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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07444	The iudge of heresies one God, one faith, one church, out of which there is no saluation. Excluding all infidells, Mahumetans, Iewes, obstinate papists, and other heretikes of all sorts, and consequently all newters, who conforme themselues onely externally to any religion, from hope of participation of the kingdome of heauen. If they finally persist therein, and returne not to the knowledge and zealous profession of the true faith. By Iohn Merideth, Sub-Deane of Chichester.	Meredith, John, b. 1579 or 80.	1624 (1624)	STC 17830; ESTC S112660	68,232	98

euill perswasions wicked worship infinit intollerable errors most impious and vnsufferable Blasphemi●s against Christ and against his innocent bloud ignorance of God In●oc●tion of the dead Confection Consecration Application and Oblation of the Body and Blood of Christ for the Saluation of the quicke and the dead Transubstantiation Ado●ation Ostentation Circumgestation Inclusion and Reseruation of the Eucharisticall bread Satisfaction for the wretched soules of the dead that are pittifully tormented in the false fire of Purgatory and their deliuerance from punishment the priuation of the Cuppe from the People the vsing of an vnknowne tongue in the execution of Diuine Offices a prophanation of those sacred Misteries and a meere mockery of Christs people So your Canonicall howers for prayer are turned into Idolatry for although reading of holy Scriptures and Prayers and singing of Psalmes are commended by God yet Hypocrites abuse them by a wicked opinion they haue of them intending by the Merits of these workes to expiate their Sinnes So your In●ocation of the blessed Virgin and of the Saints is Blasphemy for though God will bee honoured in his Saints yet hee will not giue his glory vnto them now the principall honour wee doe vnto God is in praying vnto him for thereby wee acknowledge all his Attributes which wee translate vnto the Saints when wee doe inuocate them by Prayer But you shew your selues op●n Idolaters in worshipping your Images with the same worship where with you worship the Prototypon as your schoolemen and moderne Aq. Part 3 q. 25. Art ● Cos●er E●●●ind Diuines mainetaine in their writings Right Faith must make a iust difference betweene the Creator and the Creature and giue vnto either that which belongeth vnto him without transfusing the propriety of the one vnto the other So that wee may not ascribe the Maiestie and power of the Creator to the Creature nor attribute the Infirmity of the Creature to the Creator So that if Faith giue vnto euery one his owne his oblation is right if hee doth discerne well betweene either hee diuideth aright and doth not sinne The defect whereof causeth Heresie for God will indure no Corriuall for if the same honour bee giuen vnto other which is proper vnto him Ips● Lactant lib 1. de ●als sap cap. 19. omnino non col●tur hee is not worshipped at all whose Religion is such that he only will bee worshipped for his glory will ●ee not giue to another neither his praise to graue● Esay 42. Images The precedent matters being duly considered how can you auoid or acquit your selues from the title of Heretickes or rather how can you claime the title of Christians You will happily say you professe Christ which is the proper foundation of Christians But if wee diligently consider those things which concerne Christ I must apply the words of Augustine vnto you for an answere N●mine E●ch●●d cap. 5. tenus inu●nitur Christus apud quosl●bet Haereticos qui se Christianos vocari volunt reipsa autem non esse apud 〈◊〉 Christ is found commonly in the mouth of all such Heretickes who would haue themselues called Christians but in very deed hee is not among them at all you will pretend your assent to Christianity but falsely seeing you faile in electing those things by which you may ass●n● vnto Christ those you should choose which Christ himselfe hath truely deliuered to bee beleeued not such as your owne erroneous mind suggesteth if so though you professe the faith of Christ but yet corrupt the Principles thereof you are no better then Infidels Therefore the Schoole-man saith well that In heretico discredente vnum articulum Aquin se●unda secund● ● 5. 〈◊〉 3. fidei non manet fides Faith is extinct in that Hereticke that misbeleeueth one Article of the faith for faith dependeth on its proper Obiect which is the first Truth therefore he that doth not cleaue to all the Articles of faith for this Medium as it is propounded vnto vs in the H●ly Scriptures according to the Doctrine of the Church vnderstanding it soundly is altogether faithlesse for such a one hath not faith but opinion sutable to his owne will If you obiect farther that you beleeue the Creed wee answere Quoad sonum non quoad sensum the letter you doe but not the true sense But as the father saith De Intellig●n●ia Hillar lib. de 〈◊〉 fit Heresis sensus non sermo fit crimen Heresie groweth from peruerse vnderstanding the fault in the meaning not in the Phrase The Creed must be kept Integra saith Athanasius and In Symb●l● Inuiolata whole without substraction of truth and v●desiled without admixtion of falshood If any one bee by Profession a Christian but by peruerse vnderstanding an Hereticke such a one being an Isra●l●t● Origen ●o●il Super Le●it by his Mother but an Egiptian by his father must bee carried out of the Host and for his Blasphemy against God bee stoned to death Linddnus termeth vs Semi-Christians and saith that wee should more cautelously bee auoyded But I do● aduise all Lib. Concord discord i● 〈◊〉 ●t pag. Seq those that regard their owne Saluation to beware of them as Pseudo Christians which wee haue proued them to bee for as their Intention is to seeke after Semi-christians who a they may deceiue So is it our purpose to shew them to bee Pseudo Christians that not only the more skilfull Christians may discouer them by conuicting them but the more ignorant sort may gaine knowledge by eschewing them To this end our Sauiour commanded vs to beware of false Prophets which come vnto vs in Sheepes cloathing but inwardly Math 7. are ra●ening Wol●es Which words Chrisostome expounding saith That we Homil. 19. in Cap. Math. Tom. 7. ●ught aboue all things know who are false Christians There is nothing saith hee doth more ruinate Christians then this that whomsoeuer men see to bee called Christians they esteeme them as if they were Christians indeed But what if it be certaine that they bee false Christians for either hee is a false Christian or thou if thou bee one hee is none if h●e be one why dost thou esteeme him a Christian whom Christ hath iudged to be no Christian whom God doth not confesse to bee his Sonne why dost thou esteeme to be thy Brother But thou wilt say How can I say that hee is no Christian whom I perceiue to co●fesse Christ who hath an Altar who offereth vp the Sacrifice of Bread and wine who readeth the writings of the Saints who haue all degrees of holy Priesthood O wise man if any man doth not confesse Christ that his Infidelity be apparant vnto thee that thou wast seduced by him thou wast Mad to be seduced by him But now that hee confesseth Christ but not so as Christ commanded Thy Negligence was the cause of thy Seduction for hee that falleth into a pit which he did not foresee may be termed