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A54912	Occasionall discourses 1. Of worship and prayer to angells and saints. 2. Of purgatorie. 3. Of the Popes supremacie. 4. Of the succession of the Church. Had with Doctor Cosens, by word of mouth, or by writing from him. By Thomas Carre confessour of the English nunnerie at Paris. As also, An answer to a libell written by the said Doctor Cosens against the great Generall councell of Lateran under Innocentius the third, in the yeere of our Lord 1215. By Thomas Vane Doctor in Diuinity of Cambridge.	Carre, Thomas, 1599-1674.; Vane, Thomas, fl. 1652. Answer to a libell written by D. Cosens against the great Generall councell of Laterane under Pope Innocent the Third. aut	1646 (1646)	Wing P2272; ESTC R220529	96,496	286

were yet cloathed with a fleshly garment The seconde in these Further we offer vnto thee this reasonable obseruance for the faithfull departed for our brethren and sisters by the interuention of the Patriarkes Prophets Apostles Martyrs Confessours and all the Saints Againe Remember ô Lord as being good thy seruants and pardon what euer they trespassed in their life OBSERVATION Loe a Memento Domine pronounced aloude Prayer made for the dead that they might be deliuered from darknes tribulation and sorrow pardoned what in this life they might haue offended oblation made for them The intercessions of the Patriarkes Prophets Apostles c. employed Iudge whether it is the Catholike or Protostant practice which is here expressed and whether of these doeth more emulate the primitiue customes of their forefathers By these more then sufficient testimonies of the Greeke Fathers in their writings Councell Liturgies c. it is most manifest that it was and is the practice of the Greeke Church to offer Sacrifice to giue Almes to pray for the soules departed that their sinnes might be pardoned and they deliuered from their purging paynes their purging fire wherby what is vicious and corrupt might be purged It rests onely that we shew that it is in the sense in which the Councell of Trent holds it which is that which Mr. Cosens denies Heare the Councell of Trent Whereas the Catholike Church instructed by the holy Ghost Sess 25. by holy Writt and the ancient Tradition of Fathers hath taught in holy Councells and lastly in this vniuersall Synode that there is a Purgatorie and that the soules there detayned are helped by the suffrages of the faithfull but especially by the Sacrifice of the acceptable Altar the holy Synode commands the Bishops to vse a diligent endeauour that the wholsome doctrine of Purgatorie deliuered by the holy Fathers and Councells be beleeued held taught and preached euery where by the Faithfull of Christ Againe If any affirme that after the receipt of iustifying grace the fault is so remitted and the guilt of eternall paines so blotted out to any penitent sinner Sess 6. can 30. that there remaynes no guilt of tempor all punishment to be payed either in this life or the next in Purgatorie before we can get entrie into the kingdome of heauen let him be accursed What I pray is here which sounds not the verie same beares not the same sense with the precedent passages of the Greeke Fathers The Councell of Trent saith There is a Purgaterie The Grecian Fathers say A Furnace of purging fire The Councell of Trent affirmes that the Catholique Church instructed by the Holy Gh. c. was taught this doctrine by holy Scripture and the ancient Tradition of Fathers The Grecian Fath. The holy Ghost disposed all these things They were not rashly inuented They were not established in vaine by the Apostolicall lawes The Councell of Trent auerres That the soules there detayned to witt in Purgatorie are helped by the suffrages of the faithfull especially by the Sacrifice of the Altar The Grecian Fath. That the soules of sinners partake some benefit by the vnbloudie Sacrifice and good workes done for them That they prayed for all those who dyed from among them beleeuing that it is a great helpe to their soules for whom the obsecration of the holy and dreadfull Sacrifice which is put vpon the Altar is offered and the price of our Redemption is put downe That Oblations Prayers Almes are not made in vaine for the dead The Priest prayes that the deceased may find his Iudge more propitious That God would become propitious to the sinnes not onely of the liuing but also of the dead That it is an vndoubted custome in the Catholike and Apostolicall Church The Councell of Trent commands That the wholsome doctrine of Purgatorie should be beleeued held taught preached c. The Grecian Fath. beleeue hold teach and preach it The Councell of Trent accurses such as deny that after we haue receiued iustifying grace there remaynes any guilt of tempor all punishment either to be payed in this life or in the next in Purgatorie c. The Grecian Fath. affirme that such as are in purging paynes are helped to be freed from them by the suffrages of the faithfull yet liuing to witt by the Sacrifices of Masses prayers almes and other workes of pietie That the sinners which dye are not alwayes sent to hell That the oblations and distributions which are performed for the dead doc not à litle conduce euen to such as dyed in great sinnes Was there euer or euen could there euer be imagined a greater and sweeter harmonie vpon any point of doctrine betwixt the East and the west the Greeke and the Latine Church Is ouum ouo similius Is it not then a boldnes without the warrantie of all reason to affirme the contrarie point blank to witt forsooth that they held it not in the sense the Councell of Trent held it Did they at least hold it in the sense it is held by the Prot. Church of England in her 39. Articles Where she saith The Romish doctrine concerning Purgatorie c. is a fond thing vainely inuented and grounded vpon no warrantie of Scripture but rather repugnant to the word of God Obserue the contrariety betwixt the Greeke and English Protestant Church Origene Sinners are tormented in a purgation made by fire The Prot. Church of England It is a fond thing Article 22. Eusebius Alexand. By the meanes of prayers great rest is procured to the dead The Prot. Church of England It is a thing vainely inuented Art 22. S. Athanasius The soules of sinners haue benefit by the vnbloudie Sacrifice and good workes done for them The Prot. Church of Eng. The Sacrifices of Masses in the which it was comonly said Art 31. that the Priests did offer Christ for the quicke and the dead to haue remission of payne or guilt were blasphemous fables and dangerous deceipts Cyrillus Hier. A dreadfull Sacrifice put vpon the Altar and offered for our sinnes The Prot. Church of Eng. Blasphemous fables dangerous deceipts Cyrillus Hier. He beleeued that it to witt prayer for the dead was a great helpe to their soules The Prot. Art 22. Church of Eng. A fond thing vainely inuented S. Greg. Nyssenus Expiation after death by purging fire The Prot. Church of Eng. There is no other satisfaction for sinne but that alone Art 31. to witt the bloudie oblation finished once vpon the Crosse S. Chrysostome A Doctrine of the diuine mercy The Prot. Church of Eng. A fond thing Art 22. S. Chrys A thing not rashly inuented The Prot. Church of Eng. A thing Vainely inuented S. Chrys Disposed by the Holy Ghost The Prot. Art 31. Church of Eng. A dangerous deceipt S. Chrys An Apostolicall Constitution that memorie should be made of the soules departed in the diuine mysteries The Prot. Church of Eng. Art 22. Grounded vpon no warranty of Scripture

Popedome of Innocentius and we desire you fairely to produce the like euidence or els cease vniustly to pretende the succession which you can shew no right to Finally that it is the onely short and sure way to discerne trueth from falshood which is the onely thing we ought to ayme at the great Tertull. testifies and makes manifest What the Apostles preached saith he that is what Iesus Christ reuealed vnto them ought not to be tryed Praescrip c. 21. nor proued saue onely by the same Churches which the Apostles founded by preaching vnto them by word of mouth or afterwards by their Epistles Which things being so it is euident thence that all doctrine which doth conspire or agree with those Apostolicall Churches which are the Mothers matrices and sources of faith is to be esteemed true as holding without all controuersie what the Churches receiued of the Apostles the Apostles of Christ Christ of God Marrie all other doctrine ought to be preiudged of falsitie which sauours against the Truth of the Churches Apostles Christ and God c. But we Catholikes miscalled Papists communicate for the present and did communicate with the Apostolicall Church of Rome in her Pastour Alexander the VI. in the yeere 1500. as holding no doctrine contrarie to it but conspiring with it therefore our Doctrine is to be iudged true the contrarie to be preiudged false This concludes Tertullian is an EVIDENCE of Truth or accordin to Irenaeus plenissima ostensio a most full DEMONSTRATION Such a Demonstration it is which we demand of you in the hehalfe of your Protestant Church from the yeere 1500. downeward of your Church I say whether you define it as in the 39. Art The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithfull men Art 19. in which the pure word of God is preached and the Sacraments be duely ministred c. Or as you describe it by oppositiō to ours tearming it a Congregation of men c. which opposeth Masses vnbloudie Sacrifice adoration of the consecrated hoste worship of Angels and Saints and prayer to them Purgatorie the Supremacie the infallibilitie of the Church c. Assigne the place where this Congregation appeared giue vp the names at least of some of their chiefe Bishops or Pastours or Doctors or Elders Verifie that they preached against the Masse vnbloudie Sacrifice c. Rationall and modest men will iudge I am spareing enough in these my demands sith it is to goe no further then a Definitione ad definitum to know where this Cōgregation c. then was yea euen your owne men confesse it For will not a Fulke against Fulke say that Pastors and Doctors haue alwayes bene in the Church Heskins and Sanders p. 69 and that they haue continually from Christ to Luthers tyme resisted false doctrine will not others maintaine b Bācroft in Recognitione pag. 441. That the administration of the word and Sacraments is absolutely necessarie to saluation c Willet in his synopsis pag. 71. That the Church continues no longer then it hath these markes d Hiper in his common places l 3. p. 548. That these markes ought to be externall and visible to the end men may know where the Church is and to what societie euery one of the faithfull ought to ioyne himselfe Finally e Whitgift in Def. p. 465. that the Church of God is not to be shut vp in one kingdome c. My demand is sparing enough then I say for I might well require further according to the Ancient Fathers Rules aboue to haue it euidently proued that such a Church or Congregation had alwayes bene in all tymes and places one and the same and that too made good by continuall and vninterrupted succession that so it might appeare to haue descended from some of the Apostles and consequētly be indeed as the true Church is defined in the Nicene Creede one holy Catholike Apostolique Howbeit knowing well that neuer yet any Protestant hath returned a faire answer euen to these few demands I will presume you will find it worke enough for the present to point vs out within the tyme prefixed The place where the Congregation was assembled The names of the Preachers or Preacher at least with euidence that he preached or held the Doctrine of the thirtienyne Art or what els may be meant by the pure word of God or opposed that which is contayned in the Councell of Trent And that they or he duely administred the Sacraments and that but two onely according to Christs ordinance c. Doe not I beseech you as you sometymes did name S. Ignatius That is too prodigious a leape at once to skippe aboue 1400. yeares backwards and yet not proue your affirmation neither to which euery disputant is lyable I could with like facilitie name him too and yet you would not admitt that for good payment You will please to remember the thing I demand is that you would acquaint vs with the names of some of your Bishops or Pastours c. in the beginning of the 16. Age not in the end of the first As S. Ignatius passed too tymely for our present purpose so Bishop Tunstall and B. Gardner came too sate though you made no bones to name them too but sure you were not serious with your friends in a subiect which exacted it or els your poore answer is a plaine conuiction how desperate your cause is They haue both left learned workes behind them which will euer speake them Roman Catholikes a Tunstall pag 47. de verit Corp. Christi Ed. Parisianae 1554. The Transubstantiation and the b Idem in codem lib. pag. 93. Sacrifice of the Masse are not tenets of the Protestant Church to name no more a Et Gard. in Confutatione c. pag. 73. Nor did Bishop Tunstall sure dye a Prisoner in Lambeth in Queene Elisabeths tyme for being a Protestant b Idem in codem lib. p. 5. If this assertion then to witt that Bishop Tunstall and Bishop Gardner helped to continue the succession of the Protestant Church which came accompanied with noe countenance or apparence of Truth were tearmed impudent what wrong were done to it since it could not fall from a man as hauing any thing of satisfaction any face of reason but as a Mercurie of euery wood to stand in the light and to stoppe the course of Truth which S. Augustine might haue haply tearmed inanissimam vocem temeritatisque plenissimam l. de moribus Ecclesiae Cath. c. 29. For was it euer written euer affirmed euer called in question by any By any I doe not say by Catholikes but euen by Protestants themselues Nay doe not euen a In l. de Praesulibus Anglia in vita Tunstalli Good man and b In Elisabetha pag. 37. Camden deliuer the contrarie and put it out of all doubt Doe not flie to the Catholike Romane Church neither that were too poore a shift to begge a succession