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A68236	The third booke of commentaries vpon the Apostles Creede contayning the blasphemous positions of Iesuites and other later Romanists, concerning the authoritie of their Church: manifestly prouing that whosoeuer yeelds such absolute beleefe vnto it as these men exact, doth beleeue it better then Gods word, his Sonne, his prophets, Euangelists, or Apostles, or rather truly beeleeues no part of their writings or any article in this Creede. Continued by Thomas Iackson B. of Diuinitie and fellow of Corpus Christi College in Oxford.; Commentaries upon the Apostles Creed. Book 3	Jackson, Thomas, 1579-1640.	1614 (1614)	STC 14315; ESTC S107489	337,354	346

elsewhere vpon carelesnesse rather then any intention of harme as I am perswaded by the Latine sacramentum Whether vpon set purpose of some more learned in that Councell presuming to gull the simple and illitterate by their cunning as Chemnitius probably thinkes or whether the mysterie of iniquitie as is more probable wrought vnawares in the braines of the ignorant which were the maior part and as some haue related did ouersway the learned vncapable of such impudency as should giue countenance to this ignominious decree partly from the equiuocation of the Latine dispensatores partly from the synominall signification which the vulgar hath made of mysterium and sacramentum the beetle-heads haue hammered out an interpretation of Saint Pauls words before cited so scurrilously contrarie to his meaning that the blacke Dogge which is said to haue appeared vnto Cardinall Crescentius might hee haue spoken in the Councell could scarce haue vttered it without blushing For the Apostle meant such dispensatores or Stewards as our Sauiour speakes of in the foure and twentieth of Saint Matthew such as should giue their fellow seruants their inst portions without purloyning such as daily expected their Masters returne to cal them vnto a strict account of their stewardship For so it is expressely added Moreouer or as much as belongs vnto our office it is required of Stewards that they be all sound faithfull Not to dispute of the Churches authoritie in disposing of Sacraments nor to exagitate the impietie of this decree be the one for the present supposed as great the other as little as they list to make it onely this I would demaund of any that is so himselfe whether he can imagine any men sober or in their right mindes would not assoone haue vrged that text The foole hath said in his heart there is no God for establishing Atheisme or Saint Peters checke vnto Simon Magus to prooue Simonie lawfull as deriue the Churches authoritie for detayning the least part of the word of life much lesse the cup of saluation from these wordes Let a man so thinke of vs as of the Ministers of Christ and disposers of the secrets of God What secrets of the Gospell before hid but now to be published to all the World of which the same Apostle elsewhere had said Anccessitie is laid vpon me and wee vnto mee if I preach it not Of the vse or necessitie of the Lords cup not a word in this place not a syllable for the Lord had sent him not to administer this Sacrament but to preach the Gospell of which the Doctrine of the Lords Supper was a part indeed but where expressely and directly he deliuers that doth hee intimate by any circumstance that either it had beene was or might bee otherwise administred then according to the patterne prescribed by our Sauiour at the first institution Rather his often repetition of these coniunctiues This bread and this cuppe eating and drinking the bodie and bloud c. Argue he neuer thought the one should be receiued without the other that this prohibition of the cup was a particular branch of the Mysterie of iniquitie not to breake out till latter ages hid from his eyes that had seene the Mysterie it selfe begin to worke As often as yee shall eat this bread saith the Apostle and drinke this cup yee shew the Lords death till hee come Wherefore whosoeuer shall eate this bread and drinke the cuppe of the Lord vnworthily shall bee guiltie of the bodie and bloud of the Lord. Let a man therefore examine himselfe and so let him eate of this bread and drinke of this cup. For he that eateth and drinketh vnworthily eateth and drinketh his owne damnation because hee discerneth not the Lords bodie Yet vnto the Trent Councell Saint Paul in the former place where hee had no such occasion as not speaking one word either of the Doctrine necessitie or vse of the Sacraments seemes to intimate and that not obscurely the Churches authoritie in dispensing them as the Trent Fathers haue done What then might euery Minister of Christ euerie distributer of Gods secrets haue vsed the like authoritie before the Church representatiue did at least by tacite consent approue the practise This place doubtlesse proues either altogether nothing or thus much for the Apostles wordes are indefinite for their litterall sence equally appliable to euerie faithfull Minister or priuate dispenser of such secrets not appropriate to the intire publique bodie Ecclesiastique or the capitall or Cardinall partes thereof Of the Corinthians to whom he wrote one said I am Pauls another I am Apollos the third I am of Cephas all boasting in the personal excellencies of their first Parents in Christ as the Papists now doe in Saint Peters and his successours Catholique Primacie To asswage these carnall humours in his children their Father that great Doctour of the Gentiles seekes more in this then in any other place of all his Epistles to debase himselfe and diminish others high esteeme either of his owne worth or of his calling Who is Paul then and who is Apollos but the Ministers by whom ye beleeued and as the Lord gaue to euerie man I haue planted Apollos watered but God gaue the increase So then neither is he that planteth any thing neither hee that watereth but God that giueth the encrease And he that planteth and hee that watereth are one and euery man shall receiue his wages according to his labour For wee together are Gods labourers ye are Gods husbandrie and Gods building And after a serious incitement of master builders to fidelitie with the like admonition to Gods husbandrie or building not to reioyce in men he concludes as he had begun Let euery man esteeme vs such as I haue said Ministers of Christ and disposers of the mysteries of God Of whom were they so to esteeme Of Saint Paul himselfe and euery faithfull Minister Doth he then intimate here any such prerogatiue aboue the meanest of his brethren as the Romish Cleargie vsurpes ouer the whole Christian World any authoritie to prohibit either the dispensors of Gods mysteries from administring or men so carnally minded as were these to whom he wrote from communicating Christs bloud aswell as his bodie So the Trent Fathers thinke and as if for their wilfull deniall of the Lords cup vnto the people the Lord had giuen them the cup of giddinesse to cast them into a Babilonish slumber whilest they consulted about this decree and their Scribes through retchlessenesse had written what their rauing Masters in their sickly or drunken dreames had vttered wee finde in the same Decree another place of Saint Paul immediately annexed though as disproportionable to the former as it is placed in their discourse as a mans head to an horses necke both as vnsutable to their intended conclusion as a super addition of finnes or feathers would be to such a monstrous Hippocentaurique combination The place is Saint Pauls conclusion of that discourse

concerning the Sacrament Other thinges will I set in order when I come 16 Granting what is not necessarie hee spake of ordering matters concerning this Sacrament to receiue the wine aswell as the bread was no part of their present disorder whose misbehauiour at the Lords Table did minister mere iust occasions to Saint Paul then long beardes did to the Councell of Constance to denie the vse of the cup might Christs bloud and bodie which he had iointly rendered to all be vpon any occasion iustly seuered by man in the administration of his last Will and Testament Whatsoeuer the number or qualitie of the guests bee the great Lords Table must be alwaies so furnished as it was at the first institution for he hath no respect of persons If a rich stately Prelate come in with a gold ring in goodly vestiments a poore honest Layicke in vileraiments he saith not to him in Pontificiall roabes come sit you here at my messe where you may drinke of my wine aswell as eate of my bread nor to the poore Layicke stand thou there a part or sit downe here vnder my footstoole where thou maist bee partaker of the crummes which fall from my table though not of my cup which must be kept for thy betters High and low rich and poore all were redeemed with one price all at this offering equal all alike free to tast of euery dish so they come with wedding garments without which euen the best must be cast out as vnworthie to tast of any part if not of all That part which the Counsels of Constance and Trent vpon pretences of reuerence to the LORDS Supper haue detained from Moderne Christians the Corinthians had receiued vnworthily yet was not the Cuppe for this reason held superfluous by Saint Paul who onely sought to represse the abuse as knowing the vse of it to bee most necessarie The matters then hee meant to order when he came was to set out this Heauenly banquet with greater decencie and solemnitie not to abridge them of any substantiall or materiall part thereof 17 Nor doe the Trent Fathers if wee may trust them vpon their words For they desirous as it seemes to make the whole Christian World as sottish as themselues were impious would make men beleeue they could iuggle away the Cuppe and neuer touch the very substance of the Sacrament as if the wine were not as substantiall a part of the Lords Supper as was his bloud of his bodie or humanitie An integrall or materiall part they cannot denie it to bee and such if it bee there Apologie is as shamelesse as if a man should let out most of anothers bloud cut of his arme or legge or maime him in some principall part and plead for himselfe I did not meddle with his substance meaning as the Councell I take it heere doth his essence seeing he is yet as truly a reasonable Creature as before 18 But to debarre them of that refuge it may be they sought or their followers may yet hope to finde in the equiuocation of this word substance importing as much sometimes as a material or integral sometimes as an essential part If the cup be an essential and substantiall part of this Sacrament the Councell by their owne confession did souly erre in prohibiting Communion vnder both kindes If no such part it bee they might by their owne rule haue altogether denied the vse of it so much as to the sacrificer or consicient but so the verie vse and end on which the essence of the Sacrament as of all other matters of moral practise immediatly depends and by whose expiration instantly must determine should vtterly haue perished The end and vse of this sacred institution as our Sauiour expressely teacheth and the Councell grants was to represent the testators death yea so to represent it as we migh be partakers of his bodie and bloud not spiritually onely but withall as the Trent Fathers contend sacramentally Admitting then all they can pretend against the necessitie of the Cuppe That whole Christ were in the bread alone yet this will not preserue the true and fruitfull vse of the Sacrament nor salue that deadly wound the essence of it must perforce receiue from frustration of the end necessarily ensuing the cuppes absence For this Sacrament was ordained as to represent so to exhibit Christs bodie vnto all faithfull Communicants not as intire and whole his bloud not as it was inclosed in the vaines but the one as torne and rent the other as shedde and powred out vpon the crosse This is my bloud of the new Testament saith our Sauiour which is shed for many for all that receiue it faithfully for the remission of sinnes His bloud then as shed and powred out is as the loadstarre of penitent and contrite hearts whereon the eyes of their faith that seeke remission of sinnes in this Sacrament must bee fastened for as the Apostle saith without sheding of bloud is no remission This was the complement of that inestimable all-sufficient Sacrifice that which represents his precious bloud thus powred out the principall part of this Sacrament aswell in respect of representing his death as in applying remission of sinnes thereby in generall purchased and by this Sacramentall Type sealed to euery one in particular especially if the Trent Councels Doctrine be true that Christs verie bloud which was shed vpon the crosse is really present in the Chalice and might be as immediately sprinkled at least vpon the lips or dores of euerie faithfull receiuers heart as the bloud of the Paschal Lambe was vpon the doore-posts of the Israelites Thus as Sathan the Father of lies so false opinion suggested by him draw men with pleasure into those euils for whose practise in the end they become their chiefe accusers That opinion which first brought in neglect of the Chalice and as the Trent Councell presumed would haue warranted them in making this decree doth most condemne them for the measure of their iniquitie could not haue beene so fully accomplished vnlesse they had held a transubstantiation of the wine into Christs bloud 19 What part of Scripture can wee presume they will spare that dare thus countermand the most principal of all Gods Commandements what reckoning may wee thinke they make of our Sauiour Christ that aduenture thus shamefully to disanull and cancell his last will and testament defrauding almost the whole Christian World of halfe their Lord and Maisters royall allowance partly without any shew of Scriptures either to restraine or otherwise interpret these Soueraigne precepts partly vpon such idle and friuolous allegations as may further witnesse their sleight estimate of Gods Word saue onely so farre as it may bee wrested to serue their turnes 20 But grant the places there alleaged by the Councell did so mitigate either the forme of the institution or the peremptorie manner of our Sauiours speeches in the sixth of Iohn as to make it disputable in vnpartiall iudgements whether

was shall proue true and profitable vnto Christians as instituted by God for the peoples good yea ●hey shall proceed from the holy Ghost for the reason which wee haue learned of the Euangelist to wit because such as giue them are Prelates of Christs Church And this is all I haue to say vnto the second argument 12 It is easie indeed for them thus to answere to whom it is most easie and most vsuall to blaspheme That the Popes aswell as Caiaphas prophecies may in the euent proue true and profitable to Christs Church wee doe not doubt because vnto such as loue God or are beloued of him all things euen Sathans malice that had suborned Caiaphas and his brethren against Christ and his members turne to the best But hee that had taken this High-Priest whilest hee vttered this sentence for an infallible Prophet of the Lord had been bound in conscience to haue done so to our Sauiour at his as the people did to Baals Priests at Elias instigation If our aduersaries will permit vs to interprete the Trent Councels decrees as the faithfull of those times did Caiaphas prophecie wee will subscribe vnto them without delay It is expedient wee grant and profitable withall vnto the Church that there should bee such decrees whereby the faith of others might bee tried But as it was not lawfull for the people to imbrue their hands in Christs bloud though the greatest benefite that euer befell the world was by his death so neither is it safe to admit the Trent Canons though a wonderfull blessing of God they should be set forth because they so clearely testifie the truth of his word concerning Antichrist Canus said more in this then was needfull according to his supposed principles in his answere to the next argument But God who ruled the mouth of Caiaphas and made him speake the trueth when hee intended nothing lesse did also direct Canus penne to vent what vpon better consideration hee would haue concealed Yet herein hee wrote but out of the abundance of his owne and most of his fellowes hearts who hold that the Priests and Pharises did erre onely in a matter of fact not in any point of faith when they condemned Christ Of which in the next Chapter For conclusion of this consider with me Christian Reader how great cause we haue to thanke our gracious God that the sect of Iesuites or rabble of Predicants were not founded in our Sauiours dayes for then doubtlesse the Diuell had picked a traitor out of that crue whose impudent sophisticall Apologies for open blasphemie and vnrelenting perseuerance in traiterous plots might haue outfaced the world that the deliuering of Christ into his enemies hands had beene no such sinne as Iudas testified it was both by his penitent speech and desperate end CHAP. IIII. What it would disaduantage the Romish Church to deny the infallibility of the Synagogue 1. THat any visible company of men before our Sauiour Christs time did challenge such absolute authority ouer mens faith as the Pope doth would bee very hard for them to proue no question but the High-Priest and Rulers amongst the Iewes did oftentimes challenge more then they had If the Romanist should say that they had no such infallible authority in deciding all controuersies as their Church now challengeth the assertion would be as improbable in it selfe as incongruous to their positio●s For vnto any indifferent man such infallibility in the Watch-Tower of Sion must needes seem more requisite during the time of the law then since the promulgation of the Gospell Bee it granted the points to be expresly beleeued of the ancient people were but few yet euen such of them as were most necessary to saluation were more enigmatically and mystically set downe then any in the new Testament are and the measure of Gods spirit vpon euery sort of men the vulgar especially in those times much lesse For this cause God raised vp Prophets to instruct them whose authority though it was not such as the Romane Church now challengeth but giuen to supply the ignorance and negligence of the church representatiue in those dayes yet much greater then is ordinarily required in the light of the Gospell by which as the doctrine of saluation is become most conspicuous in it selfe so is the illumination of Gods spirit more plentifull then before it had beene And since the Prophets haue beene so clearely expounded by the Apostles and the harmony of the two Testaments so distinctly heard the ordinary testimony of Iesus is become equiualent to the spirit of Prophesie Allowing then these infinite ods on our parts that enioy the labours of formers ages with the ordinary preaching of the Gospell an infallible oecumenicall authority is much lesse needfull now then it was in the law 2 Or if our aduersaries will bee so wayward as to deny the like infallibility to haue beene requisite in the ancient Iewish Church they shall hereby thwart euidently themselues disanull their chiefe title and vtterly disclaime the maine plea hitherto vsed for their owne infallibility For most of them doe vrge Gods promises made vnto that Church to proue a necessity of admitting a like authority in theirs And if these promises made to the Iewes admit any distinction condition or limitation whereby this most absolute infallibility as they suppose it may bee empaired then may all the promises made or supposed to bee made vnto their Church admit the same or like But besides the weakning of their title by debarring themselues of this plea drawne from the example of the ancient Iewish Church no man that reades their writings can bee ignorant that all their chiefe and principall arguments wherewith they carry away most simple soules and importune such as almost neither feare God nor man to giue sentence for them and their Church against vs are drawn from these or the like tropicks vnlesse God had ordained one supreme Iudge or infallible authority that might decide all controuersies in matters of faith viua voce he had not sufficienly proued for his Church yea which were most absurd hee had left it in worse estate then ciuill Estates are for ordinary matters for they besides their written lawes haue Iudges to determine all cases or controuersies arising And seeing that Monarchicall gouernment is of all others the best and in any wise mans iudgement most auaileable for auoiding all dissention and keeping the vnity of faith there should bee no question but God hath ordained such an authenticall manner of deciding all controuersies If hee haue not it must needes bee either because hee could not establish such an infallible authority and vncontroleable power or else because he would not To say he could not were to deny his omnipotency open blasphemie to say he would not were little better for this were to deny his goodnesse and loue to his Church both which the Scriptures testifie to bee great nay infinite 3 But how great soeuer his loue to his