I. Question: Why are you a Catholic? The answer follows. II. Question: But why are you a Protestant? An answer attempted (in vain) / written by the Reverend Father S.C. Monk of the Holy Order of St. Benedict ...

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Title: I. Question: Why are you a Catholic? The answer follows. II. Question: But why are you a Protestant? An answer attempted (in vain) / written by the Reverend Father S.C. Monk of the Holy Order of St. Benedict ...
Author: Cressy, Serenus, 1605-1674.
Publication: London :: [s.n.],; 1686.
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Subject terms: Catholic Church.; Protestantism -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
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§. 55.

Cath.

Before I begin, I have a few Requests (in my judg∣ment not unreasonable) to make to you. The first is, 1. That (hav∣ing supposed that upon a true or false Belief Eternity of Happiness or Misery depends) you would force your Imagination to put your self in that state in which your first Reformers really were, immediately before they broke from the Churches Obedience and Communion, and supposing that you were earnestly tempted by them also to forsake it, by adhering to a New-begun Society, never heard of in the world be∣fore, upon a pretence that the Church in which you live, and which you as yet esteem to be the true Catholic Church, teaches most perni∣cious Errours, Superstitions, and Idolatrous practices: Of the Justice of which pretence your Tempters, now declared Enemies, will needs be the Iudges.

Prot.

This I will endeavour to perform.