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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B10269	Anti-Goliah: or An epistle to Mr. Brevint, containing some reflections upon his Saul, and Samuel, at Endor. / Written by E.W.	Warner, John, 1628-1692.; E. W. (Edward Worsley), 1605-1676.	1678 (1678)	Wing W904B; ESTC R186274	27,206	62

or thing demonstrated The Scripture is the same when cleerly and when obscurely understood and Faith is the same when it is more and more explicated provided it change not its object It may be said to alter its state when its object is altered in quality but it remains the same in substance as long as its material and formal object subsists Thus the same person when Minor is undera Tutor from whose power he is exempted when Major Now the Law was our Tutor Gal. 3. under which we were kept till by the coming of Christ Faith was revealed id est explicated more cleerly To the second difficulty S. Austin answers ep 49. Dispertita divinis eloquiis sacrificia ..... By the Divine Spirit sacrifices were appointed proportionable to the times that some should be offered before the New Testament was revealed ... and same other now since its revelation ...... For as one and the same man offering to God one thing in the morning and another in the evening cannot for that be said to change God or his Religion so in several Ages although some things were offered anciently others at present yet we have neither changed God nor our Religion Thus S. Austin Which Doctrine well applied will cleer all you say in this Chapter Page 8. You say The first Title the faithful had after the Ascension was to be called Christians The thing was long before even from the beginning I wish you had proved that name to be the first Title after the Ascension for I think it certain they had another name before that The name Christian was first known at Antioch Act. 11.26 which was many years after the Ascension as is gathered out of the first Chapter to the Galatians for it was after the Conversion of S. Paul his retreat into Arabia his return to Damascus his Journey to Ierusalem three years after that and then at his excursion into Syria and preaching at Antioch that name was taken up Is it credible that a Congregation of men should be so long together and have no name to be known by This might suffice though no name had been left on record as there is one Act. 6.1.2.7 where the faithful are three several times called Disciples Page 9 No Philosophers were ever able with all their wit to extend their opinions beyond their Schools nor the greatest Kings settle their Laws beyond their Dominions say you very falsly for Aristotle and Cartesius divide all the Philosophers of our Nation in which neither ever had a School And Iustinian's Laws are settled in Spain in America and for some Cases in England where his name was scarce know during his life See Sir how dangerous it is to follow your fancy But let us admit what you say and we shall find you Goliah-like armed with a sword to cut off your own head not to hurt your enemy What say you Hereticks cannot spread their errors much beyond their own abode God alone can create a new light which shall spread a bright day over the world Where you condemn your own Reformation which is scarce known out of the British Iles and make a Panegyrick of Rome and Popery which is spread over the world and fills the East and West Indies with the light of the Gospel which as you say God alone can do Truth extorts this testimony from your pen. God grant you grace to profess with sincerity of heart what you unwittingly said with your mouth Page 11. Many wise men take Roman Catholick for a Bull. The Planets have their Ecclipses the Sun it self his spots and the wisest men their follies Such is childish quibbling upon words in serious grave matters But why is it a Bull Because forsooth Catholick signifies Vniversal and Roman imports something particular Do those wise men think it a Bull to call the Catholick Church Apostolick from the Apostles who were singular men or Christian from Christ who was but one man Aud if we may call the Catholick Church Christian and Apostolick without being censured for incongruity of speech though those names be taken from single persons why not Roman Catholick although that name be taken from one place Such a Church hath more of universality than any single person God forbid I should make comparisons betwixt Christ and the Roman Church which adores him as her God I intend no more here than to shew by this undeniable instance that a denomination taken from à particular body thing or person may be given to a universal Congregation So those wise men are much out in this censure But why is the Church denominated from Rome rather than from any other place Answ Because as the Poliglott acknowledges Prolog 10. It was alwayes held to be the Principal Church and most constantly adhered to ancient Traditions Because it presides over the rest as the Head over the Body says the second General Council to Damasus Because in it S. Peter presided who received the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven was the Rock on which the Church is built is the foundation of Jurisdiction and the Center of Ecclesiastical Unity Page 22. If the Pope be the Roman Church's Head Masse is its Body Very witty Here is a new way to unchurch all Papists who can be no part of the Roman Church which contains the Pope as Head and Mass as Body and we are neither Pope nor Mass I am perswaded wise men will pity your labours so ill spent in studies seeing after all you cannot distinguish betwixt a Church and her Religious Service or Lyturgy Ibidem Enquire of all the Fathers when and where they the Apostles sung Mass publickly A search worhy of your self to seek whether they sung Mass in Market-places when their Meetings were Antelucanis horis says Pliny Whē the Christians to save their Lives were forced to wander in deserts and mountains and dens and caves of the earth Heb. 11.38 Pag. 24. Purgatory that Subterranean Rome Rome sends down Masses to that that helps Rome with wealth honours and riches The Primitive Christians had Mass for the Dead as well as Rome as you may see in S. Austin l. de cura pro mortuis c. 1. Enchir. c. 110. in this later place he says Neque negandum est It ought not to be denied that the deceased souls are eased by the piety of their surviving friends when the sacrifice of the Mediator is offered for them or Alms given in the Church That these things ease those souls who during the course of this life lived so as to merit it For there is a manner of life neither soo good as not to need those helps nor so bad as to receive no benefit by them And there is another so good as not to need them and a third so bad as to be incapable of ease even by them Thus S. Austin You see in these words 1. Mass Sacrificium Mediatoris The sacrifice of our Mediator You see 2. Mass for the Dead Pro illis offertur