call Hereticks do not intend to Baptize into the Roman Church, how then can their Baptifm make them Members of that Church? Secondly, If the Administration of Baptifm doth confer even upon Hereticks a true Character of Baptism, why fhould it not make them Members of the Catholick Church? For, what is this true Character which is confer'd by Baptiẩm, but an Actual Admiffion of them into the Church of Chrift.

4. If the Roman Church were the fame with the Catholick Church, then all those Churches who do not yield Subjection to the Bishop of Rome, nor acknowledge his Supremacy, are not true Parts of the Catholick Church, and by confequence have no poffibility of being fav'd; but fince this is the Condition of the Greeks and Eastern Churches, as well as of the Proteftants (four of the five Patriarchal Churches of the Christian World) we have good reason to believe that God will be more merciful than our Brethren of the Church of Rome, and that the Catholick Church doth extend farther, and hath larger Bounds than the Roman.

This Argument N. C. grants is founded on a very great Inconveniency; and fo great, that every good Man will be very apt to conclude, both from the Goodness and Mercifulness of God's Nature, that he

will not damn fo great a Multitude of Men, only because they are Anathamatiz'd by the Bishop of Rome, especially fince N. C. has formerly told us, That they may be Excommunicated by the Bishop of Rome, and yet remain Members of the Catholick Church. N. C. in

deed is very pofitive, that they cannot be fav'd, and tells us 'tis the Opinion of the Romish Church; but from this uncharitable Judgment of theirs, we have good reason to infer, That the Church of Rome is so far from being the whole Catholick Church, that it is only a very arrogant and uncharitable part of it.

5. If the Roman Church was the fame with the Catholick Church, then it would have been thus exprefs'd in the Ancient Creeds, because it is of fo great importance to the Salvation of Mens Souls, and the Peace and Unity of the Church, that it would not have been omitted. But we do not find any Foot-fteps of this Expreffion; nor is this Phrafe The Holy Catholick Church thus explain'd in the first Ages of the Church. And Eneas Sylvius (who was afterwards Pope) tells us, that be fore the Council of Nice, little respect was had to the Roman Church; 'tis true, his Grace remarks, that this was faid before Æneas Sylvius was Pope, but that 'twas never the lefs true for all that.

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To this N. C. answers, That tho' the words Roman Catholick Church are not to be found in the Ancient Creeds, yet the thing meant by these words is there, becaufe Roman Catholick Church and Holy Catholick Church do denote the fame thing, and are Words of the fame importance: But this is a fhameful begging of the Question; for the thing in difpute is Whether the Catholick Church in the Creed is the fame with the Roman Church? and because N. C. cannot prove it, he is pleas'd to fuppofe it. Such arguing as this he learn'd from his Friend Mr. Serjeant. If a Rule is a Rule, then a Rule is a Rule. And the Roman Church is the fame fame with the Catholick Church, therefore the Roman is the Catholick Church. As to the Authority of Eneas Sylvius, N. C. tells us, That the words of Eneas Sylvius relate only to the Diocese of Rome. "For (fays he ) I am fure he never "faid or writ, that the Romish Church,

as it includes all the Chriftian Churches "in Communion with the See of Rome, (in which fenfe the Doctor could not "be ignorant we always take it) was ༦ not the true Catholick Church.

In which words he plainly contradicts himself, for he tells us that the Papifts always take the Roman Church for all Chrifian Churches in Communion with the Church

Church of Rome, and in no other fenfe; and yet in the fame breath he gives us another sense of the words, and tells us that Eneas Sylvius meant them only of the Diocese of Rome. But let us fuppofe that Æneas Sylvius did fpeak of the Diocefe of Rome. What then, certainly it must from thence follow, that if little Refpect was had to the Diocese of Rome before the Council of Nice, therefore 'tis not likely that by the Roman Church the Catholick Church was denoted, the Roman Church being only a fmall, and no remarkable part of it.

As to that Quotation out of Irenæus, whereby he endeavours to weaken the Authority of Eneas Sylvius, to wit, That every Church must have recourse to this, by reason of her more powerful Principality. The words plainly relate to the Civil Government, and prove that the See of Rome had no Advantage over those Sees which were plac'd in other Cities, from any Power deriv'd from Chrift which was purely Spiritual; but only because the Civil Power had plac'd there its Refidence and Tribunal.

Laftly, The Roman Church is not the Catholick Church, becaufe our Saviour never constituted St. Peter and his Succeffors fupream Head and Paftor of the whole Chriftian Church. Which brings me

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to the fecond Point in debate, to prove, 2. That the Pope is not the Supream Head of the Church.

N. C. tells us, that the Pope or Bishop of Rome is the Succeffor of St. Peter, and as fuch,is the Head of the Church; i.e. not only the Centre of Catholick Unity, as he fometimes explains it; but alfo by Divine Appointment, the Supream and Univerfal Paftor of the Chriftian Church; to whose Jurifdiction every Humane Creature must be fubject, on Pain of Eternal Damnation.

This is an unfufferable Branch of the Papal Ufurpation, over all Christian Churches in the World, without the least Ground or Colour of Ground, either from Scripture or Artiquity; and may and has been extended, to a Temporal Power over all Princes and Magiftrates, under the fubtle Pretence of Acting in order to Spiritual Ends.

But that the Bishop of Rome, as Succeffor of St. Peter cannot be the Supream and Univerfal Paftor of Chrift's Church, the Archbishop proves;

1. Because there is not the least mention of this in Scripture, (i. e.) That St. Peter was the Supream and Univerfal Paftor of Chrift's Church.

2. Suppofing this, yet it doth not thence neceffarily follow, that this Power fhould be derived down from St. Peter to the Pope of Rome.

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