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CHAP. IX. (Book 9)
Of the Churches Infallibility. The necessity thereof, that she may be a certain Guide to Salvation; And the grounds whereupon She claims it.
1. THe Second pretended Novelty of Ca∣tholick Doctrine, is the Infallibility of the Church, called by the Preacher,* 1.1 The Pa••••a∣dium of the Conclave, and derived from the Schol∣lars of Marcus in Irenaeus, or from the Gno∣sticks in Epiphanius. Against which Infallibi∣lity his unanswerable Arguments are,* 1.2 1. Infal∣libility is one of Gods incommunicable Attributes. 2. The Church not being omniscient, must there∣fore be ignorant in part, and consequently may fall into Error. 3. It is confess'd by the great Cham∣pions of the Papacy, that the Heresie of the No∣vatians was hatch'd in Rome, and continued there almost two hundred years. 4. Besides Ari∣anism that over-spread the Church, she was infe∣cted