THE CONTENTS OF THE PARTICULAR SECTIONS AND CHAPTERS. [Epistle to the Christian Readers, especially the Roman Catholics of England.] A Clear and Civil Answer to the railing accusation of S. W. in his late book called Schism Dispatch'd. [PRELIMINARY CHAPTER.] [In what way a Church becomes schismatical. Mr. Serjeant's prevarications. Page · 351 355 ib. . 356 Who Mr. Serjeant is. His manner of writing.] 358 359 A Surrejoinder, or, Defence of the Bishop of Derry's [INTRODUCTION.] [Three grounds repeated by Mr. Serjeant from the first division of his Schism Dispatched. 363 ib. 1. The true question, not whether there is a breach between us, 3. The Pope's usurpations palpable, not probable only. Mr. Serjeant's title of Down-Derry.] SECTION THE FIRST. [Of Mr. Serjeant's formal argument to convict the English Not readier or safer than Scripture. The tradition of the Roman Church not the tradition of the Catholic Written and perpetual better than oral and immediate tradition.] There was no tradition for the Divine right of the Papacy. - 381 . 382 383 ib. ib. CHAPTER THE THIRD. [Mr. Serjeant's assumption,-that the Church of England broke these rules of unity in Henry the VIII.'s days.] Mention of exceptions here impertinent. The first breach before Henry VIII. was born. 388 . 389 spiritual.] 1. Every one involved in a schism is not a formal schismatic. 2. We are not chargeable with the excesses of our predecessors. 3. Negative precedents prove more strongly than affirmative. 4. [Henry VIII. did not deprive the Pope of any jurisdiction purely ib. 390 . 391 ib. 392 CHAPTER THE FOURTH. The Pope and Court of Rome did break the bonds of unity, not we. 394 What branches of Papal power were cast out of England by Henry [VIII.] . [1. The Pope's dispensative power. 2. His judiciary power. 3. His legislative power. 4. His sovereign patronage of the English Church. 5. Tenths and first-fruits. 6. The profits of the Roman Court.] The true difference about the Papacy. [Division of the subject.] Page CHAPTER THE FIFTH. I. To whom the patronage of the English Church doth of right belong. Our laws.] 2. The right to convocate English synods is the king's. [In point of right. In matter of fact. Foreign precedents.] 3. Oath of allegiance due to kings from clerks, not due to the Pope. . 416 [How the oath of fidelity to the Pope came in. 2. We acknowledge that Bishops are the proper judges of the canons. 428 3. We submit the question of the Pope's "beginning of unity" to the 1. The legislative power in England has always belonged to the 430 2. Papal decrees as such have never been received as laws in The English liberties the same as the Gallican in this point also. 434 formed.] 435 CHAPTER THE SEVENTH. III. The Pope hath no judiciary power in England. [No question in this case of jurisdiction merely spiritual.] 1. The Pope can receive no appeals from England. 2. Of Papal Bulls and excommunications. 3. Of Papal legates. . [English liberties in this point also the same as the Gallican. And as those of the United Provinces.] CHAPTER THE EIGHTH. IV. Of Papal dispensations. [But especially of the Pope's dispensing with English laws in the . Dispensative power in our own Bishops from the beginning. The English liberties the same as the Gallican in this point also. Conclusion.]. CHAPTER THE NINTH. 446 . 448 V. Our laws meddle not with spiritual jurisdiction. [Three-fold power in Bishops. No controversy concerning order or interior jurisdiction with the But with our own innovators. It is this power only of which we have deprived the Pope in 457 460 [Mr. Serjeant's arguments by this time shrunk into nothing.] Our Faith not only probable. An answer to Mr. Serjeant concerning immediate tradition. . 462 463 465 [We have retained the old form of government. The Church of Rome inconsistent, not the author. Our Articles no points of Faith. Who falsifieth the Council of Ephesus. [The Ephesine canon explained. It saith more than the author attributed to it. Mr. Serjeant falsifieth the Council of Ephesus himself.] 470 CHAPTER THE TWELFTH. I charge not the Church [with erecting the Papacy as it now is], but the [Divine right of the Papacy contrary to the Council of Chalcedon.] Rome and Constantinople equal. 482 483 ib. 484 485 . 486 . ib. . 487 . 488 . 489 [The Chalcedonian canon of good authority. Of immediate tradition.] Changes undiscernible. Opinions not necessary. Heresies impeach not the perpetuity of tradition. No tradition for the points in difference between us. [Other exceptions of Mr. Serjeant.] The proof rests on their side. [Our discipline not new because reformed.] . SECTION THE SECOND. That they who cast Papal power out of England were no Protestants, but Roman Catholics throughout; except only in that one point of the Papacy. |