Roma ruit the pillars of Rome broken : wherein all the several pleas for the Pope's authority in England, with all the material defences of them, as they have been urged by Romanists from the beginning of our reformation to this day are revised and answered ; to which is subjoyned A seasonable alarm to all sorts of Englishmen against popery, both from their oaths and their interests / by Fr. Fullwood ...
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- Roma ruit the pillars of Rome broken : wherein all the several pleas for the Pope's authority in England, with all the material defences of them, as they have been urged by Romanists from the beginning of our reformation to this day are revised and answered ; to which is subjoyned A seasonable alarm to all sorts of Englishmen against popery, both from their oaths and their interests / by Fr. Fullwood ...
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- Fullwood, Francis, d. 1693.
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- 1679.
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"Roma ruit the pillars of Rome broken : wherein all the several pleas for the Pope's authority in England, with all the material defences of them, as they have been urged by Romanists from the beginning of our reformation to this day are revised and answered ; to which is subjoyned A seasonable alarm to all sorts of Englishmen against popery, both from their oaths and their interests / by Fr. Fullwood ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A40720.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
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THE INTRODUCTION. The Design. The Controver∣sie Contracted into one Point, viz. SCHISM.
THE Church of England hath been long possest, both of her self and the true Religion; and counts it no necessary part of that Religion to molest or censure any other Church: Yet she cannot be quiet, but is still vext and clamour'd with unwearied outcries of Heresie and Schism from the Church of Rome, provoking her de∣fence.
The Ball hath been tossed as well by cun∣ning as learned Hands, ever since the Reforma∣tion; and 'tis complained, that by weak and impertinent Allegations, tedious Altercations, unnecessary Excursions, and much Sophistry, needlesly lengthening and obscuring the contro∣versie, it is in danger to be lost.
After so great and so long exercises of the best Champions on both sides, 'tis not to be ex∣pected, that any great Advance should be made on either: Yet how desirable is it, that
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at length the true difference were clearly sta∣ted, and the Arguments stript of their said Cumber, and presented to us in their proper Evidence, and the controversie so reduced, that the World might perceive where we are: and doubtful inquirers after Truth and the safest Religion, might satisfie their Consciences and fix their Practice.
This is in some measure the Ambition of the present Essay: In order to it, we have ob∣served that the Shop out of which all the Arms, both Offensive and Defensive, on both sides are fetched, is Schism; and the whole Controver∣sie is truly contracted into that one Point, which will appear, by two things.
- 1. By the State of the allowed Nature of Schism.
- 2. By the Application of it so explain'd.