Queries and Anfwer. 155, 156 Answer to the Second, relating to Apoft acy. 156, 157 The Onerist's definition of Herely too narrow. Hereby is 'Heresy, though condemn’d by no General Council. , or Papal Supremacy condemn'd as Image-worship charg'd upon them as a Herefy. 160 In Answer to that Question, Which of the Fathers ever writ against the Church of Rome 'Tis affirm'd that those Errors were not broach'd in the Time of the Fathers, which are now charg‘d upon the Church of Rome as neno (false) Doctrines of Faith, as Image-Worship, mangling A full. Answer to that Question, By what Authority was the Church of Rome otherwise reproved? Shewing 1. what tricking and foul Play almost every Nation met with from the pretended Council of Trent. 163, 164 The Question, If the Church of Rome be Schismatical, what Company did she leave ? answer:d, mae damn'd 165, 166 The next Question answer’d, from what Body forihs 167 167, 168 Love of Truth in his way. 169 The Letter sent to the Lady. 169, 170, 171 The D's Answer. First he condoles with her, then treats of Sanctification, and the Steps leading to it; viz. Faith, Hope, and Charity, &c. 171, 172 Secondly, hews that what her Seducer calls Truth in their way, is Error in Doétrine, Worship, and Government. 172 Trent-Doctrines not of God. ibid. The Afflictions befalin her rather to be attributed to her heark’ning so long to her Adversary 173 A ministerial Mission not absolutely necessary to Faith and Conversion. 174 Private Persons have wrought Saving Faith in Unbelievers. ibid. 'Tis true that the ordinary way of working Faith, is by the preaching of those who are sent mediately or immediately by God. 175 That Preachers in all Ages have been fent about the World to preach the Gospel only by St. Peter, and his Succeffors, as the Vicars of Jesus Christ, is falfe in Falt, and contrary * to the Doctrine of ibe ancient Fathers. ibid. 176 The Church of Smyrna derives its Succession from St. John. ibid: Inštances in several others. He challenges the Seducer to disprove his Authorities. 178 St. Paul equal to St. Peter in the Apoftolical Office. -179 The same Authority which was given to St. Peter, was likewise , given to all the other Apostles. ibid. 180 This the Seducer, if he's vers d' in the Ecclefiaffical Writings, knows to be true. ibid. Challeng’d to disprove it. 181 The Seducer's Assertion, that our sending and preaching is by Act of Parliament, and that we call this Sent, is é Cao lumny, ibid. Often refuted by our Writers. ibid. The Lady deford to ask him a Question. 182 Supposing our Sending and Milion were as the Seducer says the Lady ought not to go to the Church of Roine ; because the Defects of the one will not justify the Corruptions of the other. What ought to be done in such a Cafe. 181 The Seducer's Confidence in Saying , That Protestants muf allon 177 ibid. 183 allow that before Luther, it was only that Body of Christi- ans in Communion of, and Obedience to the Bishop of Roine, that was the visible Holy Carbolick Church,contradicted and The Greek and Oriental Churches,long before Luther, did, and ibid. His telling the Lady, that those wha separated from this Bo- dy, were by the Fathers in all Ages accounted Schismaticks, Guilty of another collusive Expression. The Doktor assures her that she's Safe in the Religion of the The Grounds of Religion, or an Antidote against Popery, 189, &c. Another Letter from the Lady to the D. She thanks him for the Arguments he has supply'd her with against the Person, who endeavour'd to pervert her. 197 , objected against the Novelty of their Trent- Articles when attack.d by him. What sticks with her at present. Where the Point of the Controversy about Schilm lies between The Doctor answers all her Objections, and vindicates the THE INTRODUCTION. A BOUT the beginning of November 1707, a Gentleman of my Acquaintance came to me to tell me, that a good Lady was come to Town, who had been sometime known to him, and lodg’d at his House in Covent-Garden i but that by a Letter from a Clergy-man in the Country, from whence the came, as well as by some things her Ladyship now and then spoke, he perceived she was inclin'd to go over to the Church of Rome, and fear'd she would be effectually perwerted, if some timely Means were not used to prevent her unhappy change of Religion, and thereupon desired me to let him introduce me to her Acquaintance, that I might discourse with her in order to resettle her wavering Mind, which he imagined happen'd to be unsettled by the Conversation she had in the Country with a neighbouring Gentleman of the Roman Communion; who was himself a Person of great Parts and Learning, and at whose House she must often meet with Roman Catholicks of all Ranks, and among others always with their Priests. This account of the Lady invited me to ask him fome Questions about her, by his Answers to which, and by the Clergy-man's Letter he shewed me, I perceived she had long conversed in matters of Religion with them, and received all the Impressions against the Church of England, which the zealous Gentlemen and Ladies, as well as the Glergy of the Church of Rome, always endeavour B to This I per to make upon the Minds of our People; especially upon the Easy and Credulous, who hearken to all their Arguments time after time, and yet neglect to communicate them to our learned Divines, who are able to fhew the Fallacies and Weakness of them, and detect their fine, but false pretensions to Antiquity, which this Lady was inclin'd to believe, particularly that precarious, vain and arrogant Pretension of their Church, of being the one Holy Catholick and Apoftolick Church. ceived to be the Case of this good Lady, who was so unhappy as to trust her felf alone among the Adversaries of our Religion, and to lend an open Ear to every thing they are wont to say for their own, or against the Church of England and the Reformation, without imparting what she heard Time after Time to learned Men, or desiring any Conference betwixt our Divines and theirs, till by degrees she had acquired a great Esteem and Veneration for the Church of Rome, and a fufpicion joined with a mean, if not ill Opinion of the Church of England, and every thing that belongs to it; and as it appears from her following Letters, was really become more than half theirs. The former Experiences. I have had of Women, who had thus ensnar'd themselves, made me unwilling, at my Friend's Request, to have any Conference with her Ladyship, because I feared it was too late to do her any good. But my Friend continued his importunity, desiring me to comer and dine with her Ladyship, that I might. have an opportunity to observe her, and then judge whether I thought her so far gone, as not to be reduced. At Dinner several Expressions fell from her Ladyship, by which I perceived she was poffelled with great Prejudice against the Church of England. She asked me if we had not our Faith from the Church of Rome, and if we had, how we came to leave it? I answered, That part of our English Sexon Ancestors, which was indeed the greatest |