[Mr. Serjeant's only grounds his own vaporous fancies.

1. We are justified in following the first separators from Rome. England and Ireland unanimous in casting out the Pope. Fear could be no cause of this unanimity.

2. To be misled by others extenuates guilt if it does not acquit from it.
3. Although the first separators were schismatics, yet we are free.
The first separators substantially Papists, whatever they be called.
Mr. Serjeant's hatred of "Reformation."

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ib. 511

The Papal Headship, as maintained by Mr. Serjeant, rejected by the
primitive Fathers.

By all the Eastern, Southern, and Northern Christians.
By many of the Roman Catholics themselves.]

SECTION THE THIRD.

That Henry the Eighth made no new law, but only vindicated the ancient liberties of England.

513

But leaves the defence of his cause to "canon and secular lawyers." 515

We deny Papal power altogether in the exterior court, but we do not deny

That the Britannic Churches were ever exempted from foreign jurisdiction for the first six hundred years, and so ought to continue. 525

[Argument of the fifth chapter of the Just Vindication.

The Church of England includes the British and Scottish Churches.
No act of Papal jurisdiction in the Britannic islands for the first six

hundred years.

The Scots a part of the Britannic islands.

ib.

526

. 527

ib.

The Mercians and Northumbrians had their ordination from the Scots,

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Conquerors may and do change the external policy of the Church. . 530 Many English Bishops have received orders from the British Bishops.. ib. The Sardican canon inconsistent with the Divine right of the Papacy. . 531 British Bishops in the Council of Sardica.

How far the Council of Sardica a general Council.

The canons of the Sardican Council never received in England.
Contradicted by the general Council of Chalcedon.

King Lucius and Eleutherius.

St. German and Lupus.

How the right of jurisdiction follows the right of ordination.

The Bishop of Rome's monarchy inconsistent with his Patriarchate.

Mr. Serjeant's two instances in answer.

His exceptions to the answer of Dinoth.

1. The Bishop of Rome called "Pope" without any addition.
2. The Bishopric of Caerleon removed previously to St. David's.
3. His third exception too dull to deserve an answer.]

532

ib.

533

534

SECTION THE FIFTH.

That the king and Church of England had sufficient authority to withdraw their obedience from Rome.

546

ib.

ib.

548

549

ib.

[I. Of the authority of the king and Church of England to reform the
English Church.

No reason for the author's shunning the question of the Pope's
Divine right to his sovereignty.

Patriarchs not wholly independent of kings in ecclesiastical affairs.
No manner of institution for Papal encroachments as now main-
tained.

Mr. Serjeant's parallel from monarchy and Episcopacy.

1. He saith nothing to the author's first reply.
His idle story about Archbishop Laud.

2. The Papacy not extirpated out of England, but restricted
to its right limits.

3. All lawful governments from God, yet monarchy so in the
highest degree of eminency.]

SECTION THE SIXTH.

That the king and Church of England had sufficient grounds to separate from the Church of Rome.

[II. The grounds of our separation unanswered both by R. C. and by Mr. Serjeant.

We separated from the Court, not from the Church, of Rome.

The author's proofs in this section convincing although not "demonstrative."

Mr. Serjeant's vague and impertinent way of replying.

1. The author's first sort of grounds according to Mr. Serjeant; viz., such as entrench upon conscience. .

2. The author's second sort of grounds according to Mr. Serjeant, viz., temporal inconveniences.

Mr. Serjeant's exceptions to these grounds.

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554

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556

i. We have not taken away the office for the faults of the
officer.

ii. Experience the politician's best schoolmaster.

. 557

. 559

iii. The acts of our kings prove what they thought to be their
rights.

560

iv. Ecclesiastical laws compared with temporal.

ib.

v. Some rights of all sorts, but not "all right," usurped by
the Pope.

ib.

vi. How far we have "divided" ourselves from the Pope.

561

vii. We have not broken "ecclesiastical communion" for
"temporal concernments."

We join in communion with no heretics, but with all who hold the
Apostles' Creed as expounded by the first four general
Councils.

Our form of ecclesiastical government no innovation.

Our conditions of a general Council the same as those of the primi-
tive Church.

ib.

ib.

ib.

. 564

ib.

A general Council possible at the present time, by means of

We have not hindered a general Council by renouncing the
Рарасу.

3. The author's last ground; viz., the exemption of the Britannic
Churches.

Our grounds sufficient for reforming, which we did, although not for violating unity, which we did not.

We have reformed abuses, not divided ourselves from the Roman
Church.

We have abolished nothing of Christ's institution.

The rest of Christendom Catholic as well as the Roman obedience.
We have done no more than our ancestors.

SECTION THE SEVENTH.

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That the king and Church of England proceeded with due moderation.

[III. The moderation of the king and Church of England in their reformation.

ib.

1. The first branch of our moderation; viz., that we deny not to other
Churches the true being of Churches, &c.

We have not separated from the true principles of unity.
How far the Church of Rome errs in the judgment of the Church
of England.

The Church of England not answerable for the virulence of
particular preachers.

582

It is lawful to communicate in some things with material
idolaters.

583

No obligation to censure every religion, much less every opinion,
that is contrary to our own.

585

How far we are bound to free ourselves from known errors in non-
essentials.

. 587

2. The second branch of our moderation; viz., our desire of reunion. 589 We pray for the Romanists as materially heretical.

. 590

No duty to excommunicate material heretics.

. 591

Of our removal of errors.

3. The third branch of our moderation; viz., that we do not challenge
either a new Church or a new religion or new holy orders.
Negatives are no articles of Faith.

4. The fourth branch of our moderation; viz., that we are ready to
believe and practise what the present Catholic Church believes
and practises.

An heretical Church may be a true Church.

Our grounds for distinguishing true believers from false.

We do not destroy the subordination of ecclesiastical govern

ment.

Of the Pope's infallibility.

The Roman obedience not the universal Church.]

SECTION THE EIGHTH.

That all princes and republics of the Roman communion do in effect the same thing which Henry the Eighth did, when they have occasion; or at least do plead for it.

. 600

[The ground laid down in this section unanswered either by R. C. or by

Mr. Serjeant.

Mr. Serjeant's feigned "contradictions."

He grants all our "particular instances."
The Roman religion and ours the same.

We impugn the Pope and Court of Rome.
Who resisted the Pope's usurpations.

The Sorbonne doctors.

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. 605

The Papacy, not the Roman religion, a source of sedition.
The Pope no bond of unity according to St. Paul.
Neither St. Peter nor any ancient Bishop ever pretended to a

A primacy of order' conducible to the good of the Church.
Of the political advantages of the Papacy.

.

. 606

ib.

608

609

Mr. Serjeant does not say what he means by the Papacy.. ib.
Nor why he challenges authority to the Pope.

What communion we have with other Churches.

No need for a general Council to sit always, because it is an
ecclesiastical Head.

That the Pope and Court of Rome are most guilty of the schism. 620

2. The second reason to convince them of schism; viz., the new Creed of Pius IV. 3. The third reason to convince them of schism; viz., their maintaining the Pope in his rebellion against general Councils. The author willing to grant the Bishop of Rome a Headship of

[1. The first reason to convince the Pope and Court of Rome of schism:

viz., that they seek a higher place in the Church than is their due. ib. The Church of Rome claims to be a mistress, not a teacheress.

4. The last reason to convince them of schism; viz., that they take away all lines of Apostolical succession but their own.] .