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A67649 Dr. Stillingfleet's principles of Protestancy cleared, confuted, and retorted And the infallibility of the Roman-Catholick Church asserted; and that the same church alone is the whole Catholick church. In a letter from a Catholick gentleman to a Protestant knight. Warner, John, 1628-1692. 1673 (1673) Wing W911; ESTC R219411 19,248 38

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these seas of examples overwhelm contrary to the sence and practice of the greatest Doctors and Saints of Gods Church A man that can beleeve this may be credulous enough to think he can perswade the world to look upon all Miracles as mistakes and upon the Saints that wrought them as fools and phanaticks But if Dr. Stillingfleet will secure him elf and all Protestants from impostures let him enquire into the motives and Miracles which induce us to beleeve that the Roman-Catholick Church is infallibly assisted by God in delivering and interpreting his Word and Revelations He will not then presume to make every mans private Judgement according to his 5. and 6. Proposition the only ballance of so weighty an affair neither will he prefer his own particular opinion before the publick Testimony and constant Tradition of Christendom for many Ages especially if he will examine whether Gods Veracity Goodness and Providence be consistent with permitting fraud or falshood in that Doctrine which a Church in all appearance miraculous and supernaturally qualified proposeth as divine Whether the Miracles of the Roman-Catholick Church be true or false we dispute not at present but only averr that seeing so many * See S. Aug. de Civit. Dei lib. 22. c. 8. where amongst other Miracles he telleth how that in the presence of him and others a devout woman called Palladia was suddenly cured by praying to St. Stephen and at his Monument his words are Ad sanctum Martyem crare periexerat quae mox ut cancellos attigit sana surrexit S. Malachias Miracles you may see in his life written by S. Bernard who says in what kinde of old Miracles did not Malachias excel he wanted not Prophecy not Revelation not the gift of healing and to conclude not raising of the dead and relates them particularly as also how himself assisting at Malachias his death got his blessing and after he expired took his hand and laying it on the withered and useless hand of a boy then present he was restored to perfect health because in the dead Saint saith S. Bernard lived the grace of curing diseases All these and other more ancient and modern Miracles as those of S. Bernard himself are by the Century Writers Ostander and most Protestant Authors said to be cheats delusions or inchantments See Ostander for one in Epit. cent 12. pag. 310. Partim permissione Dei praestigiis Satanicis effecta existimo not saith he that I think S. Bernard was a Magician but it is likely Satan wrought such Miracles to confirm Idolatry and the worship of Saints c. See S. Xamir his Miracles wrought to convert the Indians and Japonians to Popery himself being a Jesuite wise and wary men in every Age for at least a 1000. years and after a severe Scrutiny and serious study have judged our most authentick Miracles true if all these men should be mistaken none can be condemned for following their judgement And all prudent and learned men must confesse it is a mystery not intelligible how the infinite Veracity of God can be infinitely averse from fraud and falshood if he permits both the one and the other to be countenanc't and promoted by apparent Miracles so plausibly fathered upon the Divine Omnipotency that such as pretend them to be counterfeit cannot discover the fraud nor disprove the fact nor finde out any natural cause to work such prodigious effects and therefore are forc't im●●●ting the obstinate Jews to attribute them to the power of Beelzebub or to the craft of those very Monks which they would have the world beleeve were mad-men and yet now make them so witty as to contrive the cheat so cunningly and to counterfeit supernatural Miracles so naturally that our Protestant Adversaries have been hitherto as unsuccessful in discovering any fallacy in them I mean still those which moved the Popes to canonize Saints as the first Reformers Luther and Calvin were unfortunate in being convicted of Folly and Forgery in imitating them when the one attempted to cast out the devil in Germany and the other to revive the dead in Geneva Proposition XIV To suppose the Books so written to be imperfect i. e. that any things necessary to be believed or practised are not contained in them is either to charge the first Author of them with fraud and not delivering his whole minde or the Writers with insincerity in not setting down and the whole Christian Church of the first ages with folly in believing the fulness and perfection of the Scriptures in order to salvation Proposition XV. These Writings being owned as containing in them the whole Will of God so plainly revealed that no sober Enquirer can miss of what is necessary for salvation there can be no necessity supposed of any infallible Society of men either to attest or explain these Writings c. Proposition XVI There can be no more intolerable usurpation upon the faith of Christians then for any person or Society of men to pretend to an assistance as infallible in what they propose as was in Christ or his Apostles without giving any equal degree of evidence that they are so assisted as Christ and his Apostles did viz. by Miracles as great publick and convincing as theirs were by which I mean such as are wrought by these very persons who challenge this Infallibility and with a design for the conviction of those who do not beleeve it The 7.8.9.10.11.12 and 13. Propositions and but so many Prefaces to induce us to beleeve the 14. which says that if all things necessary to be believed or practised are not contained in the Holy Scriptures of the New and Old Testament it followeth that God was fraudulent in not delivering his whole minde or that the Writers were insincere in not setting it down and the whole Christian Church of the first ages fools for believing the fulness and perfection of the Scriptures in order to Salvation These consequences suppose but 't is not proved that God promised or decreed to deliver his whole minde so plainly in the Scriptures concerning all things necessary for Salvation that every one may easily understand his meaning and that the Primitive Church believed so But this agreeth not with the Records of Antiquity nor with the words of S. Peter 2 Pet. 3.16 saying that in S. Pauls Epistles there were some things hard to be understood and easily wrefted by men to their damnation And is further demonstrated to be false by the continual contestations of Protestants against the Roman-Catholick sence of Scripture about Image-worship whether it be prohibited in the Second Commandement and many other Controversies as the Real Presence c. For if Scripture or Gods meaning therein were as plain as is pretended in the 15. Proposition consciencious sober and learned men could not differ so irreconcileably in the true sence thereof Wherefore nothing is more clear to men in Scripture then that Scripture is not clear and that God did not intend it for the