Pagano-Papismus; Or, an Exact Parallel Between Rome-Pagan and Rome-Christian, in Their Doctrines and Ceremonies

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I. HOw some have been, and are averse from, or adverse to dispu­tations in Religion, how far, and for what reasons. And for the point in hand, disputation is the most cryed down in Italy, the Popes Country, above other places: for as the same prudent Author observeth Ibid. Of a contrary disposition in some too much addicted to dis­putation; in being too forward to make or accept of of­fers of dispute, and multiplying of needlesse and pre­sumptuous questions and resolutions in matters of Reli­gion.

that his ac­cusers neither found him in the Temple disputing with any man, nor raising up the people, neither in the Synagogues, nor in the City; implying that disputation did dispose men to popular [Page 7]disturbance; and with reference to the affinity betwixt the one and the other, the Catholick meeting in a lesse number then the Donatists, (for a publick dispute) made this advantage of the dif­ference, viz. The Know-Nothings of the 1850s worried about the first great mass of German and Irish immigration, and of course the protestant nation worrying about papism.O. worthy of so much of my notice and respect, as of purpose to appeare in publick against him, or any man of his temper and condition: It will be enough for him to be brought in as an occasion or an appendix to that which is of more moment. To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1. And if there be w any disputes of matters of Faith, betwixt Catho­licks and Hereticks published in any Mother-Tongue, they are forbidden in their Index of prohibited books. Byzantský panovník byl zároveň vládcem říše i nejvyšším představitelem křesťanské církve, protože věřící i duchovenstvo byli ze státního hlediska jeho poddanými.

in particular, as by him it is published, and his examination of some of your Argu­ments, set forth in print, to set forth himself as a Triumphant Antagonist (for his Sect,) not onely over you, but over all the reformed Churches throughout the world. Of the Disputation at Kenelmworth, betwixt John Brian Doctor in Divinity, Minister at Coventry, and John Onley Pastor of a Church at Lawford (as he styles himself.whether the haires and nailes shall rise up with the body; with many others of like sort, which I passe over because I would leave roome for others of another kind, which manifest the Papists to be the greatest doters upon impertinent and unprofitable questions, and the boldest determiners of doubtfull things, that are.

and when he requireth of Christian believers that they be ready alwaies to give an answer to every one that asketh a reason of the hope that is in them, 1 Pet.t Azorius the Jesuit in his morall institutions putteth this question, whether it be lawfull for Clerks to dispute publickly of the Catholick Faith?