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A20673	The practise how to finde ease, rest, repose, content, and happines. Written by a religious man of the congregation of St. Elias the prophet, and the order of our Blessed Lady of mount Carmell, restored by the Blessed mother Teresa. The second part. Containing directions how to end all controuersies, and take away all discontentments, and euils, and attaine vnto true ioy of minde, and content of heart, and all good; Practise how to finde ease, rest, repose, content, and happines. Part 2	Doughty, Thomas, fl. 1618-1638.	1619 (1619)	STC 7072.6; ESTC S106011	123,081	516

found out by the light of Reason is most Simple One Actus purus without composition so must his Faith and Religion be one most simple and without composition of diuers Faiths as Saint Paul sayth One God Eph. 4. 5 one Faith Againe God Almightie is One and of infinite Goodnesse without Malice or Diuision and so could not plant a Faith or Religion that should diuide Men into Sects Dissentions and Diuisions in Faith because it is contrarie to his Goodnesse and Vnitie in himselfe he being God 1. Cor. 14. 33. of Vnitie and Peace and not of Dissention So that Faith and Religion by all reason must be his which can endure no Dis-vnion or Disparities in matters of Faith vvhich all men see to be our Catholike Faith which with such zeale maintaineth her vnitie that shee reiecteth all that differ from her in matters of Faith as Heretikes and Schismatikes and refuseth to make composition of her Faith with any other in any the least thing vpon any condition or benefit whatsoeuer Insomuch as that the vnitie of our Catholike Faith is one as Punctum a point Vnum one or Indiuisibile that which cannot be diuided vnto which you can neither adde nor abstract any thing but they passe either into nothing or into things of another nature as to be a line a number or a bodie So to our Catholike Faith if either you adde any Opinion or take away any Article it is no more Catholike Faith but humane opinion Schisme or Heresie As for example if you take away the Reall Presence of the Body and Bloud of our Lord in the Communion and affirme that it is but a signe then it is Zwinglianisme of Zwinglius who was the first Author of this Opinion Againe if you adde any thing vnto it and say that both the Bodie Bloud of our Lord is there really and also the Bread then it is Lutheranisme and so forth of any other Article of our Catholike Faith And if any oppose and say that some esteemed Catholikes haue or doe obstinately maintaine anie one point of Doctrine contrarie to the Catholike Faith held and receiued ouer the World and would not nor will not submit his or their iudgements to the Catholike Church and her Superiors I answere that hee or they were and be Schismatikes or Heretikes and haue or are to perish euerlastingly According to the Article of our Creede which sayth Whosoeuer Athana Creede will be saued it is needfull before all things that he hold the Catholike Faith the which vnlesse each one shall keepe whole and inuiolate hee shall without doubt eternally perish Insomuch as that it is impossible for any one of our Catholike Church to dissent obstinately from our Catholike Church since hee is bound by his Faith to beleeue inuiolately and before all things all the Articles of our Catholike Faith and if hee obstinately faile herein in any one point of Faith hee is bound to beleeue that hee shall without doubt eternally perish according to our Creede So that the words which S. Ireneus who liued so neere the Apostles times that hee affirmed to haue seene S. Policarpe who was S. Iohn the Euangelists Scholler vsed against the diuers Sects of Heretikes in his time wee may vse now without exchange The Church sowne throughout the World doth diligently keepeth is preaching which it hath receiued and this Faith as wee haue said as it were dwelling in one house and doth beleeue them as if it were hauing one soule and one heart and consonantly doth preach teach and deliuer these things as if it had but one mouth For although in the world there are different Languages yet the vertue of Tradition is one and the same So that neither the Churches which are founded in Germanie doe beleeue otherwise neither otherwise doe deliuer these which are in Spaine neither those which are in Aragon neither those which are in the East neither those which are in Egypt nor those which are in Libia nor those which are founded in the middest of the world So Saint Ireneus in his first Booke and second Chapter against Heresies and we with him Protestants though they haue but few affirmatiue Articles which in the same words and sense they defend as matters of Faith and are but few in number in respect of Catholikes yet are they in them few Articles first generally diuided into many Sects as into Elizabethians Lutherans and Caluinists and many more lesser Sects as Anabaptists Brownists Desperates Pig-Recusants or Trasquites c. The Elizabethians defend that a woman may be Head of the Church and hold the Supremacie in all causes and ouer all Ecclesiasticall persons whosoeuer and put those to death as Traitors who refuse to swear it as true and giue Authoritie to Parliaments to alter formes of Religion Lutherans and Caluinists denie both Caluinists denie the Authoritie of Bishops and Ordination of Ministers by Bishops Lutherans and Elizabethians defend both The Lutherans defend Consubstantiation in their Supper which they esteeme a Sacrament both Caluinists and Elizabethians denie it And secondly besides this Diuision into generall Sects they are all so particularly diuided one from all and all from euerie one that there cannot be found anie two of them which agree in vnitie of Faith one to beleeue the same Faith in the same words and sense that his companion doth beleeue to Saluation All beleeuing that the whole The English Creed art 19. et 2● Church and generall Councels may erre yet euerie one beleeueth of himselfe in particular that he is assured to be saued and that he cannot erre So that Faith which one Protestant beleeueth to be saued by all the rest doubt whether it be true or no And no other else will beleeue that which his companion beleeueth for an Article of Faith videlicet That Titius is assured to be saued and cannot erre Whereby they are diuided into as manie Sects as Men. So that supposed that vnitie of Faith in the same sense and meaning were necessarie to Saluation Content and Happinesse as it is and that any one Faith professed by any one Protestant man could saue and bring to Content and Happinesse yet of all the Protestants that are or euer were or shall be one only can be saued and happie since onely one agreeth with himselfe in vnitie of faith and with none of his companions Protestants whosoeuer Secondly it is manifest by reason taken from the goodnesse of God Almightie that our Catholike Faith is the Faith of God planted by our Sauiour for that God Almightie is of infinite goodnesse and vertue and so could not plant a Faith or Religion wherby men might be saued and attaine to all goodnesse content and happinesse but it must consist of all vertues because hee cannot doe contrarie to his will which is alwaies to will good vertue which is our Catholike Faith which teacheth that it is not possible for any man to be saued or enter into Heauen