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A12484	Of the author and substance of the protestant church and religion two bookes. Written first in Latin by R.S. Doctour of Diuinity, and now reuiewed by the author, and translated into English by VV. Bas.; De auctore et essentia Protestanticae Ecclesiae et religionis libri duo. English	Smith, Richard, 1566-1655.; Bas., W.	1621 (1621)	STC 22812; ESTC S117611	239,031	514

Analysis of the Confession of Ausburge pag. 525 As many as are enrolled for Christs soldiers by sacred baptisme or at least wise are ioyned to him by profession of fayth are euery one of them members of the Church simply taken as it signifieth the company of them that are called Serauia defens contra Bez●m cap. 2. pag. 31 As long as there remaines amongst them the new and old testam●nt together with the Sacrament of baptisme and beliefe in God the Father and in the Sonne and holy Ghost and they trust to be saued by the Sonne of God and his death albeit they adioyne a number of their owne wicked forgeries they are notwithstanding parts and members of the vniuersall Church The ministers of the scattered Church of the Netherlands in sua narrat pag. 71 No man can Professiō of Christ nor ought to giue sentence in the Church of an others condemnation of whome it is not publikely knowne that he is fallen away from the foundation of the Apostolicall Confession vttered by the mouth of Peter Oecolampadius epist ad Bucerum apud Hospin part 2. Professiō of Christ God and man Histor fol. 112 VVe are gladly at peace withall those that confesse with vs and teach Iesus Christ true God and true man in vnity of person And Bucerus apud eundem fol. 84 VVho so preach the same Christ with vs we account them ours what estimate soeuer they make of vs. Beza de lib. notis Eccles pag. 30 VVe say it is a true definition of the true Church whether generally considered or in particuler wherein it is sayd to be a company which acknowledgeth one Sauiour To acknowledge one Sauiour For sayth he this al●ne is the only ground-work● of that spirituall house of God Christ Iesus is the soule of that mysticall body the only rule and square of that building And the Confession of Bohemia artic 8. defines the Catholike Church to be all Christians That are associated in one beliefe concerning Christ and the holy Trinity The faith of Christ and the Trinity The Confession of Basse artic 5. hath this assertion VVe belieue the holy Christian Church c. VVherein all those are Citizens that confesse Iesus to be Christ the lambe of God which taketh away the sinnes of the world and shew openly the same beliefe by works of charity Acontius l. 3. Stratagem Satanae pag. 119. concludes that nothing else is necessar●ly to be belieued Beliefe of one God Christ but That there is one God and Christ his Sonne made man and raised from the dead and that saluation is purchased by his name and not by any other name nor by the works of the law And Luther vpon the 7. of Math. fol. 86. closeth vp all with this epilogue The head and summe of Christian doctrine is this That God saueth by Christ that God sent and gaue his Sonne by whome alone he pardoneth our offences and doth iustify and saue vs. This sayth he and nothing else it behoues thee firmely to belieue Sometyme to belieue their article of iustification by only fayth is as much as they require in a limme of their Church The only article of iustification sufficeth or think needfull to saluation Luther tom 7. tract in 3. symbol fol. 140 I haue found by experience that who so haue truly and sincerely belieued that principall article of Christian fayth concerning Iesus Christ though they had their errours and faults haue at last notwithstanding byn saued And tom 4. in cap. 42. Pareus in 1. Galat. lect 8. Iezler de bello Euch. fol. 77. Isaiae fol. 178 If we abide in this article we are secure from heresies and retaine remission of sinnes which pardoneth our weaknes in ciuill dueties and beliefe And in cap. 43. fol. 200 VVho so belieueth this article is out of danger for euer falling into error and the holy Ghost must needs assist him And Brocard vpon the 2. cap. of the Apocalips fol. 45 The former Ministers who were before the first councell of Trent determined that we ought not to contend but that their Supper should be common which had receiued one doctrine touching iustification Caluin de vera Eccles reform pag. 316. writeth thus I know it is the common saying of a great many that so the doctrine of vndeserued Iustification continue sound we should not be so stifly contentious about the rest And the Author of the Preface in Syntagma Confess after he had affirmed that the article of iustification is the ground work the forme and soule of Christian religion makes this demaund How can they then but haue peace one with another whosoeuer are fellow-partners of so great good And he saith it is An vnseemly and hainous thing that betweene such there should be emnity and debate And indeed all Protestants should teach so since they make this article the definition the summe and very soule of Protestantisme as shall be herrafter shewed in the 6. chapter Sometymes in a member of their Church they require only some one point of Christianity or but the profession of Christs name For Sturmius apud Hospin in Corcord discord c. 24. testifieth that Bucer sayd He would neuer condemne any one in whome he saw any point of Christianity Any point of Christianity And Plessy lib. de Eccles cap. 2. affirmeth that the Church may be infected with heresy from top to toe yet be a part of the vniuersall Church as long as it professeth the name of Christ And Moulins in his buckler of fayth pag. 43. The vniuersall visible Church is the company of all them who professe themselues to be Christians Thus we see that to a member of the visible Church yea to fayth to Christianity to a member of the true and Catholike Church to eternall saluation as Protestants sometyme iudge and determine litle or nothing sufficeth Do not these men go about to expose the Church meanes of saluation vnto scorne and mockery What Iew or Turke did euer make his Synagogue so common 4. Protestāts challenge those that deny euē fundamētall articles Albeit the former allegations do sufficiently conuince that when Protestants calculate the limmes and members of their Church they take to make vp the number such as renounce the very fundamentall articles of their beliefe yet to make it more euident and to preuent all colour of doubt I will adde other proofes besides And first we haue in this behalfe their owne Confessions For Beza lib. de Notis Eccles pag. 45. teacheth plainly that some errours euen in some fundamentall heads of fayth may creep into the Catholike Church And D. Whitaker cont 2. quest 4. cap. 3. pag. 490 It is manifest that the true Church may erre for a tyme euen in necessary points The like hath Hutterus in Analysi Confessionis Augustanae pag. 453. and Iunius doth intimate as much lib. 3. de Eccles cap. 17. D. Whitaker againe cont 2. quest 5 cap. 17 VVe gather

Heathens Pagans and infidells And in his Apology for the Switzers Churches he defineth Schisme to be a separation from the rest of the body of the Catholike Church Zanchius also in his treatise of the Church cap. 7. reacheth that Schismatikes are not in the Church And su●us in his 3. booke of the Church c. 5. approueth the fame of such Schismatikes as separate themselues from the whole Church The strangers in England writing to Beza in the 24 epistle haue these words in their 13. article VVhosoeuer is lawfully excommunicated of a particuler Church or cutteth himselfe of vpon vnlawfull causes and with scandall in that doth loose all priuiledge of the Catholike Church And Beza answereth them in the name of the Church of Geneua in this manner Your thirteenth article we wholy receiue at most orthodoxall Casaubon in his 15. exercitation against Baronius num 6. It is an vndoubted truth that how often soeuer a pious flock is ioyned to a true Bishop there is a Church of God in so much that if any forsake that Church it cannot be doubted but that he is out of the Church Finally Chamier in his epistle to Armand excludeth Schismatikes out of the Church because sayth he they want the sincerity of the Sacraments English Protestāts Amongst our English Protestants his Maiesty in his foresayd epistle to Cardinall Peron All those testimonies of Augustin proue only this that there is no hope of saluation for those who leaue the Communion of the Catholike Church which the King willingly graunteth D. Whitaker in his 2. controuer 5. quest 6. cap. sayth It is false that hereticall and Schismaticall Churches be true Churches Againe The Catholike Church consisteth not of diuided but of vnited members And cap. 2 The true and Catholike Church is that which consisteth of Catholiks D. Fulke in his booke of the succession of the Church VVhat auailed it them to eternall saluation to haue byn sound in Religion and doctrine seing they were cut of from the Communion of the true Church in which alone saluation is and from her true head VVhat skilleth it whether one being drawne by heresy or Schisme from the body of Christ be subiect to euerlasting damnation D. Humfrey in his answere to the 3. reason of F. Campian VVe confesse that he is vndone who is separated from the followship of the Church And D. Feild in his first booke of the Church cap. 7 The name of the Catholike Church is applyed to distinguish men holding the sayth in vnity from Schismatiks And in his 2. booke c. 2. he sayth that Schismatikes are not Catholike Christians Thus we see how Protestants sometymes do teach that the true Church consisteth of Catholiks of members vnited not deuided that it hath no Schismes or Sects That Schismatiks are not Catholiks that their vnity is not true nor Catholike that their Churches ought to be forsaken that they are not vniuocally Churches nor true Churches that they are not members of the true Church but out of the Church altogeather out of the Church and actually neither of the visible nor inuisible Church and that this is an vndoubted truth which cōfession of theirs must be well noted and kept in mind for thereby is ouerthrowne as we shall see in the 2. booke their only argument wherwith they endeauour to proue that their Church was before Luther and also is defaced their only essentiall mark of finding the true Church by the truth of doctrine For Schismatikes as we shall heare them confesse in the 2. booke hold true doctrine and neuertheles as here they acknowledge are not of the true Church They exclude those that deny any fundamētal article 5. In like manner they do commonly debarre from their Church all such as deny any principall or fundamentall point of fayth Melancthon in his booke of common places in the title of the Church They are not members of the Church who pertinaciously maintaine errours opposite to the foundation And in his answere to the Bauarian articles Saints may haue errours but not such as ouerthrow the foundation In his examen of those that are to take orders Agreement in the foundation Lutherās is a thing necessary to the vnity of the Church And vpon the 3. cap. of the 1. epistle to Timothy The foundation is held in the Church otherwise there should be no Church at all And in his 79. proposition tom 4 It is most certaine that those companies are not the Church of God who either are altogeather ignorant of the Ghospell or impugne some article of the foundation that is some article of fayth or doctrine of the decalogue or maintaine open idols Chemnitius in his common places pa. 3. title of the Church Neither can these be acknowledged for the true Church who imbrace fundamentall errours And the Lutherans in the conference at Ratisbon Ses 14. Hutter in his Analysis of the Confession of Auspurg Gesner in his 24. place Adam Francis in his 11. place and other Lutherans commonly agree that the Church cannot erre Fundamentally or in the Foundation And the Confession of Saxony giueth this note to know who are in the Church Sacramētaries Those who hold the Foundation As for Sacramentaries Caluin in his 4. booke of Institutions cap. 2. num 1 So soone as a lye hath broken into the castle of Religion the summe of necessary doctrine is inuerted the vse of Sacraments is fallen certainly the destruction of the Church ensueth euen as a mans life is lost when his throat is cut or his vitall parts deadly wounded And soone after It is certaine that there is no Church where lyes and errour haue gotten to the toppe And cap. 19. num 17 VVithout doubt the Church of the faythfull must agree in all the heads of our Religion Sadeel in his answere to the Theses held at Posna cap. 12 I thinke the matter is thus to be defined by the word of God that if any in what Church soeuer dissent in the foundation of sayth and be obstinate in their errours such appertaine not to the vnity of the Church The like he hath in his answere to Arthure cap. 12. Vesinu● in his Catechisme quest 54. cap. 4 The whole Church erreth not nor wholly nor in the foundation Polanus in his Thesis of the Church sayth The Church erreth not in the foundation The same teacheth Zanchius in his treatise of the Church c. 7. Lubbertus in his 2. booke of the Church c 3. Vorstius in his Anti-bellarmin pag. 139. Bucanus in his 41. place and other Sacramentaries commonly And with them herein agree our English Protestants English Protestāts For thus sayth his Maiesty in his epistle to Cardinall Peron The Churches are vnited in vnity of sayth and doctrine in those heads which are necessary to saluation And D. Whitaker in the preface of his Controuersies The foundations of sayth are of that nature that one being shaken nothing in all religion remaineth sound And Contr. 2. quest 4. cap.