Popery anatomized, or, A learned, pious, and elaborat treatise wherein many of the greatest and weightiest points of controversie, between us and papists, are handled, and the truth of our doctrine clearly proved : and the falshood of their religion and doctrine anatomized, and laid open, and most evidently convicted and confuted by Scripture, fathers, and also by some of their own popes, doctors, cardinals, and of their own writers : in answer to M. Gilbert Brown, priest / by that learned, singularly pious, and eminently faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. John Welsch ...

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Title: Popery anatomized, or, A learned, pious, and elaborat treatise wherein many of the greatest and weightiest points of controversie, between us and papists, are handled, and the truth of our doctrine clearly proved : and the falshood of their religion and doctrine anatomized, and laid open, and most evidently convicted and confuted by Scripture, fathers, and also by some of their own popes, doctors, cardinals, and of their own writers : in answer to M. Gilbert Brown, priest / by that learned, singularly pious, and eminently faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. John Welsch ...
Author: Welch, John, 1568?-1622.
Publication: Glasgow :: By Robert Sanders ...,; 1672.
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Subject terms: Catholic Church -- Controversial literature.; Theology, Doctrinal.
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Master Gilbert Brown.

WHom M. John calls Fathers here, I know not, except Simon Magus, Novatus, Aerius, Jovinianus, Pelagius, Vigilantius, and such. For indeed there is none of these, and many the like, but they were against us, and with them, in some heads. But I am sure, S Ireneus, S. Cyprian, S. Ambrose, S. Augustine, S. Jerome, S. Basile, S. Chrysostome, with the rest of the holy Fathers, is no way with them, and against us, as M. John will not be able to prove for all his offer. As for example, it is a chief ground in their Religion, that only faith justifieth. This, I say, can neither be proved by the Scriptures, nor ancient Fathers of the first six hundred years. For why the contrary is expresly contained in the Word of God. Do ye see (saith S. James) that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only, James 2.24. with many other places that agrees with the same, Matth. 7.21. and 19.17. and 34.35. John 14.15.21. 1. John 2.3.4. Rom. 2.13. 1. Cor. 13.2. and 1.19. Gal. 5.6. Tit. 1.16. And S. Augustin saith himself, de fide & operibus, cap. 14. That this Justification by faith only, was an old heresie in the very time of the Apostles.