In Answer to that Question, Which of the Fathers ever writ against the Church of Rome & Tis affirm'd that thofe Errors were not broach'd in the Time of the Fathers, which are now charg'd upon the Church of Rome as new (falfe) Doctrines of Faith, as Image-Worship, mangling of the Sacrament, &c. A full Answer to that Question, By what Authority was the Church of Rome otherwife reproved? Shewing 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 Schifmatical, 165, 166 The CONTENTS of the APPENDIX. HE Lady being again attack'd, fends the D. a T Letter (with an enclosed Paper) wherein she ac- quaints him with her Indifpofition, and that it was Love of Truth in his way. The Letter fent to the Lady. 169 169, 170, 171 The D's Answer. Firft 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 Doctrine, Worship, and Government. 172 Trent-Doctrines not of God. ibid. The Afflictions befall'n her rather to be attributed to her bearkning fo long to her Adverfary 173 174 A minifterial Miffion not abfolutely neceffary to Faith and ibid. 175 'Tis true that the ordinary way of working Faith, is by the preaching of those who are fent mediately or immediately by God. 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 Jefus Chrift, is falfe in Fact, and contrary to the Doctrine of the ancient Fathers. ibid. 176 The Church of Smyrna derives its Succeffion from St. John. Instances in feveral others. ibid. 177 178 179 He challenges the Seducer to difprove his Authorities. ibid. 180 This the Seducer, if he's vers'd in the Ecclefiaftical Writings, knows to be true. Challeng'd to difprove it. ibid. 181 The Seducer's Affertion, that our fending and preaching is by Act of Parliament, and that we call this Sent, is a Calumny, Often refuted by our Writers. The Lady defir'd to ask him a Question. ibid. ibid. 182 Suppofing our Sending and Miffion were as the Seducer Jays, the Lady ought not to go to the Church of Rome; because the Defects of the one will not justify the Corruptions of the other. ibid. 183 What ought to be done in fuch a Cafe. 184 The Seducer's Confidence in faying, That Protestants must allow allow that before Luther, it was only that Body of Chrifti- ans in Communion of, and Obedience to the Bishop of Rome, The Greek and Oriental Churches,long before Luther, did, and His telling the Lady, that those who separated from this Bo- Guilty of another collufive Expreffion. The Doctor affures her that he's fafe in the Religion of the The Grounds of Religion, or an Antidote against Popery, Another Letter from the Lady to the D. him for the Arguments he has fupply'd her the Perfon, who endeavour'd to pervert her. 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 fometime known to him, and lodg'd at his House in Covent-Garden; but that by a Letter from a Clergy-man in the Country, from whence fhe came, as well as by fome things her Ladyfhip now and then spoke, he perceived she was inclin'd to go over to the Church of Rome, and fear'd fhe would be effectually perverted, if fome timely Means were not used to prevent her unhappy change of Religion, and thereupon defired me to let him introduce me to her Acquaintance, that I might difcourfe with her in order to resettle her wavering Mind, which he imagined happen'd to be unfettled by the Converfation fhe had in the Country with a neighbouring Gentleman of the Roman Communion; who was himself a Perfon 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 Priefts. 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 fhewed me, I perceived fhe had long converfed in matters of Religion with them, and received all the Impreffions against the Church of England, which the zealous Gentlemen and Ladies, as well as the Clergy of the Church of Rome, always endeavour to make upon the Minds of our People; efpecially 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 falfe pretenfions to Antiquity, which this Lady was inclin❜d to believe, particularly that precarious, vain and arrogant Pretenfion of their Church, of being the One Holy Catholick and Apoftolick Church. This I perceived to be the Cafe of this good Lady, who was fo unhappy as to trust her felf alone among the Adverfaries 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 defiring any Conference betwixt our Divines and theirs, till by degrees fhe had acquired a great Efteem 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 enfnar'd themselves, made me unwilling, at my Friend's Requeft, to have any Conference with her Ladyfhip, because F feared it was too late to do her any good. But my Friend continued his importunity, defiring me to come and dine with her Lady ship, that I might have an opportunity to obferve her, and then judge whether I thought her fo far gone, as not to be reduced. At Dinner feveral Expreffions fell from her Ladyfhip, by which I perceived fhe was poffelfed 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 Saxon Ancestors, which was indeed the greatest |