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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16701	The apologie of the Romane Church deuided into three seuerall tractes whereof 1. The first, concerneth the antiquitie and continuance of the Catholike Romane religion ever since the Apostles time. 2. The second that the Protestantes religion was not so much as in being, at or before Luthers first appearing. 3. The thirde that Catholickes are no lesse loyall and dutifull to their soveraigne, then Protestantes. All which are vndertaken and proued by testimonies of the learned Protestantes themselues.	Anderton, Lawrence.; Anderton, James, fl. 1624, attributed name.	1604 (1604)	STC 3604; ESTC S119868	294,461	212

skill and experience foreseeth the comming of the said effects to which kinde the foresaide Doctrines of Re ll Presence and Sacrifice cannot in any so●te be reduced by reason they cannot be saide to h●ue bene then depending vpon any naturall or other cause then past or in being saue only the imediate sacred will of God This therefore so pl●ine foresaide p●ediction m●de by the auncient Rabbines before Christs t●me in behalfe of Reall Presence and Sacrifice demonstrating it selfe so euidently to haue proceeded not from any secondarie cause but only from a diuine instinct yeeldeth thereby a most strong argument in behalfe of the saide Doctrines 13 Thirtenthly and lastly to omitte other pointes as concerning the finall ending of controuersies not only scripture but a certaine visible and liuely Iudge vpon earth was appointed and acknowledged To omitt all other proofe thereof the Lawe of Deutronomie was that when there did (⁋) Deutron 17 8 9 11. arise any matter to hard for the people in Iudgment they were appointed to goe vp to the place which God had ch●sen and to come to the leuiticall Pri●st and to the Iudge in those daies and to aske of them the sentence of Iu●gement and to do according to ●he Iudgment which they did tell not declining neith●r to the r●g●t hand nor to the lefte it being yet further saide of him that did (*) Deutron 17 12. presumptiously refuse to obay the commaundement of the Priest tha● by the decree of ●he Iudge that man should di● Now that the sentence grounded vpon this Lawe was not subi●ct to new question vnder colour of appeal ng to the scriptures but was definitiue and finall and concerned aswell Ecclesiasticall as Ciuill Causes is in it se●fe plaine and for such (p) Doct. Rainolds in his conferēce pa. 251. circa med saith The lawe of Deutronomie was made to establish a highest Court of Iudgement in which all harder causes Ecclesiasticall Ciuill should be determined without appeall further and Mr. Whitaker de sacra scriptura p. 466. prope finem saith Respondeo verba ista intelligenda esse c. de authoritate tantum definiendi difficiles lites ac cōtrouersias siue ecclesiasticas illas quidem per ministrum siue politicas et foreses per magistratum vt esset semper in vtrisque aliquis a quo prouocare non liceat alioqum enim nullus esset litigandi finis vide ibidem pag. 470. paulo post med And Mr. Bil●on in his perpetuall gouerment of Christes Church pag. 20. post med saith hereof that the same did conscerne such matters as were of greatest momēt both Ciuill and sacred and their sentence by Gods law no man might refuse without punishment of death And see the like assertion in Mr. Hooker in his preface before his bookes of e●clesi●sticall policie pa. 26. fine 27. 28. fine confessed by Mr. D. Rainolds Mr. D. Whitaker Mr. D. Bilson and Mr. Hooker Where-vpon it is euident that not only scripture which they of the olde Testament had as well as we now haue but besides that a certaine visible Iudge was then appointed to determin cōtrouersies And for so much as the occasion to haue controuersies ended is as greate now as during the olde Testament the doubts of religion being as now many moe and the daunger of error no lesse greuous whether theref●re may it be thought that our (q) Haeor 8 6. Testament which is established in better promisses is want●ng of this priuiledge and so therby the Ecclesiasticall policie of Moyses time to be preferred herein before that other which succeeded by Christ With which only laste reason the Puritanes doubt not to (r) Penrie in his supplication to the high Courte of Parliament p. 21. fine saith That forme of gouerment which maketh our Sauiour Christ Inferior vnto Moyses is an impious vngodly vnlawfull gouerment contrarie to the word c. See him further p. 22. 23. peruse the occasion and circumstance of this his reason and it will appeare to houlde much more stronge in this point then in that other for which he vrgeth it presse their other Protestant Brethren in matters of much smaller importance By which so many foresaide examples of our Catho●icke Faith thus affirmed by the auncient Iewes that liued before Christs comming it is made further probable that our religion is not new or lately deuised but most auncient and vndoubtedly apostolicke which point is made as yet much more cleare by that which is hereafter (s) See hereafter tract 〈◊〉 sect 7. 8. alleadged concerning the Romane Church being conuerted in the Apostles time and her not being sithence changed in religion THAT TREW MIRACLES MAKE a strong argument And that the aforesaide faith whereto the Englishe were conuerted was confirmed with such Miracles § 5. AND like as in those firster times of the Churches infancie our Sauiour did make manifest the truth of his Apostles Doctrine with vndoubted Miracles to serue as (a) 〈◊〉 cor 12 12. signes of theire Apostleshipe to that end (b) Marc. 16 20. Confirming the word wi●h s●gnes followinge So likewise this vertue or power of Miracles not ceasing but as our aduersaries confesse (c) Whereas our Sauiour Ihon. 14 12. saith Hee that beleeueth in mee the workes that I do he shall do and greater In the Marginall Notes of the Englishe Bibles Printed 1576. it is there-upon saide this is referred to the wholle Body of the Church in whome this vertue doth shine for euer shininge in the Church for euer the necessitie thereof being one and the same in all succeeding ages to the conuersion of the heathen who contemning the scriptures are nothing moued with the Miracles thereof mencioned our Sauiour did in like maner confirme our now faith so then taught by Aust●ne with like manifestation of Miracles not such only as Antichrist or the Diuell can by the power of nature or secondarie causes bring to passe which may be (d) Thes 2 9. lying signes against which wee are forewarned but with Miracles exceeding the power of nature and done imediately by God which by the Doctrine of learned Protestants (e) Vrsinus in Cōmentar catech pag. 21. fine saith Etsi Ethnicorum nonnulla miracula commemorantur ac de Antichristo pseudoprophetis dictum est edituros esse signa c. tamen caneque numero neque magnitudine paria sunt miraculis Ecclesiae c. primum enim ea miracula quae iactantur ab hostibus ecclesiae sunt eiusmodi quae ordine naturae non mutato hominum vel diabolorū fraudibus possunt effici c. miracula vero quibus Deus ecclesiā ornauit opera sunt preter aut contra naturae causarum secundarum ordinem ac proinde non nisi diuina potentia facta And the like is affirmed by Zanchius in D. Pauli epistolas ad Philipenses Colloss Thessai pag. 241. 242. By Danaeus in Isagoges Christianae part 4.