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A02347	The staffe of Christian faith profitable to all Christians, for to arme themselues agaynst the enimies of the Gospell: and also for to knowe the antiquitie of our holy fayth, and of the true Church. Gathered out of the vvorks of the ancient doctors of the church, and of the councels, and many other doctors, vvhose names you shall see here follovving. Translated out of Frenche into English, by Iohn Brooke of Ashe next Sandvviche. With a table to finde out all that which is contayned in the booke.; Baston de la foy chrestienne. English	Brès, Guy de, 1522-1567.; Brooke, John, d. 1582.	1577 (1577)	STC 12476; ESTC S103536	181,177	440

memory of thy conscience and then finally haue hope to haue mercie And vpon the .51 psalm in the .2 Tome Confesse thy sinnes to the end thou doe put them away If thou art ashamed to tell vnto an other that thou hast sinned tell it alwayes vnto thy soule I doe not saye that thou shouldest confesse thy selfe vnto one like vnto thy selfe for to rebuke and checke thee of them tell them to God which wyll heale them But when thou wilt not tell them is God ignorant when thou doest them He is there present when thou committest them he knoweth them very well wyll not he that thou shouldest acknowledg them Thou wast not ashamed to sinne and art thou ashamed to confesse them Confesse them in this worlde that you may haue rest in the other Chrysostome in his sermon of penance and confession the .6 Tome It is not necessary to confesse it before witnesses only make the acknowledging in thine heart this examynation doth not require witnesses it suffiseth that God only doe see and heare thee Chrysostome in the 5. homilie of the incomprehensible nature of God agaynst the Anomians I doe not call thee before men for to discouer thy sinnes vnfolde thine owne conscience before God shewe thy wounds and strypes vnto the Lorde who is the Phisition and pray him to remedie it he it is which doth not checke and whiche gently healeth the poore sicke persons In the historie tripartite in the 9. booke and 35. Chapter It is sayde that auricular confession was vsed at Constantinople vntill suche time that a woman making as though she woulde be confessed was founde that she tooke that cloke for to lye with one of the Deacons of the same Church Bicause of which euill fact Nectarius bishop of the sayd place a man renoumed in holynesse and of great learning abolished that obseruance of confession The hystories doe declare that there was no lawe or constitution before the time of Innocent the thirde touching auricular confession Chrysostome in his 4. Tome of Lazarus I would not that thou shouldest confesse thy selfe vnto a man who afterward may rebuke or checke thee or defame thee in telling thy faultes but shewe thy griefe vnto God who is the good phisition Afterwarde he bringeth in God speaking in this maner I do not compell thee to come in the open assembly confesse to me onelye thy sinnes that I maye make thee whole The Church of Rome doth commaunde to confesse all our sinnes not exceptnig any Answere Dauid sayth Who can tell howe oft he offendeth O clense thou me from my secret faultes Saint Ambrose of the repentance of S. Peter in his .46 sermon Peter poured forth teares not praying in voyce I doe finde that he did weepe lament but I doe not find what he hath sayde I doe reade of his teares but I reade not of satisfaction Chrysostome in the 12. homilie of the Cananite Iesus Christ did heale him that had the Leprosie and sayde vnto him Go shewe thy selfe vnto the Priest and offer that which Moyses commaunded in the lawe for thy healing O thing neuer hearde the Lorde healed the disease yet neuerthelesse he did sende them to the lawe of Moyses Wherefore did he so For none other cause but that the Iewes might not reproue him as a transgressor of the lawe S. Ambrose in his 3. sermon vpon the 119. Psalme Go and shewe thy selfe vnto the Priest who is the true Priest but he which is the euerlasting Priest S. Cyprian in his 5. sermon of penitent sinners The seruant cannot pardon that whiche is committed agaynst the Lorde Ambrose in his booke of Cain and Abel The sinnes are pardoned by the worde of God of the which the Leuice is the expositor and as an executor Chrysostome in his 7. Tome in the homilie of repentance This is the place of healing not of iudgement Tell vnto God onely thy sinne who will giue no punishment but the remission of sinnes Of the power to bynde and vnbynde or loose Augustine in the 50. homilie vpon S. Iohn If the figure of the Church had not bene in Saint Peter the Lorde woulde not haue sayde vnto him I will giue vnto thee the keyes For if the same be spoken to Peter only the Church hath not the keys if the Church hath them it was figured in the person of S. Peter Augustine in the 11. homilie and in the 124. homilie Although it be that all were asked Peter alone aunswered thou art Christ and it is sayde vnto him I will giue vnto thee the keyes as though the power to bynde and loose had bene giuen vnto him onely But as he answered for all so he receyued the keyes with all as bearing the person of vnitie He is then named alone for all forasmuche as there is betweene them vnitie Augustine vpon S. Iohn in the 124. treatise Chapter 21. The rocke is not sayd of that name Peter but that name Peter is named of the rocke So Christ is not called Christ of a christian but the christian is called christian of Christe And therefore also the Lorde sayde vpon this rocke I will build my Church bicause that Peter had sayd thou arte Christ the sonne of the liuing God vppon this rocke then which thou hast confessed I will builde my churche and the rocke was Christ vpon the which foundation also Peter himselfe hath bene builded For other foundation can no man laye than that which is layde whiche is Iesus Christ The church then whiche is builded vpon Christ hath taken the keyes of the kingdome of heauen of Christ in Peter that is to say the power to bynde and loose Theophilact vpon Saint Iohn the 8. Chapter It belongeth to God onely to pardon sinnes therefore sayeth he whosoeuer committeth sinne is the seruant of sinne you are then seruāts for you be all sinners Saint Hilarie in his 6. booke of the Trinitie The father hath reuealed vnto Peter who sayth thou art the sonne of GOD wherefore the building of the congregation is vpon that rocke of confession that faith is the foundation of the church that fayth hath the keyes of the kingdome of heauen All that whiche this fayth shall bynde and loose in earth is also bounde and loosed in heauen This fayth is the gift of the fatherly reuelation Augustine in his first booke of retractation the 22. Chapter In the booke where I haue before time affirmed in a certayne place of S. Peter the Apostle that in him as in the rocke the church is builded The which sense also is song of many in the verses of Saint Ambrose there where he speaketh of the cocke But I doe knowe very well that oftentimes afterwarde I haue thus expounded it Thou art Peter and vpon that rocke that is to say the rocke affirming thou art Christ the sonne of the liuing God Origen vpon Saint Mathew the 2. homilie