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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