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Utrum horum, or, The nine and thirty articles of the Church of England, at large recited, and compared with the doctrines of those commonly called Presbyterians on the one side, and the tenets of the Church of Rome on the other both faithfully quoted from their own most approved authors / by Hen. Care.
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Care, Henry, 1646-1688.
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of whose Authority was never any doubt in the Church viz. Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy Joshua Judges Ruth 1 Samuel 2 Samuel 1 Kings 2 Kings 1 Chronicles 2 Chronicles Ezra Nehemiah Esther Job Psalmes Proverbs Ecclesiastes Solomons Song Isaiah Jeremiah Lamentations Ezekiel Daniel Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah Haggai Zechariah Malachi And the other Books as Hierom saith the Church doth Read for Example of Life and Instruction of Manners All the Books of the New Testament as they are commonly Received we do Receive and Account them Canonical The Presbyterians Under the Name of Holy Scripture or the Word of God Written are now Contain'd all the Books of the Old and New Testament which are these Genesis c. just as the Church of England reckons them All which are given by Inspiration to be the Rule of Faith and Life The Books commonly called Apocrypha not being of Divine Inspiration are no part of the Canon of the Scripture and therefore are of no Authority in the Church of God nor to be any otherwise approved or made use of than other Humane Writings The Authority of the Holy Scripture for which it ought to be Believ'd and Obey'd dependeth not upon the Testimony of any Man or Church but wholly upon God who is Truth it self the Author thereof and therefore it is to be Receiv'd because it is the Word of God We may be mov'd and induc'd by the Testimony of the Church to an High and Reverend esteem of the Holy Scriptures And the Heavenliness of the Matter the Efficacy of the Doctrine the Majesty of the Stile the Consent of all the Parts the Scope of the whole which is to give all Glory to God the full Discovery it makes of the only way of Mans Salvation the many other incomparable Excellencies and the entire Perfection thereof are Arguments whereby it doth abundantly Evidence it to be the Word of God yet notwithstanding our full Perswasion and Assurance of the Infallible Truth and Divine Authority thereof is from the Inward Work of the Holy Spirit bearing Witness by and with the Word in our Hearts The whole Council of God concerning all things necessary for his own Glory Mans Salvation Faith and Life is either expresly set down in Scripture or by good and necessary Consequence may be deduc'd from Scripture unto which nothing at any time is to be added whether by New Revelations of the Spirit or Tradition of Men nevertheless we do acknowledge the Inward Illumination of the Spirit of God to be necessary for the saving understanding of such things as are Revealed in the Word and that there are some Circumstances concerning the Worship of God and Government of the Church Common to Humane Actions and Societies which are to be ordered by the Light of Nature and Christian prudence according to the general Rules of the Word which are always to be observed The Old Testament in Hebrew which was the Native Language of the People of God of old and the New Testament in Greek which at the time of the Writing of it was most generally known to the Nations being immediately inspir'd by God and by his singular Care and Providence kept pure in all Ages are therefore Authentical so as in all Controversies of Religion the Church is finally to Appeal to Them But because these Original Tongues are not known to all the People of God who have Right unto and Interest in the Scriptures and are Commanded in the Fear of God to Read and Search them Therefore they are to be Translated into the Vulgar Language of every Nation unto which they come that the Word of God dwelling plentifully in all they may Worship him in an acceptable manner and through Patience and Comfort of the Scriptures may have hope The Infallible Rule of the Interpretation of Scripture is the Scripture it self and therefore when there is a question about the true and full Sense of any Scripture which is manifold but one it must be searched and known by other places that speak more clearly The Supream Judge by which all Controversies of Religion are to be Determined and all Decrees of Councils Opinions of Ancient Writers Doctrines of Men and Private Spirits are to be examined and in whose Sentence we are to rest can be no other but the Holy Spirit speaking in the Scripture The Papists The Decree of the Council of Trent touching the Canonical Scriptures Session the Fourth The Holy Oecumenical and General Tridentine Council lawfully Congregated in the Holy Spirit the three Legats of the Apostolick See presiding therein considering That the Purity of the Gospel as to Truth and Discipline is contained in Books Written and in Traditions not Written which received by the Apostles from the Mouth of Christ himself or by the Apostles by the Dictates of the Holy Ghost delivered as from Hand to Hand have come down even unto us following the Example of the Fathers does with an equal Affection of Piety and like Reverence receive and regard as well all the Books of the Old and New Testament since one God is Author of both as such Traditions pertaining either to Faith or Manners the same being dictated either Orally by Christ or by the Holy Spirit and Conserv'd by a continual Succession in the Catholick Church and as touching the Books of Holy Scripture that none may doubt which they are which by this Sacred Synod are received an Index of them is annexed and they are as follows Of the Old Testament five Books of Moses that is Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers and Deuteronomy Joshua Judges Ruth Four Books of Kings under that name they include the two Books of Samuel two of Chronicles the first of Esdras and the Second which is called Nehemias Tobias Judith Esther Job David's Psalter of 150 Psalms Proverbs Ecclesiastes the Canticles Wisdom Ecclesiasticus Isaiah Jeremiah with Baruch Ezekiel Daniel Twelve lesser Prophets viz. Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonas Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah Haggai Zechary and Malachi and the First and Second of the Maccabees Of the New Testament the Four Evangelists Matthew Mark c. as we reckon them And if any Person shall not receive all the said whole Books with all their Parts as they have wont to be read in the Catholick Church and as they are in the old Vulgar Latin Edition for Sacred and Canonical or knowingly shall contemn the aforesaid Traditions Let him be Anathema or Accursed And the said Sacred Council does also Appoint and Declare That the said old Vulgar Latin Edition which hath by the long use of so many Ages been approved of in the Church shall in all publick Readings Disputations Preachings and Expositions be esteemed Authentick And that none on any pretence whatsoever shall dare or presume to Reject the same And for the restraining of wanton Wits does likewise Decree That no one Person leaning on his own Prudence shall in matters of Faith and Manners pertaining to
all his Goods rated at the highest not making three hundred Guilders as he was wont to say of himself if Men doubt of my Poverty my Death shall perswade them The twenty seventh of May at Even this Sun set upon our Horizon presently the Rumour filled the City with Lamentation in wanting the wisest Citizen the Church a most faithful Pastour the College a most Learned Doctor all under God a common Father and Comforter Much a do to keep People from him after his Death they could not be satisfied with the sight of him nor scarce pulled away Very Strangers that had come far and near to see and hear him were most importunate to have but a sight of him amongst the rest the English Ambassadour till at length to avoid Superstition and the Tongues of Papists it was denied so he was Buried without any great outward pomp for so was his Will as aforesaid but with the most Lamentation Tears and Affection accompanied with all the Professours Ministers Senatours and even the whole City Thus far Doctor Hoyl wherewith agreeth the before recited Doctor Hakewell in his Answer to Carier p. 164 who also Witnesses That his Works were so well esteemed That his Catechism being written by himself in Latin and French was afterwards at the request of Strangers Translated into High Dutch Low Dutch English Spanish and by Immanuel Tremelius into Hebrew and by Henry Stephnes into Greek and touching his Institutions that Dystick is well known Preter Apostolicas post Christi Tempora Chartas Huic peperere Libro saecula nulla parem Except th' Apostles Writings since Christs days No Age a Book of equal worth did raise To which I may add That Epitaph bestowed on him by the Learned and Ingenious Beza which he was as able as upon that sad Occasion unwilling to afford and the other out of his Deserts as worthy as out of his Modesty the Crown of all his other Vertues unwilling to receive Romae ruentis Terror ille Maximus Quem mortuum Lugent Boni Horrescunt Mali Ipsa a quo potuit virtutem discere virtus Cur adeo Exiguo Ignoâ—oque in Cespite Clausus Calvinus lateat Rogas Calvinum assidue Comitata Modestia vivum Hoc Tumulo manibus Condidit Ipsa suis O te Beatum Cespitem tanto Hospite Cui invidere cuncta possint Marmora Which I shall endeavour thus to spoil into English If any ask why Reverend Calvin whom We justly style the dread of falling Rome Whose Death each good man did with Tears bewail And who even dead makes envious Foes look pale In whose fair Life no blot you could discern But Vertue her self might thence more Vertue learn Lies Buried in so mean and poor a Grave Whilst wretched Sinners Glorious Tomb-stones have Know ye That Modesty which was Ally'd Always to Calvin living when he dy'd With her own Hands this Mansion did provide O happy Turf enrich'd with such a Guest As proudest Marbles envy not possess This dear Country-Men is that very Calvin and such esteem the Reverend Fathers of our Church of England as well as other Learned Protestants beyond the Seas had of him heretofore whom yet too many pert little raw Sermon-Readers now a-days can scarce mention without Contempt and stinking Flowers of railing Rhetorick endeavouring as far as the short Talent of their Pedantick wit can reach to expose him as if he had been one of the most errand Hereticks and vilest of Men. Whilst in the mean time The wily Jesuite laughs and Triumphs in our needless heats which himself first kindled and still foments claps in with the most thriving party and exasperates what he can and at the same Instant secretly insinuates a favourable Opinion of the Church of Rome as less dissonant from and dangerous to the Church of England and the Civil Government and as more at Unity c. To Obviate which Romish designs and Reconcile in Affection all True-hearted Protestants by shewing them both the near Allyance they are already at if they would but have the patience to see it amongst themselves and the extream and destructive Opposition of the Church of Rome to us all is the Design of this poor Treatise and shall ever be both the Endeavours and the Prayers of The unworthy Compiler Henry Care Old Bayly Febr. 6th 1681 2. The ARTICLES of the Church of England compared with the Doctrines of the Presbyterians and Papists c. The first Article of the Church of England Of Faith in the Holy Trinity THERE is but one Living and True God Everlasting without Body Parts or Passions of Infinite Power Wisdom and Goodness the Maker and Preserver of all things both Visible and Invisible And in Vnity of this Godhead there be three Persons of one Substance Power and Eternity the Father the Son and Holy Ghost Touching this Article there is no Dispute The Presbyterians Believe it And the Papists Profess to do so too yet Austin Steuchus a famous Popish Doctor in his Cosmopaeia on the beginning of Genesis hath written That the Imperial Heaven is Co-eternal with God and if so there must be two Gods For whatsoever hath no Beginning is God Nor have their Expurgatory Indexes which have been so busie to deface many sound Godly Opinions Corrected him for this Blasphemous Heresy The second Article of the Church of England Of the Word or Son of God which was made very Man THE Son which is the Word of the Father Begotten from Everlasting of the Father the Very and Eternal God of one Substance with the Father took Mans Nature in the Womb of the Blessed Virgin of her Substance so that two whole and perfect Natures that is to say The God-head and Man-hood were joined together in one Person never to be divided whereof is one Christ Very God and Very Man who truly Suffered was Crucified Dead and Buried to Reconcile his Father to us and to be a Sacrifice not only for Original Guilt but also for Actual Sins of Men. The Presbyterians The Son of God the Second Person in the Trinity being Very and Eternal God of one Substance and equal with the Father did when the fulness of time was come take upon him Mans Nature with all the Essential Properties and Common Infirmities thereof yet without Sin being Conceiv'd by the Power of the Holy Ghost in the Womb of the Virgin Mary of her Substance so that two whole perfect and distinct Natures the God-head and Man-hood were inseparably joined together in one Person without Conversion Composition or Confusion which Person is Very God and Very Man yet one Christ the only Mediator between God and Man The Lord Jesus by his perfect Obedience and Sacrifice of himself which he through the Eternal Spirit once offered up unto God hath fully satisfied the Justice of his Father and purchased not only Reconciliation but an Everlasting Inheritance in the Kingdom of Heaven for all those whom the Father hath given unto him The Papists The