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authority_n	church_n	council_n	tradition_n	2,236	5	9.2761	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77908	A second part of the enquiry into the reasons offered by Sa. Oxon for abrogating the test: or an answer to his plea for transubstantiation; and for acquitting the Church of Rome of idolatry	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1689 (1689)	Wing B5870B; ESTC R231153	11,390	8

not yet know how to mould or form it but in process of time the whole Philosophy was so digested as to prepare all Schollars in their first formation to receive it the more easily And in our Age in which that Philosophy has lost its credit what pains do they take to suppress the New Philosophy as seeing that it cannot be so easily subdued to support this Doctrine as the Old one was And it is no unpleasant thing to see the Shifts to which the Partisans of the Cartesian Philosophy are driven to explain themselves which are indeed so very ridiculous that one can hardly think that those who make use of them believe them for they are plainly rather Tricks and Excuses than Answers IX No man can deny that Transubstantiation is the Doctrine of the Church of Rome but he that will dispute the Authority of the Councils of the Lateran and Trent now tho some have done the first avowedly yet as their number is small and their Opinion decried so for the Council of Trent tho I have known some of that Communion who do not look upon it as a General Council and tho it is not at all received in France neither as to Doctrine nor Discipline yet the contrary opinion is so universally received that they who think otherwise dare not speak out and so give their Opinion as a secret which they trust in confidence rather than as a Doctrine which they will own But setting aside the Authority of these Councils the common Resolution of Faith in the Church of Rome being Tradition it cannot be denied that the constant and general Tradition in the Church of Rome these last 500. years has been in favour of Transubstantiation and that is witnessed by all the Evidences by which it is possible to know Tradition The Writings of Learned Men the Sermons of Preachers the Proceedings of Tribunals the Decisions of Councils that if they were not general were yet very numerous and above all by the many Authentical Declarations that Popes have made in this matter So that either Tradition is to be forever rejected as a false conveyance or this is the received Doctrine of the Church of Rome from which She can never depart without giving up both her Infallibility and the Authority of Tradition X. There is not any one point in which all the Reformed Churches do more unanimously agree than in the rejecting of Transubstantiation as appears both by the Harmony of their Confessions and by the current of all the Reformed Writers And for the Real Presence tho the Lutherans explain it by a Consubstantiation and the rest of the Reformed by a Reality of Vertue and Efficacy and a Presence of Christ as crucified yet all of them have taken much pains to shew that in what sense soever they meant it they were still far enough from Transubstantiation This demonstrates the Wisdom of our Legislators in singling out this to be the sole point of the Test for Imployments since it is perhaps the only point in Controversy in which the whole Church of Rome holds the Affirmative and the whole Reformed hold the Negative And it is as certain that Transubstantiation is the Doctrine of the Church of Rome as that it is rejected by the Church of England it being by name condemned in our Articles And thus I hope the whole Plea of our Author in favour of Transubstantiation is overthrown in all its three Branches which relate to the Doctrine of the Primitive Church the Doctrine of the Church of Rome and the Doctrine of the Church of England as well as of the other Reformed Churches I have not loaded this Paper with Quotations because I intended to be short but I am ready to make good all the matters of fact asserted in it under the highest pains of Infamy if I fail in the performance and besides the more Voluminous Works that have been writ on this subject such as Albertines Claud's Answer to Mr. Arnaud and F. Nonet Larrogues History of the Eucharist there have been so many learned Discourses written of late on this Subject and in particular two Answers to the Bishops Book that if it had not been thought expedient that I should have cast the whole matter into a short Paper I should not have judged it necessary to trouble the world with more Discourses on a subject that seems exhausted I will add no more but that by the next I will give another Paper of the same Bulk upon the Idolatry of the Church of Rome FINIS