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A08327	The guide of faith, or, A third part of the antidote against the pestiferous writings of all English sectaries and in particuler, agaynst D. Bilson, D. Fulke, D. Reynoldes, D. Whitaker, D. Field, D. Sparkes, D. White, and M. Mason, the chiefe vpholders, some of Protestancy, and some of Puritanisme : wherein the truth, and perpetuall visible succession of the Catholique Roman Church, is cleerly demonstrated / by S.N. ...	S. N. (Sylvester Norris), 1572-1630.	1621 (1621)	STC 18659; ESTC S1596	198,144	242

of God deliuereth 2. Cor. 1● v. ● Psal 8. ● Hier. l. ● comm in 6. ● ad Gal. D●os eos esse manifestum est qui aute● Dij sun● tradunt Dei Euangelium non hominis In which respect S. Ierome doubteth not to call S. Peter S. Paul such as enioy their priuiledg after the phrase of scripture by the name of Gods thereupon maketh this illation But they that are Gods deliuer the Gospell of God not of man 10. Yet let vs view some other allegations which these erring and lying Ministers bring in to find the church guilty of errour Marry VVhitaker Reynoldes depose that which befalleth to one may befall to the whole but euery one in particuler may erre therefore the whole may erre which is a most false deposition plaine Sophisme arguing from each deuided member of the Church to the whole body ioyntly considered as if a cauiller should say This stone it self cannot be sufficient to raise a tower nor this nor that VVhitak contr 2 q. 4. c. 3. fol. 274. Reynoldes in his secōd conclusion fol. 628. as it is printed togeather with his conference nor any one a part Therefore a whole huge heap together cannot suffice It is a meere sophisticall kind of reasoning For we see that many do raise that which one or a few cannot Many forces of men vnited are able to draw that which no man in particuler can mooue A whole Army of souldiers vanquisheth a kingdom which on one the most valiāt captaine can annoy So the whole Church may preserue the truth vnspotted which no p●rticuler can doe Chiefly because the whole is guarded by Gods promise assisted by the holy Ghost the shield of her defence which deuided Churches want but the holy ghost saieth Whitaker and Fulke is also promised to euery one in particuler Christ prayed to sanctify euery one confirme him in D. VVhit contro 2. q. 4. c. 2. f. 168. Fulk in c. 16. Ioan. sect 5. in c. 3. 1. Tim. sect 9. verity as he did for the whole for the laity aswell as for the Clergy for the people as much as for the Priestes It is true he prayed for all and each particuler promised the holy ghost to euery one but in a diuers manner according to euery ones seuerall state degree he praied for the Apostles and Bishops their Successours he assured thē the holy ghost as to parentes maisters shepheards of his fold to the laity euery one of the faithfull as to children schollers and sheep to be directed by them They haue the holy ghost 〈◊〉 their mouthes to teach preach instruct an● How the spirit of God in ●●●●ised to the whole Church and how to 〈…〉 particular member VVhitak cont 2. q. ● c. ap 3. fol. ●8● Seueru● l. 2. Theod. c. 19. Ream linguam non facis nisi rea mens VVitnes S. Athan. epist ad ●ranc●s ●●●erne these in their hartes to obey beleeue keep vnity peace submission They his publique assistance for the publique function profit of the Church these his priuar direction for their owne priuate comfort particuler saluation Therefore as the Pastours Gouernours cannot erre in teaching defining or publiquely condemning false opinions so neither any one of the faithfull in beleeuing obeying or shunning those whom the Church hath censured Thus the whole and euery part securely trauayleth towardes the coast of heauen with the safe conduct of the holy ghost for the edificatiō complement and full perfection of the misticall body of Christ 11. Whitaker obiecteth againe that all Churches Arianized and consequently erred when the whole world a● S. Ierome reporteth groaned wondred to see ● selfe an Arian But S. Ierome by the figure Synecdoche vseth the whole for a great parte who were deceaued in the Councell of Arimine partly by the fraude of Valens the Arian Bishop partly by imbecillity of wit yet diuers of them materially only Wherefore seeing it is ●n Axiome in the law that the tongue it not made guilty but by the guilty mind they reteyning the true Catholique faith in their hartes formally also in open profession yeilded not properly to Arianisme but stil preserued the true state of the Church which was likewise at the same time inuiolably maynteyned in the West especially in those renowned Bishops and their flock S. Hilary S. Ambrose S. Eusebius of Verselles in Athanasius and others of Greece And that boysterous tempest continued but three yeares for then as S. Hierome relateth the beast dyed there succeeded Hier. dial aduer Lucifer a calme From the Church our aduersaryes flye to the Councells representing the Church and draw bills of enditement to conuict them of errour but their allegations are voyd and insufficient For such Councells as they meane were either vnlawfull conuenticles tumutuously assembled or if lawfully gathered not lawfully continued or not wholy approued or falsly accused or they erred only in some matter of fact not in any point of doctrine or article of beliefe 12. At least say they the old Church and Synagogue of the Iewes wholy erred when Aaron and the Two other obiections of aduersaries answered Exod. 3● Mar. 14. whole multitude adored the golden Calfe and when Caipha● the chiefe Bishop and whole Councell of Priestes adiuged Christ to death I answere that Aaron was not then inuested with the authority of high Priest but that office was imparted long after vnto him as appeareth out of the last of Exodus Then the Leuits neuer consented to that Idolatry nor Moyses in whome the supreme Priestly dignity still remayned To the second obiection I answere The infalibility of the Sinagogue when christ bad established his Church that the Councell of the Scribes Pharisces was tumultuously gathered not to interpret the law or teach the people but to pronounce sentence in a matter of fact against the Sonne of God or if they did erre in a chiefe point of faith it maketh nothing against vs for Christ had then planted his Church preached his doctrin Therfore the infallible assistance of the Holy Ghost was no longer tyed to the Synagogue Christ being present the head of his Church and hauing sufficiently promulgated his Ghospell 13. Therfore to draw to an end seeing the true Church neuer did or euer can stray from the truth as the Scriptures The Protestants Church cannot be the true Church of Iesus Christ by their own confessiō Fathers reasons conuince And seeing Protestants confesse that their Church may erre or goe astray for a tyme we must needs conclude that their Church is not the inerrable spouse of Iesus Christ but the harlot of Sathan the Temple of Baal the Stewes of an aduoutresse or if they now recant and yield vnto vs that the true Church cannot step awry in any one generally receaued point of beliefe it necessarily followeth that all their pretended reformations of her errours haue beene innouations

haue stretched a litle further the space of his dominions Could you not haue named afforded him the wildernes of Aegypt the Tartarian desertes or dens of Arabia some vnknowne Caesar in his Commentary Protestāt forunners haue left no memory of their Church yet our Church hath been alwayes perspicuous coastes in the ayre or crookes in the sea Was the diuell so greedy and you so religious and carefull of his prey as to engrosse the right of the whole world vnto him Or you knew full well that the Hyrcinia wood which is nine dayes iourney in breadth and forty in length as Cesar reporteth was of too great extēt for your perfecuted cōpany of elect Inded the least molehill or mouse hole there might comprise them all whome no authour nameth or chronicler recordeth who haue left no marke or memory behind them of their noble exploytes Our Church in her infancy through the storms of persecution hath been driuen to lurke insecret vaultes and ca●es vnderground and yet her sheep and shepheard their oratories their sepulchers their assemblies their preachingea their deathes their bannishmentes were publiquely knowne the pedigre of her Bishops the names of her Priests the catologue of her Martyrs and innumerable monumentes are yet extant of her faith and profession And hath your predestinate flock beene so often rauished in spirit and rapt into the heauens as they haue left no earthly signe or token of their being not in those consecrated Alpes and Apennine hills hallowed no doubt with their presence and dayly perfumed with the spirituall incense of their deuoutest prayers 8. Note therfore a wily tricke of his double dealing he doth not resolutely auouch the mēbers of his Church were chased into these desert places but they were often driuen into the monntaynes c. or els dispersed and kept close in all Fulke in the place aboue cited Regiōs of Europe Why vse you this wauering vnconstant speach Were they kept so close as you know not in what corners they lurked what places they inhabited or who they were that hid themselues How shall we then beleeue there were any such if no mention be made of them How doe you know they taught your Protestant faith If both themselues their doctrine be wholy vnknown S. Augustine writeth If any man shall say there be perchance Aug. l. de ouibus c. 10. some sheep of God I know not where which God taketh care of and I know them not he is too too absurd to humane sense who thinketh or imagineth such thinges Yet Fulke is so absurd Sparke so absurd all protestantes so absurd who dreame of preachers of the word and administratours of the sacramentes of sheep and shepheards whose names they know not Againe were they kept close in al regions of Europe only Had you none in Africa none in Asia Brasilia India America c. When the Donatistes affirmed the like and confined the faithfull to the straites of Africa S. Augustine and Optatus rebuked them in this manner That with you saith Optatus in Optat. l. 2. cont Par. a particle of Africa in a corner of a litle region the Church may be with vs in another parte of Africa shall it not be In Spaine in Italy or Fraunce where you are not shall it not be If you will haue it 〈◊〉 with you in ●a●●onia in Dacin Mi●ia 〈…〉 in all Greece where you are not shall it not be that it may ● with you in Pontus Galatia Capadocia Pamphilia c. where 〈◊〉 are not shall it not be and innumerable other Ilandes and pro●●ces where you are not shall it not be VVhere then is the propriety of 〈◊〉 Catholique which is so tearmed because it is nationa all euery August in psal ●1 ●here diffused Saint Augustine reproueth them as sharply saying Saint Paul affirmeth that in euery place the faythfull are the ●●eet odour of Christ is it contradicted Africa only yealdeth a good ●ent all the world stincketh c. A little after VVhat tellest thou ●e O heretike The whole world is not the price of Christes bloud if Ibidem Africa only be redeemed Thou darest not say the whole world was not ●●deemed but that it hath perished And whō did Christ suffer to inuade ●●s dominions and depriue him of his right Thus they agaynst ●he Donatistes and yet the impudency of our aduersaries ●● far more exorbitant They had in Africa 270. Bi●hops Aug in coll Cart. of their faction as Saint Augustine reporteth their ●omplices called Montenses had a certeyne succession in ●he dens by Rome which Optatus reciteth And these our ●ectaries imprison the Church within the Regions of Optat. l. 1. 2. cont Parmen Europe where they name not any Priest or Bishop or ●ine of succession for the space of a thousand fiue hundred yeares as shal be manifestly shewed by discarding them which they iniuriously shuffle into the packe of their Professors CHAP. XII Wherin is disproued the Clayme which our Reformers make to certayne pretended Protestants and to men of our Church Agaynst Doctour Fulke and Doctour Sparke ALBEIT many Sectaries after a longe search and great confusion to satisfy our importunity beginne to draw ● Catalogue of their professors yet those very men they name cannot any one of them concurre to build their Synagogue for some whom they rehearse were manifest and knowne Catholikes wholly of our Sparke in his answer to M. Iohn d' Albins Chap. 1. 4. Illiricus in catal test Gifford in his sermon vpon the reuela Simō de Voyon in his discourse vpō the 〈…〉 ●●il● in his 3. book chap. 1●● Religion as Alcuinus Maister to Charles the great Gregory of Arimini an Augustine frier and Prior generall of their order Saint Catherine of Siena a canonized Saint and professed Nunne of the order of Saint Dominicke Ocham Iohn Gerson Saint Thomas of Aquine Picus Mirandula and S. Bernard 1. The rest were notorious heretikes as Aerius Iouinian the Albigenses VValdenses Picardi Petrus Abaylardus Berengarius Constantin●● Copronimus VVickliffe Husse who could not contynu● the succession nor mayntayne the true preaching of the protestants Ghospell first because VVhitaker VVhitaker contr 2. q. 5. cap. 18. fol. 506. 507. confesseth with all Catholike Doctours that no heresy c●n ●●sist with the true sayth nor that the Church cā be any Church which ●●ach●th an heresy But these forenamed miscreants obstina●ly ●aught sundry heresies condemned by Protestants thēsolues therfore they could not be professors or members Epiphan haeres 75. Aug. l. de heres 82. of their Church for Aerius denyed the consubstantiality of the sonne of God with his Father Iouinian held that mā●fter baptisme could sin no more 2. The Albigenses gallenged by Doctour Fulke and Doctour Sparke to be vpholders of Protestancy are notwithstanding By Fulke in cap 20. Apoc sect 6. in c. 12 sect 2. By Sparke in his answere to M. Iohn de Albins pa.