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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London :: Printed for Richard Royston ...,
1679.
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Catholic Church -- Controversial literature.
Church and state -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Church and state -- Early works to 1800.
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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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SECT. III. Arg. 1. Peter Assigned it.
[Arg. 1] INstead of proving that Christ did, they say that St. Peter when he died, bestowed the Su∣premacy upon the Bishops of Rome, in words to this effect; as Hart expresseth them. I Ordain this Clement to be your Bishop; unto whom alone I commit the Chair of my Preaching and Doctrine; And I give to him that power of binding and loosing, which Christ gave to me.
[Ans.] And what then? (I Ordain) then he had it not, as Peters Successor by Divine Right, but as a Gift and Legacy of St. Peter. 2. (This Clement) a foul blot to the Story: For it's plain in Re∣cords, that Linus continued Bishop eleven years after Peter's death; and Cletus twelve after Linus; before Clemens had the Chair. [Your Bishop] that is the Bishop of Rome; what's this to the
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Ʋniversal Bishop? [And I give to him] what? the Chair of Preaching and Doctrine, and the power of the Keys. viz. no more than is given to every Bishop at his Ordination. Now 'tis observable, though this pitiful Story signifie just nothing; yet what strange Arts and stretches of invention are forced to support it, and to render it possible though all in vain.