THE RELIGION OF PROTESTANTS SAFE WAY TO SALVATION. BY WILLIAM CHILLINGWORTH, M.A. A NEW AND COMPLETE EDITION. LONDON: GEORGE BELL & SONS, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1888. THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY H78,682 LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED. STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. CONTENTS. The Preface to the Author of Charity Maintained; with an Au. swer to his pamphlet, entitled, A Direction to N N. PAGE The state of the question; with a summary of the reasons for Shewing, that the adversary grants the former question, and pro- poseth a new one; and that there is no reason why, among What is that means whereby the revealed truths of God are con- Concerning the means whereby the revealed truths of God are That the distinction of points fundamental and not fundamental is neither pertinent nor true in our present controversy; and that the Catholic visible Church cannot err in either k: d f Wherein it is maintained, that the distinction of points funda- mental and not fundamental is in this present controversy good To say that the Creed contains all points necessarily to be believed, is neither pertinent to the question in hand, nor in That Luther, Calvin, their associates, and all who began or con- tinue the separation from the external communion of the The separation of Protestants from the Roman Church, being upon just and necessary causes, is not any way guilty of schism 328 In regard of the precept of charity towards one's self, Protestants UPON the first news of the publication of your book, I used all diligence with speed to procure it; and came with such a mind to the reading of it, as St. Austin, before he was a settled catholic, brought to his conference with Faustus the Manichee. For as he thought that if anything more than ordinary might be said in defence of the Manichean doctrine, Faustus was the man from whom it was to be expected; so my persuasion concerning you was, Si Pergama dextra defendi possunt, certe hac defensa videbo. For I conceived, that among the champions of the Roman church, the English in reason must be the best, or equal to the best, as being by most expert masters trained up purposely for this war, and perpetually practised in it. Among the English, I saw the Jesuits would yield the first place to none; and men so wise in their generation as the Jesuits were, if they had any Achilles among them, I presumed, would make choice of him for this service. And besides, I had good assurance, that in the framing of this building, though you were the only architect, yet you wanted not the assistance of many diligent hands to bring you in choice materials towards it; nor of many careful and watchful eyes to correct the errors of your work, if any should chance to escape you. Great reason, therefore, had I to expect great matters from you, and that your book should have in it the spirit and elixir of all that can be said in defence of your church and doctrine; and to assure myself, that if my resolution not to believe it were not built upon the rock of evident grounds and reasons, but only upon soine sandy and deceitful appearances, now the wind, and storm, and floods were coming which would undoubtedly overthrow it. Б |