Sainct Austines religion collected from his owne writinges & from the confessio[n]s of the learned Protestants, whereby is sufficiently proued and made knowen the like answearable doctrine of the other more auncient fathers of the primitiue church / written by Iohn Brereley.
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Sainct Austines religion collected from his owne writinges & from the confessio[n]s of the learned Protestants, whereby is sufficiently proued and made knowen the like answearable doctrine of the other more auncient fathers of the primitiue church / written by Iohn Brereley.
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prnited [sic] 1620.
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Augustine, -- Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Catholic Church -- Doctrines.
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"Sainct Austines religion collected from his owne writinges & from the confessio[n]s of the learned Protestants, whereby is sufficiently proued and made knowen the like answearable doctrine of the other more auncient fathers of the primitiue church / written by Iohn Brereley." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16708.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.
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S. Austin teacheth that the Church of Christ is freed from error. SECTION. 1.
DIrectly contrary to the gene∣ral doctrine of Protestants im∣pugning that special priuiledge of the Church of Christ, being freed from error, S. Austin agreeably with vs Catholickes, is so plaine and ful herein to the opposite, as that he doubteth not to refer vs to her final determination in al questions of doubt and difficulty: for speaking of the Rebaptising of hereticks he saith,(c)Although example of this be not brought out of the Canonical Scriptures, ••ot the truth of the same Scriptures is
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houlden of vs in this matter, when we do that which now pleaseth the vniuer∣sal Church which the authority of those Scriptures commendeth, that so because the holy Scripture connot deceiue who∣soeuer feareth to be deceiued with the obscurity of this question, let him take councel therein of the same Church, which without al ambiguity the holy Scripture demonstrateth. Yea he fur-auoucheth that(d)It is a point of most insolent madnes to dispute against that which the vniuersal Church thinketh. In so much as he faith,(e)Of the Churches vniuersal consent (in any point of doctrine) Id autem sit securae vo••is asserere, it is secure to affirme it. And lastly he affirmeth the decree of a general Coūcel to be,(f)com∣petens sufficiens{que} Iudicium, a competent and sufficient iugdement.