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A27449 Rome tyrannical, idolatrous and heretical the origine of her errors with an answer to her objections : also three short sermons of repentance against swearing and drunkenness preached to the ships company before Admiral Aylmer and several captains / by Peter Berault. Berault, Peter. 1698 (1698) Wing B1956; ESTC R30222 55,952 193

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as it is usual amongst Conquerors had introduced and impos'd their own Language upon those they had subdued and made their Slaves So they have to the uttermost of their Power established their Liturgies Ceremonies and Language in all Churches that they might serve afterwards as a Monument of their Jurisdiction and Authority upon others 2. I say that the Roman Church doth diminish from the Word of God when she forbids the Reading of the Holy Scriptures to the common People For this forbiding of hers is wholly contrary to the Commandment of Jesus Christ who in the 5th chapter of St. John 39 Verse speaks thus Search the scriptures for in them ye think ye have eternal life and they are they which testifie of me And quite contrary to this Ordinance of St. Paul who writing both to the Bishops and all his Brethren either Men or Women either young or old speaks thus in his first Epistle to the Thessalonians 5. 27. I charge you by the Lord that this Epistle be read unto all holy Brethren And writing to the Colossians 4. 16. he saith When this Epistle is read among you cause that it be read also in the Church of the Laodiceans and that ye likewise read the Epistle from Laodicea However as if the Church of Rome were wiser than Jesus Christ St. John St. Paul and all other Apostles and holy Fathers who did so much and so often recommend it she forbids it to the common People stifly affirming that it is dangerous that it causes Schisms several Sects and Heresies For in the Council of Trent it is written that if the Reading of the Holy Scripture be permitted in a known Tongue amongst all People it will be more hurtful than profitable The abuse some make of the Holy Scripture ought not generally to condemn the use of it otherwise the best things would be taken away from us because they are sometimes misused The use of Wine would be forbidden because many are Drunk with it and is the cause of several Disorders It is enough to forbid what is essentially bad without forbidding that which is essentially good Jesus Christ doth not only permit the Reading of the Holy Scripture to some particular Jews but he enjoyns it unto all ●earch saith he the Scriptu●●● And that he may the better 〈◊〉 them he makes them remember That in them they think they have eternal Life He seems in another place to attribute all their Errors to the Ignorance of that Sacred Book when he said to the Saducees Matth. 22. 29. Ye do err not knowing the Scriptures Had not the Eunuch read the Prophet Isaiah he should never have understood him And it was by this Reading he began to be a Christian as it may be seen in the Acts 8. 30. The People of Berea as it appears in the 17th Chapter of the Acts were highly commended that they searched the Scriptures to see whether those things were true or no which Paul did Teach For whosoever he be though he were an Angel from Heaven if he Teach Matters contrary to the Doctrine of the Holy Scriptures we are to hold him accursed as saith St. Paul Gal. 1. 8. All Scripture saith the same Apostle 2 Tim. 3. 16. is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for Doctrine for Reproof for Correction for Instruction in Righteousness that the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good works Nevertheless the Church of Rome doth forbid to the common People so good a Book so useful to Piety and so necessary to Salvation Is it not then a great Cruelty to forbid Children to see and read the Testament of their Fathers Is it not an excess of rigour to deprive them of that which nourishes their Souls for an Eternal Life And is it not an extreme Tyranny to hinder them from seeing that which they are to be judged upon 3. I say that the Church of Rome diminishes from the Word of God when in the Lord's Supper she takes away the Cup from the common People and from the Clerks that are not Priests For we read in St. Matthew 26. 27. that in the Institution of this Sacrament Jesus Christ took the Cup and gave it all his Disciples saying drink ye all of it Objection When Jesus Christ said to his Disciples Drink ye all of it He spake to the Priests only saith the Roman Church and therefore the Priests only ought to drink of the Cup. I Answer that St. Paul writing to the Corinthians amongst whom were more Laics than Priests doth evidently shew the contrary for speaking to every one he saith 1. Cor. 11. 28. Let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that Bread and drink of that Cup. St. Ignatius Bishop of Antioch and Disciple of the Apostles in the 69th Year of our Lord Jesus Christ Epist 9. ad Philadelph saith That one and the same Bread was broken to all and one and the same Cup distributed to all Justin Marty tells us That the consecrated Bread and Wine were in his time distributed to every Communicant And St. Chrysostome Hom. 18. upon the second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians speaks thus There is a time where there is no difference between Priests and th●se that preside over as when we receive the holy Mysteries for we are all equally admitted to them It is not now as it was under the Old Testament where the Priest did eat particular things and the People others where it was not lawful to the People to eat that which the High Priest was then eating It is not so now for one and the same Body and one and the same Cup is given to all The Pope Gelasius in the Year 490. 2. Distinct 2. Can. Comperimus did Decree that all they should be Excommunicated which would receive the Lord's Supper but in one kind and his Predecessor Leo did call those Sacrilegious that did refuse to take the Cup. And tho' in the general Council of Constance Sess 13. the Roman Church do confess this holy Sacrament was receiv'd in the Primitive Church with the Bread and the Cup yet in the general Council of Trent she speaks thus If any man say that the Catholick Church had not just Reasons to give the Communion to the Laics and Clerks who did not say Mass under the accidents of Bread only and that she Erred in this let him be Anathema The Reasons saith the Roman Church why they took the Cup from them are many Inconveniencies and several Absurdities I Answer that besides there is no Inconveniency though there should be any it ought not to be above the Commandment of Jesus Christ and St. Paul Christ the Primitive Church and the Apostles were very Wise and Wiser than shall ever be the Church of Rome and since they have commanded and given the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper with the Cup the Roman Church ought to follow their example and obey them The Inconveniencies which they suppose at