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A62991	Historical collections, out of several grave Protestant historians concerning the changes of religion, and the strange confusions following in the reigns of King Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Queen Mary and Elizabeth : with an addition of several remarkable passages taken out of Sir Will. Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire, relating to the abbies and their institution.	Touchet, Anselm, d. 1689?; Hickes, George, 1642-1715.; Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686.	1686 (1686)	Wing T1955; ESTC R4226	184,408	440

never be crowned Thus St. Cyprian Now concerning the Supereminent Power of Bishops in the Church as to the Excommunication of Hereticks and of the effect thereof St. Jerom Epist. ad Heliodorum cap. 7. has these remarkable words God forbid saith he I should speak sinistrously of them who succeeding the Apostles in degree make Christ's Body with their holy mouths by whom we are made Christians who having the Keys of Heaven do after a sort judge before the day of Judgment who in sobriety and chastity have the keeping of the Spouse of Christ to wit his Church And a little after They may deliver me up to Satan to the destruction of my Flesh that the Spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus And in the old Law whosoever was disobedient to the Priests was either cast out of the Camp and so stoned of the People or laying down his neck to the Sword expiated his offence by his Blood But now the Disobedient is cut off with the spiritual Sword or being cast out of the Church is torn by the furious mouth of Devils Thus St. Jerom. The Church's Practice in this is taken from the Example of St. Paul 1 Tim. 1. 19. where having exhorted Timothy to preserve his Faith and a good Conscience he presently adds Which certain repelling have made shipwrack about the Faith that is of their Faith of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander whom I have delivered to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme Now to prevent our being Seduced by Hereticks St. Paul says 2 Tim. 3. 1. And this know you that in the last days shall approach perillous times and Men shall be lovers of themselves covetous haughty proud blasphemous not obedient to their Parents unkind wicked without affection without peace accusers incontinent unmerciful without benignity traytors stubborn puffed up and lovers of voluptuousness more than of God having an appearance indeed of Piety but denying the vertue thereof and these avoid For these be they that craftily enter into houses and lead captive silly Women laden with sins which are led with divers desires always learning and never attaining to the knowledge of the truth But as Jannus and Jambres resisted Moses so these also resist the Truth men corrupted in mind reprobate concerning the Faith But they shall prosper no further For their folly shall be manifest to all as theirs also was All these words St. Cyprian Epist. 55. Num. 3. Expounds of such as by pride and disobedience resist God's Priests Let no faithful man saith he that keepeth in mind our Lords and the Apostles Admonition marvel if he see in the latter times some proud and stubborn fellows and the Enemies of God's Priests go out of the Church or impugn the same when both our Lord and the Apostle foretold us that such should be Now one Reason why the going out of the Church by Heresie is so great a crime is because the Church is always preserved from Error by the priviledge of Christ's Presence of the Holy Ghosts Assistance of our Lords Promise and Prayer of which see St. Augustin upon those words of the 118 Psalm Conc. 13. Ne auferas de ore meo verbum veritatis usque quâque Where he writes admirably of this matter To the same purpose also these words of Lactantius are very remarkable It is the Catholick Church only that keeps the true Worship of God This is the Fountain of Truth This is the House of Faith This is the Temple of God into which if a Man enter not or from which if any Man goes out he is an Alien and Stranger from the hope of everlasting life and salvation No Man must by obstinate contention flatter himself for it stands upon Life and Salvation St. Cyprian Epist. 55. ad Cornel. Num. 3. says The Church never departs from that which she once hath known And St. Irenaeus lib. 1. cap. 3. That the Apostles have laid up in the Church as in a rich Treasury all Truth It were an infinite labour to recite all that the Fathers say of this matter All counting it a most pernicious absurdity to affirm That the Church of Christ may err in Doctrins of Faith St. John the Apostle 1 John 2. 18. says Little Children it is the last hour and as ye have heard that Antichrist comes now there are become many Antichrists whereby we know that it is the last hour They went out from us but they were not of us St. Cyprian upon this place writes thus Epist. 76. Num. 1. ad Magnum The holy Apostle St. John did not put a difference betwixt one Heresie or Schism and another nor meant any sort that especially separated themselves but generally called All without exception Antichrists that were adversaries to the Church or were gone out from the same And a little after It is evident that All be here called Antichrists that have severed themselves from the Charity and Unity of the Catholick Church Concerning St. Peter's Supremacy or Charge of the whole Church from which Hereticks separate themselves St. Cyprian writes thus Lib. de Unitat. Ecclesiae To Peter saith he our Lord after his Resurrection said Feed my Sheep and built his Church upon him alone and to him he gives the charge of Feeding his Sheep For although after his Resurrection he gave his Power alike to all saying As my Father sent me so I send you Receive the Holy Ghost If you remit to any their sins they shall be remitted c. Yet to manifest Unity he constituted one Chair and so disposed by his Authority that Unity should have origin of one The rest of the Apostles were that which Peter was in equal Fellowship of Honor and Power but the beginning comes of Unity the Primacy is given to Peter that the Church of Christ may be shewed to be one and one Chair St. Chrysostom also says thus Lib. 2. de Sacerdot Why did our Lord shed his Blood Truly to redeem those Sheep the Cure of which he committed both to Peter and also to his Successors And a little after Christ would have Peter endowed with such Authority and to be far above all his other Apostles For he saith Peter Dost thou love me more than all These do Whereupon our Master might have inferred If you love me Peter use much Fasting Sleep on the hard Floor Watch much be a Patron to the Oppressed a Father to Orphans and Husband to Widows But omitting all These things he says Feed my Sheep For all the other Vertues certainly may be done easily by many Subjects not only Men but also Women but when it cometh to the Government of the Church and committing the charge of many Souls all Women-kind must needs give place to the burden and greatness thereof and a great number of Men also St. Gregory likewise Lib. 4. Epist. 76 writes thus It is plain to all men saith he that ever read the Gospel that by our Lord's mouth the charge of the whole Church