Section

Page

20. The Vindication of those Fathers, which are pretended to se-

cond Erius's Opinion........

595

21. The Practice of the Waldenses and Albigenses, in allowance of

Episcopal Government

597

22. The Government by Bishops both Universal and Unalterable... 5:9

Part Third. ON LAY ELDERS.

Section

1. The Appellation of Lay-Elders, and the State of the Question

concerning them........

2. No Lay-Elder ever mentioned or heard of, in the Times of the

Gospel, in all the World, till this present age. The Texts of

Scripture particularized, to the contrary

3. Lay-Eldership a mere Stranger to all Antiquity; which ac-

knowledgeth no Presbyters, but Divines....

4. St. Ambrose's Testimony, urged commonly for Lay-Elders,

fully answered......

5. The utter Disagreement and Irresolution of the Pretenders to

the New Discipline, concerning the particular State of their

Desired Government......

602

604

607

609

..... 611

6. The Imperfections and Defects which must needs be yielded to

follow upon the Discipline Pretended; and the Necessary

Inconveniences, that must attend it, in a Kingdom otherwise

settled..........

..... 613

7. The known Newness of this Invention, and the Quality of the

late Authors of it............

CONCLUSION.

1. A Recapitulation of the several Heads: and a vehement Ex-

hortation to all Readers: and, first, to our Northern Bre-

thren.........

............

2. An Exhortatory Conclusion to our Brethren at Home.........

VI. AN HUMBLE REMONSTRANCE TO THE HIGH COURT OF

PARLIAMENT

VII. A DEFENCE OF THE HUMBLE REMONSTRANCE,

AGAINST THE FRIVOLOUS AND FALSE EXCEPTIONS OF SMEC-

TYMNUUS. WHEREIN THE RIGHT OF LITURGY AND EPIS-

COPACY IS CLEARLY VINDICATED FROM THE VAIN CAVILS

AND CHALLENGES OF THE ANSWERERS. SECONDED, IN

WAY OF APPENDANCE, WITH THE JUDGMENT OF THE FA-

616

619

623

625

MOUS DIVINE OF THE PALATINATE, D. ABRAHAMUS SCUL-

TETUS, LATE PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN THE UNIVERSITY

OF HEIDELBERG: CONCERNING THE DIVINE RIGHT OF

EPISCOPACY, AND THE NO-RIGHT OF LAY-ELDERSHIP:

FAITHFULLY TRANSLATED OUT OF HIS LATIN................................................... 639

VIII. A SHORT ANSWER TO THE TEDIOUS VINDICATION

OF SMECTYMNUUS.............

721

IX. A MODEST OFFER OF SOME MEET CONSIDERATIONS

TENDERED TO THE LEARNED PROLOCUTOR, AND TO THE

REST OF THE ASSEMBLY OF DIVINES MET AT WESTMINSTER. 773

X. XEIPOGEZIA: or, THE APOSTOLIC INSTITUTION OF IMPOSI-

TION OF HANDS, FOR CONFIRMATION, REVIVED.............. 785

XI. FOR EPISCOPACY AND LITURGY..........

811

PART THIRD: ON THE FIVE POINTS.

1. VIA MEDIA: THE WAY OF PEACE: IN THE FIVE BUSY AR-

TICLES, COMMONLY KNOWN BY THE NAME OF ARMINIUS:

TOUCHING, 1. PREDESTINATION. 2. THE EXTENT OF

CHRIST'S DEATH. 3. MAN'S FREE-WILL AND CORRUPTION.

4. THE MANNER OF OUR CONVERSION TO GOD. 5. PERSE-

VERANCE. WHEREIN IS LAID FORTH SO FAIR AN ACCOM-

MODATION OF THE DIFFERENT OPINIONS, AS MAY CONTENT

BOTH PARTS AND PROCURE HAPPY ACCORD..

.........................

II. A LETTER CONCERNING FALLING AWAY FROM

GRACE.............

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817

845

849

III. D. BALTHASARI WILLIO, S. THEOLOGIE D. ET IN BRE-

MENSI ECCLESIA PROFESSORI EPISTOLA............................................

IV. D. LUDOVICO CROCIO, S. THEOLOGIE D. ET IN ILLUSTRI

SCHOLA BREMENSI PROFESSORI EPISTOLA................

V. D. HERMANNO HILDEBRANDO, S.T.D., STI. STEPH. Ec-

CLESIÆ BREMENSIS PASTORI VIGILANTISSIMO EPISTOLA.... 860

853

1

POLEMICAL WORKS.

PART FIRST.

ON THE

QUESTIONS

BETWEEN

THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND

AND

THE CHURCH OF ROME.