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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08327	The guide of faith, or, A third part of the antidote against the pestiferous writings of all English sectaries and in particuler, agaynst D. Bilson, D. Fulke, D. Reynoldes, D. Whitaker, D. Field, D. Sparkes, D. White, and M. Mason, the chiefe vpholders, some of Protestancy, and some of Puritanisme : wherein the truth, and perpetuall visible succession of the Catholique Roman Church, is cleerly demonstrated / by S.N. ...	S. N. (Sylvester Norris), 1572-1630.	1621 (1621)	STC 18659; ESTC S1596	198,144	242

Ep 22. ad Eustoch vide miracula diuersa ad Sanctorum monumenta ●dita Reade him also de muliere septies icta in vita Hilarionis supernaturally wrought by the Reliques of S. Steuen Not hearkning to the miracles which S. Cypriā S. Gregory Nazianzen S. Chysostome S. Hierome a thousand historiographers very plentifully recount the powerfull hand of God in sundry Countryes dayly atchieueth They looke into few things when angled with the conterfet bayte and vayne promise of truth cast forth by their Ghospellers they diue not into the manifold absurdityes and open repugnancyes implied in their doctrine They consider not their corruptions falsifications detorting of Scripture and racking of the Fathers which they commonly vse to writh them to their purpose Thus they skimme of in Luther in Caluin other their predecessours the froth of their noweltyes and ouerslip diuers notorious barbarismes diuers atheisticall and blasphemous speaches couched in their writinges which haue beene often layd open by the learned of our side Yet to approue the vigilancy and wisedome of our soueraigne King IAMES who hath prudently inhibited the reading of such new brued and poysoned workes to the noble students of his two famous Vniuersityes I will briefly insinuate some few of Caluin the chiefe late Nouelist his Atheismes wherin he appeacheth the diuine goodnes it selfe of iniustice impotency dissimulation his beloued sonne Christ Iesus of ignorance incongruity in his speach superfluons inferences rashnes timidity desperation The immaculate Virgin his dearest Mother of sinnefull enclosing the omnipotency of God within the boundes of Nature For first he often inculcateth that God is chiefe author of his own iust vengeance and Satan is but only a minister therof That God Calu. lib. 1 inflit c. 18. §. 1. 2. 3. c l. 2. c. 4. §. 2. l. 3. c. ●1 Ibid. l. 3. c. 23. §. 8. purposeth willeth moueth loueth and commandeth the wickednes of sinners their obstinate blindnes and hardnes of hart Then that th● will of God is a necessity of things From whence it ensueth that the reprobate necessarily sinne by the appointement of God which they cannot auoyd and that God is vniust for punishing them without cause Likewise it followeth that sinne it selfe is no sinne but an vpright action consonant vnto reason For the wil of God saith Caluin Calu l. 3. c. 23. §. 2. is so the highest rule of righteousnes that whatsoeuer he willeth euen for this that he willeth it it ought to be takē for righteous But God according to him willeth sinne therefore sinne is righteous good according to rule Secondly it followeth that Good decreeth those Ibid. l. 1. inflit c. 18. §. 13. thinges with his secret purpose which he hath openly forbidden by his lawe and so he both willeth and willeth not the same thing which without dissimulatiō or contrariety cannot be conceaued Besides he denieth Gods absolute power of effecting all thinges Ibid l. 3. c. 23. §. 2. We trust not quoth he in the feygned deuise of absolute power which as it is prophane so worthily ought it to be abhorred of vs. No lesse impious is he against God then malepart and audacious against our Sauiour Christ in accusing him of ignorance That he knew In c. 24. Matt. 36. Matt. 21. v. 18. In cap. 9. Matt. v. 2. Quod quidam existimāt Christum diuinitùs conscium fuisseipso●um fidei quae occultantiùs lat ebat mihi coactum videtur Matt. 7. v. 12. Calu. in eum locum Superuacua est illatio Calu. l. 2. instit cap. 16. §. 12. Ibid. §. 10. Ibidem not as man the day of iudgment nor of what kinde the figge tree was that grew by the way side nor the inward thoughts of the hart saying That which some think that Christ was acquainted from aboue with their saith which lay hild within seemeth to me aforced astrayned thing he accuseth him likewise of incōgruity in his speach to wit That Christ promiseth from God reward to fasting is an improper speach of superfluous inferēce for when Christ inferred All thinges therfore whatsoeuer you will c. Caluin giueth it this glose It is a vaine or superfluous illation Of timiditye and searefulnes in these wordes Theeues and other euill doers doe obstinately hast to death many doe with hauty courage despise some other doe mildly suffer it But what constancy or stout courage were it for the some of God to be astonished and in a manner stricken dead which feare of it c. howe shamefull a tendernes as I sayd should this haue beene to be so far tormented with feare of comon death as to melte in bloudy sweate and not to be able to be comforted but by sight of Angells Wherupon he brayeth forth another sacrilege that our Sauiour besides his corporall death suffered the death of his soule he suffered that death wherwith God in his wrathstriketh wicked doers He felte the rigour of Gods vengeance in his soule he suffered the terrible tormentes of a damned and forsakes man His Matt. 26. Calu. in harm super eum locum v. 38. Calu. in harm in c. 27. Matt. v. 46. Sed absurdè videtur Christo elapsam desperationis vocē solutio facilis est quamuis enim sensus carnis exitum apprehenderit fixa tamen stetit sides in corde Calu. in harm in c. 1. Luc. v. 34. Videtur Sancta virgo non minus malignè Dei praesentiam restringere quàm priùs Zacharias c. nec magnopere laborandum est vt eam purgemus ab omni vitio Calu. l. 3. insti c. 20. §. 24. 27. l. de rat reforma Ecclesiae sanctos vocat laruas carnifices vmbras bestias v●nome is not yet spent He traduceth also the diuine Wisedome as rash and inconsiderate in those wordes which he vttered Father if it be possible let this cupp passe from me This prayer saith Caluin of Christ was not premeditate but the force and extremity of grief wringed from him this hasty speach To which a correction or recalling was presently added The same vehemēcy drewe from him the presente memory of the heauenly decree At length he concludeth that Christ was so amazed with feare at the iudgements of God as he was drouen to despaire at least in outward wordes For obiecting to himself how absurde it should seeme that a speach of desperation should fall from ●hrist he answereth The solution is easye for although the sense of fleshe did apprehend destruction yet faith remayned stable in his harte as though he should say his tongue vttered wordes of despaire although his hart were still fixed in God Where the sonne of God is thus blasphemed can the Mother of God be free from disgrace the venomous wretch very seldome discourseth of that heauenly Queene but by a word which he vttereth you may throghly ghesseat his malicious spirit Vpon that question of our Ladies to the Angel Gabriell how shall this be done