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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54829	A collection of sermons upon several occasions by Thomas Pierce ...	Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691.	1671 (1671)	Wing P2167; ESTC R33403	232,532	509

General Because for want of a better Refuge when they are press't with many things which cannot be justifi'd or deny'd They have evermore recourse to This one Catholick evasion That they are but the sentiments of private Doctors whose ill opinions or mistakes are not chargable on the Church Now though we cannot but beleive their Private Doctors as they call them when they are men of great Learning and greater Zeal to That Cause and only speak as Narrators touching matters of Fact and such as of which they might be silent with more advantage unto themselves Yet I hope 't will not be said That the present superiours living and speaking to whom Mr. Cressy ascribes the power of Concluding all Controversies are no better than private Doctors much lesse will they say it of their General Councils unto which they do acknowledge the last reeourse is to be had And here if any man shall ask what may be probably the Reason why when the Tenet of Infallibility is so far a Doctrine of their Church as it is taught and maintain'd by their Present visible Governours or their present Superiours living and speaking unto whom is ascribed the power aforesaid It hath not yet been thought fitt to be credited by the Decree of a General Council nor indeed of any Council that I am able to alledge I know not what Reason to render of it unlesse I may say that they distinguish between their Doctrines and their Opinions or between Things pretended and Things Beleived by their Superiours As if the Governours Themselves whom they make Tantamount to a General Council were not able to beleive the Infallibility they pretend to But only thought fitt that The People should If any other man Can give any better reason I do earnestly desire that what I have given may go for None § 19. And as on the one side Their stedfast Belief That Shee cannot err is enough to confirm them in all their Errors So to convince them on the other side of that one Error will make them ready both to see and renounce the Rest. That it may seem to be a vain or a needless Thing for any man to be lavish of Time or Labour in a particular Ventilation of other controverted Points whilst This of Infallibility remain's untouch't or undecided For if we shew them the Absurdities of Bread and Wine being transmuted into the Body and Blood of Christ or of being so transmuted into Human Flesh and Blood as to retain both the Colour Touch and Tast and all other Adjuncts of Bread and Wine or of its so beginning now to be in the Act of Consecration the numerical Body of a crucified Iesus as to have been the very same under Pontius Pilate as well as in the Virgins Womb or of its beginning to be as often and of as many several Ages as the Priests as their Altars shall please to make it or of its being the same Body whether eaten by a Christian or by a Dog They will defend themselves with This That though 't is Absurd and Impossible yet it is necessarily True because 't is taught by that Church which cannot deceive or be deceiv'd Whereas if once we can convince them that she is able to be deceiv'd who had taught them to believe she is undeceivable and that in matters of greatest moment They cannot chuse but disapprove and forsake her too as the greatest Deceiver in all the world § 20. That Shee is Able to be deceiv'd cannot better be evinced than by the Evidence that Shee Is. And t is evident that Shee Is by her own Confession For shee is no where more seen than in her General Councils whereof when any one does condemn what Shee asserts as no Error or when one does contradict and accuse another of which I have given sufficient Instance she does confess her self Fallible by so declaring She has been False And accordingly Mr. Cressy could not righteously be blam'd by the Roman Partizans for having confessed as he did in his Exhomologesis That this Infallibility is an unfortunate word That he could wish it were forgotten or at least laid aside That Mr. Chillingworth fought against it with too great successe That it is not to be met with in any Council And That the Authority of the Church meaning the Church undepraved was never inlarged by Herself to so great a wideness And as They cannot blame him much less can I for confessing a Disadvantage he could not conveniently deny That which I blame him for is This and for This he can never be blam'd enough That having confessed Infallibility to be one of God's peculiar Incommunicable Attributes and by consequence that the Church which he calls the Roman Catholick can no more be Infallible than Omniscient He has yet been so transported with Partiality to a Church he has resolved to assert whether right or wrong as to communicate That to Her which he confesseth Incommunicable and to affirm that That is Necessary which he confesseth to be Impossible and so to espouse in a Fit of Kindness what in a Fit of Discretion He cannot Own § 2. Having thus cloy'd my Reader with but a Tast of Mr. Cressy I persevere in my purpose not to spend or loose time upon all the Rest partly for the Reason al●eady mention'd beeause 't would be as well a thanklesse as needlesse office Partly becasue t is undertaken without my Care or procurement by other men Nor only undertaken But elaborately don too not only by Mr. Whitby and by Him very sufficiently But by a Person of greater Eminence after whom to sett about it would at least be superfluous if not Immodest Partly because I am still disswaded both by the Virulence of mine Enemies and by the Kindnesse of my Friends as well as by many my more peculiar and lessedispensable Employments Lastly because by a little Pattern of any strong or slight Stuff 'T is both the cheapest and easiest way whereby to Judge of the whole Piece 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 FINIS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR THE LIFELESNES of LIFE On the hether side of IMMORTALITY With a Timely Caveat against PROCRASTINATION Briefly expressed and applyed in a SERMON Preached at the Funeral of EDWARD PEYTO of Chesterton in Warwick-shire Esq 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sophocles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To my ever Honoured Friend M rs Elizabeth Peyto of Chesterton MADAM TO speak my sense of your many Favours with my reverent esteem of your Approbation and how inclinable I have been to yield obedience to your Commands the greatest expression that I can make hath been hetherto the least that I think is due And now I am sorry I can prove by no better Argument at the present how great a deference and submission I think is due to your Judgment than by my having preferr'd it before mine own in permitting that