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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77347	Saul and Samuel at Endor, or The new waies of salvation and service, which usually temt [sic] men to Rome, and detain them there Truly represented, and refuted. By Dan. Brevint, D.D. As also a brief account of R.F. his Missale vindicatum, or Vindication of the Roman Mass. By the same author.	Brevint, Daniel, 1616-1695.	1674 (1674)	Wing B4423; ESTC R212267	257,888	438

was enjoined a Greg. Neocaesar Epist Canon to stand without and there with cries and tears b Ambrosius De Paenit l. 1. c. 19. to beg them who came in to pray to God for him 2. Some years or months after he was admitted within Doors but in a remote Corner of the Church behind the Catechumens that is the not Christened Proselytes where they might hear Sermons but not Praiers 3. After such other time as they thought fit he was suffered to hear and pray with the Christians but not to take the Holy Mysteries These with some other Mortifications and trials were all the Penalties inflicted by the Church upon scandalous Offenders the Satisfactions when undergon given by the Offenders to the Church and when humbly and sincerely performed upon good grounds were also thought in the sense above said acceptable to God himself And here among these performances was the only time of Indulgence either to shorten the time or to mitigate the Rigor of the Hardship that they were under 4. This don either with or without favor at last the sinner was at the time appointed for his Readmission brought in into the Church there he kneeled and there the Bishop coming to him as the good Father in the Gospel to the lost Child fell both himself and all the People upon their knees then after holy Praiers and a holy laying on of hands gave him Sacerdotal Blessing and complete Absolution raised him up from kneeling for conclusion of all he was admitted at the same time both to the holy Communion and the Churches Peace The Penitents being thus reconcil'd neither under-went other Punishments nor needed other Indulgences And if that Holy Mother the Primitive Church used to chastise her stubborn Children and upon their amendment to kiss and embrace them afterwards we do not read in any Father that it was ever her Method first to kiss then to correct and punish It is an extravagance proper to Rome to absolve her Penitents and after Absolution to have them punisht thereby to satisfie Divine Justice and so consequently are all her Indulgences to ease men of such Punishments Tricks of their own invention Our Savior did not plague sinners after he had bid them go in Peace and if God kept them afterwards humble and sensible of their former sins by Fatherly Corrections as you read often that he did Psal 89. Hebr. 12. 1 Corinth 11. Roman Indulgences are but both idle and sawcy Toies to take them off And this brings to the second visible Character by which you may discern the Primitve Relaxations from the present Roman Indulgences 1. Therefore as to this second the Fathers of the Primitive Church never intended with their Condescensions or favors to moderate or to take off any other Punishments then that which they had laid on by their own sentence and Censure They knew that the Power of reteining and the Power of remitting which God allowed them in his Church are both i Suares de Indulg Disp 50. Sect. 2. n. 5. proportioned and relative the one to the other and that they could remit nothing but when they had bin able to bind This appears so by the very Contents and Form of their Warrant Whatsoever you shall bind on Earth c. Matth. 1.16.19 and 18.18 and John 20.23 Where the power of Loosing and Remitting follows close to that of Retaining and Binding This is exercised by Excommunications and Censures that by taking them away in the reconciling of Offenders and both Keies turn in the same wards that is within the same compass within the Ministerial Pale of the Church and within the bounds of this Life Roman Popes are the first Hectors who durst break out beyond these Lines and roving into Purgatory there over-rule Divine Justice and pull out thence out of Gods hands the Souls whom they say his Vengeance doth burn and torment This is then the drift of the Popes and the second visible Mark of their best and most authentic Indulgences that whereas the Fathers of the Church never attemted to dispose of any other punishments then such as they had inflicted the Popes stretch their hands much farther even as far as to reverse the Judgments which as they presuppose it God inflicts Now let Rome ransack their Learning and procure from any corner of good and known Antiquity one precedent for such Indulgences In the mean while laying aside Antiquity which in true Conscience cannot but shame this new attemt it is a business worth enquiring what these Roman Indulgences whether new or old are in themselves They are intended for these c Bellarm. de Indulg l. 1. c. 7. two ends 1. The easing of true Penitents from the Penalties laid on them by their Confessors after their Absolution here in the Church 2. And the removing of more grievous punishments laied on them by God Almighty yonder in Purgatory And certainly it is hard to say in the which of these two you shall find less both Impiety and Extravagancy 1. The Indulgences for the first end are both foolish and impious upon several accounts What rebellious attemt is this to bind to punishment those Men as it is supposed contrite and truly penitent for their sins whom the Gospel of Christ looses and absolves May not one as well curse whom God blesses as retain or bind whom God remits And if one may bind the Penitents whom God absolves may he not as well unbind the Faithless and Impenitents whom God hath bound If so we know where the Antichrist lies yet he should go and learn Manners from the Example of Balaam Num. 23.8 They say that what they bind their Penitents to is not a Punishment only but an useful Correction also Then I say what they do in binding them whom God doth loose shall be as far a Rebellion as it is a punishment and as far unlawful and unchristian to take off as 't is an useful Correction and as it was good to lay it on And have the Popes no better waies to fill their Coffers and to maintain their Holinesses then by such a Trade of Indulgences as dispense with Men against their own good 2. There is yet more to justifie their Penalties from being a resisting of God and a retaining what he remits they say that after Absolution they lay no more on any Man then what a sincere Penitent d is both willing to undergo and obliged by the fear of God and the sense of his Conscience to do or suffer and that this is it properly and directly what the Indulgences do ease Men from Do not then call this if you please Rebellion or Resisting God but you cannot choose but perceive that if this same penitent Soul lies not between a cruel binding Confessor and a gracious remitting God she now falls into another as bad or worse condition For here is within the sense of Conscience that charges her to do or suffer such a thing and there is without a