The totall summe. Or No danger of damnation vnto Roman Catholiques for any errour in faith nor any hope of saluation for any sectary vvhatsoeuer that doth knovvingly oppose the doctrine of the Roman Church. This is proued by the confessions, and sayings of M. William Chillingvvorth his booke.

These doctrines and practises are proued by manifest and plaine Scripture. §. 2.

ON the other side, Roman Catholiques do not boast ridiculously, as you do, of their texts of Scri∣pture; but by manifest euiction shew euen these, of the impiety of which you seeme most cōfident, to be Chri∣stian and pious, and consequently, that your damning of them is damnable and impious.

7. For images of Christ crucifyed vsed in the Church with Apostolicall allowance we haue the plaine words of S. Paul Gal. 3.1. O senselesse Galathians, who hath be wit∣ched you not to obey the Gospel, before whose eyes Christ Iesus, is painted Crucifyed among you. The Greeke word is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 liuely set forth in the picture of his Crucifixion; so that S. Paul proueth the Galatians were senselesse people, that honoring Christ Iesus pictured before their eyes as crucify∣ed; yet did not hope for Saluation by his Crosse and Crucifixion; but by Circumcision, and the obseruan∣ces of the Law. This sense being according to the plaine proper, and literall sense of the wordes, Protestants are bound by the rule of their Religion to admit thereof, and cannot without impiety refuse it, and expound the place of metaphoricall Painting; except they can eui∣dently

demonstrate this sense to be false or incon∣gruous against the Apostles intent, which they will ne∣uer be able to do.

8. If you say, that this text at the most proueth the vsing of Images for the representation, not honoring of them: I answere with the learned M. Montague your Bishop of Chichester, that in the vsing of Images for me∣mory sake, the honouring of them is necessarily in∣cluded, which he proueth euidently, and together af∣firmes, that it is strange, that any Christian should be displea∣sed with the Doctrine, That respect and honour is to be giuen to Images.

9. The Persons of the Trinity we picture not, but only the person of Goa the Sonne in the forme and shape of man, as personally he was. Onely we represent the type wherein God the Father appeared, to wit, the forme of the Ancient of dayes, described Dan. 7. and the type, wherein the Holy Ghost appeared the forme of a Doue, re∣corded Math. 3.

10. For Inuocation of Angels, we haue the practise and example of holy Iacob Gen. 84.15. The Angell which deliuered me from all euill, blesse these Children: which text, you cannot answere without iugling and changing the Angell into the figure of another substance.

11. For the sufficiency of the Sacrament vnder the forme of bread, we haue the expresse warrant of our Lord, Ioan. 6.59. He that eateth this bread shall liue for euer. And for the practise of Communion in one kind for lay men we haue his example Luc. 24.30.31.

12. For the adoration of the Sacrament, we haue the Scripture in the plaine and proper sense. For (sayth D. Morton (z) your B. of Durham) If the words of Christ be true in a proper and literall sense, we must yield vnto Papists the

whole cause of Transubstantiation &c. the proper adoration of the Sacrament.

13. That we prohibite certaine orders of men & women to mary is a slander. They freely without constraint pro∣hibite themselues, whiles by vow they bind their fayth, and fidelity vnto Christ, to liue single and chast, & pe∣culiarly consecrated to his seruice. Which fayth and fi∣delity, if they violate and make voyd by consequent Mari∣age (as your first reformer the Frier did, who married a Nunne), we hold their state sacrilegious and dam∣nable, which is the expresse doctrine of S. Paul, 1. Tim. 5.12.

14. The Controuersy, which language is fittest, and of most edification in Church seruice: whether the vul∣gar, which is best knowne in this or that particular country; or some learned language, Greeke or Latin, which be best knowne in the whole Christian Church; cannot be determined by Scripture, as hath beene al∣ready proued. So that measuring the way of Saluation euen by the rule of the Bible only, the Roman Religion is the plainer, and safer Way, better warranted, euen by expresse texts of Scripture.

Notes

• Appeale to Caesar pag. 254.255.
• (z)

  Lib. 2. initio.