Roman forgeries, or, A true account of false records discovering the impostures and counterfeit antiquities of the Church of Rome / by a faithful son of the Church of England.

AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE CHAPTERS.

Cap. 1. OF the Nature, Degrees, and Kinds of Forgery.

Cap. 2. Of the Primitive Order and Government of the Church. The first Popish Encroachment upon it, backed with For∣gery. The Detection of the Fraud in the Sixth Council of Carthage.

Cap. 3. A multitude of Forgeries se∣cretly mingled with the Records of the Church, and put forth under the Name of Isidore, Bishop of Hispalis: Which Book is owned, defended, and followed by the Pa∣pists.

Cap. 4. James Merlins Edition of the Councils, who lately published Isidore Hi∣spalensis for a good Record, which is now detected, and proved to be a Forgery.

Cap. 5. Divers Forgeries contained in Isidores counterfeit Collection, mentioned in particular.

Cap. 6. A further account of Merlins design. How some would have Isidore to be a Bishop, others a Merchant, others a Sinner; no man knowing well what to make of him.

Cap. 7. Of Francis Turrian, the famous Jesuite, with what Art and Soldness he defendeth the Forgeries.

Cap. 8. Of Peter Crabbe, his Tomes of the Councils. Wherein he agrees with, and wherein he differs from Indore and Mer∣lin.

Cap. 9. Of Carranza his Epitome: He owneth, and useth the Forgeries for good Records.

Cap. 10. Of Surius his four Tomes, and how the Forgeries are by him confirm∣ed. He hath the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Atticus and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, by which Pope Zozimus was con∣victed of Forgery, in the sixth Council of Carthage.

Cap. 11. Of Nicolinus his Tomes, and their Contents for the first 〈◊〉〈◊〉 years. How full of Forgeries. His Testimony concern∣ing the sixth Council of Carthage; with his way of desending the Popes Forgery therein.

Cap. 12. Nicolinus his Fpisile to Pope Sixtus V. His contempt of the Fathers. He beginneth to confess the Epistle of Mel∣chiadcs

to be naught. He overthroweth the Legend about Constantines Donation.

Cap. 13. The Epistle of Pope Damasus to Aurelius, Archbishop of Carthage, commanding the Decretals of the Roman Bishops to be preached and published, and Fathering those Forgeries on the H. Ghost.

Cap. 14. Counterfeit Canons made in the Apostles names, defended by Binius. A Glympse of his Pretences, Sophistries, and Contradictions. A forged Council of the Apostles concerning Images, defended by Binius, and Turrian.

Cap. 15. A Book called the Pontifical, falsly fathered upon Damasus, an Ancient Bishop of Rome. How the most Learned of the Popish Collectors use it as the Text on which they Comment in their volumi∣nous Books, yet confess it to be a Forgery full of lyes and contradictions.

Cap. 16 Of the Decretal Epistles, for∣ged in the Names of Holy Martyrs and Bi∣shops of Rome, for many hundred years together: The first was sent from S. Cle∣ment, by S. Peters Order, to S James (as they pretend) Bishop of Jerusalem, seven years at least; and by the truest account, more than seven and twenty years after he was in his Grave. S. Clements Recogni∣tions, a cónfessed Forgery; which detect∣eth

the first Epistle of S. Clement to be a real fraud.

Cap. 17. Of Higinus, and Pius. A no∣table Forgery in the name of Hermes: Where you have the Testimony of an Angel concerning the Celebration of Easter; ne∣ver cited while the matter was in con∣troversie.

Cap. 18 A Letter Eathered on Corne∣lius, Bishop of Rome, concerning the re∣moval of the Apostles Bones, about the year 2 4. It gives Evidence to the Anti∣quity of many Popish Doctrines, but is it self a Forgery.

Cap. 9. The ridiculous Forgery of the Council of Sinuessa, put into the Roman Martyrologies. How the City, and the Name of it, was consumed (no man can tell when) by an Earthquake, &c.

Cap. 20. Divers things premised, in order first to the Establishment, and then to the Refutation of Constantines Dona∣tion; the first by Binius, the latter by the Author. The Forgeries of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Pope Eusebius, and Binius together, opened.

Cap. 21. The counterfeit Edict of our Lord Constantine the Emperour: where∣in the Western Empire was given to the Bishop of Rome.

Cap. 22. The Donation of Constantine

proved to be a Forgery by Binius himself. He confesseth the Acts of Pope Sylvester (which he before had cited for good) to be Forged.

Cap. 23. Pope Melchiades Epistle coun∣terfeited. Isidore Mercator, the Great Seducer of all the Roman Collectors, con∣fessed to be a Forger. The Council of Lao∣dicea corrupted by the fraud of the Pa∣pists.

Cap. 21. Threescore Canons put into the Nicene Council after Finis, by the care and Learning of Alphonsus Fisanus. Epistles counterfeited in the name of Syl∣vester, and that Council. A Roman Coun∣cil, under Pope Sylvester, wholly counter∣feited. Spurious Letters Father'd on Pope Mark, Athanasius, and the Bishops of E∣gypt, to defend the Forgeries that were lately added to the Nicene Council.

Appendix. Cardinal Baronius his Grave Censure and Reproof of the Forgeries. His fear that they will prove destractive and pernicious to the See of Rome.