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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Principality coins or else follows new Opinions St. Augustin likewise notes in the latter end of his Book De Haeresibus That the People need not to be curious to know what Opinions Hereticks hold much less to labour to confute them It being enough for them to know that they are condemned And St. Cyprian Epist. 52. Num. 7. sayes notably to Antonianus demanding curiously what Heresies Novatian taught No matter saith he what Heresies he holds or preaches when he teaches without That is to say out of the Church Now although Hereticks be often incorrigible yet the Church of God ceases not by all means possible to revoke them Therefore St. Augustin says Epist. 162. The Heretick himself though swelling with odious and detestable pride and mad with the frowardness of wicked Contention as we admonish that he be avoided lest he deceive such as are weak and little ones so we refuse not by all means possible to seek his amendment and reformation Now to understand the Reason why the Apostle here says That an Heretick is condemned by his own judgment we are to know That some other grievous offenders are separated by Excommunication from the Communion of Saints and the Fellowship of God's Church by the Sentence of their Superiours in the same Church But Hereticks more miserable and unfortunate than they run out of the Church of their own accord and so give Sentence against their own Souls to damnation Now further to shew the Reason why Heresie which seeks to divide and tear in pieces the body of the Church is so horrid a crime St. Paul here describes its Unity saying 1 Cor. 12. 12. For as the Body is one and hath many Members and all the Members of the Body whereas they be many yet are One Body So also Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one Body And vers 23. God hath tempered the Body giving to it that wanted the more abundant honor that there might be no Schism in the Body but the Members together might be careful one for another And a little after You are the Body of Christ and Members of Member Now to prevent the making a Schism in this Body he says 1 Cor. 1 10. I beseech you Brethren by the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you All say one Thing and that there be no Schisms among you but that you be perfect in one Sense and in one Knowledge Again Eph. 4. 1. I beseech you that you walk worthy of the Vocation in which you are called And a little after Careful to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace One Body and One Spirit as you are called in one Hope of your Vocation One Lord One Faith One Baptism One God and Father of All. And now to manifest what care our Saviour had taken to preserve this Unity of the Church he further adds vers 11. And he gave some Apostles and some Prophets and other some Evangelists and other-some Pastors and Doctors to the Consummation of the Saints unto the Work of Ministry unto the Edifying or building up of the Body of Christ to wit his Church until we meet all into the Unity of Faith and Knowledge of the Son of God into a perfect Man into the measure of the Age of the Fulness of Christ That now we be not Children wavering and carried about with every wind of Doctrin in the wickedness of Men in craftiness to the circumvention of Error But doing the truth in charity let us in all things grow in him who is the Head Christ Of whom the whole Body to wit the Church being compact and knit together by all juncture of Subministration according to the Operation in the measure of every Member maketh the encrease of the Body unto the edifying of it self in charity Thus the Apostle fully delivers the admirable Structure of the Church Annotations Now as Rebellion is the bane of Civil Common-wealths and Kingdoms and Peace and Concord the preservation of the same so is Schism Division and diversity of Faith the Calamity of the Church and Peace Unity and Uniformity the special Blessing of God therein And in the Church above all Common-wealths Because it is in all points a Monarchy tending every way to Unity There being but One God One Christ One Church One Hope One Faith One Baptism One Head One Body as the Apostle here assures us Thus the Apostle of the United Body of the Church Now to manifest the great Dignity of the Church and how much she is beloved by our Saviour St. Paul Ephes. 5 22. says The Man is the Head of the Woman as Christ is the Head of the Church Himself the Saviour of his Body to wit the same Church and of no other And a little after vers 25. Husbands saith he love your Wives as Christ also loved the Church and delivered himself for it that he might Sanctifie it cleansing it by the laver of Water in the Word that he might present it to himself a glorious Church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that it may be holy and unspotted And again a little after vers 29. No man ever hated his own flesh but he nourisheth and cherisheth it as also Christ the Church Because we be the Members of his Body of his Flesh and of his Bones Annotations The Apostle here saying that Christ is the Saviour of his Body to wit his Church doth evidently declare That none can be saved or have any benefit by Christ that is not of his Body the Church And what Church that is St. Augustin expresseth in these words The Catholick Church only is the Body of Christ whereof he is the Head Out of this Body of the Church the Holy Ghost quickeneth no man And a little after He that will have the Spirit let him beware he remain not out of the Church Let him beware he enter not into it feignedly August Epist. 50. ad Bonifacium Comitem in fine It is an unspeakable Dignity of the Church which the Apostle expresseth often elsewhere but more especially in this whole passage to be that Creature for which Christ effectually Suffered to be washed and embrued with Water and Blood issuing out of his holy side to be nourished with his own Body to be his Members to be so joyned unto him as the Body and Members of the same Flesh Bone and Substance to the Head to be loved and cherished of him as a Wife of a Husband yea to be his Wife and most dear Spouse taken and formed as St. Augustin often says out of his own Side upon the Cross as Eve our First-Father Adam's Spouse was made of his Rib. August in Psalm 126 127. In respect of which great Dignity and Excellency the same holy Father affirms the Church to be the principal Creature of God and therefore named in the Creed next after the Holy Ghost And he proves against the Macedonians the Holy Ghost to be God because