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A73178 A bouclier of the catholike fayth of Christes church conteynyng diuers matters now of late called into controuersy, by the newe gospellers. Made by Richard Smith, doctour of diuinitee, [and] the Quenes hyghnes reader of the same I her graces vniuersite of oxford.; Bouclier of the Catholike fayth. Part 1 Smith, Richard, 1500-1563. 1554 (1554) STC 22816; ESTC S125530 106,074 360

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and to whome he wrote holdeth the same beleife saying as saint Austen reciteth Lib. ij cap. iiij contra duas epist pelagiorum Epist rescripta ad concil Carthag Mile uitanum Illud uero quod eos vestra fraternitas asserit predicare paruulos aeternae uitae praemijs etiam sine baptismatis gratia posse donari perfatuum est It is a verie foolishe thing that thei do preache as youre brotherhoode affirmeth that chyldren should be saued withoute baptisme It appeareth then nowe moste playnelye howe this opinion whiche Peter Martyr folowinge the Swinglians hathe taughte to defende that onelye fayth iustifieth man is against the holy worde of God and the holye doctours bothe of the Greke churche and also of the Latyne and thereby it is euident that Peter Martyr and his scolers are not membres of the catholike churche but schismatiques I beseche God of hys gracious goodnes tourne their heartes that they maye imbrace the trueth agayne and continue therin to hys honour and glorie and their own saluation But heare once agayne Origen whiche was about Orig. lib. vi Coment in ca. vi ad Rom. M. thre hūdred yeres passed and writeth after this maner Pro hoc scilicet corpore peccati abolendo ecclesia ab apostolis traditionem suscepit etiam paruulis baptisma dare Sciebant enim illi quibus mysteriorum secreta commissa sunt diuinorum quod essent in ●mnibus sordes pe●cati genuinae quae per aquā et spiritum ablui deberent That is to saye For this bodie of sinne to be defaced or put awaye the An vnwritten veritee of our beleif churche hathe receyued also a tradition of the Apostles to geue baptisme yea to children For they to whome the secretes of Goddes mysteries were committed dyd knowe that there shoulde be in all men naturall fylthines of synne which oughte to be washed awaye through water the holy ghost This authoritie is againste Peter Martyr the authours of the articles annexed vnto the Catechisme sette furthe in kinge Edwarde the vi tyme and all them that saye eyther that childrē not baptised shulde be saued or that baptisme is no cause of oure instification but fayth onely or that baptisme is but a signe or marke of our iustification or finally that the baptisme of children is set furthe in the Scripture where it is lefte to the churche by the holy Apostles without writing De eccles Hierar ca. xii only by traditiō as Origē here sayeth manefestlye and S. Dionise S. Paules scoler of the which S. Austen writeth thus Lib. x. ca. xxiii in cene ad ●●eram Lib. iii. ca. xiii de lib arb Lab. iiii cap. 4. de bapti s contra donatistas Consuetudo matris ecclesiae in baptizandis paruulis nequaque sper nenda est neque ullo modo super flua deputanda nec omnino credenda nisi apostolica esset traditio The accustoinaunce of oure mother the Churche in baptisinge of children is in no wyse to be dispised nor to be reckened superfluous by anye meanes nor vtterlye to be beleued if it had not ben a traditiō of y● Apostles What cā our new teachers and the makers of the articles afore mentioned saye to these authorities for the defense of their doctrine that men are boūde to credite and beleue nothing but that onlye whiche the scripture setteth furthe Woulde they that men shoulde beleue them afore these auntiet godly great learned fathers But of this mat●ier I haue written moore at large in my booke of traditions therefore I now make an end of this chapiter wisshinge grace and the knowledge of the trueth vnto all that erre in Christes religiō that they may come at the lēgth vnto y● ioyes of heauē thorough Christe oure sauiours glorious passion to whome with the father and the holie ghoste be honour and prayse for euer Amen The fourthe chapiter That the soules of men departed doe not sleape but either they goe to heauen for their good workes or els to Hell for their euell before domes daye TOuchinge this matter I wyll be verye shorte because I thinke that fewe of oure countree men are infected with this opiniō Christe saied to the theife hanginge with him vpon the crosse Hodie mecum eris Luk. xxiii in paradiso This daye thou shalte be with me in paradise that is to saye as saint Austen expoundeth it verye truelye● this daye of my death thy soule being departed out of thy body shall see the deite and godhead clearly Also sainte Paule saied Phil. i. Cupio disolui esse cum Christo I desire to die and to be with Christe whiche is as muche as if he had sayed when I shall departe out of this worlde I shall be streighte waye with Christ as he himselfe declareth to the Corinthians sayinge thus ii Cor. v. Scimus quod si ●errestris domus nostra c. We know that if our earthlye house of this dwelling be brooken we haue a house of God in heauen not made with mans hande Agayn he sayeth Audemus bonam uoluntatem ii Cor. v. habemus magis peregrinari à corpore praesentes esse ad dominū We are bolde and we haue a good wil rather to be strangers from the bodye and to be present with our lorde Whiche is as muche as if he had sayed when I shall goo oute of thys worlde than I haue a house in heauen shal be presēt with our lord God Whiche saint Hierom Hieroni. To. i. epist ad Marcellam de obit● Leae affirmeth saying thus Nunc illa pro breui labore aeterna fruitur beatitudine excipitur āgelorū choris Now she hath the pleasure of y● euerlastinge blisse she is receaued with the compaignie of Angels Sainte Austen writtinge Aug. in psal 10. Phil. i. vpō this Paules sentēce Cupio dissolu● c. saieth Viuit Paulus nunc cū christo si●cut illi prophetae omnes viuunt cū christo Sainte Paule liueth nowe with Christ as all those Prophetes doeth Agayne Sainte Austen speakinge of the gate or porte of paradise whiche Christe opened the daye of his death writeth thus Per hāc ingressus est Petrus per hanc ingressus est Paulus per hanc omnes sancti Martyres intrauerūt Thorow this port S. Peter entred into heauen through this gate s Paule wēt into heauē through thys gate al the holie Martyrs entred into heauē Saint Basill beleued the same Basil epist 67. when he saied thus Mortuus est uir qui columna erat stabilimētum ecclesiae imo magis ad beatāuitam sublatus à nobis abscessit The man is deade whiche was the piller and the establishemēt of the churche Naye rather hee taken frō vs is goone into heauen Abdias which was of the Abdi lib. i. ●ist apostilic● lxxii disciples which Christ sent in to the worlde afore him to preache saieth that Saint Peter saied when he shoulde be crucified
head to the soole of my foote loe beholde my heere ioyned together fast with bloude and vnder my bushe of heere my bloudy necke and my head cruelly crouned with thornes that the bloude raime Helpeaketh in Christes persō hauging vpō the crosse out of it bleadyng vpon my godly face quicke bloude on eueryesyde Looke vpon myne eyes closed and lackyng the syght Looke also vpon my chekes and my drye toungue empoysoned with gall and payle countenaunce as it What ꝓfit commeth to vs by the crucifixe were of a dead corps Beholde my handes fastened to the roode or tree with nailes and my armes stretched out to the extremitye Loke also vpon the great woūd of my side and the bloude which did yssue out of it Beholde my wearye feete and the bloudy limmes of my bodye Thou weaping bowe down thy knee and honour the worshipful Referryng that honor to me whiche was cr●cified vpon it Roode of the crosse falling downe vpō the earth which is moyest with myne innocent bloude kisse it humblye with thy mouth and sprincle it with the teares of thine eyes And remember me sometymes in thy deuoute hearte and beare in thy mynde my commaundementes or warnynges folowe my lyfe beholdyng my paynes and sharpe death remembryng the vnnumerable dolours both of my body soule learne to suffer paciētly aduersites to be diligēt about thine ownsaluaciō Hitherto Lactantius writyng of vpon the ymage of Christe or the Roode and declaryng openly what Lessons and profit we may geat by the deuout and godly beholdyng of it and honouryng of the same euer lookyng with a perfecte fayth vpon Christ and honouryng hym bearyng in mynde hys bitter passion whyche he suffred vpon the Roode for our saluacion This dooyng we shall not offende God but greatlye please hym and be muche encouraged and moued to forsake our synfull lyfe and to serue god the better Whiche thyng the seuente generall Actiōe 17 counsell and the seconde holden at the citie Nicea at the which wer assembled thre hundred Bisshops did approue sayīg An Do. vii C. lxxxxi We folowyng the doctrine of oure godly fathers obseruyng the tradicion of the catholique Churche in the whiche the holy ghost dwelleth doe determyne with all diligence care that ymages made after the maner and fourme of the holy crosse are to be set vp and had in holy vessels Holye vessels vestementes in vestementes in waules and tables in priuate houses in commō wayes but chiefly the ymage of our Images of Christ of Sainctes Lord Iesu Christ and than of hys mother our Lady of Angels and al holy men That through the looking vpon those ymages all they whiche doe beholde them maye come to the memorye and remembraunce of y● thynges fygured and salute them geue vnto them an honorable worshipping not that the seruice or worshipping which is called in the Greke tongue Latria and is due onely to the y● deitie or godhead but as we come reuerently to the figure of the crosse to the holy gospels to y● holy smokes of encence and also to the Lightes of Lightes of the church Honour of an ymage Note this gētle red●r the churche For the honor done to y● ymage retourneth to the thyng represented by it With what face or countenaunce doest thou resist saith Leontius in his fifth boke of his defence made for christians agaynst y● ymage of the crosse seyng y● knowest that Abraham did worship Idolaters Moyses Ietro a worshipper of Idols Iacob Pharao Daniel The worshipping of the crosse Nabuchodonoser and wilt thou despise me sayd this learned mā abou● vii C. lxx yeares past worshipping the crosse of Christ S. Austen writeth August To v. li. 10. ca. 8 ●●●●●ii dei muche of this matter of whose sayinges this is one Moises pra●ed his handes being stretched forth in the forme of a crosse and thereby he ●yd ouerthrow gods enemyes not Exo. xvii one of the Israelites being killed Also he saith whē the people wer sto●g with fiery serpētes for their synnes god cōmaunded Moises to hang vp To. v. ii ● ca viii de ciu●ta dei Num. xxi the figure of a brasē serpēt vpō a poole y● thei beholding it might be healed again and death destro●ed as it wer by the signe of the crosse as s Aust●n saith there The which being done y● serpēt was reserued in remēbraunce A graue● ymage cōmaunded of god to be made Nume xxi of y● gods benefites done to thē This was a grauē image or asimilitude sēbl●ce of a creature which notwithstanding god himselfe bad Moises make Therfore he did not forbid vs to make any similitude or grauē ymage of a creature without addiciō Ex● xx what God mēt forbiddyng vs. ●o make a grauē ymage but y● we should not make vs any similitude or image of any creature to honour it as God as the texte of Exodus declareth plainely Agayne thys brasen serpente was a fygure of Chryst and sygnified him to be as he sayde hymselfe exalted Ioan. iii. or lifted vp vpon the crosse at y● time of his death whyche serpent whosoeuer did looke vpon vnderstanding by it Christ and his most bitter passion beleuing in him thā to come and to dye for vs with a perfit faith had remission of theyr synnes not onely health of theyr bodyes Wherfore Note this why may not we christen men haue the figure or ymage of Chryst crucifyed that we beholdyng it might remember Christes death and by y● forsake our sīnes and liue more deuoutly as wel as the Iewes had a picture of hym to come to be crucifyed and that picture was profitable to them But to Sainct Austen Austen agayne which sayth the crosse is honoured and remayneth in glorye A locis suppliciorum fecit transitum ad frontes imperatorum Tom. x viii Psa xxxvi Qui tantum honoris dedit paeni● suis quid seruat fidelibus suis The crosse hath made a passage In Ioā tract xxxvi from the places of paynes to y● foreheades of Emperors What reward doth Christ reserue for his faythfull people whyche gaue so much honor to the crosse vpon whych he suffered his paynes Agayn he sayeth Qui crucē irrident a daemonibus tanquā a best●is deuorātur Thei that scorne the crosse are deuoured Note thys reader of the Deuils as of beastes Also he witnesseth that a holy woman called Innocentia whiche dwelt at Li. 22. ca. 8 de ciu● dei the citie Charthage was cured of a cācre y● she had in one of her brestes and is vncurable by nature only by makyng a crosse vpon it Moreouer he writeth after this sort of the crosse Except the sygne of the crosse be put eyther to the foreheades of thē that To. ix ●r● exviii in Io●nnem beleue or to the water by which thei are borne againe or to the oyle with which creame thei are annointed