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A69066	A summe of Christian doctrine: composed in Latin, by the R. Father P. Canisius, of the Society of Iesus. With an appendix of the fall of man & iustification, according to the doctrine of the Councel of Trent. Newly translated into Englishe. To which is adioined the explication of certaine questions not handled at large in the booke as shall appeare in the table; Summa doctrinae Christianae. English	Canisius, Petrus, Saint, 1521-1597.; Garnet, Henry, 1555-1606.	1592 (1592)	STC 4571.5; ESTC S107545	301,676	715

mer. c. 19. li. 4. contr Donat cap. 24. God-fathers hee made in the holy Lauer. Therefore let euery Christian consider that of the childe of Wrathe and slaue of Satan hee there was made the Sonne (d) Ro. 8 1.14 Gal. 4 5. of God and a member and coheire of Christ a liuelie (e) 1. Cor. 6 19. Temple of the holy-Ghost Thou enteredst into the sanctuary of regeneration saith (f) Amb. de initiaÌ„ myst ca. 2. Chrys hom 21. ad pop Antioc Aug li. 4. de symb ad Cat. cap. 1. S. AMBROSE call to minde what thou werte demaunded Recognize what aunswer thou diddest make Thou hast renounced the diuell and his workes the worlde with all her luxuriousnesse pleasures (g) Amb. l. 1. de Sacram. c. 2. Cyr. Hieros catech mystag 1. Bee mindfull of thy speache and neuer let the processe of thy obligation depart out of thy remembrance And it is an excellent speache of S. PAVL exhorting all those that are Baptised (h) Ro. 6 3. Gal. 3 27. Aug. de fide operibus cap. 26. Are you ignorant that all we which are Baptised in Christ Iesus in his death we are baptised For wee are buried together with him by Baptisme into death that as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father so we also may walke in the newenesse of life OF THE SACRAMENTE OF CONFIRMATION 1 Which is the other Sacrmente next vnto Baptisme COnfirmation which is a Sacrament of the new Law as sacred holy saith (a) Lib. 2. coÌ„tra lit Petil. c. 104. Concil Eliber ca. 38 Aurel. c. 3. Lac. c. 48. Melden c. 6. Flor. Const ses 15. Trid. ses 7. Bern. in vita Malach. episc Petrus DamiaÌ„ ser 1 dededicat eccles Isid de eccles offic li. 2. c. 25. 26. Raban de inst cler l. 1. c. 30. S. AVGVSTINE as Baptisme it selfe which is ministred vnto the Baptised with the impositioÌ„ of the hands of a Bishop the annointing with holy Chrisme 2 What warrant haue we to vse this Sacrament IT hath the testimonie of diuine Scripture according to the vniforme sentence and interpretation of the Fathers and the (a) Cyp. l. 1. ep 12. Aug. lib. 5. cont Dona. cap. 19. 20. item tract 6. in ep Ioan. Church For hereunto belongeth that which (b) Act. 8 17. 19 5. Cypr. ad Iubaian S. LVKE the EuaÌ„gelist not once writeth of the Apostles that laide their hands vpoÌ„ the Baptised vsing this visible signe ordained by God himselfe because a newe and more plentifull grace of the holy-Ghost was giueÌ„ to those which were new borne in Christ And therfore wheÌ„ the Apostles laid hands vpon them they receiued as S. LVKE recordeth of those (c) Ibidem Baptised the holie Ghost to witte with a certaine encrease and aboundance of spirituall grace But at this time whereas the Bishoppes doe beare the roome and possesse the place of the Apostles God doth not defraud his Church of this so holesome a grace but by the same Bishoppes (d) Hier. coÌ„t Lucif cap. 4. in this Sacrament woorketh effectually so that as (e) serm de vnctione Chrismatis testifieth S. CYPRIAN The verity is ioined with the signe and the spirite is present in the Sacrament And hereunto doth appertaine that Canon of the Church of olde set downe (f) Vrban Pont. et Martyr qui. anno 227. vixit in ep ad omnes Christianos All the faithfull ought to receiue the holy-Ghost after Baptisme by the imposition of handes from a Bishoppe that they may bee founde perfite Christians because when the holy-Ghost is infused the faithfull heart is dilated to prudence and constancie 3 What things are necessary for the perfection of this Sacrament THree thinges are speciallie required thereunto the proper matter of the Sacrament the due forme of wordes and a conuenient Minister The matter is compound of Oile and (a) Conc. Braccar c. 4. Cypr. de vnction Chris Greg. in 1. c Cant. Fab Con Flo. Baulme which being consecrated by a Bishoppe hath nowe of olde obtained the name of holye (b) Cypr. vt supra l. 1. ep 12. Bas de spir saÌ„ c. 27. Fab qui vixit anno 241. ep 2. Chrisme and in this Sacrament is after a solemn manner laid vpon the forehead The prescripte forme of wordes is this (c) Con Flo. 2. Cor. 1 21. Ephes 1 13. I doe signe thee with the signe of the Crosse and confirme thee with the Chrisme of saluation In the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost The Minister of this Sacramente is a Bishop only that the example forme Tradition of the (d) Act. 8 14 Clem ep 4. VrbaÌ„ Melc Damasc ep 4. Leo. epi. 88. ad episc Ger. Gall. Conc. Wor. Flor. Tri. Apostles may be kept Of which thing we haue receiued a decree set down of olde in this maner (e) Eus Pon. Mart. ep ad Episcop Tusc CaÌ„pan Innoc. c. 1 ep 1. ad Decent c. 3. The Sacrament of imposition of hands is to be had in great reuerence which cannot be done by any other but by the high Priests neither is it reade or knowen to haue beene donne by any other in the Apostles time but by the (f) Act 8 14. 19 6. Apostles themselues 4 And why are the Baptised annointed with holy Chrisme BEcause that by the instincte of the holy-Ghost Bas de spir san cap. 27. the Apostles haue so deliuered vnto vs as (a) Epi. 4. ad Iulium Iulian. S. CLEMENT and (b) De eccle hier c. 4. 2 S. DENIS the disciples of S. PETER and S. PAVL doe proue and they deliuered that doubtlesse concerning the hallowing of Chrisme which they had receiued of our Lord himselfe as is thereof a graue witnes (c) In ep ad Orientales Episc FABIANVS who was both a Martyr of Christ and high Bishop of the Church Also there is extant of this matter such a precept of a most holie (d) Synod Laod. can 48. Corn. ad Fab. Antioc apud Euseb l. 6. hist c. 35. Theodor. de haer Fabul in Nouat Synode The Baptised after Baptisme must receiue the most holy Chrism and be made partakers of the kingdome of heauen Sainte CYPRIAN alleadgeth (e) l. 1. ep 1â— de vncti Chrismat Cyril l. 9. in Leuit Cyril Hier. catech 3. myst this reason that a Christian hauing once receiued Chrisme to witte Vnction or Annointing may be the annointed of God and haue in him the grace of Christ and continually maintaine holinesse And this visible OintmeÌ„t wherwith the Church doth annoint the Baptised as (f) l. 15. de Trinit ca. 26. Pacianus Barcilonen de Baptis et ep 1 ad sympron S. AVGVSTINE teacheth doth signifie the gifte of inuisible grace wherewith the holy Ghost doth with his internal Vnction replenishe and confirme Christ principally who tooke his

vnto vs for whose (h) Ephes 5 26. RedeÌ„ption clensing Sanctification gathering together (i) Io. 11 52. Col. 1 18.24 Eph. 4 12. 1 22. wholy vniting vnto himselfe the Sonne of God did and suffered all thinges in so much as he doubted not to geue his most holy body and blood for the loue of her For Her he asked (k) Io. 17 21 Luc. 22 31. Mat. 16 18. obtained that Her faith vnity stedfastnesse might neuer faile To her (l) Io. 14 15.26 et 15 26. 16 12. he hath promised and faithfully (m) Act. 2 4 sent downe and lefte a teacher president and gouernour and the holy Ghost Hee (n) Io. 14 26 saieth he shall teach you all thinges and suggest vnto you all thinges whatsoeuer I shall say to you hee (o) Ibidem 16. shall abide with you for euer He shall (p) Io. 16 13 Aug. tract 97. in Mat. teach you all truth to witte whatsoeuer is necessarie to be knowne and beleeued 11 By whom I pray you dothe the holy Ghost teach vs the trueth in the Church Act. 20 28. 1. Tim. 3 2. Heb. 13 17. Ephes 4 12. 1. Cor. 12 28. BY those vndoubtedlye whom the Apostle witnesseth to be ordained by the holy Ghost to gouerne the Church whom he calleth Bishops Prelats Pastours also and Doctours And these (a) Aug. in Psal 44. after the Apostles haue bene euer yet are the chiefe Ministers of God of the Church high Stewardes and Dispensors (b) 1. Cor. 4 1. of the mysteries of Almightie God The authority of whom both in many other thinges and espeacially in the Sacred (c) Can. Apost 38. Conc. 1. Nic. Soz. l. 6. c. 7. Theodos imper apud Cyrillum ep 4. Basil imperat in 8. Synod act 10. Atha in ep ad solit vitaÌ„ agentes Ruff. lib. 1. hist ca. 5. Synods may euidently be seene where they haue not only power to determine certaine thinges of Faith Religion but also by their owne right and Apostolike auctority to proteste and say It hath seemed good to the holye Ghost and vs as it appeareth by the actes of the first Councell holden (d) Act. 15 28. at Hierusalem It was certes of olde a very heinous crime such a one as was punished by (e) Deut. 17 12. death if any man had not obeied the iudgemente of the Highe-Prieste that gouerned the (f) Mat. 23.2 chaire of MOYSES And yet the (g) Cypr. ep 55. ad Corn. ep 62. ad Pomp. Church hath now autority in gouerning iudgeing and decreeing no whitte inferiour to that which then the Synagog had That Lawe of obedience that was amongest the Iewes standeth also in force amongst the Christian that the iudgementes of the Highe-Preists whose dignity and authority is most excellent about (h) Greg. l. 1. ep 24. ad Patriar et l. 2. indict 11. ep 10. ad Sauin Niceph. l. 16. ca. 33. all such matters as doe belong vnto Religion bee receiued approoued and obserued And therefore they do incur the guilte of an enormous crime who are so far off from yeelding anie authority obedience vnto the Magistrates of the Church that they presume euen openly to oppugne abolishe sometime the holy (i) 3. Conc. Tol. c. 1. dist 19. et 9. qu. 1 Patet et seq Laws of the High-Bishoppes who haue alwaies hadde (k) Hier. ad Damas ep 57. et 58. Chalc. Syn. act 3. in epi. ad Leon. 6. Syn. act 4. supreame power and authority to determine of holy things And sometime the reuerend decrees of general Counsails whose autority in the Church as S. AVGVSTINE (l) ep 118. c. 1. et l 1. con Donat. c. 18. Greg. vt supra speaketh is most holesome Finally sometime the vndoubted sentences of the Fathers about matters of faith whose general iudgemeÌ„t (m) Vin. Lirinens cont Nouat Aug. l. 1. 2. contr Iul. PaciaÌ„ ep 1. ad SymproÌ„ coÌ„sent in one matter is a firme testimonie of Christian verity It was very notablely spoken of good and deuoute Emperors He doth (n) Actio 3. Con. Chalc. Gelas in ep ad Epi. Dar. Leo. ep 43. 50. ad Mart. 78. ad Leonem Augustum iniurie to the iudgement of the Counsaile whosoeuer goeth about to call into question publike disputation those thinges that are once iudged and rightlie disposed 12 To what end is this diuine ordinance and appointment that there bee alwaies Pastours Doctours in the Churcb THis ordinance of God is not a little profitable and holesome for vs by which the power and holie gouernemente of the Church doth (a) Chrys l. 3 de sacerd ho. 4. 5. de verb. Isa Ignat. ad Smyrnenses Ambr. in exhort ad Virgines l. 2. de dignit sacerd cap 2. farre excell all Ciuil autoritie For this is a spirituall power by which the Christian people is singularly furthered in the atcheiuing of spirituall and eternall good thinges And first It profiteth that wee may vse the wordes of (b) Eph. 4 12 S. PAVL to the consummation of the Saints that is to say that they which doe exercise that power may exhibite euery (c) Col. 1.28 man perfite in Christ as the same Apostle speaketh in an other place and by their diligence bring the faithfull to that perfection of holinesse (d) 1. Thes 4 7. 2. Tim 3 17. 2. Câ—r 13 11. to which they haue bene called It profiteth also to the worke of the ministerie that they which are called and are in deede the chiefe ministers of the Church may be alwaies (e) Act. 20 28. Heb. 13 17. Cypr ep 66. ad Furn. vigilant and carefull according to the great and highe function coÌ„mitted vnto their charge It profiteth besides * Eph. 4 12. vnto the edifying of the body of Christ that these spirituall and wise Architectes (f) 1. Cor. 3 10. may knowe that about the (g) Eph. 1 23. Col. 1 18.24 Eph. 2 21. misticall body of Christ which requireth a singuler industrie in the building they must be continually occupied sometime to lay and fortifie the foundations of true faith sometime to builde (h) 1. Cor. 3 12. vp other things necessarie to the perfit righteousnesse of the faithfull It profiteth finally (i) Eph. 4 14 1. Cor. 14 20. Ro. 15 1 Act. 14 21. 1. Thess 3 2 4 1. Ezech. 34 2. that we be not children wauering and caried about with euery winde of doctrine in the wickednesse of men that is to say for the weaker sorte which are alwaies in the Church very many in number the function of Ecclesiasticall Prelates is very necessary espeacially at such time as the tempestes of heresies and the stormes of (k) Mat. 7 25. persecutions doe beate into the house of the Church For then there is need of the present helpe of those who according to their authoritie both

The seuenth Age Anno. Dom. 600. Leontius Episc Sophronius Episc S. Isidorus Hispalen Episc Concilium Hispalense 2. Concilium Toletanum 4. Georgius Alexandrinus Episc hic sorte Concilium Braccarense 2. Concilium Toletanum 8. Concilium Braccarense 3. The sixt generall Councell of Constantinople Synodus Trullana ConstaÌ„tinopolitana * The eight Age Anno Dom. 700. Venerabilis Beda S. Ioannes Damascenus The seuenth general CouÌ„cell of Nyce 2. * The ninth Age Anno. Dom. 800. Alcuinus Paulus Diaconus Concilium Moguntinum Ionas Aurelianens Episc Concilium Aquisgranense 1. 2. Haymo Episc Rabanus Episc Concilium Wormatiense Phocius Episc The eight general Councell of Constantinople Ioannes Diaconus Rom. Remigius Antisiod Episc Theophilactus Episc Concilium Triburiense Concilium Nannetens hic force * The eleventh Age Anno Dom. 1000. Burchardus Wormatiensis Episc Concilium SaleguÌ„stadiens S. Petrus Damianus Episc S. Lansiancus Episc Concilium Rom. sub Leone 9. cont Petergar Concilium Vercellense sub eodem Concilium Turonense sub Victore 2. Concilium Rom. sub Nicolao 2. Guitmundus Episc Algerus Concilium Rom. sub Gregor 7. contr eundem Berengarium S. Anselmus Episc Oecumenius S. Iuo Carnotensis Episc * The twelfth Age Anno Dom. 1100. Zonaras Rupertus Tuitiensis Gulielmus Abbas S. Bernardus Hugo Victorinus Gratianus Euthymius Concilium Lateran sub Alexandro 3. Lucius 3. Pont. Nicetas Innocentius 3. Pont. * The thirteenth Age Anno 1200. Concilium Lateran magnum sub Innocent 3 S. Thom Aquinas Concilium Lugdunen sub Gregor 10. Gulielmus Durand Episc * The fourteenth age Anno Dom. 1300. Nicephorus Calixtus Concilium Viennense sub Clemenet 5. * The fifteenth Age Anno Dom. 1400. Concilium Constantiense Concilium Basilcense Concilium Florentinum Bessarion Episc Sixtus 4. Pont. * The sixteenth Age Anno Dom. 1500. Concilium Tridentinum A TABLE CONTAINING the order and Summe of the whole Catechisme CHRISTIAN Doctrine consisteth in Wisedome Iustice To Wisedome maie bee referred these Chapters that followe in order CHAP. I. OF FAITH and the CREEDE where amongest other thinges are handled these that followe Of the author of the Apostles Creede q. 5. Of the descending of Christ into Hell q. 13. Of the Markes of the Church that it is Visible q. 18. One q. 18. Holy q. 18. Catholicke q. 18. CHAP. II. OF HOPE and our Lords Praier with the ANGELICALL Salutation as also Of Hope to be ioined with Feare q. 2. Of the Praise of our Blessed LADY q. 15. 16. 17 18 19. Of the Veneration of our Blessed LADY q. 15. 16. 17 18 19. Of the Inuocation of our Blessed LADY q. 15. 16. 17 18 19. CHAP. III. OF CHARITY and the Ten Commaundements Also Whether the Ten Commaundementes doe belong vnto Christians q 6. Whether they may be kepte q. 6. Of the Inuocation of Saintes q. 8. Of the Worshippe of Saintes q. 8. Of the Relickes of Saintes q. 8. Of the Holy-Daies of Saintes q. 8. Of the Images of Christ and the Saintes q. 9. Of the Preceptes of the Church namely Of Traditions Apostolicall Ecclesiasticall q. 1. as followeth Of the Church and her autorty q. 9 10. 16. Of the Bishoppe of ROME and the Church of ROME q. 9. Of Councelles q 11. Of the autority of holy Fathers Ibidem Of the fiue precepts of the Church q. 14. Of the holy Scripture and the interpretation thereof q. 16. CHAP. IIII. OF the SACRAMENTES in generall Of Ceremonies q. 8. Of the Sacrament of Baptisme Of Concupiscence in the Regenerate q. 3. Of the Sacrament of Confirmation Of Chrisme q. 4. Of the Blessed Sacrament Of the Reall Presence q. 4. Of Transubstantiation q 5. Of the adoration thereof q. 6. Of the sacrifice of the MASSE q. 7. Of communicating vnder both kindes q. 8. Of the Sacrament of Penance Of Contrition q. 4. Of Confession q. 5. 6. Of Satisfaction q. 7. 8. Of Purgatory and the faithfull departed q. 9. Of the Sacrament of Extreame-Vnction Of the Sacrament of Orders Whether al Christians be Priestes q. 2 8. Of honour due vnto PRIESTES whether they be good or euill q. 6. 7. Of the Sacrament of Matrimony Of diuorcement q. 3. Of Vowe breakers q. 4. Of the Marriage of Mounks Nunnes Ibidem Of the single life of PRIESTES q. 4. 5. Of VIRGINITY q. 5. and more at large in the question of the Euangelicall Councelles CHAP. V. OF CHRISTIAN IVSTICE The first part of the Chapter 1 Of sinnes in generall 2 Of the seauen deadly sinnes 3 Of Alien sinnes that is of sinnes of other men which by any defaulte of ours doe touche vs. 4 Of the sinnes against the Holy-Ghost 5 Of the sinnes that cry into Heauen 6 Of the purging or expiation of sinne 7 Of small or Veniall-sinnes The second part of the Chapter 1 Three kindes of good Workes where also is intreated Of the fruite of good Workes q. 2. Of Fasting q. 4. and as followeth Of Praier q. 7. and as followeth Of Almes the workes of Mercy q. 10. as followeth 2 The Cardinall vertues 3 The gifts fruits of the Holy-Ghost 4 The eight Beatitudes 5 The Euangelical Counsels of the Gospel Of Euangelical Pouerty Chastity Obedience q. 3. 4. 5. Of Mounkes Religious Orders q. 5. 6 The foure last things of a Man To coÌ„prehend the summe of al ChristiaÌ„ Doctrine in one worde this sentence of Ecclesiasticus is worthy the noting which saith My Sonne coueting WISEDOME Eccli 1 33. conserue IVSTICE and God will giue it vnto thee THE TABLE OF THE APPENDIX 1 Of the fall of the first Man 2 Of the transfusing of Adams sinne into all men 3 Of the remedy of Originall sinne 4 Of the relicks of Original sin in those which are baptised 5 Of the imbecility of nature of the law to iustify meÌ„ 6 Of the dispensation and mystery of the comming of Christ 7 Who are Iustified by Christ 8 A description of the Iustification of the wicked man the manner thereof in the state of the Lawe of Grace 9 Of the necessity of preparation to Iustification in those of full age and whereof it riseth 10 The manner of preparation to Iustification 11 What is the Iustification of a wicked Man and what are the causes thereof 12 Howe it is to be vnderstoode that a wicked Man is iustified by Faith and freely 13 Against the vaine confidence of Heretickes 14 Of the increase of Iustification once receiued 15 Of obseruing the Commaundements the necessity and possibilitie thereof 16 That the rashe presumption of Predestination is to be auoided 17 Of the gifte of perseuerance 18 Of those which are fallen of their reparation 19 That by euery mortall sinne Grace is lest but not Faith 20 Of the fruites of Iustification that is to say of the Merite of good workes and of the reason of the same Meritte A Table of the other Questions following 1 Of Hallowed Creatures in the Church 2 Of Pilgrim age vnto he ly places 3 Of Indulgences or Pardons THE FIRST CHAPTER

Luc. 24.47 Mat. 28 19. 16 18. Aug. ep 170 et 166. cont ep fund c. 4 et lib. de Verrel â—7 Pacia ep 1. ad sym pron Vinc. Lir. Hier. coÌ„ Luc. f. c. 9 Bed in 6. c. Cant. Catholike that is to say vniuersal so that she being dispersed throughout the world in her motherly bosome receaueth embraceth safe keepeth all persons of al times places nations so that they be of one mind consent in the faith doctrine of Christ Fourthly that there is in the same Church a communion of Saintes soe that those which liue (f). Eph. 4 11.16 Psa 118 63. Col. 1 12. Phil. 1 4. 2. Co. 8 14. 1. Io. 1 3. Ro. 12 4. 1. Cor. 12 4. Aug. Tr. 32. in Io. in the Churche as the house and family of Almightie God doe holde an vnseparable society and vnity amongste them selues and as members of one the selfe same body helpe assist one an other with mutuall benefites merites prayers Amongst theÌ„ there is vnity of faith consente of doctrine conformable vse of sacraments and notwithstaÌ„ding the disseÌ„tions errours what (g) Euse l. 7 cap. 19. Aug. 2. con Do. c. 6. ep 19. de vera rel c. 6. euer they be that by meanes of some fewe maye spring and growe vp yet are they all wayes carefull to * Eph. 4 3. keepe the vnitye of the Spirite in the bande of peace And in this CoÌ„munion vndoubtedly not only the Saintes of the Churche militant that doe traueyle as pilgriÌ„mes vpon earthe but also all the blessed Saintes of the Church moste happily triumphant with Christ in heauen (h) Aug. ser 181. de teÌ„p cap. 13. Euch. c. 56. as also the soules of the godly which hauing departed this life are not (i). Aug. lib. 20. ciui c. 9. Greg. l. 4. dial cap. 39 yet come to that happy estate of the blessed Saintes (k) Gen. 7 23. 1 Pet. 3 20 Esa 60 12 Aug. â—p 50 152. de vnit Ec. c. 4. 19. Ful. de fid ad Pet. c. 37.38.39 Pacia ep 2. ad smpto Ire l. 4. c. 43 Greg. l. 14. mor. cap. 2 Chrys ho. 11. in ep ad Eph. Conc. Later c. 1. Alcim Aul. l. 4. c. 19. Io 6 66 Iudae 18. are al together ioyntly compreheÌ„ded Out of this coÌ„munion of Saints like as out of the k Arke of Noe there is certainlye vndoubted destruction but no saluation for mortall men not for the Iewes or Heathens that neuer receaued the fayth of the Church not for Haeritikes that haue forsakeÌ„ the fayth once receaued or any way corrupted the same not for Schismatiks that haue deuided theÌ„ selues from the peace and vnity of the Churche finally not for (l) 1. Cor. 5 4. 1. Tim. 1 20 NuÌ„ 12 14. Mat. 18 17. 2 Io. 10. 2. The. 3 6.14 Cyp. ep 62. Aug. l. 1. coÌ„ adu le c. 17 Eus apud Damasc l. 3. Paral. cap. 45 ExcoÌ„municate persons that for any greuous crime or cause haue deserued to be cut of as hurtfull pernicious members from the body of the Church And all and euery of these because they do not appertaine vnto the Churche to her holy coÌ„munion they can-not be partakers of the grace of God )m). Aug. ser 181. de temp c. 12. in ps 88. conc 2 ep 2â—4 Cyp. ep 57. 52. aeternall saluation except they be first reconciled and restored vnto the same Church from which they through their owne defaulte haue once ben separated For most certaine is that Rule of (n) de simp Prae. Sainte CIPRIAN (o) De symb â—d cate c. 13. S. AVGVSTINE that he shall not haue God to be his Father that wil not haue the church to be his Mother 19. What doth the tenth Article set before vs REmission of sinnes without the which none can be iust or obtaine saluation And this most rich treasure Christ hath purchased (a) Esa 33 22. Mat 1 21 9 6. Apo. 1 5. Luc. 24 47. Act. 10 42. Heb. 9 13. 1â— Io. 1 7. Eph. 1 7. Col. 1 13. Heb 1 3. for vs by his bitter death and most pretious bloode that the whole worlde mighte be exempted from sinne and from the perpetuall punishmentes due vnto the same Of which treasure certes they only are made partakers by the grace of Christe that doe vnite theÌ„selues by faythe (b). Act 2 38. 8 12 36. Mar. 16 16. Io. 3 5. Aug. Euch. c. 65 de Ver. do ser 11. c. 2â— 22. and Baptisme to the church of Christ do abyde in the vnity obedience of the same TheÌ„ afterwarde they also that haue dilligentlye done (c). 2. Cor. 12 21. Act. 8 22. Io. 2â— 23 Apâ—c 2 5. poenance for their sinnes committed after Baptisme doe conuenieÌ„tly vse those medicines and remedies againste sinne that Christe hath ordayned to wit the holy Sacramentes of the Church And hereunto belongeth the power of the (d). Hier. ep 1. ad Heli. c. 7. Aug. ho. 49. c. 3. 50. c. 4. 5. inter quinquag hom Chrys l. 3. de Sacerd. Cypr. ep 54 Luc. 10 35. Mat. 18 18. Io. 20 22. keies as they call it which Christ for the remission of sinnes hath committed vnto the Ministers of the Church especially to thâ— Apostle S. (e). Mat. 16 Hilla c. 16. Mat. Bern. l. 2. de coÌ„sid c. 8. Con. Flor. 19. Io. 21.15 PETER his lawfull Successors as to the Supreame guydes and rulers of the Churche 20 What hath the eleuenth Article Esa 26 19. Iob. 19 25 Ezech. 37 1 1. Cor. 15 51. â— Thes 4 16. Io. 11 24. 5 25. Mat. 22 23. Dan. 12 2. Ph. 3 21. Hieron ad Miner Al. ep 152 ep 61. adu er Io. c. 9. seq Greg. l. 14. mor. c. 30 seq Aug. Euch. c. 84 seq l. 22. ciu c. 12. seq IT declareth the resurrectioÌ„ of the flesh which at the latter day shal be coÌ„moÌ„ to good bad For this frayl brickle body of ours that we beare about with vs pestered with so many disseases and subiecte to suche continuall griefes and miseries that must after our death become a pray for wormes shall then reuiue wheÌ„ at that last daye al the deade at the voyce of Christ the Iudge shal bee raised both to life iudgement All therfore shal appeare in flesh before the (a). 2. Cor. 5 10. Ro. 14 10. tribunal of Christ that euery one without exceptioÌ„ accordingly as he hath behaued him selfe in his body which theÌ„ shal be restored vnto him whole again so may receiue either good or euill And they that haue doone good thinges (b) Io. 5 29 Mat. 13 40. shal come forthe into the Resurrection of life but they that haue done euil into the Resurrection of iudgemente (c) Mat. 25 46. 13 10 Athan. in symb and punishment euerlasting In the

may conclude this place of charity with an Oracle of God himselfe it is thus written (d) Deu. 30 20. Choose life that bothe thou maiest liue and thy seed And loue thy Lorde thy God And obey his voice and cleaue vnto him For he is thy life and the length of thy daies Then that no man may doubt but that the Euangelicall doctrine of Christ doth herein accord with the lawe let vs remember that Christ him-selfe did say If (e) Mat. 19 17. thou wilt enter into life keepe the commandementes And in an other place hauing commended vnto vs the preceptes and workes of charitie he also annexeth these wordes This (f) Luc. 10 28. do and thou shalt liue (g) Ro. 2 13. For not the hearers of the lawe are iuste with God but the dooers of the lawe shal-be iustified OF these doers were (h) Gen. 6 9. 7 1. in oratione Manassis Sap. 10 4. Mat. 23 35. 1 19. Iob. 13 18. Luc. 1 6. 2 25 Iac. 2 21. ABEL NOE ABRAHAM ZACHARIE whome the Scripture testifieth to haue ben iust before God as those that loued God their neighbour in worke and in trueth Wherfore DAVID not the least amongst them glorieng after a holy manner singeth thus I haue (i) Ps 118 32 runne the way of thy commandementes when thou hast dilated my harte I (k) Ps 118 47.48.51.55.101.102.110.113.127.128.157.159.163.167.168 haue loued I haue obserued I haue kept thy commandementes and thy testimonies in (l) Ps 18 12 keeping them much retribution (m) Ps 118 21. accursed are they that decline from thy commandementes OF THE PRECEPTS OF THE CHVRCH 1 Are there any other coÌ„mandementes to be obserued by Christians besides these ten THere are doubtles for-asmuch as our (a) Iac. 4 12. Law-maker and (b) Mat. 23 8. maister Christ hath not only taught the ten commandements (c) Mat. 19 17. of the Lawe but hath also commaunded in generall al those things that doe concern the yeelding of obedience vnto Apostolicall Ecclesiasticall commaundementes To this ende are those speeches of the Gospell (d) Io. 20 21 17 18. As my Father hath sent mee I also doe send you He (e) Luc. 10 16. that heareth you heareth me and hee that despiseth you despiseth mee If (f) Mat. 18.17 hee will not heare them tell the Church and if he wil not heare the Church let him bee to thee as the Heathen the Publican in which places Christ attributeth willeth to be attributed the chiefe and last iudgement vnto the Church that (g) 3. Reg. 8 14. is to say to the Prelates Gouernours of the Church as (h) hom 61 in Mat. Bas c. 30. constit monasti Theophylac Eutim in c. 18. Mat. S. CHRYSOSTOME doth interpret and the wordes of the Gospell immediatelie following doe declare and conuince For which cause it is not in vaine writteÌ„ of the Apostle Saint PAVL He (i) Act. 15.42 et 16 4. walked through Syria Cilicia confirming the Churches commanding them to keep the precepts of the Apostles and the Auncients 11 What theÌ„ are the precepts of the Apostles Auncients which S. PAVL would haue vs to keepe SAint DENIS the Areopagite Scoller of S. PAVL (a) Eccl. Hier cap. 1. Bas de spir Sanct. c. 27. Euseb lib. 1. demonst c. 8 Epiph. haer 61. contra Apostolicos Tert. de cor mil. c. 3. â—t 4. affirmeth that they are of two sortes to witte partly written partly vnwritten To both kindes doth belong that which Saint IHON the Euangelist saith He (b) 1. Io. 46. that knoweth God heareth vs. He that is not of God heareth vs not In this we know the spirit of trueth and the spirit of errour And surely the first kinde which is committed to letters and standeth in written Lawes is apparant enough for that it consisteth of those bookes that are Canonicall But the latter consisteth in those precepts and ordinances which are compreheÌ„ded vnder this one name of Traditions and vsually so called by the (c) Cyprian de ablu ped Hiero. cont Lucif c. 4. Chrysost in 2. ad Thef hom 4. Fathers For they are not kept in writing as the former but deliuered by word of mouth as it were by hand from our Auncestors surrendered ouer vnto vs and commended vnto the Church 3 Are both these kindes of precepts necessary to be obserued THey are doubtlesse if wee will followe the doctrine of Saint PAVL giuing vs this charge Stand (a) 2. Thes 2 15. ibid. Chrysost Theophylact and hold the Traditions which you haue learned whether it be by Worde or by our Epistle Whereupon he in this respect coÌ„mendeth the Corinthians because they did diligently keepe the preceptes of the (b) 1. Cor. 11 2. Apostles which they had already by word of mouth receiued Then he warneth the Thessalonians that they withdrawe themselues from euerie (c) 2. Thes 3 6. brother walking inordinately and not according to the Tradition receiued from the Apostles And this is that which the holy Counsaile of Nice consonant to (d) 2. Nicen. act 7. 8. Sinod c. 1. diuine Scripture hath expressed in so plaine termes It behoueth vs to obserue with one consent and inuiolably Ecclesiasticall Traditions whether they by writing or by custome bee reteined in the Church And we (e) De abâ—â—â— pedum read in S. CYPRIAN that that is of no lesse force which the Apostles by the inspiration of the holy Ghost haue deliuered thaÌ„ that which CHRIST him-selfe hath deliuered For as (f) Ibidem the holie Ghost and CHRIST haue one and the same God-heade so is the authoritie and power of them both equall in their sacred ordinances 4 How maie wee knowe which are Apostolicall and approued Traditions in the Church OF these S. AVSTEN hath (a) In Epist 118. ad Ian. cap. 1. prescribed vs a rule worthye to be noted saying Those things that we keep not written but deliuered which are certainly obserued al the worlde ouer it is vnderstoode that they are holdeÌ„ as coÌ„meÌ„ded ordained ether by the Apostles theÌ„selues or by general Counseles whose authority in the Church is most holesome So the same holy Doctor discoursing against the (b) Lib. 4. c. 24. lib. 2. c. 7. lib. 5. cap. 28. Donatistes yea eueÌ„ against al Hereticks admonisheth this very seriously looke what the vniuersal church holdeth which by couÌ„sels hath not bin decreed yet euer hath bin vsed it is very wel beleeued that by no other meanes than by the authority of the Apostles theÌ„selues it hath bin deliuered And LEO (c) Ser. 2. de Ieiunio PeÌ„tecostes the great agreeing hereunto saith It is not at al to bee doubted but that what-soeuer is holden in the Church as a custome of deuotion it proceedeth from Apostolical Tradition and of the Doctrine of the holy Ghost 5 What

are those Apostolical Traditions which Christians must obserue THere are sufficient store of examples extant amongest the Fathers and such of the Fathers as aboue a thowsande yeares since deserued publike credit By Tradition ORIGEN (a) in c. 6. ep ad Rom. (b) l. 10. de gen ad lit c. 23. et con Don. lib. 4. c. 24. S. AVSTEN doe teach that Infants are to be baptised S. DENIS (c) de Eccle. hier c. 7. and (d) in exhor ad castit c. 11. et de cor mil. c. 3. et de monog c. 10. TERTVLLIAN do shew that praiers oblations ought to be made at the Altar for them that are departed Hereupon S. HIEROME (e) ad Marcell ep 54. cont erro Montani (f) haeresi 75. Acrii EPIPHANIVS doe plainly affirme that the set fasts of the church especially that of LENTE are to be obserued So in like maner doth Saint AMBROSE (g) in officio Mediolan (h) in Liturgia Saint CHRYSOSTOME auouche the dignitie of those things that are solemnely prosecuted in the holy office of the MASSE Than besides (i). l. 4. c. 17. in orat de Imag. DAMASCEN the Fathers that the second Nicen Councell doth (k) act 6. tom 4. act 7. cite doe witnes by the same reason that the Images of Christ and his Saintes are to be reuerenced Finally to omit all others that great and holy (l). l. de spir sanct c. 27. doctour Saint BASIL affirmeth that the sacred Chrisme other solemne ceremonies vsed in the most holy Sacramentes are holden vpon tradition And the same Sainte addeth (m) Ibidem further If we doe once attempt to refuse the ordinances and customes that are not written as thinges of small moment and importance we shall couertly and by little little fal to disproue the very ratified sentences of the Gospell or rather wee shall bring the preaching thereof to a bare name But I (n) c. 29. clus dem li. saith he doe thinke it Apostolicall to sticke to those Traditions also that are not written 6 How much at this day doe men erre goe astray about Apostolical Ecclesiastical Traditions VEry much no doubt whilest many do despise them others neglecte them or at the least make no more account of them than of the statutes of (a) Ro. 13 1. ciuil Magistrates and faine them to be decrees of meÌ„ which may bee obserued broken at a mans pleasure as being to verie little or no profite at all calling them thinges indifferent Some there are who wil haue all manner of Traditions of like moment and so they doe shamefullie confound certaine places of Scripture as though there were no difference between (b) Math. 15 9. Pharisaicall Traditions and Apostolicall between (c) Col. 2 8.20 Mar. 7 3. Iudaicall and (d) 2. Thes 2 15 Act. 15 42. 16 4 Ecclesiastical betweene priuate particular Traditions and (e) Aug. ep ad Ian. 118. c. 1. 2. epist 86. ad Casul those which being receiued by the coÌ„sent of the whole Church approued so many ages together by the common custome of deuout persons and as it were by hande deliuered ouer vnto vs are found in a maner al the world ouer 7 What is to be thought of such as reiect make no account of the Traditions of the Church THese doth the word of God reproue and condemne when it appointeth Traditions to be (a) 2. Thess 2 15. 1. Cor. 11 2 obserued commaundeth vs to (b) Mat. 18 17. heare the Church and to keepe the (c) Act. 15 42. 16.4 precepts of the Apostles Auncients It is the worde of God that maketh vs subiecte to Magistrates both (d) Ro. 13 1. Mat. 22 21. Ciuil (e) Mat. 23 2. Luc. 10 16. Ecclesiastical to the modest also to the (f) 1. Pet. 2 13. waiwarde for (g) Ro. 13 5. conscience-sake It will haue vs giue both great (h) Tit. 3 1. reuerence and obedience vnto their Lawes (i) He. 13 17 Obay saith it your prelates and be subiect vnto them (k) Mat. 23 2. Al things that they shall say to you obserue yee and doe yee but according to their workes do yee not Wherefore these fellowes doe not only despise men but God (l) 1. Thess 438. 1. Cor. 14 37. himselfe most gratious mighty whom they shoulde heare reuerence in the (m) Ioa. 20 21. 17 18 Luc. 10 16. Apostles their (n) Cyprian epist 69. ad Flor. Pas cap. 23. constitut mon. successours Therefore they do manifestly resist the worde of God whilest they resiste the power and ordinance of God and purchase damnation vnto themselues thereby if we beleeue (o) Ro. 13 2. S. PAVL Vndoudtedly this is the very ordinance of God himselfe which caÌ„not be abolished by any authoritie of man that by certaine Lawes those partly written and partly vnwritten which the Tradition of the (p) Bas de Spir. Sanct. cap. 27. Aug. lib. 4. cont Dona. c. 24. et l. 2. c. 7. et l. 5. c. 23. et 26. Epiph. haeresi 55. Euseb l. 3. histor c. 30. Apostles commendeth vnto vs the Church be gouerned true Doctrine preserued Religion defended Concorde nourished Discipline kept and obserued 8 What hath the iudgement of the Fathers beene about this matter ORIGEN a famous and verie auncient author hath written in these wordes Euerie such onâ— is of vs to bee accounted an (a) In cap. 3. ep ad Tit. teste Pamphilo in apol pro Origen Iten l. 4. c. 43 Hereticke that professeth himselfe to beleeue Christ beleeueth otherwaies of the trueth of Christian faith than hath the definition of the Churches Tradition And the same in an other place That (b). â—l 1. periar in Prooâ— mio only is to be thought the truth saith he which in no pointe disagreeth froÌ„ the Tradition of the Church And it is the speach of S. HIEROME I doe (c) ad Lucinium ep 28 thinke it good to admonishe thee that the customes of the Church espeacially those that are not against faith are so to be obserued as they were deliuered from our auncestors And S. AVGVSTINE (d) ep 118. cap. 5. teacheth in this manner If the authoritie of diuine Scripture doe prescribe any thing there is no doubt but that we ought so to doe as we haue read so in like maner if the Church doe vse any thing through out the worlde for to dispute that a man ought not so to doe were a part of most insolent madnesse And againe the same In (e) ad Casul ep 86. those matters wherin the worde of God hath set downe no certainty the custome of Gods people or the decrees of our Auncestours are to be holden as a lawe And as the transgressours (f) Distinct 11. c. in his of diuine lawes so also the contemners

of the Churches customes are to be restrained Finally TERTVLLIAN a most learned and auncient writer of the Church in one whole booke together disputeth (g) Lib. de praescript against those that doe admitte nothing that is not expresly set downe in the Scripture he contendeth very earnestly that there be certaine vnwritten Traditions obseruations of the Church which none can take exceptions against but heretikes only But If any maÌ„ seem to be coÌ„tentious that we may vse (h) 1. Cor. 11 16. S. PAVLS words We haue no such custome nor the Church of God 9 I pray you then what is the Church Rom. 12 4. 1. Cor. 12 12. 1. Pet. 5 4. Io. 21 15. Mat. 16 18. THE Church is the whole multitude of all those that professe the faith and doctrine of Christ which Christ the Prince of Pastors committed both vnto S. PETER the Apostle and also to his (a) Chryso l. de Sacerdoti Conc. Flor. Bern. l. 2. de consid c. 8. successours to be fedde and gouerned And therfore all Heretickes and Schismatickes doe not deserue the name of a Church but do (b) Hier. cont Lucif c. 9. Cypr. epist 69. falsely arrogate the same vnto themselues who although they seeme to professe the faith doctrine of Christ yet they refuse to be the sheepe of the high Pastour and Bishop which Christ hath made chiefe gouernor oâ—er the sheepfold of the Church in his owne steed hath by perpetuall (c) Iren. l. 3. c. 3. Tert. l. 3. con Mar. c. 9. Optat. l. 2. Aug. ep 165. et 42. et in Ps cont partem Donat et lib. 2. contr lit Petil. c. 51 succession in the Romane Church continually preserued This Chaire of S. PETER this primacy of the Church whosoeuer doth deny oppugn first they do not vnderstaÌ„d the large promises of Christ * Mat. 16 18. Io. 21 15. Luc. 22 31 Mat. 10 2. Ioan. 1 42. Mat. 17 24. Act. 1.15 made vnto S. PETER the mysticall keies of the kingdome of heauen deliuered to him only and many other thinges written of Saint PETER the (d) Cypr. de simpl Hil. et Hier. in c. 16. Mat. Hier. in Ion. l. 1. c. 14. Ciril l. 2. in Io. c. 12 Aug. Tr. 56. et 124. in Io. Orig. ho. 2. in diuers et tract 6. in Mat. Bas de paenit Chry. ho. 87 in Io. et 55. in Mat. et 9. de paenit et ser de caten et gladio S. Pet. et ho. in SS Petrum et Eliam Leo. ser 3. de anniuers et ep 89. ad Epis Vien Prince the mouthe and head of the Apostles Then they doe manifestly breake the peace and certaine order of the Church which with-out an highe Bishop his supereminent auctoritie can neither be well gouerned nor kept long in vnitie nor holde that sounde strength that is necessarie to beare out the violence of hell gates Lastly they doe impudently discredite the Fathers their CouÌ„cels and writings consenting all togither about this manifest (e) Aug. cont ep Fund c. 4. et de vtilitate cred c. 17. et lib. 11. cont Faustum cap. 2. note of the Church yea and the consonant voyce of all Christianitie This Church and Her dignitie acknowledged Saint HIEROME whose (f) ad Dam ep 58. et ep 57. ad cund words are these he that is ioined to PETERS chaire is mine Optatus of (g) l. 2. cont Donat. Africke hath acknowledged her who witnesseth that among the true notes of the Church the Chaire of Saint PETER is the principall (h) ep 162. 90. 92. 93. 165. S. AVGVSTINE hath acknowledged Her who writeth expresly that in the Church of Rome the Soueraigntie of the See Apostolike hath al-waies florished Saint (i) ep 55. 69. Hier. cont Lucif c. 4. Leo. ep 84. ad Anast cap. 11. Cyprian hath acknowledged her who imputeth the cause of all Haeresies and Schismes that doe growe to this alone that men doe not obey one highe Priest Iudge in Christ his roome Saint Ambrose (k) l. 3. de sacram c. 1. de obitu Satyr hath acknowledged Her in so much that he hath saide that in all thinges he did couet to followe the Romane Church And more auncieÌ„t than al these and neere vnto the Apostles time that very Apostolicall man Ireneus (l) Lib. 3. c. 3. Tert. de praescrip cap. 36. Cypr. ep 45. 46. Theod. l 2. hist cap. 4. Ber. ep 190. ad Innoc. lib. 2. de coÌ„sid cap. 8. Con. Chalc. action 3. Anaclet ep 1. 3. Marcell ep 1. Synedus Alexand ad Foelicem giueth such a testimoniall of coÌ„mendation to the Church of Rome To this Church saith he because of the chiefer principallitie it is necessary that all the Church haue recourse that is to say all the faithful that are dispersed in all places in which Church by those that are in all places of the world hath alwaies ben conserued the Apostolical Tradition 10 What dignitie and auctoritie hath the Church ALmightie God doth aduance his Church 1. Cor. 12.28 Ephes 5 25. Io. 14 15.26 16 12. 17 11.17 Mat. 28 20. 16 18. Psal 120 4. of all thinges vpon earth the moste deerest vnto him with many most excellent dowries promises and benefits Her he doth alwaies adorne preserue defend and maintaine Her also he hath appointed to be his (a) 1. Tim. 3 15. Ps 22 2. Io. 10 16. house wherin all the Sones of God may be cherished taught and exercised His pleasure was to make Her the (b) 1. Tim. 3 15. Aug. lib. 1. cont Creâ— cap. 33. â— 2. cap. 32. piller grounde of trueth that we may not doubt any whit of Her doctrine which as a maistres keeper interpreter of the trueth obtaineth credite and authority inuiolable Moreouer he hath determined that she should be builded vpon a sure (c) Mat. 1â— 18. 7 25. Ephes 2 20. Psal 86 2. 47 9. Aug. in Psal 47. Alcim lib. 4. cap. 14. Rocke that we might assuredly knowe how she is vnmoueable stedfast and how she preuaileth as vnuanquishable against the very gates (d) Mat. 16 18. of hell to wit the most sharpe and grieuous assaultes of all aduersaries Finally he will haue Her to be a certaine Cittie (e) Apo. 21 2 Mat. 5 15. Esa 2 2. Mich. 4 1. Mal. 1 11. Act. 1 8. P. 21 26.28 most holy set vpon a hill apparant to all men and easie to goe vnto least any man forsaking Her * 1. Io. 2 19. might betake himselfe to the pestiferous dennes dungeons of Haeretickes and being seduced with those false speaches (f) Mat. 24 23. ibid. Orig. tract 29. 30. Beholde here is Christ beholde there might depart and be with-drawne from her This is the (g) Cant. 4 7 6 8. Louer Sister and only spouse of Christ which holy Scripture proposeth and commendeth

will can keepe (l) Act 20 29. Eze 33 6. 2. Tim. 2 23.25 4 2. Tit. 1 9.10.11 off the wolues defende the sheepe roote out the cockle confirme sound doctrine least otherwise the simple be seduced by the words writinges examples of deceiptful wicked persons (m) 2. Pet. 2 1. 3 3. Ro. 16 17. Iud 17.4 10 Mat. 7.15 from the kingly rode-way of truth but rather that all not only knowing the truth but practising the same may growe and goe forwarde in him that is the heade Christ our Lorde as the same Apostle S. PAVL (n) Ephes 4 15. hath also spoken 13 By what meanes may we obtaine these so singuler commodities BY this no doubt if we be not to highlye (a) Ro. 12 3. but soberly wise alwaies carefull to (b) Eph. 4 3. Io. 10 2. 21 17. keepe the vnitie of spirite in the bande of peace that so wee maye shewe our selues the humble and obedient sheepe of Christ Of which sheepe certes it is the propertie (c) Io. 10 2. Tit. 3 1. Heb. 13 17. Mat. 10 20. to flie the wolues and not to followe Aliens but their owne Pastours (d Bern. de praecep disp c. 12. to submit theÌ„selues to theÌ„ as to the ordinarie Prefectes of our Lords folde and in them to heare the (e) Io. 15 26 et 14 17. et 16 13. spirite of truth That spirite it is which vouchsafeth euen by euill (f) Mat. 23 2. Phil. 1 15. Io. 11 51. Mat. 18.17 Deut. 17 12 Prelates to teach feed and preserue our Lords flocke and which by them commendeth vnto vs the precepts both of God our Father and the Church our Mother in thess wordes (g) Pro. 1 8. see Epiphan haer 75. Heare my sonne the discipline of thy father and doe not let goe the lawe of thy mother And againe the same doth inculcate Keepe saith (h) Pro. 6 20 he my sonne the preceptes of thy father and doe not let goe the lawe of thy mother 14 Which are the precepts of the Church THere are fiue principall necessarie doubtlesse to be knowne and obserued of euery Christian 1 (a) Conc. Lugdun apud IuoneÌ„ p. 4. c. 14. 2. Matiscon c. 1. Mogunt c. 36. et 37. Tribur c. 35. Ignat. ad Philip. The appointed holy daies of the Church doe thou celebrate 2 (b) Conc. Agath c. 47. et 21. Tribur c. 35. 1. Aurel ca. 28. The holy office of the Masse vpon holy daies doe thou heare with reuerence 3 (c) Canon Apost 68. Gangren c. 19. Ignat. ad Phil. Mog c. 34. et 35. Salegunst c. 1. et 2. Ber. in vig. S. Andreae See the places cited in the treatis of good works in the 4. question The Fastes on certaine daies and times appointed doe thou obserue For example as the Lent imber daies and the nexte daies before certaine solempne feastes which our forefathers haue (d) Tert. l. 2. ad Vxo c. 4. et in apolog cap. 2. called vigils or euens bicause they did vse at such times all night to watch in the Churches 4 (e) Sinod Lateran can 21. Triden sess 14. c. 8. Thy Sinnes to thy proper Priest doe thou euery yeere confesse 5 (f) Lateran Trident. sess 13. can 9. The holy Eucharist at the least once in the yeere and that about the feast of Easter doe thou receaue 15 What profite doth the obseruation of these precepts bring THese and other the like customes precepts of the Church so manie ages receiued and with great consent practise of deuoute Christians confirmed and very agreable to pietie and reason doe bring with them very notable and excellent commodities For they are holsome exercises of faith humilitie and Christian obedience they doe aduance honest (a) Phil. 4 8. 1. Cor. 14 26.40 discipline and concorde among the people they are goodly signes badges of Religion finally they giue markes and tokens of our inwarde pietie by which we oughte iointly to shine with the good and to shew our light to the euill for (b) Mat. 5 17. Ro. 15 2. Phil. 2 â— 14 their edification Breifly they doe helpe vs to this that we may exactly obserue that rule of the Apostle Let all thinges (c) 1. Cor. 14 40. be done honestly and according to order among you 16 Wherein is the authoritie of the Church necessarie vnto vs FIrst of all surely in this that we may certainlie (a) Gal. 2 2. 1. Tolc c. 25. Aug. ser 129 de teÌ„p li. 13. contra Faust c. 4. 5. et l. 28. c. 2 4. discerne the true and canonicall Scripture from that which is counterfet and apocryphall Whereupon Saint HIEROME doth testifie we receiue saith he the (b) in sym ad Damasu et Aug. ser 19. 1. de teÌ„ Conc. Laod c. 59. Conc. 3. Carth. c. 47. Conc. Trid. sess 4. olde and new Testament in that number of bookes which the authority of the holy Catholike Church doth deliuer And (c) Cont. ep Fund c. 5. Saint AVGVSTINE I truely would not beleeue the Gospell excepte the authoritie of the Catholike Church did moue me thereunto It is also necessarie that we may be assured of the (d) Esa 59 21. Aug. l. 1. c. 33. cont Cresco et de vnit Eccle. c. 22. Trid. ses 4. Vin. Lir. contr nouatores true sense and apte interpretatioÌ„ of the Scripture least that otherwise we neuer make an end of doubting and disputing about the sense of the wordes For all Heretickes as the same holy Saint (e) lib. 1. de Trinit c. 3. Hillar l. 2. ad Constanti Vinc. Lir. hath written doe labour to defend their false and deceiptfull opinions by the holy Scriptures and yet the Scriptures doe not consist in reading but in vnderstanding as witnesseth (f) Cont. Lucif c. 9. in c. 1. ad Gal. Hilar. l. 2. de Trin. Saint HIEROME Thirdly that in the waightier questions (g) Deut. 17.8 and controuersies of faith that may fall out there may be some (h Act. 15 2 Iudge by whose authoritie matters may be moderated For as that is most true that (i) haer 61. cont Apostolicos EPIPHANIVS teacheth against Heresies that all thinges can not be had out of the Scriptures so doth (k) l. 11. con Faust c. 2 l. 7. c n. Donat c. 53. et in Ps 57. Saint AVGVSTINE most rightlye affirme that the authoritie of the Catholike Church is of speciall waighte and value for our faith and assurance in a doubtful case Neither can the holy Ghost be wanting to the Church to leade her as Christ hath (l) Io. 14 16. 16 13. promised into all trueth Againe that for the diuersitie of persons places and times canons (m) Can. Ap. 38. et Synod 1. Nic. c. 5. Lateran Can. 6. may be ordained perfite discipline preserued and iudgementes pronounced For to the Church

(n) 2. Cor. 10 8. 13 10. hath God giuen this power to edification and not to destruction Moreouer to the intente that the stubbourne and rebellious persons may feele that (o) Mat. 18 17. et ibi Hieron power of chastising and excommunication which Christ hath ordained and Sainte * 1. Cor. 5 3. 1. Tim. 1 20. PAVL exercised and by the same may be corrected repressed Here vpon (p) l. de fid et op c. 5. 3. l. 3. con Parm. c. 2. Greg. ho. 26 in Euang. Chrysost l. 3. de Sacerd. S. AVGVSTINE they saith he that gouern in the Church maye exercise discipline so it bee without tumulte and in peaceable manner against the wicked outragious Wherfore in all these thinges to omit many others it is manifest that the Churches authoritie is not only profitable but also necessarie so that without the same doubtlesse the Christian common welth might be thought nothing els but a very Babylonical confusion And therefore as we doe beleeue the Scripture and relie vpon it and attribute vnto it speaciall authoritie for the testimony of the holy Ghost speaking (q) 2. Pet. 1 19. 2. Tim. 3.16 Mat. 18 17. Io. 14 16.26 16 12. within it so also doe we owe faith reuerence and obedience to the Church for that by Christ her heade and spouse she is informed endowed confirmed with the (r) Act. 2 4. Eph. 4 4. same spirite so that it is not possible but that she be as she is called the (Å¿) 1. Tim. 3 15. Piller and grounde of truth 17 What is the fruite and commoditie of the whole doctrine touching the preceptes Traditions of the Church IT is certes very greate and full of variety And surely the first is that we may knowe that we are not tied to letters only or to diuine Scriptures For to vse the words of Saint Ireneus (a) Lib. 3. c. 4 Epi. haer 61. What if the Apostles had lefte vs no Scriptures must we not haue haue followed the order of Tradition which they deliuered vnto them to whom they committed the Churches therfore hath S. BASILL (b) Lib. de spir sanct c. 27. saide very well The verities which are helde and taught in the Church some we haue out of the doctrine set forth in writing some wee haue receiued from the Tradition of the Apostles in mysterie that is in hidden and secrete manner Both which haue equall force and authoritie to the furtherance of pietie And these no man will gainesay that hath beene but euen meanly experienced what the lawes of the Church are And it caÌ„ not be doubted but that (c) Io. 20 30 21.25 Aug. ep 108 ad seleucianam Christ and his Apostles both did taught many thinges which although they are not written yet they doe very much appertaine vnto vs and all posteritie Of which S. PAVLL (d) Phil. 4 8. warning vs in generall saith For the rest brethren what thinges soeuer be true whatsoeuer honest whatsoeuer iust whatsoeuer holye whatsoeuer amiable whatsoeuer of good name if there be any vertue if any praise of discipline these thinges thinke vpon which you haue both learned and receiued and heard and seene in me these thinges doe you and the God of peace be with you The next commoditiy of them is that we may rightly vse Christian libertie which men giuen to idlenesse and riote if euer at any time now most of all doe make an occasion to the fleshe as the (e) Gal. 5 13 2. Pet. 2 19. Apostle speaketh vnder pretence thereof they serue their filthy pleasures whatsoeuer in a manner they haue a fancie vnto though it concerne euen the alteration of the decrees of Religion they thinke it lawfull for them to doe Aug. ep 118 cap. 1. 5. But froÌ„ this prophane noueltie and rashnesse the Apostolicall and Ecclesiasticall Doctrines decrees do call away defend terrifie vs bridling mans licentiousnesse teaching vs to vse Christian liberty in a coÌ„uenient sort to wit so that (f) 1. Pet. 1 18. Ro. 6 18.22 Gal. 3 13. 4 31. Ro. 8 2. being made free by Christ froÌ„ the yoke of sinne bondage of the olde lawe we may willingly of our (g) Psa 53 8. Col. 3 23. Luc. 1 71. 2. Cor. 3 17 Ro. 6 22. 1. Cor. 9 19. 1. Pet. 1 22. 2 20. Luc. 21 19. Mat. 4 1.7 16 14. owne accorde performe Christian dutie we may serue God in holinesse and iustice we may followe the holy Ghost as our guide in the lawe of Charitie being the seruauntes of iustice the sonnes of obedience the practisers of humilitie the keepers of patience and louers of penance and of the Crosse You saith the (h) Gaâ—l 5 1â— Apostle are called into libertie only make not this libertie an occasioÌ„ to the flesh but by charitie of spirite serue one another To the nourishing maintenaÌ„ce of which charitie of spirite in the dutifulnesse of an holy seruitude both all honest thinges are profitable and the deuoute obseruation of the Tradition of the Church is vndoubtedlye most auaileable The last vse and commoditye is that we may truly discerne betwene the lawfull and bastarde children of the Church or betwene Catholikes and Heretikes For (i) Vincen. Liren the first doe simply stay them selues in the doctrine of the Church whether the same be deliuered vnto them in writing as in the Bible or approued by the TraditioÌ„ of the Fathers For they doe followe the worde of God Doe (k) Pro. 22 28. Eccli 8 11. Deut. 32 7. Hier. c 16. not goe beyond the auncient boundes which thy Fathers haue set But the other which are Heretickes doe swarue from this simplicitie of faith from the approued sentence of our reuerende mother the Church of the holy Fathers and they trust to much either vnto them selues or to those that haue reuolted from the Church insomuch as euen being warned they doe not come backe amend their error And therfore of them hath Saint PAVL so seuerely decreed when he saith A man (l) Tit. 3 10. that is an Hereticke after the first and second admonition auoide knowing that he that is such a one is subuerted And to conclude with (m) ad Pompeium S. CYPRIAN whosoeuer hath reuolted from the vnitie of the Church he must needes be founde in the company of Heretickes 18 What finally is the summe of all the premises THose thinges that from the beginninge hetherto haue bene handled touchinge the summe of Christian doctrine doe tend to this end that the true wisdome of a Christian man might be described and set before vs which is comprehended in these three (a) Aug. l. 2. tetr c. 63. vertues (b) 1. Cor. 13 13. 2. Tim. 2 22 faith hope charitie By faith the soule doth (c) Heb. 11.1 firmlie consent vnto Gods truth and relie vpon the same By hope

20. bee ministred euen by wicked and vnworthy persons As for example in the Sacramente of Baptisme the exteriour washing that clenseth the filthes of the body is an effectuall signe and token of the interiour (f) Tit. 3 5. Ro. 6 3.7 1. Cor. 6 11. Tertul. in l. de resur c. 8. washing as giuing an infallible testimonie that the soule is spiritually purified and clensed So also other visible externall thinges as oyle and the formes of breade and wine the vse wherof is necessary in the Sacramentes are fitly appointed vnto vs both to signifie and also to yelde vnto man the grace of God and the health of his soule so that he come not (g) Prosp senten ex Aug. in Ps 142. vnworthely therunto For by Baptisme (h) Conc. Flor. Io. 3 5 Tit. 3 5. Act. 8 17. et 1 8. Luc. 2â— 49. Io. 6 51.55.58 et 20 23. we are regenerated renued by confirmation we are encreased strengthned by the holy Eucharist we are nourished refreshed by penance we are restored and healed in the spirituall life in which we are by the rest of the Sacramentes in like manner according to the nature quality of each of them holpen and abettered as we wil shew heerafter in their due places 4 Of what partes doth euery Sacrament consist OF the Worde (a) Conc. Flor. Aug. Tract 80. in Ioan. and the Element By the Worde in this place vnderstand some certaine determinate wordes wherin the very forme as they call it of the Sacrament doth consist And by the Elemente conceyue suche externall things as are the very matter of the Sacramentes as water oyle bread wine and the like Now to these partes exactly taken are the rest of those thinges annexed which do belong to the fitte ministring worthy receiuing of euery Sacrament to wit the institution of God a conuenient (b) Trid. Ses 7. can 10. 11. de Sacramentis in genere item Florentin minister a right intention in the minister faith in the receiuer and whatsoeuer els of like sorte 5 How many Sacramentes be there SEuen (a) Conc. Flor. CoÌ„stant sess 15. Trid. sess 7. can 1. which the Church being the Spouse (b) Cant. 4 9 1. Tim. 3 15 of Christ and Pillar of truth hauing by the Apostles receiued theÌ„ from Christ himselfe hath alwaies hetherto kept faithfully dispensed And they are these (c) Mat. 28 19. Act. 8 17 Mat. 26 26. Io. 20 23. Iac. 5 14. 1. Tim. 4 14 Eph. 5 32. Baptisme Confirmation the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist Penance Extreame vnction Order and Matrimony Neither truly forceth it at all if such names be not all of them extant in the Scriptures so that the matter it selfe be euident the veritie and vertue of the Sacraments be approued by diuine testimony Albeit such (d) Aug. l. 4. con Donat. c. 24. et l. 2. c. 7. et l. 5. c. 23. et ep 118. c. 1. Chryso in 2. ad Thes hom 4. things as by the Apostles TraditioÌ„ the vniuersall Church holdeth commeÌ„deth to bee kepte obserued though they be not to be found in Scripture yet doe they deserue of vs ful perfite credit as hath bin already declared And touching the institutioÌ„ of euery Sacrament in particuler we will speak herafter in their proper places But the force and vertue of them as the most faithfull interpretour of the Scripture Saint AVGVSTINE (e) l. 19. cont Faust c. 11. et 16. et trac 80. in Ioan. saith is of vnspeakeable value and therfore the contemnours of it are sacrilegious For impiously certes is that despised without the which no pietie can be perfited And as the same holy Father teacheth in an other (f) Super Leuit. q. 84. et l. 32. cont Faust c. 14. place the contemnour of the visible Sacrament can neuer be inuisibly sanctified 6 Why were the Sacramentes instituted FIrst that they may be very preseÌ„t remedies against sinne which is a pestilent disease of the (a) Sap. 16 14. Eccli 21 2. Ro. 6 23 soule and except it be cured in this life bringethe euerlastinge damnation And therfore these doe far (b) Florent Conc. Trid. Sess 7. can 2. et 4. de Sacr. in genere excel the Sacramentes of the olde lawe as being in vertue greater in commoditie more profitable in nuÌ„ber fewer in the coÌ„ceiuing of theÌ„ more honorable in obseruation more easie in signification more excellent which besides their signification do also sanctifie giue saluation as S. AVGVSTINE hath verie well (c) l. 19. coÌ„t Faust c. 13. l. 3. de doct Christ c. 19. ep 118. c. 1. gathered out of the Scriptures Secondly that we may haue some certaine effectuall signes of Gods grace and good will towardes vs which signes whilest they represent themselues to the outwarde senses they do not only stir vp our faith in Christ in the mercy (d) Ro. 9 23. goodnes of almighty God but are moreouerliuely instruments by which it hath seemed good vnto Almightie God effectually to worke (e) T it 3 5. Io. 6 58. et 20 23. our saluation So that it was notably said of an (f) Aug. l. 4. cont Dona. c. 24. ancient Father that a Sacrament euen by it selfe alone is of an inestimable value Thirdly that there may be some tokens (g) Aug. l. 19 con Faust c. 11. et c. 17. de vera reli Bas ho. 13. in exhort ad Bapt. and as it were externall markes of ChristiaÌ„ profession wherby the Children of God and of the Church may mutually knowe one another that they may fruitfully exercise keepe theÌ„selues in vnity humility and obedience and so remaine lincked amongst themselues with the necessary bond and league of one Religion Otherwise without Sacramentes can not any sorte of Religion either stand or be sufficiently discerned 7 And what is to be thought of the ministers of the Sacramentes VVE must so esteeme them as the (a) 1. Cor. 4 1. ministers of Christ the dispensors of the mysteries of God that doe beare (b) Esa 52 11. Num. 1 50.51 3. Reg. 8 4. the vessels of our Lorde and serue the Tabernacle and that by profession haue authoritie in holy thinges and with a certaine right title doe minister the same For not to all (c) Numb 16 39. 2. Reg. 6 6. 2. par 26 16. Conc. Nic. cann 14. Trid. Sess 7. de Sacr. in genere can 10. indifferently but to Priestes and Bishops doth it belong and it was by God himselfe enioined to coÌ„secrate dispense and minister the holy Sacramentes And that wee may not thinke that the (d) 1. Cor. 1 13. et 3 4. Conc. Trid. Sess 7. can 12. NaziaÌ„ orat 40. in Sanct. Bap. Sacramentes doe any whit depend vpon the life honesty of those that doe minister them S. AVGVSTINE (e) Cont. Cresco l. 4. c. 20. et l. 4.

name of (g) in senteÌ„tiis Prosper 342. ex Aug tract 33. in Io. ser 47. de verb. Do. Rab. l 1 c. 30 Isid l. 2. c. 25 Chrisme and then in like sort al Christians WhereupoÌ„ (h) l. de carnis resurrectione c. 8. Item in lib. de Bapt. Theod. in c. 1. Cantic Dionys Clemens Tert. FabiaÌ„ Cornel Cypr. Cyrill vterque Basil PaciaÌ„ Amphiloc Optat c. CoÌ„cil Rom. sub Siluest IteÌ„ 2. 3. 4. Carthag 2. Tol. 1. Vasinse Trid. TERTVLLIAN very fitly alluding as it were to the nature of Oile hath written of this Sacrament in this manner The fleshe is annointed that the Soule may bee consecrated the fleshe is signed that the Soule may bee fensed the fleshe by imposition of hands is ouershadowed that the Soule by the spirite may bee illuminated By which it is euident that they which reiect holy Chrisme doe greatly bewray their owne ignorance and folly as manifestly denying the most auncient ordinance of the Apostles rashely condemning the continuall custome Tradition of the Church 5 What is the vse and commodity of this Sacrament IN Baptisme we are (a) Io. 3 5. Melch. ad Hisp Episc Conc. Flor. Petr. Clun lib. 6. ep 1. regenerate vnto life after Baptisme in this Sacrament we are strengthned vnto combate In Baptisme wee are washed by this after Baptisme we are strengthned that the holy-Ghost may be alwaies present with the regenerate as a keeper and a comforter a tutor This is the Doctrine of that holie high Bishop Martyr MELCHIADES And hereunto agreeth that which (b) Ep. 4. ad Iulium Amb. l. 3. de Sacram. c. 2. de iis qui initiant mysteriis cap. 7. S. CLEMENT testifieth hee receiued of the Apostles themselues When any man hath beene regenerate by water let him be afterwarde confirmed by a Bishoppe with the seauenfoulde grace of the holy-Ghost because otherwise he can neuer be a perfect Christian This (c) Dion de Eccles hierarc cap. 2. Sacrament therefore profiteth in maruelous manner that they which are by regeneration entered in the mysteries of Faith as (d) 1. Pet. 2 2 Infants newe-borne and as yet weake feeble may waxe greater in groweth and be strengthned in Christ These as it were nouices in christian warfare the Bishop admonisheth in annointing that against so many enemies daily dangers they must be confirmed (e) Psal 50 14. Spiritu principali with a principall Spirite He signeth with the Crosse (f) Aug. in Psal 141. Luc. 9.26 Mat. 10 33. 1. Pet. 2 20. Luc. 21.15 Mat. 5 39. Act. 4 13.31 5 29.41 their foreheade which is the seate of shamefastnesse that they may constantly and without feare confesse the name of our Lord. Hee giueth them also a blowe on the cheeke that they may alwaies remember how they must with inuincible patience performe and finishe their Christian warfare OF THE SACRAMENT OF THE EVCHARIST 1 What doth the name of the Eucharist signifie THis one name doth betoken that high and (a) Dion Eccles hier cap. 2. 3. Conc. Trid. sess 13. cap. 2. 3. most blessed Sacramente than the which the Church hath nothing more honorable more woonderfull more effectuall or holesome And it is doubtlesse very worthelie called the Eucharist that is (b) Amb. l. 5 de sacra c. 3. Cyp. de lapsis Orig. coÌ„ Cels lib. 8. good grace or thankes-giuing because it containeth the principall greatest (c) Chry. ho. 6â— ad pop 83. in Mat. 45. in Io 61. ad pop Ant gifte of God yea the very fountaine and author himselfe of al grace and it admonisheth vs of those speciall good thinges for the receit whereof we do owe thankesgiuing praise and most soueraigne glory to the supreame maiesty of almightie God For we coulde not haue wished a greater benefit than that Christ Iesus our Lord borne of the Virgine MARY Crucified and (d) Chry. l. 3. de sacerd ho. 2. ad pop Ant. ho. 3. ad Ephes assumpted into glory should so giue himselfe wholly vnto vs that euen nowe at this present we truely receiue his Body Bloude and are wholly (e) Cyril in Io. li 4. c. 16. 17. lib. 10. c. 13. l. 11 ca. 26. 27. Hil. de Trin. l. 8. Iren. l. 5. c. 2. Cyr. Hieros catech 4. mystag Chry. ho. 45. in Io. 61. ad pop Ant. incorporated vnto him by this diuine Sacrament 2 What thinges are speacially contained in this Sacrament THree (a) Cyr. Hieros cat 4. myst thinges are comprehended in the holy Eucharist the visible formes the trueth (b) Mat. 26 26. Mar. 14.22 Luc. 22.19 1 Cor. 11 24 of the body and bloode of our Lorde and the effecte of spirituall grace For that which appeareth vnto our eies are (c) Theoph. in 14. Mat. in Mat. 26. in Io. 6. Cyril ad Calos Amb l. 4. de sacr c. 4. li. 6. c. 1. visible formes to wit of breade and wine But that which vnder those fourmes our faith not (d) Damasc li. 4. cap. 14. our sense reason doth apprehend that is the true body blood of Christ our Sauiour And that which by participation of this Sacrament we get is a certaine (e) Aug. trâ— 26. in Io. alii postea citandi singular grace of the holy Ghost to wit the wholsome fruite and effecte of the Eucharist as we will shew heerafter 3 Which are the chiefe pointes necessary to be knowne touching this Sacrament THere are fiue that doe principally require the handling The first concerning the trueth of the Eucharist The second touching the transubstantiation of bread and wine The third of the worship and adoration of the same The fourth of the ohlation and Sacrifice thereof The last of the receiuing of the same vnder one or both kinde For of these inspeacial it is very profitable in these our daies to haue perfecte knowledge vnderstanding 4 What therfore is to bee beleeued touching the verity of the Eucharist THis surely that against all (a) IoaÌ„ 6. ibideÌ„ Cyril Aug. tract 27. in Ioan. Cypr. de caena Do. Pet. CluÌ„ l. 1. ep 2 Capharnaites we doe with the wholl Church assuredly beleeue that vnder the formes of bread and wine the very true (b) Conc. Eph. Nic. 2. act 6. Later c 1. Const ses 8. Flor. Trid. ses 11. cap. 1. 3. Ignat. ad smir teste Theod. in dial 3. Tert. de resur car cap. 8. de idol cap. 7. Cyp. de lapsis Hesich in cap. 22. Leuit. Opt. lib. 6. Leo. ser 7. de pas ep 23. Theod. dial 2 fleshe of Iesus Christ his true blood is giuen in the Eucharist by the ministery certes of the Priest but by the power and omnipotencie of our Lorde Iesus Christ with whom any word is not (c) Luc. 1. Mar. 10. impossible He (d Psal 148. Damasc l. 4. cap. 14.

Trid. sess 13. ca. 5. can 6. Pet. Clun lib. 1. ep 2. vndoubtedly for so doth the office of religion require at our handes that we creatures doe giue vnto our Creatour seruants vnto our Lorde and Redemer most mightie and soueraigne whom we beleeue to be present in the Eucharist the honour and worshippe due vnto him For of him the Scripture (b) Heb. 1 6. Psal 96 8. it selfe pronounceth Let all the Angels of God adore him And againe All the Kinges of the earth shall (c) Psal 71 81. adore him all nations shall serue him Then the diuine Prophet in an other place when he doth contemplate this Sacrament and the greatnesse therof thincketh it not enough to say the poore shall (d) Ps 21 27 Vide ibideÌ„ Euthym. Euseb in catena Aug exposit 1. ep 120. ad Honor. cap. 24. 27. eate and shal be satisfied and shall praise our Lorde but he addeth this also all the families of nations shall adore in his sighte And again all those which are fatte of the earth haue eaten and adored The Sages (e) Mat. 2 11. Chry. ho. 24. in 1. Cor. ho. 8. in Mat. Ioan. 9 38. Mat. 14 33. 9 18. 28 17. Luc. 24 52. and some other like are commended by the Euangelists because they exhibited diuine honour vnto Christ being yet in mortall fleshe falling downe before him adoring him But now haue we the same Christ in the Eucharist not (f) Ro. 6 9. Psal 94 3. mortall but immortall wonderfull in glory and meruailous in might and power And this faith doe we iustlie giue testimonie of with a religious worship both of body (g) Chry. ho. 61. ad pop ho. 3. in ep ad Eph. l. 6. de sacerd ho. 1 de verb Esa hom 3. 4 cont Anom Nilus ep ad Anast Amb. orat 1. praep ad Missam Nazian orat 11. in Gorgon Greg. 4. dial cap. 58. Orig. hom 5. in diuers and mind when with reuerence and submission we doe exhibite the office of Christian humilitie dutifull gratitude before that dreadful alwaies most venerable maiesty of Almightie God 7 What then must be our beliefe concerning the Sacrifice of the Aultar THis vndoubtedly that the Eucharist is not instituted only to that end that Christians may receiue the same as an holsome food wherupon it is called (a) Io. 6 48.51.55 1. Cor. 10 16 11 26 Prouer. 9 5. meate drinke liuely breade the breade of life but also to the intent that it may be offered (b) Dion eccles hier cap. 3. ep 8. Ignat. ad smir Iust in Triphon Bas ser 2. de baptis ca. 2. Ter. de orat ca. 14. Aug. ep 23. lib. 20. contr Faust c. 21. Fulg. l. 2. ad Mon. c. 2. 5. Theod. hist cap. 20. Alcim lib. 5. c. 10. Dam. in Barl. c. 12. 19. Pet. Clun l. 1. ep 2. as a soueraigne most proper sacrifice of the new TestameÌ„t insomuch as it hath now of olde obtained the name of an hoste a Sacrifice an oblation holocauste And it is offered for a continuall memorie and thankesgiuing for the * Chry. ho. 17. ad Heb. Passion of our Lorde and that it may be auaileable vnto the faithfull both to doe away the euils and obtaine the good thinges both of this life (c) Iac. Bas Chry. in Litur Aug. 22. ciu cap. 8. Chry. ho. 77. in Io. 18. in Act. Greg 4. dial c. 57. Beda lib. 4. hist Anglic. cap. 22. and the life to come that it may not only profite the liuinge but the deade also to forgiuenesse of sinnes as most graue Fathers doe out of diuine Scripture and Tradition (d) Clem. ep 3. Iren. l. 4. c. 32. Chry. ho 3. ad Philip. 69. ad popul Damas in orat de defunct Apostolicall auouche This is that singular greate and and incomparable Sacrifice which Christ at his last Supper (e) Iren. li. 4. c. 32. Euseb lib. 1. ca. 10. demonst Cypr. ep 63. Aug. 10. ciu cap. 20. l. 20. contr Faust cap 21. in Psal 33. conc 2. ordaining vnder the forme of bread and wine gaue charge to his Apostles as to the first and chiefe Preistes of the new Testament and to theire successours to offer (f) Luc. 22 19. Chry. 83. in Mat. 24. in 1. Cor. Martial ad Burdeg cap. 3. Dion eccles hierar cap. 3. Clem lib. constit cap. 18. Petr. Clun lib. 1. ep 2. sayinge doe this for a commemoration of me This is that oblation which was (g) Gen. 4 4. 8 21. 14 18. Exod. 12 6. figured by diuers similitudes of sacrifices in the time both of the lawe of nature and the lawe of (h) Aug. 10. ciu ca. 20. lib. 6. contr Faust cap. 5. MOISES as being a sacrifice containing in it all those good thinges then signified by them as the consummation and perfection of them all This is that perpetuall sacrifice which shall not bee abolished (i) Hippol. de consum mun Chrys ho. 49. operis imperf but about the end of the worlde as (k) Dan. 12 11. 9 27. DANIEL testifieth To this belongeth the Preisthod (l) Ps 109 4. Heb 7 1.11 Gen. 14 18. according to the order of (m) Cyp. ep 63. Euseb li. 5. demonstr c. 3. Hier. ad Marcell ep 17. cap. 2. 126. ad Euagr Aug. in Psal 33. conc 2. Epiphan haeres 55. Damas l 4. c. 14. Melchizedech which also DAVID affirmed that it should be and continue in Christ This is that cleane and pure oblatioÌ„ which neither any vnworthinesse or malice of the offerers can pollute which alone succeding (n) NuÌ„ 28 3. 29 1. very many sacrifices (o) Aug. 17. ciuitat cap. 20. Pet. Clun lib. 1. ep 2. of the Iewes lawe is offered sacrificed among the Gentiles in euery place that is to say all the worlde (p) Mal. 1 11 Vide Mart. ad Burd c. 3. Iust in Triphon Iren. lib. 4. ca. 32. 33. 34. Chry. in Psal 95. Aug. 19. ciu cap. 23. li. 18. cap. 35. ouer to celebrate the name of our God and Redemer as we reade in MALACHIE This is the oblatioÌ„ of the Masse the Sacrifice the Liturgie * Act. 13 2. vnto which doe giue inuincible testimonie the Canons and Traditions of (q) Can. 3. 9. Apost Clem. lib. 6. Const c. 23. the Apostles the holy Councels (r) Nicen. 1. c. 14. Laod. c. 19. 58. Eph. in ep ad Nest Trid. sess 22 cap. 1. the generall consent and conlinuall custome of the wholle Church Greeke (s) Vide Liturg. Iac. Basil Chrys Ambros Greg. cet Latine East and weast Which Sacrifice (t) The very name of the MASSE is read in these places Alex. 1. ep 1. Telesph Foelix 1. ep 2. Higinus Soter apud Gratian. Euarist apud Iuonem Fabian in Cod. Decretor 16. lib.

more ancient than himselfe (q) Ep. 52. 66. S. CYPRIAN (r) Vt supra ORIGEN (s) De Eccle. Hier. cap. 7. S. DENIS (t) Ep. 1. lib. 6. const cap. 29. S. CLEMENT who with one consent doe all accorde in this Doctrine Wherefore (v) Ho. 3. in Phil 41. inâ—t Cor. 69 ad pop Damasc in orat de def Athan. Nyss apud Damasc S. CHRYSOSTOME doth in plaine termes exhorte both that we our selues to our power doe helpe them that are departed and put others in minde also to pray giue Almes for them For it was not vnadvisedly decreed by the Apostles that in the dreadfull Mysteries Commemoration should be made of those that are departed For they knewe well that they shoulde gaine much and reape no small commoditie thereby Thus writeth S. CHRYSOSTOME Finally this is that which to this day the holy Church a faithfull interpretour of the Scriptures hath taught against the (x) Epiph. haer 75. Aug. haer 53. Damasc de haeres Aerians that there is a certain Purgatory or emeÌ„datory (y) Trid. ses 25. 6. Flor. fire as (z) In Ps 37. l. 2. de GeÌ„ cont Ma. ca. 20. Greg. in 3. Ps Paenit li. 4. Dial. ca. 39. Bern. serm 66. in Cant. S. AVGVSTINE calleth it in which the faithfull soules departed in Christ must suffer and satisfie for the punishement of those sins for which wholely Satisfaction was not made in this life by Penance except as (a) Ench. ca. 110. de cura mort c. 1. 4. 18. Saint AVGVSTINE speaketh they bee releeued by the deuotion of their friendes that are aliue 10 What is the commendation and dignity of Penance PEnance is the beginning of the preaching of the Gospell Mat. 3 2. 4.17 Mat. 1 4. Luc. 15 7.10 Mat. 7 13. 11 12. the ioy of Angels in heauen the straite way vpoÌ„ earth that narrow gate by which the faithfull doe trauel towards life lay violent hands vpoÌ„ the kingdome of heauen Shee (a) Lib. de vera fals paenit c. 1. Bas in homil de ver paenit Chry. in ho. serm de paenit erecteth them that bee fallen cureth the wounded strengthneth the weake quickneth the deade restoreth those that are lost finally all things that sinne doth impaire Penance doth renue refreshe in vs. By her we giue a testimony of an hatred of our life past of the contempt of our selues of al submissioÌ„ She being our guide we mourning find (b) Mat. 5 5. comfort being wounded we are cured beeing humble we are exalted This is she whereby we ouercome the diuels the pestilence of vice we driue awaie deserued (c) Hier. 18 8 Ezech. 18 21. 33 11 Ionae 3 Mat. 3 8. 2. Cor. 7 10. Act. 11 18. punishments we pacifie Gods wrath we purchase grace get glory euerlasting Hereupon are those speeches of Christ in the Gospell (d) Mat. 4 17. Doe Penance for the kingdome of heauen is at hand (e) Luc 5 32 I came not to call the Iust but sinners to Penance Vnlesse (f) Luc. 13 6 you haue Penance you shall all likewise perishe But hee finally doth true Penance to conclude all these thinges with the wordes of S. CYPRIAN (g) Ep. 14. Who obaying the precepts of God the Priests with his obedience works of Iustice doth winne our Lord. OF THE SACRAMENT OF EXTREAME VNCTION 1 What ought to be our beleefe touching the Sacrament of Extream Vnction THat certes which the (a) Con. Nic. ex Arab. Latinum factuÌ„ can 69. Con. Const ses 15. Flor. Trid. sess 14. Innoc. 1. ep 1. ad Decentium ca. 8. Pet. Dam. ser 1. in dedicat Eccles Bern. in vita Mala. Conc. Worm can 72. Cabil 2. cap. 48. Melden apud Burchar lib. 4. can 75. apud Iuonem part 1. cap. 269. Aquisgr 2. can 8. Mogunt sub Rabano Alcuinus lib. de offic cap. 12. Hugo lib. 2. de Sacram. par 15. cap. 2. 3. Orig. hom 2. in Leuit. Chrys lib. 3. de Sacerd. Aug. in speculo in serm 215. de temp Catholike Church doth constantlye teache to witte that this is a sacred signe ordained in consecrated oile that thereby heauenly vertue may by Gods ordinance be applied vnto sicke persons for the health not only of their soules but of their bodies also Vnto which Sacrament Sainte IAMES the Apostle giueth most cleare and euident testimony for as much as he hath written these verie wordes (b) Iac. 5 14. Ibid. Beda Is any man sicke among you Let him bring in the Priestes of the church let theÌ„ pray ouer him anoiling him with oile in the name of our Lord. And the praier of faith shal saue the sick And our Lord shal lifte him vp And if he be in sinnes they shal be remitted him 2 What doth the Apostle teach by these wordes HEE sheweth first of all that the Elemente or matter of this Sacrament is oile consecrated as noteth well (a) In cap. â— Mar. in â— Luc in â— Iac. Innoc. 1. vt supra Conc. Meld vt supra S. BEDE by the benediction of a Bishoppe And it signifieth (b) Theoph. in ca. 6. Mar. cherefulnesse of minde an internall strengthening which through the grace of God the sicke man feeleth by the vertue of this Sacrament Then doth the same Apostle set downe the proper minister of this Sacramente to witte a (c) Chry. li. 3. de sacerd Orig. ho. 2. en Leuit. Priest who with praier is decently to exercise this holy vnction Neither was it without some signification of the minister of this Sacrament writteÌ„ of the Apostles that (d) Mar. 6 13 61. Theoph. Beda They annointed with oile many sicke and healed theÌ„ Furthermore the parties that receiue this Sacrament are by Saint IAMES called sicke persons (e) Pet. Cluâ— lib. 1. mirac cap 20. li. 2. cap. 32. because as the manner custome of the Church is this holy vnction is onelie celebrated in grieuous and daungerous sickenesses 3 What is the profite and effect of this Sacrament FIrst it auaileth to remission of (a) Bern. in vita Mal. Conc. Trid. vt supra Pet. Clun li. â— ep 1. such sinnes as the sicke person hath not already purged by the remedies of Penance that he may before all thinges be eased of the burden and cured of the maladie of his sinnes Then profiteth it also either to driue away or to (b) Ibidem Bern. asswage the infirmity of the body so farre forth as it is expedient for the sicke person to be deliuered of the same Last of all it is of force to minister comforte and confidence of which certes there is speciall neede in that last agony and departure at what time the (c) Cyril Al. in orat de â—xitu animae Greg. lib. 2. mor cap. 17.

18. ho. 39. in Euang. Clim grad 6. Eus Emis ho. 1. ad monac Seuer Sulp de uaÌ„s S. Mart. dying man must haue very sore conflictes both with most bitter paines also with most horrible feendes Wherefore although bodily health bee not alwaies hereby restored vnto the sicke person who often chaunceth to die after this vnction receiued yet a peculiar grace is giuen in this Sacrament to beare the force troublesomnesse of the disease more coÌ„stantly to take death it selfe more easily And this is it that by his Apostles God hath promised (d) Iac. 5 15. The praier of faith shall saue the sicke And our Lorde shall lift him vp And if he be in sinnes they shal be remitted him To the signifieng certes of which effects euen the nature and natiue force of oile doth fitlie agree as (e) In cap. 6. Mar. THEOPHILACTE sheweth Wherfore it behoueth vs exactly to obserue that which (f) Ser. 215. de temp vide etiam de rect Cath. câ—nuers de visit insir lib. 2. c. 4. iteÌ„ in speculo S. AVGVSTINE doth most holesomelie admonishe So often as anie infirmitye chaunceth let him that is sicke receiue the Body and Bloode of Christ and after that let him annoint his body that that which is written may be accomplished in him Is (g) Iac. 5 14. any man sicke Let him bring in the Priests and let them praie ouer him annoiling him with oile in the name of our Lord. And the praier of faith shall saue the sicke And our Lorde shall lifte him vp And if he be in sinnes they shall be remitted him OF THE SACRAMENT OF ORDERS 1 What is the Sacrament of holy Orders Aug. lib. 2. cont ep Parmen c. 13. et de bono coÌ„iug c. 24 li. 1. coÌ„t DoÌ„ cap. 1. Leo. ep 81. ad Diosc Greg. in cap 10. 16 lib. 1. reg Nyss orat de sanct Bapt. Conc. Flor. Trid. ses 23. Amb. in 12. cap. 1. ad Cor. Theoph. in cap. 19. Luc. Pet Clun lib. 6. ep 1. IT is that whereby a singular grace and spirituall power is giuen to some that they may by open profession beare office in the Church This is the Sacrament by which as by a dore do necessarily enter the lawful dispensers of the (a) 1. Cor. 4 1. Mal. 2 7. 1. Tim. 3 1. 5 17. Ephes 4 11. 1. Cor. 14 2.19 12 28 mysteries and of the worde of God the Ministers of Christ his Church as Bishops Priestes Deacons Finallie all those whosoeuer they be that do exercise functions in the Church orderly and with authority For no man as the (b) Heb. 5 4. Act. 1 24. Cypr. ep 52. Tert de praescript ca. 41. Conc. l. at c. 3. Innoc. 3. ad Metens cap. cum ex iniuncto Tit. de haer Scripture testifieth Taketh or ought to take the honor to himselfe to witte of exercising the functions of the Church But he that is called of God as AARON that is vnlesse he be consecrated by the Sacrament of visible ordinatioÌ„ bee by a (c) Mat. 10 1 Luc. 9 1. Mar. 16 15. Io 20 21. 17 18. Act. 13 2. Tit. 1 5. Bishop lawefully ordered sent to the worke of some certaine Ministery which in his degree he may exercise in the Church according to the Lawes of Diuine and Apostolicall Tradition 2 Are not all Christians Priests a-like THey may surely be (a) Apo. 1 6. 5 10. 1. Pet. 2 9. so called in this sense that as Priests were wonte to exercise certaine externall Sacrifices sacred functions so as many are regenerated in Christ may and ought daily to offer and diligently to exercise certaine spirituall (b) 1. Pet. 2 5 Rom. 12 1. Psal 49 23. 50 19. Phil. 4 18. Heb. 13 15.16 vide â—as ser 2. de Fap cap 8. Aug. 20. ciu c. 10. Leo. ser 3. in anniuers Amb. lib. 4. Sacr. cap. 1. sacrifices to witte Praier Praises Thankes-giuings mortifying of the Fleshe and others of like sorte So that for this cause they are saide in holy Scripture to be spiritual Priests before God and to offer vp spirituall Sacrifices But if we take this name of Priesthoode properly all indifferentlie are not Priests but those only vnto whom the authority of the Church hath committed to be proper ministers (c) Ignat. ad Her Chry. â—i 3. 6. de sacerd ho. 60. ad pop Hier ad Heliod ep 1. ca. 7. aduers Lucif c. 8 ep 85. ad Euag Victor l 2 de persec Cypr. ep 54. of Sacramentes and hath granted power and right to consecrate offer and distribute the holy Euchariste and both to remitte and to retaine the sinnes of men And of these priests prelates of the new Lawe thus writeth S. PAVL The Priestes that rule (d) 1. Tim. 5 17. well let them be esteemed woorthy of double honour especially they that labour in the worde and Doctrine And this doubtlesse cannot appartaine to women whome (e) 1. Tim. 2 11. 1. Cor. 14 34 Tert. de praescrip cap. 41. Epiph. haer 42 40. the same Apostle forbiddeth to teach in the Church biddeth to be silent neither can it concern the (f) Leo. ep c 2. ad Maxi. Laity at all whose part it is after the manner of sheepe to be fedde (g) Io. 10 11 21 15. 1. Pet. 5 2. 2 13. Heb. 13 17. Rom. 13 1. Mat. 23 2. Luc. 10 16. 1. Io. 4 6. not to feede to be gouerned not to gouerne not to preferre but to submitte and humble themselues vnto their Prelates to heare obserue and doe whatsoeuer they sitting in the chaire shall say whether they be good or euill according as wee reade it commaunded by the worde of God Wherfore as in the Church Triumphant there are Angels different (h Eph. 1 2â— Col. 1 16. Dan. 7 10. Dion de caelest hier ca. 10. in order and power who with decent disposition doe faithfullie execute and fulfill the offices imposed vpon them So also the Church (i) 1. Tim. 3 15. Cant. 6 9. Anacl ep 1. 2. 3. Isid lib. 2. de offic ca. 5. sequ Militant which is the house of God as it were a certaine campe set in battle a-ray hath her peculiar Ministers distinct from other Christians and disposed in Godly order amongest themselues for the prosecuting of the publike common sunctions of the Church vpoÌ„ earth to witte that for the benefite of the Christian people they maie euen by publike profession and with due Comelinesse and Maiesty bestowe their labours in those (k) Heb. 5 1. 8 3. 13 17. 2. Cor. 5 20. thinges which belong vnto God and the health of soules 3 In what place doth the Scripture giue testimony vnto this Sacrament Tit. 1 5. THere truly where it teacheth of the Apostles that in choosing appointing ordering of the Ministers of the

Church they vsed imposition of (a) Act. 6 6. 13 3. 14 22. 1. Tim. 4 14 5 22. 2. Tim. 1 6. hands For by this as by a certain effectual tokeÌ„ of present grace which is exhibited and (b) Amb. li. de dignit Sacerd. c. 5. Niceph. lib. 12. cap. 14. receiued in the giuing of holy orders is this Sacrament which we speake of commended vnto vs. And therefore S. PAVL writing to TIMOTHY whom he had created Bishop and admonishing him of the grace that he had receiued in this Sacrament doth speake in this manner (c) 1. Tim. 4 14. ibid. Theoph. Haymo Neglect not the grace that is in thee which is giuen thee by Prophesie with impositioÌ„ of the hands of Priesthoode And againe writing to the same Bishoppe (d) 2. Tim. 1 6. ibid. Theoph. I admonishe thee that thou resuscitate the grace of God which is in thee by the imposition of my handes And because it is very much materiall (e) Leo. ep 87. ad Episc Maur. synod RoÌ„ sub Sylu c. 11. Trid. ses 23. c. 7. 12. reforma what kind of men be placed in euery of the Churches sunctions and doe receiue Ecclesiasticall power by meanes of this Sacrament therefore it is saide to euerie Bishop (f) 1. Tim. 5 22. Impose handes on no man lightly neither doe thou communicate with other mennes sinnes 4 Howe many degrees doth this Sacrament containe in it IT containeth in generall lesser greater orders the lesser are foure (a) Conc. Carth. 4. caÌ„ 6. sequ Laod. can 24. Trid. ses 23. Ignat. ad Antioch Dion eccles hierarch c. 3. Euseb hist l. 6. cap. 35. ex epist Corn. in number to witte of Ostiaries Lectors Exorcistes Acolites And the greater are three to wit of Sub-deacons Deacons and Priestes And of Priestes some are greater some lesser knowen to bee ordained (b) Luc. 9 1. 10 1. ibid. Beda Clem. ep 1. Anacl ep 2 3. by Christ For the greater sort of Priests are the Apostles and Bishops their (c) Hier. ad Marcel ep 54. Cypr. ep 69. 65. Ignat. ad Phila. Aug. in Psal 44. successors excelling doubtles with a great power and reuerend prerogatiue of dignitie For it is their office as the (d) Act. 20 28. 1. Pet. 5 1. Heb. 13 17. Tit. 1 5. Act. 14 22. Scripture testifieth to take heed to themselues to the wholle flocke which they doe receiue of the holy-Ghost to bee cured and fedde to rule the Church to reforme the things that are wanting to ordaine Priests by Cities And the lesser sort of Priests doe attende in the Ministerye of the Church vnder Bishops as those (e) Luc. 10 â— Leo. ep 88. ad Epi. Gall. Innoc. 3 l. 1. de myst Alt. cap. 6. 72. Disciples did vnder the Apostles doe (f) Heb. 5 1. 8 3. offer giftes and Sacrifices for sinnes and are next vnto the same Bishops as it were workemen (g) Mat. 9 37. Luc. 10 2. in our Lords haruest But the Clarkes of the foure lesser orders haue this proper office to (h) Carth. 4. caÌ„ 6. seq Isid lib. 2. de offic c. 11. seq lib. 7. â—tym c. 12. Raban lib. 1. de inst cler c. 9. sequ Con. Aquis 1. sub Ludouico Pio. ca. 2 sequ Râ—m sub Sylu. c. 3. 6. 9. attend vpoÌ„ Priests Bishops in many businesses and affaires to dispose the people that doe resorte to holy thinges that they themselues by little and little as it were by certaine degrees may be wel informed and prepared to vndertake greater offices in the Church But the other three (i) Carth. 4. caÌ„ 3. sequ Isid sup c 7. Rabanus c. 6. vbi sup Aquisgr ca. 6. Arator l. 1 in Acta cap. 1â— greater orders doe afforde greater power both in other things in the holie mysteries of the Euchatiste Therefore the Sub-deacon and Deacon may be present at the saide mysteries as Ministers be next vnto the Priests themselues And although as touching the Sacrament of Orders the authority of offering Sacrifice there be no difference between Bishoppes and Priests (k) Damasus ep 4. Isid lib. 2. de offic cap. 7. Hieron coÌ„t Lucif cap. 4. Leo. ep 88. Conc. Hisp 2. cap 7. Epiph. haeres 75. Acrianorum yet are they more excellent high thaÌ„ Priests if wee consider the power and authority of gouerning the Church of feeding soules of confirming the Baptised and of ordering Clearkes But it is not our intente at this present exactely to declare what functions and Lawes are prescribed to euery particular order Most certaine it is that al orders are to be had in great estimation diligently to be kepte and maintained For most firme testimony is giuen vnto the same by the holie Discipline of the Apostles Tradition and (l) Amb. in cap 4. ep ad Ephes the Churches obseruance which hath continued euen vnto this day 5 In what sort doe the auncient Fathers write of this Sacrament OF this doth Sainte AVGVSTINE a Doctor without doubt verie Catholike manifestly declare both his owne and the Churches minde in these wordes (a) Li. quaest Vet. Nou. Test quaest 93. vide lib. 2. cont ep Parm. c. 13. In that that our Lorde is read to haue breathed vpon his Disciples a fewe daies after his Resurrection and to haue saide receiue (b) Io. 20 21 yee the holy-Ghost Ecclesiasticall power is vnderstoode to haue beene giueÌ„ For because all thinges in the Tradition of our Lord are done by the holy-Ghost Therefore when a certaine rule forme of this Discipline is deliuered vnto them it is saide to them receiue yee the holie-Ghost And because it appertaineth truely to Ecclesiasticall iurisdiction he presently addeth saying whose sinnes you retaine shall be retained and whose you remitte shall be remitted Therefore this inspiration or breathing is a certaine grace which is infused by Tradition to those that receiue Orders whereby they may be accounted more commendadable Whereupon the Apostle saith to TIMOTHY (c) 1. Tim. 4 14. Neglect not the grace which is in thee which was giuen thee by the imposition of handes of a Priest Therefore once it ought to bee done that for euer after this Tradition might be thought not to be voide of the gifte of the holy-Ghost Hitherto S. AVGVSTINE There are extante also the Cannons of the Apostles in which it is thus (d) Can. 1. 2. decreed Let a Bishoppe bee created by two or three Bishops A Priest by one Bishâ—p So a Deacon others of the Cleargie Then a little after (e) Can. 68. vide canoneâ— insignes dist 59. seq If any Bishop or Priest or Deacon or Subdeacon or Lector or Chaunter doe not faste the holy Lent or the Wensdaie or the Parasceue which we nowe call Friday let him be put out of Orders vnlesse happely

betweene God and his people Wherupon S. AMBROSE saith (b) In ca. 12. 1. ad Cor. A man that is placed in the order of an Ecclesiasticall office hath grace whatsoeuer he be not truly of him selfe but of his order by the operation of the holy Ghost Furthermore the said parties that receiue orders (c) Act. 6 5.8.10 13 2. 14 20. 15 2.42 1. Tim. 4 14. Tit. 1 5. Cypr. ep 76. haue thereby a certaine and euident testimonie whereby they may commend and approue both themselues and their Ministeries also vnto others And so it commeth to passe that they being as it were marked with those orders and being separated vnto the ministerie of the Church are well knowne and esteemed according to their degree and verie worthely honoured But woe be to them (d) Num. 16 31. Heb. 5.4 1. Par. 13 10. 2. Reg. 6 6. 2. Par. 26 16. whom not the example of AaRON that was called by God doth induce but seditiouse humors and swelling of the minde like vnto OZIAS the king doth cary hed long to the occupying vsurping by whatsoeuer meanes the offices of Priestly dignitie vpon whome this speach of God doth fitlie fall (e) Hier. 23 21. 14 14 27 15. 29 9. I did not send Prophets and they did runne I did not speake to them they did Prophesie And these the Scripture warneth vs not to accounte as Ministers of the Church but to eschew as (f) Io. 10 1. Cant. 2 15. Act. 20 29. Mat. 7 15. Theeues Robbers Foxes Dogges and Wolues because they doe not enter in by the dore but either of their owne rashnesse or for the fauour only of some ciuil magistrate (g) Trid. sess 23. cap. 4. or the popular multitude (h) Laod. can 13. they assume vnto themselues Ecclesiasticall offices seazing vpon those holy functions without any lawfull calling ordering * Ro. 10 15. But hâ—w shall they preach vnlesse they be sent as S. PAVL being one himselfe that was (i) Act. 13 2. separated vnto the worke doth say Doubtlesse order beinge once broken (k) Vide Leonem ep 87 ad Epis Afr. Greg. li. 4. ep 52. Dion cap. 5. eccles hier and Priesthoode taken away the Hierarchie and princely disposition of the Church consisting as well of Priests and other ministers as also of Bishoppes rightly ordered woulde come to decay Neither shoulde the Churche be that which it is called a Campe sette in battaile araye (l) Cant. 6 9. nor the true and lawefull Ministers of the Church should be discerned the office and authoritie of teaching would become contemptible the dispensation of the Sacramentes woulde be vnfaithfully and preposterously performed yea and altogither frustrate finally the functions of the Church woulde bee perturbed and as the proofe it selfe too much doth shewe newe and false Doctrines would increase and swarme by the means of these newe and false Ministers of Christ his spouse wherby the Church would often be shaken with sore deadly coÌ„motions as we doe in our daies feele by experience And for that cause the Apostle (m) 1. Cor. 12 28. Saint PAVL hath not only set down diuerse degrees of Ministers in the Church but hath also shewed howe holesome and necessarie they be in so much that hee affirmeth that they were giuen by (n) Ephes 4 11. God vnto the church as it hath bin said before To the consummatioÌ„ of Saints vnto the worke of the Ministerie vnto the edifiing of the body of Christ that nowe wee be not children wauering and carried about with euery winde of Dostrine in the wickednesse of men in craftinesse to the circumuention of error And certes this is a most euident sure note of the Church in that we see that perpetuall and neuer as yet at any time interrupted sucession of Bishops of lawefull orders in the same which God hath placed there-in for the perfect gouernment of this his kingdome And therefore this institution of Ministers as a most firme (o) Iren. lib. 3 cap. 3. lib. 4. cap. 43. Optat lib. 2. cont Douat Aug. ep 165 42. con epist Fund c. 4. in Psal cont part Donat. Tert. de praescript c. 36. knitting together of the Church and a most pretious bonde to preserue vnity is the more carefully to be retained and euen in the euill Ministers of the Church as we said before because of Gods ordinance is euer to be honored Which S. AVGVSTINE well vnderstanding saith Into that (p) Ep. 165. vide l. 2. con lit Petil. c. 51 order of Bishops which is deriued from PETER himselfe euen to ANASTASIVS who nowe sitteth in the same Chaire If any Traitour had in those daies crept in it had beene nothing preiudiciall vnto the Church and vnto Innocent Christians for whom our Lord was so carefull and prouident that he saith of euill Prelates (q) Mat. 23 3. whatsoeuer they say doe yee but according to their workes doe yee not Thus farre Sainte AVGVSTINE OF THE SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY 1 What is Matrimony MAtrimony is a laweful (a) Aug. li. de fid op ca. 7. lib. 1. de nupt coÌ„cup cap. 10. 21. lib. de bono coÌ„iug ca. 24. Amb. in c. 5. Eph. Pet. Damia ser 1. de dedic Lucius 3 in 5. Decret tit 7. c. 9. CoÌ„stant Conc. ses 15. artic 8. Trid. ses 24. can 1. coniunction of a man a woman instituted by God that they maie leade together an vndeuided society of life I say lawefull that there may be mutual (b) GeÌ„ 24 57 Tob. 7 15. Amb. de instit Virg c. 6 consent of both partes and that there be not found betweene them the degrees as they call them of (c) Calixt 1. ep 2. Later can 50. Trid ses 24. can 3. 4. de refor Matr. c. 2. sequ Consanguinity Affinity and other thinges of the like sort either prohibiting or disanulling Matrimony Of which Matrimoniall Coniunction if thou wouldest knowe the first author it is (d) Gen. 2 23. Mat. 19 6. 1. Cor. 7 10. Eph. 5 21. God himselfe most excellent and mightie who ioyned the first Couple and Parents of mankind in Paradise it selfe and honored them with his benediction But if thou regard the ende why it was instituted it is no other but the propagation of (e) Gen 2 23 Fulg. ep 1. cap. 3. Isid lib. 2. offic cap. 19. mankind to the glory of God and a familiar and faithfull liuing together (f) Chry ho. 20 ad Eph. in moral exhort ho. 5. in 1. Thess of Man Wife And finally the auoiding (g) 1. Cor. 7.9.10 Aug. li. 9. de Gen. ad lit c. 7. Chry. in Ps 43. ho. 3. de verb. Isaiae vidi DominuÌ„ of fornication in this imbecillitie of a corrupted nature 2 Howe is Matrimony a Sacrament IN that the (a) Amb. in cap. 5. Eph. Aug. vt supr

Isid lib. 2. offic ca. 19. Conc. Flor. Trid. ses 24. in Doct. de Sacr. Matr. most strait coniunction which is betweene Man Wife is an holy and conuenient signe ordained by God whereby is signified the most holy and firme coniunction of Christ the Bridegroome the Church his Spouse This very signe profiteth vnto Christian Couples to receiue the grace of God when they doe rightly enterprise (b) Tob. 3 16. 6 16. 8 9. Euarist ep 1. Trid. cap. 1. refor Matr. Matrimony Which grace maketh perfecte (c) Chrys ho. 20. in ep ad Eph Amb l. 1. de Abrah cap. 7. naturall loue confirmeth an indissoluble vnity betweene them and sanctifieth them that they may not onely bee abide (d) Gen. 2 24. two in one fleshe according to their vocation but euer preserue mutual fidelity peace loue and singular concorde And so that is accomplished in them which the Apostle teacheth (e) Heb. 13 4 Fulg. ep 2. cap. 5. Marriage honourable in all and the bedde vndefiled Wherefore the same Apostle (f) Ephes 5.32 Amb. ibid. Leo. ep 92. ad Rust S. PAVL where hee handleth the mystery of such coniunction saith plainly This is a great Sacrament But I speake in Christ in the Church So also S. AVGVSTINE Not (g) Lib. 1. de nupt concup cap. 10. 21. only saieth he fruitefullnes the profite wherof consisteth in Issue not only Chastitie whose band is fidelitie but also a certain Sacrament of mariage is coÌ„mended vnto faithfull couples Whereupon the Apostle saith (h) Eph. 5 25. Husbands loue your wiues as Christ also loued the Church And (i) Aug. li. de bono coniu cap. 18. againe the same holy Father In mariage of more value is the holinesse of the Sacrament then the fruitfullnesse of the wombe 3 Can Matrimonie euer be dissolued THat Matrimonie cannot be dissolued but that the bond therof is perpetuall those wordes of the first man ADAM doe declare (a) Gen. 2 24 A man shall leaue his father and mother and shall cleaue to his wife and they two shal be in one fleshe Which thing (b) Mat. 19 5 Mar. 10 7. Orig. tract 7. in Matth. Christ also confirmed when he repeated the wordes of ADAM euen as the wordes of God himselfe adding this also That which God hath ioined togither let not man separate And in an other place he teacheth (c) Luc. 16 18. Mar. 10 11. Rom. 7 2. Can. Ap. 48 Ambr. in ca. 16. Luc. Euery one that dimisseth his wife and marieth an other committeth aduoutrie and he that marieth her that is dimissed from her husband committeth aduoutrie Moreouer S. PAVL setting forth this lawe of God and inuiolable ordinance touching the perpetuall firmnes of the knotte of wedlocke saith To them (d) 1. Cor. 7 10. Aug. de adult coÌ„iug lib. 2. cap. 5. 9. ho. 49. ex 50. c. 2 Concil Mil. Can. 17. that be ioined in matrimonie not I giue commandement but our Lorde that the wife depart not from her husband and if shee departe to remaine vnmaried or to be reconciled to her husband And let not the husband put away his wife And afterwarde he addeth (e) Ibid. Ver. 39. Rom. 7 2. A woman is bounde to the lawe so long time as her husband liueth Therfore euen although there be noe hope at all of any ishue (f) Aug. de bo coniu c. 7 15.1â—.24 Hier. in Epitaph Fabiol cap. 1. Isid lib. 2. offic cap. 19. and neuer so many discoÌ„modities of life and hard chaunces doe fall out yet Matrimonie once contracted standeth in force is so firme and sure especially if it be consummate that so long as life lasteth it can neuer be dissolued And for that cause one partie cannot wholly be diuorced froÌ„ the other vnlesse happilie it be before any carnall copulation had betweene them for to take in hand some rule * Decret lib. 3 tit 32. c. 2. 14. Trid. ses 24. can 6. of religious life But where certaine causes doe occurre for which sometimes maried folkes maye be separated the band is not therfore broken but the (g) Con. â—oâ— Trid. sess 24. can 7. 8. Aug l. 1. de adult con cap. 11. communitie of the bed and cohabitation which was before is hindered The cause wherof we say doth consist in Christ himselfe who hath ioined and lincked vnto himselfe with a speaciall perpetuall and most inseperable vnion the Church (h) Ephes 5 22.32 Cant. 5 1.2.9 his onely spouse and euer most deare vnto him And not only this same coÌ„iunction which is between man and wife hath such firmenesse of a matrimoniall bond but it doth also vtterly exclude all polygamie that is to wit that diuers women doe not marry to one man (i) Isid lib. 3â— offic cap. 19. Trid. sess 24. can 2. or one woman be espoused to diuers husbands Wherfore Christ to the intente that he mighte both more firmelie establish and reduce matrimony to that more pure and primitiue estate which it had at the begining very significantlye hath said (k) Gen. 2 24 Mat. 19 5. Mar. 10 7. They two shall be in one fleshe And againe Nowe are they not two but one fleshe 4 Is Matrimonie permitted to euery one NOe surely for the holy Apostles haue deliuered as (a) Epiph. haer 61. con Apostolicos EPIPHANIVS saith that it is a sinne to turne vnto mariage after Virginitie once decreed and established by vowe And S. HIEROME (b) Hier. lib. 2 cont Iouin cap. 7. Bas de Virgâ—nitate ep ad Virg. laps affirmeth it to be such and so greate a sinne that he saith that Virgins that marrie after consecration they are not so much aduoutresses as incestuous persons And S. AVGVSTINE saith (c) In Psa 83. vide eund in Ps 75. de bono viduit cap 8.9.11 Oecum in 1. Cor. 7. Cypr. ep 62. Chry. de virg c. 39. Fulg. ep 1. c. 6. 7 A Virgin which if she had maried had not sinned being once a Nunne if she marrie shal be reputed an aduoutresse from Christ. For she hath looked backe from the place vnto which she came before Therefore that which the Apostle hath (d) 1. Cor. 7 9. It is better to marrie then to be burnt as S. AMBROSE doth learnedly declare (e) Lib ad Virg. laps c. 5. Hier. lib. 1. in Iouin ca. 7. Aug. lib. 1 de adult coÌ„ c. 15. c. 8. de bono viduit OecuÌ„ in 1. Cor. 7. Isid lib 2. de offic cap. 17 Leo. ep 92. ad Rust c. 14 appertaineth to her that is not yet promised to her that hath not as yet receiued the veile But shee that hath espoused her selfe to God and hath receiued the holy veile she is now married she is now ioined to an immortall husband And if now she will marrie according to the common lawe of wedlock she committeth aduoutrie she becometh

the handmaide of death Thus writeth S. AMBROSE Wherefore that was a very worthy decree of IOVINIAN the Emperour (f) Sozom. lib. 6. hist c. 3. Niceph. l. 10. cap. 39. and put into the Codex by the Emperour IVSTINIAN (g) L. Si quâ— C de Episc Cler. 2 Turon cap. 21. If any man dare presume I will not saye to rauishe but euen to assaile by inticementes holye Virgins for to marrye them let him be punished with death Now the same reason in euery respect and the same Iudgemente standeth in force concerning (h) Basil qu. 14. diff expl ser 1. de instit Mon. constit Monast ca. 22. ep ad Mâ—nachum claps Chrys epist 6 ad Theod. laps Leo. ep 92. ad Rust ca. 13.14.15 Aug. in Psa 75 ser 1. de oÌ„mun vita Cler. ca. 4. Chalc. Syn. c. 16. Mounkes and those that (i) Epiphan haereâ— 59 in â—oÌ„pend Doctr Hier. lib. 1 cont Iouiâ— c. 19 adu Vigil cap 1 Aug. lib 2 de coniug cap. 20. Fulg de fid ad Pet cap. 3 Greg lib. 3 ep 34. Leo. ep 92. ad Rust c. 3. ep 84. ca. 4. Bern. serm c 5 in Cant. Trid. sess 24. can 9. haue receiued holy orders For they haue damnation if letting lose the bridle to licentiousnes they frustrate or as the Apostle speaketh (k) 1. Tim. 5 12. Carthag 4 can 104. Aug de bono Vid. cap. 8. 9. Isid lib. 2. offic cap. 18. make voide their first faith giuen to God and to the Church Who haue voluntarily barred themselues of wedlocke either expresly by vow binding themselues to the obseruance of a sole and single life or by taking of holy orders at the least virtually and in effecte (l) 6 Decret lib. 3. tit 15. approuing protesting the same Let them therefore giue care vnto the word of God (m) Eccles 5 3. If thou hast vowed any thing to God delay not to performe (n) Ibid. Deut. 23 21 And whatsoeuer thou hast vowed doe thou performe Then in an other place (o) Ps 75 12 Vow yee and pay your vowes to your Lord God Yea Christ himselfe teacheth (p) Luc. 9 62. Bern ep 2. ad Fulconc Ansel ep 4. No man putting his hande to the plough and loking backe is apte for the kingdome of God 5 Doth the Church therefore compell any to liue single SHe truely being a most kinde careful mother constraineth not as binding no man by lawe to liue single but of those that haue of their owne accorde receiued that lawe as hath bene saide she requireth that they doe not breake (a) Beda lib. 2. de tabern cap. 9. in Luc. 1. Hier. in cap. 1. ad Tit. in Apol cont Iouin c 3. 8. Orig. ho. 23. in Num. Amb. ep 82 l. 1. offic cap. 50. Euseb 1. demonst Eua. cap 9. vide Canolica dist 28. 82. Religion nor violate and cut off that couenant which they haue religiously made with Christ his Church Therefore are they iustly vrged to stand to their promises and to keepe that Euangelicall Councell which they haue once firmely embraced whereof S. PAVL saieth And (b) 1. Cor. 7 38. he that ioineth his Virgin in Matrimony doth wel to wit so long as she is not bound (c) Theoph. ibid. Hier. lib. 1. cont Iouin ca. 7. Greg. in ca. 15. l. 1. Reg. Epiph. haer 61. with the vow of single life and he that ioineth not doth better And againe (d) Ibid. v. 1. It is good for a man not to touch a woman For (e) Mat. 19 12. which cause the Euangelicall Eunuches (f) Esa 56 3. ibi Hier. Bas l. de Virginit Aug. de san Virg. ca. 24. 25. or as TERTVLLIAN (g) Lib. 1. ad Vx. cap. 6. calleth them Voluntarij spadones that haue cutte themselues for the kingdome of heauen that they may bee holie (h) 1. Cor. 7 34. in bodie and spirite in flesh yet without flesh warfaring vnto God are both coÌ„mended by Christ and haue alwaies beene highly coÌ„mended in the Church And in this matter is a double error that we haue to take heede of The one is of those men which with IOVINIAN do so extol Matrimonie that they either (i) Hier. li. 1. in Iouin c. 2 Aug. haer 82 matche or (k) Trid. ses 24. cap. 10. preferre this estate before single-life or Virginity whereas (l) 1. Cor. 7 38. S. PAVL certes and all the Fathers doe euidently affirme the contrary Another is of those which cauil that coÌ„tinency single life can hardly bee performed by Christian men and therfore they contend that no man ought easily to vndertake it or religiously to promise it For these meÌ„ vnderstand not the plenty abundance of the grace of the Gospell which is such and so great giueÌ„ by Christ so many Ages daily giuen to those that beleeue (m) Aug l. 6. 8. conf c. 11. Orig. Hier. Chrys in Mat. 19. aske seeke knocke that these men finde the yoake of our Lord sweet the way of continency no lesse pleasant thaÌ„ holesome In the number of whom S. PAVL was who plainly affirmeth (n) 1. Cor. 10 13. God is faithful who wil not suffer you to be tempted aboue that which you are able but wil make also with temptation Ishue Wherfore S. AVGVSTINE explicating (o) Aug. in Psal 75. in a certaine place this sentence Vowe pay your vowes vnto our Lord God writeth thus Bee yee not slothfull to Vowe for you shal not by your own strength fulfil the same You shal sail if you presume of your selues But if you presume of him to whom you doe vow spare not to vow you shal performe it with security And againe in another place (p) Ep. 45. A happy necessity which forceth a man to that which is better 6 What is the summary Doctrine of the Premises THose thinges that haue beene hitherto spoken according to our purposed breuity are onely to this end that the simpler sorte maie haue the Catholike verity touching the seauen Sacramentes of the Church Which are founde certes to be of two sortes For (a) Conc. Flor. some as the first fiue doe aduaunce the particular welfare of euery faithfull man And the rest to wit the two latter doe serue for the multiplying of Gods people propagation of the Church Both which effectes they doe worke by Gods holy ordinance for our behoofe most necessarie For (b) Io. 3 5. Tit. 3 5. Baptisme doth regenerate to the spirituall life which is in Christ Confirmation doth adde force and (c) Act. 8 17. strength vnto the regenerate The Eucharist is meat (d) Io. 6 51.55 drincke and voiage prouision vnto the waifaring man Penance being a present (e) Io. 20 23. Ezech. 18 30.31 remedie against all the maladies of the minde doth erecte a man when he is

And yet more greeuously doe they sin who do manifestly make a gain vnto theÌ„selues of an other mans filthinesse (c) Deut. 23 18. as bauds do or such as dare giue lodgeing harbour vnto theeues or notorious dishonest and factious persons where they may haue couer for theÌ„selues or for their things 11 When doe we by defending committe an alien sinne VVHen we either protect malefactours or defend and publishe an other mans doctrine though it be peruerse and wicked When also by our care and endeuour we labour to further maintaine that which is appointed against equitie and Iustice Against such persons there thundreth out this diuine oracle Woe (a) Esa 5 20. 10 1. vnto you that call euill good and good euill making darkenes light light darkenes making bitter sweete and sweet bitter And againe Thou (b) Exod. 23 2. shalt not follow the multitude to doe euill neither shalt thou in iudgement yeelde to the sentence of many so to decline from the truth And this shall suffice touching Alien sinnes as they call theÌ„ which now certes in those daies doe reach very farre and are ouer licentiously committed euery daye espeacially by Magistrates And there is commonly so litle heede taken of them that most men doe thinke them not to be sinnes at all nor make any accounte of theÌ„ although often times with the filthe of these sinnes they defile and make guilty of perpetuall torments both their owne and other mens consciences And al these kindes mentioned before may be reduced to three kindes and in few words comprehended as sheweth S. BASIL (c) Bas ser 2. de Bap. ca. 9. For that we fall into the participation of an other mans error or sinne it commeth to passe either by Deede and Acte or by Will onely and a certaine purpose of the minde or by some carelesse negligence if at anie time others be defrauded of the duty that we owe in admonishing them and seeking their amendment But the worste kinde of sinning of all others without comparison is when a man sinneth against the holy-Ghost OF SINNES AGAINST THE HOLY-GHOST 1 What is a sinne against the Holy-Ghost Vide S. Tho mam in 2.2 quaest 14. IT is malitiously and contemptuously to reiecte the grace and liberality of God beeing offered which grace certes is peculiarly attributed to the holy-Ghost as to the fountaine of all goodnesse And this is to sinne without any remedy or redresse insomuch that according to the speech of Christ for such so great a sinne no forgiuenesse is obtained either (a) Mat. 12 31. Mar. 3 28. Luc. 12 10. in this worlde or in the worlde to come For after this maner Almighty God dealeth with vs that he giueth neither grace vpon earth nor glory in Heauen to anie other but vnto those onelie which hauing once knowne sinne doe detest it setting before their eies that which is good doe make choise of a righteous course of life But from these sinnes farre is banished both detestation of sinne and the choise also of that good which were to bee followed and that moreouer is cleane reiected whereby the holy-Ghost doth vse of his singular grace to withdrawe a man from sinne And for this reason they which are fettered with such kind of sinnes doe either neuer get the grace of God or seldome and very hardly For these sinnes are not committed of humane imbecillitie frailtie which were to sinne against the Father and the might and power of the Father as we see in S. PETER (b) Mat. 26 74. Vide Greg. lib. 25. Mor. cap. 16. the Apostle who denied Christ nor yet of ignoraÌ„ce which were to sinne against the Sonne the wisdome of the SoÌ„ne as was SAVL (c) 1. Tim. 1 13. Act 9 1. his case when he persecuted the Church but that which is farre worse without comparison these sinnes are committed of malice and obstinacie of minde as we see for example in those most peruerse and obstinate Pharisies 2 How many sinnes are there against the holy Ghost THere are of that kinde accounted sixe and their names commonly vsed are these Presumption of the mercie of God or of the impunitie of sinne Desperation Oppugning of the knowne truth Enuying of brotherly charitie Obstinacie and impenitencie But more plainly and significantly they may be thus numbred 1 Confidently to abuse the mercie of God 2 Vtterly to despaire of the grace of God or of his owne saluation 3 Rebelliouslye to oppugne the truth of religion against his owne conscience 4 Vehemently to be moued with a setled Enuy because of the encrease of saluation vertue in his brother 5 With an obstinate minde to persiste wittingly in a faulte 6 Without purpose of ameÌ„dment neuer to make an end of a lewd and peruerse kinde of life 3 What manner of presumption maketh a sinne against the holy Ghost Greg. in c. 3. lib. 1. reg l 33. mor. c. 15. l. 6. ep 22. Fulg. de fid ad Pet. cap. 3. Bern. serm 38. ex paruis THat which maketh a man to trust only in the mercie of God and to be hardened and emboldened to sinne all manner of respect of Gods Iustice and feare being laid aside And thus certes doe very many sinne at this day who flattering themselues with an only faith (a) Aug. de fid op c. 14. 22. in Ench. ca. 67. haer 54. Hier. in c. 4. Osc in Christ doe like beastes (b) Ioel. 1 17 wallow and rotte in the middest of the filth of sinnes and not to themselues only but to others also dare promise (c) 2. Pet. 2 18 Eccles 8 14. Conc. Trid. sess 6. cap. 9. can 12.13.14 Hier. in cap. 4. Dan. securitie if only they haue confidence in the merites of Christ in the grace of God apprehended by faith although in the meane time the fruites (d) Luc. 3 8.9 13 3. Mat. 3 8.10 Act. 26 20. Eccli 2 22. of penance be nothing regarded But to all these doth the doctor of the Gentiles cry out Doest thou contemne saith hee the riches of the goodnes of God and patience (e) Ro. 2 4. Eccles 8 11. Eccli 15 21. Aug. trac 33 in Ioan. ho. 50. ex 50. ca 4. Isid de sum bo lib. 2. cap. 13. and longanimitie not knowing that the benignitie of God bringeth thee to penance And for that cause he in an other place is so farre (f) 1. Cor. 13 1 off froÌ„ willing men to vaunt of only faith that he biddeth euen the faithfull theÌ„selues euery one to worke their saluation with feare and (g) Phil. 2 12 Psal 2 11. Pro. 28 14. Rom. 11 20 1. Cor. 4 4. 10 12. trembling commending vnto them a faith not deade and idle as Sainte (h) Iac. 2 14. IAMES calleth it but liuely effectuall which worketh duely by (i) Gal. 5 6. charitie Against this abominable sinne thus

c. 32. Chrys hom 6. ad pop 1. 2. in Gen. Councell willeth them to bee excoÌ„municate who without vneuitable necessity euident weakenesse doe eate fleshe in Lent And the holy Fathers zeal is most singular in commending vrging requiring (o) Bas ho. 2. de Ieiun Aug. ser 62. de temp Amb. ser 23. 25. 34. 36. 37 Fasting espetially that of Lent which they will haue accounted as instituted by the (p) Hieron ep 54 cont Mont. ad Marcell Apostles From this spirite of the Fathers are they farre off that doe disburden themselues others of the Lawe of Fastes taking vpon themselues the Patronage not of Euangelicall liberty but of licentiousnes of the fleshe These fellowes will not haue the fleshe with the (q) Gal. 5 24 vices and concupiscences to be crucified therefore they (r) 1. Cor. 2 14. sauor not those thinges that are of the Spirite but doe rather extinguishe (s) 1. Thes 5 19. Maxim in Litan the Spirite contrary to the Doctrine of the Apostle They do also resist the holy Church our Mother yea (t) Aug. in ep 86. ad Casul Christ also speaking gouerning in the Church (v) Luc. 10 16. Mat. 18 17. 1. Cor. 14 37. 1. Thes 2 13 Act. 15 28. Hier. 35 6.18 2. Mac. 6 19 7 1. his Spouse wherfore they purchase vnto themselues (x) Ro. 13 2. Leu. 23 27. 1. Reg. 14 24. 3. Reg. 13 16. Conc. Trid. sess vlt. Aug. tract 73. in Ioan. Amb. ser 25. 36. Chrys hom 12. in 1. ad Tim. Raban lib. 2. de instit Cler. cap. 25. assured damnation wheras they abrogate reiecte the holy holesome ordinance of Fastes alwaies commeÌ„ded vnto vs by the Church 6 What doth the holie Scripture teache concerning Fasting Iud. 20.26 1. Reg. 7 6. 31 13. 2. Reg. 1 12. 3 35. 12 16. 22. 3. Reg. 21 27. 1. Par. 10 12 2. Par. 20 3. 1. Esd 8 21. 2. Esd 1 4. IT is the voice of Almightie God himselfe which by the Prophet IOEL cryeth out vnto sinners (a) Icel 2 12 1 14. Be yee conuerted vnto mee in your whole heart in Fasting Weeping and Mourning And a little after (b) Ibid. 2 15. Greg. ho. 16. in Euang Maxim ho. 1. de Ieiun quadrag Sound the trumpet in Sion saith hee Sanctifie a Faste call the company assemble the people together or as others do reade Sanctifie a Faste preache the curing That hereby we may learne that Faste is sanctified by other good woorkes and being sanctified is (c) Aug. ser 60. 62. 69. 230. de teÌ„p Bern. ser 4. de quadrag Hier. in c. 6. Danielis auailable to the curing of sinnes as S. HIEROME doth (d) Lib. 2. adu Iouin cap. 11. interpret For as the same holy Father gathereth our of holie (e) Ibid. vide Aug. ser 65. de temp Chrysost in homil de Iona. write by Fasting DANIEL a man of (f) Dan. 9.3.23 10 3.11 desires knewe thinges to come And the Niniuites appeased the wrath (g) Ionae 3 10. of God And (h) 3. Reg. 19 8. ELIAS and (i) Exod. 24 18. 34 28. Deut. 9 9.18 MOYSES with fortie daies hunger were filled with the familiarity of Almighty God our Lord (k) Mat. 4 2. Luc. 4 2. himselfe Fasted so manie daies in the wildernesse that he might leaue vnto vs solemne daies of Fasting And hee taught that the fiercer sort of diuels cannot be vanquished but by (l) Mat. 17 21. Mar. 9 29. Praier Fasting the Apostle saith that he (m) 1. Cor. 11 27. Fasted often And in the Psalmes the Penitent saith I did (n) Ps 101. eate my breade as ashes and did mingle my drinke with teares And when (o) Psal 34. they were troublesome vnto me I did weare heare cloth I did humble my soule in Fasting What is more manifest then that which Christ affirmeth shoulde come (p) Luc. 5 35. Mar. 2 20. Mat. 9 15. ibid. Hier to passe that when he the Spouse most deare vnto his disciples should be taken away then they thoughe full of the holy-Ghost (q) Act. 13 3 14 22. shoulde Fast Therefore S. PAVL exhorteth all the faithfull Let vs (r) 2. Cor. 6. Luc. 2 37. Mat. 6 16. Tob. 3 10. Iudith 4 8. 8 6. Esth 4 3. 14 2. Hier. 36 9. Bar. 1 5. 1. Mac. 3 47 2. Mac. 13 12. exhibite our selues as the ministers of God in much patience in watchinges in Fastinges in chastitie For they (s) Gal. 5. that be Christes haue crucified their flesh with the vices and concupiscences 7 What is Praier IT is a deuoute affect of our mind towards God wherby we do faith fully demand (a) Damasc l. 3. orth fid c. 24. Aug. l. 2. de ser Do in Monte. c. 3. ser 230 de temp Bas in Iul. Chrys ho. 30. in GeÌ„ Nyss in lib. de orat whatsoeuer things are holesome for vs and others and whereby we doe praise celebrate the grace and power of Almightie God or by any manner of meanes exhibite our selues (b) Ex. 35. c d 2. Par. 29. g deuoute before that soueraigne eternall maiestie So that heerunto belongeth not only beseeching but also (c) Mat. 4. b adoration (d) Mal. 1. c Esa 56. c Ioan. 4. c oblation or Sacrifice (e) Ro. 10. c inuocation (f) Psal 17. a 145. a praise and (g) Esa 56. c 1. Tim. 2. a Aug. ep 59 ad Paulin thankesgiuing The (h) Aug. tract 73. in Euang Io. Bas in cap. 2. const Monast Bern. ser 4. 5. de quadrag in ser de 4. modis orandi maner and exact forme of praying Christ hath (i) Mat. 6. b Luc. 11. a See before of our Lordes Praier prescribed as we haue already declared And there is no worke more (k) Ps 140. a Tob. 12. c Act. 10. a Ex. 32. c Ps 105. d Hier. 7. c 27. d ibid. Hieron epist 12. ad GaudentiuÌ„ c. 3 coÌ„mended in holy scripture none more familiar with deuoute and holy persons none that of more persons and more often with greater diligence and more necessarily is to be exercised in this life than is praier It is a true saying (l) Eccles 35. d Ps 105. c 36. alud 9. d The praier of him that humbleth himselfe shall pearce the cloudes Also (m) Lu. 18. a Eccli 18 c. 1. Thess 5. c it behoueth alwaies to praie to wit with a zealous affect of harte and without hypocrisie or respect of the praise (n) Mat. 6. a of men that is to saie in spirite (o) Io. 4. c. truth Notwithstanding they that doe praie doe often vse an externall (p) Tert. in apol aduers Gent. c. 30 Aug. in l. de cura pro mort cap. 5 Hieron adu Lu. if cap. 6 in vita

of the Spirit that they should receiue which beleeued in him as the Euangelist himselfe expoundeth Otherwise without Christ as S. HIEROME (e) In c. Esa 11. hath saide neither can any man be wise nor intelligent nor a counselour nor couragious nor learned nor godly nor full of the feare of God And the vertue and vse of these spirituall goods doe tende to this ende that the vertues Theologicall and Cardinall which we haue spoken of maye readilye performe their force and proper operation in vs. Also they bring to passe that men doe verie willingly and with sweetnesse followe euerye where the (f) Psa 142 c 50 c Sap. 1 a b holy Ghost as guid and by him beeing mooued and strengthned doe without fainting runne forewarde in the way (g) Ps 118 d of the Commaundements of God are made truely Spirituall and the children of God (h) Rom. 8 â— Whosoeuer are leade by the Spirite of God they are the Sonnes of God as witnesseth the Apostle Of these giftes it were too long to discourse in particular but from thence doe proceed the most sweet fruites of the holy Ghost which do commende and set vs forth as fruitfull (i) Psal 51 c trees in the fielde of the Church according to that saying Euery (k) Mat. 7 c Hier. in cap. 5. ad Gal. good tree yeeldeth good fruits and the euill tree yeeldeth euill fruites therefore by their fruites you shall knowe them Which fruites also doe bring this commodity that a christian maÌ„ be furnished coÌ„firmed as it were with a certaine spiritual armour against the works of the flesh For the rule of the Apostle will neuer faile Walke in the (l) Gal. 3 c spirit and the works of the fleshe you shall not accomplishe And in an other place it is written If by the (m) Ro. 8 c spirite you mortifie the deedes of the fleshe you shall liue 4 Which are the workes of the fleshe THose whereof the Apostle thus discourseth (a) Gal. 5 c d vide Aug. li. 14. de ciuit Dei cap. 2. 3. The workes of the fleshe be manifest which are Fornication Vncleannesse Impudicity Leacherie seruing of Idols Witchrafts Enmities Contentions Emulations Anger 's Brawelles dissentions Sectes Enuies Murders Ebrieties Commessations and such like Which I foretell you as I haue foretolde you that they which doe such thinges shall not obtaine the kingdome of Heauen And afterwarde he addeth in the same place And they (b) Ibid. d that be Christes haue crucified their fleshe with the vices and concupiscences Then in another place They (c) Rom. 8 b Aug. de ver Apost ser 6. cap. 9. 11. that are in fleshe to wit they that walke acording to the desires of the fleshe cannot please God Therefore the same Apostle giueth this admonition Be not (d) Gal. 6 b deceiued God is not mocked For what thinges a man shall sowe those also shall hee reape For hee that soweth in his fleshe of the fleshe also shall reape corruption but he that soweth in the Spirite of the Spirite shall reape life euerlasting OF THE EIGHT BEATITVDES 1 Which are the Beatitudes of the Law of the Gospell THose certes Vide Aug. lib. 1. de serm Dom. in monte cap. 2. sequent Chromaâ— Episco in declamatione de octo Beatitudinibus Greg. Nyss de Beatitudinibus Leo. ho. in omnium Sanctorum Item Bern. ser 1. de festo omnium Sanctorum ser 4. de Aduentu Dom. which Saint AMBROSE calleth (a) Amb. in 6. cap. Luc. our Lords Beatitudes Benedictions which in (b) Mat. 5 a ibidem Hilarius Chrysostomus Hieronymus Chromatius Theoph. Euthym. Anselm c. S. MATHEVVES Gospell are in this manner recounted eight in number 1 Blessed are the (c) Luc. 6 c Esa 66 a Iac. 2 a Mat. 18 a poore in spirit For theirs is the kingdome of Heauen 2 Blessed are the (d) Psa 36 b Mat. 11 d Psal 26 d meeke for they shal possesse the Lande 3 Blessed are they that (e) Luc. 6 c 16 f 1. Reg. 15 g Io. 16 c Esa 61 a Mat. 26 g mourne for they shall be comforted 4 Blessed are they that (f) Sap. 1 a Psal 15 b 61 d Esa 65 b hunger and thirste after Iustice for they shall haue their fill 5 Blessed are the (g) Psal 40 a Pro. 11 c Eccli 29 b. Luc. 6 c mercifull for they shall obtaine mercie 6 Blessed are the (h) Ps 23 a Psal 50 c cleane of heart for they shall see God 7 Blessed are the (i) Ps 36 d Ioan. 14 d peace-makers for they shal be called the childreÌ„ of god 8 Blessed are they that (k) Luc. 6 c. 1. Pet. 3 c 2. Tim. 3 c Act. 14 d Aug. de ser Do. in monte l. 1. cap. 5. suffer persecution for Iustice for theirs is the kingdome of Heauen 11 Why is this doctrine of the Beatitudes to be obserued BEcause it is the chiefest greatest part of the Law of the Gospel which Christ our (a) Esa 53 d Iac. 4 c Mat. 5 a law-maker deliuered vpoÌ„ the Hil with his own most sacred mouth that euery man might consider what is contained required in ChristiaÌ„ Iustice besides Faith then also that they might vnderstande howe vnto iust persons a crowne of Iustice as Saint PAVL (b) 2. Tim. 4 b calleth it or a full and (c) 2. Io. ep c Luc. 6 c eternall reward doth not come without (d) 1. Cor. 3 b Mat. 11 b Luc. 16 d labour For heereupon doth S. IAMES also affirme Blessed is (e) Iac. 1 b the man that suffereth temptation For when he hath beene proued hee shall receiue the crowne of life 3 And what is principally to be noted about the doctrine of the Beatitudes FIrst of all certes ought to bee obserued Amb. in 6. cap. Luc. that there be certaine distincte degrees amongest them as appeareth both by their number order Then in euery degree there are iointly proposed two thinges whereof the one is the very acte of vertue or the merit and the Beatitude as they call it of this life the other is the rewarde of life euerlasting aunswerable to his proper and peculiar merit which wee may call the Beatitude of our countrey And as the first part offereth labour and difficulty to the beleeuers so the latter which in each degree is presently adioined by the greatnesse of the proposed reward doth afford consolation easeth the laboures sweates and agonies which euerie man must sustain in Christian warfare For no man (a) 2. Tim. 2 a shall be crowned vnlesse hee striue lawefully Euery one (b) 1. Cor. 3 b shall receiue his owne rewarde according to his owne labour What things (c) Gal. 6 b a man shall sowe those also shall hee reape as constantly affirmeth the doctor of the Gentiles And therefore our Lord before he come to sitte in (d) Heb.

Mat. ad Deme triad de seruaÌ„d virg epist 8. c. 7. quaest 1. ad Hedib epist 150. ad Pammachium super obitu Paulinae ep 26. c. 3. 4. Bas quaest 9. in regulis fusius disputatis Damasc in hist Barlaam Iosaphat cap. 1â— Chrysost in illud Pauli Salutate Prisc Aquilam voluntarie pouertie with a particuler forme of words annexed which might leaue it to the free wil of him which choseth the same For our Lorde saith IF THOV WILTE (c) Ibidem Luc. 18 c Marc. 10 d ibidem Bedâ— Theophylact. be perfecte goe sell the things that thou hast giue to the poore and thou shalt haue treasure in heauen and come follow me Where our Lord doth not only giue this counsaile but addeth also as it were a spurre and to the intent that men might be more willing to embrace this couâ—saile he proposeth the greatnes of rewarde wherby he may allure and comforte them promising that so it shall come to passe that he which by leauinge all for Christes sake is poore shall haue a treasure in heauen shall receiue a hundred folde (d) Mat. 19 d ibidem Hieronym Euthymius Anselm item Theophylact Beda in Mar. Luc Cassiancollat 24. c. 26. Greg. ho. 18. in Ezech. Bern. in declamat de deserendis facult DamiaÌ„ in ser de S. Bened. possesse life euerlasting which otherwise is very (e) Mat. 19 c harde for rich men to come vnto Such (f) Luc. 6 c ibid. Amb. Leo. in ser de omnibus Sanctis Chromat in câ— 5. Mat. Bern. ser 1. in festo omnium Sanctorum Tert. lib. 4. cont Marcionem cap. 14. practisers professors of (g) Aug l. 17. de ciu Dei c. 4. pouertie were the Apostles in whose name S. PETER said boldly vnto Christ Behold (h) Mat. 19 d we haue lefte all thinges and haue followed thee Of this number also were the Christians of the Primatiue Church who as (i) Act. 4. g 2. g Hier. epist 8. ad Deme. c. 7. in catal viror illust de Marco Aug. in ep 89. ad Hilar. Possidon in vita Aug. c. 5 Cassian l. 7. c. 14. 17. collat 3. c. 6. S. LVKE testifieth did sel their possessions and applied the money that came thereby to the common vse so that no man called any thing his own because nothing was priuate but al thinges remained common amongest them But this pouertie requireth that it be a voluntary and full resignation of Ritches whereof no (k) Act. 5 a Hier. epist 8. ad Demetr cap. 7. Bas ser 1. de instit Monach in coÌ„stit Monast cap. 19. 35. Item quaest 85. in regulis breuiorib Aug. ep 109. ser 49. ex diuers c. 1. seq Item lib. de morib Eccles Cathol cap. 31. Hier. ep 22. ad Eustoch cap. 14. Greg. 4. dial cap. 55. lib. 10. epist 22. proprietie may be retained And heere taketh place that famous (l) Genna de Eccles Dogmat. cap. 71. Amb. 1. offic cap. 30. Hieron aduers Vigilantium cap. 5. 6. Prosper lib. 2. de vita contemplatiua cap. 9. Aug. lib. 1. de bono coniug cap. 8. sentence approoued by the auncient Fathers It is good by portions to giue a mans substance to the poore but it is better to giue all at once with an intent to followe our Lorde and beeing free from care to bee poore with Christ. 4 Where is the Councell of Chastity commended BOth in the Gospelles and in the Apostles writings For Christ commendeth those (a) Mat. 19 b. Esa 56 b ibideÌ„ Hier. item lib. 1. adu Iouin cap. 7. Bas de Virginit Epiphan haeres 58. cont Valesios Aug. de SaÌ„cta Virginit ca. 24. 25. kindes of Eunuches that haue gelded themselues for the kingdome of heauen And least we should thinke that this is rather a Commaundement than a Counsell he addeth presently He that can take it let him take it In which speech our Lord doth as it were exhorte as wel doth S. HIEROME (b) Hier. in c. 19. Mat. l. 1. adu Iouin cap. 7 Cyp. in tract de disciplin habitu Virginum interprete and inuite his souldiers to the rewarde of Chastity as if he saide He that can fight let him fight let him conquere triumph This caÌ„ he do vnto whoÌ„ it is (c) Sap. 8 d giuen and it is giuen to all as witnesseth the same (d) Ibid. Orig. tract 7 in Mat. Aug. lib. 6. Conf. c. 11. Chrys hom 63. in Mat. Nazian in â—rat 31. holy father that will aske that will desire that will labour for to receiue For to euery one that asketh it shall be (e) Mat. 7 â— Luc. 11 b Trid. ses 24. can 9. giuen and he that seeketh shall finde and to him that knocketh it shall be opened Thus saith S. HIEROME And to this Chastity holy (f) Sap. 3 c 4 a Eccli 26 c Mat. 13 a c 22 c Mar. 12 c Luc. 20 f Scripture assigneth certes a reward but to the Chastitie of Virgins it promiseth a particular and singular rewarde For they that (g) Apoc. 14 a Esa 56 b Psal 44. c d Cyr. catech 4. 12. 15. illum Martial in ep ad Tolosan c. 8. 9. 10. Cypr. in tract de disciplin habitu Virginum Hier. in epist ad Philem. Aug. in lib. de sancta Virginitate cap 14. 27. sequeâ—â— Greg. in 3. parte curae pastor admonit 29. haue not beene defiled with weemen but haue remained Virgins doe stande without spotte before the throne of God and doe singe a newe Songe before God and the Lambe doe followe the Lambe whither-soeuer he shall go And the Apostle hath saide expressely It is (h) 1. Cor. 7 a good for a man not to touche a woman And againe as concerning (i) Ibidem e vide Hier. l. 1 adu Iouin c. 4. seq Amb. in 1. Cor. 7. ibid. Theod IteÌ„ cund in ep diuin decret cap. de Virginit Chry. in lib. de Virginit c. 9. seq Virgins A Commaundement of our Lord I haue not but Councel I giue as hauing obtained mercie of our Lorde to be faithfull I thinke therefore that this is good for the present necessitie because it is good for a man so to doe And againe writing of the widdowe Let her (k) Ibid. g Iudit 8 a 15 c Luc. 2 e marry saith he to whom shee will only in our Lorde but more blessed shall she be if she so remaine according to my counsell And I thinke that I also haue the spirite of God Vnto the Apostle very finely accordeth S. AMBROSE (l) Ambr. in epist 83. ad Syricium Papam 82. ad Vercellenses when he writeth in these wordes Iustly certes is the good wife commended but more rightly is the deuout Virgin preferred the Apostle saying He that ioineth (m) 1. Cor. 7 g Legatur ideÌ„ Amb. de

and that in the baptized Aug. lib. 1. cont 2. ep Pelag c. 13. 14. l. 6. cont Iulia. cap. 13 seq lib. 2. cont Pelag. Coelest c. 39. 40. See the 3. question of Baptisme page 151 all that which hath in it the true and proper nature of sinne is quite taken away and not rased only or not imputed For in the regenerate God hateth nothing bccause there Ro. 8 a is no damnation vnto them that are truely Ibid. 6 a buried with Christ by baptisme vnto death That walke not according to the flesh but putting Eph. 4 c Col. 3 b off the olde man and putting on the new which is created according to God are made innocent immaculate pure voide of sinne and deare vnto Almightie God Ro. 8 c Heires certes of God and coheires of CHRIST so that nothing at all may staye them from entering into heauen And yet notwithstanding must we confesse that ther remaineth in the baptised Aug. lib. 2. de peccat mer. cap. 28. concupiscence which beeing lefte Idem lib. 2. cont Iul. cap. 9. 10. lib. 1. de pec mer. c. vlt. to striue withall cannot possibly hurte them that doe not consent and that doe Idem l. 1. ciu c. 25. lib. 5. con Iul. cap. 3. by the grace of Christ couragiously resist yea rather 2. Tim. 2 a hee that shall striue lawfully shall be crowned This Concupiscence which the Apostle sometime Ro. 7 b calleth sinne the Catholike Church neuer vnderstoode therefore to be called sinne because it is truely properly sinne in the regenerate but because it Aug. lib. 6. con Iul. c. 25. ser 6. de verb. Apost cap. 1. proceedeth of sinne and inclineth to sinne 5 Of the imbecillitie of nature and the lawe to Iustifie Men. TO come nowe somewhat nearer to the right and plaine vndestanding of the Doctrine of Iustification euerie man must acknowledge confesse thus much that when all men by ADAMS transgression had lost Innocencie Coelest primus ep 1. cap. 4. 1. Cor 15. c Ro. 5 c d being made vncleane and as the Apostle saith Eph. 2 a by nature the Sonnes of wrath as hath beene saide so far were they the slaues Ro. 6 c of sinne and in the power of death of the diuell that not only the Gentiles by the force Prosp coÌ„tra Collat. cap. 22. Aug. ep 95. of nature but neither the Iewes by the very letter of the Law Fulgent de incar gratia Christi cap. 16. of MOYSES could be deliuered or rise from the same although in them free-will Aug. lib. 1. cont 2. ep Pelag. cap. 2. lib. 2. c. 5. cont Fortun. Manich. disput 2. lib. 3. de lib. arbit cap. 1. 3. lib. 3. de gra lib. arbit cap. 2. lib. 5. de ciu cap. 10. in expos cap. 5. ad Gal. qu. 24. ex 83. lib. 3. Hypog cap. 10. Orig. Philocal cap. 21. ho. 2. ex diuers in c. 13. Mat. Chry. ho. 30. in Mat. ho. 9. 11. in Ioan. Cyr. Hieros catech 4. illum Hier. in proaem lib. cont Pelag. lib. 2. cont Iouin cap. 2. was not extinguished howesoeuer Conc. 2. Araus cap. 13. 25. Aug. ep 95. Prosp lib. 1. de vocatione gentium cap. 8. it were weakened and decaied 6 Of the dispensation mystery of the comming of Christ VVHereby it came to passe that the Heauenly Father the Father of 2. Cor. 1 a mercies and God of all consolation when that happy Gal. 4 a fulnesse of time was come did sende vnto men CHRIST IESVS his Sonne declared and promised both before the Lawe and in the time of the Lawe to many holy Fathers Both that he might redeeme the Iewes who were vnder the Lawe that the Gentiles which did Ro. 9 g not followe Iustice might apprehend Iustice and all might receiue the adoption of sinnes Gal. 4 a Him hath God Ro. 3 d 5 b 1. Tim. 2 b proposed as a propitiatour by faith in his bloud for our sinnes and not only 1. Io. 2 a for ours but for the sinnes of the whole worlde 7 Who are iustified by Christ BVt although he died for 2. Cor. 5 a Prosp cap 9. ad obiect Gallor all yet not all doe receiue the benefite of his death but those onely vnto whom the merite of his Passion is communicated For as men indeede except they were borne as springing from the seede of ADAM Aug. ep 89. quaest 3. lib. 1. de pec mer. cap. 28. de natura et gratia cap. 41. l. 6. cont-Iulia c. 4. 24. should not be borne vniust whereas by that propagation through him they contracte whilest they are conceiued their owne proper iniustice so except they were borne againe in Christ they shoulde neuer be iustified whereas by that regeneration through the merit of his Passion grace is giuen them wherby they are made iust For this benefite the Col. 3 b Apostle exhorteth vs alwaies to giue thankes to the Father who hath made vs worthie vnto the part of the lot of the Saintes in the light and hath deliuered vs from the power of darckenesse and hath translated vs into the kingdome of the Sonne of his loue In whom we haue redemption the remission of sinnes 8 A description of the Iustification of a wicked maÌ„ the manner thereof in the state of grace IN which wordes is insinuated the description of a wicked mans iustification so that it is a translation from that state in the which man is borne the Sonne of the first Gal. 4 a Tit. 3 b ADAM into the state of grace adoption of the Sonnes of God by the second ADAM IESVS CHRIST our Sauiour Which translation certes after the Gospell once published cannot be made without the lauer of regeneration or the desire thereof as it is written Io. 3 a Vnlesse a man bee borne againe of water and the spirite he cannot enter into the kingdome of God 9 Of the necessity of preparation to Iustification in those of full age whereof it riseth FVrthermore the beginning of Iustification it selfe in those of full age is to be taken as from the Grace Aug. lib. cont 2. epist Pelag. cap. 9 10. de Praed Sanct c. 2. Gennad lib. de Eccles dogm c. 44. Fulg. de incarn gra Christ c. 18. preuenting of Almighty God by IESVS CHRIST that is to say by his vocation whereby they are called without al merite or desert on their part that they which were auerted from God by sinne may by his exciting and helping-grace be disposed to conuert themselues to their owne Iustification freely consenting and cooperating 1. Cor. 3. b 15 b 2. Cor. 6 a 7 a 2. Tim. 2 d Heb. 12 d Hier. 7 a Ezech. 18 e f Pro. 16 a Eccli 2 d Sap. 9 b Psal 26 c Ibid. Aug. enarr 2. serm 13. de verb. Apost cap. 9. sequent lib. 1. retract cap. 22. Leo. ser 5. de quadrag Fulgent de incarn gratia Christi cap. 20. to the same grace so that

cap. â—â— the Charitie of God is powred forth in their hartes that are iustified is inherent in theÌ„ And therfore in this iustificatioÌ„ togither with remission of sins a man receiueth by IESVS CHRIST vnto whom he is ingraffed all these thinges infused together to wit FAITH HOPE and CHARITY For FAITH excepte that HOPE and CHARITY bee adioined thereunto neither doth perfectly vnitie with CHRIST nor make a man the liuely meÌ„ber of his body In regarde whereof it is most truely saide Iac. 2 d that FAITH without workes is deade and idle And in Gal. 5 a Chrys ho. 5. in Io. Aug. l. 3. cot 2. ep Pelag. cap. 5. ho. 17. cap. 2 ex 50. lib. 15. Trin. cap. 18 Greg. l. 6. ep 15. Fulg. ep 2. c. 8. de incarn grat Christi c. 26. CHRIST IESVS neither Circumcision auailethe ought nor prepuce but FAITH that worketh by CHARITY This Faith before the Sacrament of Baptisme the Catechumens according to the TraditioÌ„ of the Apostles do demauÌ„d of the Church when they aske Faith which yeeldeth life euerlasting which truely without HOPE and CHARITY FAITH cannot afford And therefore they doe presently heare that word of CHRIST Mat. 19 c If thou wilt enter into life kepe the Commaundementes Therfore receiuing true and Christian Iustice that same euen as the first stole giuen vnto them by Iesus Christ for that which ADAM by his disobedience lost for himselfe vs they are presently after their regeneratioÌ„ coÌ„maunded to keep white vnspotted that they may bring the same before the iudgement seate of our Lord Iesus Christ haue life euerlasting 12. Howe it is vnderstoode that a wicked man by Faith freely is iustified ANd whereas the Apostle Ro. 3 â— Aug. de praedest sanct c. 7. ser 38. de temp saith that a man is iustified by FAITH and freely those wordes are to be vnderstood in that sense which the continuall consente of the Catholike Church hath helde and taught To wit that we are therefore said to be iustified by Faith because Faith is the beginning of mans saluation the foundation and roote of all Iustification Heb. 11 b without the which it is impossible to please God and to come to the societie of his children And we are therefore saide to be iustified Aug. l. 6. Hypog c. 4. l. 1. quaest ad Simplic qu. 2. lib. 1. cont Pelag. et Coelest cap. 31. serm 15. de verb. Apost c. 2. de spir et lit cap. 26. Prosp ad 3. prima dub Gennuen Haimo in Rom. 3. freely because none of all those thinges that goe before iustification whether it be Faith or Workes doe deserue the grace of Iustification For if it be Grace now not of workes otherwise as the same Apostle saith Ro. 11 â— Grace now is not grace 13 Against the vaine confidence of Hereticks ANd although it be necessarie to beleeue that sinnes neither are nor euer haue ben forgiuen but freely through the mercie of God for CHRIST his sake yet must wee saye that to no man which braggeth of a confidence and certaintie of the remission of his sinnes and which resteth only in that either are or euer were sinnes forgiuen whereas euen among Heretikes and Schismatikes this vaine confidence and voide of all pietie may be yea and is in these our daies with great contention is vaunted off against the Catholike Church But neither is this to bee affirmed that those which are truelie iustified ought for to assure themselues without any manner Iob. 9 d Psal 18 c Eccles 9 â— Eccli 5 b Pro 20 b 1. Cor. 4 a Aug. de perf iust cap. 15. in Psal 41 lib. 10. Conf. cap. 32. Hier. ep 127. ad Fabiol mansio 23. Chrys hom 11. in 1. Cor. Theod. in cap. 4. â— Cor. Bern. ep 42. 85. ser 2. in octa Pasch Haimo in cap. 4. ad Cor. Greg. lib. 6 ep 22. Cassian Col. 22. cap. 7. c the 1 question of sinnes against the holy Ghost page 315. of doubte that they are iustified and that no man is absolued from his sinnes and iustified but he who doth assuredly beleeue that he is absolued and iustified and that by this Faith only absolution and iustification is accomplished as though hee that beleeued not that must needs doubt of the promises of Almightie God or of the efficacie of CHRISTS death and Resurrection For as no godly person ought to dout of the mercie of GOD of the meritte of CHRIST and of the vertue and efficacie of the Sacraments so euery man considering himselfe and his owne infirmitie indisposition may iustly haue some feare of his owne grace whereas with certaintie of Faith in which there cannot be any falshood no maÌ„ can know that he hath obtained the Grace of God 14 Of the encrease of Iustification once receiued THey therefore who are thus iustified and made the frendes and Eph. 2 d domesticalls of God going from vertue to vertue Ps 83 b are renued as saieth the Apostle â— Cor. 4. d from day to day that is to say by mortifying Col. 3 a the members of the fleshe and Ro. 6 b Aug. de morib Eccles Cathol cap. vlt. lib. 14. de Trin. c. 17. l. 2. de peccat mer. cap. 7. 13. 17. lib. 6. cont Iul. c. 7. serm 16. de verb. Apost cap. 5. Fulg. ep 4. cap. 3. Bern. ep 91. Conc. Vien Clement ad nostrum de haeret exhibiting them as instrumentes of Iustice vnto sanctification by the obseruation of the commandementes of God and of the Church in that Iustice which they haue receiued by the grace of CHRIST Faith cooperating with good Workes they doe encrease are more iustified as it is written Apoc. 22 c He that is iust let him be iustified yet And againe Eccli 18 c Doe thou not feare to be iustified euen vnto death And again you doe see that by works a man is iustified and not by Faith only And this encrease of Iustice doth the holy Church demand when she praieth Giue vs O Lorde encrease of Faith Iac. 2 d In orat Domin 13. post Pent. Hope and Charitie 15 Of obseruing the Commaundements of the necessity possibility thereof BVt no man although he be iustified ought to thinke himselfe free Mat. 28 d Hier. Beda Theoph. ibidem Aug. lib. 3. cont 2. ep Pelag. cap. 4. Cyp. de vnitat Eccles Conc. Vien in Clem. ad nostrum de haeret See q. 5. of the ten Com. p. 64. q. 1. of the precepts of the Church page 90. froÌ„ obseruing the CoÌ„maundements nor vse that rash speach prohibited Hier. in expla Symb. ad Damas Conc. 2. Araus can 25. by the fathers vnder paine of excommune that the Commandementes of God are impossible to be obserued of a man that is iutified For God doth not commaund Aug. de natura grat c. 43. l. 2. de peccat mer. c. 6. de gratia lib arbit cap. 16. Chry. ho. 8. de poenit Leo. ser 5. de quadr

God Aug. sent 313. Prosp and to haue truely deserued life euerlasting to be possessed also in the due time if they departe out of this world in grace Forasmuch as CHRIST our Sauiour saith Io. 4 b He that shall drinke of the water that I will giue him shall not thirst for euer but it shall become in him a fouÌ„taine of water springinge vp vnto life euerlasting So neither our owne proper iustice as proper from our selues is established neither are we ignorant of the iustice of God or doe reiect the same For that which is called our iustice because by it being inherent in vs we are iustified that very same iustice is the iustice of God because it is by God infused into vs through the merit of Christ. Neither is this to be omitted that although there be so much attributed to good workes in holy scripture that euen vnto him Mat. 10 d that shall giue a cuppe of colde water to one of his little ones Christ doth promise that he shall not loose his rewarde the 2. Cor. 4 d Apostle witnesseth that the tribulation which presentlie is momentanie and light worketh aboue measure exceedingly an eternall weight of glorie in vs yet God forbid that a ChristiaÌ„ man should either Aug. de Praed sanct ca. 5. de grat lib. arbit cap. 6. trust or 1. Cor. 1 d 2. Cor. 10 d glory in himselfe not in our Lord whose goodnesse is such towards all men that hee will haue those thinges to bee their Coelest l. ep 1. can 11. Aug. in Ench. c. 107. ep 105. de gratia et lib. arbit cap. 6. Gennad lib. de Eccles dogmat c. 32. merites which are his giftes And because Iac. 3 a all of vs offend in many things euery one ought to haue as mercy goodnesse so also seueritie and iudgement before his eies no man iudging himselfe although 1. Cor. 4 a he be not guilty in conscience of any thing because the wholl life of man is to be examined and iudged not by the iudgement of man but of God who Ibidem will lighten the hidden thinges of darkenesse and will manifest the counsailes of the hartes and then the praise shal be to euery man of God who as it is written Mat. 16 d Rom. 2 a Psal 61 b will render to euerie man according to his workes Laus DEO Virginique Matri MARIAE The Translatour to the Reader HITHERTO gentle Reader haue I performed the part of a Translatour howe faithfully and soundly thy selfe shall iudge Yet this will I promise of my selfe that there hath not wanted that diligence which in Translating a worke of matters of CATHOLICKE Doctrine abounding with so many places of Scripture or rather compacte of words and sentences of Scriptures and Fathers in so short a Volume setting downe the whole summe of our RELIGION is in anie Learned mans iudgement necessary Nowe whereas I haue founde in the running ouer this notable worke some fewe questions either not touched at all or not so throughly handled as the necessity of our COVNTREY doth require I haue heere thought good with as much breuity as the thinges will permitte and according to my simple skill in DIVINITIE to addresse thee the same that thou hauing as it were in one Posie each pleasaunt flowre contained maiest be prepared against all manner of pestilent vapours which in so vnsauorie an aire thou maiest meete withall Thy part it shal be that as with the going forewarde of this worke my desire of thy spirituall good hath increased so thou also doe continue if not increase the gratefull acceptance of my labours AN EXPOSITION OF CERTAINE QVESTIons not handeled in this Booke I. Of Hallowed and Sanctified Creatures vsed in the Church II. Of Pilgrimage vnto holy places III. Of Indulgences or Pardons IIII. Of Seruice and Praier in the Vulgar tongue Euery one diuided into certaine Articles in which are also expounded diuerse other Controuersies belonging to the better vnderstanding of the principall Question OF HALLOWED AND SANCTIFIED CREATVRES IN GODS CHVRCH 1 Is there any creature holier than another ALthough all sanctitie and holines be principally in God himselfe yet from him as from a most plentifull fountaine of all goodnes doth also spring and flowe holines into his creatures first into his reasonable creatures who onlie may by his grace be made his liuely meÌ„bers and so be endowed with true holines and than both the Sacramentes by which hee worketh his grace whatsoeuer thing hath any speaciall relation or order vnto the holinesse which is in God or in his creatures may iustly and truely be called holie And concerning the sanctification of the members of Christs mystical body and the holines of his Sacramentes by which we are sanctified to euerlasting life enough hath beene said before in this wholle booke but of the holines of other creatures religiouslie deputed in the Church for our spirituall good we meane here briefly to intreate and namely of Holy daies Holy water Hallowed Palmes Ashes Oyle and finally of Hallowed places 2 Is not the different estimation of daies contrarie to holy Scriptures NO verely for we account some daies holier than other by the example of God himselfe who sanctified the Gen 2 3 Sabaoth commanded also the same to be hallowed by Exod. â—0 1 his people with many other daies which he calleth holy soleÌ„ne and venerable daies yea the people of God did not only Religiously obserue these daies but also vpon new occasions of singuler benefites receiued from God they instituted newe Feasts deuoutely obserued the same As wee reade of the Feast instituted by Esth 9 27 Mardocheus the dedicatioÌ„ 1. Mach. 4 56. ordained by Iudas Machabeus honored by our Io. 20 22 Sauiours owne presence Neither doth this differeÌ„ce of daies so long as it is not obserued according to the ceremonious figures of the Iewes which are nowe expired nor according to the vaine and superstitious obseruation of the Gentiles which Ro. 14 5. Gal. 4 10. Col. 2 16. vide Theod. Theoph. Orig. Amb. Oecum Primas Ansel in Ro. 14. Hier. lib. 2. in Iouin Amb. in Gal 4. Aug. Enchir c. 79. ep 119. c. 7. the Apostle condemneth euen in the newe Law of grace repugne against the Lawe of God yea it is agreeable to holy Scriptures and according to the continuall practise of the Church So doe we see in steed of the Iewes Sabboth the Act. 20 16. ibid. Chrysost Beda 1. Cor. 16 2. ibidem Chry Amâ— Theoph. aliâ— Apoc. 1 10. et ibi omnes interpretes Clem. can 65. Apost Ignat. ad Magnes Iust apol 2. Tert. de cor mil. apol c. 16. CleÌ„ Alex l. 7. stroÌ„ Orig. ho. 7. in Exod. Athan. ho. in illud Omnia mihi tradita sunt Amb. ep 83. Hier. in Gal. 4. Aug. lib. cont Adim cap. 16. Greg. lib. 11. epist 3. Leo. epist 81. Hylar praefat in Psal Sunday to haue beene brought in and alwaies obserued

Neither did Saint Paul superstitiously iudge between day day Act. 20 16. vide BedaÌ„ ibidem Epiph. haeres 75. when he made hast if it were possible to keepe the day of ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ that is of remission and of the holy-Ghost as noteth Beda at Hierusalem giuing vs therin both example of Celebrating Christian Feasts also as S. Hierom Epist 17. ad Marcellam noteth of the lawefulnesse of Pilgrimage of which we will speake hereafter So doe wee also obserue the Feastes of the Passion of our LORDE of Easter of Ascension and others which S. Augustine saith Epist 118. eitther vndoubtedly to haue beene instituted in generall Councels or rather to haue proceeded from the Apostles themselues as these forenamed Feastes must needes whereas they are motioned of Fathers Clem. lib. 5. const c. 21 Iren. apud Iust q. 115. Tert. lib. de cor mil. Orig. lib. 8. Con Cels more ancient than any general Counsail Finally of the holy-daies of our LORDE thus saith Lib. 10. ciu cap. 16. S. Augustine Wee dedicate and consecrate the memorie of Gods benefites with solemnities Feastes and certaine appointed daies least by tract of times there might creep in ingratefull and vnkind obliuion But of Festiuities of Martyrs the same saith thus Lib. 20. cont Faust cap. 21. Christian people Celebrate the memory of Gods Martyrs with religious solemnity both to mooue themselues to imitaton of them and that they may be partakers of their merits and be holpen with their praiers And of all Saints generally In Ps 88. Conc. 2 vid. Clem. lib. 8. const c. 39. Eccl. Smyrn apud Euseb lib. 4. hist ca. 15. Orig. ho. 3. in diuersos Euangelij locos Tert. de cor mil. Cyp. l. 3. ep 6. l. 4. ep 5. Bas orat in Gord. Nyss orat in Theod. Naz. orat in Iul. Amb. ser 66. 77. 78 Hier. in cap. 4. ad Gal. epist 19. ad Eustoch Prudent in Hymno de SS Petro Paulo Chry. hom 66. ad pop Theod. l. 8. de Martyribus Aug. in Ps 63. 88. Paulin. natali 2. 3. S. Felicis CoÌ„c Laod. ca. 51. Carth. 3. cap 47. Tolet. 3. cap. 23. Lugdun caÌ„ pronuntiaÌ„d do Cons d. 3 MoguÌ„t c. 36 Keepe yee and celebrate with sobriety the natiuities of Saints that we may imitate them which haue gone before vs they may reioice with vs which pray for vs. These daies therefore are worthely accounted more holy reverend than other ordinary prophane daies because they represent vnto vs the singular liberallity of Almighty God shewed in them first in the person of oure Sauiour as the Sunday of which insteede of all the Feasts of our LORDE we we will exemplifie on which day he was borne rose againe and sent the holy-Ghost And therefore that day representing vnto vs the Natiuity of Christ both vnto this life vnto immortall glory and also the natiuity of the Church by the holy ghost is no doubt of greater dignity thaÌ„ the Sabboth of the Iewes For that day in that it signified a gratefull memorie of thinges passed did onely carry a relation vnto the material creation of the world And in that it represented things to come partely it is to be abolished for that those things now be He. 4 10. fulfilled as the rest of Christ in the Sepulcher from his workes of our redemptioÌ„ Aug tra 30. in Io. the rest quiet of those which are regenerate in Christ from the seruile workes of sinne and the Aug. ep 119. rest of holy soules in the bosome of Abraham Partely it is more notably excellently supplied by the DOMINICAL day For the Sonday farre more exceeding that in signification of rest representethe vnto the deuoute obseruers therof the euerlasting glorie reuealed in Christ rising from death and expected of all those which are his liuely members As S. Augustine Ibid. noteth Nowe in the Feasts of Saintes also we both Celebrate the memory of so great a benefite as is the birth-day of our brethren into Heauen and their Assumption to so high a dignity and their glorious triumph ouer the worlde the fleshe and the diuell we reioice also at so good examples giuen to all the Church and a newe patron in heauen and a newe cause of ioy to all the Celestiall Courte This therefore is the conclusion of this our discourse that some daies especially and before others according to the custome of holie Scripture and the auncient Fathers of the Church Amb. ser 62. Aug. Praef. in ep Io. l. 22. ciu cap. 30. lib. 20. cont Faust c. 21. ser 21. detemp Leo. serm 4. de quadr are truely called Holie Sacred Mysticall of religious solemnity 3 And what must we esteeme of holie Water such like AS we call some daies more holy and religious than others so do we also say the same of many other Creatures of God which although they be good of themselues as created by him which is essentiallie good and Gen. 1 31. sawe that all thinges that he made were very good Yet because both they for our punishement often-times become hurtfull vnto vs either by their owne qualitie and disposition or by the malice Greg. lib. 1. dial cap. 4 Aug. lib. 18. ciu cap. 18. of the Diuell also for to bring to passe and signifie some spirituall effecte they be very holesomly 1. Tim. 4 5. sanctified by the worde of God and Praier as Saint Paul hath written Mat. 14 19. Luc. 9 16. Christ himselfe in blessing the loaues which hee multiplied hath taught So doth the Church Clem. l. 8. Const cap 35. Dion de eccles hier c. de Baptism Alex. 1. ep 1 Cyr. catec 3. Cypr. l. 1. ep 12. Amb. l. 4 de Sacr. c. 5. lib. delis qui initiant c. 3. Bas de spir sanct c. 27. Epiph. haer 30. Aug. ho. 27. ex 50. ser 19. de sanct l. 6. in Iul. cap. 8. Conc. Nannet c. 4. vse to blesse Water of which we haue most auncient testimonies as also miraculous Epiph. haeres 30. Theod. l. 5. cap. 21. Pallad cap. 19. Greg. lib. 1. dial cap. 10. Beda lib. 5. hist cap. 4. Bern. in vita Malach. See the histories of the newe Indies exaÌ„ples of the effecte thereof And S. Basil calleth it an Apostolicall Tradition as it may alos appeare by the Apostles own Scholers who make mentioÌ„ of the same But S. Alexander he who 50. yeeres after S. Peter gouerned the Church of holy water saith thus shewing both the auncient vse therof by giuing a generall commandement confirming that which before hee practised Wee blesse water sprinckled with salte for the people that al being sprinckled with it may be sanctified purified which thing also we ordaine as to be done of all Priestes For if the ashes of Heb. 9 13. an Heifer being sprinckled with blood did sanctifie and clense the people much more water sprinckled with salte consecrated with diuine praiers doth sanctifie clense the

thing which may vertuously be desired And whether these were after a solemne manner offered at the AVLYAH or no it skilleth little certaine it is this end we may see by the place alleadged out of Theodoret to haue beene common in the Church For he speaketh of the custome of the wholle Church and against the Gentiles defendeth the generall Faith The like we reade of a certaine Vessell which hauing by Sainte Bennets Greg lib. 2. dial cap. 1. praiers beene made wholle after it was broken was hanged vp at the entrance of a Church for a memory We haue also testimonies of the Scripture in which wee reade that Golias 1. Reg. 21 9. his Sworde the Armour of Iudith 16 23. Holofernes were solemnely kept as also the Censars Num. 16 38. of Dathan Abiron by Gods appointment as examples of Gods Iustice shewed vpon them Neither was that ceremonious oblation of the Philistians which they made to be deliuered of their strange punishmente reiected by the people of God because it was a testimonye of Gods glorie And they who being miraculouslie benefited by Almighty God doe take vp their bed Mar. 2 11. Io. 5 9. that is hang vp their Crouches Chaines Fetters froÌ„ which they were deliuered And they that with 1. Mac. 4 57. solemnitye do adorn the Temples Churches for memorie of some greate grace receiued what doe they else but as the Psalme saith render their Psal 115 14.18 Vowes to God in the sight of al his people Finally God himselfe commaunded Ios 4 8. the Stones of Iordan to be solemnly kept the Manna religiously to be reserued Heb. 9 4. Exod 16 32. what did he not to stamppe in the minde of his people the memorye of his greate works Sometimes these offeringes are made for Almes to the Ministers of holy places who it is meete should liue of the 1. Cor. 9.13 AVLTAR Sometimes for other poore maintained by the holy place as Hospitalles Monasteries Nunneries sometimes to the building and ornament of the Church For these are worthely called offerings as witnesseth Saint Paul Ro. 15 31. who calleth the Almes sent to Hierusalem an oblation Neither is this a Iewish ceremony to offer vnto God for the sustenance of his seruants any thing profitable to the vse of man For this was and is a thing appertaining to the Lawe of nature vsed and Vowed by Gen. 28 20. Iacob and practised in the Church of Christ both in paying of Tythes other things also But our Heretickes thinking others as grosse as themselues will needes haue the people to haue thought in times past that those thinges were profitable for the Images theÌ„selues no otherwise than the people of Babylonia was deluded in the seruice of Bell. Dan. 14 10. Which is a shameful slaunder manifestly betraying the pride 2. Tim. 3 2. 2. Pet. 3 18. Iudae vers 16 of Heresie But wee contrariwise besides the manifoulde good which commeth by these offerings as wee haue mentioned can shew theÌ„ the reuerend authority of antiquity for such deuotions in the Churches I find in auncient times offerings to haue been taken two waies First euery thing which was charitablely giuen vnto the Ministers of God or to his people was called an oblation As wee shewed a little before out of S. Paul so were immoueable goods giuen to the Church called Conc. Aurei 3. c. 3. Conc. 4. cap. 14. Conc. 1. cap. 17. oblations Secondly there were certaine thinges religiouslye offered in the Church at the AVLTAR for the causes a fore-saide that is for the sustenance of the poore or of the Ministers of the Church or to bee applied to other Charitable endes according to the disposisition of the Bishoppe So in the Canons of Cap. 3. 6. Synod c. 28. the Apostles are permitted offerings at the AVLTAR of newe Corne and newe Grapes S. Augustine Ench. c. 110. saith that the soules of the departed are relieued when for them either the sacrifice of the Mediatour or of whatsoeuer Almes is offered in the Church And that wee may knowe that these Almes were offered not onelie in the Church but also at the AVLTAR hee maketh mention in an other place of certaine women taken Ep. 122. ad Victor captiues whom he pitieth the more because they could not cary theire offring to the Aultar being among Infidells And in another place he Serm. de coÌ„ vit Cler. saieth that he will not receiue the offeringes of those which disinherite their children He forbadde also the oblation of one Bonifacius Ep. 187. to be receiued by his Clearkes So doth the 4. Councell of Carthage at which S. Augustine was present Cap. 93. vide Conc. To. 11. c 4. forbid the oblations of brethreÌ„ which are at discorde to bee receiued in the Church or into the Treasurehouse As also in the next Canon is reiected the oblation of those which oppresse the poore S. Hierome Ep. 1. ad Heliod of Priests hath this sentence They liue of the Aultar but vnto me as to an vnfruitfull tree is the axe putte vnto the roote if I bring not my gifte to the Aultar So haue we also in the aforesaide Councell of Carthage mentioÌ„ of the offeringes Carth. 4. cap. 95. vide Con. Vasen 1. cap. 4. Agath c. 3. of the deade which they had lefte in theire wills to be made And of the maner of disposing of these oblations diuers orders Conc. Gan. cap. 7. 8. Hier. in ep ad Dam. de oblationibus Altaris Conc. Aurel 1. c. 16. Calixt 2. Dam. apud Grat 10. q. 1 Simplicius Papa ep 3. Gelas ep 1. haue beene taken in the Church by diuerse Councells and holy Fathers And the yeerely oblations for the deade of which wee reade in Tertullian De cor mil. cap. 3 de monog cap. 10. either must bee the oblation of the sacrifice of the MASSE or this kind of oblation in the Church of which we haue spoken But more plainely to shewe this generall custome of the Church the very Acts of the Apostles seme to coÌ„mend this kind of offrings For wheÌ„ they brought al to the Apostles feet Act. 4 35 what fitter place for such a religious action than the Church And when S. Paul willeth that on the 1. Cor. 16 2. Sondaies euery one should lay vp their deuotion of Almes where is it thought more conueniently to haue bene done thaÌ„ in the Church by these solemne offrings and that seuere punishment of Ananias and Sapphira Act. 5 5. for deluding the Apostles in their oblation may very well be deemed to haue bene donne in the Church espeaciallye wheras we haue such autorities for the antiquities of offeringes which cannot be thought to haue proceeded but from the Apostles themselues Fiue hundred yeeres agoe in a Councell holden at Rome vnder De consocr dist 1. c. omnis Gregory the 7. wee haue this decree Let euery Christian procure at the solemnitie of Masse to offer somewhat vnto God and to call to mind that which

before Saints Relicks or Images in places of Pilgrimage BEcause we haue hitherto defended offeringes at the memories of Saintes and one most ordinarie offering is a burning Candell it is necessary that we speake somewhat hereof If any ornamentes be conuenient for the House of God as both the light of natural reason and the example of the olde testament doth teach Exod. c. 25. sequ Num. 7. 1. Par. 28. 29. 2. Par. 3. 4. 5. there cannot bee founde or conceiued anye either more excellent or more fitte than the ornamente of lightes or Candells The first thing which GOD made was light Light is a qualitie which bewtifieth all things and of nothing can be defiled it is so nere vnto a spiritual nature that it is only amongst all divisible accidents produced in a moment nothing more swift thaÌ„ light nothing more pearcing whereas it penetrateth most thicke bodies as of Christal glasse Ise yea the very heauens which as Iob Iob. 37 18. saith be solide firme as if they were forged of brasse The Aegiptians who did with forceable likenesses expresse euery thing by the lighte of a Lampe represented life whereas Life the moste pretiouse thing in this worlde is nourished by naturall humiditie as the most excellent qualitie of the light is conserued by oile Yea in all ciuil conuersations there is a kinde of ciuill reuerence yeelded vnto lighte when at the bringing in of light we vse to salute one another And that which is most to be wondered at those which are not ashamed of any vice or filthinesse yet ordinarilye are as it were ashamed of light and being neuer so solitarie yet are desirous not to haue so pure a witnesse of their impurity So that euen literally we may say as our Sauiour hath said Io. â— â—â— He which doth euill hateth the lighte But how if wee should runne ouer the wonderfull dignities and excellencies attributed vnto Light in holy scriptures we should farre exceed the limittes of our intended breuitie God him selfe â—â—o â— 5. is Lighte his 1. Tim. 6 16. House where hee dwelleth is Lighte his Lawe Pro. 6 2â— is Light his word Ps 118 10â— is Light his Ps 103 1 garmentes are Light his Heb 1 7. Angells are Light his Apostles Mat 5 11. are Light Finally his Io. 12 36. seruauntes are children of Lighte as contrariwise the seruauntes of iniquitie doe continually Io. 8 12 3 19. walke in darkenes because they loue darknes more than light Now if Heretickes cannot abide Lighte in Gods Churches what meruaile for what society is there betweene light and darkenes 2. Cor. 6 14. they haue forsaken the Lighte of Gods Church which although it stand Mat. 5 14. vpoÌ„ a hil they wil not see they seeke to couer Gods trueth vnder Ibidem vers 16. a bushell they carry about with theÌ„ the eies of an owle which beeing more familiar with the darkenes of the night then the glorious beames of the Church which is chosen as Cant. 6 8. the Sunne cannot open themselues to beholde the truth GOD graunt that once hauing cast away their stubborn wilfulnes they may know themselues miserably to haue conuersed so long in a more horrible hole and dongeon Dial. 7. de repub then was that of Plato where seeing nothing but false shadowes of thinges they neuerthelesse condemne and hate those which go about to open vnto them the true light and procure as much as in them lieth that theire Aegiptian darkenes being cast away in this life they may escape the 2. Pet. 2 17. mist of darkenes reserued for such as persist in their estate in the other For we haue in this pointe of the vse of Lightes in the Church testimonies of scriptures of Fathers Scriptures in that wee reade God himselfe to haue ordained perpetuall Light in his Exo 25 31. 27 20 3. Reg. 7 49. Temple And amongst the Fathers first S. Chrisostome saieth In Litur that the Priest goeth to the Aultar his Minister going before him with Lighte The Acolites Conc. 4. Carth. c. 6. Isid lib. 7. etym. c. 12. Ordo Rom. Microl. c. 11. office was alwaies in the Church to light the Torches in the MASSE time at the Gospell and at the oblation To which S. Augustine in the Councell of Carthage geueth witnesse And least any should thinke this to haue bene only in the night certaine it is that according to the auncient custome of the Church MASSE was neuer Walfrid cap. 23. said in the night excepte thrise in the yeere That is vpon Telesph ep ad vniu cap. 2. Leo. ep 79. vel 81. c. 2. Christmasse-Nighte Maundy-Thursday and Easter-Eue at night for at other times it was not ordinarily begone before the third houre of the day Wherefore those Torches of which S. Athanasius Epist ad omnes Orthod maketh mention when he chargeth the Arians with sacrilege for offering the torches of the Church vnto Idols were no doubt such as in the time of MASSE and speacially at the Gospell euen in the middest of the day were lighted as also Contr. Vigil Saint Hierome doth affirme Nowe if lights are fit ornaments for a Church thaÌ„ may they adorne the memories of Saints be set before Relickes Images in signe of ioy of the Saintes glory to put vs in minde of the light of grace glorie brought into the worlde by Christ professed and preached by them to stirre vs vp to such a kinde of life as may no otherwise than in them shine to al meÌ„ to the glory of God finallie for a certaine honour to the Saints themselues But of this matter wee will heare S. Hierome speake Contr. Vigil Vigilantius his obiection against Lights who propounding Vigilantius his obiection in this same matter saith We see almost the custome of the Gentiles vnder pretense of Religion to be brought into the Church that whilest the Sunne doth shine great heaps of torches are kindled and wheresoeuer there is I knowe not what duste inclosed in a little Vessell and couered with some pretious cloath they kissing doe worship it These men forsooth yeelde great honor to most blessed Martyrs who they thinke may bee lightened with filthye torches whereas the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne with all brightnesse of his Maiesty doth lighten them This spoke Vigilantius how like vnto the Caluinistes of our time the Reader shall iudge Now S. Hierome aunswereth it so that wee may perceiue that his opinion was that Candels were neuer sette before Relickes but in the night when the people were come togither to watche at the memories of Saintes vpon their Eues And that then it was only doone for that necessity not for any honour to the Sainte Not that S. Hierome did not acknowledge honour to be due vnto Relickes for as we haue saide before in this very booke against Vigilantius he constantly auoucheth it but because he had not as yet beene coÌ„uersant in places where this kind of honour was

be punished Thus much of the first breeders of this heresie IHON WICLEFFE and IHON HVSSE the first of the which that you may the better knowe him therefore departed from the Church in the which he had bene a Priest Tho. Wald. l. 2. doct c. 60. onely because he had the repulse from a Bishopricke As for MARTIN LVTHER it is well knowen what giftes of the holy Ghost he had who had not the gift to obserue that chastitie which hee had Vowed and to keepe himselfe from a sacrilegiouse and incestuouse life That we may thinke that in him as a first ADAM of this new creation all the ministeriall posteritie for the most parte hath bene infected But it will not be amisse farre from our purpose of Indulgences Luthers fall quarell against Indulgence This office is nowe taken away by the CouÌ„cel of Trent Io Coch. in the actes of Luther an 1517. In anno 1519. In epist ad Argentin to let the Reader vnderstande thus much that forthwith after his strange vocation to his newe kind of licentiouse life the first quarell that he pretended was against Indulgences and that not vpon zeale and conscience but onlie for ambition and enuie that the office of preaching Pardons and publishing the POPES Bulles was from the order of S. AVGVSTINE in which hee had many yeeres liued a Moncke translated to the order of Dominican Friers Whereupon in his first disputation at Lipsia he gaue a cleare testimony of the spirit by which he was called wheÌ„ he cried out This matter neither was begonne for God neither shall be ended for God And that you may the better perceiue his ghostly zeale he saith that if the Scriptures had not beene most cleare against him in the matter of the Blessed Sacramente hee would for to haue done the POPE a displeasure long before haue denied the Reall-Presence which notwithstanding he neuer durst That we may say nothing of his singular profiting in his Masters schole Lib de Missa angular when hee saide that he had beene taught of the Diuell that MASSE was naught and therefore that he had abolished it Against this man and his predecessours if wee shoulde alleadge the Councell of Trent The Councel of Trent sess 25. wherein all the Learning and Holinesse of the wholle world conspired togither Vndoubtedly vnto him who in respecte of himselfe contemneth a thousand AVGVSTINES and as many CYPRIANS In his boke against K. Hary and thought King HENRY the 8. one of the most famous Princes of the worlde with all his fellowe Princes not to be worthy to vnlatche his shooe we may well thinke what it would auaile Much a like woulde it proue if we shoulde bring him the generall Councell of Constance The Councell of Constance where beeing so manie Schismatickes about the true POPE woonder it is that they should agree in this pointe as in all other pointes of Religion if the trueth had not preuailed But what will they say of other generall Councelles before euer Hell had opened mouth against this most certaine verity The generall Councel of Vienna The Councell of Vienna Clem. de reliqu vener SS cap. vnico de poenit remis cap. 2. did acknowledge the power of giuing Indulgences For in that Councell by CLEMENT the fifth were graunted Pardons in the Feast of CORPVS CHRISTI daie And order taken against the abuses of some which vnlawfully preached Indulgences And in the generall Councell holden at Lions The Councel of Lions cap. 1. de poenit remis in sexto vnder INNOCENTIVS the fourth we haue admonition giuen to Bishoppes not to exceede in graunting Indulgences And before that the great Lateran Councell The LateraÌ„ Councell anno 1198. vnder INNOCENTIVS the thirde limiteth the Cap. 2. de poenit remiss ca. cum ex eo Indulgences of Bishoppes The same also taketh away Cap. 60. de exces Praelat cap. Accedentib the abuse by which Abbates had woonte to graunt Indulgences We haue also in the same Cap. 3. de Haeret. c. excommun mention of Indulgences vsed to be graunted to those which went to the recouery of the Holy-land As we haue at the De paenit remis same time an aunswere in a question of Indulgence by HONORIVS the thirde as also of ALEXANDER the thirde before all these Where these Councells POPES speake of them not as of a newe diuise but as of a thing generally vsed in the Church BONIFACIVS C. Nostro C. quod auteÌ„ Pardons were not newely practised fiue hundred yeeres agoe also the eight in his Extrauagant wherein he proclaimeth the Iubiley saith that by faithfull relation of auncients there were many remissions and Indulgences graunted in the Apostles Churches at ROME Neither was the Iubiley first instituted by him but See the glosse of Io. Monach. who liued in his time as an vsuall thing euery hundred yeere practised And Iacobus Cardinalis in libro de centessimo a writer of that age maketh mention of an olde man who that yere came to ROME reported that his Father was at ROME for the same cause the hundred yeere before An. 1300. The beginning of Iubiley is vnknowen and had commaunded him if he liued so long to go thither the next Iubiley So that we knowe no certaine beginning of the Iubiley But that it was by this POPE Anno. 1300. ordained to be euery 100. yeere And by CLEMENT Anno. 1350. the 6. euery 50. Afterward by decree of SIXTVS the 4. Anno. 1475. brought vnto euery 25. yeere Where it now remaineth To this wee adde the auncient practise of the stations in ROME that is the visiting of certaine particular Churches in the Lent Aduent Imber daies and other times also in which stations from very auncient times vsed as from the time of Saint GREGORIE at the least as appeareth in his Sacramentary great Pardons haue beene graunted to those which visit with deuotioÌ„ the aforesaid Churches Nowe if fiue generall Councells and so manie auncient Doctors without any contradiction with such general consent and ioifull approbation of all Christendome grounded vpon the expresse autoritie of Gods owne worde iurisdiction graunted to the Church and practise of Antiquitie bee not sufficient to conuince any vnderstanding there is nothing sufficient to performe the same 9 The same verity is prooued by reason necessarily deduced out of Scriptures And the treasure of Indulgences is declared BVt we wil moreouer by necessary consequence deduce this wholle matter out of holy Scriptures whereby we shall giue a farther light to our whâ—ll discourse But first I suppose these things following as most true yet briefely touching also the grounds thereof 1 We may being in grace satisfie for Temporall punishmeÌ„t First that a man Iustified by Gods grace and hauinge a Temporall debte of punishmente remaining may iustly and equally Dan. 4.24 Pro. 16 6. Luc. 3 8. 2 Cor 7 10. See pag. 209 satisfie vnto Gods Iustice for the same The Diuines distinguish a double kinde of iustice

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