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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63840	A defence of the confuter of Bellarmin's Second note of the church, antiquity, against the cavils of the adviser	Tullie, George, 1652?-1695.	1687 (1687)	Wing T3236; ESTC R7422	16,243	26

of them then 4thly Were there no other method for Errors to spread in the Church than by what the Adviser seems to Dream of by appearing in open Contradiction and Defiance to the true Church condemning its Doctrine and opposing the Articles of her Faith as Erroneous and Heretical as he tragically expresses it then his inference might probably hold good unless we will suppose such Errors to have appear'd in a very dark and supine Age indeed and even in a more cautious 't is possible Records might be lost but alas since they usally grow up and advance after a quite different manner pedetentim by little and little as Fisher Bishop of Rochester owns the Doctrine of Purgatory did or it may be under the Colour of greater Piety and Devotion or the like as the Doctrines of Image and Saint-worship and thereby draw in the Pastors of the Church themselves for their Maintainers and Abetters his Argumentation falls to the Ground 5thly He ought to distinguish betwixt such Errors as immediately confront the prime Foundations of the Christian Faith and that Apostasy the Spirit hath foretold should be brought in by such as speak lies in Hypocrisy 1 Tim. 4. 1 2. of the first sort were the early Heresies concerning the Person of our Saviour His Divinity and Humanity The Resurrection of the Body and the like such as these indeed did not nor cannot well be suppos'd to appear in the Church without a mark upon the time of their rise their Authors and open Embracers The other is a mystery of Iniquity and may be advanc'd by specious and almost imperceptible methods as is hinted above without any great stir or din about them 6thly To the single Instance of the Confuter concerning an acknowledg'd change the rise whereof they themselves cannot account for the half Communion I shall add two more the Doctrines of Purgatory and Indulgences both own'd by Fisher Bishop of Rochester and Cardinal Cajetan to be of uncertain Original thereby acknowledging them not to be of the number of those Ancient Truths we contend for and yet are not able to tell who first brought them in To his two Instances of Alteration in Religion the Papal Authority and the worship of Images which we can account for according to the Adviser's Directions I add one more The great Burning Article of Transubstantiation whose Rise Progress and Opposers they have lately been told of See Disc against Transubst remitting the Adviser to Polydore Virgil for farther Instruction in this matter if he desires it After all which I must farther presume briefly to remind him of the several new Definitions of the Trent Council and of others which from Doctrines formerly taught sprang up presently in that prolifick Soil of Religion into Articles of Faith and sure 't is a considerable Alteration in Religion to make the belief of Points necessary to Salvation which were not so before And yet I hope we are able to name the who the where and the when of those Alterations But Lastly I must tell the Adviser that tho out of complaisance to him and his Betters I have so far enlarg'd upon this Argument yet as stated by himself with reference to the publick Appearance of Corruptions 't is answer'd in one word by the same curt Ratiocination as it was before when consider'd with Relation to their first rise only For tho we could give no account of the open Maintainers Embracers and Abetters nor of the Opposers of any Doctrine or Practice prevailing in the present Church of Rome yet if we are able to demonstrate that such Doctrine or Practice manifestly differs from what was at first establish'd in the Church by Christ and his Apostles or going yet farther can show out of unquestionable Records that no such thing as for instance the present Papal Authority was ever own'd in the Church for such a time 600 years for example do's it not inevitably follow That a change however has been made both from the true Antiquity the Scriptures and the subordinate Antiquity of so many Centuries of the Church tho we could not name the place where the time when and the Persons by whom such Corruptions were publickly maintained and abetted I can scarce for my own part believe that men are in earnest when they oppose such a wretched piece of Sophistry to the unanswerable argument of matter of Fact and the plainest experience in the World. We come now to his Remark upon the Confuter's instance of Communion in one kind and his advice to him here is to prove in his next That a diversity of practise is an alteration in Religion and especially of such a practise which Christ left indifferent in respect of the Laity and without any positive command of their receiving it in both kinds But since he has not thought fit to prove this at all which was his proper province in this place unless by two or three frivolous Citations of which afterwards I shall still take the contrary for granted being well assured first That he can show no positive command to the Clergy to receive it in both kinds which does not equally include the Laiety and secondly That they being equally interested with the Clergy in the benefits that accrue to mankind from the effusion of our Saviour's Blood and the Sacrament of the Eucharist being instituted in Commemoration of this effusion of his Blood as well as of the breaking of his Body the drinking of the Cup as well as the eating of the Bread becomes as necessary a part of this Sacrament in relation to the Laiety as it is to the Clergy they who equally partake of the benefits of both being equally concern'd in the Commemoration of both And a thousand years constant practice accordingly is a good exposition of our Saviour's Design in the institution and can then the refusing the Cup to the Laiety be called a diversity of Practice only of administring it to them Or is the abolishing of a practice of such Divine Authority and of so long a continuance in the Universal Church in relation to such Myriads of People only a differing modus of exercising it A familiar Instance will illustrate the matter though it seems sufficiently to discover it self by its own natural absurdity Suppose then some friend of the Advisers should by his last Will and Testament leave so much Beer and so much Bread to be distributed every Week for instance to the Poor of the Parish where he had lived and the Adviser his Executor should for a long time take care to have both the Beer and the Bread faithfully distributed according to the Testator's Will but yet at last for some private reason of his own should deprive them of their portion of Beer and confine them to Bread only does he imagine he could sham off the Wotld and the Poor People concern'd with this piece of Sophistry That what he did was only a diversity of Practice in fulfilling the Will of the Deceased