A manuel of controversies clearly demonstrating the truth of Catholique religion by texts of Holy Scripture, councils of all ages, Fathers of the first 500 yeers, common sense and reason, and fully answering the principal objections of Protestants and all other sectaries / by H.T.

Judg in controverted points of faith.

The major is manifest by induction in all Courts of Judicature; the minor hath been proved a∣bove, by the first, second, and fourth arguments.

Fathers for this point.

IN the second age Irenaeus, Where the Church is, there is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of God is, there is all grace, l. 3. c. 40. And again, We must be∣lieve those Priests that are in the Church, those that have a succession from the Apostles, who together with Episcopal power, have according to the good pleasure of the Father received the certain gift of truth, l. 1. c. 49. and▪ 62. The Church shall be under no mans judgment, for to the church all things are known, in which is perfect Faith of the Father, and of all the dispensation of Christ, and firm knowledg of the Holy Ghost, who teacheth all truth.

In the third age Origen, That only is to be be∣lieved for truth, which in nothing disagrees from the tradition of the church. And in our understanding Scripture, &c. we must not believe otherwise, then as the church of God hath by succession delivered to us. Praefat. in lib▪ Periarch.

In the same age S. Cyprian, The Spouse of Christ cannot be defiled with adultery, she i•• pure and chast, De unitat. Eccles. And a little after, Whoever di∣vides from the Church, and cleaves to the adulteresse, is separated from the promises of the church: he cannot have God his Father, that hath not the Church his Mo∣ther.

And again, To Peters Chair, and the principal church, infidelity or false faith cannot have access, E∣pist. 55.

In the fourth age Lactantius Firmianus: It is only the Catholique Church that hath the true worship of God, this is the well-spring of truth, the dwelling place of faith, &c. l. 3. c. ult.

In the same age S. Cyril of Hierusalem: The Ro∣man Faith commanded by the Apostles cannot be chan∣ged, l. 3. c. 4. in apolog. cont. Ruffin.

In the fifth age Vincentius Lyrinensis: All those that will not be accounted Heretiques, must conforme themselves to the decr••es of oecumenical councils, l. ad∣vers. hae••es. c. 41.

In the same age S. Augustine: I know by divine re∣velations, that the Spirit of truth teacheth it (the church) all truth▪ l. 4. de Baptism c. 4. And again, To dispute against the whole church is most insolent madness. And I my self would not believe the Gospel, were it not that the authority of the church moves me to it, cont. Epist. fundam. c. 5.