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