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A33984 Utrum horum, or, The nine and thirty articles of the Church of England, at large recited, and compared with the doctrines of those commonly called Presbyterians on the one side, and the tenets of the Church of Rome on the other both faithfully quoted from their own most approved authors / by Hen. Care. Care, Henry, 1646-1688. 1682 (1682) Wing C535; ESTC R2383 50,749 167

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the most part of Godfathers are appointed they especially that are Rich at the time of Baptism take hold of the Rope and as the Suffragan sings before as is wont to be done in Baptizing of Children they all make the Responses and after name the Bell which as Christians use to be is then dressed in new Garments And after they have a sumptuous Feast and the Suffragan is rewarded liberally This is sure something more than a Metaphorical Baptism I shall only add one more strange Doctrine of the Church of Rome touching Baptism and that is That a Child may be Baptized in its Mothers Womb by a Pipe This I find Asserted in a Treatise Intituled Compendium Dianae The Words pag. 201 are these Pueri si moriantur in utero matris nihil obstat quo minus possint Baptizari si Actio Ministri possit ad ipsum puerumetiam in utero matris existentem pervenire ut si fistula possit pertingere ad ipsum Infantis Corpusculum vel propter Matris Cicatricem aspersio aquae possit ad illum pertingere hoc etiam si acceleretur matris mors dummodo sit certo moritura tunc enim etiam ipsa mater tenetur permittere ut proles Baptizetur Res 12. In English thus If Children dye in their Mothers Womb nothing hinders but that they may nevertheless be Baptized if the action of the Minister may extend to the Child it self although remaining in its Mothers Belly as if a Pipe may reach the Infants Body or by or through the Cicatrix of the Mother I must leave the Reader here to guess at his meaning the sprinkling of the Water may reach thereunto And this although thereby the Death of the Mother be hastned provided she must certainly dye for then even the Mother her self is bound to permit that her Child be Baptized But I suppose the Reader as well as my self is nauseated with such fulsome Poposh Divinity Le ts therefore hasten to another Article The eight and twentieth Article of the Church of England Of the Lords Supper THE Supper of the Lord is not only a sign of the Love that Christians ought to have amongst themselves one to another but rather it is a Sacrament of our Redemption by Christs Death Insomuch that to such as rightly worthily and with Faith receive the same the Bread which we break is a partaking of the Body of Christ aud likewise the Cup of Blessing is a partaking of the Blood of Christ Transubstantiation or the change of the substance of Bread and Wine in the Supper of the Lord cannot be proved by Holy Writ but it is repugnant to the plain Words of Scripture overthroweth the Nature of a Sacrament and hath given occasion to many Superstitions The Body of Christ is given taken and eaten in the Supper of the Lord only after an Heavenly and Spiritual manner And the mean whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is Faith The Sacrament of the Lords Supper was not by Christs ordinance reserved carried about lifted up and worshipped The Presbyterians That Doctrine which maintains a Change of the substance of the Bread and Wine into the substance of Christs Body and Blood commonly called Transubstantiation by Consecration of a Priest or by any other way is repugnant not to Scripture alone but even to common Sense and Reason overthroweth the Nature of the Sacrament and hath been and is the cause of manifold Superstitions yea of gross Idolatries In this Sacrament Christ is not offered up to his Father nor any real Sacrifice made at all for Remission of Sins of the quick or dead but only a Commemoration of that one offering up of himself by himself upon the Cross once for all And a Spiritual Oblation of all possible Praise unto God for the same So that the Popish Sacrifice of the Mass as they call it is most abominably injurious to Christs one only Sacrifice the alone propitiation for all the Sins of the Elect. The Papists If any one shall deny That in the Sacrament of the most Holy Eucharist is contained truly really and substantially the Body and Blood together of our Lord and so whole Christ but shall say That he is in it only as in a Sign or Figure or by his Vertue or shall say that the substance of Bread and Wine remains or shall deny that wonderful and singular Conversion of the whole substance of the Bread into the Body and of the whole substance of the Wine into the Blood the species only of Bread and Wine remaining which Conversion the Catholick Church most aptly calls Transubstantiation Let him be Anathema If any one shall say That Christ exhibited in the Eucharist is eaten only Spiritually Let him be Accursed The nine and twentieth Article of the Church of England Of the Wicked which eat not the Body of Christ in the use of the Lords Supper THE Wicked and such as be void of a lively Faith although they do carnally and visibly press with the Teeth as S. Augustin saith the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ yet in no wise are they partakers of Christ but rather to their Condemnation do eat and drink the Sign and Sacrament of so great a thing The Presbyterians Although ignorant and wicked Men receive the outward Elements in this Sacrament yet they receive not the thing signified thereby but by their unworthy coming thereunto are guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord to their own Damnation The Papists All Communicants do eat the Very and Natural Body of Christ Jesus If an Infidel receive the Sacramental Species he eats Christs Body under the Sacrament Thom. Aquinas p. 3. A. 3. ad 2. The Body of Christ saith Claudius de Sainctes Repet 2. cap. 6. is as truly and really received of Vnworthy as of Godly Communicants And Bonaventure in 4. d. 9. A. 2. q. 1. calls it the common Opinion of the Doctors Certitudinaliter verum a most certain Truth Nor is this all but they hold That the very Body of Christ may be received by Beasts and Vermine If a Dog or a Mouse saith Aquinas in the place just now cited ad Tertium eat the Sanctified Host the substance of Christs Body ceaseth not to be there as long as the Species do remain Nay Durandus adds That the Devil himself may eat Christ His Words are these Competit Bruto Angelo cuicunque vel Bono vel MALO species Sacramentales sumere A Brute or any Angel Good or BAD may receive the Sacrament Durand in 4. dist 9. q. 3. num 6. ad primum 'T is true some of their ancient Schoolmen were not arrived to such irreverent conceits Peter Lombard l. 4. d. 13. A. puts the Question What does the Mouse eat when she gets part of a Consecrated Host And Answers modestly Deus novit God knows And Bonaventure in 4. d. 13. a. 2. q. 1. could not endure to hear That Christs
are wrought by us they are defiled and mixed with so much Weakness and Imperfection that they cannot endure the severity of Gods Judgment The Papists The Works which we do more than Precept be called works of Supererogation And ' t is evident against the Protestants that there be such Works A reward of Supererogation is given to them that of abundant Charity do more in the Service of God than they be commanded 'T is plain that the fastings and satisfactory deeds of one Man are available to others yea and that Holy Saints or other vertuous Persons may in measure and proportion of other Mens Necessities and Deservings allot unto them as well the Supererogation of their Spiritual Works as those that abound in Worldly Goods may give Alms of their Superfluities to them which are in necessity The fifteenth Article of the Church of England Of Christ alone without Sin CHrist in the Truth of our Nature was made like unto us in all things Sin only except from which he was clearly void both in his Flesh and in his Spirit He came to be a Lamb without Spot who by the Sacrifice of himfelf once made should take away the Sins of the World And Sin as St. John saith was not in him But all we the rest although Baptized and Born again in Christ yet offend in many things And if we say we have no sin we deceive our selves and the Truth is not in us The Presbyterians Christ the Son of God became Man by taking to himself a true Body and reasonable Soul being Conceiv'd by the power of the Holy Ghost in the Womb of the Virgin Mary of her substance and born of her yet without Sin The Covenant being made with Adam as a publick Person not for himself only but for his Posterity all Mankind descending from him by ordinary Generation sinned in him and fell with him in that first Transgression The Papists For the most part hold and maintain That not only our Lord Jesus but also that the Virgin Mary was without Sin both Original and Actual touching which the Council of Trent thus expresses it self This Holy Synod does declare That in this Decree wherein Original Sin is handled it does not intend to comprehend the Blessed and Immaculate Virgin Mary the Mother of God but that the Constitutions of Pope Sixtus the Fourth of happy memory shall be observ'd under the Penalties therein express'd The better to understand this The Reader must know that about the year 1200 Peter Lombard the Schoolman being very much at leisure began to dispute whether when the Virgin Mary by the Holy Ghost conceiv'd Christ it might not come to pass that she her self might then be cleansed and freed from all Sin and even Original Corruption Observe now how dangerous 't is and into what Absurdities they run that without Scripture will with shew of good Intention advance their own Conceits This which Lombard only disputed some of his Successors in the Schools went further and in short time prest it as an Article of Faith to be believ'd of all Christians That the Virgin Mary was Conceiv'd without Sin And of this Opinion the Franciscans were stout Asserters which was so far countenanc'd by the Pope that by a Bull he caused a Feast to be Celebrated in Honour of such the Virgins Conception But the Dominicans no less vigorously oppos'd this new Doctrine and so all Christendom came into a slame about it each Party charging the other with Heresie To appease which not daring to disoblige either Party he did by another Bull leave it indifferent making either side that should brand the others Notion as Heretical to be liable to Excommunication Which two Orders are the Constitutions here referr'd unto and for the Readers satisfaction that he may see what kind of things they are that must be so observ'd we shall here insert so much of them as is material faithfully translated as follows Pope Sixtus's first Bull. WHen with the search of a devout Consideration we inquire into and revolve in the secrets of our Breast those high and lofty Titles of Merits wherewith the Queen of Heaven the glorious Virgin-Mother of God preferr'd above the Etherial Seats shines as the morning Star far more bright than any of the rest of the Celestial Constellations That she being the Way of Mercy the Mother of Grace and the Friend of Piety the Comfortress of Humane kind the diligent and watchful Oratress that with the King whom she brought forth continually intercedes for the Salvation of the Faithful who are oppress'd with the burden of Sins We cannot but think it fit nay our Duty That all the Faithful of Christ should give Thanks and Praises for the wonderful Conception of the said Immaculate Virgin to Almighty God whose Providence from Eternity regarding that Virgins Humility for the reconciling Mankind obnoxious to Death by the fall of their first Parent again to its Author constituted her by the preparation of the Holy Spirit the Habitation of his only begotten Son who of her assumed the Flesh of our Mortality for the Redemption of his People and yet she after her Delivery an Immaculate Virgin to invite them by Indulgences and Remission of Sins to say and to be present at the Masses and other Divine Services appointed in the Church of God That so by the Merits and Intercession of the said Virgin they may be rendred more apt and fit for Divine Grace wherefore induc'd by this Consideration confiding in the Authority of the same Almighty God and of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul We do by our Apostolical Authority and this our Constitution for ever to be in force Appoint and Ordain That all and singular Christians of either Sex who shall devoutly Celehrate or say Mass and the Office of the Conception of the said glorious Virgin according to the Pious Devout and laudable Form and Institution of our beloved Son Mr. Leonard de Nogarolis Clerk of Verona our Notary and which is publisht by our Authority or shall be present at the Canonical Hours on the day of the Feast of the said Virgin Maries Conception and its Octaves as often as they so do shall altogether obtain the very same Indulgence and Remission of Sins as those do who according to the Constitutions of Urban the 4th approv'd in the Council of Vienna and Martin the 5th and others our Predecessors Popes of Rome Celebrate the Mass and Canonical hours on the Feast of the Body and Blood of our Lord from the first Vespers and during its Octaves These Presents to be observed for ever Dated at St. Peters at Rome the third Calends of March in the year of our Lord 1476 and of our Popedom the 6th The second Constitution T IS always very grievous and troublesome to us when ill things are related to us of Persons Ecclesiastick But so much the more sensibly are we provok'd with the excesses committed in Preaching by those who