Pagano-Papismus; Or, an Exact Parallel Between Rome-Pagan and Rome-Christian, in Their Doctrines and Ceremonies

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Master we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God truth; neither carest thou for any man, for thou regardest not the persons of man. then con­fesse themselves convinced or satisfied with the clearest evi­dence produced in the plainest cause that can be debated: but [Page 28]this is not the fault of disputation it self, but the perversnesse of the disputant, who will disputare or discedere (for according to that sense we may make the Etymology of the word) though he have not one wise word to say for the folly and falsity of his opinion; we must, as saith that ancient Doctor and Confessour H [.

John Onely, and John Brian; so far hath the arrogancy of the man magnified himself, without due respect to the modesty of a Christian, the ingenuity of a Scholar, and the discretion of an ordinary rationall man; and so much hath he vilified the Doctor (in another book published by him since) whom all men (who know him, and are of any note for Learning and Religion,) highly honour for a very eminent degree of them both: and for his excellent faculty, and indefatigable diligence in Preaching and Catechising, there be very few who are com­parable to him Nor do I know Mr. Having shewed in the precedent discourse how averse many have been from disputations in Religion; why and how far and how adverse the Mahometans and Papists are unto them; I will adde but one observation more under this Title of Dispu­tations in Religion concerning the Pope and his party of this generation, who (besides the reason wherein by their dislike of them, they agree with the Turks (which is a part of their Turco papismus, as Dr. How it came to passe, that (notwithstanding the declared unwillingnesse of the Committee and Magistrates of the City against the publick dispute,) you fitted them with a publick place and polemical entertainment, who came so far out of their way, as from London to Coventry to quarrell with you, I shall shew in a more convenient place: And (to go on with observations of like sort) I very well remember that in London (when Sir, Iohn Gayor was Lord Major) there was a disputation betwixt Mr. I had not been so serious, nor insisted so long in discoverie of the foolish and unlearned questions (such as the Apostle re­proveth, 2 Tim.This is done with an additional, high efficiency, stainless steel condensing heat exchanger which is positioned on top of the boiler. the preservation of the publick peace, much endangered by a numerous con­course of people of adverse principles, for debate of their differences. When the Devil had tempted Adam and Eve, or Adam by Eve, to eat the forbidden fruit, what penance did they undergoe, (after they had yielded to the Devil) and were expelled out of Paradise? His confident expressions in his cause, argue either a strange imposture of a deluding spirit, or a brasen impudence of a bragging Jesuit, Si hoc praesti­tero, coelos esse.

Wycliffe at first merely defended the complete independence of the temporal power from the church and only advanced to a criticism of churchly dogmas after he had become convinced that the question would never be settled without a bold break with papism. loffired disputations in all places the effects whereof, as were touched before whether received or refused, drew with them an immediate alteration of Religion: for if they were received, the better cause prevailed; if they were not, they who refused gave cause of suspicion, that their Coine howsoever it were gilded, was indeed but Copper, which could not (as pure gold) endure to be tried by the touch stone; and the alteration of Religion then was such as Disputatio Bernensis s [. as the dialogues or colloquies of Plato, Cicero, Lucian, among the Heathens; and some of A­thanasius, Hierome, Augustines tracts among the ancient Fa­thers; Galatinus, Erasmus, Peter Martyr, and other, of later times.Caesaropapismus v byzantské říši byl dědictvím poměrů z pozdně římského impéria, kdy císař vykonával funkci nejvyššího kněze (latinsky pontifex maximus). An den Dogmen, am Ritual wurde nichts geändert, als daß an die Stelle des Papstes der König trat: der Lutheranismus wurde ebenso verpönt wie der Papismus. Because he was so bold as to put to dispute so many un­doubted principles of divinity as we have noted. Uspěl jeden pokus - ten poslední, ale tuto unii s Římem se císař ani neodvážil v Byzanci publikovat. Pareus, of the badnesse of such as pretending to live chastly single shew themselves by their discourses too well acquainted with wo­mens matters.