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Chap. VIII. On DIVINE SERVICE IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE.

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Chap. IX. On FULL AND FORCED SACRAMENTAL CONFESSION.

Sect. 2. Against Scripture

Sect. 3. Against Reason

Sect. 4. The Novelty of Absolution before Satisfaction

Chap. X. On THE INVOCATION OF SAINTS.

Sect. 1. Its Newness....

Sect. 2. Against Scripture

Sect. 3. Against Reason

Chap. XI. On SEVEN SACRAMENTS.

Sect. 1. Their Newness

Sect. 2. Against Scripture

Sect. 3. Against Reason

Chap. XII. On the Romish Doctrine of TRADITIONS.

Chap. XIII. On the ENCROACHMENTS OF THE BISHOP OF ROME.

Sect. 1. The Newness of the Universal Headship of the

Sect. 2. The Newness of Challenged Infallibility

Sect. 3. The Newness of the Pope's Superiority to General

Sect. 4. The New Presumption of Papal Dispensations......

Sect. 5. The New Challenge of Popes' domineering over

Chap. XIV. The EPILOGUE, both of EXHORTATION and

An Apologetical Advertisement to the Reader

VI. THE RECONCILER. AN EPISTLE PACIFICATORY OF THE

SEEMING DIFFERENCES OF OPINION, CONCERNING THE

NEWNESS AND VISIBILITY OF THE ROMAN CHURCH.

Address from Bp Hall to Edward Earl of Norwich .... .....

Letter from Bp. 'Hall to the Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield ... 317

Answer from the Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield to Bp. Hall... 318

Letter from Bp. Hall to the Bishop of Salisbury ........................................... 319

Answer from the Bishop of Salisbury to Bp. Hall

SON OF THE CHURCH HUMBLY OFFERS TO THE SERIOUS

CONSIDERATION OF ALL INGENUOUS CHRISTIANS, WHERE-

SOEVER DISPERSED ALL THE WORLD OVER........................

VIII. INURBANITATI PONTIFICIE RESPONSIO.-AN AN-

SWER TO POPE URBAN'S INURBANITY: EXPRESSED

IN A BRIEF SENT TO LEWIS THE FRENCH KING, EXASPE-

RATING HIM AGAINST THE PROTESTANTS IN FRANCE.

WRITTEN IN LATIN BY THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER

IN GOD, JOSEPH, LORD BISHOP OF EXETER. TRANS-

LATED INTO ENGLISH BY HIS SON, ROBERT HALL, MAS-

TER OF ARTS, IN EXETER COLLEGE, IN OXFORD............... 343

IX. A LETTER PARÆNETICAL TO A WORTHY KNIGHT,

READY TO REVOLT FROM THE RELIGION ESTA-

BLISHED

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X. A PLAIN AND FAMILIAR EXPLICATION OF CHRIST'S

PRESENCE IN THE SACRAMENT OF HIS BODY

AND BLOOD, OUT OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH OF

ENGLAND. FOR THE SATISFYING OF A SCRUPULOUS

FRIEND. ANNO 1631.............

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PART SECOND: ON THE QUESTIONS BETWEEN THE CHURCH

OF ENGLAND AND THE DISSENTERS.

I, A COMMON APOLOGY OF THE CHURCH OF

ENGLAND, AGAINST THE UNJUST CHAL-

LENGES OF THE OVER-JUST SECT, COMMON-

LY CALLED BROWNISTS. WHEREIN THE GROUNDS

AND DEFENCES OF THE SEPARATION ARE LARGELY

DISCUSSED. OCCASIONED BY A LATE PAMPHLET,

PUBLISHED UNDER THE NAME OF "AN ANSWER TO

A CENSORIOUS EPISTLE.'

Dedication to the Church of England.....

1. The Answerer's Preamble-retorted-confuted.

2. The Parties written to and their Crime.........

The crime of Separation, how great

3. The Kinds of Separation, and which is just......

4. The Antiquity and Examples of Separation

5. What Separation is to be made by Churches, in their Planting

or Restoration .....

6. What Separation the Church of England hath made

7. Constitution of a Church-Faith, the First Part of Constitution 394

8. Order, the Second Part of Constitution, how far requisite, and

13. The Separatists' Acknowledgments of the Graces of the Church

of England.... .....

14, The Unnaturalness of some principal Separatists...

15. What the Separatists think themselves beholden to the Church

of England for ........

409

16. The Motherhood of the Church of England, how far it obligeth

17. The want of pretended Ordinances of God, whether sinful to us;

and whether they are to be set up without Princes ......... 412

18. The Bonds of God's Word unjustly pleaded by the Separatists... 414

19. The Necessity of their pretended Ordinances

20. The Enormities of the Church, in common......

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21. The Church of England is the Spouse of Christ

22. How the Church of England hath separated from Babylon

23. The Separation made by our holy Martyrs.....

24. What Separation England hath made

25. The Main Grounds of Separation

The Prelacy of the Church of England

26. The Truth and Warrant of the Ministry of England

27. Confused Communion of the Profane

28. Our Errors, intermingled with Truth

29. Whether our Prelacy be Anti-christian

30. The Judgment and Practice of other Reformed Churches

31. Our Synod's determination of things indifferent

32. Sins sold in our Courts.......

33. Our Loyalty to Princes cleared: their's questioned.....

34. Errors of Free-will, &c. feigned upon the Church of England

35. Kneeling at the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper

36. Whether our Ordinary, and Service-Book be made Idols by us... 440

37. Marriage not made a Sacrament by the Church of England

38. Commutation of Penance in our Church

49. Holy-days how observed in the Church of England

43. The Practices of the Church of England concerning the Funerals

44. The Churches still retained in England...

45. The Founders and Furnitures of our Churches

46. On what ground Separation or Ceremonies were objected

47. Estimation of Ceremonies, and Subjection to the Prelates

48. The State of the Temple, and of our Church in resemblance 461

49. Whether Ministers should endure themselves silenced.............. 462

50. Power of Reforming Abuses given to the Church: and the Issue

of the Neglect of it....

51. The View of the Sins and Disorders of others, whereupon ob-

jected, and how far it should affect us.

Separation from the world how required

52. The Nearness of the State and Church, and the Great Errors

found by the Separatists in the French and Dutch

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54. The Impure Mixtures of the Church of England. 1. Canons.

2. Sin uncensured. 3. Hierarchy. 4. Service-Book.......... 472

55. The Judgment of our own and our Neighbours of our Church 474

56. The Issue of Separation.....

57. The Brownists' scornful Opinion of our People

Conclusion. From the fearful Answer of Separation

II. A LETTER TO MR. WILLIAM STRUTHERS, ONE OF THE

PREACHERS OF EDINBURGH

III. A LETTER FOR THE OBSERVATION OF THE FEAST OF

CHRIST'S NATIVITY....

Seven Irrefragable Propositions, concerning Oaths and Covenants

Two, as undoubted, Propositions, concerning Church-Government. 504

V. EPISCOPACY BY DIVINE RIGHT, ASSERTED.

Dedication to King Charles

1. An Expostulatory Entrance into the Question ......

2. The Difference of the Condition of Foreign Churches and

Divines, from those of our Northern Neighbours.............. 512

3. The Judgment of the German Reformers, concerning the retain-

ing of Episcopacy.....

4. The Attestation of Famous Divines abroad to our Episcopacy... 515

5. The Particularity of the Difference in our Freedom, and the

Benefit of a Monarchical Reformation

6. The Project and Substance of the Treatise following

Part First. PoSTULATA.

1. The First Ground, or Postulate:

That Government, whose Foundation is laid by Christ, and

whose Fabric is raised by the Apostles, is of Divine In-

2. The Second Ground:

The Practice and Recommendation of the Apostles, is sufficient

Warrant for an Apostolical Institution .

3. The Third Ground:

The Forms, ordained for the Church's Administration by the

Apostles, were for Universal and Perpetual Use ............ 524

4. The Fourth Ground:

The Universal Practice of the Church immediately succeed-

ing the Apostolic Times, is a sure Commentary upon the

Practice of the Apostles, and our best Direction.-The

Two Famous Rules of Tertullian and St. Augustine, to

this purpose, asserted ....

5. The Fifth Ground:

The Primitive Saints and Fathers neither would nor durst set

up another Form of Government, different from that they

received of the Apostles

6. The Sixth Ground:

If the next Successors would have innovated the Form

of Government; yet they would not, in so short a space,

have diffused it through the whole Christian World 533

7. The Seventh Ground:

The Ancientest Histories of the Church and Writings of the

First Fathers, are rather to be believed in the report of

the Primitive State of the Church, than the latest Authors 534

8. The Eighth Ground;

Those, whom the Ancient Church of God and all the Holy

Fathers of the Church since, have condemned for Heretics,

are no fit guides for us to follow, in that their judgment of

the Government for which they were so condemned....... 536

The Accession of Honourable Titles and Compatible Privi-

leges, makes no Difference in the substance of a Lawful

and Holy Calling ..

10. The Tenth Ground:

Those Scriptures, whereon a New and Different Form of Go-

vernment is raised, had need to be more evident and unques-

tionable, than those which are alleged for the former that is

11. The Eleventh Ground:

If Christ had left this pretended Order of Government, it

would have, ere this time, been agreed upon, what that

Form is, and how to be managed.........

12. The Twelfth Ground:

If this, which is challenged, be the Kingdom of Christ; then,

those Churches, which want any essential part of it, are

mainly defective; and that there is scarce any at all en-

13. The Thirteenth Ground:

True Christian Policy requires not any thing absurd or im-

possible to be done......

14. The Fourteenth Ground:

New Pretences of Truths never before heard of, especially in

Main Points, carry just Cause of Suspicion.........

15. The Fifteenth Ground:

To depart from the Judgment and Practice of the Universal

Church of Christ ever since the Apostles' Times, and to

betake ourselves to a New Invention, cannot but be, be-

sides the danger, vehemently scandalous.........

Part Second. PROOFS.

1. The Terms and State of the Question, settled and agreed upon 544

2. Church Government begun by our Saviour in a manifest Im-

3. The Execution of this Apostolical Power, after our Saviour's

Ascent into Heaven.

4. The Derivation of this Power and Majority, from the Apostles

to the succeeding Bishops..........

5. The clear Testimonies of Scripture for this Majority, especially

those out of the Epistles to Timothy and Titus, urged..

6. Some Elusions of these Scriptures met with, and answered......... 557

7. The Testimony of St. John, in his Revelation, pressed.............. 560

8. The Estate and Order of Episcopacy deduced from the Apos-

tles to the Primitive Bishops.........

9. The Testimony and Assent of Bucer, and some famous French

10. The Superiority and Jurisdiction of Bishops, proved by the

Testimony of the First Fathers and Apostolical Men: and,

first, of Clemens, the Partner of the Apostles.......

11. The Pregnant and Full Testimonies of the Holy Saint and Mar-

tyr Ignatius, urged...........

12. The Testimony of the Ancient Canons, called the Apostles'.

13. The State and History of the Next Age.

14. Proofs of the confessed Superiority of Bishops, from several

Arguments out of Antiquity......

15. Power of Ordination only in Bishops.....

16. Power of Jurisdiction appropriated to the Bishops, from the first 585

17. Exceptions against our Episcopacy answered, and, particularly

of the Dissimilitude of our Bishops to the Primitive; espe-

cially in their Pomp and Perpetuity.....

18. The Practice of the Whole Christian Church, in all Times and

Places, is for this Government by Bishops.....

19. Of the Suppression of Contrary Records: and the Sole Oppo-

sition of the Heretic Erius..........

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