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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18354	Credo ecclesiam sanctam Catholicam I beleeue the holy Catholike Church : the authoritie, vniuersalitie, and visibilitie of the church handled and discussed / by Edward Chaloner ...	Chaloner, Edward, 1590 or 91-1625.	1625 (1625)	STC 4934.3; ESTC S282	90,005	150

to reason and the ancient purgatorie of the Fathers it is I leaue to the iudicious to consider It was first confirmed in the Florentine Councell aboue mentioned Charitie succeedeth for the maintenance and encrease whereof they vsed the best policie they could to plant Vnitie and Concord both in the Church Vniuersall and also in particular Churches that so if possibly they could all schismes and contentions amongst Christians might be remoued the bond of peace might bee kept inuiolable For the preseruation hereof in the Church vniuersall it was thought good that according to the secular diuision of the Empire the Church should be diuided into certaine Diocesses whereof there were at the first by Berterius account thirteene in number who vnder the names of Patriarchs and Bishops of the first Seas should ioyne in care and counsell for the good of the Christian Common-wealth Amongst these three were in regard of the Cities wherein they resided more eminent then the rest and began to encroach vpon the others iurisdiction to wit Rome Alexandria and Antioch to which in the second generall Councel was added for the same cause Constantinople and afterwards Ierusalem though this last had indeed vntill the fift generall Councell but a title without substance as being subiect to Caesaria his Metropolitan and in last resort vnto Antioch Now because all things should be done in order it was thought fit that the Pope because hee was Bishop of Rome the imperiall Citie should haue the precedencie though not of authoritie super reliquos ouer the rest yet of place inter reliquos amongst the rest This precedencie of place wan him in time a precedencie in power but it was at the first but potestas honoraria a kinde of courtesie authoritie not long after it came to be claymed as ordinaria as an ordinarie power and so was confirmed in the Florentine Councell Lastly this ordinarie power bare sway awhile because the Pope was great in generall Councells but now since the last Lateran Councell vnder Leo the tenth the Iesuites will haue it to beare sway by another title because the Pope is great ouer generall Councells which addes a farther degree to his greatnesse that whereas hee was heretofore heard de facto in deed for that he was iudged Orthodoxe hee now challengeth to be beleeued de iure of right because hee cannot be hereticall For the preseruation of vnitie and concord in particular Churches there was a kinde of Communion amongst the Ancients which they celebrated by Eulogies that is by Bread not consecrated for the vse of the Sacrament but otherwise blessed by the Bishop the which howsoeuer it was not at the beginning exported forth of the Church where it was offered yet afterwards it came to bee sent vpon solemne festiualls from the Mother Church vnto the Parishes and Villages thereto belonging by communicating whereof as by a liuely symboll the fellowship and communion betweene all the faithfull of the same Diocesse was represented and the people acknowledged themselues to compose the same body of Christ together Now some being possest as Albaspinus obserues with a religious conceit of this ceremonie began to deale in like manner with the Eucharist as may bee gathered out of the fourteenth Canon of the Laodicean Councell where the practice thereof is expresly forbidden But partly the custome which some particulars in the time of persecution especially Hermites who seldome had the opportunitie of receauing tooke vp of carrying part of the Sacrament home with them to partake thereof when they pleased and partly the charitie which in some places was shewed in like manner to the sick bringing vnto them the remaynder of the Bread and Wine in token of their Communion with the rest preuayled so farre at length with the Roman Church that what was then but voluntarie and sprang from priuate deuotion is now made necessarie and enioyned by publike injunction and what then was vsed sacramentally and for a signe of Communion is now ordayned for other vses as circumgestation adoration and the like Thus hauing giuen a taste of some principall errors in Poperie which sprang from that part of Church discipline which consisted in the conseruation of the soules health it followes that something should bee said of that which belonged to the restoring of the same in such as had impaired it by their falls This part consisted in two principall ingredients Corrasiues and Lenitiues The Corrasiues were such medicines as were applyed to those that fell for purging out of the old corruption and keeping of others from the like infection the which was performed partly by confessions and partly other satisfactions Confessions were nothing else at the first but publike recognitions for publike scandalls which being found vsefull to Penitents made Origen and others to perswade men to doe the like to their Ministers for priuate offences to the end that making knowne their griefes they might haue plaisters for their wounds But these publike confessions through the abating of zeale and auoyding of shame being turned into priuate some began to confound the one priuate confession which was imposed by Church discipline with the other which was voluntarie and so in time of Consilium Ecclesiasticorum an aduice of Church-men it became Praeceptum Ecclesiae the precept of the Church and this againe which beforetime was onely a Confession of sinnes quoad substantiam for their substance was by the Lateran Councell vnder Innocent the third farther clog'd with an Inquisition of sinnes etiam quoad circumstantias euen together with all their particular circumstances Satisfactions which properly come vnder the Law of Church Discipline were certaine outward remonstrances of sorrow and repentance wherewith for the tryall of Penitents and example of others the Primitiue Church did exercise those that fell before they restored them to the same state of Communion wherein aforetimes they did stand Diuers of the Fathers that they might breed a willingnesse in men to vndergoe them spake somewhat Hyperbolically in their commendations saying that offences were thereby redeemed purged and expiated which being vnderstood as the Master of the Sentences expounds them not of purgations from the offence as it is an offence to God or from the punishment due to sinne both which are opposed vnto Iustification but onely of the macula or spot which the Schoolemen making to consist in an habituall prauity is opposed chiefly to Sanctification can little aduantage the Popish cause For who doubts but that Repentance and Sorrow though they are not meritorious causes yet are instrumentall whereby grace takes her speedier effect in diminishing the euill affections and vaine desires which dwel in vs But the anciēt rites of Satisfaction degenerating with the Times the Schoolmen beginning to cōfound Iustification with Sanctification First by adding the purgation of the macula or spot vnto that which is truly termed Iustification as a Species of it afterwards forgetting to distinguish