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cause_n	efficient_a	end_n	final_a	2,172	5	9.9792	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00631	An antiquodlibet, or An aduertisement to beware of secular priests	Fenner, Dudley, 1558?-1587, attributed name.; Udall, John, 1560?-1592, attributed name'.	1602 (1602)	STC 10765; ESTC S117686	60,651	170

the one with the other as her Maiesties most honorable iust and temperate proceedings with those tyrannous and barbarous massacers that haue beene in other Countries violently and often performed against the trew Professors of the Gospell I would here giue end to this quodlibet of the Quilibets insufficiency were there not offered vnto me for some further blasing thereof one extraordinary particular and fruite of his wit pag. 138. of his Quodlibets where he thus speaketh The doctrine of the Catholique Church consists of three speciall causes the one is Fayth which is the matter thereof the other Charity which is the forme or efficient and the third Hope which is the finall end thereof c. Whether this peece of learning had his originall from the Priest or were furnished vnto him by his friends I know not Sure I am it will not make for the credit of his wit as shall appeare First he deliuers for essentiall causes of the whole distributed such things as are consequents thereof and seuered in place from it For fayth and charity which he sets downe for particular vertues infused and resident in each trew Christian receiue their conception and birth from the doctrine of the Gospell accompanied with the effectuall operation of the holy Ghost so as in regard of priority in nature and time which the sayd doctrine hath of the existence it yeeldeth vnto them by the ordinance●● God of the separation in place it holdeth from them they cannot be essentiall causes of the same Secondly whereas fayth is the roote from which charity and hope doe spring and braunch is it not beside all sense to make the roote the matter of the sayd doctrine and of the two braunches the one the forme or efficient thereof the other the finall end of the same If he had conceiued that the matter of this holy doctrine did in part consist in the precepts and documents of these infused vertues comprised in the Scripture his speech had fauoured of learning But suppose fayth to be the matter of it That it should runne in account for the whole matter of the doctrine professed by the Church is impossible there being so many other different particularities recorded therein which will challenge place in the matter thereof To make it a part onely of the matter is contrarv to the intention of the Quilibet who speaking of the whole doctrine and withall describing the generall forme and end of it will out of common wisedome note vnto vs a matter proportionable thereto Further if favth as it is a vertue residing in the heart of man be the matter whereof the holy Scriptures consist then as faith doth determine with the person of the beleeuer so doth the matter also of the sacred Scripture proportionably And consequently if that which supplies the place of this matter bee the fayth of all Gods children then for as much as the greatest part of them is already retyred into paradise and their fayth vpon the instant of their departure abolished it must of necessitie follow that the matter wherof the Scripture is consisting is for the greatest part thereof already wasted and extinct Or if the fayth of some only be the sayde matter let him note out the persons vnto vs and render a reason why the fayth of one rather then of another should haue this preheminence or why the other vertues mentioned should be excluded Touching charity hee cannot resolue whether it be the efficient or forme of the sayd doctrine Is he a Priest of such rare parts and of that expedition in deciding of Quodlibets and yet can be not satisfie vs in so vulgar a Quodlibet Beside the argument already in generall deliuered whereby these Theologicals are conuinced to be effects and no essentiall causes in the case propounded let him call to mind by whom the doctrine of the Scripture was inspired and indited I trust he will not ascribe the performance of this most holy and admirable seruice to the vertue of charity that harbours in the breast of man and so depriue God of the honour due vnto him in this behalf As God himselfe is the author and efficient of that doctrine and not charity so neither can charity be the forme thereof vnlesse we make imperfection the forme of perfection and that which is apt to receiue diminution and encrease the forme of that which is immutable and free from such alteration If in the latter age of the world charity shall grow cold and fayth almost to an vtter decay and yet the one rest the forme of the written word the other the matter thereof the said worde must necessarily fall into very hard termes vpon the enduring of so great an eclipse both of matter and forme The finall end of the doctrine professed by the Catholike Church he affirmeth to be hope True it is that fayth in the Messias ●●d consequently hope of eternal happ●●●s through his bloud is an end where●● the said doctrine doth looke and ayme and yet but an end subordinate to that mayne and soueraigne end of the maiesty and glory of God shining in the saluation of his children So as whether he take hope ●o be the onely or principall end he fayles ●n either There are in this text of his three speciall causes whereof the doctrine of the Church consisteth other phantastick incōgruities as that charity should therefore giue the Crowne to King and Queene because she is the forme and efficient of the sayd doctrine and that faith should be the gate of entrance into the Church because it is sayd Hebr. 11. Accedent●m ad D●um oportet credere But I will no longer stand vpon the refelling of such dreames CAP. 2. That the principall drift of the Quodlibets● i● the reestablishing of the Popes authoritie amongst vs with the fall of her Maiestie and the Gospell HAuing in the former chapter discouered the insufficiency of the Quilibe● which by sundrie particularities of his discourse appeareth to be such as where out of conceit and partiality he infranchizeth professors of the Gospell into the companie of grossum caputs and men vnlearned himselfe may vpon iust desert challenge the freedome and priuiledge of the same will now proceede to take view of his Quodlibets which being many in number and contayning variety of matter I will draw into question onely such points of them of which it doth specially import vs to be informed least in this seede time of Romish proiects and treacheries for supplanting the Gospell our ignorance in this behalfe be abused in the qualitie of an instrument and meane to aduance the growth thereof And because in all proceedings of moment the end wherto they are directed is a matter considerable and worthy of note I will in the first place examine and dispute the mayne and principall scope of the Decacordon which I take to be the restoring of the soueraigne interest and authoritie of the Pope within her Maiest●●s dominions and consequently the fall of her royall