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A16278	The fortresse of fayth defended both by the Scripture, and doctors / gathered by the learned German Bodonius ; and translated out of Latine into English by Edward Crane.	Bodonius, Stephanus.; Crane, Edward.	1570 (1570)	STC 3195; ESTC S1817	30,160	80

thou hast commaunded shal be done that which my strenght cannot achiue and do by presuming thou canst in commaundinge and the Lord sayd come and without any doubte Peter at the word of the commaunder and at the presence of him that sustayned him without any tarying leapt into the waters and walked one them so that he could do this that the Lord commaunded not of himselfe but of the Lord for you weare some time darkenes but now are you light in the Lorde that no man can do in Paule no man in Peter nether in any other of the Apostles that is he hable to performe and do in the Lord therfore dyd Paule well contemninge himselfe and aduaunsing or commending him for I sayth he was not crucified for you c. ¶ Theophilactus vpon Iohn Cap. 8. TO remite sinnes is onely the propertie of God therfore he sayth euery one that sinneth is seruaunt vnto the sinne and you are therfore seruauntes because you haue sinned farther because it was likely they would saye albeit we be bond men to such seruitude yet haue we sacrifices and priestes which will purge vs from our offences and he sayth that they also are seruauntes for all men sayth he he haue sinned and haue nede of the grace of God therfore your priestes sith they haue sinned they be seruauntes and bondmen to sinne hauinge no power to remit sinnes which S. Paule with playne wordes doth testifie The priest hath nede to offer for himselfe as well as for the people because he also is subiect to infirmitie the seruaunt sayth he tarieth not in the house that is to saye he hath no power to put out any man because he is not the master of the house but the sonne is Lorde of the house and euer remayneth in the house for in my Fathers house sayth he are many mans●ons therfore your Priestes which are seruauntes haue no power to forgiue or remitte sinnes but I the sonne which abide in the house with power and principality sith I am Lorde of the house giue you all your libertie for all thinges are myne and I am of lyke and equall power and strenght with my Father and if I do make you frée then with true libertie are you redéemed ¶ Augustine vpon the Epistle of S. Iohn tract 2. ¶ I write vnto you little Children because your sinnes are forgiuen you thorowe his name BVt by whose name are our sinnes forgiuen by the name of Augustine Or by the name of Donatus You maye sée what Augustine is and lykewise Donatus neither are your offences remitted by thée of Paule nor of Peter for when they did deuide the Church and dyd desire to seperate the vnitie into partes charity as a mother bringing forth her littelones doth in the Appostle open her bowelles and bewayling them with teares calleth them backe againe to one name which would haue made to themselues manye names and repelleth them from her loue that Christ might be beloued saying was Paule crucified for you either weare you baptised in his name What sayth she I will not that you shoulde be mine but with me be with me for we are all his which dyed for vs which was crucified for vs. ¶ Origen vpon Math. Hom. lia 1. ¶ Thou art Peter and vpon this Rocke c. BEcause Bishoppes and Priestes do take aduantage of this texte saying that they haue receaued of Christ those keyes of the kyngdome of Heauen the Peter had because the such as were boūd of them on earth were also bound in Heauen and those that were losed one earth of them were losed in Heauen that is to say had remission of their sinnes it is to be thought that they saye well it they do the workes of Peter wherfore it was sayd to him thou arte Peter c. If the powers of hell do not preuaile against them then are they such as the Church of Christ is builded and established vpon otherwise it is a skorne that we should saye that he that is bound in the bandes of his sinnes and draweth his sinnes like a longe corde and is laden with the yoke of his offences because onely that he is called a Bishoppe to haue such power and authoritie that such as are here losed of him are also losed and made frée in Heauen or that they that he byndeth are bound in Heauen also therfore let the Bishoppe that bindeth or loseth another be irreprehensible let him be the husband of one wyfe sober chast decent full of hospitalitie hable to teache no Wyne bibber no runner vp and downe but modest No brauler not coueteous of money gouerninge well his housholde Hauing his children subiect in al chastitie If he be such one he wyll not vniustlye binde vpon earth neither without iudgemente vnlose or make frée but if there be any man that I may so saye A Peter and shall thinke that he can so binde that it shal be bound in Heauen and y he can so lose that it shal be losed in Heauen he deceaueth himselfe not vnderstand the meaninge of the scriptures But beinge inflamed with his pride falleth into the iudgement of the Deuill ¶ Of the Sacrament of Christes Body and bloud I Am the Bread of lyfe that came downe from Heauen and whosoeuer shall eate of this Bread shall lyue euerlastingly and the Bread that I wyll giue you is my flesh for the lyfe of the world The Cuppe of Blessinge which we blesse is it not the communication of Christes bloud and the Bread which we breake is it not the participasion of the Lordes bodye Because many are one and one body which do participate of one Bread and one Cuppe So often as you shall eate this bread and drinke of this Cuppe you shall shew the Lordes death vntill his comminge againe ¶ The words of Beda and Augustine as touching the Sacrament of the altare ¶ The Cuppe of blessing c. 1 Cor. 10. THis which you sée on the Altare of the Lord thother night you dyd se but what it was or what was the meaninge therof or of howe worthy a thinge it was a Sacrament you haue not yet hard therfore that which you sawe is Bread and wyne which your eyes can testifie But your fayth doth requier to be instructed that the Bread is the Body of Christ and the Wyne his bloud this is shortly spoken paraduenture it doth satisfie your Fayth yet it would haue farther enstruction For the Prophet sayth vnlesse you do beleue you shall not vnderstand therfore now you may saye vnto me you haue commaunded vs to beleue then teach vs to vnderstand for paraduenture this thought may rise in your minds We know from whence our Lord Iesus Christ dyd receaue his flesh of the virgine Marie being an infant he was nursed and receaued sucke he dayly grew in age vntill he became a young man of the Iuesse he suffered persicution and being hanged on Crosse was

haue dayly do arise and for the better confirming of their credite I haue set before their words such textes of the holy scriptures as they do most ground vpon and in these fewe questions you may easely and wel perceaue what false and erronious opinions haue bene raysed of the rest therfore God graunt vs so to waye and diligently consider hereof that we may truely knowe his blessed will and plesure as also frame our liues and workes therafter to his glory to the helpe of our poore brothers necessitie Amen ¶ Your graces most humble seruaunt E. Crane ¶ THE EPISTLE TO the Reader SIth that gentell Reader in this our age we do plainely see many Bookes and innumerable sorte therof to be setforth which do not onely cleane ouerthrowe the mind of the Reader But also do allure and drawe thee in into schismes and most pestiferous sectes Therfore I did think● it would be a more fitte worke to renewe the olde moniments and workes of our Fathers which by occasion of tyme and rashnes of writers haue bene peruerted then to setforth any new matter And such workes ought most chefely to haue credite geuen to them which haue there original of our excelent roote and stocke and which doth flowe out of a good stone and runne out of a most excellent fountaine or welspringe as are those which be drawne out of the Buttries of the old Catholike Doctors which vnder the choyse of wordes haue powred out the deuine spirite in such sorte that all the worlde maye easely vnderstand and chuse an immortall lyfe as also knowe what is good and what is euill and as sone as like vnto diligent and paynefull Bees you haue drawne out the swete hony more precious then Rosemarie out of the swete flowers of our holy Fathers and hath layed them vppe in the hyue of your minde there is no doubte but that you shall haue floddes of water of lyfe sesoninge and with force watering the poore thirstie Church of our Sauiour Christ farthermore euery purpose or Arte hath his princes of whom it is led by as of capitaines which doth most sone and with great expidition bring our purpose to that effect which otherwise our wittes would hardly comepasse as I knowe him which is setforth or fygured to me by the shape of an other which goeth or passeth by so in our lyfe we shall sone addicte our selues to followe other mens examples as it is sayd of old liuely examples sticketh in the mind wherof as Heronimus doth witnes the Romanes did follow as leaders capitaynes the Camillians the Fabricians and the Scipians The Philosophers hath apoynted maisters of there Arte. Pythagoras Socrates Plato and Aristotle The Poets do followe Homere Virgill Menander and Terens The historians Thucidides Salust Herodatus and Liuius The Orators Licias Graccus Demosthenes and Tullie The Painters or caruers Appelles Dedalus Iason But we which labour for and seeke the moste excellent giftes of the mind and the knowledge of Christian doctrine haue so many and so great examples of our most worthy forfathers that we lacke nothing pertayning to thaugmenting or establishing of a Christian lyfe Sith that therbe an innumerable number of interpretors or Prophets of the word of God and Canonicall scriptures I thought good out of so great a number to chuse certayne which both by sinceritie and purenes of doctrine by integritie of manners by vehimens of teachinge By sharpnes of wtte doth both much affect and delight as also make vs wel instructed prepared and Armed not that the doctores themselues would haue vs farther to credite or beleue them then they do agree with the holy Scriptures as Augustine doth witnes in many places but chefely in his booke of Retractiones wh●● he sayth I nether can nor ought to denye But as there were in my forfathers so there are in my so many and huge workes many things which by iust iudgement and without any temeritie may well be erected but they haue made Arroes and dartes agaynst these Antechristes in the Church For neuer since the dayes of the Apostles vnto this our tyme vpon whom the endes of the worlde are come the Church of Christ hath bene free from those enemies althought continually the truth remaineth inuincible yet falshood doth neuer leaue of taduaunce her selfe agaist it if in this world there might be the end of lying the Church of Christ should be in quiet But this most detestable euill and sinne doth neuer rest to knocke at the harte of man and with such argumentes as one woulde not thinke to disquiet the Catholike fayth therfore it is necessary for the folowers of the troth wisely to forsee these captious Arguments and being vncouered and brought to light with the mallet of veritie and truth to beate them downe yea and euen to the death and bloudsheding for verities sake to fight against them and chefely because the holy Scriptures doth admonish and saye Be not dismayed or asrayd to speake the word for thy soule and for the troth euen to death for Paule doth desire the Romanes to marke them which cause diuision and geue occasions of euill contrary to the doctrine which they had learned and to auoyde them for they that are such serue not the Lord Iesus Christ but their owne bellies and with sweete preaching and flattering wordes disceaue the hartes of the innocents it may be that the Apostle did admonish the Romaines that they shold not be wauering in faith and in the word that they should shonne and put away Heritikes and seducers of soules But it is commaunded vnto vs that we should preach the word and should stand to it at all times and seasons we should correcte we shoulde perswade we should chide and chasten them withall patience and doctrine for the time shall come and now it is when they shall not away with true and wholsome doctrine but shall get them masters according to their owne desires which haue itchchinge eares and which turne their hearing and sence from veritie and truth vnto fables Therfore the Apostle doth exhorte vs to watch to labour and to do the workes of true gospellers let that terrible sentence of S. Chrisostome neuer be out of our eares saying he is not onely a Treatour to veritie that doth openly setforth a lye in stead of troth but he also that doth not freely without feare speake the troth Augustine saith the like in his Epistle to Casulan who soeuer for feare of any power doth hide the truth such a one doth prouoke the wrath of god vpon him because he doth more feare man then god But gentle Readers I do besech and perswade you that do wisely and simply loue the wordes of troth that you do not contemne this treasure that you haue now in your handes but both to loue it and set it forwarde for this one little Booke doth declare that which being contayned in many volumes would be hard tattaine vnto and this shall lead