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intelligible not only in Christendom but in every Auditory Intelligible I say where needful to every one by either Actions Ceremonies and Circumstances or by Custom affinity with the Vulgar or Books interpreting and containing Prayers correspondent to every part wherein the Auditory is concerned XV. A Company of Christians voluntarily separating from all other Christian Societies condemning their Doctrines and Rites destitute also of any visible Correspondence with them in the Eucharist in any Religious Assemblies or solemn Devotions can notwithstanding this perverse entire and manifest separation be a Mystical Member of Christ in Catholic Unity and a Charitable part of the Catholic Church This Proposition relates to Matter of Fact of the highest Moment which we affirm Protestants to have done and desire them to make out by Scripture the lawfulness of it and it's consistency with Catholic Unity and Charity If 2 Cor. 6.17 Come out from among them and be ye separate saith the Lord and touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you be intended for a proof of it then it must import that it is the Duty of one Christian or a Party pretending to be a National Church to come out of the Catholic Church and be separate from Her as from an Unclean Thing that God may receive them Less than this will not reach the Protestant Case and so much as this will by no means agree with One Holy Church wherein alone the Communion of Saints Remission of Sins and Life Everlasting are to be found Yet a properer Text this Author does not alledge to Patronize his Schism XVI The whole Clergy of the Catholic Church may Apostatize from fundamental Truth and Holiness whilst part of a National Laity may preserve both discover the Clergie's Defection and depriving them heap to Themselves Teachers of their own Sending and Instruction This Apostacy at the least is taught in the Nineteenth and Twenty First Articles and Homily against the Peril of Idolatry And Lay-supremacy recognized to be in Queen Elizabeth by the Laity only gave Prelatic Ministers all the Mission and Instructions they have Now we desire to see proved by Scripture that such Apostacy should ever befal God's Church and Clergy and that the Laity have such Authority to deprive and create Clergy-men to teach and send them The Answerer is mute as to Proofs and manifests himself either meanly versed in the Story of his Party or no Friend to Ingenuity and Truth For He confidently says all the World knows it to be false That only a Major Vote of a Parliament of Lay-men in England condemned and rejected the Doctrines of the Church of Rome Yet this is certainly true and attested by Protestant Historians and Records which assure us that all the Bishops and the whole Convocation declared against Lay-supremacy and other Protestant Points and for Non-compliance therewith were almost all deprived The Queen and Her Lay-Parliament enacting Supremacy whereby she imposed new Doctrines displaced the Catholic Clergy and created Prelatic Ministers This then is the true State of Prelatic Protestancy and one would think being a change concerning Religion should have some Scripture or because extraordinary should have Miracles to countenance it But just so much of the One as of the Other appears in it's behalf And this is enough to manifest how destitute of Scripture-Warrant Protestant Opinions and Practices are and that the Request is not answered FINIS London Printed by Henry Hills Printer to the King 's Most Excellent Majesty For his Houshold and Chappel 1687.
Wine remains after c. But literally understood this Text is express that the Substance of Bread c. does not remain at all after Consecration For the Eucharist is Christ's Body and Blood which if substantially Bread and Wine it cannot really be A change less than that of the substance of the Elements is insufficient to render them really and truly what the Text says they are after Consecration V. Our Lord's Presence in the Eucharist is meerly gracious and influential and if more only to the Faithful If He learn'd from his Church what he Writes then this Tenet is Her 's For does not this Answerer assert our Lord's Eucharistical Presence not to be substantial therefore unless entirely absent our Lord must be present in the Eucharist by Grace and Influence only What is there besides Substance and Efficacy belonging to our Saviour's Body and Blood No Colour of Scripture is produced for this Zuinglian Proposition VI. Adoration of the Eucharist i. e. of our Saviour under the Species of Bread and Wine is Idolatry This blasphemous Tenet is taught by the Answerer's Church for did not the Majority of it's pretended Bishops vote for the Test Do not all of them take it Is not that Test a Canon of their General Council The Parliament But this Test declares our Adoration of the Eucharist which is the Adoration of nothing but Jesus Christ to be Idolatry Not one jot of Scripture does this Author produce in defence of this their Test and Doctrine VII All Christians whenever they Communicate are obliged to receive in both Kinds Nor for this point can a Scripture Command be discovered in the Answer tho the Thirtieth Article affirms that both parts of the Lord's Sacrament by Christ's Ordinance and Commandment ought to be ministred to all Christian Men alike VIII Chastity deliberately vow'd may be inoffensively violated This Proposition is a Doctrine of the Answerer's Church except His be not the same Church with Edward the Sixths or the thirty Second Article have now another sense than when composed by Cranmer For all Bishops and Priests then in the Western Church had deliberately vow'd Chastity and the Article says 't is lawful for them to Marry which certainly violates their Vow No Scripture is alledged justifying a Tenet so impure so perfidious IX All Christian Excellencies are Commanded Phil. 4.8 Is quoted as comprehending all Christian Excellencies If it do so yet unless besides comprehending it command them that Scripture will not prove the Tenet Nor can the Answerer conclude from the Mode of it's expression that It does command them because 't is common to an Exhortation as well as Precept as Protestants must confess who affirm Pasce Oves to be One The same Answer will serve for Be ye perfect And for to whom much is given of them much shall be required This imports that proportion not equality must be in our Accounts to our Abilities But how does this Scripture accord with this Author's Doctrine that we must always reckon the Heights and perfections of Vertues are commanded The Account corresponds to our Abilities so sure does the Command but all Abilities are not the same in all how then can God's Commands be so to all as they are if He always injoyns the Heights and perfections of Vertues unless perfections and Heights may have degrees which also makes little for this Author If to supererogate did signifie with Catholics to profit God then the Fourteenth Article condemning the Teachers of Works of Supererogation of Arrogance and Impiety had been solidly founded on when you have done all that are commanded to you say we are unprofitable Servants But we meaning no such thing the Article perverts Scripture X. Every Soul as soon as expired is convey'd to Heaven or Hell. The Parable of Dives and Lazarus and St. Paul's desire to be dissolv'd c. Our Author says look fairly towards this Tenet So they do if three Souls be All or All Souls expire in either Dive's fitness for Hell or Lazarus's and St. Paul's for Heaven XI Desiring the Intercessions of the Blessed is more Superstitious and Derogatory to our Lord's Mediator ship than intreating the Prayers of Holy Men Militant It is not at all in Scripture that our Saviour is our only Mediator of Intercession therefore this Proposition is not plain there If such an only Mediatorship of Intercession be plain in Scripture it had been easie and kind to have named such a plain Scripture Yet none is brought unless the Answerer meant Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God c. for such a one Truly I see not how he can deduce from it any thing to his purpose till it appear that all Prayer is divine Worship Or that we pray to Saints just as we do to God. XII Honouring the Cross the Reliques and Representations of our Lord and his Saints with that degree of Reverence as we do the Gospels commonly kiss'd and sworn by Altar and other Utensils is Idolatry Our General Councils tell Protestants we pay no other Honour to any Creature their Test and Homily call the Honour we pay to sacred Persons and Things Idolatry We must then either challenge Protestants to prove this Proposition or conclude them Calumniators We know what we profess and practise to be as the Catholic Church teaches We hear our Doctrine and Practice confidently said and solemnly subscribed to be Idolatry Sure then we may conclude that Protestants believe the Proposition and decent it is they give a Reason of a Faith so injurious to the Catholic Church or henceforward renounce it XIII The Pope is Antichrist Do only some Protestants and no Homily subscribed as containing a Godly and Wholesome Doctrine necessary for these times Article the Fifty Fifth affirm the Pope to be Antichrist Yet we meet with no Scripture brought to prove this Godly Necessary Doctrine XIV Every Prayer used in Divine Offices must be in a Language Vulgar and intelligible to every Auditor 1 Cor. 14. Is pretended to prove this Tenet when as the Apostle's mind is that whosoever had the Gift of a Tongue strange to all the Auditory should forbear to dictate therein Extempore Sermons Prayers c. containing Matter as well as the Tongue inspired into the Speaker I say this Gift of no use but used for ostentation in such a Case was to be reserved till either the Speaker or some Auditor could and did interpret that the rest might edifie Now will it follow from hence that all the setled Forms of Divine Offices to many of which there is no necessity that all specially joyn and intend be in the vulgar or intelligible to every Auditor It is enough to comply with the Apostles Doctrine that all new Extempore Prayers and instructive or exhortatory Discourses by actions ceremonies or circumstances or other way not interpretable be as they are in the vulgar But for the fixt Forms of Divine Offices that they be in a Language the most certain and the most