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A53985	The true mark of the beast, or, The present degeneracy of the Church of Rome from the faith once delivered to the saints a sermon on November 5, 1681 / by Edward Pelling ...	Pelling, Edward, d. 1718.	1682 (1682)	Wing P1106; ESTC R1620	19,445	35

observe these two things First That whereas it was provided by an Old Canon of the Church That every Nation should acknowledg 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Can. Apost 34. their Own Primate and count him their Head and do nothing without bis Order Pope Victor own'd the Authority of this Canon and claimed no Primacy over Polycrates the Metropolitan of the Proconsular Asia when he wrote to him about calling a Synod to consider of the Paschal Controversie For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 inquit Polycrates ad Vict. Euseb Hist Eccl. l. 5. c. 24. though the Popes now challenge a power of Summoning all Councils by virtue of their pretended Primacy over all Churches yet it was not so in Pope Victor's dayes for he did entreat and beseech Polycrates that He would call a Synod of Bishops himself Secondly That when Victor purposed to Anathematize the Asiatick Churches for not complying with his Humour Irenaus and many other Bishops dealt very roundly and roughly with him so that he was forced to Alter his purpose Whence it appears that the Popes in those dayes were so far from conceiving themselves to be Supream or free from a possibility of Erring that they stood in awe of their Fellow-Bishops that could upon occasion Ruffle with them and make them keep the Peace and bind them to their good behaviour 6. I might shew too how St. Cyprian rated both those Popes in his time Cornelius and Stephen but I forbear to gather any more instances of that nature because it is so well known that for near 600 years after Christ the Bishops of Rome never had the Title of Universal Pastors of the Church till the dayes of Boniface the Third and he gat it basely and by the grant of that Bloody wretch Phocas who had murder'd the Emperor Mauritius and all his Children and had no way to secure himself but by giving the Pope a Title that pleased him and ever since our Bishops of Rome have pretended to be the Landlords of all God's Vineyard instead of being Labourers in it or rather have been Wolves instead of Shepherds and it is observable that the Donor of this title was a Bloody Tyrant and Traytor and you may guess at the Father by the Child for generally since the Love of Bloodshed and Treason hath run along in the veins of the Donees 7. To which I shall only add the Testimony of one Pope more not that he is the next in Order but because 't is most pertinent to this point and 't is the Testimony of Gregory the Great who speaking of the Title of Universal Bishop of the Church doth up and down in his Epistles call it a Title of Novelty Error Blasphemy Impiety full of poison contrary to the Ancient Canons to the Holy Gospel and to god himself and the fore-runner of Antichrist 8. And as touching the point of Infallibility Pope Adrian the Sixth did plainly assert and Bellarmine owns it that the Pope might be guilty of down-right Heresy and the Cardinal doth confess that for above 1400 years his judgment was not esteemed Infallible and the plain truth is he was never complemented under that notion till he got the Empire over Princes and the Preferments of the Church into his clutches Aeneas Sylvius who himself was a Pope gave this reason why the Clergy made him Infallible above all Councils because he could reward 'em well with fat promotions which Councils could not and had he sued for this Title in farma Pauperis and without a good Fee in his hand either his Cause would not have been pleaded at all or by the Verdict of all the Fathers he would have been presently Cast but in the Church of Rome 't is Money that doth all I have been the longer upon these points because they are some of the main and most material points that are in controversie between us which if they would but part with many other conceits if not all would soon fall to the ground which are now held up chiefly by the usurped Authority of the Church 9. I will not except the conceit of Transubstantiation Gelas de duabus naturis in Christo which if it were Ruin'd would like the Dragons tail sweep down a great many other admired Fancies with it For as touching our Faith in this particular we appeal to another of the Primitive Bishops of Rome Gelasius by name who wrote an excellent Book which is yet extant and he wrote it upon this occasion The Heretick Eutiches and his followers did believe that though at first Christ had two distinct Natures yet upon the Union of 'em the Humane nature was wholly converted into the Divine so that his Humanity ceased and was absorpt and turn'd into the substance of his Divinity just as our Adversaries pretend that the Bread in the H. Eucharist ceaseth and is turn'd into the substance of Christ's Flesh Pope Gelasius undertook the maintenance of the Catholic Faith against these Hereticks and which is well to be observed to prove the real existence of our Saviour's Humane nature he draws an Argument from the then received Doctrine concerning the nature of the Elements in the Eucharist And his words I render thus Verily the Sacraments of Christs Body and Blood which we receive are a Divine thing because by means thereof we are made partakers of the divine Nature and yet the substance or Nature of the Bread and Wine doth not cease to be And indeed it is the Image and Similitude of Christs Body and Blood which is represented in this Mysterious action It is evident enough therefore that we must think the same of our Lord himself which we profess celebrate and take in the Image of him that as these Elements by the operation of the Holy Spirit do pass into this that is a Divine condition still nevertheless remaining in the propriety So I conceive the words of Gelasius should be read Sic illud ipsum est mysterium principale cujus nobis efficientiam virtutemque veraciter repraesentant Scil. Sacramenta ex quibus constat propriè permanentibus quia Vnum Christum integrum verumque permanere demonstrant of their own nature so is the Principal mystery it self the efficiency and virtue whereof is truly represented unto us by the Elements which truly and properly remaining still the same it is manifest that they shew one entire and true Christ to remain in the union of both natures From these words of Gelasius it is clear that the real union of both Christs natures is the Principal mystery which is here represented and that this is represented by the Sacramental union between the Bread and the Wine and the Body and Blood of Christ And hence he concludes that the Nature of Christs Humanity doth still remain because the Nature of the Elements doth still remain But this would not have been Argumentative or Conclusive at all had not the Church then believed that the nature of the Bread

and Wine is not abolisht in the Sacrament for ' tisfrom that Principle that received and common Principle that he argues against those deceivers So that if We are Hereticks for denying the doctrine of Transubstantiation Pope Gelasius himself was an Heretick also for Teaching that which is the Faith of all Protestants But indeed neither was he nor are we to be blamed for it was the Faith not of Pope Gelasius alone but of all the Primitive Catholicks 10. Should I now tell you that the same Gelasius condemned the administration Comperimus autem quod quidam sumpta tantummodo corporis sacri portione à Calice Sacri cruoris abstineani Qui proculdubio quoniam nescio quâ superstitione docentur obstringi aut Integra Sacramenta percipiant aut ab integris arceantur quia divisio unus ejusdemque mysterii sine Grandi Sacrilegio non potest provenire Papa Gelas. in Gratiani Decret de Consecrat distinct 2. c. 12. of the Sacrament in one kind only as contrary to the usage of the Church of Rome it self in his time that Leo the first condemned all Adoration of any Creature that St. Gregory disclaimed the worshiping of Images and Pictures and overthrew the Doctrine of Purgatory and so go on searching into the times of old and making such other Collections as 't is no very hard matter to Leo ser 2. in Nativit make I should soon return more than a Full Jury of the Primitive Bishops of Rome and those good Greg or Ep. ad Seren. men and true in comparison to try and clear this grand point that the Errors of the modern Romanists Et in 7 Job l. 8. c. 8. which we have rejected are such as are not to be reconciled with the Primitive Faith of the very Roman Church which was the third thing I undertook to show 4. But we will forbear to walk further among the Monuments of the dead Instead of that we will in the next place take a short view of the vanity of their Pretences who charge us with Noveltie Heresie and Schisme for imbracing and sticking to that Reformation which by the wonderful good Providence of God hath been wrought in many parts of the Christian world and more especially here in this Realm Had we broached any Doctrines which are really New we had been guilty of Innovation Had we violated the integrity of the Apostles Creed we had been guilty of Heresie or had we bid defiance to the Communion of the Catholick and Apostolick Church we had been guilty of Schism and our condition would be sad But the old Sages of the Church and our own Consciences do bear us witness that in every of these respects we are not only Innocent but Righteous for our Faith beareth the same date with Christianity and we have forsaken the Church of Rome in no material point but where she hath for saken the Ancient Church and indeed her own Primitive self And how are we to blame if we have done this tho it be against her humour Is it not very hard that the Governours of a Family shall not be permitted to cleanse their own house from filth and cobwebs because the next Neighbour will chuse to let his habitation ly like a Dunghill or is it not unreasonable that one Church must not be allowed to be a cleanly Matron because another is resolved to be a dirty Slut why thus stands the case between us and our Imperious and Unconscionable Neighbours Our Bishops as to their just Authority stand upon the same Level with the Bishops of Rome and so do all the Bishops in the world beside And this is according to the 34th Apostolick Canon Now if he will not suffer a Beesome to come near his door the fault is not ours and much good may his stye do him so he do but ly in it quietly but neither ought it to be an offence to him if our Prelates have taken the first and fairest opportunity they could take to sweep our Church and set it to rights as all the Churches of God were of old They commonly ask us where our Faith was before Luther and we say 't was in the Creed which our Ancestors before Luther's time believed as well as we do Now and as far as they believed that so far they were Christians and Catholicks and so far we allow our Adversaries to be Christians and Catholicks too For this is the necessary and common Faith of all Christians But before the Reformation many Errors did bear this Faith company and made the Table fowl wherein the Creed was written and when we took it down to cleanse it we only brusht off the dust from it so that still our Faith was and is the same though our Errors in other matters are thrown out of doors They ask us where our Church was before King Hen. the 8th and we tell 'em 't was here in England where it is still But before King Henry's time 't was abused and fill'd with superstition and Legends and a great deal of Trumpery and unlawfull Stuff which either the ignorance or the knavery and secular designes of some Priests hadfoisted in and which we hope God in mercy did pardon to our fore-fathers who did not know the unlawfullness of those Wares And when in King Henry's dayes a Reformation was begun and after was compleated we did not pull down the Church over our heads but only flung out of it such things as had been amiss in it so that our Church is the same still only then it was Nasty and now it is Neat We neither destroyed the old fabrick nor built a New one but we cleansed that which was and purged the Sanctuary from its Pollutions letting the Pillars and the Walls the Creed the Commandements and the Pater Noster and what else was necessary or fitting for God's Worship to stand still as they did and indeed better Now if this was a Crime truly it might have been laid to our Saviour's own charge when he went about to Reform those abuses and innovations which had crept into the Jewish Church by the Artifice of the Pharisees as these did into our Church by the help of the Priests Did he not tell them that from the beginning it was not so and did he not thereby direct them to Primitive practice as the Rule of Reformation and would it have been a good plea against him should the Jews have said Thus we have formerly believed and done from the days of yore therefore to teach otherwise is to be guilty of Novelty and Schism and to set up another Church or would it have been a sufficient plea against his Disciples those great Reformers of the world should the Pharisees have demanded of them where was your Church before Christ is it not a Mushrome of yesterday and had not the answer been easie that they had brought Religion to that purity which God anciently intended why this is our case that we have Restor'd