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Here is a flourish of names to little purpose, especially since these authors you mentiō, agree with vs about the true Church, that consisteth only of the elect, & not (as you teach) of all sorts
A trial of the Romish clergies title to the Church by way of answer to a popish pamphlet written by one A.D. and entituled A treatise of faith, wherein is briefly and plainly shewed a direct way, by which euery man may resolue and settle his mind in all doubts, questions and controuersies, concerning matters of faith. By Antonie Wotton. In the end you haue three tables: one of the texts of Scripture expounded or alledged in this booke: another of the testimonies of ancient and later writers, with a chronologie of the times in which they liued: a third of the chiefe matters contained in the treatise and answer.
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- A trial of the Romish clergies title to the Church by way of answer to a popish pamphlet written by one A.D. and entituled A treatise of faith, wherein is briefly and plainly shewed a direct way, by which euery man may resolue and settle his mind in all doubts, questions and controuersies, concerning matters of faith. By Antonie Wotton. In the end you haue three tables: one of the texts of Scripture expounded or alledged in this booke: another of the testimonies of ancient and later writers, with a chronologie of the times in which they liued: a third of the chiefe matters contained in the treatise and answer.
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- Wotton, Anthony, 1561?-1626.
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"A trial of the Romish clergies title to the Church by way of answer to a popish pamphlet written by one A.D. and entituled A treatise of faith, wherein is briefly and plainly shewed a direct way, by which euery man may resolue and settle his mind in all doubts, questions and controuersies, concerning matters of faith. By Antonie Wotton. In the end you haue three tables: one of the texts of Scripture expounded or alledged in this booke: another of the testimonies of ancient and later writers, with a chronologie of the times in which they liued: a third of the chiefe matters contained in the treatise and answer." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A15739.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
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good and bad, elect and reprobate, so they make an outward profession of beleeuing: But Austin condemneth the Dona∣tists of impudencie, for saying that the Church was in their time perished out of the world, saue that it remained in a part of Africa amongst them that held with Donatus. So would he crie out against you Papists, if he liued at this day, and heard you com∣plaine, that there is no Church in the world, but only in Rome, & in those countries, which depēd vpon the Church of Rome. Onely Donatus his part (as q Austin calleth it) was the Church with them: and onely the Popes part is the Church with you. You are not indeed as yet come so farre, as they were, because some other countries, besides Italy, are content to be ruled by your Pope: but when it shal please God to leaue that strumpet, the Church of Rome destitute of friends (as her wound is vnre∣couerable, and she draweth euerie day nearer and nearer to her end;) r then will you take vp the verie same complaint, that the Donatists vsed, and there shall be no Church at all but in Rome, or where the Pope shall lurke, in some other corner of the world. We denie not that the Church, s to whom our Sauiour maketh that promise, shall continue till the end of the world, and we detest Donatus heresie, in affirming, that it was then to be found onely in Africa. But (as I said before) what maketh this for the continuance of such a Church, as you imagine? This rather belongeth to the visibilitie and famousnesse of the Church, whereof in the next chapter.
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August. ad Psal. 101. concio. 2.
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August. con∣tra part. Donat
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Mat. 28. 20.