An antidote agaynst poperie: most necessarie for all in this back-slyding age. Wherein 1. The trueth is confirmed, by authoritie of scriptures, witnessing of antiquitie, and confession of the popish partie. 2. Popish scripturall arguments are answered, by the exposition both of father and of their own doctours / by William Guild.

The state of the Question

WHat is truelie to bee held〈…〉〈…〉 the Churches infallibiliti•…•… generall,* 1.1 their owne Cardinall •…•…¦recremata, as one for all, declar•…•… saying, What wee say, to wit,〈…〉〈…〉 the Church in Fayth and Manners,〈…〉〈…〉 not erre, is so to bee taken, that G•…•… doeth so assist her, even to the cons•…•…¦mation of the World, that there〈…〉〈…〉 ever some, albeit not all, who haue〈…〉〈…〉 fayth which worketh by charitie.〈…〉〈…〉 ordinarilie, the Romanists, w•…•… they speake of the infallibilitie•…•… the Church in foundamentall•…•…¦ctrines, by [the Church] they•…•…¦derstand not the vniversall Chu•…•… of CHRIST, but the Romane or •…•…¦sterne part thereof: which their o•…•…

Bis•…•…op of Bit••nto in a publicke Ora∣•…•…at the Councell of Trent, ac∣•…•…wledged to bee but a Daughter •…•…e Easterne and Greeke Church: •…•…so but a part of the Catholicke, 〈…〉〈…〉 which to call Vniversall and Ro∣•…•…e, implyeth a contradiction.

•…•…xt, they distinguish this their Ro∣•…•…e Church, to which they ascrybe •…•…llibilitie onlie, into the essentiall •…•…rch,* 1.2 which is the whole num∣•…•… of Believers; the representatiue, •…•…ch is the Bishops and others •…•…eaned into a generall Coun∣•…•… and the virtuall, which is the •…•…e himselfe.

•…•…nd this infallibilitie which they •…•…ne at first so much to attribute to 〈…〉〈…〉 Church, they neither grāt to the •…•…ntiall nor representiue Church, 〈…〉〈…〉 to the Pope onelie: therefore •…•…armine telleth vs, (and with 〈…〉〈…〉 Suarez, Valentia and others) •…•…t this infallibilitie is not in a •…•…ncell, (sayeth hee) but onlie •…•…he Pope. So that albeit they •…•…ake of the Church, as tho it •…•…re of the whole Catholicke •…•…urch of CHRIST, yet from the

Catholicke in common,* 1.3 they c•…•… to the Romane Church in par•…•…¦lar, and from the Romane Ch•…•… to the B••shop of Rome onelie that in ende, the whole contra•…•…¦sie endeth in the prerogatiu•…•… one man onelie.

And this infallibilitie they n•…•… to bee in his person onlie, as•…•…¦cessour to Peter, altho they can•…•…¦ther proue this by Scripture,* 1.4•…•…¦anie institution of CHRIST, (as •…•…¦larmine granteth) to w t, that〈…〉〈…〉 the Bishop of Rome was or is P•…•… successour in Rome at all, let•…•… that hee succeedeth in particula•…•… his infallibilitie, which was o•…•… proper and personall to Peter h•…•…¦selfe as an Apostle and Pen-ma•…•… holie Scripture, and to all ot•…•… onelie, that were Apostles〈…〉〈…〉 him. They stryving so much〈…〉〈…〉 this infallibilitie of the Bishop•…•… Rome, for this ende, that hee〈…〉〈…〉 bee acknowledged the onelie〈…〉〈…〉 supreame Iudge in contravers•…•… and so, that they may secure the•…•…¦selues in their bad cause agay•…•… all opponents, hee beeing b•…•…

judge and partie,* 1.5 fo•• so sayeth Bel¦•…•…mine. If wee can demonstrate •…•…ayeth hee) that h•• judgem nt of •…•…e Pope is cert••yne and infallible, •…•…en it will also bee seene, that the •…•…ope is lyk••wyse the supreame •…•…dge of the Chu••ch: as if it might •…•…ee sayde of the Pope, that which •…•…e Father from Heaven spak•• of •…•…is Sonne onelie, hunc audite, •…•…eare him.

Now, because Bellarmine, to proue •…•…he Popes infallibilitie, taketh his •…•…rgument from the infallibilitie of •…•…h•• high Priest amongst the Iewes, 〈…〉〈…〉 which wee haue answered in the •…•…wne place heereafter) ••herefore •…•…giving, and not granting, that the Pope were the Christian high Priest (which hee is not) and had the •…•…yke prerogatiue as the Iewi•••• had, yet wee will show by the ensewing argument tak••n from the Iewish high Priest, that the ••ope who pre∣tends to bee Christian h gh Priest, hath no infallibilitie at all.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Turr. sum∣ma de Eccle∣sia l. 2 c. 91.
• * 1.2

  Bell. l. 4. de pont. 2. et 3 Sua∣rez tract. de fide disp. 5 sect. 6. parag. 10. Valen. tom 3 in 2••. 2 ^a. disp. 1 q. 1. punct. 7.
• * 1.3

  See al∣so Cu∣sanus conc. l 2. c. 3.
• * 1.4

  Bell. l. 4. de pont. c. 12. § at vero, & § obser∣van∣dum est 30.
• * 1.5

  Bell. l. 4. de pont. c 1. Itē. c. 3. et 5.