A iust discharge to Dr. Stillingfleet's vnjust charge of idolatry against the Church of Rome with a discovery of the vanity of his late defence in his pretended answer to a book entituled, Catholicks no idolaters : by way of dialogue between Eunomius, a conformist, & Catharinus, a non-conformist : the first part : concerning the charge of idolatry, &c.

THE THIRD PART.

The First Dialogue.

THe Notion of the Heathen's ••do∣latry imposed on T. G. by Dr. S•• refuted from the Places out of which is was pretended to be gathered. The 〈◊〉〈◊〉

Question brought to try all, viz whether the Heathen's Jupiter were according to the Fathers, the true God, o•• a Devil? The fo••mer asserted by Dr. St, the latter by T. G. and proved by plain and unde∣niable Testimonies of mo••e t••an a whole Jury of Fathers besides Origen. The Dr's mighty Argument from the Inscri∣ption to the Vnknown God, shown to be not only Impertinent, but against him∣self. p. 275

The Second Dialogue.

The greatest part of the Testimonies of the Fathers produced by Dr. St, that is, all those which import no more, than either that the Heathens had a natural knowledge of one Supream God, or that it was their Sense that their Jupiter was He, ••h••wn to be Impertinent to the Dis∣pute between him and T. G. from the true State of the Question. His injurious usage of the Fathers, blaming them for charging the Heathens with more than they were guilty of, or themselves could prove, (being indeed a tacite Consession that he look'd vpon them as Opposit to him) laid open in a cleer account of the Heathen's Theology, and the several ways the Fathers took to refute it, all of

them convincing, as is made manifest both from the arguments themselves being rightly applied to their due subjects, and the success they had. pag. 307

The Third Dialogue.

The Particular Testimonies of Mi∣nucius Felix, Clemens Alexandrinus, S. Augustin, and Tertullian, cited by Dr. St. to prove it to haue been their Sense, that the H••athen's Jupiter was the true God, brought to the Test; And the design of the said Fathers shown to be either mis-represented, or both their Words and Sense corrupted by him. p. 352▪

The Fourth Dialogue.

Catharinus waves the Question of Jupiter's being she true God: and in∣forces the Parallel from the Heathen's acknowledgment of one Supream Being, to which. Dr. St contends that they referred the worship of their Inferiour Deities. Another notable Instance of his unfaithfull reporting a passage of Tho∣mas Aquinas; and the Generality of the Heathens shown by most evident Argu∣ments to haue believed and worshipped a mult••tude of Gods properly so called and esteemed by them. What kind of Notion the Vulgar Heathens had of the Divi∣nity

explained, and the Parallel between their worship, and that of the Church of Rome shown to be unjust, and rejected as such by Eminent Divines of the Church of England. pag. 392.

The Fifth Dialogue.

The Dr's Parallel from the Practice of the Wiser Heathens, shown to be Un∣parallel upon many accounts: and the Argument from God's Appropriation of certain external Acts to his worship, a meer Sophism made up of Equivocations, False Suppositions, and Self-contradic∣tions, and after all to conclude nothing against the doctrine of the Church of Rome, or the definition of Idolatry gi∣ven by T. G. p. 435

The Sixth Dialogue,

The Church of Rome not justly chargeable either for not reserving any External Act of Religious worship pro∣per to God, or for giving any appropriate to God, to Creatures▪ The Dr. un happy again in his ci••ing of Card. Lugo; and his arguments from the Text. Matth. 3. 10. and the term, Religious worshsp, solved by his own distinctions. No suc∣cour to his cause f••om the determination of Circumstances, as assigned by him▪

Mr. Daillés doctrine, [that sign instituted by men to signify any thing, though of Religion, are to be interpreted by the publik Practice of those who use them,] a very Just Discharge to the Dr's unjust Charge of Idolatry, in the parti∣cular Instances, o•• Invocation, Erec∣ting Temples, burning Incense, &c. as they are practiced in the Church of Rome: and T, Gs. Answer to the Dr's old Scruple, why sacrifice may not be used to the Saints, in like manner as other External acts are, shown to haue been pertinent and satisfactory, and his denying Christ himself to be offered, as a Sacrifice upon the Altar, shown to be repugnant to the Sense of the true and genuin Sons of the Church of England. A Friendly Advice to him out of St. Augustin. p. 464.