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A51738 The considerations which oblig'd Peter Manby dean of London-dery, to embrace the Roman Catholic religion humbly dedicated to His Grace the Lord Primate of Ireland. Manby, Peter, d. 1697. 1687 (1687) Wing M384; ESTC R7924 16,848 24

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THE CONSIDERATIONS WHICH OBLIG'D PETER MANBY DEAN Of LONDON-DERY TO EMBRACE THE Roman Catholic RELIGION Humbly Dedicated to His GRACE the Lord Primate of IRELAND PSALM XLII Judica me Deus discerne causam meam de Gente non sancta Emitte lucem tuam veritatem tuam Ipsa me deduxerunt adduxerunt in Montem Sanctum tuum in Tabernacula tua Dublin Castle the 11th of March 1686 / 7. This following Discourse is Allow'd to be Printed Tho. Sheridan Secr. LONDON Re-printed for NATH THOMPSON at the Entrance into the Old Spring Garden near Charing Cross 1687. TO THE READER VVHen a Protestant rehearses this Article of his Creed I believe one Holy Catholique and Apostolique Church I would fain understand what Church he means Whether the Church of England alone as establish'd by Law or the Church of England in Communion with other Churches If the former then his meaning is I believe one Holy Protestant Church as settled in England by Act of Parliament If the latter I desire to know with what other Church under the Heavens does the Church of England Communicate in Sacraments and Liturgy Whether with Lutherans Calvinists Waldenses or Greek Church If with none of all these why does he pretend to believe One Holy Catholique Church This Church Establish'd by Law being Catholique neither as to Time nor Place because not Visible any where for many Ages before Edward VI. Good Reader if we believe our selves Catholiques let us not fancy to our selves a Church divided from all the rest of the World. And therefore I crave leave to ask St. Paul 's Question What came the Word of God out from you the establish'd Church or came it unto you alone 1 Cor. 14.36 Hath the Divine Goodness left all the World in Darkness except our Island And Vs too for so many Ages until Henry VIII took a fancy to Ann Bolen Is the Catholique Church dwindled away to the Church of England Perhaps you will Answer me that by One Holy Catholique Church you understand all the variety of Protestants as Church of England-men Presbyterians Lutherans Independants Anabaptists Fifth-Monarchy-men Quakers c. But all these wanting that first and Essential Mark of the Catholique Church call'd Unity cannot be That one Holy Society intended by our Creed And moreover this makes Protestancy so wandring and uncertain a thing that I for my part do not well understand it Can you say that Lutherans and the Church of England-men are the same in all Material points the Lutherans holding a Corporal Presence in the Sacrament and the Church of England denying it Or that Calvinists and good Protestants are the same in all necessary matters the former having no Orders of Priests and Bishops consequently no true Sacraments nor Power of Binding and Absolving Sinners Besides the Catholique Church can never fail But as for those Sects of Protestants Who ever saw or heard of them for many Ages before Henry VIII Well but you will insist upon it that God hath his People amongst all sorts of Protestants which Answer I have sometimes heard out of the Mouths of Protestants And it calls to my mind those excellent words of the late King's second Paper viz. The Protestants are not of the Church of England as 't is the true Church from whence there can be no Appeal but because the Discipline of that Church is conformable at that present to their Fancies which as soon as it shall contradict or vary from they are ready to embrace or joyn with the next Congregation of People whose Discipline or Worship agrees with their own Opinion at that time c. And further it brings into my remembrance these words of a certain Person once of my Acquaintance he was a Presbyterian and gave his Son leave to go for New-England to seek his Fortune Why said a Friend of his they are all Independants there and your Son will be in danger of losing his Principles I care not what he be reply'd the other so he be not a Papist In a word dear Reader it concerns thee to understand aright that Article of thy Creed I believe one Holy Catholique and Apostolique Church Because the only way to be at rest in this World and happy in the World to come is to find out that Church upon whose Authority thou mayst relie Noah 's Dove found no rest for the sole of her Foot until she return'd into the Ark. No more wilt Thou but shalt be tossed too and fro upon the unstable Waters of Schism until thou return into the Ark of one Holy Catholique Church I pray recollect what St. Paul admonishes concerning Schism I beseech you Brethren by the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ that ye all speak the same thing and that there be no Schisms among you 1 Cor. 1.15 But that ye glorifie God with one Mind and one Mouth That is that ye serve God not only saying the same things but the same Words especially about your Sacraments and Liturgy For by one Spirit We meaning all Christians are Baptiz'd into one Body Therefore he exhorts them to take heed of such Teachers as have no Mission or Authority for what they say but only good Words and fair Speeches to deceive the hearts of the simple In the following Discourse I hope the Reader shall find it briefly and yet fully made out to him that the first Reformers had no Mission for what they did nor any pretence to justifie their Seperation and breach of Unity but only the Scripture as interpreted by themselves not only without but against the Authority of the present Catholique Church Out of which a man may have all things except Salvation said St. Augustin And further he shall find me pressing for an Answer to such Questions as these viz. What Priesthood or Holy Orders had the first Reformers but what they received from the Hands of Roman Catholick Bishops Whether a Presbyterian Minister having received Orders from a Protestant Bishop can by virtue of such Orders pronounce the Church of England a corrupt Church Whether Cranmer and his Associates could condemn the Church of Rome by pretence of the Mission they received from her Bishops Whether an Act of Parliament in France Spain or Germany be not as good an Authority for Popery there as in England for Protestancy And in case there be no Judge to determine who have the true sense of Scripture Roman Catholicks or Protestants Whether the Catholick sense be not as good as the Protestants Finally I intreat the Protestant Reader to peruse Dr. Heylin 's History of the Reformation a Book that speaks bitterly enough against Popery yet as to matter of Fact so Honestly written that notwithstanding all Dr. Burnet 's industry to diminish its credit it hath opened the Eyes of many good Protestants See Dr. Burnet 's character of it in his Preface to his first Volume where he censures it not for telling untruths in matter of History but rather for speaking too much