Of the heart and its right soveraign, and Rome no mother-church to England, or, An historical account of the title of our British Church, and by what ministry the Gospel was first planted in every country with a remembrance of the rights of Jerusalem above, in the great question, where is the true mother-church of Christians? / by T.J.

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Of the heart and its right soveraign, and Rome no mother-church to England, or, An historical account of the title of our British Church, and by what ministry the Gospel was first planted in every country with a remembrance of the rights of Jerusalem above, in the great question, where is the true mother-church of Christians? / by T.J.
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Jones, Thomas, 1622?-1682.
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London :: Printed for Edw. Foulkes, and are to be sold by T. Basset,
1678.
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Church of England -- Apologetic works.
Catholic Church -- Controversial literature.
Great Britain -- Church history.
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"Of the heart and its right soveraign, and Rome no mother-church to England, or, An historical account of the title of our British Church, and by what ministry the Gospel was first planted in every country with a remembrance of the rights of Jerusalem above, in the great question, where is the true mother-church of Christians? / by T.J." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47083.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.

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SECT. XVI.

The right rle of Heresie, 504. The Roman-Catholick rule thereof, ibid. Illustrated by a passage of a Portugues General, p. 503, 504. None are greater Hereticks than our Roman-Catho∣licks why? p. 505. seqq. & 333. The pregnancy of their Heresie in excluding the heart, 507. Papists honour Christ upon the score of the Pope, why? p. 508. Form of Godliness no where more, than where the life is wanting, p. 508. Being as the Maggots of a dead Corps, p. 509. Several Antichristian effects of the exclu∣sion of the heart in that Church. 1. Lying, and Legending, and forging, p. 509, 510. Popish Legends, Alcharon dreams, Talmud dotages, how near a kin? 2. Unchristian Cruelty. God and Christ and all mankind in the heart, p. 511. seq. Our different beings in respect of Souls, or Bodies. ibid. How Pro∣testants put on Christ, and Papists the Pope, and their different tempers thereby, p. 513, 514. Where Christ is out of the heart, Dissenters find no Mediator, p. 515. How the Turk was to rage by the Sword, Rome by Fire, according to Prophecy, p. 515, 516, 517. 3. Carnal Impurities not much reckon'd for sins at Rome, p. 518. 4. Accusers of Brethren, p. 519. Catholick and Orthodox belong better to Protestants, than Papists, p. 520, 521, 522. Abraham the first Catholick, p. 522. The Old Church of Rome differ'd from the Moderne, (as we Protestants:) in Doctrine, p. 523. Its a Gothic Church, or Gregorian, p. 525, 529. Old Romans more in Venice, &c. p. 525. Rome made up of the dregs of mankind, after the ruine of the old, according to Platina, p. 483, 484. What is to be thought of the Christian Articles there still profess'd, p. 525, 526. Their Worship and Masse alterd from the Old Worship, and by whose means, re∣markably, 526, 527, 528. Our Common Prayer far nearer to the Liturgy of Old Rome, p: 528. The beginning and first start of Popery, when; and with what omens? p. 526. Pope Gregory, and Mahomet equally pretended to Divine Inspirations, by a Pigeon at their Eare, p. 530. Popery compar'd to a long night, and in what hour of that night Purgatory and Transub∣stantiation, &c. began to possess mens fancies, p. 530. 531. Europe owes its Knowledge and Learning to Protestancy, and Ignorance and Barbarism to Popery, p. 533. Rome Heathen, and the Modern Christian compar'd, p. 534. seqq. The Roman Art to secure their Converts p 538. The Old Romans respected their Heathenism, more than the Modern, their Christianity, p. 539. Modern, and Middle, and Ancient Brittains compar'd

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with the Romans, for Armes, and Arts, and Altars, p. 540. seqq. Invasions of Nations a mystical deluge, and how the Brittains alone, like Noah, surviv'd and communicated the Old World to the New, ibid. p. 541, 542. How the English, and the Old Brit∣tains, agree in humour, and defence of their Faith, p. 541. The German had their first Chymistry from the Brittains, and Poetry and Rhetoric how inseparable from the Brittish Nation and Language, p. 543. Julius Caesar repuls'd by Gaswalhan, p. 544. Unpeaceable Divisions the blind-side of Ancient and Modern Brittains, p. 545. Of the Female Brittish Valour, p. 546, Of the Reduction of Caractacus, his Teritory and Fame, p. 547. seq. A bold Speech and strange Faith of an Aged Brittain, before K. Henry 2d. The Fame of our Brittish Legions in the Roman Wars, and Musters, p. 551. How unworthy it were to subject this Church to Rome, p. 409, 474, 553. An addition to the Princely Charge, since the time of Justinian, p. 554. It is more disgraceful to be overseen, than overcome, p. 555. The loss and detriment by Popery, and guilt therewith, p. 555, 556. The Incongruity by it, p, 556, 557. The impossibility, how probably in fate, 557, 558. How manifestly in reason, without a curse, p. 558. The reason why Popery and Atheism must have Debauchery to precede p, 560 All in the end, must acknow∣ledge, or feel Christs Soveraignty, p 561. The connexion of the end of this Discourse with its beginning, or reduction of the Controversie to one point, ibid.

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