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CHAP. III.
Argum. 1. IF there be any godly honest men on earth besides Papists, then Popery is false and not of God. But there be godly honest men on earth besides Papists: therefore Popery is false, and not of God.
The Major is proved thus. It is an Article of the Popish faith, that there are no godly honest men on earth, besides Papists: therefore if there be any such, Popery is false, (By godly honest men, I mean such as have true love to God, and so are in a state of salvation.) The Antecedent I prove thus. 1. Their very definition of the Church doth make the Pope the Head, and confine the membership only to his subjects, making the Roman Catholick Church (as they call it) the whole. 2. But yet lest any ignorant Papists say, I may be a Roman Catholick without be∣lieving that all others are ungodly, and shall be damned, I will give it you in the Determination of a Pope and general Councll. Leo the tenth, Abrog. Pragm. sanct. Bull. in the 17th. General Coun∣cil at the Laterane, saith [And seeing it is of necessity to salva∣tion, that all the faithful of Christ be subject to the Pope of Rome, as we are taught by the testimony of divine Scripture, and of the holy Fathers, and it is declared in the Constitution of Pope Boni∣face 7. &c.] And Pope Pius the second was converted from being Aenaeas Sylvius by this Doctrine of a Cardinal, approved by him at large, Bull. Retract. in the Vol. 4. of Binnius, p. 514. [I came to the Fountain of Truth, which the holy Doctors, both Greek and Latine shew; who with one voyce say, that he cannot be saved that holdeth not the unity of the holy Church of Rome; and that all those vertues are maimed to him that refuseth to obey the Pope of Rome; though he lye in sack cloth and ashes, and fast and pray both day and night, and seem in the other things to ful∣fill the Law of God.] So that if a Pope and General Council be false, then Popery is false. For their infallibility is the ground of their faith, and they take it on their unerring authority. But if the Pope and a General Council be to be believed, then no man but a subject of the Pope can be saved: no, though he fast and pray in sack-cloth and ashes day and night, and seem to fulfill the rest of the Law of God. Its certain therefore that if