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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...will become truly Catholic, then, but not till then, the Church of England will cease to be Protestant. i Archbp. Lato, Conference with Fisher, sect. 21. The Protestants did not get their name by protesting against the Church of Rome, but by protestmg (and that when nothing else would serve) against her errors and superstitions. Do you Temove them from the Church of Rome, and our Protestation is ended, and the separation too.--Thus far Abp. Laud; and it may be added, that if Rome would become Catholic, Popery would cease too; for, as Grotius observes, Epist. p. 5, . Ferme verum est quod quidam magni nominis theologi prodiderunt, omnia quae vera sunt, et quae nos credimus, etiam a Papistis agnosci; ded addi insuper falsa alia, quorum qua.dam sunt talia ut cum primis illis additis veris nequeant consistere. Unde sequitur, redacta Religione ad ea in quae omnes Ecclesiae omnium temporum consentiunt, collabi Papismum, ut qui conflatus sit ex privatis opinionibus. See also Bp. AirDrewes ad Card. Bellarmin. cap. i. p. 20. Buree, v. p. 180. We are Protestants, not from indifference, but zeal. (c). But do not the Thirty-nine Articles of Seliqion contain an exposition of the doctrines of the Church of England, and were they not first drawn up, as they now stand, in the year 1562? and if so, where was the Faith of the English Church before that time? and if she had no Articles of Faith, how could she be a Church? and how therefore could she be united in doctrine with the Catholic Church? 9. Where, we might ask in reply, was the Part II. faith of the Universal Church of Christ hefore the year 325, when the Nicene Creed was promulgated?, --And the answer would be--It was in the Holy Scriptures as interpreted by the Church from the beginning. So th