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A67237 The pretensions of the triple crown examined in thrice three familiar letters ... / written some years ago by Sir Christopher Wyvill ... Wyvill, Christopher, Sir, 1614-1672? 1672 (1672) Wing W3787; ESTC R34104 91,353 203

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Calvin is not New One Allfrick of Malmesburie in an Homily writ 650 years ago and publickly read on Easter Dayes before the Communion fully consents with the Reformed Churches herein And in another Book Dedicated to Woulstan Arch-bishop of York he says The Bread is Christ's Body and the Wine his Blood as Manna and the Water out of the Rock mentioned by Paul 1 Cor. 10. 3 4. were of old to the Israelites By these and some others was the right and true Doctrine contended for and in good measure held-forth though in the midst of those times wherein Knowledge both as to the concernments of Religion and of humane Literature was at a low Ebb till at length that Council at Lateran Anno 1215. Decreed That the Body and Blood of Christ must be believed to be in the Sacrament by Transubstantiation I know they will to this answer This Council did but invent a significant word to express what was before the Tenent of the Church But I am in some hopes what has been said will convince you of the contrary If not I wish I could prevail with you laying aside Prejudice to peruse the never enough honoured Primate and a late well writ piece of Doctor Taylor 's But what need we go farther for the Sence of the words of Institution than that place Joh. 6. ver 35. whereby our Lord himself had prepared his Disciples to receive them plainly attributing the quenching of that Appetite he desired to excite in them unto Faith or Believing LETTER IV. LET us in the next place use what means we can to discover that fitting Esteem and Value we ought to put upon the Heavenly Hoste I mean the blessed Quire of Angels and Saints who now rest from their Labours and reign with God You shall find us ready to afford them as much reverence and respect as the Word of God doth either Commend or Command and to deny them no honor which the purest or Primitive times thought requisite to give them We read in the New Testament of divers who made supplications immediately to Christ Rom. 5. 2. Ephes. 3. 12. Heb. 4. 16. John 2. 1. for he is by the Wisdom of the Father appointed to be our Intercessor and Advocate but not of one that prayed to the blessed Virgin Mary or other Saint and with Hierom we fear not to say Non Credimus quia non Legimus We read farther of some who being forward to prostrate themselves before appearing Angels were prevented by a See you do it not Revel 22. 9. We cannot but take notice of that interdictive Precept which disswades us from voluntarie humilitie c. Col. 2. 18 23. And therefore though we doubt not but those glorious Spirits do rejoyce at any access of happiness that befals the Church Militant or any Member thereof Though we should grant that they are instant with God for the consummation of the felicity of his Elect and that perhaps too they sollicite him for the particular concernments of his Servants here below Yet Invocation being a Prerogative belonging to the great Creator only and Intercession being an Office affixed so clearly to the person of Jesus Christ only We hold it safe for us and no way derogatorie from them to propose them to our selves for our Imitation but not for our Adoration 2 Chron. 6. 30. For thou Lord only knowest the hearts of the children of men If I had an express Precept for it really I would do it with all my heart and I am perswaded I could be a great Zealot in the way but in Religious as well as other affairs Sunt certi fines Quos ultra citráque nequit consistere Rectum and Will-worship is no venial Idolatry The Church of Rome has attributed so much of Merit to the Devotions Vows and Pilgrimages made to Saints and their Shrines that they have almost justled all other Piety out of door and drawn a dark cloud betwixt the eyes of the Vulgar and the Offices and Functions of our Saviour Whatever Artifice is used by the great Ones to usher in this very gainful Tenent unto the well-meaning sort of Papists under the Notion of Dulia a sort of worship which they will have to consist of an under-qualification to their Latria Yet the reverend Davenant hath made it apparent enough That the Orisons Vows Dedication of Churches with Altars as they are by Romanists directed to them are inconsistent with Truth Reason or Practice of Antiquity And here I shall insert what I promised in my first Letter an Ejaculation so strange that methinks it is sufficient to turn the stomachs of any and make them nauseating so absurd a practice not swallow down all that 's offer'd to them as wholesome food Mary of Portugal wife to Prince Alexander Farnezes calls upon her Husband in the Church of Scala to joyn in Prayer to the blessed Virgin supplicating Christ That in Obedience to his Mother he would give them another Son This yet hath more of Modesty in it than those particular Applications to her in terms which Erasmus a man that stood enough in awe of the Churches Name hath as before is hinted taxed of both vanity and novelty Such as this found in their Psalters Compel him to have Mercy upon us I am resolved before I end this Letter to rake together a huge bundle of such Applications made to and Appellations obtruded upon her out of Authors you will not disown as the wisest Papists will I believe not approve and the learnedst of them never can prove to be rightly used towards her Which may extenuate if not excuse the tartness of some of ours who seem to have mingled a great deal of Vinegar into their Ink when they inveigh not against her Person but the performance of such Devoyrs as are not due unto her Yet first I will give you in a few places out of the Fathers which speak my very thoughts to the full as to this point Epiphanius askes What Scripture hath delivered any thing concerning this Which of the Prophets have permitted a man that I may not say a woman to he worshipped For a choice vessel she is indeed but yet a woman Let Mary be in honour but let the Father Son and holy Ghost be worshipped This Mystery is appointed I do not say for a woman nor for a man but for God The Angels themselves are not capable of such kind of glorifying Although Mary be most excellent and holy and to be honoured yet she is not to be worshipped the Virgin indeed was a Virgin and honourable but not given unto us for Adoration c. Next Origen against Celsus exhorts us to endeavour to please God and to have him propitious unto us and if Celsus will yet have us to procure the good will of any other after him that is God over all Let him consider That as when the body is moved the motion of the shadow follows