sufficiency of the signes and marks by which God gives testimony that the doctrine of Christs Church is truly Orthodox Of this the Prophet David who by an anticipated knowledge which he had by divine instinct of the whole frame and composure of Christs Church uttered these most pat and pithy words Testimonia tua credibilia facta sunt nimis Thy testimonies are made too credible By which Hebraisme nimis he means that they are very credible and that that Church which is illustrated and confirmed with the testimonies of such marks as can be imprinted upon it by God only deserves to be credited in all things Our Saviour himself sent no other demonstration to Saint John of his being the Messias but this Go and tell John what ye have heard and seen the blind see the lame walke the leprous are clensed the deaf hear the dead rise and he urged the same argument when he said that the Jews had not been guilty of sin to wit of infidelity and disbelieving his doctrine if he had not effected amongst them works which no other mortall man was able to do The blind man who together with his corporal eyes had also those of his soul opened by Christ urged the same argument against them averring that it was a thing unheard of since the creation of the world that a man could give sight to the blind unlesse God were with him And Nicodemus yeelded to the like argument by his ingenious and voluntary acknowledgement that our Saviour was a teacher sent by God because no man could do those miracles which he did unlesse God were with him so that the sufficiency of these marks is perfectly established out of Scripture it self Ponder secondly how reason dictates that greater inducements and powerfuller perswasives cannot be brought to conciliate authority and esteem to a Religion than the above mentioned marks are for they are above the ability and reach of nature onely God or such as to whom God delegates this power can cause so prodigious effects Saint Austin and the holy Fathers urged these marks as strong maximes against all Heresies as they sprung up yea they themselves were kept within the bosome of the Catholike Church by these strong and sweet chains as appeared by their Writings Adde to this the conversions of Ethnick and idolatrous Nations what was it else but the forcible and powerfull charms if they may be be so termed of these strange priviledges and prerogatives with which the preachers of Christian doctrine to them were endowed which drew them from infidelity yea and barbarity to Christianity The fourth Point Consider lastly some inferences which may be drawn out of the precedent points First those that are already members of the Catholike Church have much to thank God for in being made members of that Church which is so very conspicuous with these rare endowments and proprieties Secondly since these marks here-briefly touched but in the ensuing pages more particularly to be looked into apart are on the one side so necessary and on the other so sufficient and satisfactory to reason it behoves every Protestant Presbyterian Independent Anabaptist and all these late Euthusiasticks to try the truth of their severall Sects by these touchstones Thirdly That he who makes a search after the true Religion by the direction of these marks proceeds most prudently and cannot be obnoxious to errour in his enquiry Fourthly that this is both the most convincing and also the most easie way of composing all Controversies for by this you may easily discover the true Church which being found out all are obliged to embrace it and 〈…〉 and to its verdict in all things and the Scripture whose obscure texts abused and variously interpreted have given occasion of these and of all Heresies will by this means need no searching into Lastly For a preparation to the ensuing meditations infer what dictamen and disposition a man is to come with that will benefit his soul by reading them First he must observe that there is a great difference betwixt Affirmative and Negative Propositions in this subject for it is evident that that Sect or Religion is not the true Church which is devoid of these marks why because they are inseparable from the true Church as will hereafter appear out of the first points of many of the Meditations Yet on the contrary you must not think that wheresoever any of these marks is to be found there is the true RELIGION for God can give a man power to work miracles or prophesie truly though he be of a false Sect but not in confirmation of that false Sect So Julian the Apostate going to sacrifice to the heathenish Gods and terrified with the sudden apparition of the devill he instantly drive him away by making the signe of the crosse which he had learned when he was a Catholike thus writes St. Greg. Naz. and Nicephorus recounts that the Persians bore the signe of the Crosse graven upon their Foreheads in memory of their being delivered from the plague by arming themselves as they were taught by the Christians with the same signe Now these examples make nothing against Roman Catholikes but confirm their tenent Secondly he must come with indifferency otherwise he cannot be an impartial and fit judge without any prejudicate opinion without passion and without obstinate resolution of persisting where he is be his Sect what it will be for this were affected ignorance which is malice and such an one is he of whom God complains saying Noluit intelligere ut beue ageret He would not understand whereby to do well this is dangerous this hath too great affinity with hardnesse of heart the greatest of all miseries and punishments in this life but read them with a desire of your own profit and spiritual good and then you will find just cause to say with King David to Almighty God Testimonia tua credibilia facta sunt nimis thy testimonies to wit the testimonies and marks of thy Church are made too credible that is very credible meaning thereby that the Church in behalf of which God gives these signes and testimonies deserves to be credited in whatsoever she propounds Yet it is worth taking notice of that the protestant translatours of the Bible interpret the forementioned words of the Psalme 93 with them thus Thy testimonies are very sure using here their wonted manner of explicating places that savour Catholike Tenents equivocally obscurely or two largely and without the restrictions which the places require For these words do not expresse the motives of credibility as the former do The Fifth Meditation Of Miracles The first Point COnsider first that Miracles are a mark of Christs true Church These signes sayes our Saviour of his Church shall follow them that believe in me in my name shall they cast out Devils they shall speake with new tongues they shall take up Serpents and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt
other sorts of people so have they most excellent instructions given them by holy and learned men 4. Fasting so much commended and extolled by holy scripture in the lovers of it how can it but be very conducing to vertue since it weakens vertues adversaries the rebellion of the Flesh inordinate passions and the malignant humours both of body and soul so much as experience teaches the Roman Catholicks surpasse all others in this 5. Another great advantage they have above all others and that is the direction of their spiritual Pastors and Ghostly Fathers upon whom as there is a most strict charge laid that they have care of their spirituall children so they discharge that duty most exactly 6. The Doctrine they teach especially that of good Works Works of Supererogation Penance and Satisfaction is a great spurre and mover to perfection 7. To omit other instrumental causes of vertue and devotion that admirable and plainly divine invention and institution of Religious Orders differing one from another in their manner of living but most unanimous in beliving is plainly an admirable means to get vertue by yea that state of life is properly the schoole of perfection it self and by these you see how abundantly the Roman Catholicks are supplied with means for attaining to sanctity to these also may be added other particular helps mentioned in the second point of the first Meditation Consider secondly how Catholicks correspond with these great helps they have for the expulsion of Vice and purchase of Vertue The Church commands each one that 's come to the years of discretion to approach once a year to the holy Communion but commends a more frequent accesse What do they do hundreds in every great Town yea thousands in some repaire not once a year but once every week to that divine banquet they are commanded to confesse their sins to the Priests whose power to forgive sins was most assuredly given by Christ in these expresse and clear words Whose soever sins ye remit are remitted unto them Once a year yet thousands of them go to that Sacrament once every week They are commanded to be present at holy Masse every Sunday and Holyday yet besides these dayes thousands of them in every great Town perform that act of Religion every day is not this a true compliance with the forementioned means Are not these works of Supererogation a fair way to perfection These instances alone argue how much these people are addicted to prayer what good they get by their spirituall directors and how they fulfill that doctrine of good Works As for Fasting that soveraigne antidote against the sins of the Flesh Roman Catholicks are admired by all Sectaries for this as for upright dealing in civill contracts they have the repute of being generally the left injurious or unjust nor does any sort of peoples word go further than theirs even in treating with those who are averse from their opinions And truly to see so many of them families of great worth in this our Nation live so contentedly amongst the ruines of their great Fortunes which they might have kept intire in great part by once going with those of a different Religion to Church or swallowing over that one Oath yet would not this must needs argue a great fidelity to their religious Principles and a great esteem of vertue and piety in them as for these holy inhabitants of religious Monasteries they live as if they would win heaven which suffers force even by very violence such is their study of persection so intense their prayers so protracted their fastings so long their watchings so continual their study of self denial carrying their crosses and following their Saviour the things so much recommended by him to all by an exact imitation of heroicall vertues Who now can deny but the Roman Catholicks take to heart the study of perfection and that science of the Saints which is sanctity Compare these and Sectaries together and see what sequels follow Consider thirdly the number of their Saints behold a short Catalogue of some few of them in every Age besides the Apostles Disciples and others these following lived in the first Age Saint Dennis Linus Cletus Clement Martialis Thecla and others 2. Ignatius Policarp Justine Vincent Irenaeus Eleutherius Lucius Felicitas 3. Tiburtius Valerianus Cecily Barbara Agnes Agatha Laurence Xirtus George S. Gregory Thaum 4. Nicholas Antony Hilarion Hellen Athanasius Hilary Basil Gregory Naz. Hierom Ambrose Epiphanius 5. Chrysostome Augustine Paulinus Alexius Vrsula Lutrick Leo Germanus Simeon Stelites 6. Columbe Columbane Genovesa Siverius Leonard Leander Hermingildus Gregory the great 7. Isidore Aidan Edwin Oswald Cuthbert Theodore Benedict Ebbe Cesarius Lambert Eugenius 8. Bede S. John Damascen Germanus Cuthlack Grimwald Hubert 9. Sabinus Geroldus Ludgerus Rumoldus Nicetas Rembertus Swithin 10. Wenceslaus Dunstan Bruno Odocluniacensis Romaldus Elphegus Guibert 11. Henry the Emperour Edward Conf. Lanfrank Anselme Stanislaus Ivo Bruno Carthusianus Robert 12. Malachy Bernard William Norbert S. Thomas of Canterbury S. Hugh Bishop of Lincolne 13. Dominick Francis Mary Ognes Thomas Aquinas Bonaventure Gertrude 14. Roche Christina Sumlensis Gertrude ab Oesten Catharine of Sienna 15. Bernardinus senensis Viucentius Laurence Justinian Antoninus Colecta Francis of Paula Ignatius Loyola Francis Xaverius Philip Nereus Teresa Carolus Borom To these many thousands more might be added yea the English Martyrologe alone affords us Saints of our own Country for every day in the year Now that these were Saints and also Roman Catholicks it is evident First because all the whole Roman Church not any one expressing in the least the contrary acknowledgeth them for such and upon that score honoureth them Secondly because their written lives and Ecclesiasticall History do evidently evince the same Thirdly the practice of their lives and their opinions demonstrate that they were Roman Catholicks for they all honoured and obeyed the Pope as supream head of the Church next after Christ they practised Invocation of Saints Prayer for the faithfull departed saying or hearing holy Masse Priestly power to remit sins and other tenents now held by Roman Catholicks yea their very enemies the Magdeburgian Centurists acknowledge many of them for Saints even of the latest of them as S. Bernard S. Malachy S. Dominick S. Francis and others and grant that they held these foresaid opinions The third Point Consider now the state and condition of other Sectaries in point of sanctity First they have no means to acquire it whilest they remain as they are They deny that Priests have power to forgive sins and consequently make no use of that Sacrament their Communion they grant is but bare bread and consequently it cannot sanctifie them for publick worship there is none now in any sect in England a Psalm is all that is now extant of publick service amongst them and that rejected by most and for private prayer certainly they spend little time in it at least they do nothing that 's comparable to what the
thraldome so the reall Body and Blood of Christ is offered up when the priest by the power which Christ hath given him consecrateth it in Masse in remembrance and thanksgiving for the benefit of man's being redeemed by Christ from the more than Egyptian bondage of sin and therefore it is called Eucharist which signifies thanksgiving and it the sacrifice of Thanksgiving Is not this a better and more honourable remembrance of Christs passion than a bit of meer Bread and a sup of Wine The devout Ceremony of making the signe of the Crosse used and commended by the holy Fathers and all ancient Christians was plainly represented and commended to us all by that Thau in Ezekiel cap 9. and by the Angels signing the Servants of God in the Revelations cap. 7. v. 3. This as the rest is fulfilled perfectly only by the Church of Rome Gather hence that since the prophesies and types also the great promises contained in these prophesies are fulfilled in the Roman Church and in it only it follows evidently that it is Christs true Church The third Point Consider now the sad condition of Sectaries argued out of their having no share at all in this full table of sweet and comfortable promises foretold by the prophets for this evidently shews that they are not the Church of Christ nor members of it On the contrary they have just reason to fear that the heavy denounciations and threats of the prophets for in this kinde onely they are like to fulfill prophesies will fall upon them for as their novell opinions fond and prophane images of their own fancies made by their private spirit have some semblance of those Idols to which the Jews sometimes falling from the worship of the true God Sacrificed So let these modern imitatours of them take heed they be not delivered over to a reprobate sense and the like spirituall punishment with them And can you still persist in that perversnesse away with these fancies yeeld to truth and say with the repenting Jewes and in this they may by you be well imitated Signa nostra non videmus jam non est propheta Psal 73. v. 10. We acknowledge we have no signes nor miracles in behalf of our sects We grant there are no propheticall men amongst us We see not the marks of Christs Church upon our Sects We confesse the prophesies are not fulfilled by us And therefore from hence forth we will resolve and choose rather to be abject in the house of God his Church than to dwell in the Tabernacks of sinners of Sectaries any longer The eighteenth Meditation Of temporal blessings and felicities miraculously bestowed on the Defenders and Propagators of the Catholick Religion The first Point To understand how temporall felicity may be one mark amongst the rest which discovers the Church of Christ from all other Sects Consider first the difference betwixt the ordinary and extraordinary providence of God The first is that whose effects we see and feel in the production conservation and operation of creatures It appears also in the effects of mans morality industry or art and in the natural effects of all secondary causes The second appears to us chiefly in effects which are surpassing the forces of naturall causes the one confers riches honours victories kingdomes and the like after that manner which we have daily experience see or hear of By me Kings do raigne Prover 8. vers 15. sayes God and he cals them Ministers of his Kingdome Wisdome 6. vers 5. and Saint Paul sayes There is no power but from God Rom. 13. By the other he give principalities and victories miraculously when and to whom he pleases and without the cocourse of secondary causes any way proportionable to those prodigious effects Thus he gave the Jews Victories most miraculously as to Josu Gedeon Judas Machabeus and others which as they were extraordinary signes both of the Divine Protection over the Synagogue as also that it was then the true Religion so the same Argument holds in behalf of the Church of Christ that that people is it on which God bestows the like victories and benefits after a miraculous manner Consider secondly for the avoiding of errour in the weaker understandings that these temporall felicities are not to be supposed a mark of Christs Church in themselves but onely so far forth as they are conferred after a miraculous manner for certain it is that poverty is as conducing a means to eternal salvation as riches yea heaven is far casilier attainable by poverty if it be imbraced not only patiently but willingly than by riches yet they are in themselves both gifts originally arifing from the hand of God The Lord hath given the Lord hath taken away sayes Job chap. 1. The Lord maketh poore and enricheth he bringeth low and lifteth up 1 King 2. v. 7. Poverty and honesty are from God Eccles 11.24 He humbles this man and he exalteth that man Psal chap. 74. So that there is no doubt of this But we speak here of the manner of Gods dispensing out these temporals which when it is miraculous it argues which Religion is most favoured by Almighty God and consequently is his Hence infer that this mark is not any way repugnant to that other of persecution for different circumstances of time place and persons remove this difficulty the Jews though they were often miraculously protected by God yet at other times he permited them to be sore persecuted as by Antiochus and others The second Point Consider now by induction of examples how highly the Roman Church and its members have been favoured by Almighty God in a miraculous way Constantine the Emperour and honour of England his native country was a Roman Catholick well known by his great reverence to the Pope to the Saints and their Relicks and to the signe of the Crosse and his example methinks might move all England to reverence the same God gave him the Empire after a miraculous manner for as he were upon his march going out of England towards Italy with small forces against Maxentius the Tyrant who had in his Army a hundred and seventy foot with eighteen thousand horse espyed in the ayre about mid-day a faire Crosse with this inscription upon it In hoc vince overcome by means of this the next night our Saviour appeared to him and shewed him the same Crosse and gave him order to bear that signe in his Banner and so he should be victorious He did so overcame the Tyrant and then became Christian After which he was victorious in all his other Battails also by means of our Saviours promise made to him if he carried that figne of the Crosse which he did alwayes carry in his Standard called the Labarum causing it to be transferred alwayes to that quarter of the Army which was most weakned by the Enemy and the fight of it added new courage to the one by which the other were soon defeated Theodosius the elder a pious and
may saved and this acknowledgment did produce this effect in that honourable Lady the Countesse of Buckingham which was present at that publick disputation betwixt Mr. Fisher a Jesuit and Master White a Minister held by the Kings order For Mr. Fisher demanding of Mr. White whether or no he thought that one dying a Roman Catholick might be saved and he answering that upon his soul he thought such an one might be saved presently upon this she resolved to become a Roman Catholick and what she then purposed she soon put in execution as many thousands could witnesse Thirdly They confesse that Roman Catholicks do not erre in any fundamentall point of Faith and that they want none of the things essentially requisite to salvation and therefore the most learned Adversaries grant that Roman Catholicks are a true Church or members of the true Church though not the true Church to wit alone The consideration of this also as of the former cannot but comfort ROMAN CATHOLICKS whilest they remain so Now what a madnesse is it to fall from that Religion in which all parties agree that salvation may be had Certainly a prudent man will not venter his temporal estate upon a probable security if he can have a certainty provided also that it be lawful much lesse his eternall No man can in conscience expose his soul to hazard if he may make sure work For though in things which are necessary necessitate pracepti only a probable opinion of Doctours will save a soul harmlesse yet in things which are absolutely necesfary and means without which salvation cannot be had as the being a member of the true Church is the surest way is to be chosen Fourthly that very thing which hath been by me prefixed to my self as the end of my endeavours in these twenty Meditation which was to shew that the marks of Christs Church were to be found onely amongst the Roman Catholicks and consequently that Christs true Church was onely with them is by many of the chief protestants Writers granted by granting those things which really are the marks of Christs true Church They grant that S. Malachy S. Bernard S. Francis S. Dominick others were Roman Catholicks that they were Saints and that they wrought Miracles they grant the mark of Antiquity and that no known beginning of the Roman Church since the Apostles time which is a convincing argument that it begun in the Apostles time can be assigned They grant that the Roman Church never went out of any Society of Christians ancienter than it self They grant that no particular time can be assigned in which any innovation of Faith was introduced or change made in the Church of Rome which three things notwithstanding they ought not onely to deny but are obliged positively to prove the contrary or els grant that their forsaking the Church of Rome and caluminating it is most unjust as most certainly it is Besides this in granting as they do that the holy Fathers of the Primitive Church held the same forementioned opinions which the now existent Roman Catholicks hold consequently they must grant these two to be both one as also the Roman Catholicks to have those who were eminent in Sanctity Miracles Prophesie and the like for the holy Fathers of the Primitive Church were persons priviledged with all these great endowments and by good consequence to have the marks of Christs true Church In brief it hath been most amply proved by Catholick Authors as by the Protestants Apology and other learned Books that the ablest protestant Writers grant those things to be amongst Roman Catholicks which are truly the marks of Christs Church Read also the eleventh and thirteenth chapter in every Century of the Magdeburgians and you will see how effectually the Protestants like good advocates plead the cause of the Roman Catholicks who may truly say with Moses Our enemies are judges of the equity of our cause The second Point Consider now what things the Protestants acknowledge against themselves And here a man may truly say Out of thy own mouth I judge thee naughty servant First they disclaim from the antient Fathers and will not own them That Luther and Calvin and the Centurists doe so it is well knowne to all that read theire workes And that many of the English Protestant writers doe the same their works do witnesse True it is many of them doe pretend to appeal to the Fathers but since as many or more of them doe not but the contrary it appears by this that the Protestants are divided amongst themselves in this main point Therefore Mittam Egyptios contra Egyptios I will put the Egyptions against the Egyptions belongs to them And since of the forementioned Protestant Authors many do plainly censure and condemne the Fathers for holding popish tenents hence also it followes that they must grant them to bee all one with the now Roman Catholicks Secondly they grant that the ancient Fathers condemned in the ancient hereticks many opinions which are held by the protestants themselves now a days This is instanced at large by the author of the Progeny and others that the assertions of the old hereticks were condemned and that notwithstanding the Protestants now hold the same is evident and therefore they are forced to grant it in particular about the Sacraments the Scriptures Freewill Faith Good-works Mariage of Priests Monachism and divers other points Thirdly they grant that the four first generall Councels lawfully condemned Arius Nestorius Eutyches and Macedonius and that these were truly hereticks and yet some of them erred but in one point Therefore since to deny any one point sufficiently propounded as a truth revealed by God makes an heretick and this by the protestants own consession let any prudent man judg whether the protestants do not expose their sules to evident danger First by denying so many points now held by the Roman catholicks and the same held by the antient Fathers also Secondly by not having amongst themselves one and the same body or number of things to bee believed but on the contrary taking to themselves all liberty in believing and being actually so various and disagreeing in matters of faith as every where they are amongst them selves and so by granting these former to have been truly hereticks for their denial of some one point as they must grant it seeing the four first general councells are received in England hence it followes that they condemne and undo themselves and their own cause Founthly they grant that when Luther began there was neither true preaching nor true pastors nor true doctrine in the world Which thing though it be most false yet by granting this they grant that they themselves had no Church till Luther began and what Church began then onely could not be the true Church of Christ for want of Antiquity apostolical succession Visibility and Indefectibility which proprieties Christs Church must have True it is that Prideaux as also some others troubled
at this sequel denyes the former proposition pretends that the protestant Church was visible in every age But first neither he nor any other could ever yet prove any such visibility Secondly this argues that the protestants are here also as in other points at variance amongst themselves Lastly they confess and in confessing this alone they grant enough to undo themselves and establish the truth of the Roman Church that they went out from the Roman Catholicks The thing indeed in it self is most true and it hath been often proved by Catholicks that Waldo Wicliffe Hus Luther Calvin and the cheif of these new Reformado's were sirst Catholicks and members of the Roman Church before their change But the thing now to be considered is their own consession of this truth As for Luther he acknowledgeth in many places of his Works that he had been a Papist and went out from them And Caloin sayes in plain terms that he and his departed from the Church of Rome yea and from the whole world Discessionem à tot mundo facere coactisumus Mr. Jewel Fox Rainolds Mason and many more of them acknowledge their Church to have gone out of the Roman Church so that nothing remains now but to take notice of what sequels result out of this and their other ingenuous confessions The third Point Consider lastly Some inferences which may be drawn out of the two former points first by their granting that they went out of the Roman Church acknowledging also that those who dy in the same Church may besaved they evidently make themselves guilty of schisme 2. granting in this manner Salvation to Roman Catholicks whom they confesse also not to erre in fundamentals the latter of which is also inferred out of the former nor to want any of those things which are essntial requisites to salvation it followes that these other are not only guilty of Schisme but of heresie also if they hold any thing as they hold many contradictory to these confessedly foule saving tenents of Roman Catholicks 3. This grant of their going out from the Roman Catholicks which thing is evidently proved also in the third point of the meditation of antiquity this alone makes the protestant Religion guilty of novelty and by consequence of falshood for the true church of christ began in the time of the apostles theirs comming after that time could not be it by reason of its posteriority but some other false sect 4. The whole sum of what they have granted in behalf of the Roman catholicks and against themselves proves evidently that the Roman catholicks are the only true church of christ Since therfore in this great suite betwixt Sectaries especially Protestants and Roman catholicks about the true church of christ and whose it is by right we have not only proved that the marks of it and of that of the Roman catholicks are all one and consequently that these two are not in reallity two but one and the same church but our adversaries have moreover given us a judgement by confessing in substance that our claims are good and their own ill grounded what remaines but execution not that which the ministers of divine justice doe upon the wicked which God avert but that rather for such are my cordial wishes which the equity of this cause exacts to be done by convicted persons upon themselves by putting in execution that true conversion to the catholicke faith to which the evidence of these most credible testimonies the markes of the true church must needs incline an impartial reader Confident I am that the substance of these meditations cannot but convince that the markes of christs true church are to be found amongst the Roman Catholicks and only amongst them If passion prejudicate opinions obstinacy be laid aside if self-ends and temporal interests be not prevalent and disturb reason undoubtedly the testimonies of these markes will make it give sentence for the catholicke party Away with these fears of sequestration or temporal incumbrances heaven is a happy purchase though it cost you these yea life it selfe Such premisses as the praxis of your belief and life prepare such conclusions will death draw out in the end Nor can either belief or life be good in a Religion which is bad Choose therefore the best whatsoever it cost since thy salvation depends upon thy Election in point of Religion Mean while Let this be the last though not the least of the sequels which may be drawn out of the precedent Meditations to wit a cessasion of persecution Can reason yea can nature choose but cry out in seeing Catholicks persecuted where all Sects are tolerated and in beholding those mens blood shed or sought for even by those for the good of whose souls these others are so piously prodigall of their own blood England England which kill 's the Prophets and with the averse affections of thy hard heart ston's those that are sent to thee How often and how willingly would they have gathered thy children together as the Hen her Chickins under that shelter which he wished for who said Under the shade of thy wings protect me but thou wouldest not Behold thy house is left like a desert without Altar without Priest without Sacrifice stone upon stone and scarce that some where Alas The dayes will come in which thou must repent thy not taking notice of the visites which thy Saviour gave thee by his Servants England remember from whence thou hast fallen do pennance and do thy first works Return to thy self and consider how many thousands in the house of thy Father abound with bread the bread of Angels their daily bread whilest thou perishes with famine Rise goe and say Father I have finned against heaven and in thy sight now I am no more worthy to be called thy daughter since I have forsaken thy Spouse my mother And thou O God of hosts look down from heaven and behold and visite this vinyard and the Vineyard which thy right hand once planted let it by the same be again repaired to thy eternall glory Amen Soli Dei honor gloria ERRATA PAge 2. line 25 read proximus and marg Rom. 6.22 p. 3. l. 12 get p. 4. l. 11 dele all p. 8. l. 9 an oblation p. 14. marg dele Isa 7.9 p. 16. l. 27 dele ment p. 27. l. 13 what they are p. 28 marg Elogium's p. 40. l. 19 ingenuous mar del Jo. 5.24 p. 41. l. 10 machins p. 46. l. 20. Mar. 16.20 p. 54. l. 10 the enemy l. 13 eye witness reports p. 55. l. 7 a great blunder is l. 14 cambinding p. 47. marg 14.12 p. 57. l. 1 Ephpheta l 7 that way in p. 58. marg dele Lev. 15.16 p. 61. l. 26 believing p. 63. l. 18 least p. 65. l. 13 r. Patrick l. 15 Silverius p. 68. l. 21. Iohn Fox p. 85. marg 76.11 p. 86 l. 20 besanctified l. 25 need I p. 87. l. 6 I can p. 95. l. 3 Nervians p.