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A08826	Christianographie, or The description of the multitude and sundry sorts of Christians in the vvorld not subiect to the Pope VVith their vnitie, and hovv they agree with us in the principall points of difference betweene us and the Church of Rome.	Pagitt, Ephraim, 1574 or 5-1647.	1635 (1635)	STC 19110; ESTC S113912	116,175	260

not Canonicall which though they are not Canonicall yet are they set forth for the edification and instruction of the Church for Eleazar in Machabes the 6. c. Eusebius Bishop of Caesarea The Maccabees are not received amongst us for divine Scriptures Saint Hierom The booke of Wisedome The Easterne Church Sapientia quae vulgo Salomonis inscribitur Iesu filij Syrach liber Iudeth Tobias Haster non sunt in Canone Hierom. Tom. 3. praef in lib. Regū of Iesus the sonne of Syrach of Judeth of Tobyas and Haestor are not in the Canon Athanasius Bishop of Alexandria a Athana in Synopsi The bookes of the old Testament are 22. There are others that are not canonicall as the Wisedome of Salomon St. Augustine b De mirabilibus sacra Scripturae lib. 2. cap. 34. not found in the Canonicall Scriptures but in the booke of Maccabees The South Church 3. The sufficiency of the Scriptures Gregory Whatsoever serveth for edification and instruction The old Roman Church Greg. in Ezek. lib. 1. hom 9. In hoc volumine cunct● quae aedificant omnia quae erudiunt scriptacontinentur is contained in the volume of the Scriptures Saint Chrysostom a In opere imperfect lib. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost in 2. Thessal hom 3. He commandeth Christian men that will bee assured of true faith to resort to nothing else but to the Scriptures Againe hee saith in holy Scripture all necessary things are plaine Idem The Easterne Church St. Que pertinent ad veram religionem quaerendam tenendam divina scriptura non tacuit August Epist 42. in ijs enim quae aperte in Scripura posita sunt inveniuntur illa omnia quae continent fidem moresque vivendi de doctr Christiana lib. 2. cap. 9. tom 3. Augustine All those things that pertaine to the attaining and keeping of true Religion the holy Scripture hath not concealed St. Augustine In these things which are laid downe plainely in Scriptures all those things are found which appertaine to faith and direction of life 4. Reading of the Scriptures Gregorie The Scripture is an Epistle sent from God to his Creature The old Roman Church Gregor lib. Epist 40. ad Theod. medicum Quid autem est scriptura sacra nisi quaedam Epistola omnipotentis Dei c. that is to Priest and people And if thou receive a letter from an earthly King thou wilt never sleepe nor rest till thou understand it The King of Heaven and God of men and Angels hath sent his letters to thee for the good of thy soule and yet thou neglectest the reading of them I therefore pray thee studie them and daily meditate of the word of thy Creator and learne the heart and minde of God in the words of God St. Chrysostom The Easterne Church a Epistol ad Coll. hom 9. Heare you Lay people get you Bibles the Physicke of your soules St. Augustine South Ch. b Sermo 112 feria sexta post dom passionis Lectio assidua purificat omnia Daily reading purifieth all things 5. Concerning Transubstantiation Gregorie The old Roman Church Greg. in 6. Psal paenitent Quis expoenere queat quātae fuerit miserationis sacratissima pretiosi sanguinis effusione genus humanum redimere sacrosanctum vivifici corporis sanguinis sui mysterium membris suis tribuere cujus perceptione corpus suum quod est Ecclefia passcitur pouitur abluitur sanctificatur Christ with the effusion of his most precious blood redeemed mankind and giveth unto his members the most holy mysteries of his quickning body and blood by the participation whereof his body which is the Church is nourished with meate and drinke and is washed and sanctified St. Chrysostome If any man taketh it fleshly The Easterne Church In Iohan. homil 46. it profiteth nothing Idem a In opere imperfecto in Mat. pag. 810. Bas in quibus non est verum corpus Christi sed mysterium corporis Christicomiretur In the holy vessels the true body of Christ is not contained but the mysterie of his body St. Augustine The South Church Cont. Adimant cap. 12. Non enim Dominus dubitavit dicere hoc est corpus meum cum signum daret coporis sui Ad quid paras dentes ventrem crede manducasti super Ioan. tract 25. Tom. 9. Christ spake these words This is my body when hee gave the signe of his bodie Jdem Why dost thou provide thy teeth and thy belly beleeve and thou hast eaten 6. Private Masse Gregorie Let not the Priest alone celebrate Masse The old Roman Church In lib. Capitulari cap. 7. apud Cassand liturg cap. 33. pag. 83. sac●● dos missam solus neqnaquam celebret quia sicut illa celebrari non potest sine salutatione sacerdotis responsione nibilominus plebis it a nimirum nequaquam ab une debet celebrari esse enim debent qui ei circumstent ques ille salutet a quibus es respondeatur c. for as hee cannot performe it without the presence of the Priest and people so likewise it ought not to bee performed by one alone for their ought to bee present some to whom hee ought to speake and who in like manner ought to answer him Chrysostome Neither doe we receive more The East Church 2. Thess cap. 2. Homil. 4. De sacrificio missae contra Muscu●ū apnd Cassand lituro cap. 35. pag. 86. O●im omnes tum sacerdetes tum ●●ici quicunque intererant sacrificio missae peracta oblatione cum sacrifieante communicabant c. Definivit sanctū concilium ut nullus presbyter praesumat solus missam cantare apud Cassand pag. 83. or you lesse of the holy table but tast thereof equally together Cochleus Antiently all the Priests and people did communicate together Concilium Nanetense The holy Councell hath decreed that no Priest should presume to celebrate alone 7. Communion in both kindes Gregorie You have learned what the blood of the Lambe is The old Roman Church Tom. 2. Hom. 22. in Ewang Quid namque sit sanguis Agni non audiendo sed bibendo didicistis c. Dial. lib. 4. cap. 58. Ejus sanguis non jam in manns infidelium sed in or a fidelium funditur De conse dist 2. c. Comperimus quod divisio unius ejusdemque mysterij sine grandi sacrilegio nequeat provenire apud Cassand pag. 1020. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not by hearing but by drinking Againe the blood of Christ is not powred into the hands of unbeleevers but into the mouthes of the faithfull people Pope Gelasius Decreed to communicate in both kindes because the division of the one mysterie from the other could not bee done without great Sacriledge Saint Chrysostome In some cases 2. Corinth Ho● 18. Tom. 3. Edit Savilij pag. 647. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there is no difference betweene Priest and

contra Christi praceptum agat qui sub vtraque specie communicare praecipit Prateol elench Alphab omni Haeres lib 7 pag. 202 The say of necessitie they must Communicate in both kindes both of the bread and the wine so that if any take it vnder one kinde although a lay-man he is said to sinne because they say he doth against Christs Commandement Who hath commanded to communicate under both kindes 5 They denie Purgatorie fire Cyrill 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cap. 18. pag. 66. Patriarch of Constantinople We beleeve the soules of the dead to be in blisse or in damnation according as every one hath done Nilus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nilus pag. 119. de Purgator igne Archbishop of Thessalonica Wee have not received by Tradition from our Teachers that there is any fire of Purgatorie nor any temporall punishment by fire and we doe know that the Easterne Church doth not beleeve it Alfonsus de Castro It is one of the most knowne errors of the Graecians and Armenians Vnus ex notissimie erroribus Graecorum Armenorum est quo docent nullum esse Purgatorium locum quo animae ab has luce migrantes purgentur à sordibus quas in corpore contraxerant antequam in aeterna Tabernacula recipi maereantur Advers Haeres lib. 12. pag. 188. that they teach that there is no place for Purgatorie where soules after this life are purged from their corruptions which they have contracted in their bodies before they deserve to be received into the eternall Tabernacles Guido sarth Quintus error Graecorum est quia dicunt Purgatorium non esse De Haeresibus Graecorum It is the fifth error of the Greekes that they say there is no Purgatorie Gaulter That there is no Purgatorie Purgatorium non esse quod idem Calvinus c. De Photio pag. 603. which Calvin affirmeth c. 6 They allow married Priests 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Prim. Patri Respon p. 129. Jerem. Patr. Wee doe permit those Priests that cannot containe the use of Marriage before they be consecrated for GOD hath commanded Marriage And we are not ignorant Marriage being forbidden to Priests filthie things to be committed by them Pope Stephen the second The Priests Deacons Distinctio 31. Aliter and Subdeacons of the Easterne Church are married 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyril Resp ad inter 4. p. 97. 7 Concerning Jmages Cyrill the Patriarch We doe not forbid Pictures the Art is noble We grant unto them that wil have them the Pictures of Christ and Saints but their adoration and worship we detest as forbidden by the holy Ghost in holy Scripture lest we should ignorantly adore Colours Art and the creature in stead of our Creator and Maker Damascen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Damascen lib. 4. cap. 17 p. 343. Basileae They make no Image of God Who can make an Image of God who is invisible incorporeall and incircumscriptible c. 8 For the Bookes of Canonicall Scripture they agree with us Damascen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ortho. fidei lib. 4. cap. 18. The Wisedome of Salomon and others are not numbred amongst the Canonicall Cyrill 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Respons 3. pag. 91. the Patriarch Wee beleeve the Bookes of Canonicall Scripture to be those which the Laodicean Synod hath set downe and which the Catholicke Orthodox Church of Christ being illuminated by the holy Ghost hath confessed to this day to wit 22 Bookes of the Old Testament 9 The sufficiencie of holy Scripture Cyrill 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyril p. 91. Resp 3. We call the holy Scriptures all the Canonicall bookes which we receive as the rule of faith and of our salvation and so we do retaine them and chiefly because being divinely inspired they set before vs the doctrine which is sufficient to instruct to inlighten and to make perfect him that commeth to the faith Againe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyrill cap 2. pag 5. Lomb lib 1. Distinct 11. v. Dicunt quod veritas in Evangelio fidem integram continet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nilus de caufis dissent pag 2.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 de Ortho fide lib. 1 cap. 1. the Authority of the Scripture is aboue the authority of the Church c. Men may erre and be deceaved but the holy Scripture cannot erre nor deceive nor be deceived but is alwayes infallible and certaine Lombard The Grecians beleive and say that the truth in the Gospell conteineth intirely the faith that is to say the doctrine of Faith Nilus Archbishop of Thessalonica To accuse the Scriptures is as great a fault as to accuse God himselfe But God is void of all blame Damascen whatsoever is delivered unto us in the law and the prophets by the Apostles Evangelists that we receive acknowledge reverence and be sides these we require nothing else 10 They do not forbid the Laitie the reading of the Scriptures 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyrill Respon 1. pa. 81. Cyrill the Patriarch As the hearing of the holy Scriptures is forbidden to no Christian man So no man is to be kept from the Reading of it For the word is neere in the mouth and in their harts Therefore manifest iniurie is offered to any christian man of what ranck or condition soeuer he be who is deprived or kept from reading or hearing the holy Scriptures 11 They Renounce workes of Supererogation and Merit workes Hierem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Patriarch Affirmeth That we must doe good workes but put no confidence in them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Prim. Respons Patr. cap 6 pa. 71 we must not trust nor beleeve in Them Although we have fulfilled all things yet we are unprofitable servants according to the words of our Saviour Cyrill the Patriarch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyril cap. 13. We beleive a man to be Iustified by faith not of workes They concurre in Assertion with the Protestants Sir Fdwin Sands Relation of the religion in the West sect 53. That it is impossible for any creature to merit as by way of right the least dramme of reward at his Creators hands But whatsoever reward is bestowed vpon the creature floweth forth from the meere bountie and gratiousnes of the Creator who as in goodnes alone and meere grace did make him so also in meere grace doth advance him to that high happinesse 12 They allow not private Masse Chytraeus No private Masses are celebrated amongst the Greekes Constat missas privatas absque cōmunicantibus non ab eis celebrari solere Chyt de statu eccles pag 14 without other Communicants as their Liturgies and Faithfull Relations testifie Ioannes Hoff-meisterus Res ipsa clamat tam in Graeca quam latina ecclesia Non solum Sacerdotē sacrificātem sed et re The thing it selfe doth speake and cry alowd both in the Greeke and in the Latin Church that not only sacrificing Priest but the Priest and Deacons and the