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The seconde parte of the booke called a Bucklar of the Catholyke fayeth conteyninge seuen chapiters / made by Rychard Smyth doctoure of diuinitie of Oxforde, & reader of the same there.
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Smith, Richard, 1500-1563.
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haue vs beleue them before the scriptures and the olde godlye doctours of Christes churche What blyndnes is this Oure lorde of his tendre and greate mercie open their eyes that they may see the trueth of his word seing it recule and retourn again to the catholyke churche out of the which no maÌ can be saued Origen beleued euen as these other fathers did part of whose sentences are nowe recited for Hom. xiiii in Lucam he saith thus vpoÌ these wordes of Iob. No man is cleane from the filthynesse of sinne no althoughe hys lyfe were but of one daye vpon the earth Et quia Ca. 25. ãâã 70 per baptismi sacramentum natiuitatis sordes deponuntur propterea baptizantur paruuli Nisi enim quis renatus fuerit c. Because the filthynes of mans naturall birthe is put away thorowe the sacrament of baptisme children are for that cause also baptised For excepte a man be borne agayne of water and the holye Ioan. iii. ghoste he can not entre in to the kingdome of heauen Innocentius the first which was in S. Austens tyme and to whome he wrote holdeth the same beleâââ saying as saint Austen reââteth Lib. ij cap. iiij contra duas epist ââripta ãâã ãâã uitaââââm pelagiorum ⪠Illuduâro quod eââ vestra fraternitas asserit predicare paruulos aâternae uitae praemijs etiam sine baptismatis gratia posse donari perfatuum est It is a verie foolishe thing that thei do preache as youre brotherhoode affirmeth that chyldren should be saued withoute baptisme It appeareth then nowe moste playneâye howe this opinion whiche Peter Martyr folowinge the Swingliaâs hathe taughte to defende that onelye fayth iustifieth man is against the holy worde of God and the holye doctours bothe of the Greke churche ⪠and also of the Latyue and thereby it is euident that Peter Martyr and his scolers are not membres of the catholike churche but schismatiques I beseche God of hys gracious goodnes tourne their heartes that they maye imbrace the trueth agayne and continue therin to hys honour and glorie and their own saluation But heare once agayne Origen whiche was about M. thre huÌdred yeres passed Orig. lib. vi Coment in ca. vi ad Rom. and writeth after this maner Pro hoc scilicet corpore pecâ cati abolendo ecclesia ab apostolis traditionem suscepit etiam paruulis baptisma dare Sciebant enim illi quibus mysteriorum secreta commissa sunt diuinorum quod esâent in omnibus sordes peccâti âenuinae quae peraquaÌ eâ spiritum ablui deberent That is to saye For this bodie of sinne to be defaced or put awaye the An vnwritten veritee of our beleif churche hathe receyued also a tradition of the Apostles to geue baptisme yea to children For they to whome the secretes of Goddes mysteries were committed dyd knowe that there shoulde be in all men naturall fylthines of synne which oughte to be washed awaye through water the holy ghost This authoritie is againste Peter Martyr the authours of the articles annexed vnto the Catechisme sette furthe in kinge Edwarde the vi tyme and all them that saye eyther that childreÌ not baptised shulde be saued or that baptisme is no cause of oure iustification but fayth onely or that baptisme is but a signe or marke of our iustification or finally that the baptisme of children is set furthe in the Scripture where it is lefte to the churche by the holy Apostles without writing only by traditioÌ as OrigeÌ here De eccles Hierar câ xii sayeth manefestlye and S. Dionâse S. Paules scoler of the which S. Austen writeth thus Lib. x. cae xxiiâ in cene ad ãâã ram Lib. iii. câ xiii de lib arb Lib. iiii cap. 4. de baptiââ contra donaââ Consuetudo matris ecclesiae in baptizandis paruulis nequaâ sper nenda est neâ ullo modo superflua deputanda nec omnino credenda nisi apostolica esset traditio The accustomaunce of oure mother the Churche in baptisinge of children is in no wyse to be dispised nor to be reckened superfluous by anye meanes nor vtterlye to be beleued if it had not ben a traditioÌ of the Apostles What caÌ our new teachers and the makers of the articles afore mentioned saye to these authorities for the defense of their doctrine that men are bouÌde to credite and beleue nothing but that onlye whiche the scripture setteth furthe Woulde they that men shoulde beleue them afore these auncieÌt godly great learned fathers But of this mattier I haue written moore at large in my booke of traditions therefore I now make an end of this chapiter wisshinge grace and the knowledge of the trueth vnto all that erre in Christes religioÌ that they may come at the leÌgth vnto the ioyes of heaueÌ thorough Christe oure sauiours glorious passion to whome with the father and the holie ghoste be honour and prayse for euer Amen The fourthe chapiter That the soules of men departed doâ not sleaâe but either they goe to heauen for their good ⪠workes or els to Hell for their âuell before domes daye TOuthinge this matter I wyll be verye shorte because I thinke that fewe of oure countree men are infected with this opinioÌ Christe saied to the theife hanginge with him vpon the crosse Hodâe mecum eris in paradiso This daye thou Luk. xxiii shalte be with me in paradise that is to saye as saint Austen expoundeth it verye truelye this daye of my death thy soule being departed out of thy body shall see the deâte and god head clearly Also sainte Paule saied Phil. i. Cupio disolui esse cum Christo I desire to die and to be with Christe whiche is as muche as if he had sayed when I shall departe out of this worlde I shall be streighte waye with Christ as he himselfe declareth to the Corinthians sayinge thus ãâã Cor. v. Scimus quod si terrestris do muâ nostra c. We know that if our earthlye house of this dwelling be brooken we haue a house of God in heauen not made with mans hande Agayn he sayeth Audemus bonam uoluntatem ii Cor. v. habemus magis peregrinari à corpore praesentes esse ad dominâ We are bolde and we haue a good wil rather to be strangers from the bodye and to be present with our lorde Whiche is as muche as if he had sayed when I shall goo oute of thys worlde than I haue a house in heauen shal be preseÌt with our lord God Whiche saint Hierom Hierââ To. i. epist ad Marcellam de obitu Leae affirmeth saying thus Nunc illa pro breui labore aeterna fruitur beatitudine excipitur aÌgeloruÌ choris Now she hath the pleasure of the euerlastinge blisse she is receaued with the compaignie of Angels Sainte Austen writtinge Aug. in psal 10. Phil. i. vpoÌ this Paules senteÌce Cupio dâssolui c. saieth Viuit Paulus
of CaÌtorburye Ridlye Latymer Iohn Hoper Rogers doctour Crome and all the rest of that sorte are nor of the catholyke churche out of the whiche there i. ãâã iii. is no saluation but schismatykes and deuided clearelye from the companie of them that shal be saued seynge they beleue not as these holye fathers dyd which are nowe saintes in heauen Is then anye man so folishe to beleue their doctrine touchyng the blessed sacrament of the aulter the holye Masse and suche other mattiers of our faieth lately called into question and doubte by them after they had forsaken the vnitee of the catholyke church But heare saint CypriaÌ which was almost m. c c c. yeres sence a holy Martyr QuuÌ christus virgineÌ suà ãâã dedicataÌ et saÌctitati suae ãâã iacere cum altero cernit quà m indignatur et irascitur et quas paenas incestis eiusmodi coniunctionibus coÌminatur When Chryste seeth hys virgin geuen to hym by a vowe of virginitee and appointed to his holynes lye with an other howe muche is he moued angrie And what peynes threteneth he to such an vuleful mariage whiche is worse then aduoutrie Agayne he sayeth Cypria de du plici martyrio Lege euÌ de habitis virginum Nonne uide mus totuÌ ecclesiae coetum vultus dimittere atque erubescere quoties aliqua virgo quae christo nupserat dilapsa ex angelico contubernio defecit ad stuprum aut coniugium Do we not see al the whole compaigine of the churche loke downe with theyr countenaunces and to be ashamed as often as anye virgyn whiche had maryed to Christe by a vowe of virginitie fallen downe from the companye of aungels forsoke her profession by committiuge of horedome or by marryage The hoâye Pope Leo fyrste of that name whiche was aboue xi hundred yeares passed commended wonderfully of the generall counsel holden at Calcedo beynge therein assembled D C. xâr learned fathers saith this of Monkes Propositum Leo primus Epist 9 ãâã monachi proprio arbitrio aut voluntate sulceptum deseri non potestaâsque peccato The purpose of a monke taken with his owne arbitriment or wyll can That had vowâd chastiââe and pâââertie not be lefte vndoue withoute syane But let this be sayde in thys controuersie as sufficient to establishe the trouth thereof and to ouerthrowe the contrarie Nowe heare a lytle moore of the vowe of pouertie and of the kepynge of it albeit that which is already spoken therof myght be sufficient for the ignoraunt to learne the trueth of this matter and to see in what daunger they be whyche doe breake that vowe That the vowe of pouertie ought to be obserued of monkes nonnes chanons frereÌs and all other religious persons vpon the payne of damnation For asmuche as good reader many good men thynke that it is lawefull for a man that hathe made a vowe of voluntarie pouertie to enioye rychesses in propre or to haue the proprietie of goodes I thoughte it verie necessarie to traicte briefely of that matter that men myghte the better knowe the trueth therein for the dilchargynge of their owne consciences towardes God The authorities ufore written out of the scriptures touchinge vowes doe proue sufficientlye that yâ a maÌ or womaÌ hath vowed willingly pouertie to haue nothig proper he or she is bouÌd to kepe this same vowe vnder payn of euerlastyng damnatioÌ and the same doeth the holy doctors of the church teach amongest the which these are some of their sayinges that here folow S. Auscen intreatinge of monkes sayeth Nemo quicquam possidet propriuÌ nemo cuiquam onerosus est None of them possesseth any thyng as hys owne proper goodes no man is onerous to an other Also he sayeth Augâibââ cade ciuitace dei that the Apostles the lyfe of whome monkes shoulde folow in that poynte professed and vowed pouertie which S. Peter declared when he sayde to Math. xix Christ Beholde we haue lefte all thynges Alius vult relinquere Angân psalâ omnia sua distribuendo ea pau peribus et ire in communem vitam in societatem sanctorum magnum votuÌ vouit Vnusquisque reddat deo quod vouit An other man doth vow to forsake al his goodes distributinge and deuidynge them to the poore and to go into a coÌmon lyfe wherin all thynges are common and nothynge propre and to go into the felowship of the holye he hathe made a greate vowe to God Let euery man paye or reÌâdre to God that thynge whiche he hathe vowed to him Sainte Chrysostome was of that same Tractatis aduersus vituperatores monasticae vitae mynde sayinge In Monasteries all thynges are commen meum tuum myne and thine whiche de trouble all the whole worlde are taken awaye there Item he sayeth In monasterijs noÌ Taâ homiâviis ad pop Antiochenum est meum tuum sed hoc uerbuÌ eliminatum est infinitorum causa bellorum In monasteries is not myne and thyne but this word whiche is the cause of infinite battaylles is putte out of those houses The holye Pope Vrbane an Vrbanus papa lib. de bonis ec clesiarum re ruÌ coÌmunione auncient great clearke wryteth after thys sorte Quicunque vestruÌ communem suscepit uitam et nihil se habere vouit videat ne pollicitationem suam irritam faciat sed hoc quod domino est pollicitus fideliter custodiat ne damnationem sed praemium sibi acquirat c. Whiche so euer of you sayeth he hathe taken vpon hym a coÌmen Note ye beneficed votaries lyfe hathe made a vowe to haue nothinge propre let him see or take hede and beware that he breake not his promisse but kepe faithfullye that thing whiche he hath promised to our Lorde that he gette not to himselfe damnation but a rewarde of God Our lorde geue that grace to all votaries whiche haue made a vowe of pouertie to beware of breakinge of it least they for lucre and gaines of a litle worldlye goodes loose the eternall and heauenlye ryches Amen But heare saint Hierom sayinge Non est ubi eadem causa quae To. i. epis i ad helioderum coeteris Dominum ausculta dicentem Si uis perfectus esse vade vende omnia da pauperibus sequere me Tu autem perfectum re fore pollicitus es Nam cum derelicta militia te cast rasti propter regna coelorum quid aliud ê perfectam secutus es vitam Perfectus autem seruus Christi nihil praeter christum habet Aut si quid praeter christum habet perfectus non est Et si perfectus non est cum se perfectum fore deo pollicitus sit ante mentitus est Os autem quod meÌtitur occidit animam Igitur ut concludam Sapienc ãâã si perfectus es cur bona paterna desideras Dominum fefel listi si perfectus non es Alia est monachorum causa alia clericoruÌ Clerici pascunt oues ego pascor Agayn he saieth vnto a monke To. i. ad vusticum Tu vero si monachus esse vis non uideri habeto curam non rei familiaris cui renunciando hoc esse caepisti sed animae tuae But if thou wilt be a monke in dede and not to appeare onlye care not for the goodes belonginge to thy familie or household which thou haste forsaken to be a Monke but take care of thye soule He sayeth also Vidi ego quosdam qui postquam renunciauere âeade ye monkes and chanous saeculo uestimentis dumtaâat et uocis professione non rebus nihil de pristina conuersatione mutarunt Res familiaris magis aucta quaÌm imminuta EadeÌ ministeria serâulorum idem apparatus conuiuij Idem ad paulinum de institutione ãâã monaââiait Sâofficium uis exercere presbyteri si episcopatâ te vel opus vel honor force deiectat viue vrbibus vel castellis alioruÌ salutem fac lucrum animae tuae Sim auteÌ capis esse quoââiceris monachus ââest solus quid facis in vrbibus quae utique non suÌt solorum habitacala sed multorum ââam non sunt tua quae possides sed ãâã pensâtio tibicredita est Memento Act. v. Ananiae at Sapphyrââ Illi sua timide serrââerunt tu considera ne christi ãâã imprudenter effundas id est ne immoderato iudicio rem ãâã tribâas noÌ pauperibus Is not this manifest lye sayd against religious men that haue benefices prebendes and other promotions where they haue vowed pouertie and made a promes in the tyme of their professioÌ to haue nothinge as their owne and propre to themselfes but to lyue in commone God geue to theÌ grace and to all others to serue him deuoutly that therbye they maye pourchasse vnto themselfs the glorie of heauen thorowe Gods mercye and the desertes of oure Lorde Iesu Christe Amen Imprinted at London by Robert Caly within the precinct of the late dissolued house of the graye Freers nowe conuerted to an hospital called Christes hospitall M. D. LV.