:
so
that
the
Protestants
were
oblig'd
to
forsake
those
errours
of
the
Popish
Church
,
and
not
the
Church
,
but
the
errours
;
and
we
Protestants
did
,
and
do
still
continue
members
of
the
Church
;
having
only
left
what
appeared
most
plain
to
us
to
be
superstitious
and
impious
.
And
we
separate
no
more
from
the
Popish
Church
,
thant
she
has
separated
from
the
Ancient
Church
:
and
indeed
,
to
speak
properly
,
our
difference
is
more
against
the
Court
,
than
Church
of
Rome
;
which
has
introduced
so
many
new
ceremonies
and
practises
in
the
Popish
Church
,
as
was
never
heard
nor
practised
in
the
Primitive
Times
:
as
for
one
instance
of
a
Thousand
,
I
might
give
you
Their
deny●ng
the
Cup
to
the
Laity
,
which
was
never
practised
in
the
Church
a
Thousand
years
after
our
Saviour
.
But
because
the
Papists
brag
so
much
of
,
and
depend
so
entirely
on
the
Infallibility
of
their
Church
,
I
shall
pass
by
their
Out-works
,
and
search
a
little
into
this
their
Grand
Fo●t
,
the
Infallibility
of
their
Church
:
for
except
they
prove
that
,
they
prove
nothing
;
but
in
proving
that
they
prove
all
:
and
if
the
Papists
could
satisfie
me
either
by
Scripture
or
Reason
,
that
their
Church
is
infallible
,
I
should
not
only
be
of
their
Church
to
morrow
,
but
repent
I
was
not
sooner
:
but
really
by
all
that
I
ever
heard
or
read
for
their
making
it
good
,
I
find
cause
only
to
admire
their
confidence
,
but
not
at
all
to
esteem
their
reasons
.
The
cheif
method
they
take
,
and
degrees
they
use
,
to
prove
the
Infallibility
of
their
Church
,
are
by
whole-sale
these
,
First
,
that
St.
Peter
was
head
and
cheif
amongst
the
Apostles
;
and
there
was
given
to
him
and
his
Successors
by
our
Saviour
,
Universal
Authority
over
his
Militent
Church
;
That
the
Pope
or
Bishop
of
Rome
is
St.
Peter's
Successor
,
and
has
his
Authority
of
Universal
Bishop
;
and
consequently
the
Roman
Church
being
built
upon
this
Rock
is
infallible
▪
all
which
I
doubt
not
but
to
prove
to
be
inconsistent
with
,
and
contradictory
both
to
Scripture
and
Reason
.
As
to
the
first
point
of
St.
Peter's
being
Head
of
the
Apostles
,
which
the
Papists
all
stile
him
,
and
say
he
was
called
from
thence
Cephas
,
which
is
derived
from
the
Greek
word
Head
:
it
is
a
most
gross
mistake
;
for
Cephas
is
a
Syriack
word
that
signifies
Stone
;
but
this
is
only
by
the
by
.
Now
we
Protestants
say
,
tho
we
allow
St.
Peter
might
have
primacy
of
Order
,
yet
we
cannot
grant
he
had
supremacy
of
power
over
the
other
Apostles
;
for
sure
it
cannot
stand
with
the
least
reason
,
that
St.
Peter
should
have
authority
over
all
the
Apostles
,
and
yet
never
act
the
least
authority
over
any
one
of
them
.
Nor
is
it
reasonable
to
believe
,
that
St.
Peter
having
authority
over
all
the
Apostles
for
above
25
years
together
,
should
never
shew
the
least
power
over
any
of
them
all
that
time
,
nor
so
much
as
receive
the
lest
subjection
from
them
:
sure
any
one
must
think
this
as
strange
,
&
unreasonable
,
as
if
a
King
of
England
for
25
years
together
should
not
do
one
act
of
Regality
among
his
Subjects
,
nor
receive
any
one
acknowledgment
from
them
.
Nor
sure
is
it
less
strange
&
unreasonable
,
that
the
Papists
should
so
many
Ages
after
,
know
this
so
certainly
as
they
pretend
they
do
,
and
yet
that
the
Apostles
themselves
,
after
that
these
words
were
spoak
in
their
hearing
by
vertue
whereof
St.
Peter
is
pretended
to
be
made
their
head
,
should
still
be
so
ignorant
of
it
,
as
to
question
our
Saviour
,
which
of
them
should
be
the
greatest
?
By
which
sure
we
may
rationally
conclude
,
they
did
not
then
know
;
for
if
they
did
,
their
question
had
been
needless
,
and
superfluous
,
in
desiring
to
be
taught
,
what
they
already
knew
.
And
what
yet
appears
more
strange
than
all
,
is
,
that
our
Saviour
should
not
have
helped
them
out
of
their
error
,
by
telling
them
St.
Peter
was
the
man
;
but
rather
confirmed
them
in
the
contrary
,
by
saying
,
The
Kings
of
the
Gentiles
exercise
Authority
over
them
,
but
it
should
not
be
so
among
them
.
And
again
,
it
is
as
strange
and
unreasonable
,
that
St.
Paul
should
so
far
forget
both
St.
Peter
,
and
himself
,
as
in
mentioning
so
often
St.
Peter
,
he
should
still
do
it
without
ascribing
him
any
title
of
Honour
:
Nor
does
it
stand
with
reason
,
that
St.
Paul
speaking
of
the
several
degrees
of
men
in
the
Church
,
should
omit
giving
St.
Peter
the
highest
,
if
it
had
been
his
due
,
but
place
him
in
the
same
rank
and
equipage
with
the
rest
of
the
Apostles
:
for
St.
Paul
says
God
hath
appointed
(
not
first
St.
Peter
,
then
the
rest
of
the
Apostles
)
but
first
Apostles
,
secondly
Prophets
;
now
certainly
if
Apostles
were
all
first
,
that
is
,
all
equal
,
how
could
one
be
in
greater
power
than
the
other
?
But
besides
all
this
,
though
we
should
grant
against
all
these
probabilities
,
and
many
more
,
that
Optatus
Bishop
of
Rome
meant
that
St.
Peter
was
Head
of
the
Apostles
;
yet
sure
the
Papists
are
still
very
far
from
proving
,
the
Bishop
of
Rome
was
to
be
so
at
all
,
much
less
by
Divine
right
,
Successor
to
St.
Peter
in
his
Headship
and
Authority
.
For
what
incongruity
is
there
,
if
we
say
that
Optatus
might
succeed
St.
Peter
as
his
Heir
and
Successor
,
in
that
part
of
his
Government
of
that
particular
Church
of
Rome
;
(
as
sure
he
did
even
whilst
St.
Peter
was
living
)
and
yet
that
neither
he
,
nor
any
man
was
to
succeed
him
in
his
Apostleship
,
nor
in
the
Government
of
the
Church
Universal
?
as
tho
a
Bishop
should
leave
his
Son
Heir
to
all
he
died
possessed
of
;
I
hope
you
will
not
conclude
,
therefore
he
must
necessarily
succeed
him
in
the
Bishoprick
he
died
seized
of
.
The
Apostles
were
men
all
called
,
and
Divinely
inspired
by
the
Holy
Ghost
;
which
was
the
immediate
gift
of
God
,
and
therefore
could
not
be
left
as
a
Legary
by
man
;
for
though
it
be
in
any
mans
power
to
leave
his
Estate
,
yet
't
is
in
no
mans
power
to
leave
to
his
Son
his
acquir'd
parts
at
his
death
.
't
is
further
worth
your
observing
,
and
special
notice
,
that
St.
Peter
himself
and
the
rest
of
the
Apostles
,
by
laying
the
Foundation
of
the
Church
,
were
to
be
themselves
the
Foundation
of
it
;
and
are
accordingly
so
called
in
Scripture
.
And
therefore
as
in
a
building
't
is
incongruous
that
foundations
should
succeed
foundations
,
so
it
may
be
in
the
Church
,
that
Apostles
should
succeed
Apostles
,
the
Church
being
built
upon
Apostles
and
Prophets
.
Nor
indeed
does
the
grand
argument
of
the
Papists
for
their
Pope
,
extend
any
further
in
reallity
then
the
particular
See
of
Rome
:
for
thus
goes
their
main
argument
:
St.
Peter
was
first
Bishop
of
Rome
,
and
the
Apostles
did
not
then
attribute
to
themselves
each
one
his
particular
Chair
(
understand
in
that
City
of
Rome
▪
for
in
other
places
,
others
had
Chairs
besides
St.
Peter
)
and
therefore
,
says
the
Papists
,
he
is
a
Schismatick
who
against
that
one
single
Chair
erects
another
:
(
understand
still
in
the
same
place
)
and
this
this
the
Ground
and
the
Authority
the
Papists
say
the
Pope
has
to
be
Successor
to
St.
Peter
,
and
to
exercise
Authority
over
the
Universal
Church
.
But
sure
the
Protestants
urge
more
rationally
,
in
arguing
thus
:
That
St.
Peter
wrote
Two
Catholick
Epistles
,
in
which
he
mentions
his
own
departure
;
and
writes
to
preserve
the
Christians
in
the
Faith
:
but
yet
in
neither
of
these
Two
Epistles
does
he
commend
the
Christians
to
the
guidance
&
authority
to
his
pretended
Successor
the
Bishop
of
Rome
;
which
sure
if
St.
Peter
had
intended
,
he
would
never
have
forgot
to
have
named
it
.
And
since
the
Papists
so
reverence
and
adore
the
Popes
power
,
let
us
Protestants
also
admire
his
way
and
means
of
attaining
this
power
:
For
though
the
Papists
say
,
that
as
soon
as
he
is
made
Pope
,
he
has
his
authority
immediately
from
Christ
;
yet
at
the
very
same
time
the
Papists
all
know
,
that
he
cannot
be
made
Pope
,
but
by
authority
and
Election
of
the
Cardinals
;
so
that
I
am
sure
by
the
very
same
reason
,
any
man
that
is
chosen
a
Magistrate
in
any
Town
under
the
Pope's
Territories
,
may
claim
his
Authority
as
immediately
received
from
Christ
,
as
well
as
the
Pope
.
And
further
,
that
the
proving
his
being
made
Pope
,
does
not
render
him
infallible
,
I
could
give
a
hundred
instances
out
of
the
History
of
Popes
,
but
that
will
not
suit
well
with
my
designed
brevity
,
but
let
's
ask
the
Papists
,
if
Liberius
Bishop
of
Rome
,
after
Two
years
Banishment
,
did
not
by
the
sollicitation
of
Fortunatianus
Bishop
of
Aquileia
,
subscribe
to
Heresie
,
and
consequently
could
not
be
infallible
.
And
though
the
Papists
rely
so
much
on
the
Authority
of
the
Fathers
,
to
support
and
justifie
the
Infallibility
of
their
Church
;
yet
upon
true
Examination
we
shall
find
,
they
make
no
more
for
their
Universal
Bishop
,
than
St.
Peter's
Two
Catholick
Epistles
do
.
And
for
their
arguing
out
of
St.
Cyprian's
55
Epistles
,
that
sure
makes
rather
against
,
than
for
them
;
for
there
St.
Cyprian
writes
to
Cornelius
Bishop
of
Rome
,
but
writes
not
so
much
to
him
,
as
of
himself
,
who
was
Bishop
of
Carthage
,
against
whom
a
Faction
of
Schismaticks
had
set
up
another
Bishop
.
Now
though
the
Papists
say
reasonably
,
that
't
is
a
mark
of
the
Universal
Bishop
,
that
other
Bishops
should
make
their
Addresses
unto
the
Bishop
of
Rome
;
yet
sure
't
were
better
Reasoning
to
conclude
thus
:
If
the
Bishop
of
Rome
had
been
acknowledged
Universal
Bishop
,
and
his
Authority
and
Supremacy
had
been
believ'd
and
own'd
,
sure
St.
Cyprian
had
not
been
satisfied
with
only
barely
writing
him
his
sad
story
,
(
for
he
did
no
more
,
)
but
doubtless
would
have
made
his
complaint
to
him
,
and
desired
and
expected
redress
from
him
,
as
Universal
Bishop
over
the
whole
Catholick
Church
;
but
his
not
doing
so
,
argued
he
esteemed
him
Bishop
only
of
one
Church
.
And
further
,
St.
Cyprian
,
all
know
,
did
resolutely
oppose
a
Decree
of
the
Roman
Bishop
,
and
all
that
adhered
to
him
in
that
one
point
of
Rebaptizing
;
which
the
Popish
Church
at
that
time
,
delivered
as
a
necessary
Tradition
,
and
Excommunicated
the
Bishops
of
Capadocia
,
Galatia
,
and
all
that
were
against
that
Tradition
,
and
would
not
so
much
as
allow
them
lodging
or
entertainment
in
Rome
.
Now
since
the
Papists
affirm
,
that
not
to
Rebaptize
those
,
whom
Hereticks
had
Baptized
,
to
be
a
damnable
Heresie
;
't
is
well
worth
asking
the
Papists
,
when
this
begun
to
be
so
?
for
if
they
say
,
from
the
beginning
it
was
so
,
then
they
must
maintain
a
contradiction
;
for
then
was
St.
Cypria●
a
Professor
of
damnable
Heresie
;
and
yet
the
Papists
esteem
him
a
Saint
and
Martyr
.
And
on
the
other
side
,
if
't
were
not
so
from
the
beginning
,
then
did
the
Pope
wrongfully
Excommunicate
thos●
other
Churches
of
Cappadocia
and
Galatia
,
without
sufficien●…
ground
of
Excommunication
and
separation
,
which
by
thei●…
own
Tenents
is
Schismatical
:
So
let
them
chuse
which
sid●
they
please
,
the
Pope
was
in
an
error
.
And
tho
Victor
,
Bishop
of
Rome
,
obtruded
the
Roma●…
Tradition
touching
the
time
of
Easter
upon
the
Asian
Biships
,
under
the
pain
of
Excommunication
and
Damnation
;
yet
we
read
that
Irenaeus
,
and
all
the
other
Wester●
Bishops
,
though
they
did
agree
with
the
Bishop
of
Rome
in
his
Observation
of
Easter
,
yet
they
did
sharply
reprehend
his
Excommunicating
the
Asian
Bishops
for
their
disagreeing
with
him
;
which
most
plainly
argues
,
that
the
Western
Bishops
thought
that
not
a
sufficient
ground
of
Excommunication
,
which
the
Bishop
of
Rome
did
;
and
therefore
i●
must
necessarily
follow
,
they
did
not
esteem
the
Roman
Bishop
infallible
,
nor
the
separation
from
the
Church
of
Rome
an
Heresie
.
And
this
I
am
sure
is
true
and
undeniable
reason
▪
The
Popish
Story
tells
us
,
That
Optatus
Bishop
of
Rom●…
upbraided
the
Donatists
as
Schismaticks
,
because
they
held
no
Communion
with
the
Church
of
Rome
,
by
adding
afterwards
that
they
were
Schismaticks
,
for
they
held
no
Communion
with
the
Seven
Churches
of
Asia
;
which
occasions
this
Question
of
the
Papists
,
Whether
a
separation
from
these
seven
Apostolick
Churches
,
was
a
mark
of
Heresie
,
or
not
?
If
they
say
it
was
not
,
how
comes
it
that
the
Pope's
Authority
is
a
stronger
Argument
for
the
Popish
Church
,
than
the
Asian
Authority
for
the
Asian
Churches
?
And
if
the
Papists
say
,
a
separation
from
those
seven
Asian
Churches
,
was
a
mark
of
Heresie
,
then
they
must
confess
their
Church
was
for
many
years
Heretical
,
as
separating
many
years
from
the
Asian
Churches
.
And
Polycrates
Bishop
of
Ephesus
,
and
Metropolitan
of
Asia
,
despised
the
Pope's
Universal
Supremacy
and
Authority
,
and
kept
contrary
to
the
Pope
,
Easter-day
the
Fourteenth
of
March
.
And
indeed
tho
the
Papists
do
so
much
quote
the
authority
of
the
Fathers
,
yet
I
find
they
as
little
befriend
their
Churches
Infallibility
,
as
the
Asian
Bishops
themselves
have
done
:
for
tho
the
Papists
say
St.
Hierome
conceived
it
nenessary
to
conform
in
matters
of
Faith
,
to
the
Church
of
Rome
;
yet
before
the
Papists
brag
of
that
,
let
them
answer
us
this
,
How
came
it
then
to
pass
▪
that
St.
Hierome
chose
to
believe
the
Epistle
to
the
Hebrews
Canonical
upon
the
authority
of
the
Eastern
Church
,
and
to
reject
it
from
the
Canon
of
the
Roman
Churches
Authority
.
And
how
comes
it
also
that
he
dissented
from
the
Roman
Church
touching
the
Canon
of
the
Old
Testament
?
Let
the
Papists
take
heed
of
losing
their
Fort
,
by
endeavouring
to
maintain
their
out-works
.
And
now
to
conclude
this
point
,
and
excuse
the
Papists
mistake
concerning
their
universal
Bishop
,
we
read
in
Scripture
of
the
Prophet
Elias
,
who
thought
there
was
none
●…
eft
beside
himself
in
the
whole
Ringdom
of
Israel
,
who
had
not
revolted
from
God
;
and
yet
God
himself
is
pleased
to
assure
us
he
was
deceived
.
And
if
a
Prophet
,
and
one
of
the
greatest
,
err'd
in
his
judgment
touching
his
own
time
&
Country
;
why
may
not
the
Papists
(
subject
to
the
same
passions
)
err
in
their
opinion
and
judgment
about
the
Popes
being
Universal
Bishop
,
when
plain
reason
tells
them
,
as
well
as
us
,
that
there
were
other
Bishops
as
much
Universal
as
the
Pope
.
I
now
come
to
examine
this
infallible
Pope
,
whether
he
cannot
make
his
infallible
Church
more
infallible
than
he
has
made
himself
;
and
free
the
Popish
Church
from
error
,
tho
he
could
not
the
Pope
from
Heresie
.
Now
towards
the
disproving
the
pretended
Infallibility
of
the
Roman
Church
,
I
lay
this
as
the
foundation
of
my
Discourse
;
That
the
whole
Roman
Church
can
be
no
better
than
a
Cengregation
of
Men
,
whereof
every
particular
,
not
one
excepted
,
and
consequently
the
generality
,
is
nothing
but
a
collection
of
men
:
and
if
every
one
be
polluted
,
(
as
who
dare
say
he
is
free
from
sin
?
)
how
can
the
whole
but
be
defiled
with
error
?
As
reasonably
may
a
man
brag
he
is
in
perfect
health
and
strength
,
and
yet
at
the
same
time
confess
he
hath
not
one
sound
part
about
him
.
And
truly
it
very
much
creats
my
wonder
,
but
does
not
in
the
least
satisfie
my
reason
,
what
the
Papists
can
pretend
by
the
Infallibility
of
their
Church
:
for
if
they
will
allow
their
Pope
to
be
no
better
than
St.
Peter
was
,
their
Church
to
be
composed
of
no
better
men
than
the
Holy
Apostles
were
;
I
shall
desire
no
more
,
and
I
am
sure
they
can
never
prove
so
much
:
for
they
that
pretend
to
it
,
declare
as
great
an
ignorance
,
as
St.
Peter
did
a
sin
,
in
denying
his
Lord
and
Master
:
and
there
are
many
other
known
circumstances
which
made
St.
Paul
prove
him
blame-worthy
to
hi●
face
.
And
for
the
Apostles
being
in
error
,
we
have
not
only
the
examples
of
the
Apostles
themselves
,
who
in
the
time
of
our
Saviours
Passion
,
being
scandalized
,
lost
their
Faith
in
him
;
and
I
believe
the
Papists
will
not
say
they
could
lose
their
faith
in
our
blessed
Saviour
Christ
without
error●…
and
therefore
our
Saviour
after
his
Resurrection
upbraided
them
with
their
Incredulity
,
and
called
Thomas
incredulous
for
denying
the
Resurrection
,
in
the
Twentieth
o●…
St.
John
.
And
further
,
't
is
most
apparent
that
the
very
Apostles
themselves
,
even
after
the
sending
the
Holy
Ghost
,
did
through
Inadvertency
,
or
Prejudice
,
continue
some
time
in
an
error
,
contrary
to
a
revealed
Truth
.
And
if
the
Papists
will
not
own
to
know
this
Truth
,
they
may
be
fully
satisfied
of
it
in
the
Story
of
the
Acts
of
the
Apostles
,
where
they
may
plainly
read
,
that
notwithstanding
our
Saviours
express
warrant
and
injunction
to
the
Apostles
,
to
go
and
preach
to
all
Nations
;
Yet
notwithstanding
,
till
St.
Peter
was
better
informed
by
a
Vision
from
Heaven
,
and
by
the
Conversion
of
Cornelius
,
both
St.
Peter
and
the
rest
of
the
Church
,
held
it
unlawful
for
them
to
go
and
Preach
the
Gospel
to
any
but
the
Jews
.
Now
since
we
can
prove
that
St.
Peter
did
err
,
and
that
the
Church
composed
partly
of
the
Holy
Apostles
themselves
,
who
were
blessed
with
,
and
inspired
by
the
Holy
Ghost
,
could
mistake
,
and
that
there
is
no
man
free
from
sin
;
and
yet
that
the
Body
of
men
that
make
up
the
Popish
Church
,
should
be
infallible
,
is
,
I
confess
,
beside
my
faith
to
believe
,
or
reason
to
comprehend
.
For
sure
if
the
Roman
Church
had
been
esteem'd
by
the
Apostles
,
infallible
,
what
needed
the
Apostles
any
other
Creed
,
than
this
short
Creed
;
I
believe
the
Roman
Church
●…
nfallible
?
and
that
would
have
been
more
effectual
to
●…
eep
the
Believers
of
it
from
Heresie
,
and
in
the
true
Faith
,
●…
han
this
Apostolical
Creed
we
now
have
.
And
sure
the
Papists
cannot
but
believe
with
us
,
that
●…
ose
Holy
Men
that
wrote
the
New
Testament
,
were
not
●…
nly
Good
Men
,
but
also
Men
that
were
desirous
to
direct
●…
s
in
the
plainest
and
surest
way
to
Heaven
.
And
the
Pa●…
ists
cannot
also
but
believe
with
us
,
that
they
were
likewise
●…
en
very
sufficiently
instructed
by
the
Spirit
of
God
,
in
all
●he
necessary
points
of
the
Christian
Faith
:
Therefore
cer●…
inly
't
is
most
rational
to
believe
,
they
could
not
be
ig●…
orant
of
this
unum
necessarium
,
that
all
Faith
is
no
Faith
,
●…
cept
we
believe
the
Church
of
Rome
was
design'd
by
God
●…
o
be
the
Guide
of
Faith
,
as
the
Church
of
Rome
believes
,
●…
nd
would
have
us
believe
so
too
.
We
also
further
believe
,
and
that
with
great
reason
too
,
●…
at
the
Writers
of
the
New
Testament
were
Wise
Men
,
espe●…
ally
being
they
were
assisted
by
the
Spirit
of
Wisdom
;
and
●…
ch
that
must
know
,
that
an
uncertain
Guide
was
as
bad
as
●…
ne
at
all
;
and
yet
after
all
this
,
is
it
possible
for
a
Philoso●…
hical
or
Contemplative
man
,
nay
,
for
any
man
that
has
rea●…
n
or
common
sense
,
after
all
these
suppositions
,
to
believe
●…
at
none
among
these
holy
Writers
of
the
New
Testament
●…
ould
remember
(
ad
rei
memoriam
)
to
set
down
plainly
●…
is
most
necessary
Doctrine
,
not
so
much
as
once
,
That
●…
e
were
to
believe
the
Roman
Church
infallible
?
Again
,
that
none
of
the
Evangelists
should
so
much
as
●…
nce
name
this
Popish
necessary
point
of
Faith
,
if
they
had
●…
teem'd
it
necessary
for
us
to
believe
it
,
when
St.
Paul
says
,
●…
e
kept
not
back
any
thing
that
was
profitable
for
us
;
and
sure
●…
e
Papists
cannot
deny
,
but
was
is
necessary
to
salvation
,
●…
ust
be
very
profitable
:
And
St.
Luke
also
plainly
tells
●…
hristians
,
his
intent
was
to
write
all
things
necessary
.
And
●…
re
it
stands
also
with
reason
,
that
when
St.
Paul
wrote
to
●…
he
Romans
,
he
would
have
congratulated
this
their
ex●…
aordinary
priviledge
,
if
he
had
believ'd
it
belong'd
to
●…
hem
.
And
though
the
Romans
bring
it
as
a
great
Argument
●…
or
them
,
that
St.
Paul
tells
them
,
Their
Faith
is
spoken
al●
the
world
over
;
Yet
pray
let
them
moderate
those
thought●…
with
this
consideration
,
that
St.
Paul
said
the
very
same
thing
to
the
Thessalonians
:
And
let
them
further
consider
this
,
that
if
the
Roman
Faith
had
been
the
Rule
o●
Faith
for
all
the
World
for
ever
,
as
the
Papists
hold
;
sure
St.
Paul
would
have
forborn
to
put
the
Romans
in
fear
o●…
a
possibility
,
(
for
though
Raillery
is
much
in
fashion
now●…
sure
't
was
not
then
)
that
they
also
,
nay
the
whole
Church
of
the
Gentiles
,
if
they
did
not
look
to
their
standing
might
fall
into
Infidelity
,
as
the
Jews
had
done
,
1
Ephesians
11.
And
methinks
it
also
stands
with
great
reason
,
that
the
Apostles
writing
so
often
of
Hereticks
,
and
Antichrist
should
have
given
the
Christian
World
this
(
as
Papists
pretend
)
only
sure
Preservative
from
them
,
To
be
guided
by
the
infallible
Church
of
Rome
;
and
not
to
separate
from
it
upon
the
pain
of
damnation
.
Methinks
also
St.
Peter
,
St.
James
,
and
St.
Jude
,
in
their
Catholick
Epistles
,
would
not
have
forgot
giving
Christians
this
Catholick
Direction
of
following
the
Roman
Church
;
and
St.
John
instead
of
saying
,
He
that
believes
that
Jesus
i●…
the
Christ
,
is
born
of
God
,
might
have
said
,
He
that
adheres
to
the
Doctrine
of
the
Roman
Church
,
and
lives
according
to
it
,
is
a
good
Christian
,
and
by
this
mark
you
shall
know
him
.
In
a
word
,
can
there
be
any
thing
more
irrational
,
than
to
believe
,
that
none
of
these
holy
Men
,
who
were
so
desirous
of
mens
salvation
,
should
so
much
as
once
remember
to
write
,
that
we
were
to
obey
the
Roman
Church
,
but
leave
it
to
be
collected
from
uncertain
Principles
,
and
by
more
uncertain
Consequences
.
So
that
upon
the
whole
,
I
cannot
without
much
wonder
look
on
the
Pope's
Confidence
,
and
the
Papists
Credulity
,
in
esteeming
the
Pope
or
his
Councils
to
be
an
infallible
Guide
:
sure
either
they
never
read
what
they
ought
to
believe
,
or
else
they
will
not
believe
what
they
read
,
though
it
be
never
so
known
a
Truth
,
and
worthy
of
belief
:
for
if
they
did
,
they
could
never
believe
the
Infallibility
of
the
Popish
Church
,
For
indeed
,
if
they
would
read
the
Popish
Story
,
or
,
as
I
may
well
call
it
,
the
Civil
Wars
of
the
Popes
,
you
shall
find
,
as
I
said
before
,
Popes
against
Popes
,
Councils
against
Councils
;
some
Fathers
against
others
,
nay
,
some
against
themselves
;
new
Traditions
brought
in
,
and
old
ones
turn'd
out
;
one
Church
against
another
;
nay
,
the
Church
of
one
Age
against
the
Church
of
another
.
In
a
word
,
the
Papists
say
their
Church
is
infallible
;
and
all
other
Christians
besides
themselves
,
tho
more
in
number
than
they
,
absolutely
deny
it
;
and
yet
we
must
for
all
that
believe
the
Popish
Church
infallible
.
And
to
speak
the
plain
Truth
,
and
in
a
word
to
unravel
the
real
cause
of
the
Grandure
of
the
Church
of
Rome
above
all
other
Churches
,
is
only
this
:
Rome
was
the
Imperial
Town
of
the
Empire
,
and
its
greatness
was
given
by
Men
,
and
not
God
;
and
when
afterwards
Constantinople
was
the
Imperial
City
,
they
Decreed
that
the
Church
of
Constantinople
should
have
equal
Priviledges
and
Dignities
with
that
of
Rome
.
And
now
to
end
this
Discourse
,
I
desire
you
will
please
to
consider
this
Conclusion
,
which
is
,
that
after
all
that
the
Papists
have
said
,
be
it
never
so
much
and
mighty
,
to
shew
the
Infallibility
of
their
Church
;
I
am
verily
perswaded
they
cannot
shew
more
,
if
so
much
,
out
of
the
Scriptures
,
for
their
Church
,
as
the
smallest
Society
of
Christians
met
together
in
prayer
,
can
for
themselves
,
that
when
two
or
three
are
met
together
in
my
name
,
I
will
be
amongst
them
,
says
the
Lord
:
And
now
I
have
just
done
this
small
Discourse
,
and
the
Sun
is
just
upon
finishing
this
days
visit
;
I
can
very
readily
follow
that
holy
advice
of
not
letting
it
go
down
in
my
anger
:
(
which
I
thank
God
I
have
to
none
living
)
and
therefore
am
in
so
much
Charity
with
the
Papists
,
as
to
wish
that
neither
they
,
nor
Protestants
,
might
waist
their
precious
time
in
meer
speculative
controversies
about
words
and
ceremonies
,
which
of
themselves
will
never
carry
us
to
Heaven
;
but
that
we
may
spend
our
time
like
wise
Christians
in
the
ways
and
fear
of
God
,
which
is
the
only
beginning
of
wisdom
;
and
not
consume
it
in
studying
and
maintaining
of
Disputes
and
Factions
;
but
if
we
must
still
differ
,
let
Protestants
and
Papists
differ
in
Opinions
but
as
Aristotle
and
Cicero
did
,
who
,
tho
they
were
of
differing
Judgments
touching
the
natures
of
Souls
,
yet
both
of
them
agreed
in
the
main
,
that
all
men
had
Souls
,
and
Souls
of
the
same
nature
.
And
as
Physicians
,
though
they
dispute
,
whether
the
Brain
or
the
Heart
be
the
principal
part
of
a
man
,
yet
that
all
Men
have
Brains
,
and
Heart
,
they
sufficiently
agree
in
:
So
though
Protestants
esteem
one
part
of
the
Church-Doctrine
,
and
Papists
set
a
higher
value
on
another
part
,
yet
the
Soul
of
the
Church
may
be
in
both
of
them
:
and
though
the
Papists
account
that
a
necessary
truth
,
which
the
Protestants
account
neither
necessary
,
nor
perhaps
ture
;
yet
in
truth
truly
necessary
they
both
agree
,
viz.
The
Apostles
Creed
,
and
that
Faith
,
Hope
,
and
Charity
,
are
necessary
to
salvation
.
And
lastly
,
though
Papists
hold
they
may
be
justified
by
their
Works
,
and
Protestants
hold
none
can
be
justified
barely
by
them
,
(
in
regard
of
the
Imperfections
of
their
Works
)
yet
on
the
other
side
,
we
so
much
agree
with
the
Papists
,
as
to
esteem
none
can
be
justified
without
them
:
for
without
Repentance
,
and
Charity
,
none
can
be
good
;
they
being
both
like
Health
to
our
Bodies
,
the
want
of
which
is
sufficient
to
disturb
all
other
pleasures
.
Therefore
when
we
read
St.
Pauls
Treatise
of
Justification
by
Faith
without
the
works
of
the
Law
;
let
us
at
the
same
time
read
what
he
writes
to
the
Corinthians
concerning
the
absolute
necessity
of
that
Excellent
Vertue
of
Charity
,
and
they
will
reconcile
one
another
.
And
I
wish
,
that
we
were
all
so
reconciled
in
the
unity
of
the
Spirit
,
and
in
the
bond
of
peace
.
And
that
you
,
Madam
,
may
be
the
sooner
reconcil'd
to
me
,
for
this
tediousness
;
I
shall
now
make
a
Conclusion
,
which
after
such
an
overgrown
Letter
,
must
needs
be
the
best
Complement
that
can
be
made
by
,
Madam
,
Yours
,
&c.
FINIS
.