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A33984 Utrum horum, or, The nine and thirty articles of the Church of England, at large recited, and compared with the doctrines of those commonly called Presbyterians on the one side, and the tenets of the Church of Rome on the other both faithfully quoted from their own most approved authors / by Hen. Care. Care, Henry, 1646-1688. 1682 (1682) Wing C535; ESTC R2383 50,749 167

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Word of God The Presbyterians By the Decree of God for the manifestation of his own Glory some Men and Angels were predestinated unto everlasting Life and others fore-ordained to everlasting Death These Angels and Men predestinated and fore-ordain'd are particularly and unchangeably designed and their number so certain and definite that it cannot be either increased or diminished Those of Mankind that are predestinated unto Life God before the Foundation of the World was laid according to his Eternal and Immutable purpose and the secret Counsel and good pleasure of his Will hath chosen in Christ unto everlasting Glory out of his meer free Grace and Love without any foresight of Faith or Good Works or perseverance in either of them or any other thing in the Creature as Conditions and Causes moving him thereunto and all to the praise of his Glorious Grace As God hath appointed the Elect unto Glory so hath he by the Eternal and most free purpose of his Will fore-ordain'd all the means thereunto Wherefore they who are Elected being fallen in Adam are redeemed by Christ are effectually called unto Faith in Christ by his Spirit working in due season are Justified Adopted Sanctified and kept by his Power through Faith unto Salvation Neither are any other Redeemed by Christ effectually Called Justified Adopted Sanctified and Saved but the Elect only The Doctrine of this high Mystery of Predestination is to be handled with special Prudence and Care that Men attending the Will of God revealed in his Word and yielding Obedience thereunto may from the certainty of their effectual Vocation be assured of their Eternal Election so shall this Doctrine afford matter of Praise Reverence and Admiration of God and of Humility Diligence and abundant Consolation to all that sincerely obey the Gospel The Papists Though they own the Word Predestination sometimes yet they teach That the Cause thereof is not the meer good pleasure of God but that a Man doth make himself Eligible by his own good Works and Merits Thus they say The Kingdom of Heaven is prepared for them that are worthy of it and deserve it by their well doing Although from Gods Eternal Predestination Glory floweth to the Elect yet for all that it springeth not but from their own good Works Stella on Luke cap. 10. fol. 35. True Faith and Righteousness may be lost and the Faithful utterly fall from the Faith Bellarm. de Just l. 3. cap. 4. which is the same thing as if we should say That the Elect may become Reprobates and Election not to be immutable If any shall say That the Grace of Justification happens not to any but such as are Predestinate but that all the rest who are call'd are indeed call'd but receive not Grace as being by Divine Power Predestinated to Evil Let him be Accursed If any one shall say a Man Regenerated and Justified is bound to believe that he is certainly of the number of the Elect Let him be Anathema The eighteenth Article of the Church of England Of obtaining Eternal Salvation only by the Name of Christ THEY also are to be had Accursed that presume to say That every Man shall be saved by the Law or Sect which he professeth so that he be diligent to frame his Life according to that Law and the Light of Nature For Holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the Name of Jesus Christ whereby Men must be saved The Presbyterians Persons not Elected although they may be call'd by the Ministry of the Word and may have some common Operations of the Spirit yet they never truly come unto Christ and therefore cannot be saved Much less can men not professing the Christian Religion be saved in any other way whatsoever be they never so diligent to frame their Lives according to the Light of Nature and the Law of that Religion they profess And to assert that they may is very pernicious and detestable The Papists Own the Words of this Article but in effect deny the latter part thereof by trusting in the Mediation and Intercession of the Virgin Mary and other Saints and Angels and praying unto and worshipping them c. The nineteenth Article of the Church of England Of the Church THE Visible Church of Christ is a Congregation of Faithful Men in the which the pure Word of God is Preached and the Sacraments be duly ministred according to Christs Ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same As the Church of Hierusalem Alexandria and Antioch have erred so also the Church of Rome hath erred not only in their Living and manner of Ceremonies but also in matters of Faith The Presbyterians Wherever we see the Word of God sincerely Preach'd and Heard and the Sacraments administred according to Christs Institution there is a Church of God For these two we assign as Marks whereby the Church may be known The Visible Church which is also Catholick or Vniversal under the Gospel not confin'd to one Nation as before under the Law consists of all those throughout the World that profess the true Religion and particular Churches which are Members thereof are more or less pure according as the Doctrine of the Gospel is taught and embrac'd Ordinances administred and publick Worship perform'd more or less pure in them The purest Churches under Heaven are subject both to mixture and error and some have so degenerated as to become no Churches of Christ but Synagogues of Satan Nevertheless there shall always be a Church on Earth to worship God according to his Will The Pope of Rome cannot in any sense be Head of the Church but is that Antichrist that Man of Sin and Son of Perdition that exalts himself in the Church against Christ and all that is called God The Papists As to the first part of the Article they deny the Preaching the Word and due Administration of the Sacraments to be the marks of Christs Visible Church See Bellarm. de notis Ecclesiae cap. 1. And instead thereof assign others which by the same Cardinal are there reckoned to be the fifteen following 1. The Name of the Catholick Church and Christians 2. Antiquity 3. Duration 4. Multitude 5. Succession of Bishops and Ordination 6. Agreement with the ancient Church 7. Vnion of the Members together amongst themselves and with their Head 8. Holiness of Doctrine 9. Efficacy of Doctrine 10. Holiness of Life 11. Miracles 12. Prophesies 13. Confession of Adversaries 14. The unhappy ends of those that have oppos'd it 15. The Temporal felicity of those that have desended it And as to the latter part of the Artiticle they with all Confidence assert the clean contrary other Churches have erred but the Church of Rome cannot Id Constanter Negamus we constantly deny saith Costerus the Jesuit that Christs Vicar Peters Successors the Bishops of Rome have either taught Heresies or propounded Errors God preserveth the Truth of Christian Religion in the Apostolick See of Rome
Body should be in a Mouses Belly or in a Privy But most of their Followers count them too precise And Vasques in 3. q. 77. a. 8. disp 195. cap. 5. concludes Vera Constans opinio sit c. The true and constant Opinion is That Christ is so long under the Species in any place whatsoever though never so base and filthy as the outward forms would conserve the nature of Bread if it were there Nor matters it saith he that by this means we must grant that Christs Body may descend into a filthy and unclean place nor ought Godly Catholicks thereat be scandalized Now since Christs Sacred Body may be in the Body of any Beast or Vermine and that it is to be Worshipped and Adored with no less than divine Honour wherever it be a Question ariseth Whether he be to be Worshipped for Example in the Belly of a Sow pardon Christian Reader the Instance for 't is the Papists own For Biel on the Canon of the Mass lect 84. starting the same question returns this Answer Ubicunque five in ventre SUIS sive in ore viri vel mulieris ibi esse venerandum adorandum intus in Anima licet non exterius in opere Wherever he is believed to be either in the Belly of a SOW or in the Mouth of a Man or Woman there he is to be Worshipped inwardly in the Soul though not externally in Work Another scruple likewise they have since the outward forms may happen especially by the Sick to be Vomited up again what must be done in the Case To which Albertus in his Compend Theol. verit l. 6. cap. 19. answers Si Infirmus Corpus domini Rejiciat suscipiatur c. If the Sick Spew up Christs Body he must take it again as well as he can or if he be not able himself the Priest must do it for him or some discreet or cleanly Boy And Biel in the place late cited gives this Counsel Si Ejiciatur per Vomitum c. If Christs Body be cast up by Vomit so that you can but yet discern the outward signs and appearance of Bread from the other Garbage and your Stomach will serve you to do it without loathsomness and danger of re-spuing you must take it again but if the Party be nauseous then it must be laid up honourably with the other Reliques But others say it must be burnt and the Ashes reverently laid up by the Altar And Paladanus in 4. d. 9. q. 1. a. 3. moving the Question what was to be done if a Beast should eat the Sacrament says he 't was to be killed and the Host to be taken out of the Maw and if a Man had so much zeal as to endure to eat it he were much to be commended provided he do it fasting And thereupon tells a Story out of Hugo Cluniacensis how one Goderane took a parcel of the Eucharist which had been vomitted up by a Leper The same Author advises That the Sacrament be not given to those that have a Scowring or the Flux lest the Body of Christ should pass away through his Belly into the Draught c. I have recited these Horrid Blasphemies in their own Words That my Countreymen may detest a Religion Compos'd of such impious Phrensies and I beg the Readers excuse for ossending his Ears with such stuff For Popish impudence has this advantage they write such things as Christian Doctrine which a modest Man can scarce endure to Rehearse The thirtieth Article of the Church of England Of both kinds THE Cup of the Lord is not to be denied to the Lay-people For both the parts of the Lords Sacrament by Christs Ordinance and Commandment ought to be Ministred to all Christian men alike The Presbyterians They speaking of the Papists have stoln or snatcht away one half of the Lords Supper from the greater part of the People of God and only allow the Cup to a small parcel of shaveling Priests The Ministers are to take and Break the Bread to take the Cup and to give both to the Communicants Private Masses or receiving this Sacrament by a Priest or any other alone as likewise the denial of the Cup to the People are contrary to the Nature of this Sacrament and to the Institution of Christ The Papists This Holy Synod Declares and Teacheth That Laicks and Clerks not Consecrated are by no Divine precept bound to receive the Sacrament under both kinds and that it may in no sort be doubted without prejudice to Faith but that the Communion of one kind is sufficient to Salvation If any one shall say That by Gods Command all the Faithful of Christ ought to receive in both kinds or shall deny That the Church was moved with just Causes and Reasons to order the Laity to Communicate but in one kind or shall say she erred therein Let him be Accursed The one and thirtieth Article of the Church of England Of the one Oblation of Christ finished upon the Cross THE Offering of Christ once made is that perfect Redemption Propitiation and Satisfaction for all the Sins of the whole World both Original and Actual and there is none other Satisfaction for Sin but that alone Wherefore the Sacrifices of Masses in the which it was commonly said that the Priest did offer Christ for the Quick and the Dead to have Remission of pain or guilt were Blasphemous Fables dangerous Deceits The Presbyterians In this Sacrament Christ is not offered up to his Father nor any real Sacrifice made at all for Remission of the Sins of the Quick or Dead but only a Commemoration of that one offering up of himself by himself upon the Cross once for all and a Spiritual Oblation of all possible Praise unto God for the same So that the Popish Sacrifice of the Mass as they call it is most abominably injurious to Christs one only Sacrifice the alone Propitiation for all the Sins of the Elect. The Papists In this Divine Sacrifice of the Mass the same Christ is contained and unbloodily Sacrificed who once offered himself bloodily on the Altar of the Cross This Holy Synod therefore Teacheth That this Sacrifice is truly Propitiatory And that thereby if with a true Heart and right Faith in Fear and Reverence we being contrite come to God we do obtain Mercy and find Grace in a seasonable help For by the oblation hereof God being pacified granting the Grace and Gift of Pennance does forgive Crimes and Sins even the greatest and most heinous It is one and the same Host Christ who then offered himself on the Cross now offering the same by the Ministry of the Priests the manner of offering being only different The Fruits of which Oblation viz. The Bloody one are most plentifully received and conveyed by this so far is That from being any ways derogated from by This for which reason it is offered not only for the Sins Punnishments Satisfactions and other Necessities of