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A11882	A sermon against halting betweene two opinions preached at S. Martins in the fields, By Iohn Seller, Bacheler in Diuinitie	Seller, John, 1592 or 3-1648.	1611 (1611)	STC 22182; ESTC S113727	40,787	61

Priest takes bread and coniureth it away by breathing vpon it Lastly Christ ordained his last Supper and instituted this Sacrament of his bodie and bloud to this ende that we should continually remember his death vntill his second comming and for that cause it is called Eucharistia And whereas Eusebius saith that Christ commaunded vs to offer vp a remembrance of his death in steed of a Sacrifice the popish church not contēting themselues with this sacrifice of praise and thanksgiuing wherein we celebrate the remembrance and as Nazianzene calleth it A figure of that great mysterie of the death of Christ they hold that their Masse which they call The daily Sacrifice of the Church is not a commemoratiue but a reall sacrifice not a figure and remembrance of that which is past but the thing it selfe that the sacrifice Christ offered vpon the Crosse and theirs in the Masse is all one that the same bodie of Christ which was borne of the Virgin Marie and which was offered vp vpon the Crosse for our Redemption is the very same euen idem numero with that which is offered vp by the Priest to God the Father in the Masse for the remission of sinnes By these materiall differences which here I haue set downe it is plainely manifest that the popish Masse doth in manie things varie swarue from the institution of Christ as most plainly is to be seene in the 11. cha of 1. Corint vers 23. where the Apostle at large doth describe the whole order and institution of the Lords Supper And thus it is euidently to be perceiued that the Masse as now it is vsed is nothing else but an heape of sinfull deuises and abuses inuented by Sathan and broached by Antichrist to deface frustrate the Lords supper where besides their fruitelesse praiers and superstitious ceremonies their priuate and halfe communion subuerteth the Lordes institution their sacrifice derogateth from his death and bloud-sheading their adoration of bread and wine conuinceth them of hainous Idolatrie But to proue that Protestancy and poperie cannot be reconciled First the Papists themselues bold the differences betweene vs to bee such that it is impossible for any Protestant to be saued Againe all the grounded diuines of the Protestants religion insist vpon the same differēce That sundry points of poperie doe quite raze the verie foundation of Christian religion Marke saith Bishop Iewell to D. Harding What yee were lately and what yee would now seeme to bee what way yee trode then and what way yee treade now the difference is no lesse then betweene light and darkenesse life and death heauen and hell so great a change saith hee would require some good time of deliberation Which asseueration of that worthy Bishop how agreeable it is to the truth and consonant to the practise of the ancient Catholike church and Doctors thereof who would neuer yeeld I will not say in an opinion but not so much as in a forme of speech or in the chāge of a letter sounding against the orthodoxall faith and whether there bee not in sundry fundamentall points of faith great and many differences betweene Rome and vs let it be duely considered by these instances following The first maine point of Catholike doctrine which the Papists goe directly against is the doctrine of free iustification by faith alone which doctrine D. Bishop in his Epistle dedicatory to the K. Maiestie setteth down as a maine heresie that Luther layed for the ground of his religion namely that a man is iustified by faith alone But I demaund of any sober Papist not too much wedded to the preiudice of his own opinion what other or what better foundation could any man lay then that which is already laid which is Iesus Christ which doctrine is the very life and soule of the Church For this was the Catholike faith of the church of Rome when S. Paule wrote his Epistle vnto them that a man is iustified gratis Rom. 3.24 for God a mercie for nothing and that by the grace of God without the workes of the law Quite contrarie to which doctrine of the Apostle the Papists hold iustification by workes of grace auouching that we are not iustified before God onely by the merites of Christ but also by our owne doings affirming that good workes are truely and properly meritorious and the causes of our saluation and that heauen is as truely the reward of good workes as hell is the stipend of euill workes that good workes doe fully satisfie the law of God and worthily deserue eternall life and that good workes wrought and done in the state of grace are so farre meritorious as that God should be vniust if he rendred not heauen for the same charging the iustice of God not in respect of his promise as the Apostle doth but in respect of merite and desert of workes Where we clearely perceiue and see that there is a great difference betweene the Church of Rome and vs euen in the principall Article of our faith touching the Saluation of our soules we beleeuing stedfastly that it is to be ascribed to the merites of Christ they expecting it for the merit of their workes Another substantiall point of the Catholike faith the Papists directly impugne in maintaining a daily reall sacrifice of the body of Christ in their Masse for the sins of the quicke and dead which they hold to be a very soueraigne true and propitiatorie sacrifice in all respects of power and vertue as auailable and as effectuall as was the sacrifice on the crosse for the remission of sinnes For the disproofe of which most wicked and blasphemous assertion there be sundrie arguments and proofes to be produced out of the word of God First if Christ could haue bene offered more then once then must he likewise after haue suffered Heb. 9.25.26 But now in the end of the world he hath appeared once to put away sinne by the sacrifice of himselfe Heb. 9.26 Therefore he cannot now any more be offered in the Masse Againe that thing is in vaine and to none effect where there is no necessitie it should be done but to offer vp any more sacrifice propitiatorie for the quicke and the dead there is no necessitie the reason whereof the Apostle giueth to be this because Christ hath offered one sacrifice and with that one sacrifice and offering vp of himselfe hath consecrated for euer them that are sanctified Heb. 10 12.14 This must then be the conclusion that there is no necessitie why we should offer vp Christ any more for remission of sinnes Thirdly the reason why the Priests of the old law did yearely repeate their sacrifices was this because those sacrifices yearely offered could neuer take away sinnes Heb. 10.11 But the sacrifice of Christ once offered hath sanctified the commers thereunto for wee are sanctified euen by the offering of the bodie of Iesus Christ once made Heb. 10.10 Therefore seeing that Christ by that one oblation of himselfe hath

A SERMON AGAINST HALTING BETWEENE TWO OPINIons preached at S. Martins in the fields BY IOHN SELLER BACHELER IN DIVINITIE LONDON Printed by Thomas Creede for William Welbie 1611. TO THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD AND MY VERY HONORABLE GOOD LORDE George Lord Archbishop of Canterburie his Grace Primate and Metropolitane of all England IT may seeme strange most reuerend and mine honourable good Lorde that in this learned age of the world wherin the truth of Iesus Christ hath giuē so cleare a light and that God of his mercie hath restored the Gospell vnto vs caused the beames thereof to shine ouer all Countreys in such sort as now the simple the vnlearned the rich the learned the worshipful the Honorable the States and Princes of the world are become the Professors D. Bishop in his Epistle Dedicatorie to the King and maintainers of it there should notwithstanding euē in this kingdome remaine such a number of recusant Papists as the Papists thēselues haue made their crakes and vaunt stiling them all with the name of Dutifull and well deseruing Subiects How Dutifull subiects they haue bene quid audiam verb●●ùm videā facta Let the sundrie intended inuasions against this Kingdome and forraine practises abroad procured onely by their meanes let their traiterous and rebellious enterprises their piuate plottes machinations poisonings murthers let the pouder treason the eternall shame of that murtherous and bloodie generation the memorie of which most detestable and damnable fact all the indices expurgatorij in the world shal neuer be able to blot out make manifest to all the Christian world how vniustly and vntrulie they challenge to themselues the name of dutifull and faithfull subiects whose deadly hatred and vnnaturall practises against our Church and Common-weale haue proued by many degrees far more dangerous then euer were the practises and plottes rebellions of that cursed seede of the Cananites Ammonites and Iebusites against the state and gouernment of the Israelites the chosen people of God Touching the number of recusant papists in other shires I haue no great skill it may be it is greater in tale then it is in strength But howsoeuer it be the greater the nūber of thē is the greater danger accrueth both to the Prince state of this Land Onely thus much I may truly affirme that if all the Prouince of Canterbury were as free from that leprosie and contagious infection of Poperie as is the Diocese of Canterbury the Papists should haue small cause to make their boast crakes of so many so manie For whereas there are in the Diocese of Canterburie Rochester some 398. parishes betweene 90. an hūdred thousand cōmunicants there were not as I am very crediblie enformed found of record the last assise aboue the number of ten recusant papists So that thus much I may truly report for the honour of the Countie of Kent that as in the time of Iulius Caesar they alone were in his iudgement of all the Britaines accompted to be omniū humanissimi and in the time of Edward the first reputed to be omnium bellicosissimi therefore as Geruasius affirmeth by a preheminēce in right of their manhode challenged to themselues the foreward of all battells as of right belonging vnto them because they were the onely people of the land that were neuer vanquished by the Conquerour but yeelded themselues by composition euen so at this day considering the small number of recusants withall the great number of reuerend Preachers and Pastors dispersed ouer all the Countrey men furnished and qualified with very rare and excellēt gifts for the worke of the ministery they may deseruedly be reputed omniū fidelissimi the most loyall and faithfull subiects of this kingdome A large proofe of whose fidelitie the late Queene of most blessed and happy memorie found in her greatest need when vpō the suddain arriuall of the Spanish ships vpon our Seas by the pollicie and vigilancie of S. Thomas Scot being then one of the Deputy Lieutenāts for those parts a knight of whome I can neither speake nor write without much honour there were gathered together within the space of 24. houres the nūber of eight thousand valiant fighting men ready to encounter the enemie At which time there were sundry preachers of vs in that Camp some preaching on our horse-backes some vpon the tops of trees others in pulpits made of turfe where we might behold and see that huge Armado of Spaine whome the Pope had blessed christned by the name of the inuincible Nauie which in very few daies after how it fell from an vnmeasurable high ioy to an vnmeasurable deep dispaire their great castles of comfort being ouerthrowne and brought to the ground I neede not further relate the storie thereof being yet fresh in the memories of many thousands liuing this day This which I haue here set downe for the honour of our Kentish people I haue written it partly to note one speciall sweet fruit of the Gospel wheresoeuer it hath free passage that is that it seasoneth the hearts of all that sincerely professe it with fidelity loyaltie and all manner Christian subiection to the higher powers Partly againe that it may adde some incouragement to your Gra the more willingly as leisure oportunity shall fit to come among vs specially whē your Grace shal come to a people so ciuil and so ingenuous so kind so religious and so louing and respectiue of their Diocesan as no one countrey of this Kingdome can afford vs the like president Which to be true the late most worthy B mine old Maister B Whitgift of most learned godly memorie found by good proofe at his first cōming downe into Kent whom the whole Gentrie of that Diocese entertained no otherwise then the Galathians did the Apostle S. Paule that is like an Angell of God with such obsequiousnes esteeme and reuerence as was fitting for the condition and state of so graue a Bishop and so worthy a Prelate As for vs both of the Laitie and Clergie of your Graces Diocese as wee haue great cause of reioycing offered vnto vs all to stirre vs vp to a thankefull congratulation of your Lor late deserued preferment withall to magnifie the great goodnesse of God towardes vs in that hee hath aduanced your Grace to that height of honour to make your Grace a glorious instrument of much good to this Church of England the charge and gouernement whereof next vnder our gracious Soueraigne is principallie committed So for mine owne particular considering the continuall flowe of those manifolde fauours your Grace hath bene pleased to shewe vnto mee which with all due thankefulnes I most willingly acknowledge hauing no other meanes out of my small fortunes to doe you honour I haue presumed in a Christian boldnesse by way of Dedication to offer this paper present vnto your Grace a Sermon which this last moneth I preached before a very honourable worshipfull and a most