A treatise concerning the church Wherin it is shewed, by the signes, offices, and properties therof, that the Church of Rome (and consequently such particuler churches as liue in her communion) is the only true church of Christ. VVritten in Latin, by the Reuerend Father Iames Gordon Huntley of Scotland, Doctour of Diuinity, of the Society of Iesus. And translated into English by I.L. of the same Society. The third part of the second controuersy.

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A treatise concerning the church Wherin it is shewed, by the signes, offices, and properties therof, that the Church of Rome (and consequently such particuler churches as liue in her communion) is the only true church of Christ. VVritten in Latin, by the Reuerend Father Iames Gordon Huntley of Scotland, Doctour of Diuinity, of the Society of Iesus. And translated into English by I.L. of the same Society. The third part of the second controuersy.

Author

Gordon, James, 1541-1620.

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[Saint-Omer :: Printed at the English College Press] Permissu superiorum,

M.DC.XIV [1614]

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"A treatise concerning the church Wherin it is shewed, by the signes, offices, and properties therof, that the Church of Rome (and consequently such particuler churches as liue in her communion) is the only true church of Christ. VVritten in Latin, by the Reuerend Father Iames Gordon Huntley of Scotland, Doctour of Diuinity, of the Society of Iesus. And translated into English by I.L. of the same Society. The third part of the second controuersy." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03884.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• THE FIRST CHAPTER. Of the false and true Signes, or Markes of the Church in generall.
• CHAP. II. That the true Church of Christ is One, Holy, Catholike and Aposto∣licall.
• CHAP. III. That the Roman Church only is the true Church of Christ, is proued by the properties of the true Church.
• CHAP. IIII. That the Church of Rome is the true Church of Christ, is proued by the offices of the true Church.
• CHAP. V. By the signes of the true Church it is de∣clared, that the Roman is the true Church of Christ.
• CHAP. VI. That the Church of the Citty of Rome is the chiefest of all the visible Churches of Christ, is clear∣ly conuinced by the holy Scriptures.
• CHAP. VII. That the Church of Rome is the chiefes and head of all other, is proued out of the auncient Fathers and euen by the confession of our Aduersaries thē∣selues.
• CHAP. VIII. Wherein the arguments of our Aduersa∣ries against the Church of Rome are confuted.
• CHAP. IX. Of the Adoration of the Pope of Rome, & of the kissing of his feete.
• CHAP. X. Of generall Councells.
• CHAP. XI. Of the Authority of the auncient Holy Fathers.