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A16820	A treatise made in defence of the lauful power and authoritie of priesthod to remitte sinnes of the peoples duetie for confession of their sinnes to Gods ministers: and of the Churches meaning concerning indulgences, commonlie called the Popes pardo[n]s. By William Allen M. of Arte, and student in diuinitie.	Allen, William, 1532-1594.	1567 (1567)	STC 372; ESTC S100097	165,800	456

twenty dayes I saye of Purgatorie paines but by so muche as in force of satisfaction there is answerable to twenty dayes faste here So that the Church measuring her mercies by the yeares of penaunce deserued by the lawe in this life or ells where taketh effecte not only in this life where there cā not be so many dayes in oure shorte time but especially in preuēting Purgatorie paynes where there maye well be punishmēt answerable in a very shorte time to all the dayes prescribed by the measures of the lawe and discipline of oure present dayes in the worlde And yet I talke not nowe of taking or deliuering any mā out of Purgatorie so muche sooner as so manie dayes release doth importe when he is in it alreadye but I meane as I oftē saye for the simples sake of him that is yet aliue and in the Churches iurisdiction and therefore may haue by the Keyes of the Churche a pardon of his debtes either all or parte to preuent the paynes of Purgatorie or to discharge the debt therof before that terrible daye come when it shall be actually required And in this sense vndoubtedly are the greate number of yeares and dayes to be taken which be exceding necessary to procure mercy in these euell times wherin we may beholde the pitiful waaste of christian workes euery where and litle penance to be done no not of the better sort of Christiā people As for the other disobediēt children that euery way laugh their Mother to scorn whether she vse seueritie of discipline or lenitie in remission they haue no parte neither of the Churches blessing nor of the holy workes of Sanites nor of Gods owne peace and pardon Oure Lorde giue them the grace of repentaunce that they may haue a taste either of the Churches discipline or of her mercie and leuitie It is proued as wel by sundrie examples of the olde Lawe as by Christs owne often facte and his Apostles that enioyned or deserued punishement may be released by the gouernours of the Church in their Pardons The Ninth Chapter SOme may here marueile perchāce that such power should be giuen to mortal men as to remitte suche great portion of penaunce as by iustice ought to be enioyned or such a number of yeares as are oppointed for satisfaction and correction of former misdedes thereby to remoue from the party the heauy hande of God prepared for iudgement who would not wonder much hereat if they considered that the debt of hel paynes and eternity of punishement which incomparably excedeth many thousand yeares might by the priestes office and alwayes is in the due execution of the sacrament of penaunce fully remoued from the party penitēt And wher mercy putteth away deserued damnation there may muche lesse force of grace turne away the punishement of Purgatorie being but transitory and equiualent onely to the penaunce of a number of yeares prescribed Pristhod in the nevve lavve of more povver to purchase mercy them in the olde In which case if the Church of God should haue no preheminence now after the incarnatiō of Christ since which time the wayes of mercy towards mankinde must needes be muche enlarged oure state and gouernement should be much inferiour to the regiment and to the priesthod of the olde lawe which truely did in al thinges but as a shadowe and figure resemble the Maiesty of our Churches preheminence especially there where mercy and grace were to be shewed which came by Christ Iesus Behold thē some steppe of this more excellent power giuen to oure chiefe priestes Moyses and Aarō procured mercy ād pardō for the people in the persons of Moyses and Aaron who are noted in the booke of Exodus and Numbers meruelously to haue procured Goddes mercy sometimes by force of sacrifice prayer singular zeale to haue released some great portion of the paines and punishment which God him selfe by his owne mouth determination had layed vpō the people With what meruelous confidēce of his office pity of the afflicted sorte did one of thē crye out vnto God to hold his hande and pardon the people after they had deserued so greate punishment for worshipping the golden Idol of the Calfe in wildernes Lorde saith Moises this people hath cōmitted an horrible sinne and they haue erected golden Goddes Forgiue them this sinne Lorde or ells if thou wilt not dashe me oute of thy booke toe which thou haste writen This gouernoure and this priest prayed not after a commō sorte for pardon of the peoples punishement but he claimeth it with confidence in a maner requireth it as by his iurisdiction office Suche was the force of prayer priesthod before Christes spirituall soueraignty was honoured in the world otherwise then in a figure And yet God in a maner was at that point with them then that he would pardon and punishe at their pleasures For when the sinne was exceding greuous he maketh as it were means to Moises that he should not stay him nor his Anger from punishing of the offenders Let me alone Moyses saith oure Lorde and suffer me to be angrie Ibid. Num. 12. So when his sister Mary was punished by a leprosie for enuiyng at her brothers auhority he cried vnto oure Lorde and said Lorde God heale her againe of this disease and of his mercy so he did enioyning onely vnto her seuen dayes separation Aaron also procured pardon for the people by the like force of this prayer and priesthod when by sedition the people had highly offended God Num. 16. yea he did as it were limite moderat Goddes appointed punishement that his wrath should extend no farther but to the destruction of a certaine number For whē God saide vnto Moyses and Aaron departe you hēce from amongest this people for euen now I wil consume them Vpō which woorde streight the destruction began and grew very sore a flame of fier pitifully consuming them But Aaron out of hande with his incense ranne to that parte where the plague of Gods ire wasted most and there censed vpp towardes heauen and earnestly requested for the people and so placing him eue● iust betwixt those that were slaine and the residewe that were aliue the wrath and indignation of God ceassed But it were to long to make rehersal of all suche punishementes as God hath afflicted his people withall for sinne and yet hath bene either wholy put of or much thereof abated by these priestes euen of the olde lawe when they had no warrant promise ne commission in sacramēt or other wise other to binde or loose as by iurisdiction or any otherwise but by their praiers where oures of the newe lawe and testament haue expresly receiued a full power and commission concerning the same Therefore now in the new law in the dayes of grace where mercy and iudgemēt be met together Psal ●4 trueth and peace haue ioyned we shall find expresse exāples of iustice iudgemēt on the one

earnest vnfained teares proceding of loue deuotiō haue purchased many one a pardō Peter wept bitterly loued hartely therfore he was restored to grace and mercy after Christ had punished as in way of penāce his thre denialls with a triple demaunde of his loue as though he had doubted of his harte towardes him as S. Hilarie S Cyrill other doe interpreet it Super Ioan vlt. he not only gaue him a pardon of al that was past but made him his substitute in earth and chiefe pastour of al his flock If it stād thus therefor with the party penitent then the Popes Pardon shall vndoubtedly be beneficiall vnto him otherwise either not at al or els nothīg so muche as they seeme to sounde For althoughe it be an olde saying quòd indulgentiae tantum valent quantum sonāt that Indulgences be of as greate force and valour as the forme of their woordes doe importe yet that is not otherwise to be vnderstand then there wher ther may seeme iuste cause of graunte to the geuers and not euill disposition in the receiuers Adrianus For as Adrianus that once was Pope him selfe reasoneth If the Magistrates of the Church may not without iuste cause giue dispensation concerning vowes othes fastes mariages or suche like nor dispose the tēporal treasures of the Churche without reasonable cause then may not surely the Bishopes be lauyshe of the treasure of Gods House which is muche more pretious wherof there can be no man partaker that is an vnprofable mēber of the body Neuer the lesse the causes of geuing indulgences may be more or lesse reasonable according to the state and varietie of thinges which to the wisdom of Gods Vicar in earth is best seē whom Christ so ruleth in that case that he maye be most beneficiall to his holie houshold in so muche that it is not to be doubted but in these dayes and in this greate contempt of deuout and religious exercises the mouing onely of the people to prayer to holy peregrinations to the obediēce of the Church may be a sufficiēt cause why ther should be to prayers sayd vpō books or beads sanctified creatures for suche pourpose annexed great remissiō The thinges that heretikes doo hat must most be reuerenced For look what thinges be most condemned of Heretikes those thinges must Christian men be induced to reuerence with moste singular zele religiō Neither cā therebe any thing in the world so necessary for vs christiā mē of these times that be so voide of good workes as by deuotion entier zele to ioyn with our elders that in the holy cōmuniō of Sāctes we may be partakers of their vertuous deedes The ende of the Popes pardōs And that is the very ende of al the Popes Pardōs to make vs in oure lacke of satisfaction for oure sinnes felowes and coparteners of the abundāce that was in Christ first and then by him in oure holy brethren departed before vs. Vpō all which it is very plaine that euery man can not beneficially receiue the fructe of a Pardon this at least being requisite in euerie man that listeth to attein benefite therby that he be in state of grace and in earnest intent to continue in the knotte of Christ his Church Thus he must nedes be qualified that vvil take benefite by a pardō with loue and liking of the holy workes of his christian brethren and accomplishing at least that small work which commonly now is ioyned to the Pardon for encrease of christian deuotion The continuance of which deuotion that more and more decayeth maketh the Pardons to be more cōmon at this day and of late years then they were in the primitiue Church when moste men in the springe of christian religion and feruoure of faith sought to satisfie exactly the debt of the penance or ells which was a common case thē recompensed it by Martyrdom though S. Gregori the first of that name more then nine hundred yere since Vide cronica Pādalio Lutherani in the ordering of the stations at Rome is knowē to haue geuen pardons for yeares or dayes in like fourme as now is vsed And cleare it is that the thing it selfe being founde lawfull and no Protestant aliue cā euer be hable to shew me the first vser thereof much lesse that it was euer controlled by any man that euer was compted Catholike it maye be measured according to the necessitie of the time and so as the Church may be moste edified And thankes be giuen to God the effecte of the loue of Indulgences and the contrarie issue of the contempt therof doe well proue the Churches good meaning therein For if you viewe both parties well you shall perceiue more profitable deuotion more christian charitie more furtherance of common wealthes causes in that side that feareth paynes for their sinnes with the Prophet Dauid euen after they be remitted and therefore seeke for all meanes moste humbly by mans ministerie to receiue mercie in one yeare you shall see in these deuout persons more fructes of repentaunce then in a whole old mans life can be found in all the other side that contempteously disdayn or scornfully deride the most profitable vsage both of penaunce and Pardons in Goddes Churche Therefore in so great proufe of the benefite that procedeth from this kinde of remissions for so Alexander the thyrde aboue foure hundreth yeares since termed Pardons vsed then to be giuen in Dedication of Churches and vpon moste assured groundes Vide tit de poeniten remis that it well agreeth both with Goddes woorde and practise of the primitiue Church and neuer condemned of any but of suche as be them selues worthely condemned of other greate heresies and errours the Magistrates will shewe mercy still in Christes behalfe and all the holy Bishopes succeding laufully the Apostles of Christ will giue peace and benediction to suche as humblie aske it at their handes Math. 10. and if the parties be worthie their peace by Christes promise shall rest vppon them if they either contemne it or be vnworthie of it then no harme doone it will returne to the giuers again Treuly that holy peace which Christ gaue to the Apostles at his cōming in to them at his departure from them ●oan 20. and ells as he entered vpon any holy action signified nothing ells but an agreement and peace of mans soule with God and did no doubt purge thē from their dayly infirmities which we call Venial sinnes and the bonde of all paine as it may be thought due for the same that in the presence of Gods maiesty sinne might cesse the parties appere cleane afore his face that had no spot of sinne in him selfe at all as by the sayed peace yet giuē to the worthy receiuers by holy Bishops ministerie Bishops blessyngs some l●ke effecte doth surelie ensue I vse this terme of peace whē I speak of pardōs not because they are precisely meant