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doctrine_n	body_n	bread_n	transubstantiation_n	2,166	5	10.9952	5	false

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A62014	The XXXVI questions propounded for resolution of unlearned Protestants in matter of religion to the doctors of the prelaticall pretended reformed-Church of England, retorted for resolution on unlearned papists in matter of religion, to V.H. and V.N. doctors of the pretended Catholick Church of Rome / by T. Svvadlin ...	Swadlin, Thomas, 1600-1670.	1659 (1659)	Wing S6228; ESTC R38289	40,246	62

that our Saviour had appointed Pastors and Teachers till the day of judgement as a means to preserve Christian people from being carryed about with every wind of Doctrine cannot be understood disjunctively For then if those Pastors preserved them from being seduced in one onely point of Christian Doctrine it would not be true that they preserved them from being carryed about with every wind of Doctrine but they must be understood Conjunctively that is that they preserve them from being carryed away with any wind of Doctrine whatsoever which should chance to be buzzed into their Eares by false Teachers now seeing such winds of erroneous Doctrine are raised as well in points which Protestants account not fundamentall as in fundamentals the meaning of the Apostle then must be that by meanes of these Pastors Christians be preserved from following any Error in Faith whether it be fundamentall or not fundamentall and consequently that they can assuredly direct them to eschew all Errors in Faith which they could not do if they themselves were subject to teach them any Errors or seduce them by any winde of Doctrine whatsoever Seeing also that St. Paul in the same place Eph. 4.10 tells us that the said Pastors are to Consummate the Saints and to build up the Mysticall body of Christ I demand whether the Apostle by these words make not those Pastors able to secure Christian people from Error not onely in the Foundation as Protestants terme it but in superstructures also for otherwise they would have been instituted by our Saviour onely to found his Mysticall body the Church but not to build it up and to ground and initiate the Saints but not to Consummate them Sir Answ 21 whether your exposition of St. Pauls Text Eph. 4.14 be current or not is a Question if it be why may not the words be undestood disjunctively as well as conjunctively Your own Predecessors the Romanists thought so where they say upon these words the use of spirituall Governors not all Pastors and Teachers is to keep us in the Unity and constancy of the Catholick Faith that we be not carryed away with the blast and wind of every Heresie and there are Errors and windes of Doctrine besides Heresies which is a proper note of Sects and new Doctrine which trouble the infirme weaklings of this Church as sometimes the Arrians then the Manichees then the Nestorians then the Latherans and Calvinists and such like so the Rhemists they might have left the last out as being yet uncondemned of Heresie but you will have the words understood Conjunctively That the people be preserved from being carryed away with any wind of Doctrine whatsoever and if this be granted you what get you by it more then Turpe est Doctori for I pray what Pastors or Teachers have carryed about silly people with such windes and kindes of Doctrine as these That Christ descended onely in Limbum Patrum a higher part of Hell That some sinners go into Purgatory a side part of Hell That half a Sacrament is enough contrary to Christs Institution and the Catholick Churches practise for 1000. years That the intention of the Priest is of the essence of Baptism That worship is due to Images That there is a Transubstantiation a conversion of the Bread and Wine into the Body and Blood of Christ corporally I forbear a new Creed made at the no general or lawful Council of Trent and many more such winds of Doctrine wherewith you have carried about some souls To your other Text Eph. 4.10 and your demand upon it whether the Apostle by these words To consumniate the Saints and to build up the Mystical body of Christ make not those Pastors able to secure Christian people from error not onely in the foundation but in the superstructures also Sure I think not for the Apostle himself was enabled by God and so are all Pastors that do their duty conscientiously The Apostle onely tels the succeeding Pastors their duty and wo to them if they do it not he enables them not to do it If it should be answered Quest 22 that these and such like promises or institutions of Christ are onely conditional that is truly intended on his part but yet may be frustrated by the malice of such as correspond not to his intention and therefore though he intend that these Pastors should perform the said Offices in the Church yet that it involved this condition if they were not wanting on their parts but by their failing the institution of Christ is made frustrate and of no effect I answer to this prophane and unchristian Objection first that if Christs promises and institutions be thus inefficacious and conditional that notwithstanding the promises that Christ hath made for the preservation of his Church yet by the malice of Christians or others the whole Christian Church may utterly fail and come to nothing Secondly that it may erre even in fundamental points contrary to the Doctrine of Protestants and so become a Synagogue of Satan Thirdly that the ancient Promises of the coming of the Messias of the REdemption of Mankind of the saving of some at the last Judgement c. have no absolute certainty in them and so by the malice of men might have been or may be frustrated Fourthly that by this there is no certain credit to be given to any Promise or Institution of God or Christ in the whole Old or New Testament for a thousand different conditions may be invented which not being performed or put the prediction failes Thus one may say upon the like grounds that as the promises of benefits and blessings may be hindred by the malice and demerits of wicked persons so the threats thundrings of punishments upon sinners may be hindred by the vertues and good works of Saints and because we have no rule to know what proportion of goodness or malice is sufficient to frustrate such predictions we remain wholly uncertain whether they shall be absolutely verified or no unless therefore this principle be setled that all divine Institutions and Predictions are to be held absolute and never to be frustrated whensoever it is not evidently apparent that they are conditional and may be hindred there can be no certainty that any Institution or prediction in the whole Scripture shall be absolutely fulfilled Seeing therefore it is not evident that this institution Eph. 4. c. and others of the same nature concerning the Church are conditionall they are to be supposed to be absolute and not to be frustrated by any malice of men whatsoever Fifthly no Protestants who hold the whole visible Church cannot perish nor all the Pastors prove wilfull Seducers can apply this answer to the Text now cited viz. Eph. 4. c. for if it be hindered by the malice of the said Pastors they must with joynt consent maliciously teach false Doctrine to be the Doctrine of Christ which were to teach fundamentall Errors and to fall off from Christ If this