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ly one Will in Chrift, and the Iconoclafts, or Chap. 3. Image-breakers, were cut off from her.

Quest 18 In the ninth Century, the Manichæans reappear'd. And fome of the former Sects continued in the tenth.

In the eleventh Century, the Berengarians, who deny'd the real Prefence of the Body and Blood of Chrift under the Sacramental Signs, and the Greeks, under Cerularius, were cut off from the Church in Communion with Rome. So were the Vaudois, or Waldenfes, in the twelfth.

In the thirteenth Century, the Albigenfes were cut off from her; and the Wicklefifts in the fourteenth. In the fifteenth Century, the Huffites, call'd Calixtins, because they held, that the Laity is commanded to drink of the Chalice, were cut off from her.

So were the Lutherans, the Calvinists, the Anabaptifts, and the Socinians or Anti-Trinitarians, in the fixteenth Century; and the Quakers in the feventeenth.

Since the Beginning of the eighteenth Century, Mr. Whiston and Dr. Clarke have endeavoured to refettle Arianifm: a Herefy, which was fo long fince, and fo juftly condemn'd by the Catholick Church in the first general Coun cil an. 325, and by all both Greek and Latin Fathers fince, as by S. Athanafius, S. Bafil, S. Gregory Nyffen, S. Gregory Nazianzen, S. Chryfoftom, S. Hilarius, S. Ambrofe, S. Ferom, and S. Auguftin. And if the new Reformers /fucceed at Home, in this wicked Attempt, what can they expect, but the Pity, if not the Indignation of all good Men, and the Cen fures of the Catholick Church?

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II. The Second Argument is this. If the Queft18 Gospel and the Creed be always true, Chrift has always upon the Earth, a Church, which is the Communion of Saints, which is One, Holy, Apoftolical, Univerfal, and Orthodox. If One, it is not in feparate and difagreeing Communions. If Holy; it is never guilty of teaching wicked, idolatrous, profane, and unreveal'd Doctrine. If Apoftolical; it has both its Paftors and its Faith (in an uninterrupted Succeffion, and within its own Communion) from the Apostles. If Univerfal; it is always in Being, always known, always vifible. If Orthodox; it never misleads us, either in the first or in the secondary Articles of Religion, nor does it ftate the Terms of Communion wrong. Indeed how can the Communion of Saints do this? And is fhe not a fure Guide, if the cannot do it? Hence Catholicks fay, that the Univerfal Church is INFALLIBLE, in deciding Controverfies of Religion. But by this INFALLIBILITY (as far as Faith is concerned in the Question) nothing else is meant, but only the perpetual Orthodoxy of the Universal Church. For the Infallibility of the Pope (which fome Catholicks affert, and others deny) is not any Article of the Catholick Religion.

III. If it can then be prov'd, that the Properties now mention'd, of the Catholick Church, agree to any other Society upon Earth, diftinct from the Church in Communion with the Bishop and See of Rome; that Society is the Catholick Church. But, if no fuch Society can be found, the Cafe is alter'd.

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DAMITES, who, p. 271.

A AGES. All have abounded with Reformations,

11, 12, 22, 23, 57, & feq.

APOC. xvii. v. 5, why printed in large Characters,
100, 258, 259.

APOLINARISTS, Or Apolinarians, who, 65. They began
in the fourth Century, and continued in the fifth, 66.
Great APOSTASY, was it of, or from the Catholick
Church? 260, 261.

APOSTOLICAL TRADITION. The true Sense of
Scripture cannot be known without it, 174, 176.
APOTACTITES, who, 63.

ARIANS, who, 65, 183, 283. They began with the
fourth Cent. and remained in the fixth, 66. The
Council at Ariminum did not err against Faith, 192.
ARTICLES OF FAITH. Not made, but made known,
by the Catholick Church. 178.

B

APTISM and Catholick Communion are parallel
Cafes, 2, 7, 55.

BASILIDES, who, 58.

BELIEF, of what in particular neceffary, 36, 48, 51, 180
BERENGARIANS, who, 184, 283.

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ALIXTINS, who, 283.
CARPOCRATES, who, 59;

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CATHOLICKS,

CATHOLICKS, who, 4, 5, 261, 281. The CATHOLICK CHURCH. Why those not pray'd for, who die out of it, 92, 93. It is One, in Faith and Communion, 102, & feq. 122, & feq. Always vifible, always Orthodox, 128, & feq. gainst Faith, 133.

It is always in Being, 124, & feq. It is And never errs a

CAUSAL SCHISM, 69, 132. Preface, numb. 14. CELIBACY of Monks and Nuns requir'd by the Council of Calcedon, 267.

CERINTHIANS, who, 12.

CHARITABLE and favourable Judgments differ, Pref. n. 9. CHRISTIANITY and Catholick Faith are feldom recover'd, 91, 92.

COMMUNION with the Apostles, how to be obtain'd, 70: CONSCIENCE may be a great Sin, 44, 45, 48, 89, 90. CREEDS, Definitions, and Cenfures, why not tied to Scripture-words, 191. They give us the Senfe of the primitive Church, 105. Can Words in the Creed be remov'd from it, 192.

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ISSENTERS

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agree in what, 68, 69. They have been in all Ages fince the Apoftles, 11, 12, 22, 57, & feq. 106. They are no Part of the Catholick Church, 108, tho' agreeing in Fundamentals with her, 111, 112.

DIVISIONS in Christendom, why, Pref. n. 13.
DOCTRINE of Devils, 266, 267 & feq.

DONATISTS. who, 64, 114, & feq. They began with the fourth Century, and continued to the End of the fixth, 66.

DUTIES neceffary to Salvation, 2, 36, 47, 48, 51, 52,

& feq.

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BIONITES, who, 12.

ELXAI, who, 57.

ENCRATETES (or Encratites) from Tatian, 60: from
Manichæus, 63.

CHURCH of England, a new-rais'd Communion, 204,
205, 206. She cannot fuppofe the Greeks to be the
Catholick Church, 250.

EUTYCHIANS, Who, 67, 249. They began in the fifth
Cent. and still continue, 67.

EXPOSITION of Scripture is Part of the Chriftian Reve-
lation, 189, & feq.

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F

AITH in Chrift is neceffary to Salvation, 51, Pr.n. 8.
FATHERS. Their Senfe not uncertain to Catho-
licks, 187.

FUNDAMENTALS are understood differently, 34. Do
Proteftants agree with us in all Fundamentals, 34, 35-

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ENERAL and Univerfal Rules, what, 1, 2, 3, 17.
GNOSTICKS, Who, 12. They began in the firft,
and continued to the End of the fourth Century, 57.
S. Peter and S. Jude write against them, 12.
The GREEK CHURCH was extremely leffen'd before the
Schifm, 247, & feq.

S. GREGORY and his Predeceffors affert a Supremacy in
Spirituals, 224, & feq.

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H

ERESY, what, 68, 77. It is a manifest Work of
the Flesh, 9, 15. And always a Misfortnne, 80, 81.

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