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I will ask my Father, and he will give you another Pa∣raclete, that he may abide with you for ever, e••en the Spi∣rit of Truth.
But here also, what warrant have we, by you to under∣stand the Church of Rome: whereas he that compares v. 26.
with this, shall easily perceive, that our Saviour speaks on∣ly of the Apostles in their own persons; for there he says going on in the same discourse. The Holy Ghost whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said to you: which cannot agree but to the Apostles themselves in person; and not to their Successors, who had not yet been taught and therefore not forgotten any thing, and therefore could not have them brought to their remem∣brance. But what if it had been promised to them and their Successors? had they no Successors but them of the Roman Church? this indeed is pretended and cried up, but for proofs of it, desiderantur.
Again, I would fain know whether there be any certainty, that every Pope is a good Christian, or whether he may not be in the sence of the Scripture, of the World? If not, how was it that Bellarmine should have cause to think, that such a rank of them went successively to the Devil?