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The salvation of Protestants asserted and defended in opposition to the rash and uncharitable sentence of their eternal damnation pronounc'd against them by the Romish Church / by J.H. Dalhusius ... ; newly done into English.
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Dalhusius, Johannes H. (Johannes Hermanus)
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1689
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Wing D132; ESTC R1473
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79. cont Collyrid The Body of Mary was really Holy but no God. She was really a Virgin and an honourable Virgin but not intended for our Adoration in regard that she ador'd him that was begot of her Flesh And moreover by the Example of the Angel refusing Adoration and Worship from John he proves That much less the Virgin Mary either desires or ought to be Worship'd But what he said particularly of the Virgin that did St. Austin affirm at the same time concerning all the Saints that is to say That they are to be Honour'd in respect of Imitation not to be Worship'd in respect of Religion l. de vera Relig. c. ult V. Neither can they find any thing in us that is repugnant to Chastity Sobriety Mortification of the Flesh and Study of Good Works For to all these things we Pastors frequently and seriously in our Pulpits exhort our Flocks Nor by the Grace of God do we so live that we should be thought to have proclaim'd open War to all Vertue and Godliness For our not allowing that Law of Celibacy so burthenson to the Clergy is no hatred of Chastity when Celibacy it self is that which has turn'd away so many and still hurries multitudes from the true Paths of Chastity Insomuch as Pius II as Platina relates in his Life was wont to say That Wedlock was deny'd the Priests upon good Grounds but that for better Reasons it ought to be restor'd them We are not averse to Sobriety and Fasting because we reject those superstitious Observations upon the Prescribing of which the same thing is said to us as formerly they us'd to say against whom the Apostle writes Col. 2. 21. Eat not taste not touch not and to which upon the score of our Consciences we cannot submit Not that we are so addicted to luxurious Lives or so studious to indulge our Appetites but because they put a Bridle upon our Consciences contrary to the Liberty purchas'd us in Christ and constitute the Essence of Fasting not in humbling the Mind before God and Veneration of his Deity but in the nice Choice of some sorts of Meats and Rejecting others and because they affirm that by such bodily Exercises and such kind of Diet our Sins may be Expiated and that Men thereby merit Eternal Life We do not hate the Mortification of the Old Man while we reject the publick Whippings and affected Macerations of those who had rather exercise Cruelty upon Nature then correct the Corruption of it and who seem to bear a hatred to their own Flesh contrary to that of the Apostle Eph. 5. 29. Whereas they ought rather to submit the Affections of their Hearts to the Will of God. For if it were so much a Duty to Chastize and Enslave your outward and visible Bodies the Baalites Brachmans Priests of the Syrian Goddess the Mahometan Monks and those Whipsters which about Two hundred years ago the Roman Church numbred in the List of Heretics have outdone and still outdo you in those Rigorous Exercises But the Body which thou art to subdue is the Body of Sin and the Members to be extirpated are the Vices of it as the Apostle says Col. 3. 5. Mortifie your Members which are upon earth Fornication Vncleanness inordinate Affection evil Concupiscence and Covetousness which is Idolatry Lastly it is no hating of Good Works to pronounce them necessary for Salvation yet so that they may but only be the way to the Kingdom and not the Cause of Reigning the cause of our Salvation being solely ascrib'd to the Mercy and Grace of God in Jesus Christ and by no means to our own Merits joyn'd with his as if they could be Assistant toward so great a Benefit But would to God that setting aside these Controversies about the Use of Good Works we could but give our Minds both of us to practice them with a sincere Charity then Mr. Prior would not be so highly exorbitant in his Unchristianlike Judgment concerning us Then again how can any Hatred of the most sacred Eucharist be affixed upon the Reformed who urge nothing so much as the entire taking of it under Both Kinds in conformity to the Institution of Christ and who believe concerning it both what the Scripture holds forth and what the Fathers of the Ancient Church deliver But it is no hatred of this most August Sacrament to refuse to Kneel to it and to pay the highest degree of Veneration to it as it is the Custom in your Roman Church We abstain from this Adoration of the Eucharist lest we should pay to the Creature what is only owing to God. The Sacraments are Holy Things which are to be lookt upon with Decency and Reverence but not to be Ador'd The Brazen Serpent among the Israelites was a sacred Thing and as it were the permanent Sacrament of our future Redemption by the Cross of Christ but yet the Israelites were Idolaters so soon as they began to Adore it and Worship it with Frankincense We do not read that the Apostles Worshipt this Sacrament Christ indeed is to be Ador'd in the Use of this Sacrament as in every Religious Performance and in that sense it is true what St. Austin says upon Psa 98. Let no man eat his flesh unless he have first ador'd which words Gloss decret in Can. Accesserunt distinct 2. of Consecration are interpreted of Spiritual Eating so that he thence infers an Argument That no Mouse can receive the Body of Christ But the Sacrament it self cannot be the Object of our Adoration nor can the Presence of the Body of Christ in the Sacrament be the Ground of it Such is the miserable Servitude of the Soul to take Signs and Symbols for Realities so that it cannot lift up the Eye of the Mind above the Corporeal Creature to receive Eternal Light as St. Austin says lib. 3. de Doctrin Christ c. 5. Without doubt Antiquity never knew what Adoration of the Sacrament meant and as little known to them was that Modern Practice of carrying it about the Streets or of erecting to it in the High-ways Altars hung about with Tapestry or of shewing it to the People at certain Hours of the Day when the Mass is not celebrated At that time it was distributed to the People either Sitting or Standing generally upon the Lord's Days when it was chiefly administred as appears out of Justin Apol. 2. but never Kneeling because it was a Crime among the Primitive Christians to Kneel upon the Lord's Day as all the Learned agree Nor do the Romanists deny but that there is some danger of Idolatry in this Adoration because that many things are requir'd in Transubstantiation which whether they are really so as they ought to be is not evidently apparent to any Man. Therefore the Famous Biel lect 50. in Can. letter O proposes to himself this difficulty Because an Error may happen in Consecration by means of which the effect of the Consecration is hindred as if the Person