An Abridgment of the Chapters
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 July 2022
Summary
Cap. 1. OF the Nature, Degrees, and Kinds of Forgery.
Cap. 2. Of the Primitive Order and Government of the Church. The first Popish Encroachment upon it, backed with Forgery. The Detection of the Fraud in the Sixth Council of Carthage.
Cap. 3. A multitude of Forgeries secretly mingled with the Records of the Church, and put forth under the Name of Isidore, Bishop of Hispalis: Which Book is owned, defended, and followed by the Papists.
Cap. 4. James Merlins Edition of the Councils, who lately published Isidore Hispalensis for a good Record, which is now detected, and proved to be a Forgery.
Cap. 5. Divers Forgeries contained in Isidores counterfeit Collection mentioned in particular.
Cap. 6. A further account of Merlins design. How some would have Isidore to be a Bishop, others a Merchant, others a Sinner; no man knowing well what to make of him.
Cap. 7. Of Francis Turrian, the famous Jesuite, with what Art and Boldness he defendeth the Forgeries.
Cap. 8. Of Peter Crabbe, his Tomes of the Councils. Wherein he agrees with and wherein he differs from Isidore and Merlin.
Cap. 9. Of Carranza his Epitome: He owneth, and useth the Forgeries Forgeries for good Records.
Cap. 10. Of Surius his four Tomes, and how the Forgeries are by him confirmed. He hath the Rescripts of Atticus and Cyril, by which Pope Zozimus was convicted of Forgery, in the sixth Council of Carthage.
Cap. 11. Of Nicolinus his Tomes, and their Contents for the first 420 years How full of Forgeries. His Testimony concerning the sixth Council of Carthage; with his way of defending the Popes Forgery therein.
Cap. 12. Nicolinus his Epistle to Pope Sixtus V. His contempt of the Fathers. He beginneth to confess the Epistle of Melchiades to be naught. He overthroweth the Legend about Constantines Donation.
Cap. 13. The Epistle of Pope Damasus to Aurelius, Archbishop of Carthage, commanding the Decretals of the Roman Bishops to be preached and published, and Fathering those Forgeries on the H. Ghost.
Cap. 14. Counterfeit Canons made in the Apostles names, defended by Binius. A Glympse of his Pretences, Sophistries, and Contradictions. A forged Council of the Apostles concerning Images, defended by Binius and Turrian.
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- The Works of Thomas Traherne VII<i>Christian Ethicks</i> and <i>Roman Forgeries</i>, pp. 336 - 338Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2022