Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A Word B Word C Word D Occurrence Frequency Band MI MI Band Prominent
cause_n formal_a inherent_a justification_n 2,595 5 10.5390 5 true
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

ID Title Author Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) STC Words Pages
A43788 The grand apostacy of the church of Rome, from her primitive purity and integrity with a vindication of the Church of England, in her separation from her, and the hazard of salvation in communion with her : discoursed in a sermon preached at St. Mary le Bow, London on Sunday the 28th of December, 1679 / by John Hill. Hill, John, d. 1709. 1680 (1680) Wing H1996; ESTC R12819 28,385 79

There is 1 snippet containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

crush in pieces all the Kings and Kingdoms of the Earth He may as Bosius saith depose Kings for just causes and without any cause also It belongs to him saith Sunders to pronounce Kings Hereticks to declare their Subjects exempt from Allegiance and that they ought to be deposed if they will not Blade it for Christ that is for the Popes Tyranny and Lust And this is not onely matter of their Faith but Fact 2. Not onely in the Supremacy but also in the Holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper for at first the people received it under both kinds for the space of a thousand years And saith Myraldus The Roman Order commanded the Wine to be conserated that the People might fully communicate And the antient Liturgies of their own Church do tell us that the People received the Wine as well as the Bread Nay Cajetan as eminent a Member as ever their Church boasted of confesseth that the Custom endured a long time in the Church even until their so-much-admired Council of Constance forbad it and then the Romanists altered their minde 3. Her defection hath been most notorious in that monstrous Tenet of Transubstantiation a Doctrine lately brought in and made matter of Faith by Innocent the third in the Lateran Council within these four hundred years before which time no man was obliged to believe it but all men were left to their own liberties whereas now 't is accounted Heresie to deny it and worthy of Bonds the Inquisition a Stake and Hell 4. In the Worship of Images for at first that Church admitted of no Image at all either painted or carved no not the Image of Christ himself saith Erasmus to be set up in Churches And when they began to be used the Church of Rome her self forbad any Worship to be given to them as appears by Gregory's Epistles to Severus And Polydore a great admirer of the Romish Church confesseth that all the Fathers condemned the Worship of Images for fear of Idolatry And when the Nicene Council brought them in for ornament even then they denied them Worship 5. In the great Article of Justification the most eminent Pillars of their Church having denied Justification by Works as Thomas Aquinas and others yet the Council of Trent varied from them and thrust in mans inherent Righteousness as the formal cause of his Justification Now a Church that hath made these Defections and hath introduced such horrid Errours should be separated from Come out of her my people which leads me to the consideration of the various Causes of this Apostacy which may be referred either to 1. Her Pride and Ambition 'T is well known what arrogance that Church became guilty of when Tertullian in his time complained de Insolentia Cleri Romani And Luther calls them Silk and Sattin Divines to whose proud Spirits the poor and contemptible way of Christ could not comport In that Assertion of theirs how do they extol their Priesthood Creatura paruit Joshuae at Presbyteris Creator Sol illi at his Deus quotiescunque verba sacra pronuntiat The Creature obeyed Joshua but the Creator doth the Priests the Sun yielded to him but to these as often as they pronounce the words of Consecration doth God yield On this conceit it is that they degrade all Temporal Princes those Vmbratiles Dii making them stand bare-foot at their great Bishops gate hold his Stirrup yea their own Crowns at his courtesie exempting all their Ecclesiastical Subjects from their Jurisdiction and all the rest from their Allegiance 2. Fraud and Perfidiousness the Romanists had fully learned that Regnandi Causa all Oaths were to be violated How grosly were the Pope and his Adherents taken in forging some Canons of the Council of Nice for their preheminent Dignity And being conscious of their own falshood still continue to deprave all Authors that might give in Evidence against them outfacing all antient Truths and foisting in Gibeonish witnesses of their own forging and leave nothing unattempted against Heaven or Earth that might advance their Faction Take a view of her carriage to those that diffent from her How hath she abused all that opposed her charging Wickliffe with Blasphemy Luther to have had his Advice from the Devil Queen Elizabeth's Episcopal Jurisdiction and secret Fruitfulness our Bishops to have been consecrated in Taverns oun casting the Crust of the Sacramental Bread to Dogs With a thousand more of this nature maliciously raised and defended against Knowledge and Conscience for the disgrace of those that diffent from them 3. Covetousness For if you look on all their Opinions about Indulgences Private Masses Auricular Confession you will find love to Money the cause of them all Hence the humour of that Church was well hinted to us in the answer of a Priest to his Friend who asking him why he would not Absolve a Penitent without a great sum of Money replyed They get Heaven by us and we must get Money by them 4. Neglect of Scripture And this hath see open a flood-gate whereby all the world was drowned in Errours For take the Eyes out of the Body the Sun out of the Firmament the Compass from the Ship and what can follow but darkness blackness and confusion Therefore they wish that there had never been Scripture and say That the Church could have done well enough with Traditions onely They call the Bible that Book which hath made all the stirs in the world and say That all the Faith a man can have by it is meerly humane and no more O! the great patience of God that bears such Blasphemies from these Monsters of Men 5. Nourishing of sin Of which this Church hath been guilty two several ways 1. By her common practice of encouraging those who had been censured in the Eastern Churches for foul Miscarriages to appeal to her and she would Absolve them and whenever she did inflict Ecclesiastical Censures they were in a great part Pecuniary and meerly to the macerating of the Body no ways to the saving of the Soul which occasioned us to tell them that peccata raduntur non eradicantur and Heathen-like they did vitia abscondere non abscindere by this Penance there was something done about sin nothing done against sin it being like Sampsons Hair cut off yet because the Roots remained they sprung up to their full strength again 2. By the suitableness of her Doctrine to the carnal and sensual part of man Particularly 1. That Doctrine of extenuating original sin making motions to sin unconsented to no sin at all That a man hath power to keep the Commandments That to love God binds onely at some times That actual inadvertency in holy Duties doth not hinder the Fruit of them That Prayers said in Latine though we do not understand them are very acceptable unto God c. 2. That Doctrine of advancing the pride of Nature which tells her that she can merit her own Glory without being much beholding to Gods Mercy that