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A36721 An historical dissertation upon the Thebean Legion plainly proving it to be fabulous / by John Dubourdieu ...; Dissertation historique et critique sur le martyre de la légion thébéenne. English Dubourdieu, Jean, 1652-1720. 1696 (1696) Wing D2409; ESTC R17246 111,591 210

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immediately to God for us is a high Injury offered to the Priesthood of Jesus Christ Now as to his third Tenet viz. That the Saints have not the Power to convey to us those Graces which we want and that we ought not so much asto look upon them as the occasional Causes of them if this opinion of his be true what will become of so many Litanies and Prayers set down in the Popish Breviaries and in their Prayer and Mass-Books in which they ask the Saints to cleanse them from all their Sins to preserve them from the Sicknesses of the Spirit to inflame their hearts with the Fire of Charity to deliver them from Hell-fire to open the Gates of Heaven to them and to make them sit on Thorns with the glorious Company of the Blessed above c. Lastly if according to Malbranche's fourth and fifth Principles all the good Services which the Saints are able to do are only to move and excite Christ's desires towards us and to give us ease in our Afflictions or afford us a good Crop he Asserts these last Tenets in so dubious a manner and so faintly though upon any other matter he uses to be very Vigorous and Positive that it is an easy thing to discern that he himself is not very well convinced of it 'T is saith he The Opinion of the Church that the Saints do know all our wants We may pray to the Saints that they be pleased to stir up the desires and the Charity of Jesus Christ One Saint perhaps is more in Favour and hath more Access to Christ upon his own Holy-day than at another time or than another Saint It may be also that they have the power of healing our Sicknesses or of procuring us a plentiful Year We see by these shy and uncertain expressions how hard he is put to it to reconcile his Opinions with the Doctrine and Practice of his Church For indeed there is a palpable incompatibility of his Principles with that Religious Worship which the Romish Church pays to the Saints And we need only to examin the Principles which he had already laid before viz. That the Church by praying to the Father through the Son does acknowledge the Son to be equal and of one substance with the Father For if he were not so saith he we could not call upon him And likewise he had already said that the Father hath tyed his Blessings and Treasures to Christ's Desires and that this is the Reason why we ought to adore the Father and to call upon Christ But what he after adds deserves especially our consideration namely that these Desires of Christ are the desires of his human Will that his Flesh is the Principle of these Desires which make all the riches of the Church and the Sanctification of the Elect And that this is the reason why Religion teaches us to Address sometimes our Prayers to the Father because if we never did invocate any but Christ by reason of those Priviledges which God hath by an eternal Decree adapted to his Desire to those human desires he saith which do proceed from the Child of the Blessed Mary we should be in danger of adhering to Christ as he is a Man and of trusting in his Flesh with the same kind of Love and Trust which we owe only to the Infinite and Soveraign Being We may easily perceive that this way of reasoning is quite contrary to the Doctrine of the Roman Church and to that Worship it renders to Saints The Esteem indeed which I have for Great Men is such that I cannot forbear having also a kind of respect even for their odd fancies and by-ways of Writing which made me take notice by the by of Father Malbranch● his System concerning the worshipping of Saints though I know in the bottom of it there is no more reality than in a shadow or dream But after all should we suppose his Opinion to be not altogether groundless who would venture to say that supposititious Saints such as we have proved those of the Theb. Legion to be can move and excite Christs desires Therefore the Roman Church ought to confess that she hath erred in permitting and approving the Worship which is paid to them FINIS Some BOOKS Printed for R. Bently Books in Folio 1. BEaumont's and Fletcher's Plays in one Volume containing 51. Plays 2. Mr. William Shakespear's Plays in one Volume 3. Towerson's Works compleat in one Volume 4. Dr. Allestry's Sermons in one Volume 5. Dr. Comber's Works the four Parts in one Volume 6. The Council of Trent By Father Paolo 7. Toriano's Italian Dictionary 8. Mr. Milton's Paradice lost with 13 Copper Cuts finely engraven to express the whole Poem 9. Milton's Paradice Regain'd in the same Volume Paper and Print to bind with it 10. Fodina Regalis or the History of the Laws of Mines By Sir John Pettus 11. Bishop Brownrig's Sermons Books in Quarto 1. The Burnt Child dreads the Fire 2. A Treatise of our Sanguinary Laws against Papists 3. Dr. Whitby's Answer to S. Cressy 4. 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