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B08023	A notable discourse of the happinesse of this our age, and of the ingratitude of men to God for his benefites: written in Latine by that godly learned man Iohn Riuius, and now Englished for the comfort, and commoditie of the vnlearned, by W.W. student..; De seculi nostri felicitate, et hominum erga Dei beneficia ingratitudine, liber. English	Rivius, Johann, 1500-1553.	1578 (1578)	STC 21064.5; ESTC S94909	108,359	160

this our age how great it is and in what blessinges it chiefly consisteth All learning and good studies were laied to sleepe in the former age A diuision or partition of this present woorke into three principall partes and an appendix How farre the former age beleeued aright VVherein the former age did erre The chiefest point of our saluation VVho haue their sinnes remitted and for what 1. Cor. 1. 30. A Catalogue of such errours wherewith this doctrine of trusting onely in Christ hath bene corrupted In what opinion the Masse hath bene heretofore saide or soung Apaena culpa The sacrifice of the Masse doeth blasphemously derogate from the onely sacrifice and satisfaction of Christ Pilgrimages These wandering Pilgrims were as wise as waltames calfe which went nine miles to sucke a Bull. Indulgencies Fraternitie of Friers falsly thought to be the Communion of Saintes Suffrages of Monkes Monkes woorkes bought and solde for monie Syngraphae super redemptionem operum Monasticorum Obligations about bying Monasticall woorkes Monkes woulde haue other men trust to their woorkes How much heretofore men attributed to Popes pardons So did Frier Tecell preach at wittemberge Soules deliuered out of Purgatorie for monie Popish pardoners blasphemous comparisons betwixt the red Crosse and the Crosse of Christ The Popes Bull. Non ficta sed facta Popish impietie Iubile appointed as a market for monie The first deuiser and inuenter of Iubile Inuocation or prayer to dead Saintes The Papistes did imagine Christ to be a little preatie boy still whom his mother might commaund Vvhat Saintes were praied vnto A rable of rites and Ceremonies obserued in the woorshippe of Saintes contrarie to rhe first commaundement Thou shalt haue none other Gods but me A Popishe prayer to Saint Peter O abhominable blasphemie 2. Tim. 3. 16. A briefe repetition of those thinges which were thought necessarie heretofore to the obteining of saluation The superstition of holie water The maner of Ethnikes to vse holie water sprinkle Virgil. lib. 6. Aeneiad Theodoret in vita Iuliani A good deede of Valentinian The superstition of sticking vp waxe candels before the Sacrament also before the altars and images of Saintes The idolatrie of the former age how great it was How Papistes exeuse the woorshipping of Images The Ethnikes pretend the verie same for their idolatrie The blasphemous Legend of lies Ludo●icus viues in lib. de causis corruptarum artium The historie of Lombard Traditions Decretalles Superstitious vowes religīously obserued The rrue vowe of Baptisme was neglected in those dayes Pardons for walking the stations of the citie of Rome Stations are certeine Churches where pardons be graunted Trifling satisfactions 1. Iohn 2. 2. How farre foorth the chastening of the bodie is not to be disallowed 〈…〉 of a 〈…〉 to ho●●e water The superstitious obseruing of fasting dayes The Pater noster and Aue Maria was wont to be rolled and trolled vpon a paire of beades How rich vsurers did satisfie for their sinnes heretofore Radulph Agrico la Longolius Frederike prince of Mantua were so superstitiously besotted In time of Papistrie it was thought lawfull to keepe a Concubine 1. Cor. 11. 29. The Laie people corrupted by the priestes euill example Verres de furto de seditione Cethegus The superstition of the seale called Agnus Dei. The superstition of an Easter waxe candel and of candels consecrated vpon Candelmasse day The Iewish superstition of the name Iehouah The superstition of the name Abracadabra VVhat woorkes were heretofore in time of Poperie thought to be good woorkes Stationaries are those which wayte vpon the Pope when he celebrateth his stations All these forenamed woorkes are not grounded upon the sacred Scripture The additions which the Iewes had put to the Lawe Mat. 23. 5. Mark. 7. 3. 4 VVhat woorkes are truely to bee saide good woorkes The dueties of a Christian man. Vnto what good woorkes Saint Paule doth exhort vs. Tit. 2. 12. Rom. 12. 1. Gal. 5. 24. Eph. 4. 23. Eph. 5. 1. 1. thess. 2. 12 Eph. 4. 2. 3. 1. Cor. 10. 31. Philip. 2. 4. Coloss 3. 17. From what vices doth Saint Paule dehorte vs. VVhat manner of faith the Apostles teach Ephe. 2. 10. Galat. 5. The efficacie of good woorkes A foule and fond errour to thinke that the Pope is the head of the Church Christes Vicar and Saint Peters successour The Authoritie of the Pope how great it was thought to be Decrees and Decretalles 1. Tim. 4. 1. A proud bragge Mat. 28. 18. The arrogancie and passing pride of the Pope of Rome The negligence of the Pope in caring for the Christian common wealth Popish Edictes and prohibitions against all Scripture Baptisme wherefore it was instituted of Christ The abuse of Baptisme Belles had Godfathers The superstitious consecration of water with salt The abuse of Confirmation The abuse of penaunce and confession The manifolde abuse of the Supper of the Lorde amongst the Papistes The Superstitious reseruation and ostentation of the Lordes bread That the papistes heretofore either knew not at all or else neglected the principall partes of Christian Religion Gen. 3. 15. Irenaeus Cyprian Hieronymus A corrupt Text. Prudentius The seede of the woman How it is read in the Greeke text How it is read in the Haebrue Picus Mirandula Prudentius Verses of Christ his passion The meaning of Prudentius his verses Christ his Priesthoode hitherto vnknowen to the Papistes The difference betwixt the olde Testament and the new vnknowen True iustification heretofore vnknowen How much was ascribed to merites and good woorkes VVoorkes for to sale The iustice of faith vnknowen The abrogation of the lawe vnknowen The iustifying faith vnknowen A definition of the true Christian faith Rom. 5. 1. Difference of woorkes vnknowen Difference of sinne vnknowen heretofore The true vse of Gods lawe vnknowen A godlie prayer From the creation of the worlde there is but one way to obteine saluation by namely by onely faith in Christ Our faith and the faith of the Patriarches is all one The sanctitie of the old Patriarches The patriarches were Christians not in name but in deede Act. 4. 12. Act. 10. 43. The blindenesse of the Papistes Trust and confidence As the Israelites trusted to the Leuiticall ceremonies and sacrifices so the Papistes trusted to superstitious rites Gen. 3. 15. Apoc. 12. 9. 1. Iohn 3. 8. Iohn 1. 29. Act. 13. 38. 1. Iohn 2. 2. 1. Tim. 2. 5. Iohn 4. 16. Eph. 2. 8. 9. Act. 15. 11. The way to rebuke a sinner first and then to comforte him Gen. 3. 15. Luke 24. 47. Act. 20. 21. Mark. 1. 15. The order of our preaching at this day Seneca Epistola 29. The manner to correct sinne in preaching is to rippe vp the originall infection of mans nature Our best deedes are stained and cainted The Gospell ioyned with the lawe In our sermons we must chiefly note secrete sinnes because of Hypocrites Few Papists haue knowen what sinne is 1. Rom. Papistes carelesse to obserue Gods preceptes but carefull to keepe

doctrine comprehended verie briefly in fewe woordes the verie same which is taught amongst vs Whereby you may easily learne what hath bene amended in Ecclesiasticall doctrine Now wee will proceede to declare what hath bene either chaunged or quite taken away in Ceremonies but first we will speake somewhat of the Pope or Bishop of Rome All men well nigh heretofore did beleeue as their Creede that the Pope was by Gods lawe head of the Church But wee after the iudgement of S. Paule doe affirme that Christe alone is the head of the Church For the place out of the Epistle to the Ephesians and of the Colossians is well knowen Wee denie not this that the Bishop of Rome may by the generall consent of the other Bishops bee appointed as it were a certeine superintendent or ouerseer of the Churches and a president of the Christian common weale that hee may both bee and also seeme to be as it were a Censour of mens manners a maister of Ecclesiasticall discipline if so bee hee woulde vse his authoritie graunted not to get any Lordship or souereigntie ouer others but to the profit of the Church not to bring in superstition but to establish true religion and if hee woulde throughly doe the duetie belonging to the function taken in hand finally if hee woulde bee bounde to certeine lawes of gouernement neither would permit as he hath done heretofore that his owne lust and licence should stand for a lawe Our men verely hitherto haue made warre onely with the Popes kingdome and with the Romish ruledome and with that power which would aduance it selfe both aboue the Scripture and the Church and almost aboue God him selfe neither seeme they to graunte vnto any mortall man whatsoeuer as long as they can helpe it to be able to doe more than the woorde of God and the Church Otherwise I knowe full well they will not refuse the authoritie of the Bishop of Rome if hee will take paines to see that Christian Religon bee instaured that superstitions bee taken away that the Churches bee reformed that the manners of all estates bee corrected and amended And if that authoritie of the Bishop which at the beginning was graunted for the better preseruation of Christianitie of consent in doctrine had not bene turned into domination or rather tyrannie our men truely would neuer haue bene persuaded to haue violated cast off and to haue banished as it were out of the Church that authoritie Therefore no other man but the Bishop of Rome him selfe is the cause why that Apostolicall seate as they call it hath bene so despised neither can the Bishop accuse any man for that matter more iustly than him selfe For who can thinke it tollerable that hee should call him selfe The vniuersall and Oicomenicall Bishop who hath the right to ordeine and to confirme to displace and remoue from their office all the Bishops and Pastours in the whole world that hee doth arrogate vnto him self the authoritie of making lawes concerning the seruice and woorship of God concerning the chaunging of the Sacraments concerning Ecclesiasticall doctrine that hee doth thinke his owne decrees to be equall with Gods lawes so that all mens consciences are necessarily bounde to the obseruing of them if they will see to their owne saluation that hee doth sit in the Temple of God as God as S. Paule saith of Antichrist and that hee doth take vnto him the right of chaunging the doctrine of Christ and the woorshippes appointed by God that hee doth suffer him selfe to bee iudged of no man and that hee doth preferre his owne authoritie before the iudgement of Councelles and of the whole Christian Church that hee doth not suffer Ecclesiasticall controuersies to bee decided rightly and orderly and that in Synodes hee doth not suffer any thing to be iudged and concluded against his sentence that hee challengeth vnto him selfe the authoritie to translate from one to an other both kingdomes and Empires that hee sticketh hard to this how that by Gods lawe hee is Lord of all the kingdomes of the worlde finally that hee boasteth how that hee is the Emperours lawfull successour when the Empire is vacant and that hee doth confirme this howe that it is necessarie to saluation to beleeue it But let vs come now to Ceremonies In baptising infantes wee had rather vse our owne vulgar tongue than the Latine because verie few vnderstand this but all vnderstand the other that is both the Godfathers and Godmothers which are brought thither and adhibited as witnesses at the baptisme of the childe and also the rest of the congregation if any bee present and lastly the Priest him selfe which doth baptise the childe Now it is verie profitable and necessarie that all shoulde vnderstand that language wherein the childe is baptised namely to this end both that the Godfathers may knowe what they doe professe and promise to God in the childes name and also that the rest which stand aboute may not bee ignorant what matter is in hande how serious how diuine and how full of mysteries it is finally that the Prieste may bee occupied in that holie mysterie with greater attention of minde that he may thereby bee excited to a more exquisite diligence and that hee may bee forced the better to doe his duetie for shame of all those which are present vnderstanding now what is done Iustinian the Emperour maketh for vs in his Nouellis Constitutionibus de capitibus Ecclesiasticorum sumptuum whose woordes I doe omitte lest I should bee longer than needed As concerning that vngodlie rite and custome of baptising belles and of hallowing water with salte brought into the Church by superstitious men wee thought good in any wise to reteine it no longer Concerning Penance and Confession if the abuses which haue crept in bee taken away wee both thinke and teach verie highly of it For wee doe clearely and plainely testifie that there can bee no way any true faith in a man without repentance that is but in him who is truely sorrowfull and greatly greeued for his sinnes but in him which repenteth seriously and from his hearte and which feeleth the wrathe of God against his sinnes but in him which purposing now to liue godly doth call to God for mercie doth goe vnto the Minister of the Church and confessing his sinnes doth desire absolution of him Wee verely doe nothing regarde that their carefull curious and scrupulous enumeration or reckoning vp of their seuerall sinnes with all the cirumstances perteining to it as what was done with what minde with whome at what time howe long where howe often wherefore howe much howe farre foorth with what reason and other such like this wee reiect as both full of superstition and also euerie way vnprofitable and as it were a certeine snare or rather a butcherie and crosse of miserable consciences Neither doe wee approue or allow those manifolde errours concerning

to minde these other superstitions almost innumerable we should now the more easily measure after a sort in our minde the magnitude greatnesse of Gods benefite especially if wee did remember that as yet there are euerie where verie many countries which are ouerwhelmed in most thicke darknesse of errours ignorance not differing at all from those nations which in times past were wholy giuen ouer to the worshipping of idols as well nigh all those people be at this day which with so great clamours outcries call for that state of religiō againe which they vaunt to haue profited so long the Christian common weale who desire that the ceremonies of their fathers may be worshipped which woulde haue the Emperour bring this to passe that looke what religion they receiued when they were children the same being old men they should leaue to their posteritie to be briefe who had rather embrace obserue the institutions traditions of their Elders old customes mens prescriptes than the rites of the Apostles than the veritie of the Gospell than the cōmandements of God amongst whom the Lombardicall historie is of more authoritie than the sacred scripture the Decretals than the Gospels the Bishop of Rome than the sonne of God Christ Iesus Therfore how greatly are we bound to God for instauring the doctrine of the Gospell in this our age What thanks ought we to giue render vnto him How greatly ought we to take heede bew are that we doe not by chaunce any thing vnwittingly which might offend the authour of this benefite What great care ought we to haue alwayes to labour trauell about those things which are gratefull and acceptable to God who loueth vs so entirely But how thankfull to God the common people are for this benefite alas it appeareth too plainly euidently at this day For the greater part of those men who would be accounted Christians without enuie be it spoken is giuen to gluttonie to surfeting to all kind of wickednes the maior part I say liueth nicely delicately riotously the greater number is carried headlong into all kind of pleasure intemperancie they loue they drinke apace they runne a whore hunting they snatch catch they filch steale they sweare forsweare they cogge and lie they defraude and deceiue in summe whatsoeuer ought not to be done that they doe Now amongst the Noble men vices preuaile beare too great a sway and to be briefe these especially Otia vina Venus venatus balnea lusus that is Idlenes wine Venus way with hūting bathes diceplay In Kinges courtes dronkennesse ruleth and reigneth and now to liue there is naught else but to vie drinking there In Noble mens gorgious buildings and goodlie houses nothing else almost by their leaues is done but daily diceplaying iollie tossing of beere potts daunsing to the sound of the Citterne or Lute I doe omitte let passe how that some of these Noble mē haue turned those possessions whiche by the liberalitie of their auncestours were left to the Church into their owne vse and suffer the miserable Pastours of the Church to dy almost for hunger so farre are they off from helping and releeuing them as much as in them lieth This verely is our gratitude and thankfulnesse towardes that singular and notable benefite of God which he bestowed vpon vs in taking away from among vs superstitions and in instauring holie and sacred doctrine No man truely can either declare in woorde or shadowe out in thought how excellent and how great this benefite of God is For now at the length we haue learned whiche is the holie Catholike Apostolicall orthodox and true Christian Church and what that communion of Saints is whereunto they must ioyne them selues in faith in will in opinion in prayer and in confession whosoeuer will be members of the people of God and of that mysticall bodie whereof Christ is the head in what parte of the world soeuer they liue in Nowe we haue learned that thing whiche almost no man heeretofore knew namely that all mē are saued by Christ alone no man by his owne merites that all men obteine saluation and eternall felicitie through the Mediatour the sonne of God not for the dignitie of their woorkes by whiche meanes verely both the Patriarches and also the Prophetes the people of Israel and finally all the godlie which haue bene from the creation of the world vnto this day haue bene saued For Christ as he that should come to bee the deliuerer of mankinde was promised from the beginning Wherevppon in the Reuelation there is that mention of the Lambe whiche was slaine from the originall of the worlde Therefore the Gospell or Euangell that is to say that forgiuenesse of sinnes reuealed and promised from heauen by the free goodnesse of GOD for the deliuerer to come hath bene alwayes euen from the verie beginning of mankinde though not yet in name and in woord yet in deed and in truth For this redeemer Christ is that seede of the woman promised vnto Adam which shoulde breake the serpentes heade that is which shoulde destroy the woorkes of the Diuell to witte sinne and death Hee is the seede of Abraham in which seede all the nations of the earth shoulde bee blessed Hee is that Prophete promised by Moses Hee is the sonne of Dauid who shoulde reigne ouer the house of Iacob foreuer This is hee whiche was shadowed by the Leuiticall sacrifices and foretolde by the oracles of the Prophetes Therefore wee haue all the godlie which haue bene euen from the beginning of the worlde ioyned with vs in the profession of the same faith For looke in whome the Patriarches the Prophetes and the people of Israel placed all their confidence in the Messias promised to them in the very same Christ nowe exhibited vnto vs both Apostles Martyres Confessours and finally wee all put our hope of saluation And this is the true Churche whiche wee haue learned out of this doctrine renewed this is that communion of Saintes which being as I saide before euen from the beginning of the worlde after the promise concerning the deliuerer to come was first propagated and continued in the Patriarches and Prophetes afterwardes in the Apostles Martyrs so on continueth perseuereth vnto this day by diuerse degrees orders of Christians professing the same faith perfourming shewing obedience to the Ministers of the Church The sonne of God our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ doeth by his woord and Gospell gouerne and by his holy Spirit helpe and assist this Church and this communion of Saintes O thrice happie and foure times blessed are they whiche ioyne them selues vnto the societie of this Church whiche hath the sonne of GOD for her President the Angels for her protectours the holy Ghost for her sanctifier finally all the godlie and electe of all ages as many as