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christian_n	body_n	church_n	mystical_a	1,148	5	10.4023	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15420	A retection, or discouerie of a false detection containing a true defence of two bookes, intituled, Synopsis papismi, and Tetrastylon papisticum, together with the author of them, against diuers pretended vntruths, contradictions, falsification of authors, corruptions of Scripture, obiected against the said bookes in a certaine libell lately published. Wherein the vniust accusations of the libeller, his sophisticall cauils, and vncharitable slaunders are displayed.	Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621.	1603 (1603)	STC 25694; ESTC S114436	136,184	296

heart with whom he seemeth to haue shaken both hand and heart that is the father of lies and accuser of the brethren And thus we see how this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sophister of many heads as Plato saith turneth himselfe from lying to railing from railing to falsifying from that to bragging and so becommeth at the last audacious past shame But as Lysias said They that often offend are most readie to lie So it is no marueile that hee spareth not to vtter so many vntrueths that maketh no conscience of offending other waies his booke euery where breathing out nothing els but vniust accusations vncharitable surmises sophisticall cauils intolerable railings I would hee had considered well when his pen was going that saying of Hierome Peccare est hominis insidias tendere diaboli To sin of frailtie is of man but maliciously to lie in waite is of the diuell The 10. Falsification WHereas Augustine is cited Tetrastyl p. 100. out of libr. 22. de ciuitat Dei cap. 10. against the inuocation of Saints these exceptions are taken 1. That diuers of Augustines words that set foorth the sacrifice of the Altar are left out lib. pag. 249. 2. Augustine speaketh of that inuocation which is due onely to God so that his meaning is that the Martyrs are not inuocated as God Libel pag. 252. 3. Augustine speaketh not of the spiritual sacrifice of prayer but of the externall sacrifice of the Altar 4. Augustine is declared to allow inuocation to Saints lib. 6. de Baptis cont Donatist cap. 1. de cura pro mortuis cap. 4. lib. 22. de ciuit Dei cap. 8. The Iustification 1. FIrst if that the rest of the words following in Augustine had plainly set foorth your imagined sacrifice of the Altar was there any cause to alleage them seeing the question was onely of the inuocation of Saints you shew your selfe a fit man to write of controuersies that would bring in by head and shoulders whatsoeuer you finde in your way though neuer so impertinent to the cause 2. But what if he himself is the falsifier leauing out the most materiall words that take away his hold for the sacrifice of the Altar may not hee be counted a shamelesse man that in the same place where he obiecteth a fault to another committeth the same himselfe But this he doth for whereas Augustine endeth thus Ipsum vero sacrificium corpus est Christi quod nō offertur ipsis quia hoc sunt ipsi But the sacrifice it selfe is the body of Christ which is not offered to them the Martyrs because they themselues are the same body he hath cleane pared away these last words because they themselues are the same and supplieth them with an c. this hee doth p. 248. and blusheth not a whit at it Now in these words lieth hidden the whole sense the Martyrs are the same bodie or as learned Viues expoundeth ex Christi corpore of Christs body which is the sacrifice And that this is Augustines meaning it doth elsewhere appeare as libr. 10. de ciuit Dei cap. 6. Hoc est sacrificium Christianorum multi vnum corpus sumus in Christo quod etiam sacramento altaris fidelibus noto frequentat ecclesia vbi ei demonstratur quod in ea oblatione quam offert ipsa offeratur This is the sacrifice of Christians wee are many one bodie in Christ which in the sacrament of the Altar knowne to the faithfull the Church frequenteth that in the oblation which she offereth she her selfe is offered So then that bodie of Christ is the sacrifice wherof the Martyrs are members Is this any other then the mysticall bodie of Christs Church But how is the church otherwise offered vp in sacrifice then by their spiritual sacrifice of praise and thanksgiuing Thus then standeth Augustines reason The Martyrs cannot be both the sacrifice and the partie to whom the sacrifice is offered but they are the sacrifice that is part of the mysticall bodie of Christ which is commended vnto God by their spirituall sacrifice of prayer If hee can shew vs how the Martyrs are a piece of Christs naturall bodie then will we beleeue him that this maketh for the sacrifice which he vrgeth of Christs naturall bodie 2. Secondly his euasion is that they are not inuocated in the sacrifice of Christs bodie which hindreth not but in other publike prayers they may and hee insinuateth that they may bee inuocated with an inferiour kind of inuocation beside that which is proper to God as we pray men in earth to be int●r cessors for vs. Contra. 1. S. Augustine saith at which sacrifice as the men of God that by their confession haue ouercome the world in their place and order are named but not of the Priest which sacrificeth inuocated When is it most like they should be inuocated but when they are named if not when they are named then sure not at all 2. And though the very act of the sacrifice be not offered vnto them yet in the publike prayers then vsed beside they might be in●ocated but now they are not wherfore there is no place for this inuocation in publike prayers 3. And why doe ye popish priests now inuocate Saints and Martyrs in the Canon of your Masse if they are not to bee prayed vnto in the sacrifice of the Altar See how wel your sayings and doings your prating and practise hangeth together for doth not the priest thus say in the Masse Worshipping the memoriall of the Virgin by whose merits and prayers graunt wee may be defended And say they not likewise in the Masse of Leo We pray thee Lord vt intercessione beati Leonis haec nobis prosit oblatio that by the intercession of blessed Leo this oblation may profit vs Decret Greg. lib. 3. tit 41. c. 6. 2. Where learne you in the Scripture to make diuers kindes of religious inuocation I am sure the Apostle saith How can they call vpon him on whom they haue not beleeued Roman 10. 14. There is no inuocation without beleefe but wee must onely beleeue in God Ioh. 14. 1. You beleeue in God beleeue also in me As for the request which we make to our brethren to pray for vs in earth it is but a ciuill obseruation if ye demaund no more to be yeelded to the Saints we shall be soone agreed 3. Thirdly here is no mention made at al of the sacrifice of the Altar or of any externall sacrifice offered to God He saith Sacrificium-immolamus we doe offer vp sacrifice which phrase Augustine elsewhere applieth to spirituall sacrifice as lib. 5. cap. 24. de ciuitat Dei Si pro suis peccatis humilitatis miserationis orationis sacrificium deo suo immolar● non negligunt c. If they neglect not to immolate or offer the sacrifice of humilitie sorrow mercie or pitie we will not striue about words it signifieth pitie proceeding of sorrow and griefe and of prayer c. all