Indulgences Murther and Incest being valued at five Grosses (76) Taxa Cancel Apost Perjury at six Sacriledg and Simony at seven and so on in the Tax of the Apostolick as it is pretended (77) But the poor have not these priviledges whereby mark the great charity of the Romish Priests which will suffer by consequence if their Doctrine were true the poor to go to Hell for want of money Diligenter nota quod hujusinodi gratiae non dantur pauperibus quia non sunt ideo non possunt consolari Taxa Cancellariae Apostolicae Tit. de Matrimoniali Chancery Hence above (78) Tom. Concil 28. p. 460. 60000 Marks besides all other payments to the See of Rome were yearly carried out of this Kingdom by the Italians being a greater revenue than our King then had as appears by a fruitless complaint in a Letter from the whole Nation to the Council of Lions Anno Dom. 1245. A round summ it was in those days before the Indian Gold was discover'd and yet that was spent in maintaining the lust and ambition of the Popish Clergy Popish Purgatory Contrary to Scripture Gal. 3.13 Heb. 1.3 c. 9.14 c. 10.10 Rom. 5.1 2 10 11. Rev. 14.13 which last Text is a place so clear against Purgatory that Picherellus a Papist of the Sorbon Colledg did ingeniously confess that St. John had in those few words put out the fire of Purgatory de Missà pag. 156. Contrary to the Fathers Dionysius Areopagita Eccles Hier. c. 7. Author of the Questions in Justin Quaest 75. Tertullian de Baptismo Cyprian's Tract ad Demetri Sect. 16. Macarius Homil 22. Hilarius in Psal 2. Gregor Nazianzen Orat. 5. in Plagam grandinis Orat. 42. in Pascha de Eccles Dogmat. c. 79. Ambrose de bono mortis cap. 4. Chrysostom de paenit Serm. 3. Id. in Genes Hom. 5. Hom. 16. in Ep. ad Rom. Epiphanius Haeres 79. sub finem Augustin though he doubts in this point in Enchirid. c. 67 69. De civit Dei l. 21. c. 26. de fide op c. 16. is positive elsewhere against Purgatory scil lib. de pec mer. rem cap. 28. he saith That there is no middle place That a man may be any where but with the Devil who is not with God Gregor Magnus in Job lib. 13. c. 20. Bede in Psal 6. Otho Frisingensis in Chron. l. 8. c. 26. Anselm in 2 Cor. 5. Bernard Epist 266. Lumbard sen 3. dist 19. lit A. He liv'd Anno Dom. 1144. Contrary to the Doctrine of the Greek Church of the later Ages as appears from their Apology delivered to the Council of Basil (78) Apolog. Graecorum de igne Purgat p. 66 93. Ed. Salmas about 253 years ago Hence doth Alphonsus à Castro place their not holding a Purgatory among the Errors of the Greek Church l. 12. tit Purgat Purgatory Confess'd By Petrus Picherellus to have no fewel either to kindle or maintain its fire in Scripture Picherell de Missa c. 2. Confess'd That neither the Scriptures nor the Ancient Fathers have any thing in them concerning Purgatory By Alphonsus à Castro l. 12. tit Purgat f. 258. Confess'd That few or none of the Greek Fathers ever mention it and the Latin Fathers did not at all believe it but by degrees came to entertain opinions of it and that the Catholick Church knew it lately By Roffensis Art 18. con Luther Polydore Virgil Invent. rerum l. 8. Confess'd By another Learned Roman Catholick Father Barns That it is a thing which lyes meerly in human invention nor cannot be firmly deduced from Scriptures Fathers and Councils and That the opposite opinion seems more agreeable to them in Catholico-Rom Pacificus Sect. 9. Consult herein Archbishop Laud against Jesuit Fisher Dr. Stillingfleet's Rational Account Part 3. Ch. 6. Bishop Taylor 's Disswasive Part 1. Ch. 1. Sect. 4. The Rise of Indulgences At first the Indulgences that were were but relaxations or releasements of Canonical satisfaction i. e. of the Discipline or correction of the Church In this sense are to be understood the first Council of Nice c. 11. of Arles c. 10. and of Ancyra c. 2. But their new and chief foundation was laid by (79) Vnigenitus de paenitentiis remissionibus Pope Clement the sixth in his (80) The Doctrine of Indulgences was oppos'd by two famous Papists not long before the Extravagant of Pope Clement by Franciscus de Mayronis in 4. l. sen dist 19. Q. 2. and by Durandus in 4. l. sen d. 20. Q. 3. So that it was far from being either Catholick or Ancient Extravagant Ann. Dom. 1350. Confess'd That we have nothing in the Scripture nor in the sayings of the Ancient Fathers concerning Indulgences as satisfactions before God for temporal punishments or holding them as profitable for the dead By Antoninus Part. 1. Sum. tit 10. c. 3. By Biel Lect. 57. de Canon Missae and by Hostiensis in Sum. l. 5. tit de remis nu 6. Consult herein Bishop Taylor 's Disswasive Part 1. Ch. 1. Sect. 3. The Church of Rome likewise in the Council (81) Concil Trid. Sess 6. Can. 9. Sess 6. cap. 16. cap. 32. of Trent accurses all such as say That a Sinner is justified by faith only or deny that the good works of holy men do truly merit everlasting Life not to mention that blasphemous Doctrine of the Roman Church that (82) Catechis Rom. de Euchar num 55. the Sacrifice of the Mass offered as they pretend by the Priest is a meritorious and propitiatory Sacrifice for sin which wholly takes away the efficacy and merits of Christ's Passion and Resurrection That the Missal Sacrifice is a Propitiatory Sacrifice for sin is Contrary to Scripture Heb. 10.10 11 12 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 c. 9.24 25 26 27 28. c. 7.25 Contrary to the Fathers Who by those Tropical speeches of Sacrificing and offering did not admit of any Propitiatory Sacrifice but only the Passion of Christ Justin Martyr Apol. 2. Irenaus l. 5. c. 34. Clement in Constitution l. 6. c. 23. Eusebius lib. 1. cap. 10. de demonst Ambrose l. 4. de Sacram. c. 6. Chrysostom Hom. 17. in Hebraos Augustin Enchiridion ad Laurent c. 33. Id. de Trinitate de civitate Dei l. 10. c. 6. l. 3. c. 13. lib. 3. contra secund Epist Pelag. cap. 6. Gregor Dial. lib. 4. c. 59. Lumbard 4. dist 12. Thomas Aquinas who lived A. D. 1253. 3. p. Q. 83. Art 1. So far is the Romish Doctrine of the Mass from being Ancient That Men Merit Eternal Life by their Good Works is Contrary to Scripture Luke 17.10 1 Cor. 4.6 7. Ephes 2.8 1 Joh. 18. Contrary to the Fathers Ignatius in Epist ad Rom. Polycarp apud Euseb Histor Eccles l. 4. c. 15. Origen l. 4. in Epist ad Rom. c. 4. Basil in Psal 114. Macarius Homil. 15. Ambrose in Psal 118. Serm. 20. in Exhort
though they were learned and pious men yet they were but men and consequently were lyable to error as well as other men And herein the Advice of S. Austin is to be followed to wit to follow (23) Neminem velim sic amplecti mea omnia ut me sequatur nisi in eis quibus me non errare perspexerit August de persever Sanct. cap. 21. tom 27. him and such as himself no further than they follow Truth and Holy Scripture Solis eis Scripturarum libris qui jam Canonici appellantur didici hunc timorem honoremque deserre ut nullum eorum autorem Scribendo aliquid errasse firmissime credam August 1 Epist 19. which ought still to be preferred before them And yet S. Augustin was neither the worst nor the meanest of those Christian Hero's Thus do we reverence but do not idolize them and only preferr the Scriptures before them whereas the Papists value their late Papal Decrees before the Primitive Doctors These things being premised I shall renew that fivefold Challenge about the Popes Supremacy formerly propounded by a Reverend and Learned Bishop of our Church which the Papists ought first to answer before they can justly obtain what they in vain pretend to as Consequences of that Supremacy For they failing to prove this which I think they will never be able to do their Attempts in the points depending thereon must needs be fruitless and ineffectual The Challenge is this 1. Whether our Saviour before his Ascension did constitute S. Peter his Vicar and gave him a monarchical Supremacy over the Apostles and the whole Church 2. Whether the Papists can prove that St. Peter while he lived exercised such Power and Supream Jurisdiction even over the Apostles In such Cases as these Idem est non esse non apparere 3. Whether if St. Peter exercised any such Authority it was not temporary and ceased with his Person as the Apostleship did 4. Whether if all these were true as they are wholly the contrary they can make it appear That the Bishop of Rome was the Successour of St. Peter and not the Bishop of Antioch and whether ever he was at Rome or no 5. Whether they can make it appear That our Blessed Saviour when on Earth exercised such a temporal Monarchy as the Pope now challengeth Confessions of the Popish Doctors in this Case To the first and second Queries it is Confessed by (25) Cusan de Concil Cath. 2.3 Cardinal Cusanus That St. Peter received no more Authority and then he could not exercise any Authority over his Fellows than the rest of the Apostles To the 3d and 4th Queries it is Confessed by (26) Aen. Sylvius de gestis Concil Basil Aeneas Sylvius afterwards Pope by the name of Pius 2. That the Pope's Succession is not revealed in Scripture and then it cannot be proved jure divino positivo And by Bellarmin (27) De Rom. Pont l. 4. c. 4. That neither Scripture nor Tradition habet allows then farewell Papal Supremacy That the Apostolic Seat or Chair was so fixed at Rome which I really believe as well as he that it could not be taken from thence And then why might it not be at Antioch or Jerusalem as well as Rome Confessed by him (28) Idem de Pontif. l. 2. c. 29. further That as long as the Emperors were Heathen the Pope was subject to them in all Civil Causes And That for above One thousand years his (29) Id. de Rom. Pont. l. 4. c. 2. Sect. Secunda Opinio Judgment was not esteemed Infallible nor (30) Idem de Concil l. 2. cap. 13. his Authority above that of a General Council Where was then the exercise or acknowledgment of this Supremacy and Infallibility of the Popes Was all the world a-sleep or ignorant so long of this Power which they now challenge to themselves Jure Divino No but the Pope I warrant you had not yet the opportunity to usurp and challenge it as he hath done since To four of these you see they have plainly yielded and the last they can never make good either from Scripture or Ecclesiastical History Add to these the Confession of that Learned Papist (31) Barns's Catholico-Romanus Pacificus MS. Sect. 31. Father Barns That allowing the Bishop of Rome to have Supremacy elsewhere yet the Pope hath no Supremacy in Britain Insula autem Britanniae gavisaest olim privilegio Cyprio ut nullius Patriarchae Legibus subderetur And afterwards Videtur pacis ergô retineri debere sinè dispendio Catholicismi absque Schismatis ullius notâ What can the Papists say to this so plain an acknowledgment But not designing to treat at large upon the Pope's Supremacy I have not as in the following Subjects produced the Testimonies of Fathers and Councils against this Doctrine of Rome but shall advise the Reader to consult herein Bishop Jewel against Harding Article 4. Archbishop Bramhal 's Schism Guarded against Will. Serjeant Dr. Barrow of the Pope's Supremacy and the Bishop of Lincoln 's Brutum Fulmen who will give him full satisfaction in that point THE CONTENTS Of the following TREATISE SECT I. OF the Scriptures Sufficiency Page 1. SECT II. Of the Scripture Canon p. 5. SECT III. Of Invocation of Saints and of the Blessed Virgin p. 8. Of Image Worship p. 10. Of Adoration of the Host p. 12. SECT IV. Of the Three Creeds and how the Pope imposes new Articles of Faith upon his followers p. 15. SECT V. Of the number of Sacraments and of Communion in one kind p. 17. SECT VI. Of Transubstantiation p. 21. SECT VII Of Purgatory p. 24. Of Indulgences p. 28. Of the Sacrifice of the Mass p. 29. Of Justification by Faith ibid. Of Merits p. 31. SECT VIII Of Prayers in an unknown Tongue p. 34. SECT IX Of the Marriage of Priests p. 37. Of Auricular Confession p. 44. SECT X. Of Obedience to Governors p. 47. THE Protestants Companion SECTION I. THE Protestant Church of England our Holy Mother admits of no other Rule for Faith and practice than the (1) Articles of the Church of England published Ann. Dom. 1562 for the avoiding of diversities of opinions and for the establishing of consent touching true Religion Article 6 20. 2d Book of Homilies Hom. 2. Holy Scriptures which according to (2) 2 Tim. 3.15 the Apostles are able to make us wise unto Salvation The Church of Rome doth equal unwritten (3) Concil Trident. Sess 4. Decret 1. Traditions with the Holy Scriptures whom (4) Pighius Eccles Hierarch L. 3. C. 3. some of that Church do call a nose of Wax (5) Bellarmine di verbo Dei l. 4. c. 4. Another and that no less man than a Cardinal affirms That the Scripture is no more to be believed in saying that it comes from God than Mahomet's Alcoran because that saith so too Another (6) Pool de Primatu Romanae Ecclesiae fol. 92. Cardinal saith That the
Scriptures have no authority but for the Decree of the Church they mean the Roman Church by whom it (7) Caranza Controvers 1. And no marvel when another affirmeth that the Scripture hath no more authority than Aesop's Fables V. Bailly Tract 1.9.17 ought to be regulated and not the Church be regulated by it and the reason is because as it is (8) Peter Sutor Translat Bibl. c. 22. confess'd that the people would easily be drawn away from observing the Church's i.e. Romish Institutions (9) Consil de Stabilienda Rom. sede p. 6. And though the Papists do cashier the publick use of the Holy Scriptures and fly to as they pretend an Infallible Judg yet are they not agreed among themselves who that should be These Learned Romanists following contend that the priviledg of Infallibility belongs only to the whole Church militant and neither to the Pope nor General Council nor to the Body of the Clergy Occam Dial. p. 1. l. 5. c. 25 29 3. when they should perceive That they are not contained in the Law of Christ and that their i.e. Popish Doctrines are not only different from but repugnant to the Holy Scriptures Hence doth the Church (10) Cusanus Concord Cathol l. 2. c. 3. Antoninus Sum. Summarum p. 3. Tit. 23. c. 2. § 6. Panormitan Decret p. l. l. 1. Tit. de Elect. Cap. significasti Mirandula de fide ordine credend Theor. 4. of Rome under severe penalties forbid the Laity the perusal of them and thereby involves every Lay-man in the guilt of being a Traditor which in the (11) In fine Concil Trident. Reg. 4. first Ages of Christianity was a crime (12) Hence comes it to pass that not only the Popish Laity but even the Priests themselves are very ignorant in the Holy Scriptures so that once a Schoolman in the last Age being to preach at Paris where the famous Melancthon was his Auditor took a Text for want I suppose of a better Book out of Aristotle's Ethicks Sixtinus Amama Orat. de Barbarie ex Melancth next door to Apostasie Which Act doth not only imply That the Popish Church refuseth to be try'd by the Test of God's Word but is diametrically opposite to the practice of the Primitive Christians as appears in the following Quotations The Romish Tenet of slighting the Scriptures is contrary to the Word of God Joh. 5.39 2 Tim. 3.16.17 Contrary to the Fathers Clemens Romanus Epist ad Corinth p. 58 61 68. Irenaeus l. 2. c. 47. Idem l. 3. c. 1. c. 2. Tertullian adv Hermogen c. 23. Clemens Alexandrinus Stromat l. 7. Origen in Esai Hom. 2. Idem in Comment in Josh p. 27. Id. Homil. in Leviticum 9. Comment in Matthaeum p. 220. Cyprian Epist 74. Eusebius adv Sabellium l. 2. Constantinus Magnus apud Theodoret. Histor lib. 1. c. 7. Athanasius in Orat. adv Gentes de Incarn Christi Hilarius ad Constant Optatus l. 5. de Schis Donat. Basil de Sp. Sancto c. 7. Id. de verâ ac piâ fide Tom. 2. Op. Graec. Lat. p. 386. Id. in Ethicis Reg. 16. Tom. 2. Id. Hom. 29. de Trinit Tom. 1. Gregor Nyss in Dial. de animâ ac Resurrect Hieronymus in Comment in Esa cap. 19. Id. in Epist ad Laetam Id. adv Helvid Id. Praefat. Comment in Epist ad Ephes Chrysostom 13 Hom. in Gen. Id. Hom. 52. in Joh. Id. Homil. 4. in Lazar. Id. Hom. 34. in Act. 15. Id. Praefat. in Epist ad Rom. Id. Hom. 13. in 2 Cor. 7. Id. Hom. 9. in Coloss 3. Id. Hom. 3. in 1 Thessal Id. Hom. 3. in 2 Thessal 2. Id. Hom. 8. in Epist ad Hebr. c. 5. Augustin Epist 3. Id. de Doctrinâ Christi l. 2. c. 6. 9. Id. de Vnitat Eccles c. 3 4 5 12. Id. Epist 157. Id. de Bapt. c. Donat. lib. 1. c. 6. l. 2. c. 3. 14. That passage in St. Augustin Ego Evangelio non crederem c. contr Ep. fundam c. 5. is interpreted by these Learned Papists following To be meant of the Primitive Church and those men who saw and heard our Blessed Saviour and not that the Fathers should be of more authority than the Scriptures John Gerson de vitâ Sp. Lect. 2. Hic aperitur modus c. Joh. Driedo de Eccl. Script Dogm l. 4. c. 4. Th. Wald. Doctrinal l. 2. c. 21. Sufficiat universali Ecclesiae pro preconio potestatis suae modernae c. who is very smart upon such as held the contrary Idem Epist 48. Tom. 2. Epist 19. Cyril Alex l. 7. adv Julian Theodoret Dial. 2. Id. Qu. 45. in Genes Theophilus Alexand. in 2 Pasch Homil. Cyril Hieros Cat. 4. Vincentius Lirinensis contra Haeres cap. 2. c. 41. Justus Orgelitanus in c. 4. Cantic Gregorius Magnus in Ezekiel l. 1. Hom. 9. Tom. 2. Id. Moral l. 8. c. 8. Id. in Cant. c. 5. Id. Moral l. 16. c. 17. Tom. 1. Id. l. 4. Ep. 40. ad Theod. Medic. Tom. 2. Id. Epist ad Leand. c. 4. Praefat. in Job Tom. 1. That the Holy Scriptures could not be corrupted but those corruptions would have been discover'd See Augustin de util lit credendi c. 3. Id. c. Faustum l. 11. c. 2◠and Confess'd by Bellarmin That the Scriptures could not be corrupted but those Corruptions would be discovered by Catholicks de V. D. l. 2. c. 7. Consult in this point Bishop Jewel's Treatise of the Holy Scriptures who in his excellent Apology handles all the main points in Controversie betwixt us and the Church of Rome and Article 15 against Harding Dr. Stillingfleet's Rational Account of the Grounds of Protestant Religion Reprinted in 1681 Part 1. c. 7 8 9. Chillingworth's Religion of the Protestants a safe way to Salvation Part 1. Chap. 2. Lively Oracles by the Author as it 's said of the Whole Duty of Man SECT II. We receive no other Books of Scripture for (13) Article 6. Canonical in the Church of England than (14) Concil Trident. Sess 4. such as of whose authority there was never any doubt in the Church The Church of Rome doth make the Books commonly call'd Apocrypha of equal authority with those of the Old and New Testament which neither the (15) Witness the two Learned Jews Philo Judaeus apud Euseb de Praeparat Evangel l. 8. and Josephus apud Euseb Histor Eccles l. 3. c. 9. alias 10. and this is fully confessed by Bellarmine de Verbo Dei l. 1. c. 10. Jews to (16) Rom. 3.2 whom were committed the Oracles of God nor the Primitive Church nor (17) As for the third pretended Council of Carthage alledged by some Papists St. Austin who was one of the chief therein votes in this point for the Doctrine of our Church de Civitate Dei l. 17. c. ult alibi And though they pretend that the Book of Baruch held by us as Apocryphal was declared Canonical in the Council of Florence yet did
Driedo afterwards deny it to be so D. Dogm Eccles l. 1. c. 4. which neither would have done if the Church Catholick had declared the Apocrypha Canonical any General Council nor any Doctor in the Ages succeeding till about 120 years ago in the Council of Trent nor the (18) Rycaut's Present State of the Greek Church pag. 372. Greek Church to this day did ever receive as Canonical Apocrypha receiv'd as Canonical by the Papists is Contrary to the Fathers Melito apud Euseb Histor Eccles l. 4. c. 25. Graec. 26. Origen in Psal 1. Athanasius Epist 39. in 2 Tom. Oper. Synops Sacr. Scriptur Hilarius in Prol. Explanat in Psalmos Cyril Hierosol in Catech. 4. de Sacrâ Scripturâ Concil Laodic Canon 59. Epiphanius Haeres 8. contr Epicur Haeres 76. contra Anomaeos lib. de mens pond Basil in Philocal c. 3. Gregor Nazianzen de veris genuinis libris S. Scripturae divinit us inspiratae in libro Carminum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Amphilochius in Epist ad Seleucum inter Canonicas Epistolas à Balsamone not at p. 1082. Gr. Lat. Hieronymus in Prol. Galeato sive Praefat. in lib. Regum Ruffinus in Symbol Apostol Sect. 35 36. Junilius Africanus de part divinae legis l. 1. c. 3. Tom. 6. Bibl. patr part 2. Colon 1618. Gregorius Magnus Moral l. 19. c. 17. Occam who liv'd above 700 after Gregory viz. about Anno Dom. 1320 explains Gregory's Judgment that Judith Tobias the Maccabees Ecclesiasticus and the Book of Wisdom are not to be receiv'd for the confirmation of Faith dial part 3. Tract 1. l. 3. c. 16. Confessed By Cardinal Cajetan who liv'd but Eleven years before the Council of Trent That the Apocryphal Books are not Canonical in libro Esther sub finem Et in hoc loco terminamus c. And afterwards Nam ad Hieronymi limam Scil. in Prol. Galeato where he owns no Books for Canonical but such as we receive in that sense reducenda sunt tam verba Conciliorum quà m Doctorum Confessed by (19) Catharin Opusc de Script Canonicis Quod autem Apostoli c. Catharine who was in the Council of Trent and by (20) Stapleton de autoritat S. Script l. 2. c. 4. §. 14 Sapientiam Ecclesiasticum c. Stapleton who liv'd after Catharine That the Apostles never received nor confirmed the Apocrypha And this will quite ruine their Cause when we have produced (21) Bellarmine de Verbo Dei c. 10. Itaque fatemur Ecclesiam nullo modo posse facere librum Canonicum de non Canonico nec contra Bellarmin confessing That the Church hath no power to make a Book Canonical which was not so before Consult the Learned Bishop Cosin's Scholastical History of the Scripture-Canon upon this Subject SECT III. We Worship the only (22) Article 1. 2. Book of Homilies Hom. 2. God as we are taught to believe in him and (23) Article 22. none other The Church of Rome (24) Concil Trid. Sess 25. Bulla Pii a. enjoyns those that live in its Communion to pray to their fellow Creatures who (25) 1 Cor. 2.11 compared with Isa 63.16 S. Augustin saith That the Souls of the dead are there where they see not all things which are done or happen to people in this life Augustin de cura pro mortuis c. 13. know not our thoughts and necessities to Hero's and Saints of whom they feign so many ridiculous Stories and to the Blessed (26) Brev. Rom. Antw. 1663. p. 984. Virgin to whom they use such abominable expressions Yea (27) Bellarmin de Indulgentiis c. 4. sub finem a great Cardinal doth not blush to say That it is not absurd that holy men be called Redeemers after a sort Invocation of Saints or Angels is Contrary to Scripture Matth. 11.27 28. (*) To win them by the expressions of his kindness and to hold them fast bound to his Service by the testimonies and declarations of his goodness saith Peter Chrysol Serm. 147. Joh. 6.37 and 14.13 and 16.23 24. Acts 10.25 26. and 14.13 14 15. Rom. 8.27 Ephes 3.20 Col. 2.18 1 Tim. 2.5 1 Joh. 2.1 2. And Contrary to the Fathers who tho' they might sometimes use Rhetorical Apostrophe's and Poetical flourishes are far from the Popish Tenet of Invocation Fathers against this Doctrine Ignatius in Epist ad Philadelph Justin Martyr Apol. 2. Theophilus Antiochenus ad Autolycum l. 1. Irenaeus l. 2. c. 57. Origen c. Celsum l. 5. p. 233 and 236. Concil Laodicenum Can. 35. Ambrose de obit Theodos Id. de interpellat l. 3. c. 12. Id. in (28) Bellarmin alledgeth in particular this Comment upon the Romans to be St. Ambrose's see Crocus in Censura Scriptorum vet p. 133. Rom. 1. To. 5. p. 174. Jerome To. 7. in Prov. c. 2. Augustin de civit Dei l. 8. c. 27. l. 9. c. 15. c. c. 23. l. 10. c. 1. l. 20. c. 10. l. 22. c. 10. Id. l. 2. de visit infirm Id. Confess l. 10. c. 42. Theodoret in 2. 3. Coloss Dracontius Poetic Hexameron Confessed By some of the most 29 Dominic Bannes in secunda secundae Qu. 1. Art 10. Orationes ad Sanctos esse faciendas venerandasque esse imagines neque etiam expresse nec involute Scripturae docent Other Papists say That there is neither precept nor example for it in Scripture and they give reasons for it for the Old-Testament because the Fathers were not yet admitted to the beatifical Vision and for the New-Testament because that the Apostles were men of such piety and humility that they would not admit of it themselves and therefore mentioned it not in their Writings and withal because in the beginning of Christianity there would have been a suspicion that they had only changed the names of the Heathen Deities and retain'd the same kind of Worship Eckius in Enchirid. c. 5. Salmeron in 1 Tim. 2. disp 8. Feres de Tradit p. 3. Learned Papists That it is a Doctrine neither expresly nor convertly contained in the Scripture (30) Spalatensis often err Spalatensis confesseth That Religious Invocation of Saints is Heathenism and meer Civil Invocation of them tho' not so bad yet dangerous (31) Beatit Sanctorum l. 1. c. 8. Sect. ult Cardinal Perron confesseth That there are no footsteps of it either in the Scriptures or in the Fathers before the first four General Councils none of which were call'd till 320 years after our Saviour's Incarnation Bellarmin (32) Sancti l. 1. c. 18. confesseth That Invocation of Saints was not so much begun by any Law as by Custom This is to the purpose But yet further Wicelius (33) Via Regia de Invocat Sanct. saith That the Invocation of Saints is to be cast out of the Church because it ascribes God's Honour and Attributes to his Creatures and derogates from the Office and Glory of Christ by making Saints Mediators and Intercessors What
Protestant could have opposed this vain Doctrine with greater strength of Reason and Argument than these Papists have done Truth will Conquer The Romish Church (34) Concil Trident. Sess 25. Bulla Pii 4. super forma Juramenti ad calcem Concil Trid. Bellarmin de Imag. l. 2. likewise obliges all those in its Communion to Worship Images the Idolatrous practice of the Heathen World and that with the same (35) Azorius l. 9. Instit mor. c. 6. Art 3. Cajetan in Thom. Part. 3. Qu. 25. Art 3. Gregory de Valentia Tom. 3. disp 6. Qu. 11. punct 6. Coster Enchirid. p. 438. worship which is given to him whose Image it is and that I think is far enough so that the Worship may be terminated in the Image (36) Bellarmin de Imag. l. 2. c. 21. prop. 1. If this be not Idolatry I know not what can be such And yet that nothing might be wanting in their Worship to make up the measure of iniquity They deny (37) Index Expurgatorius Madri 1612. in indice librorum expurgatorum p. 39. dele-Solus Deus adorandus That God alone is to be worshipped I suppose they mean he must have sharers with him in that Honour for otherwise it cannot be sence I am sure however it is Blasphemy Image Worship is Contrary to Scripture Exod. 20 4 5. Hence do the Papists often leave the Second Commandment out of their Catechisms as in Vaux's Catechism Ledesma's Catechism Officium B. Mariae Pii 5. Pont. juffu editum Antwerp A. D. 1590. That the Second Commandment was meant of and designed against Images and Idols the following Fathers and Doctors do attest Justin Martyr Dial. cum Tryph. p. 321. Tertullian de Idol c. 3 4. Id. c. Marcion l. 2. c. 22. de spect c. 23. Clemens Alexand. stro l. 3. p. 441. Origen c. Celsum l. 4. p. 182. l. 7. p. 375. Id. in Exod. Hom. 8. Athanasius in Synops Nazianzen in vers de decal Ambrose Jerome in Ephes c. 6. Augustin Ep. 119. c. 11. Procopius Rupertus in Exod. c. 20. Contrary to Scripture Lev. 26 1. Deut. 4.15 16. and 5.7 8 9. Isa 40.18 19 20. Micah 5.13 Matt. 4.10 Joh. 5.21 Rev. 19.10 Contrary to the Fathers Justin Martyr Apol. 2. p. 65 66. Theophilus Antiochenus ad Autolycum l. 1. p. 77. 110. Clemens Alexandrinus strom l. 6. in paraenetico Tertullian adv Hermogen init Minutius Felix p. 33. who saith Cruces nec colimus nec optamus Origen c. Celsum l. 7. 8. The Council of Eliberis in Spain at An. D. 310. Can. 36. Lactantius lib. 2. cap. de Orig. error dubium non est c. Optatus l. 3. Epiphanius Epist ad Joh. Hieros Augustin de morib Ecclesiae Cath. l. 1. c. 34. de fide symbolo c. 7. Id. contr Adimant c. 13. Id. Tom. 3. de consens Evangel l. 1. c. 10. Id. de civit Dei l. 9. c. 15. Fulgentius ad Donatum Gregorius Mag. l. 9. Epist 9. Imagines adorare omnibus modis devita Moreover the (38) Concil Trident. Sess 13. Church of Rome would oblige us to adore the Consecrated Host or Bread in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper and with the same Worship which is due to the true God Which by the (39) Coster Enchirid. Controv c. 8. de Euch. p. 308. Fisher c. Oecolampadium l. 1. c. 2. Confession of some of their Learned men is an Idolatry if (40) That the Apparitions which as the Papists pretend have appear'd upon the Altar instead of the Sacrament may and have been the Illusions of the Devil is Confessed by two Learned Schoolmen viz. Alexander de Hales sent 4. Qu. 11. Biel 51. Lect. upon the Canon of the Mass Transubstantiation cannot be made out which if it can we ought no more to believe our own Eyes more stupid than the sottish Heathens were guilty of Though this practice is so far from being Ancient That elevation of the Host accompanied with the ringing of a Bell at the consecration thereof that all who heard it might kneel and joyn their hands in adoring the Host was instituted but about An. Dom. 1240. (41) Naucler ad An. 1240. Krantz sex l. 8. c. 10. The Fathers were so far from worshipping the Host that some of them are sharp in reproving those who reserved the Reliques of it as appears by Clement's Epistle to St. James Origen in Levit. Hom. 5. and by the 11th Council at Toledo c. 14. And in Jerusalem they us'd to burn the remainders thereof Hesychius in Levit. l. 2. c. 8. Concerning Invocation of Saints Angels c. see Archbishop Laud's excellent Book against Jesuit Fisher so much commended by King Charles I. Dr. Stillingfleet's Rational Account of the Grounds of Protestant Religion c. Part 3. Ch. 3. Dr. Stillingfl Discourse concerning the Idolatry practised in the Ch. of Rome c. 2. Bishop Taylor 's disswasive from Popery Part 1. Ch. 2. Sect. 9. F. White against Jesuit Fisher pag. 289. Dr. Brevent's Saul and Samuel at Endor Bishop of Lincoln's Letter to Mr. Evelyn Concerning Image-worship and the Adoration of the Host see Bishop Jewel's Article 14 against Harding Archbishop Laud against Jesuit Fisher Dr. Stillingfleet's Discourse concerning the Idolatry practised in the Church of Rome and his Defence of it His Rational Account of the Grounds of Protestant Religion Part 3. Chap. 3. Bishop Taylor 's Disswasive from Popery Ed. 3. C. 1. Sect. 8 9. Ch. 2. Sect. 12. Monsieur de Rodon's Funeral of the Mass c. 5. Confessed By these Learned Popish Doctors hereafter mentioned That the making of Images was prohibited in the old Law and not to be found in Scripture Aquinas 3. Sent. Dist 9. Q. 2. ad 1. Prohibitum est Alexander Hales p. 3. Q. 30. m. 3. ar 3. Albertus 3. d. 9. ar 4. Bonaventure 3. d. 9. Marsilius 3. q. 8. ar 2. Rich. media villa 3. d. 9. Q. 2. Gerson compend tr 2. d. 10. Praecept Abulensis Exod. 20. Q. 39. Et Dominic Bannes in 2a 2ae Qu. 1. art 10. That the Fathers condemn'd Image-worship is Confess'd by Polydore Virgil de Invent. l. 6. c. 13. where he saith Sed teste Hieronymo omnes ferè veteres sancti Patres speaking of Images damnabant ob metum Idololatriae For fear of Idolatry And by Cassander Consult d. Imag. Quantum veteris initio Ecclesiae ab omni imaginum adoratione abhorruêrunt declarat unus Origenes And That for the first four Ages after Christ there was little or no use of Images in the Temples or Oratories of the Christians is Confess'd By Petavius Dogmat. Theol. To. 5. l. 15. c. 13. S. 3. c. 14. S. 8. SECT IV. Our Church contends for and embraces that faith which was (42) Jude 3. once delivered to the Saints and admits and professes that same which all true Christians have made the badge of their Holy Profession which (43) Articles and Jewel's Apology is briefly comprehended
Joh. 6. Lect. 7. Aquinas for above 1200 years by (62) In Manuali de communione sub utraque specie Becanus for 1400 years and last of all by the (63) Concil Constant Sess 13. They in that Council likewise contradicted the Judgments of their ancient Popes Leo Gelasius and Gregory the Great as may be seen in the Quotations of the Fathers Council of Constance it self It was acknowledged That Communion in both kinds had been instituted by our Blessed Saviour himself practised by the Primitive Church and to that very time and yet they had the confidence to alter it They certainly had confidence enough but neither too much Reason nor too much Religion who durst disannull what our Blessed Saviour had enjoyn'd and what carried his seal to that very day Where was then that reverence to Antiquity which their Followers to this day so much pretend to Concerning the number of Seven Sacraments see Birkbeck's Protestant Evidence Article 4. Of Communion in both kinds see Bishop Jewel's Article 2. against Harding Bishop Taylor 's Disswasive Part 1. Ch. 1. Sect. 6. Dr. Stillingfleet's Rational Account of the Grounds of Protestant Religion Part 3. Ch. 3. Archbishop Laud against Fisher Rodon's Funeral of the Mass Ch. 6. SECT VI. We do not believe that the Elements of Bread and Wine (64) Article 28 29. after Consecration become the very Body and Blood of Christ though the worthy Receiver partakes of both in a spiritual manner by faith because we herein have all the testimony we are capable of viz. that of our Reasons and of our Senses to believe That there is not a real Transubstantiation or a change of the Elements of Bread and Wine into the Body and Blood of our Saviour which is an absurd tenet and hath occasioned many Superstitions The Church of Rome holds that there (65) Concil Trident. Sess 13. c. 4. is a conversion of the whole substance of Bread and Wine into the substance of Christ's Body and Blood by Consecration Transubstantiation Contrary to Scripture Luk. 22.17 18 19 20. Contrary to the Fathers Justin Martyr Apol. 2. Irenaeus l. 4. adv Haer. c. 34. Tertullian cont Marcion l. 4. c. 40. Origen Comment in Matth. c. 15. Id. Homil. 3. in Matth. Eusebius Demonst Evangel l. 1. c. 1. c. ult Macarius Homil. 27. Gregor Nazianz. Orat. 2. in Pasch Ambros lib. de Bened. Patriarch c. 9. Epiphanius in Anchorat p. 6. Chrysostome Homil 24. in Epist ad Cor. Id. Epist ad Caesar Monach. Jerome Comment S. Matth. c. 26. Id. in Isa 66. in Hos 8. in Jerem. 22. Augustin Serm. 9. de divers Id. l. 3. de Doctr. Christ c. 16. Id. l. 20. contr Faust Manich. c. 21. in Psal 98. Id. de civit Dei l. 21. c. 25. Tractat. 26. in Joh. Gelasius in lib. de duab nat Christ Ephrem Patriarch of Antioch apud Phot. Cod. 229. Primasius Comment in 1 Epist ad Cor. Facundus Defens Conc. Chalced. l. 9. c. 5. Gaudentius Tract 20. Add to these that Hesychius Bishop of Hierusalem in Leviticum l. 2. c. 8. saith It was the custom in the ancient Church to burn the remainders of the Eucharist Which place when Cheyney a Protestant in Q. Mary's days insisted upon against the Papists and demanded what it was that was burned one answered That it was either the Body of Christ or the substance of Bread put there by miracle at which he smil'd and said a Reply was needless and I think so too Chillingworth hath a pretty joking Dialogue betwixt C. and K. about Transubstantiation and the Infallibility of the Roman Church in his Protestant Religion a safe way to Salvation Part 1. Ch. 3. Edit 2. 1638. p. 158 159. Transubstantiation Confess'd Not to be in the Canon of the Bible by these Learned Papists hereafter mentioned Scotus in 4. lib. sentent dist 11. Q. 3. Occam ibid. Q. 6. Biel Lect. 40. in Can. Missae Fisher Bishop of Rochester c. 1. cont captiv Babyl Cardinal Cajetan apud Suarez Tom. 3. Disp 46. Sect. 3. Melchior Canus Loc. com l. 3. c. 3. fund 2. That Transubstantiation was not touch'd by the Fathers was Confess'd by our English Jesuits Discurs Modest p. 13. and by Alphonsus à Castro de Haeres l. 8. verbo Indulgentia Not own'd as an Article * Deny'd to be the faith of the Church by Barns in his Romano-Catholicus Pacificus MS. Sect. 7. liter Q. of Faith before the Lateran Council held Anno Dom. 1215 and therefore it is no ancient Article Confess'd By Scotus apud Bellarm. l. 3. de Euchar. c. 28. And yet this was the bloody Test in Queen Mary's days by which so many Glorious Martyrs changed Earth for Heaven SECT VII Our Church acknowledges no Purgatory (66) Article 22 18. or Propitiation for our sins but that which was made once for all (67) Article 31. Heb. 10.10 by our Blessed Saviour and that upon the condition of Faith and Repentance We (68) Article 22. disown all Pardons and Indulgences as grounded upon no warranty of Scripture but rather repugnant to the Word of God since we are told that we have nothing (69) 1 Cor. 4.7 but what we have received We own that good works (70) Article 12. are the fruits of Faith and follow after Justification but that they cannot put away sins and endure the severity of Gods Judgment much less for the sins of others nor can (71) Article 14. we perform works over and above God's Commands call'd by the Papists works of Supererogation to say which is the highest arrogance For when we have done all we are commanded Christ enjoyns us to say We are unprofitable Servants And we look upon our selves as righteous before God for the merit of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith (72) Article 11 13. and not for our own works and deserts The Romish Church owns a Purgatory (73) Concil Trident. Sess ult Hence doth Bellarmine threaten us saying that whosoever believes not Purgatory shall be tormented in Hell de Purgat l. 1. c. ult And yet this same Cardinal forgetting what he had before affirm'd for herein he doth not only contradict himself but all Popish pretensions for Purgatory when he grants that Souls in Purgatory do not merit In Purgatorio animae nec mereri nec peccare possint Bellarm. de Purgatorio l. 2. c. 2. To what end then are they sent to Purgatory for sins pardoned so that there still remains a guilt of temporal punishment to be paid either in this life or hereafter in Purgatory Which upstart Doctrine of Purgatory for we shall anon shew it to be so hath prov'd the Mother of Indulgences and Pardons and thereby hath mightily enriched (74) Spalatensis de Republ. Eccles l. 5. c. 8. Sect. 73. the Church of Rome whereby remission of sins is set upon terms (75) Bellar. de Indulg l. 1. in the vile market of
ad Virgines Chrysostom in Matth. Homil. 53. Id. ad Stelechum de compunct cord ed. Savil. Tom. 6. p. 157. Jerom super Ephes 2. Tom. 9. Id. l. 6. in Isai c. 13. Id. lib. 17. c. 64. Tom. 5. Leo Serm. 1. de assumpt Id. Serm. 12. de pass dom Theodoret in Rom. 6. v. ult Id. in Rom. 8. Augustin Confess l. 10. c. 4. Tom. 1. Id. super Johan Tract 3. Tom. 9. Id. Tom. 8. in Psal 109. Fulgentius ad Monim l. 1. c. 10. Justus Orgelitanus in Cantic cap. 2. Cassiodore in Psal 5. Council of Orange 2. Can. 20. Caranza in summa Concil Gregor Magnus Tom. 2. in Ezech. ad finem Id. moral l. 5. c. 8. l. 9. c. 14. l. 29. c. 9. l. 35. c. ult Id. Psal 1. Paenit Tom. 2. Merit Not allow'd of in Anselm's time who liv'd An. Dom. 1086 as appears from him in upon Rom. 12. nor in S. Bernard's days as appears from him in Cant. Serm. 73. where he saith That the Saints had need to pray for their Sins that they may have Salvation through Mercy and not trusting in their own Righteousness So far was S. Bernard who liv'd An. Dom. 1120 from owning the Popish Doctrine of Merits Confess'd By Bellarmin That Good Works are rewarded above their deserts de Justi l. 1. c. 19. Concerning the Sacrifice of the Mass Consult Bishop Jewel 1 and 17 Article against Harding Bishop Morton of the Mass Dr. Brevint's Depth and Mystery of the Roman Mass Mons Rodon's Funeral of the Mass c. 7. and 8. Concerning the Popish Doctrine of Merits see Birckbeck's Protestant Evidence Article 9. That Men are not Justified by Faith only and for the Merit of our Saviour but by their own good Works too by which as the Papists hold they merit eternal happiness is Contrary to Scripture Rom. 3.28 and c. 4.4 5. and c. 5.1 2 3. and c. 11.6 Ephes 2.8 9. Contrary to the Fathers Irenaus l. 4. c. 5. Clemens Alexandrinus Padagog l. 1. c. 6. Stromat l. 5. Origen l. 3. in Epist ad Rom. c. 3. Ambrose or some in the same Age with him as Bellarmin confesseth de Justif c. 8. in his Comment upon Rom. c. 4. and in 1 Cor. c. 1. Theodoret de curandis Graecar affectib l. 7. Chrysostome in Rom. 1.17 Homil. 2. Id. in Tit. 1.13 Homil. 3. Augustin l. 1. contr duas Epistol Pelag. c. 21. Id. in Psal 8. concion 2. Primasius in c. 2. ad Galatas Fulgentius de incar grat c. 16. Confessed By Cardinal Bellarmin That it is most safe and sure to place all our trust upon the only Mercy of God because of the incertainty of our own Justice and the danger of vain glory De Justif l. 5. c. 3 after he had Confessed That good Works are rewarded above their deserts Id. de Justif l. 1. c. â—â— Consult herein Birkbeck's Protestant Evidence Article 8. SECT VIII Our Church performs all her Prayers and other Divine Offices and administers the Sacraments with such Rites as are agreeable to the Word of God being for (84) 1 Cor. 14.40 Decency and Order in a Language understood (85) Article 24. by all those that are concern'd therein The Popish Church (86) Harding against Bp. Jewel Article 3. Missal Rom. approbat ex decreto Concil Trident. Bulla Pii 5. Cherubini Bullar Tom. 2. p. 311. hath her Prayers in an unknown Tongue to which if the people do say Amen it is without understanding Which is not only an unreasonable Service but an abominable Sin Robbing God of his Honour and Men of their Devotion Prayers in an unknown Tongue are 1 Contrary to Scripture 1 Cor. 14. 2 Contrary to the Fathers Origen contra Cels l. 8. Basil lib. Qu. ex variis Script locis Q. 278. Ambrose in 1 Cor. 14. Chrysostom Hom. 18. in 2 Cor. Hierome Tom. 1. Epist 17. Augustin Epist 178. Id. in Psal 18. con 2. Id. de doctr Christ l. 4. c. 10. Bede Hist Angl. l. 1. c. 1. 3 Contrary to Councils and Papal Decrees Concilium Moguntinum An. Dom. 812. cap. 45. Concil Lateran An. Dom. 1215. c. 9. Greg. l. 1. titul 31. cap. Quoniam plerisque Baronius Tom. 10. A. D. 88. N. 16. Histor Boem c. 13. Written by Aeneas Sylvius who was afterwards called Pope Pius 11. 1 Confessed to be against Edification in Spiritual matters by Lyra and Cardinal Cajetan in 1 Cor. 14. Cassander in Liturgic c. 28. Consult Art 24. 2 Confessed to be Contrary to the Practice of the Primitive Church by Aquinas and Lyra in 1 Cor. 14. Consult herein Bp. Jewel against Harding Article 3. Bp. Taylor 's Dissuasive Part 1. ch 1. Sect. 7. SECT IX As our Church employs such persons in the Ministry of God's Worship and Sacraments and in feeding and governing the Flock of Christ as are (87) Article 36. Book of Ordination Mason of the Consecration of Bishops in the Church of England Archbishop Bramhal's works Tom. 1. Discourse 5. Tom. 4. Discourse 6. lawfully called to their Office and Ministry and are Consecrated and Ordained according to the Scriptures and Canons of the Universal Church and of whose Bishops we can shew (*) Which the Roman Ch. notwithstanding its big pretences to constant succession cannot justly challenge and that both from its five vacancies making up almost Nine years when Rome had no Bishop at all and the many Schisms by some Chronologers reckoned up to be Twenty nine a fair number indeed by Onuphrius to be Thirty and by Bellarmin himself to be Twenty six Whereof the Twentieth Schism lasted Twenty years and the 21st lasted 36 years during which time the Church of Rome had two Popes which excommunicated each other the 26th continued saith Genebrard Chron. l. 4. An. Dom. 1378. from Vrban 6. till the Council of Constance which was at least Thirty five years Baronius ad Annum 1044. Sect. 5. Tom. 11. calls the three Popes who then contended for the Papal Chair a Beast with Three heads ascending out of the bottomless Pit Add to these the 70 years stay of the Popes at Avignion which quite joints their boasted Succession For during these times where was the true Successour of St. Peter Or was the Church in their sense so long without an Head a Succession to the Apostles of our Saviour as fully as any other Church at this day can do so do we leave all (88) Article 32. Ecclesiasticks whether Bishops Priests or Deacons to Marry at their own discretion as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness since (89) Heb. 13.4 Marriage is honourable in all and not forbid but permitted and in Cases so requiring enjoyned by God's Law and practised as well as taught by persons of the same function i. e. Priests in the best and purest Ages of the Church as may be seen in the following Quotations The Church of Rome (90) Bellarmin lib. 1. de Cleric c. 20. Sect. Respondeo
was that damnable Treason designed by Gunpowder against the Person of King James the First of blessed Memory and the two Houses of Parliament to which the Pope himself as we (100) Delrio disq Magic l. 6. c. 1. are credibly informed was not only privy but its director too Pursuant thereof that Pope Clement VIII a little before that time gave order That no Priest should discover any thing that came to his Knowledg in Confession to the benefit of the Secular Government I think there needs no better evidence of the Pope's good intentions towards the Secular Government nor what ill effects the practice of this sort of Confession can and may produce than this And that it still may be used as an Instrument in procuring the ruine of Princes and subversion of Kingdoms Let us hear their i. e. the Popish Doctors opinion of its virtue and use One of them then tells us That the Seal of Auricular Confession which they hold to be of Divine Institution is so Sacred that it may not be broken open to save (101) Tolet. Instruct Sacerd l. 3. c. 16. the Lives of Princes or of the whole Commonwealth Another (102) Henriquez de poenit l. 2. c. 19. n. 5. goes further and saith That the Seal of Confession is not to be broken no not to save all the World Here the Reader may see for this is not only the opinion of one or two private men but runs with the stream of their (103) See Eudemon Joannes in his Apology for Garnet Binet Suarez c. Writers what may be expected from the Charity of their Popish Priests what an unlucky tool Auricular Confession is in (104) And yet they can say that it is of Divine Right See Biel l. 4. dist 17. Q. 1. Scotus ibid. Bonaventure ibid n. 72. which if it had been the Fathers would never have writ against it nor would it have been disanhull'd For private Confession of crimes was a rogated a out An. Dom. 396. upon the discovery of a Whoredom committed betwixt a Deacon and a Noble Woman Histor Tripartit l. 9. c. 35. And though it was practised several years before yet was it not enjoyn'd as a necessary Act of Salvation before the Council of Lateran An. Dom. 1215. under Pope Innocent III and therefore far from true Antiquity their hands Besides to how great an awe of and respect for their Confessor to whom they are bound as I have already said to discover all their Sins under pain of Eternal Damnation To what Pride and Insolence to what Lust and Revenge to what Avarice and Rapine are not only the meanest Men but even Persons that make the greatest figure exposed unto by Auricular Confession in Popish Churches It is a slavery so great and intollerable that the Israelitish Tasks in Egypt were a pleasure or at least a divertisement in comparison of it Auricular Confession to a Priest under point of Salvation and Damnation and that people cannot be saved without it is Contrary to Scripture Isai 55.7 Acts 2.38 and c. 3.19 and c. 16.30 31. Rom. 10.3 Contrary to the Fathers who when they did speak of the necessity of Confession generally meant Confession before God only or a publick acknowledgment of some publick crimes incurring the censure of Excommunication and that in an Ecclesiastical Assembly Origen in Psal 37. Hom. 2. Cyprian de lapsis Serm. 5. Chrysostom Hom. 4. de Lazaro Id. Hom. 2. in Psal 50. Homil. 31. in Epist ad Hebraeos Hom. 5. de incomprehensibili nat Dei Hom. 8. de paen Hom. de poenit Confessione Augustin Confession l. 10. c. 3. Auricular Confession acknowledged not to have been Instituted by our Saviour and that it is not of Divine Institution by these Learned Papists Cardinal Cajetan in Joh. 20. Scotus in sent 4. dist 17. Q. 1. Maldon in summa Qu. 18. Art 4. Bell. de poenit l. 1. c. 4. Acknowledged by others That it is better to say that it was Instituted rather by the Tradition of the Universal Church than by the Authority of the Old and New Testament And yet it is denyed That this Tradition is Universal and that it is not necessary amongst the Greeks because this Custom i.e. of private Confession sprung not up among them de poenit dist 5. in principio Gloss Again it is Confessed That the Fathers scarce speak of it as of a thing commanded by Rhenanus in admonitione de Tertullian Dogmat. Lastly It is Confessed That we may obtain Pardon though our Mouths be silent then we do not confess And our Lord doth shew that a Sinner is not cleansed by the Judgment of the Priest but by the Bounty of Divine Grace Gratian dist 1. cap. Convertimini What clashing and enterfering is here Is this the pretended solid Union of the Popish Church in matters of Salvation and which she enjoyns under pain of Damnation Have they no better Grounds for their Articles of Faith than these Can Auricular Confession be of Divine Institution and yet neither be Instituted by our Blessed Saviour nor mentioned by the Fathers as a Divine Precept nor imposed by an Universal Tradition of the Church And lastly can it be necessary to Salvation and yet we can obtain pardon of Sins without the use of it Let any Papist reconcile me these erit mihi magnus Apollo Consult herein Bishop Taylor 's Dissuasive Part 1. ch 2. Sect. 2. F. White against Jesuite Fisher p. 189. Concerning the Marriage of the Clergy see Bishop Jewel's Defence of the Apology of the Church of England Part 2. p. 180. and Part 5. p. 456. Bishop Hall's Honour of the Married Clergy SECT X. As I have all along shewed the vast difference in Doctrines betwixt the Protestant Church of England and the Church of Rome so will I put a Period to this Discourse after I have done the like in that of Obedience Which I shall not as I have hitherto argue from the Articles and Homilies of our Church the Decrees of their Church the Writings of the Fathers and from Ancient Councils because that hath been sufficiently canvassed of late years but only subjoyn the undenyable Testimonies of King James I. and King Charles the Martyr of ever-blessed Memories and the Royal Grandfather and Father of our present Gracious Soveraign to determin the Case of Protestants Loyalty and Popish Rebellion King Charles I. in his Excellent Book entituled Εικον Βασιλικε chap. 27. to our Late Gracious King and then Prince of Wales saith King James I. in His Works p. 504. saith The best Profession of Religion I have ever esteemed that of the Church of England in which you have been educated (105) Yea it was but two days before his death that he told the Princess Elizabeth That she should dye for maintaining the true Protestant Religion In this I charge you to persevere as coming nearest to God's Word for Doctrine and to the Primitive Example for Government I tell you
I have tried it and after much search and many disputes have concluded it to be the best in the World keeping the middle-way between the As on one part many honest men seduced with some Errors of Popery may yet remain good and faithful Subjects so on the other part none of those that truly know and believe the whole grounds and School-conclusions of their Doctrines can ever either prove good Christians or good Subjects pomp of Superstitious Tyranny and the meanness of Fantastic Anarchy  Ibid. Scarce any one who hath been a beginner or prosecutor of this late War against the Church the Laws and Me was or is a true Lover Embracer or Practiser of the Protestant Religion established in England King Charles 1st in his Solemn Declaration October 23. 1642. saith That there was a greater number of Papists in the Rebels Army than in His. To which I add Solatii ergô that excellent Expression in His Majesties first and most Gracious Speech to His Privy Council I know the Principles of the Church of England are for Monarchy and the Members of it have shewed themselves good and To which may be added That then they are guilty of this mortal Sin of Obedience to a Protestant Prince when they are not strong enough to manage a Rebellion Watson's Quodlibets p. 255. faithful Subjects therefore shall I always take care to defend and support it  These words deserve to be written in Letters of Gold however they are written in large Characters in good Protestants Hearts Now Jude 24 25. 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Dr. Parkers Demonstration of the Divine Authority of the Law of Nature and the Christian Religion Speculum Baxterianum or Baxter against Baxter Mr. Hook's new Philosophical Collections Bibliotheca Norfolciana Godwin's Roman Antiquities OCTAVO BIshop Wilkins Natural Religion His Fifteen Sermons Mr. Tanner's Primordia Or the Rise and Growth of the first Church of God described Lord Hollis's Vindication of the Judicature of the House of Peers in the Case of Skinner Jurisdiction of the House of Peers in case of Appeals Jurisdiction of the House of Peers in case of Impositions Letters about the Bishops Vores in Capital Cases Dr. Grews Idea of Philogical History on Roots Spaniards Conspiracy against the State of Venice Dr. Browns Religio Medici with Digby's Observations Dr. Sympsons Chymical Anatomy of the York-shire Spaws with a Discourse of the Original of Hot Springs and other Fountains Dr. Caves Primitive Christianity in three parts Ignatius Fuller's Sermons of Peace and Holiness Phrases in Vsum Scholae Wintoniensis Dr. Samways Unreasonableness of the Romanists Record of Urins The Trials of the Regicides in 1660. Certain gemaine Remains of the Lord Bacon in Arguments Civil Moral Natural c. with a large account of all his Works By Dr. Tho. Tennison Dr. Pullers Discourse of the Moderation of the Church of England Sir John Mounson's Discourse of Supream Power and Common Right Dr. Henry Bagshaws Discourse on select Texts Mr. Sellers Remarks relating to the State of the Church in the three first Centuries The Country-mans Physician Dr. Burnets Account of the Life and Death of the Earl of Rechester Vindication of the Ordination of the Church of England History of the Rights of Princes in the Disposing of Ecclesiastical Benefices and Church-lands Relation of the present state of the difference between the French King and the Court of Rome to which is added the Popes Brief to the Assembly of the Clergy and their Protestation published by Dr. Burnet Abridgment of the History of the Reformation Mr. Camfields Discourses of Episcopal Confirmation Ogleby's Aefops Fables paraphrased in Verse and adorned with Sculptures and Annotations in a Vol. Dr. Cumbers Companion to the Altar Galliard's 2 Discourses of Private settlement at Home after Travel and of Him who is in Publick Employments Markhams Perfect Horseman Dr. Sherlocks Practical Discourse of Religious Assemblies Defence of Dr. Stilling fleet 's Unreasonableness of Separation A Vindication of the Defence of Dr. Stillingfleet in Answer to Mr. Baxter and Mr. Lob about Catholick Communion The History of the House of Estee the Family of the Dutchess of York Sir Rob. Filmer's Patriarcha or Natural Power of Kings Mr. John Caves Gospel to the Romans Lawrences Interest of Ireland in its Trade and Wealth stated DVODECIMO Hodders Arithmetick Grotius de Veritate Religionis Christianae An Apology for a Treatise of Humane Reason written by M. Cliford Esq Queen-like-Closet both parts Bishop Wettenhalls Method and Order for Private Devotion VICESIMO QVARTO VAlentines Devotions Pharmacopoeia Collegii Londinensis reformata Crums of Comfort Books lately Printed for Richard Chiswell FOLIO DR Spencer de Legibus Hebraeorum Ritualibus earum Rationibus Sir James Turner's Pallas Armata or Military Essays of the Ancient Grecian Roman and Modern Art of War Dr. John Lightfoot's Works in English in 2 Volumes Mr. Selden's Janus Anglorum Englished with Notes To which is added his Epinomis concerning the ancient Government and Laws of this Kingdom never before extant Also two other Treatises written by the same Author One of the Original of Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions of Testaments the other of the Disposition or Administration of Intestates Goods Now the first time published QVARTO PAtris Simonii Disquisitiones Criticae de Variis per diversa Loca Tempora Bibliorum Editionibus Accedunt Castigat Opuse Is Vossii de Sibyllinis Oraculis Dr. Falkners Two Treatises of Reproaching and Censure with His Answer to Serjeant's Surefooting and several occasional Sermons The Case of Lay-Communion with the Church of England considered A Discourse concerning the Celebration of Divine Service in an Unknown Tongue A Discourse of the Necessity of Reformation with respect to the Errors and Corruptions of the Church of Rome OCTAVO DR William Caves Dissertation concerning the Government of the Ancient Church by Bishops Metropolitans and Patriarchs Two Letters betwixt Mr. R. Smith and Dr. Hen. Hammond about Christs Descent into Hell Dean Stratfords disswasive from Revenge The Life of Bishop Bedel Dr. Harris his Rational Discourse of Remedies Sir George Mackenzy's Just Right of Monarchy Defence of the Antiquity of the Royal Line of Scotland Dr. Hez Burtons first Volume of Discourses of Purity and Charity of Repentance and of seeking the Kingdom of God published by Dean Tillotson His second Vol. of Discourses upon divers other Practical Subjects Sir Thomas More 's Vtopia newly made English Bishop Jewels Apology for the Church of England with his Life by a person of Quality FINIS