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.

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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.

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Traherne, Thomas, d. 1674.

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London :: Printed by S. and B. Griffin, for Jonathan Edwin ...,

1673.

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Catholic Church -- Controversial literature.

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Contents

• title page
• epigraphs
• dedication
• A Premonition.
• ERRATA.
• AN ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER.
• AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE CHAPTERS.
• A TRUE ACCOUNT OF FALSE RECORDS; Discovering THE FORGERIES OR Counterfeit-Antiquities OF THE CHURCH of ROME.
  • CAP. I. Of the Nature, Degrees, and Kinds of For∣gery.
  • CAP. II. Of the Primitive Order and Government of the Church. The first Popish Encroach∣ment upon it, backed with Forgery. The Detection of the Fraud in the Sixth Council of Carthage.
  • CAP. III. A multitude of Forgeries secretly mingled among the Records of the Church, and put forth under the Name of Isidore, Bishop of Hispalis: Which Book is owned, de∣fended, and followed by the Papists.
  • CAP. IV. James Merlin's Editions of the Councils, who lately published Isidore Hispalensis for a good Record, which is now detect∣ed, and proved to be a Forgery.
  • CAP. V. Divers Forgeries contained in Isidore's Collection, mentioned in particular.
  • CAP. VI. What use Merlin makes of Isidore, and the Forgeries therein. How much he was approved in the Church of Rome. How some would have Isidore the Bishop to be a Merchant, others, a Sinner.
  • CAP. VII. Of Francis Turrian the Jesuite: With what Art and Boldness he defendeth the Forgeries.
  • CAP. VIII. Of Peter Crabbe's Tomes of the Councils: Wherein he agrees with, and wherein he differs from Isidore and Merlin.
  • CAP. IX. of Carranza: his Epitome of the Decrees and Councils. He owneth the Forgeries.
  • CAP. X. Of Surius his four Tomes, and how the Forgeries are by him desended. He hath the Rescripts of Atticus and Cyril, by which pope Zozimus was condemned of Forgery in the sixth Council of Car∣thage.
  • CAP. XI. Of Nicolinus his Tomes, and their Con∣tents for the first 420 years. His Testi∣mony concerning the sixth Council of Carthage.
  • CAP. XII. Nicolinus his Epistle to Pope Sixtus. His contempt of the Fathers. He beginneth to confess the Epistle of Melchiades to be dubious, if not altogether Spurious. He overthrows the Legend about Constan∣tines Donation.
  • CAP. XIII. The Epistle of Pope Damasus to Aurelius, Archbishop of Carthage, commanding him to take care, that the Decretals of the Roman Bishops be preached and pub∣lished abroad: Wherein the Forgeries of the Church of Rome are Fathered on the Holy Ghost.
  • CAP. XIV. Counterfeit Canons of the Apostles defend∣ed by Binius. A Glympse of his Preten∣ces, Sophistries, and Contradictions. A Forged Council of Apostles concerning Images, defended by Binius and Tur∣rian.
  • CAP. XV. Of the Pontisical Falsety Fathered upon Da∣masus, Bishop of Rome, An. 397. How the Popish Collectors use it as their Text, yet confess it to be a Forgery full of Lyes and contradictions.
  • CAP. XVI. Of the Decretal Epistles forged in the Names of the first holy Martyrs and Bi∣shops of Rome The first was sent (as they pretend) from S Clement, by S. Pe∣ter's order, to S. James the Bishop of Jerusalem, seven years after he was dead; and by the best Account 27. S. Clement's Recognitions a corsessed Forgery.
  • CAP. XVII. Of Higinus and Pius, as they are repre∣sented in the Pontifical; and of a no∣table Forgery in the name of Hermes: Where you have the Testimony of an An∣gel, concerning the Celebration of Ea∣ster, cited by no body, while the matter was in .
  • CAP. XVIII. A Letter fathered on Cornelius Bishop of Rome in the year 254. concerning the Removal of the Apostles Bones: giving Evidence to the Antiquity of many Po∣pish Doctrines, but is it self a Forgery.
  • CAP. XIX. The ridiculous Forgery of the Council of Si∣nuessa, put into the Roman Martyrolo∣gies. How the City, and the name of it was consumed, (though when, no man can tell) by an Earthquake.
  • CAP. XX. Divers things premised in order, first to the Establishment, and then to the Re∣futation of Constantine's Donation; the first by Binius, and the latter by the Author. The Forgeries of Marcellus, Pope Eusebius, and Binius opened.
  • CAP. XXI. The EDICT of our Lord CON∣STANTINE the Emperour.
  • CAP. XXII. The Donation of Constantine proved to be a Forgery by Binius himself. He confes∣seth the Acts of Sylvester, which he be∣fore had cited as good Records, to be Counterfeit.
  • CAP. XXIII. Melchiades counterfeited. Isidore Merca∣tor confessed to be a Forgery. The Coun∣cil of Laodicea corrupted, both by a Fraud in the Text, and by the False Glosses of the Papists.
  • CAP. XXIV. Threescore Canons put into the Nicene Council after Finis, by the care and Learning of Alphonsus Pisanus. The counterfeit Epistles of Sylvester, and that Council. A Roman Council wholly counterfeited. Letters counterfeited in the Name of Pope Mark, and Athanasius, and the Bishops of Egypt, to defend the Forgeries that were lately added to the Nicene Council.
• AN APPENDIX. Cardinal Baronius his Grave Censure and Reproof of the Forgeries: His fear that they will prove destructive and pernici∣ous to the See of Rome.