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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64702	The church-papist (so-called), his religion and tenets fully discovered in a serious dispute ... whereby the common ... arguments of pretended visibility, succession, universality, &c., of the Roman Church ... are briefly confuted : whereunto is added, a short discourse proving episcopacy to be of divine institution, kingly government of Gods setting up, and the religion of the Church of England, to be the best in the world / by one of the children of the late captivity, 1680.	Underwood, John, fl. 1680.	1680 (1680)	Wing U46; ESTC R7367	28,086	42

or Stilo Novo more modernly a Papist in disguise is one who holds Unity and Communion with the Church of England in a strict compliance subscribes to all the Protestant Professions of Faith and received Principles in the same yet in heart adheres also to the Church of Rome in all such Points and Doctrines as are agreeable to Scripture and the Apostolick Faith He is known by his high Conformity to the Liturgy Doctrine and Discipline of the Church and noted for his devout observance of all the Rights and Ceremonies used in publick Worship nor can the Church impose the thing not thwarting the Canon of holy Scripture to which he thinks it not his duty to incline his Obedience He cannot be brought to countenance those who would diminish or so much as dispute her Authority or labour to introduce Novelties and schismatical Fangles into her Government accounting such as wild Boars breaking into the Vineyard to root it up nor will he be justled out of his belief of what the cruel Experiment of the late Times have shown him that the Lambskin of Reformation harbours Wolves for Desolation He is one who will and doth take lawful Oaths of Allegiance Supremacy Test c. tendred him and is obstinate in nothing more than in keeping them He peaceably submits to the Government without dishonourable Reflections on Church or State and in defence of both dares and will venture his All He is one who esteems Obedience better than Sacrifice and prefers performing his Duty before his Life He looks upon the Governours of the Church as those whom God hath sent and through whose words we are to believe in Christ St. Joh. 17.20 and upon the Magistrate and Temporal Rulers as Ministers of God to us for our good and knoweth that the Powers that be are ordained of God and that to resist the Power is to resist the Ordinance of God and will not incur Damnation by resisting He is the same man who stilo veteri in the late Usurpation would not swallow the several unhallowed Bits against Law and Honesty tempted on him not the Vow and Covenant nor subscribe the Association publick Protestation not take the League and Covenant Abjuration of certain Doctrines Oaths c. contradictory one to another and contrary to former lawful Oaths nor close with the Engagement contrary to them all He was the chief sufferer in those times and still is the Butt at which envenomed Arrows from all corners are shot and principally aimed at by the Enemies of the Church for the first Destruction Under the like denomination of Church-Papists were then the best of men delivered to popular ignominy and Contempt preparatives for Ruine and Fore-runners of all Confusion so exposed were the greatest and best of men the Church or Nation of England ever produced pretended fears and Jealousies of being Popishly addicted assaulted the Throne and pretences of Hypocrisie in Religion made many Martyrs for the true one The Sluce of Blood first opened in the best Counsellor of State many Torrents followed the Veins of Royal Majesty it self of the great Patriarch of our Reformed Church of the most Religious of the Nobility and of many prime Christians of the Protestant Profession were launched and flowing in many streams made up a Red Sea Under such an Appellation and Reproach was the Author of this Paper in the same usurped Times particularly numbred and persecuted and by the cruelty of the pretended Reformers suffered many Calamities Plunderings Imprisonments Loss of Employment c. narrowly escaping with life and so strong was the Calumny which took away the Lives of the best Protestants in the world cast on the Churchmen that it prevailed on the belief of many who were innocent of the malicious Project that we were Papists indeed even the very Papists themselves were beguiled thereby and believed us of their perswasion insomuch that soon after the blessed Restauration of the Government the Author was accosted with their Salutes expressing their amazement in that now persecution ceased and a door opened for more freedom as they said he communicated not with them in worship but his refusal of their solemn invitation showing them their mistake one of them no mean one set upon him and made it his business to gain a Proselyte engaging him to comply with or answer the Arguments he soon after delivered in Writing which put the Author upon a serious Scrutiny and Study to know his own Religion aright and to defend it for he being a Layman had then read little of Controversie upon the Points He hapned at the very first on the best Lights the Word of God and the Word of the King Authorities rightly understood and aptly applied not to be withstood by any in the world The best direction to understand the former he received from the later even from that best of Christians and King of Protestants in his ΕΙΚΩΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ by which were framed the following Answers which have slept these many years from their first Conception and might have been dumb till the Papers had turn'd to Ashes had not the now revived term of disguised Papist been clamorous and awakned them to face the world that the well meaning Christian may not in thought joyn with the Deceiver to reproach the Innocent that the old Intrigue and Stratagem now on foot may not proceed again to trapan the Nation into an Uprore and Confusion by first rendring a man criminal by aspersion to fit him for a destruction without pity then cruelly destroy him for a Crime of which he is not guilty See here then such a Church Papist dissected and behold him and his Religion in the following Pages The aforementioned Arguments of Dr. R. S. are four in number The First from the perpetual Visibility of the Church of Rome viz. 1. That Church only that is Visible in all Ages is the true Church But only the Roman Church is Visible in all Ages Ergo only the Roman Church is the True Church The Proof THe Major is manifest which I prove by St. Matth. 18.17 Dic Ecclesiae Tell the Church But how can we tell the Church if it be invisible tanquam Idea Platonica Ergo The Church is Visible in all Ages The Minor is clear by all Church Histories Councils Fathers that the Roman Church only is Visible in all Ages for no other Church can shew her Visibility in any Kingdom City or Village from the Apostles time to Luther Ergo only the Roman Church is the True Church The Second Argument from Succession viz. 2. That Church only that hath lawful Succession is the True Church But only the Roman Church hath lawful Succession Ergo only the Roman Church is the True Church The Proof THe Major is proved by St. August That Church saith he in which is Succession is the Rock against which Hell-Gates cannot prevail And Irenaeus saith Successione confundimus omnes Succession confound all Hereticks but only the Roman Church have lawful