Field: Of the Church: Volume One:
OF THE CHURCH.................................................................................. 13
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE....................................................................... 15
End Notes........................................................................................... 21
TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCE............................................................. 22
FIRST BOOK: Name, Nature, and Definition of the Church........................ 29
Chapter 1: Church Consisting Of Men And Angels In The Day Of Their
Creation 30
End Notes........................................................................................... 34
Chapter 2: Of The Calling Of Grace,
Whereby God Called Out Both Men And Angels From The Rest Of His Creatures, To
Be Unto Him A Holy Church: And Of Their Apostasy.................... 36
End Notes........................................................................................... 38
Chapter 3: Church, Consisting Of
Those Angels That Continued In Their First Estate By Force Of Grace Upholding
Them, And Men Redeemed................................................................ 41
End Notes........................................................................................... 43
Chapter 4: Church Of The Redeemed...................................................... 46
End Notes........................................................................................... 49
Chapter 5: Of The Christian Church........................................................ 51
End Notes........................................................................................... 55
Chapter 6: Of The Definition Of The
Church........................................... 58
Chapter 7: Of The Divers Sorts Of
Them That Pertain To The Church..... 59
End Notes........................................................................................... 60
Chapter 8: Of Their Meaning Who Say
That The Elect Only Are Of The Church. 62
End Notes........................................................................................... 63
Chapter 9: Of The Difference Of
Them That Are In, And Of The Church. 65
End Notes........................................................................................... 66
Chapter 10: Of The Visible And
Invisible Church.................................... 67
End Notes........................................................................................... 70
Chapter 11: Of The Divers Titles Of
The Church, And How They Are Verified Of It. 73
End Notes........................................................................................... 75
Chapter 12: Of The Divers Sorts Of
Them That Have Not Yet Entered The Church. 78
End Notes........................................................................................... 79
Chapter 13: Of The First Sort Of
Them, That After Their Admission Into The Church Of God, Do Voluntarily Depart,
And Go Out From The Same.................................................................. 81
End Notes........................................................................................... 82
Chapter 14: Of The Second Sort Of
Them, That Voluntarily Go Out From The People Of God. 83
End Notes........................................................................................... 86
Chapter 15: Of Them Whom The Church
Casteth Out By Excommunication. 89
End Notes........................................................................................... 92
Chapter 16: Of The Errors That Are
And Have Been, Touching The Use Of The Discipline Of The Church, In Punishing
Offenders............................................................................................. 94
End Notes........................................................................................... 96
Chapter 17: Of The Considerations
Moving The Church To Use Indulgence Towards Offenders. 98
End Notes........................................................................................... 99
Chapter 18: Of Their Damnable
Pride, Who Condemn All Those Churches Wherein Want Of Due Execution Of
Discipline, And Imperfections Of Men, Are Found............................................. 101
Ene Notes......................................................................................... 103
THE SECOND BOOK: CONCERNING THE
NOTES OF THE CHURCH. 105
Chapter 1: Of The Nature Of Notes
Of Difference, And Their Several Kinds. 106
Chapter 2: Of The Divers Kinds Of
Notes, Whereby The True Church Is Discerned From Other Societies Of Men In The
World............................................................................................ 109
End Notes......................................................................................... 111
Chapter 3: Of Bellarmine’s Reasons
Against The Notes Of The Church Assigned By Us. 113
End Notes......................................................................................... 116
Chapter 4: Of Stapleton’s Reasons
Against Our Notes Of The Church.. 118
End Notes......................................................................................... 124
Chapter 5: Of Their Notes Of The
Church, And First Of Antiquity........ 128
End Notes......................................................................................... 131
Chapter 6: Of Succession..................................................................... 132
End Notes......................................................................................... 134
Chapter 7: Of The Third Note
Assigned By Them, Which Is Unity........ 136
End Notes......................................................................................... 137
Chapter 8: Of Universality.................................................................... 138
End Notes......................................................................................... 140
Chapter 9: Of The Name And Title Of
Catholic.................................... 141
End Notes......................................................................................... 145
THE THIRD BOOK: OF THE TRUE CHURCH
DEMONSTRATED BY THE NOTES BEFORE AGREED UPON.................................................................................................................. 147
Chapter 1: Of The Division Of The
Christian World Into The Western Or Latin Church, And The Oriental Or East
Church...................................................................................................... 148
End Notes......................................................................................... 197
Chapter 2: Of The Harsh And Unadvised
Censure Of The Romanists, Condemning All These Churches As Schismatical And
Heretical................................................................................ 207
End Notes......................................................................................... 208
Chapter 3: Of The Nature Of Heresy;
Of The Divers Kinds Of Things Wherein Men Err; And What Pertinacy It Is That
Maketh An Heretic................................................................................ 209
End Notes......................................................................................... 211
Chapter 4: Of Those Things Which
Everyone Is Bound Expressly To Know And Believe; And Wherein No Man Can Err
Without Note Of Heresy...................................................................... 214
End Notes......................................................................................... 217
Chapter 5: Of The Nature Of Schism,
And The Kinds Of It; And, That It In No Way Appeareth That The Churches Of
Greece, Etc. Are Heretical Or In Damnable Schism....................... 219
End Notes......................................................................................... 221
Chapter 6: Of The Latin Church,
That It Continued The True Church Of God Even Til Our Time: And, That The
Errors We Condemn Were Not The Doctrines Of That Church.......................... 223
End Notes......................................................................................... 225
Chapter 7: Of The Several Points Of
Difference Between Us And Our Adversaries, Wherein Some In The Church Erred,But
Not The Whole Church......................................................... 226
Chapter 8: Of The True Church,
Which, And Where It Was Before Luther’s Time. 229
End Notes......................................................................................... 231
Chapter 9: Of The Apostacy Of Some
In The Church........................... 233
End Notes......................................................................................... 235
Chapter 10: Of Their Error Who Say,
Nothing Can Be Amiss In The Church, Either In Respect Of Doctrine Or
Discipline.......................................................................................................... 240
End Notes......................................................................................... 241
Chapter 11: Of The Causes Of The
Manifold Confusions And Evils Formerly Found In The Church. 242
End Notes......................................................................................... 244
Chapter 12: Of The Desire And
Expectation Of A Reformation Of The Corrupt State Of The Church: And, That The
Alteration Which Hath Beem Is A Reformation............................................ 245
End Notes......................................................................................... 248
Chapter 13: Of The First Reason
Brought To Prove That The Church Of Rome Holdeth The Faith First Delivered,
Because The Precise Time Wherein Errors Began In It Cannot Be Noted. 250
End Notes......................................................................................... 253
Chapter 14: Of Divers Particular
Errors Which Have Been In The Church, Whose First Authors Cannot Be Named.............................................................................................................. 254
End Notes......................................................................................... 255
Chapter 15: Of The Second Reason
Brought In To Prove That They Hold The Ancient Faith, Because Our Men,
Dissenting From Them, Confess They Dissent From The Fathers; Where Sundry
Instances Are Examined. 257
End Notes......................................................................................... 262
Chapter 16: Of Limbus Patrum,
Concupiscence, And Satisfaction; Touching Which Calvin Is Falsely Charged To
Confess That He Dissenteth From The Fathers................................................... 265
End Notes......................................................................................... 268
Chapter 17: Of Prayer For The Dead;
And Merit.................................. 270
End Notes......................................................................................... 273
Chapter 18: Of The Fathers’
Strictness In Admitting Men Into The Ministry; Of Single Life; And Of Their
Severity In The Discipline Of Repentance........................................................... 275
End Notes......................................................................................... 280
Chapter19: Of The Lent Fast; Of
Laymen’s Baptism; And Of The Sacrifice Of The Mass. 285
End Notes......................................................................................... 289
Chapter 20: Of The Invocation And
Adoration Of Saints, Touching Which The Century Writers Are Wrongfully Charged
To Dissent From The Fathers.............................................................. 293
End Notes......................................................................................... 301
Chapter 21: Of Martyrdom, And The
Excessive Praises Thereof Found In The Fathers. 306
End Notes......................................................................................... 308
Chapter 22: Wherein Is Examined
Their Proof Of The Antiquity Of Their Doctrine, Taken From A False Supposal
That Our Doctrine Is Nothing Else But Heresy Long Since Condemned. 310
End Notes......................................................................................... 313
Chapter 23: Of The Heresy Of
Florinus, Making God The Author Of Sin, Falsely Imputed To Calvin And Others............................................................................................................... 315
End Notes......................................................................................... 342
Chapter 24: Of The Heresy Of Origen
Touching The Image Of God, And Touching Hell, Falsely Imputed To Calvin............................................................................................................... 349
End Notes......................................................................................... 350
Chapter 25: Of The Heresy Of The
Peputians, Making Women Priests.. 352
End Notes......................................................................................... 354
Chapter 26: Of The Supposed Heresy
Of Proclus And The Messalians, Touching Concupiscence In The Regenerate........................................................................................................ 355
End Notes......................................................................................... 362
Chapter 27: Of The Heresies Of
Novatus, Sabellius, And The Manichees. 364
End Notes......................................................................................... 367
Chapter 28: Of The Heresies Of The
Donatists..................................... 369
Chapter 29: Of The Heresies Of
Arius And Aerius................................ 371
End Notes......................................................................................... 372
Chapter 30: Of The Heresy Of
Jovinian................................................ 374
End Notes......................................................................................... 378
Chapter 31: Of The Heresies Of
Vigilantius........................................... 381
End Notes......................................................................................... 383
Chapter 32 Of The Heresy Of
Pelagius Touching Original Sin; And The Difference Of Venial And Mortal Sins.......................................................................................................................... 384
End Notes......................................................................................... 387
Chapter 33: Of The Heresy Of
Nestorius, Falsely Imputed To Beza And Others. 390
End Notes......................................................................................... 391
Chapter 34: Of The Heresy Of
Certain Touching The Sacrament; And How Our Men Deny That To Be The Body Of
Christ That Is Carried About To Be Gazed
On.................................... 392
End Notes......................................................................................... 394
Chapter 35: Of The Heresy Of
Eutiches, Falsely Imputed To The Divines Of Germany. 395
End Notes......................................................................................... 396
Chapter 36: Of The Supposed Heresy
Of Zenaias Persa, Impugning The Adoration Of Images. 397
End Notes......................................................................................... 398
Chapter 37: Of The Error Of The
Lampetians, Touching Vows............. 399
End Notes......................................................................................... 399
Chapter 38: Of The Heresy Of
Certain, Touching The Verity Of The Body And Blood Of Christ Communicated To Us
In The Sacrament.................................................................................... 401
End Notes......................................................................................... 402
Chapter 39: Of Succession; And The
Exceptions Of The Adversaries Against Us In Respect Of The Supposed Want Of It........................................................................................................ 403
End Notes......................................................................................... 411
Chapter 40: Of Succession, And The
Proof Of The Truth Of Their Doctrine By It. 416
End Notes......................................................................................... 418
Chapter 41: Of Unity, The Kinds Of
It, And That Communion With The Roman Bishops Is Not Always A Note Of True And
Catholic Profession....................................................................... 421
End Notes......................................................................................... 427
Chapter 42: That Nothing Can Be
Concluded For Them Or Against Us From The Note Of Unity Or Division Opposite
Unto It............................................................................................... 431
End Notes......................................................................................... 439
Chapter43: Of Universality................................................................... 443
End Notes......................................................................................... 444
Chapter 44: Of The Sanctity Of
Doctrine, And The Supposed Absurdities Of Our Profession. 445
End Notes......................................................................................... 449
Chapter 45: Of The Paradoxes And
Gross Absurdities Of The Romish Religion. 451
End Notes......................................................................................... 453
Chapter 46: Of The Efficacy Of The
Church’s Doctrine......................... 454
Chapter 47: Of The Protestants’
Pretended Confession, That The Roman Church Is The True Church Of God.......................................................................................................................... 455
End Notes......................................................................................... 456
Chapter 48: Of Miracles Confirming
The Roman Faith.......................... 457
End Notes......................................................................................... 460
Chapter 49: Of Prophetical
Prediction................................................... 462
End Notes......................................................................................... 463
Chapter 50: Of The Felicity Of Them
That Profess The Truth................ 464
End Notes......................................................................................... 465
Chapter 51: Of The Miserable Ends
Of The Enemies Of The Truth........ 466
End Notes......................................................................................... 467
Chapter 52: Of The Sanctity Of The
Lives Of Them That Are Of The True Church. 468
End Notes......................................................................................... 474
Field: Volume Two:
OF THE CHURCH: Appendix to Third Book and the Fourth Book............... 6
APPENDIX: AN ANSWER TO THE MASS............................................ 11
End Notes........................................................................................... 79
Chapter 1: of the Canon of the Scriptures................................................... 122
End Notes......................................................................................... 135
Chapter 2:of the Sufficiency of the Scripture........................................... 148
End Notes......................................................................................... 157
Chapter 3: of the Original Text of Scripture............................................ 164
Chapter 4: of the Translating of the Scripture.......................................... 165
End Notes......................................................................................... 186
Chapter 5: of the Three Supposed Different Estates................................ 208
End Notes......................................................................................... 231
Chapter 6: of the
Blessed Virgin’s Conception....................................... 240
End Notes......................................................................................... 251
Chapter 7: of the Punishment of Original Sin: and of LIMBUS PUERORUM. 260
End Notes......................................................................................... 262
Chapter 8: of the
Remission of Original Sin; and of Concupiscience Remaining in the Regenerate 265
End Notes......................................................................................... 273
Chapter 9: of the
Distinction of Venial and Mortal Sin............................. 279
End Notes......................................................................................... 282
Chapter 10: of Free Will........................................................................ 285
End Notes......................................................................................... 304
Chapter 11: of Justification..................................................................... 312
End Notes......................................................................................... 369
Chapter 12: of Merit.............................................................................. 397
End Notes......................................................................................... 409
Chapter 13: of Works Supererogation and Counsels of Perfection.......... 414
End Notes......................................................................................... 415
Chapter 14: Of Election and Reprobation............................................... 417
End Notes......................................................................................... 417
Chapter 15: of the Seven Sacraments..................................................... 419
End Notes......................................................................................... 420
Chapter 16: of the Being of One Body in Many Places at the Same Time 422
End Notes......................................................................................... 422
Chapter 17: of Transubstantiation........................................................... 424
End Notes......................................................................................... 426
Chapter 18: Touching Oral Manducation................................................ 430
End Notes......................................................................................... 430
Chapter 19: of the Real Sacrifice of Christ’s Body on the Altar............... 431
End Notes......................................................................................... 432
Chapter 20: of Remission of Sins after This Life...................................... 433
End Notes......................................................................................... 434
Chapter 21: of Purgatory....................................................................... 437
End Notes......................................................................................... 438
Chapter 22: of the Saints Hearing Our Prayers....................................... 440
End Notes......................................................................................... 441
Chapter 23: of the Superstition and Idolatry........................................... 443
End Notes......................................................................................... 443
Chapter 24: of Absolution...................................................................... 444
End Notes......................................................................................... 445
Chapter 25: of Indulgences and Pardons................................................ 446
End Notes......................................................................................... 447
Chapter 26: of the Infallibility of the Pope’s Judgment............................. 450
End Notes......................................................................................... 450
Chapter 27: of the Power of the Pope Regarding Princes........................ 451
End Notes......................................................................................... 451
BOOK 4.................................................................................................. 454
Chapter 1: of the Divers Kinds of Privileges of the Church...................... 455
End Notes......................................................................................... 456
Chapter 2: of the Different Degrees of Infallibility.................................... 457
End Notes......................................................................................... 459
Chapter 3: of the Meaning of Certain Speeches of Calvin....................... 463
End Notes......................................................................................... 464
Chapter 4: Present Church Free from All Error in Matters of Faith?........ 467
End Notes......................................................................................... 470
Chapter 5: of Promises Made to the Church........................................... 472
End Notes......................................................................................... 475
Chapter 6: of the Church’s Teaching Office............................................ 478
End Notes......................................................................................... 480
Chapter 7: of the Manifold Errors of Papists........................................... 482
End Notes......................................................................................... 488
Chapter 8: of the Last Resolution of True Faith....................................... 493
End Notes......................................................................................... 498
Chapter 9: of the Meaning of Those Words of Augustine . . ................... 501
End Notes......................................................................................... 502
Chapter 10: of the Papists Preferring the Church over the Bible.............. 504
End Notes......................................................................................... 505
Chapter 11: of the Refutation of Their Error........................................... 507
End Notes......................................................................................... 509
Chapter 12: of Their Error Who Think the Church May Make New Articles of
Faith 511
End Notes......................................................................................... 513
Chapter 13: of the Church’s Authority to Judge Matters of Faith............. 516
End Notes......................................................................................... 518
Chapter 14: of the Rule of the Church’s Judgment.................................. 519
End Notes......................................................................................... 521
Chapter 15: of the Challenge of the Papists against the Rule of Scripture. 524
Chapter 16: of the Interpretation of Scripture......................................... 525
End Notes......................................................................................... 528
Chapter 17: of the Interpretation of the Fathers...................................... 530
End Notes......................................................................................... 531
Chapter 18: of Divers Senses of Scripture.............................................. 533
End Notes......................................................................................... 538
Chapter 19: of the Rules of Interpretation............................................... 541
End Notes......................................................................................... 542
Chapter 20: of the Supposed Imprefection of Scripture.......................... 544
End Notes......................................................................................... 552
Chapter 21: of the Rules Whereby True Tradition may be Known from
Counterfeit 557
End Notes......................................................................................... 558
Chapter 22: of the Difference of Books Canonical and Apocryphal......... 559
End Notes......................................................................................... 561
Chapter 23: of the Canonical and Apocryphal Books............................. 563
End Notes......................................................................................... 567
Chapter 24: of the Uncertainty and Contradictions among Papists........... 577
End Notes......................................................................................... 581
Chapter 25: of Divers Editions of the Scripture....................................... 586
End Notes......................................................................................... 589
Chapter 26: of the Translations of the Old Testament.............................. 594
End Notes......................................................................................... 596
Chapter 27: of the Latin Translations...................................................... 602
End Notes......................................................................................... 604
Chapter 28: of the Truth of the Hebrew Text of Scripture....................... 609
End Notes......................................................................................... 609
Chapter 29: of the Supposed Corruptions of the Greek Text of Scripture 611
End Notes......................................................................................... 614
Chapter 30: of the Power of the Church in Making Laws........................ 619
End Notes......................................................................................... 620
Chapter 31: of the Bounds of the Power of the Church........................... 621
End Notes......................................................................................... 626
Chapter 32: of the Nature of the Laws and How They Bind.................... 631
End Notes......................................................................................... 632
Chapter 33: of the Nature of Conscience............................................... 633
End Notes......................................................................................... 635
Chapter 34: of Their Reasons who Think that Human Laws Bind Conscience 637
End Notes......................................................................................... 640
Field: Volume Three:
OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CHURCH, Book 5, Chapters 1-47...... 4
THE EPISTLE TO THE READER........................................................... 5
End Notes........................................................................................... 10
Chapter 1: of the Primitive First Church: Adam......................................... 11
End Notes........................................................................................... 12
Chapter 2: of the Dignity of the First born of the Sons of Adam................ 14
End Notes........................................................................................... 15
Chapter 3: of the First Born Coming out of Egypt..................................... 17
End Notes........................................................................................... 17
Chapter 4: of the Separation of Aaron...................................................... 18
End Notes........................................................................................... 19
Chapter 5: of the Priests of the Second Rank........................................... 22
End Notes........................................................................................... 23
Chapter 6: of the Levites.......................................................................... 25
End Notes........................................................................................... 25
Chapter 7: of the Sects among the Jews................................................... 27
End Notes........................................................................................... 29
Chapter 8: of Prophets and Nazarites....................................................... 31
End Notes........................................................................................... 32
Chapter 9: of Assemblies upon Extraordinary Occasions.......................... 34
End Notes........................................................................................... 36
Chapter 10: of the Courts among the Jews, Their Authority...................... 38
End Notes........................................................................................... 46
Chapter 11: of the Manifestation of God in the Flesh................................ 49
End Notes........................................................................................... 58
Chapter 12: of the Manner of the Union that is Between the Person of the
Son of God and our Nature in Christ........................................................................................................................... 63
End Notes........................................................................................... 68
Chapter 13: of the Communication of the Properties of Either Nature of
Christ 70
End Notes........................................................................................... 73
Chapter 14: of the Third Kind of
Communication of Properties, and the First Degree Thereof 75
End Notes........................................................................................... 81
Chapter 15: of the Third Kind of Communication of Properties, and the
Second Degree Thereof 87
End Notes........................................................................................... 91
Chapter 16: of the Work of
Mediation.................................................... 93
End Notes........................................................................................... 99
Chapter 17: of the Things which
Christ Suffered for Us.......................... 101
End Notes......................................................................................... 108
Chapter 18: Of the Nature and Quality of the Passion and Suffering of
Christ 111
End Notes......................................................................................... 116
Chapter 19: of the Descending of Christ into Hell................................... 120
End Notes......................................................................................... 137
Chapter 20: of the Merit of Christ:......................................................... 148
End Notes......................................................................................... 155
Chapter 21: of the Benefits Which We Receive From Christ................... 158
End Notes......................................................................................... 161
Chapter 22: of the Ministry of Them to Whom Christ Committed the
Publishing of Reconcillation 163
End Notes......................................................................................... 176
Chapter 23: of the Primacy of Power Imagined by our Adversaries to Have
Been in Peter 182
End Notes......................................................................................... 192
Chapter 24: of the Pre-Eminence that Peter had Amongst the Apostles... 195
End Notes......................................................................................... 198
Chapter 25: of the Distinction of Them to Whom the Apostles left the
Managing of Church Affairs 200
End Notes......................................................................................... 208
Chapter 26: of the Orders and Degrees of Them That are Trusted with the
Ministry of the Word and Sacraments......................................................................................................................... 214
End Notes......................................................................................... 220
Chapter 27: of the Distinction of the Power of Order and Jurisdiction...... 222
End Notes......................................................................................... 228
Chapter 28: of the Division of the Lesser Titles....................................... 232
End Notes......................................................................................... 237
Chapter 29: of Chorepiscopi, or Rural Bishops...................................... 241
End Notes......................................................................................... 250
Chapter 30: of the Form of the Government of the Church...................... 257
End Notes......................................................................................... 265
Chapter 31: of Patriarchs....................................................................... 271
End Notes......................................................................................... 275
Chapter 32: How the Pope Succeedeth Peter........................................ 278
End Notes......................................................................................... 282
Chapter 33: of the Proofs Brought Romanists......................................... 284
End Notes......................................................................................... 289
Chapter 34: of the Pretended Proofs of the Pope’s Jurisdiction............... 293
End Notes......................................................................................... 307
Chapter 35: of the Pretended Proofs of the Pope’s Supremacy Produced and
Brought out of the Writings of the Greek Fathers................................................................................................... 316
End Notes......................................................................................... 326
Chapter 36: of the Pretended Proofs of the Pope’s Supremacy, taken out the
the Writing of the Latin Fathers 330
End Notes......................................................................................... 347
Chapter 37: Of the Pretended Proofs of the Pope’s Universal Power...... 356
End Notes......................................................................................... 366
Chapter 38: Of the Weakness of Such Proofs of the Supreme Power of Popes 370
End Notes......................................................................................... 378
Chapter 39: of Appeals to Rome........................................................... 384
End Notes......................................................................................... 398
Chapter 40: of the Pope’s Supposed Exemption for all Human Judgment 408
End Notes......................................................................................... 427
Chapter 41: of the Titles Given to the Pope............................................ 436
End Notes......................................................................................... 440
Chapter 42: of the Second Supposed Privilege of the Roman Bishops..... 442
End Notes......................................................................................... 455
Chapter 43: of such Popes as are
Charged with Heresy......................... 465
End Notes......................................................................................... 478
Chapter 44: of the Pope’s Unjust Claim of Temporal Dominion over the Whole
World 488
End Notes......................................................................................... 499
Chapter 45: of the Pope’s Unjust Claim to Intermeddle with the Affairs of
Princes and Their States 505
End Notes......................................................................................... 520
Chapter 46: of Examples of Churchmen Deposing Princes, Brought by the
Romanists 526
End Notes......................................................................................... 548
Chapter 47: of the Civil Dominion Which the Popes Have by the Gift of
Princes 552
End Notes......................................................................................... 567
Field: Volume Four:
OF THE CHURCH.................................................................................... 4
BOOK 5...................................................................................................... 6
Chapter 48: of General Councils, and of the End, Use, and Necessity of
Them 7
End Notes........................................................................................... 11
Chapter 49: of the Persons That May Be Present in General Councils: and
Who They Are of Whom General Councils Do Consist............................................................................................ 13
End Notes........................................................................................... 19
Chapter 50: of the President of General Councils...................................... 22
End Notes........................................................................................... 38
Chapter 51: of the Assurance of Finding Out the Truth, which the Bishops
Assembled in General Councils Have........................................................................................................................... 46
End Notes........................................................................................... 57
Chapter 52: of the Calling Of Councils: and to Whom That Right Pertaineth 64
End Notes........................................................................................... 79
Chapter 53: of the Authority Exercised by the Ancient Emperors in General Councils:
and of the Supremacy of Christian Princes in Causes and Over Persons
Ecclesiastical................................. 85
End Notes........................................................................................... 99
Chapter 54: of the Calling of Ministers: and the Persons to whom It
Pertaineth to Elect and Ordain 106
End Notes......................................................................................... 120
Chapter 55: of the Popes’ Disordered Intermeddling with the Elections of
Bishops, and Other Ministers of the Church: Their Usurpation, Intrusion, and
Prejudicingt the Right andLiberty of Others 128
End Notes......................................................................................... 138
Chapter 56: of the Ordination of Bishops and Ministers.......................... 142
End Notes......................................................................................... 145
Chapter 57: of the Things Required in Such as are to be Ordained Ministers 147
End Notes......................................................................................... 182
Chapter 58: of Bigamy, and What Kind of It It Is That Barreth Men from
Entering into the Ministry 201
End Notes......................................................................................... 210
Chapter 59: of the Maintenance of Ministers.......................................... 215
End Notes......................................................................................... 233
APPENDIX.............................................................................................. 240
The Epistle To The Reader.................................................................... 241
End Notes......................................................................................... 242
THE FIRST PART................................................................................... 243
(Higgons, Book I. Part I. § 1.)............................................................... 244
End Notes......................................................................................... 244
(Higgons, Book I. Part I. § 2.)............................................................... 245
End Notes......................................................................................... 246
(Higgons, Book I. Part I. § 3.)............................................................... 247
End Notes......................................................................................... 247
(Higgons, Book I. Part 1. § 4.).............................................................. 248
End Notes......................................................................................... 260
(Higgons, Book I. Part I. § 5.)............................................................... 263
End Notes......................................................................................... 267
(Higgons, Book I. Part II. § 1.).............................................................. 269
End Notes......................................................................................... 273
(Higgons, Book 1. Part II. § 2.)............................................................. 275
End Notes......................................................................................... 286
(Higgons, Book II. Part 1. § 1.)............................................................. 289
End Notes......................................................................................... 296
(Higgons, Book II. Part I. § 2.).............................................................. 298
End Notes......................................................................................... 304
(Higgons, Book II. Part I. § 3.).............................................................. 306
End Notes......................................................................................... 309
(Higgons, Book II. Part I. § 4.).............................................................. 310
End Notes......................................................................................... 316
(Higgons, Book II. Part 1. § 5.)............................................................. 319
End Notes......................................................................................... 321
(Higgons, Book II. Part I. § 6.).............................................................. 322
End Notes......................................................................................... 323
(Higgons, Book II. Part I. § 7.).............................................................. 324
End Notes......................................................................................... 326
(Higgons, Book II. Part I. § 8.).............................................................. 328
End Notes......................................................................................... 331
(Higgons, Appendix, Part I.).................................................................. 332
End Notes......................................................................................... 334
(Higgons, Appendix, Part II.)................................................................. 335
End Notes......................................................................................... 352
(Higgons, Appendix, Part III. § 1.)........................................................ 355
End Notes......................................................................................... 360
(Higgons, Appendix, Part IV. § 1.)........................................................ 361
End Notes......................................................................................... 376
(Higgons, Part II. Chap. II. § 1.)............................................................ 379
End Notes......................................................................................... 385
(Higgons, Part II. Chap. II. § 2.)............................................................ 386
End Notes......................................................................................... 394
(Higgons, Part II. Chap. III. § 1.).......................................................... 395
End Notes......................................................................................... 398
(Higgons, Chap. III. Part II. § 1.).......................................................... 400
End Notes......................................................................................... 402
(Higgons, Chap. III. Part II. § 2.).......................................................... 404
End Notes......................................................................................... 407
THE SECOND PART.............................................................................. 408
Concerning the Author of the, “Treatise of the Grounds of the Old and New
Religion,” and Such Exceptions as have been Taken by Him Against the Former
Books.......................................... 409
(A Treatise, &c. Preface, § 2.).............................................................. 411
(A Treatise, &c. Preface, § 3.).............................................................. 413
(A Treatise, &c. Part I. § 1.)................................................................. 414
(A Treatise, &c. Part I. § 2.)................................................................. 415
(A Treatise, &c. Part I. § 3.)................................................................. 419
(A Treatise, &c. Part I. § 4.)................................................................. 420
(A Treatise, &c. Part I. § 5, 6.)............................................................. 425
(A Treatise, &c. Part I. § 7.)................................................................. 431
(A Treatise, &c. Part I. § 8.)................................................................. 435
(A Treatise, &c. Part I. § 9.)................................................................. 439
(A Treatise, &c. Part I. § 10.)............................................................... 441
(A Treatise, &c. Part I. § 11.)............................................................... 445
(A Treatise, &c. Part II. § 1.)................................................................ 446
(A Treatise, &c. Part II. § 2.)................................................................ 449
(A Treatise, &c. Part II. § 3.)................................................................ 457
(A Treatise, &c. Part II. § 4.)................................................................ 460
(A Treatise, &c. Part II. § 5.)................................................................ 462
(A Treatise, &c. Part II. § 6.)................................................................ 471
End Notes to Treatises...................................................................... 481
THE THIRD PART.................................................................................. 487
(Chapter 1)........................................................................................... 490
(Chapter 2)........................................................................................... 492
(Chapter 3)........................................................................................... 500
(Chapter 4)........................................................................................... 506
(Chapter 5)........................................................................................... 511
(Chapter 6)........................................................................................... 512
(Chapter 7)........................................................................................... 516
(Chapter 8)........................................................................................... 535
End Notes to (Chapters 1-8)............................................................. 538