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CHAP. IX. Of the Infallibility of the Church.
Mr. C's State of the question, Sect. 1. We acknowledge no 〈◊〉〈◊〉 written traditions as the rule of faith, Sect. 2. Why we p••efer the four first General Councils before others, Sect. 3. Reason alone our guide, Sect. 4. Scripture and the guidance of the Spirit are not excluded by this guide, ib. The falli∣bility of it no prejudice against its guidance, Sect. 5. We own no judge of our faith but Scripture, Sect. 6. Mr. C's. Calumny, Sect. 7. The Romanist not guided by Reason, Scripture or Antiquity, Sect. 8. No necessity of an infalli∣ble judge besides Scripture, Sect. 9. Mr. C's. Arguments for the Churches Infallibility; first, From Deut. 17.8, 9, 10. Sect. 10. His second from Christs promise of his presence with his Disciples, considered, Sect. 11. From Christs pro∣mise of his presence with two or three, Sect. 12. Of leading his Church into all truth, Sect. 13. That the gates of hell shall not prevail against her, Sect. 14. From his command of obeying the Church, Sect. 15 From the unity of the Church, Sect. 16. Mr. C's abuse of Mr. Chillingworth, Sect. 17. These promises not to be applyed to particular Churches, Sect. 18. His Argument from St. Gregory, Constant. and the Anathemas of Councils, Sect. 9. Bishop Bramhal and Dr. Hammond plead not for such infallibility, Sect. 20. The Doctors Argument from the prevailing of Arrianism defended, Sect. 21. From the opinion of the Millenaries, Sect. 22. From giving the Eucharist to infants, Sect. 23.
IN his ninth Chapter concerning the Churches Infallibility, [Sect. 1] he distinguisheth between the rule of faith, and the guide of it, and then tells us, that to the Presbyterians, Indepen∣dents, Anabaptists, Quakers, Socinians, &c. the only rule is the holy Scripture: But both Catholicks, and English Protestants, though they acknowledge Divine Revelations