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A76262	A Legacie left to Protestants, containing eighteen controversies, viz. 1. Of the Holy Scriptures. 2. Of Christs Catholick Church, &c. 3. Of the Bishop and Church of Rome, 4. Of traditions needfull, &c.	Bayly, Thomas, d. 1657?,; T. B.	1654 (1654)	Wing B1512; Thomason E1667_2; ESTC R208395	72,275	206

Tables of the Church to perfect the Sacrifice He saith Gaudentius who descended In cap. 2. Exodi from heaven said the Bread which I will give shall be my Flesh who being Lord and Creator of all things a● he produceth Corn from the earth to make Bread so both he can and promised of Bread to make his Body And he who of Water made Wine can of Wine make his Bloud c. think not therefore that to be earthly which is heavenly Truth cannot lye c. St. Orat. magna Cate●hetica Gregory Nissen likewise biddeth us to consider how Christs Body received in many places ●nd by thousands together can wholly and intirely be communicated ●●●●ch one of them wherefore I do rightly believe Bread by Gods word to be transmuted or wholly changed into th● Body of Christ and not to remain both together in the Sacrament as Luther even Harmoni● in cap. 26. Matth. in Calvins opinion absurdly affirmed And indeed all the Authorities of ancient Fathers hitherto alledged by me do plainly prove a totall change of Bread into the body and of Wine into the bloud of our Saviour fitly called in the great Laterane counc●l Transubstantiation And that in the distinct Consecrations of our Saviours Body and Bloud at the Altar under the forms of Bread and Wine is celebrated his misterious Sacrifice according to the order of Melchisedech and foretold by Malachy the Prop●et is so plainly and frequently testified by Ancientest and Chiefest Fathers of Christs Church as when we cite the Testimonies even of such as lived Lib. de vera reformatione Ecclesiae with the Apostles themselves Calvin passeth on us this mild and modest censure Solemne est istis nebulonibus c. It is the custome of these knaves to rake up out of the ancient Fathers whatsoever hath been written erroniously and ●alsly by them when therefore they object Malachies foretelling a continuall Sacrifice c. We answer saith he that these Fathers also taught Chri●●s bodily presence in the Sacrament but so ridiculously as Reason and Truth inforce us to leave them Could a Devil in human● shape have more proudly or contemptuously censured St. Irenaeus St. Justin St. Cyprian St. Alhanasius St. Chrysostom St. Ambrose St. Hilary St. Augustine and many others chief lights of Christs Church in their time for learning and Sanctity highly renowned And elswhere I see saith he the Fathers Lib. 4. In●it cap. 28. Sect. 11. even the ancientest and chiefest amongst them to have wrested the memory of Christs sacrifice on the Crosse and to have acknowledged therein the face of a renewed oblation more than was agreeable to the institution thereof imitating so the Jewish manner of sacrificing more than Christ ordained or the Gospel permitted as if he alone knew better than all ancient Doctors before him what Christ ordained in his last Supp●r even such as had known the Apostles themselves or conversed with some of their chiefest Disciples in his Commentary also on St. Pauls Ep. to cap. 6. v. 9. the Hebrews he hath these words I cannot but wonder to see the ancient Fathers so preoccupated with the opinion of Christs corporall Presence in the Sacrament but a● one errour draweth on another when they had forged a sacrifice in the Lords Supper and adulterated thereby the sam● they laboured to gather colour●ble Arguments whereby they might seem to maintain their errour So as mentioning no further his impudent and unchristian boldnesse in accusing so many glorious Saints now raigning with Christ in Heaven of Judaisme Idolatry and Superstition practised by themselves and taught to others I will accept here what he so plainly confesseth that all the ancientest and chiefest Fathers of Christs Church held the reall presence of our Saviour in the Eucharist and acknowledged a true sacrifice in the daily Consecration thereof celebrated still by us after their example and our Saviours institution mentioned also by St. Paul blessing Bread and 1 Cor. 10. Wine and distributing them as the Body and Bloud of our Lord according to S. Irenaeus his words our Lord saying of Bread this is my Body and Lib. 4. c. 32. confessing the Challice which he consecrated to be his bloud taught us a new oblation of the new Testament which the Church having received it from the Apostles offereth to God throughout the whole world as Malachy had foretold c. And not to speak of those ancient Li●urgies extant in Greek and Latine under divers Apostles names and proved to have been truly theirs by many grave and learned Authors one●y because Protestants are not pleased for such to accept them I will boldly here affirm that no point or practice of faith can be more faithfully made known and testified by all manners unto us and even in Protestant Authors themselves more plainly confessed than that this great and onely sacrifice of Christians hath still in all ages since Christ even untill this very time both in our Western and those Eastern Churches of Greece Syria Armenia E●ypt and India it self been celebrated so as yearly out of those and other parts of the world Christians come with their Priests unto Jerusalem many thousands of them together having no other publick service of God but the celebration of this sacrifice used amongst them never but in their first Apostolicall Conversions taught unto them and since still retained by them And albeit Nestorisme besides other ancient and condemned heresies have crept in lamentably amongst them yet in a Catholick belief of ●ur Saviours presence in the Sacrament and sacrifice of the Masse ordained by him there is no disagreement at all between them and this concord of many Nations remote from each other and void of all commerce between themselves for many ages together Lib. de Pr●script according to Tertullians rule non error sed traditio est is no error but tradition still continued amongst them The second Part. FOr proof of the Masse also I could here if Calvins former confession that the ancientest and chiefest Fathers acknowledged and celebrated the same saved me not that labour heap up many pregnant testimonies out of their authenticall works truly collected that being most true which S. Epiphanius affirmed that all the Apostles severally prescribed the order of celebrating this sacrifice And St. Isidorus lib. 2. Officiorum telleth us that the Masse used in his time in these Western parts of the World was according to St. Peters Ordination which mysterious and unbloudy sacrifice albeit in the Host it self and chief Offerer thereof it be all one with the sacrifice of the Crosse yet is it far different in the manner and ceremonies thereof for whereas in that his body and bloud were painfully parted and his death thereby caused in this they are onely by distinct consecrations of them mysteriously severved So as to distinguish these sacrifices we may fitly call that other the sacrifice of our redemption consummated indeed fully by it and this

as a chief Protestant Doctor wrote thus to the Elector Brandeburg of her Elizabeth Queen of England hath with a temerity never before heard of made her self Papissam a she Pope in all Churches in her kingdome And all her Subiects must under great Penalties swear it to be so And had she not been for her power usefull in those times to the Hereticks of France Scotland and the Low-Countries in Rebellion against their Sovereigns she had been more than she was cried out against by them So as it is evident that in this change of Religion secular policy chiefly prevailed to the perpetual disgrace and shame of such as since have imbraced it And a mixture was made therein of many Religions as the Queen and her bad Councellors list●d wholy different from any other Protestant Reform●tions d●sli●●d therefore extremely by all several Professors of them yet so by prejudice of opinion education and custome imbraced by many in their affection at least thereunto albeit the use thereof be in these times debarred unto them as with those foolish Id●laters they still cry out that their gods are taken from them some affecting it the more because it is forbidden unto them others also because the Elizabethian Church Service and Government carried a greater decency and outward shew of Religion with it than that which amongst later Sectaries is now used in a Song and a Sermon onely ended without any set form of praying together not barer of ceremony than void of devotion and many times in ex tempore praying and preaching wholly ridiculous like it so much as they cannot be drawn from it even now when it is taken from them by a prevailing power unexpectedly raised to depresse Protestants and Puritans together to end also Bishops and Bishopricks with them Insomuch as in these miserable times I deem it to be a needfull and high point of Christian wisdome for Dialogo ultimo contra Luci●●rianos each one according to S. Hieroms rule to leave all new Sects and betake themselves to that Church which hath unalteredly continued one and the same profession of faith since the Apostles time whilest Novilists have in vain laboured to change it and are come themselves to nothing so as wise men will in succeeding ages with grief and compassion conclude and deplore the eternal damnation of such as have lived and died in the profession of them Was there ever for example any Heresie since Christs time so powerfully broach'd subtly defended so lastingly continued as the Arian Heresie for a long time together in so many parts of the world by whole Countries and Nations imbraced with such a shew of Scriptures making for it and other arguments produced by learned men to prove it yet we see now the same by all good Christians worthily hated and detested as all modern Sects of Protestants will after an age or two come to be abhorred and accounted to have been miserable Seductions of Souls and damnable professions of different beliefs before in the world not so much as heard of time and truth prevailing to discover the falshood of them The sixth Controversie Of the Holy Eucharist 1. PART Concerning our Saviours reall Presence therein PL●inly imported in these words when of br●ad blessed in his last Supper he said this is my body c. and of Wine this my ●loud of the new Testament which shall be shed for many in remi●sion of Sinnes ever literally understood and believed saith Luther L●b de interpret v●rborum Caenae by Christian Past●urs and People since the Apostles calling his S●cramentari●n Advers●ries Corrupt●rs of Christs plain words and mu●derers of souls by new and false interpretations of them and I would have saith he these brave men who from Sense and Reason chiefly im●ugn the literal understanding of them to tell me why God by his infinite and unconceiveable pow●r cannot make the same body to be at once in many places sithence our Saviours r●peated and expresse promises of giving us his fl●sh to ●at and his bloud to drink plainly require this miracle to b● done by him for the fulfilling ●f th●m Not distributed by parts and in their proper formes as the Carpharnites carnal●y and gross●ly understand them but Sacramentally and hiddenly under the forms of Bread ●nd wine communicat●d unto us In which s●nse St. Paul asked of th● Corinthians the Chal●ice of benediction which we ble●●e is i● not the communication of Christs bl●ud and the Bread which we break is it not the participation Ep. 1. c. 10. of our Lords body to wit under the forms of B●ead and Wine wont t● be cons●crat●d by the Apostles themselves and distributed to the People according to St. Justins words where speaking of the Primitive Christians Apologia 2. ad Antonium in their Sinax●s and publick meetings we receive not in them saith he common Bread and Wine but we believe them to be the Flesh and bloud of our incarnat Lord. For the Bread Serm de Coena saith St. Cyprian which our Lord gave unto his disciples was not in shew but in the nature thereof changed made flesh by the omnipotency of Christs words from whom we are warranted to drink bloud by Moses in his law so strictly forbidden And St. Catech. 1 3 4. Cyrill having affirmed the same Doctrine addeth albeit sense suggesteth the contrary unto thee yet let faith confirm thee that Bread and Wine after the invocation of the blessed Trinity are made the Body and Bloud of Christ and he who refuseth to believe In ancorato so of them saith Epiphanius loseth grace and salvation St. Ambrose likewise thus plainly Lib. 4. de Sacramentis c. 4 5. delivereth the same Doctrine Bread distributed at the Altar is Bread before Consecration but after Consecration of Bread is made the Flesh of Christ and let us certainly believe it But how can that which was Bread be made so by Consecration by what words then and by whose is Consecration made by those words of our Lord Jesus this is my body c. for when the venerable Sacrament is to be made the Priest useth not his own words but the words of Christ c. and St. Hierome to the same purpose that Bread saith he which our Lord brake and gave to his Disciples was as Epist 1●0 quae est ad Hedibiam we believe his own flesh and the Challice which he blessed was his Bloud neither is it man now that consecrateth the Bread and Wine laid on the Altar and maketh them the Body Homil. de proditione Judae and Bloud of Christ but himself who was crucified for us Saith St. Chrisostome the words are pronounced by the mouth of the Priest but the Elements are consecrated by the power of Christs words and as the speech of God increase and multiply once pronounced hath force still to effect what he intended by them so have Christs words this is my body still power at all

latter a sacrifice of Religion for that thereby the divine persons are highly honoured and religiously served By that our Saviour merited all graces for us and by this other they are applied unto us in a most liberall and loving manner not without a most gratefull acknowledgement of his effused love and bounty exhibited in the other unto u● So as such a Sacrifice dignifying above measure Christs new Law and the Priesthood thereof well became the infinite wisdome power and goodnesse of him that ordained it ending by his painfull death on the crosse the Priesthood of the old Law and all Sacrifices thereof and establishing a new Law and a new Priesthood therein according to the order of Melchisedech whose sacrifice of Bread and Wine was a Type of this wherein Christs Body and Bloud consecrated under the forms of Bread and Wine were first offered by himself when he instituted this Sacrifice and are now still and shall be to the worlds end offered by the Ministry of his Priestly servants authorised in the oblation thereof to do as he had done before them hoc facite in meam commemorationem do this in remembrance of me And whereas Protestants admit this mysterious King of Salem to have been a lively type of our Saviour in his person but not in his sacrifice they contradict Davids plain testimomony instanced by the Apostle Thou art a Priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedech not of his Person onely b●cause a new order of Priesthood supposeth a new Sacrifice no lesse than a new sacrifice proveth a new Priesthood and by both together a change of the old Law is by St. Paul necessarily inferred For saith Ad Heb. 7. he the Priesthood being transferred or changed the Leviticall into that of Christ according to the order of Melchisedech it was needfull also that the Law should be translated and changed And those who deny this new sacrifice deny Christs Priesthood also both by David and St. Paul expresly averred and lessen thereby the force of his argument used thereby to prove the old Lib. de missa A●gulari Law altered and changed dreadfully making that a negative Article of their faith which the Devil taught Luther when the Sacrifice of the Masse was by him first denied and impugned as himself hath particularly related the disputation then passed between them who indeed was a fit Master for such a Schollar and the Lesson which he learned of him was a blasphemy left by a Devil delivered unto him alb●it the arguments whereby h● sought to prove it as Luther recounteth them were inde●d far from concluding what the Devill sought to prove by them How much more happily then had Luther blessed himself from such a teacher and retained his ancient faith of this h●ly Sacrifice the greatest and gratefullest to God that by him who was wisdom it self could have been devised never offered saith St. Chrysostome by the Priest at the Lib. de Sacerdotio Altar but Troops of Angels are invisibly about him ready to adore their heavenly Lord God and man offered unto his eternall Father by him Hom. 5. in Epiph. himself having had the Grace to see them as Nilus his Disciple recounteth of him ordained saith St. Eucherius by the Son of God that as he offered himself once for our Redemption he might in a mysterious sacrifice be daily offered for us jugiterqu● coleretur per mysterium quod semel offerebatur in pretium perennisque illa victim●viveret in memoria uni●a perfecta hostia fide aestim●●●● non specie corpus effecta sanguis Sacerdotis nostri as a perpetuall sacrifice to make Christs bloudy and painfull sacrifice whereby we were redeemed daily to be remembred by us and represented unto us by Saint Dennis Areopagita in his Ecclesiasticall Cap. 3. Hierarchy and particularly declared in the whole order thereof called by Calvin therefore to deny the authority of so great a Father a counterfeit Hom. 34. in Evangelia babling Author albeit St. Gregory the Great more than a thousand years since citing a Testimony out of him called him ancient and venerable Father Hom. 2. in diversos Origen also long before that cited him by the name of great Dionysius Areopagita and Dionysius Alexandrimus his Schollar is affirmed by Saint Quaest 4 cad Antiohum Epist ad Car●lum calvum Maximus Abbot and Martyr to have written Annotations on his works St. Athanasius likewise produceth his authority to prove nine orders of angels called by St. Chrysostom as Anastatius Bibliothecarius testifieth the bird of heauen And St. John Damascene often citeth him under the title of Dionysius amongst Divines the greatest and holiest to omit innumerable Lib. 2. de fide cap. 12. lib. 2. Titulo de Synaxi c. like testimonies of both ancient and latter authors This great Father then in his Ecclesiasticall Hierarchy mentioneth the Bishops coming unto the Altar calling it aram divinam his incensing likewise thereof his intoning the Psalms sung by the Clergy attending him in the celebration of the sacrifice and then causing the Catechumes to be put out of the Quire he maketh an Oblation of the bread and Wine then to be blessed and consecrated by him washeth his fingers at the midst of the Altar with the Priests kneeling by him and after the praising of God in his works ea quaesunt divinissima rite perficit c. He performeth to wit in consecrating the Bread and Wine most divine things under the Signes then adored by him crying out unto Christ tu dixisti hoc facite in meam commemorationem thou hast bidden us to do this in remembrance of thee humbly acknowledging himself unworthy to celebrate so great a Sacrifice beseeching him to open those sacred coverings and signs unto him and spiritually clear his eyes for the better understanding of himself present under them which testimony alone of so great a Father cap. 3. Apologia 2. ad Antoninum Imperatorem confirmed by Saint Justin Martyr and repeated in all other Apostolicall Liturgies would be abundantly ●ufficient to prove our whole Doctrine and belief of the holy Sacrifice of the Masse were not our Adversaries obstinately bent to reject all such proofs though never so convincing The seventh Controversie Of honouring Saints and praying to them THe Honour which we Catholicks yield unto Saints is not that high Honour called Latria due unto God only but such an inferiour honour Genesis 18. Numeri 20 as Abraham and Joshua yielded to angels appearing unto them which Honour being infinitely inferiour to the other given unto God himself cannot but falsly and foolishly be called Idolatry such as Painims yielded to their Idols by ascribing Divinity unto them Whereas Saints are as friends onely and Servants of God inferiourly respected and reverenced by us according to Davids words Thy friends O Lord are much honoured This kind of honour was in the purest times of Christs Church yielded to

of it more in a generall Councel than in the Pope who hath authority to call and confirm it is an extravagant opinion of some divines and hath little colour of truth in it especially considering that sundry great and general Councels not following the Popes sentence and directions given either by their Letters or Legats in them have perniciously in their Decrees and scandalously erred Whereas it cannot be proved that Popes alone have in their doctrines so failed Neither hath it in former times been held necessary for resolving doubts in matters of faith or for condemning Heresies risen against them to have a generall Councel presently called but Popes alone have commonly performed that Office acknowledged by chief Fathers in all ages to belong unto them so as amongst many others which might here to that purpose be instanced by me St. Hierom writing to Pope Damasus about admiting 3 hypostasies in the deity or not because that word then was of a doubtfull signification tell me saith he whether I shall admit them or not as a sheep I ask help of my Sheapherd I know not Vitalis I refuse to believe M●lesius I am joyned to your beatitude alone c. And in this kinde of language have other antient fathers written to sever●l P●p●s to have qu●stions and doubts of fai●h resolved by them which they would not have done had they not believed our Saviours prayer that their faith should not fail to h●ve been heard for them by his eternal Father and that a peculiar assistance of the Holy Ghost was promised unto them The fourth Controversie Of Traditions needfully added into the Canon of Scripture OUr Adversaries under a specious pretence of following in the Doctrine and practice of Faith Gods word alone contained in Scripture seek to overthrow amongst Christians all true belief and Religion for admitting what scriptures they list themselves and interpreting them as they please is in effect to have a Religion of their own making no lesse absurd than if in Kingdomes and Common-wealths Subjects were permitted to interpret laws of themselves without admitting Judges to determine of them or any authentical Declaration of them so as every man may to his own advantage in suits and controversies expound them and defend any cause how bad and unjust soever it be by them And that pretence of Protestants to believe nothing which is not either expressed in Scripture or by a clear immediate consequence gatherable from it is a false brag and purposely devised to exclude the Churches teaching and deceive ignorant people unable to note how ungroundedly and without sence many times texts of Scripture are cited by them to prove their own and impugn our doctrines insomuch as the Catholick and learned Pastor of Chaventon a place alotted unto the Hugonits neer Paris hath in sundry Volumes discovered the fraudulent proceedings of Protestants about maintaining points of their Religion and particularly shewed that no point thereof can be without false Glosses of their own convinced out of Scripture For example when S. Paul affirmeth all scripture divinely inspired to be profitable to teach to correct to instruct in justice that the man of God may be perfect He doth not say as our Adversaires falsly gather from this place that scripture alone can make him perfect in the knowledge of heavenly truth for that revealed and unwritten doctrines may serve likewise to increase this knowledge in him as when S. Paul willed the Galatians to stick firmly to cap. 1. his doctrine by writing or preaching delivered unto them and exhorted the Thessalonians to keep those traditions which either by his Epistles or by 2 Thess 2. speech they had received from him pra●sing the Corinthians for observing such precepts as he had given unto them When also against Apostolical and certain tradition they urged those texts wherein our Saviour reprehended Pharisaical and wicked doctrines teaching plainly observances against the Law of God sometimes also vain things and of no moment their arguments are meer fopperies and prove nothing against unwritten doctrines such as are the Creed of the Apostl●s the translation of the Jewish Sabbath into our Sunday the Feasts of Easter and Pentecost antiently observed not for the celebration of Jewish but Christian mysteries and many other Feasts and Fast● kept in the Church from Apostolical tradition the Baptism of Children the matters and forms of Sacraments and many other doctrines and practices of faith not expressed in Scripture Where in the mean time I will ask those m●n is it either plainly express●d or by clear consequencies gathe●abl● from Scripture that the Commandements of God are impossible to be observed that men have no free will to do good or evill that the just●st men do mortally offend in their best actions that there is no inherent justice or sanctification in us by heavenly graces communicated unto soules cleansed from sin but that all are holy by Christs justice alone apprehended by faith and imputed only unto them that each faithfull man is by an Act of faith to believe that he shall be saved no lesse surely than Christ himself that Christ dyed for none but the Elect and that others were to have no share in the fruit of his death and passion for us that Christs body and blood are not really and corporally present in the Sacrament but by saith onely that Sacraments of the new law are signes and seals of faith onely no graces are communicated at all to such as receive them and many such Protestants Tenents b●sides which have no true ground at all in Scripture for them And in this pretence of gathering and proving the faith out of scriptures onely they imitate many anci●nt Hereticks before them So Maximus the Arian as S. Austin in his first In principio book against him recounteth rejecteth the word Homousion because it was not expressed in Scripture and so did Epist 174. Pascentius as the same father recounteth and as S. Gregory Nazi●nzen relateth of Eunomius he was wont to ask his Christian Adversaries why they did name a God meaning the Holy Ghost not mentioned for such in scripture making so saith he the sacred Act. 3. writings of God a cloak of their impiety Acasius the Arian in the Councel of Selevica used the same words and so did Eutiches in the Councel of Constantinople under Flavianus asking the Fathers therein assembled in what scripture they found expressed that cap. 6. Christ had two Natures conjoyned in his Person neither could he be drawn from those words commonly used by Protestants I follow onely the scriptures and regard not the Fathers Exposition Lib. de natura de gratia cap. 39. of them The Pelagians also as S. Austin cit●th their words made profession to believe no more than Anathetisma 7. what they read in Scripture So did the Iconomachi or Image-breakers in the second Councel of Nice and the Albigenses said the same to S. Bernard Hom. 66. in Cant. as