THE WORKS OF WM. CHILLINGWORTH, M. A. IN THREE VOLUMES: VOL. II. LONDON: PRINTED BY J. F. DOVE, ST. JOHN'S SQUARE; FOR RICHARD PRIESTLEY, 143, HIGH HOLBORN. MDCCCXX. CONTENTS. To say that the Creed contains all points necessarily to That Luther, Calvin, their associates, and all who began In regard of the precept of charity towards one's self, protestants are in a state of sin, as long as they remain separated from the Roman church ANSWER VII. 462 That protestants are not bound by the charity which they owe to themselves to re-unite themselves to the Roman Apostolical Institution of Episcopacy demonstrated. Reasons against popery, in a Letter from Mr. Chillingworth to Mr. Lewgar 531 538 CHARITY MAINTAINED BY CATHOLICS. PART I. CHAP. IV. To say that the Creed contains all points necessarily to be believed, is neither pertinent to the question in hand; nor in itself true. "I SAY, neither pertinent nor true. Not pertinent; because our question is not what points are necessary to be explicitly believed; but what points may be lawfully disbelieved, or rejected after sufficient proposition that they are Divine truths. You say, the Creed contains all points necessary to be believed: be it so; but doth it likewise contain all points not to be disbelieved? Certainly it doth not. For how many truths are there in Holy Scripture not contained in the Creed, which we are not obliged distinctly and particularly to know and believe, but are bound under pain of damnation not to reject, as soon as we come to know that they are found in Holy Scripture; and we having already shewed that whatsoever is proposed by God's church as a point of faith, is infallibly a truth revealed by God; it followeth, that whosoever denieth any such point, |