The orthodox faith and vvay to the Church explaned and iustified in answer to a popish treatise, entituled, White died blacke; wherein T.W. p. in his triple accusation of D. White for impostures, vntruths, and absurd illations, is proued a trifler: and the present controuersies betweene vs and the Romanists are more fully deliuered and cleared. By Francis White Bachelour in Diuinitie, and elder brother of Doctor Iohn White.
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The orthodox faith and vvay to the Church explaned and iustified in answer to a popish treatise, entituled, White died blacke; wherein T.W. p. in his triple accusation of D. White for impostures, vntruths, and absurd illations, is proued a trifler: and the present controuersies betweene vs and the Romanists are more fully deliuered and cleared. By Francis White Bachelour in Diuinitie, and elder brother of Doctor Iohn White.
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White, Francis, 1564?-1638.
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London :: Printed by Richard Field for William Barret, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the three Pigeons,
1617.
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Worthington, Thomas, 1549-1627. -- Whyte dyed black -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
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"The orthodox faith and vvay to the Church explaned and iustified in answer to a popish treatise, entituled, White died blacke; wherein T.W. p. in his triple accusation of D. White for impostures, vntruths, and absurd illations, is proued a trifler: and the present controuersies betweene vs and the Romanists are more fully deliuered and cleared. By Francis White Bachelour in Diuinitie, and elder brother of Doctor Iohn White." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A15081.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.
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Section 1. Concerning the notion and generall descripti∣on of the notes of the Church.
By notes our Aduersaries vnderstand, Certaine outward signes and properties, diuers from the essence, whereby the true Church is known and differenced from all other societies, humane or religiousa.
In the markes of the Church they require these con∣ditions: 1. That they be proper and not common, or such as false Churches may easily pretend to challengeb. Se∣condly, Euident and better knowne then the Church it selfe. And by euident they vnderstand that which is ma∣nifest
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to sensec or common reason, by which any Infi∣dell or vnlearned person by his naturall prudence, may infallibly without other meanes know the Church, and such as by which all doubt is taken away about the que∣stion which is the Churchd. 3. Inseparable and at all times belonging to the Churche.
Notes
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Bellar. de ec∣cles. l. 4. c. 3. Ha∣bet plurimas notas testimo∣nia, & signa quae tam discernunt ab omni falsa religione, paga∣norum, Iudaeorū baereticorum. Stapl. Rel. c 1. q. 4. a••. 5. Quem∣admodum di∣stinguunt homi∣nem à bruto parunli per externa lineamenta corporis, & figuram. &c. sic ecclesia ab imperitis fi∣delibus, & ab infidelibus per externam faciem, &c. pa. 113.
Greg. Val. ib. q. 1. p. 4. ••uidens censeri solet il∣lud quod ita sufficienter mo∣uet hominis in∣tellectum, vt in libera hominis potestate non s•• dissentire: estq́ue vel per se notum vt principia: vel quia ex notis percipitur, vel quia sensu, &c. Suar. def. fid. Cath. cont. sect. Angl. l. 1. c. 8. Quia sensibus se exhibet, vt euidenter credibilem, &c.
Hos confess. c. ••0. Notae quibus omnis de ecclesia, penes quos sit dubitatio tolli potest: vt 〈◊〉〈◊〉 notis à quibusuis agnosci possit ecclesia: ita sunt propriae vt eas nequaquam vsurpare possint hae∣retici. Stapl. Rel. c. 1 q. 4. ar. 5. pa. 114. Notae debent ita conspicuae esse, vt nec ab aduersarijs facile praetexi queant, nec vllo modo controuersae aut dubiae sunt.