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A38590	Catechistical discovrses in vvhich, first, an easy and efficacious way is proposed for instruction of the ignorant, by a breife summe of the Christian doctrine here delivered and declared : secondly, the verity of the Romane Catholike faith is demonstrated by induction from all other religions that are in the world : thirdly, the methode of the Romane catechisme, which the Councell of Trent caused to be made, is commended to practice of instructing in doctrine, confirming in faith, and inciting to good life by catechisticall sermons / by A. E.	Errington, Anthony, d. 1719?	1654 (1654)	Wing E3246; ESTC R8938	430,353	784

none mainteined in schisme their owne Churches which had noe succession of head and pastors from Christ except they were as all false Churches are of a succession inuisible The Waldenses beganne in the disobedience of Iohn Waldo an ignorant lay man in the city of Lyons aboue eleauen hundred yeares after that the faith of Christ had flourished in the world who disobeying the authority of Alexander 3. Pope and of the fathers of a General Councell held at Rome beganne a new Church against all saying we must obey God rather then men And Iohn Hus was proceeded against as an haeretike for mainteining with obstinacy his doctrine The Church of the Lutherans beganne in the disobedience of Martin Luther a Fryar of the holy order of S. Augustine about fifteene hundred yeares after the first establishing of the Church of Christ who disobeying the authority of the head and pastors of the Church that then were to wit of Pope Leo and the pastors of his Communion broke his vowes of pouerty chastity and obedience and hauing gotten some to follow him he beganne with them a new Church which had noe succession of head and pastors from Christ nor from any Church except it were a succession inuisible The Zinglians beganne in the disobedience of Vlricus Zuinglius a Canon of Constance who seeing the people of Germany soe greedily to swallow downe the liberty of Luthers doctrine and noueltys disobeying the authority of Pope Clement and of the pastors of his Communion would beginne also a new Church contrary both to the Church of Rome and of Luther denying the reall presence of the body of our Lord in the holy Eucharist The Church of the Caluinists beganne in the disobedience of Iohn Caluin Priest of Noyon who following the example of Luther and Zuinglius brokeforth after them out of the sheepefold of Christ and disobeying the authority of Paulus 3. then Bishop of Rome and of the pastors of his Communion beganne a new Church according to his owne words separating themselues from the whole world Resp ad versip The Church of England which is the newest of them all beganne in the disobedience of king Henry the eight who hauing first obtained of Pope Leo the glorious title of Defendour of the faith for his good seruice done to the Church of God especially in oppugning of Luthers heresy became afterwards soe blinded with carnality that desiring of Pope Clement a diuorcement from his lawfull wife and not obtaining it he denyed his authority forbadde in his dominions all commerce with the court of Rome and caused himselfe to be proclaimed The supreme head of the English Church vpon earth putting to death Bishop Fisher Sr Thomas Moore and others for denying his supremacy By all which it appeareth that the words of S. Iohn may well be applyed to all these sects when to discouer the false Churches of schismatiks and heretiks which he speaketh of by the name of Antichrist he giueth them this marke They went out from vs. Io. 1.2 Soe may we say of all the sects of schismes and haeretiks that are in the world they beganne at some time in disobedience to the Romane Church the beginners of them were once Romane Catholiks but they were the chaffe of the Catholike Church which being puffed vp with pride and obstinacy went out from vs and beganne new Churches which were not then at all in the world You haue seene now the supreme authority of the Bishop of Rome to haue bene first acknowledged and obeyed by the primitiue Church and consequently all other Churches of christians whatsoeuer without naming of any haue at some time goneforth of that Church and begunne in disobedience to that Bishop and to the pastors of his Communion and you haue seene also in particular the cheife and most notable and one may say all other Churches for that the rest of the petty sects haue begunne indisobedience to some of these and goneforth of them you haue seene I say in particular the rest of the Churches that now are to haue begunne in disobedience to that authority which was first obeyed by the primitiue Church of Christ and was then obeyed in the world and euen by themselues vntill they tooke vpon them to disobey it Wherefor I conclude with this that the true Church is that which continueth allwais obedient to the true head of the Church and pastors of his Communion and they are all false Churches that haue begunne in disobedience to the true head of the Church and pastors of his Communion but there is none but the bishop of Rome that can with any reason pretende to be the true head of the Church nor any pastors that can pretende to be in Communion with the true head of the Church but those that are in Communion with him therefore that is the true Church which hath continued all wais in obedience to the Bishop of Rome and his pastors and they are all false Churches that haue begunne at any time and continue still in disobedience to him and them There remaineth now onely to see what they can say for themselues and to shew the vanity of their pretences First if they deny that the Romane Bishop had supreme authority in the primitiue Church it is to confound as I haue said the knowledge of all thinges past I haue shewed that the holy fathers of those times haue interpreted the scriptures for the Bishop of Rome his supremacy and I haue shewed by their plane sentences and expresse words that the Romane Church hath obtained from our Lord and Sauiour himselfe the principality and eminency of power ouer all Churches that holy seate being the hinge and head of all Churches that in all controuersys we ought to haue recourse vnto it that the Bishop of Rome is the highest Priest and Bishop of bishops that all schismes and heresys haue sprung from the disobedience to that chaire that they are Schismatiks and Praeuaricators that set vp another chaire contrary to it that they belong to Antichrist that are not of that Communion I haue shewed also that the Bishop of Rome his supremacy was acknowledged by Generall Councels that his legates praesided in them that he protected the good and corrected the ●ad both of the Clergy and of the Laity of other Dioceses euen the cheife persons of the world as vnder his charge and that there is noe other bishop that by any title can iustly pretende to haue had that authority in the primitiue times And therfor it is most senselesse to deny his supremacy which the world hath soe long confessed And if they shall still oppose it Sap. 5. the round world shall fight with him against the senslesse who are soe bold as to hazard their soules against the whole world and against soe many worlds as I haue shewed gathered together in General Councels who haue submitted to the Bishop of Rome as to their supreme pastour They will grant then perhaps that the Bishop of

CATECHISTICAL DISCOVRSES IN VVHICH FIRST An easy and efficacious way is proposed for instruction of the ignorant by a breife Summe of the Christan Doctrine here deliuered and declared SECONDLY The verity of the Romane Catholike Faith is demonstrated by induction from all other religions that are in the world THIRDLY The methode of the Romane Catechisme which the Councell of Trent caused to be made is commended to practise of instructing in doctrine confirming in Faith and inciting to good life by Catechisticall Sermons By A. E. Attende to thy selfe and to doctrine be earnest in them For this doing thou shalt saue both thy selfe and those that heare thee Tim. 1.4 To the wise and vnwise I am debter Rom. 1. At PARIS By P. TARGA ordinary Printer to the Archbishoprick of Paris Sworne by the Vniuersity In the streete of S. Victor at the Golden Sunne 1654. With Approbation of Paris and of England I desire the Reader to reade vvith attention the Praeface to him A DEDICATORY PRAYER TO IESVS-CHRIST DREAD Soueraigne LORD King of all Kings and of all creatures both in Heauen and Earth My Maker my Redeemer my Conseruer my Eternall and Omnipotent God Whom my soule by nature doth feare and reuerence and in whom is all my hope and confidence Behold mee thy sinnefull creature trembling for feare before thee astonished with the power of my Creatour But O my sweet Redeemer thou dost recreate mee with thy sacred bloodshed and giuest mee a new being full of ioy and loue towards thee This feare and loue hath brought mee to thy feete to offer my selfe and my worke first to thee I present and dedicate it to thy infinite Majesty an vnworthy present if thou make it not worthy Giue life I beseech thee and vigour for the fruit of it Thou hast the harts of all in thy hands the good spirit is giuen to none but by thee Open then my God the harts of those that shall reade this booke and expell the spirit of stupidity infidelity and all kind of sinne out of them that thy holy inspiration taking place they may receiue due instruction in thy doctrine reiect all illusions of faith and may bring that increase in holinesse of life which I pray and labour for in them Grant sweet Iesus that this booke though neuer soe bitter in it selfe may become like hony in those that shall vse it to produce in them true charity towards thee and their neighbour and towards mee in particular to pray that in all afflictions and temptations that shall befall mee I may willingly pleasantly and constantly obey and honour thee comforted by thy merits and by thy sweet and comfortable name called vpon Liue sweet Iesus King of eternall glory Liue liue and reigne in our soules here and in Heauen for euer and euer Amen A DEDICATORY EPISTLE TO THE HIGH and MOST GRACIOV● PRINCESSE HENRIETTA MARIA DAVGHTER OF ENGLAND HAVING offered my labours first to Iesus-Christ and sollicited the fauour of his Sacred Ma●esty in the next place I bring them to you for yours and I-beseech your Highnesse with all the earnestnesse and humility I can that you will be pleased to accept as fauourably as I hope he hath done of them It is the Doctrine of Iesus Christ that desireth your protection A subiect too sublime to be handled by my insufficiency or to neede to be protected by any but that the present state of England required this labour of mee and it to be more acceptable stoode neede of your protection This I ingegenuously confesse to be the true and onely motiue why next vnto God I dedicate my worke to your Highnesse Because setting forth this methode of doctrine which the Councell of Trent hath soe earnestly commended and which is practised with soe much profit in some places and not yet deliuered in the English tongue I haue done il soe as I thought was sittest for England yet not soe but that I know a powerfull Protectour to be both seasonable and necessary to make it more acceptable And therefore as I was carefull that it should haue a more then ordinary approbation before it entred the presse soe now comming forth in publicke I desire it should goe vnder your name because I thinke none soe powerfull to commende it to the vse and profit of others as your Highnesse You are the Highest of all English Catholickes You are sette in our Crowne as a gemme of singular lustre and our eyes and harts are filled with the expectation of you the wisdome of your Father which the world in due time shall admire and the piety of your Mother whom the most turbulent of times could neuer taxe meeting both together first in you For you are the first of the Royall stocke of England that now for many yeares and for some descents hath professed the Catholike Faith brought vp by speciall prouidence in the bosome of the Catholike Church that we may say of you as of Iacob Gen. 48. God hath fed you from your youth vntill this present day as though designed to some eminent happinesse To whom then shall the Catholike Doctrine in English addresse it selfe but vnto you Where shall it finde a Patrone if you should reiect it A prudent hart shall possesse knowledge Prou. 18. and the eare of the wise doth seeke doctrine This is the doctrine which your eare hath harkened vnto which you possesse in your hart and your Diuine Spouse doth require that you outwardly professe what your hart possesseth and putte him as a seale both vpon your hart and vpon your arme The afflicted Catholikes of England will reuiue with ioy to see this Doctrine publikly in your hands and will take it as a pledge of greater felicity which from your neerest Progenitour they may well expect I will speake here the truth which I haue spoken vnto many that when I read in S. Bede the conuersion of the English and saw S. Augustine graciously receiued by King Ethelbert well disposed to his doctrine by hauing married à Catholike who was daughter of France it made then such impression in mee and gaue such liuely hopes of the like benefit againe that a small knowledge in history represented presently some other such marriages to mee by which I beganne to conceiue it as a blessing vpon France that the Flower de Luces should send forth the odour of Christ vnto other nations the Catholike Doctrine comming from thence for their conuersion The first-fruits of these hopes we haue allready in you and by this they will grow and increase in vs. Besides this booke beeing soe directed to Catholikes as by the way to giue satisfaction to all other Religions that shall meete with it I was to seeke for such a Patrone as without offense to any might ingratiate it to all and for this there was none soe proper as your selfe who as yet in the candour of your Chrysome are gratefull to all Christians and by your vnspotted innocency to all the world Grant

then most Gracious Princesse your desired Patronage which is soe proper and necessary to this worke that I neither will nor can in reason looke for any other What Englishmans hart tender by nature will not so farre resent your condition and his owne as at least to receiue and reade that which commeth commended by you for the good of his soule It vill goe for pure gold when you haue accepted of it vnder your Name and character all will receiue and reade it and with Gods assistance shall profit by it This is the cause why I dedicate it first to God and then to you desiring no other reward for my selfe but your gracious acceptance for the good of others Because for a booke to doe much good I consider it as necessarie to procure that it be currently accepted of and much read as it is to contriue and compose it good in it selfe And hauing now prouided as well as I can for both I haue done all and will rest Your Highnesses Most humble seruant and deuoted Oratour to pray for you A. E. APPROBATIO NOs infra scripti in Sacra Theologiae Facultate Parisiensi Doctores perlegimus librum Anglicano idiomate scriptum cui titulus est CATECHISTICAL DISCOVRSES in which first an easy and efficacious way is proposed c. In quo nihil inuenimus à Catholica Fide alienum aut bonis moribus auersum Quinimo iudicamus Discursuum horum institutum ad Christianam doctrinam elucidandam Catholicam fidem confirmandam veramque pietatem promouendam non minus studiose pertractari quam religiose pro Catholicorum Angliae praesenti conditione vtiliter susceptum esse Quapropter librum hunc non approbamus modo praeloque dignum censemus verum etiam quantum possunt vota nostra omnium vsui commendamus Quod nostris testamur signaturis Datis Parisiis 1. Sept. anno salutis humanae 1654. HENRICVS HOLDEN P. O. LONERGAN WE the vnder written Doctours of Diuinity in the Faculty of Paris haue perused an English booke intituled CATECHISTICALL DISCOVRSES in which first an easy and effi●acious way is proposed c. In which we finde nothing dissonant from the Catholike Faith or good manners But we rather iudge the institute of these Discourses for declaring of the Christian Doctrine confirming of the Catholike Faith and promoting of true piety to be noe lesse studiously prosecuted then religiously and for the present condition of England profitably vndertaken where for we not only approoue of it as worthy of the presse but also commende it as much as lyeth in vs to be vsed by all giuen vnder our hands at Paris Septemb. 1. in the yeare of our Lord 1654. HENRICVS HOLDEN P. O. LONERGAN APPROBATIO LEctis testimoniis quatuor Doctissimorum in Anglia Sacerdotum quorum examini liber cui titulus CATECHISTICALL DISCOVRSES c. commissus est quique illum non modo in doctrina moribus sanum testati sunt sed communi sententia laudauerunt magnumque ex eo fructum sperauerunt meum erat eorum sententiis assentiri quantum per me licet efficere vt speratus inde fructus in medium proferretur fidelibus communicaretur Quare librum hunc approbo summo desiderio omnibus commendo Datum Parisiis Sept. 21. 1654. LANCASTER Theologiae Professor in Anglia Librorum Censor HAuing read the testimonys of fower of the most learned Priests of England to whom the examining of this booke intituled CATECHISTICALL DISCOVRSES c. was committed who did not onely declare it to be sound in doctrine and manners but also vnanimously praysed it and hoped for much fruit by it it was my part to assent vnto their sentences and with all my power to further their hopes of the publike benefit Wherfor I approoue of this booke and earnestly commende it vnto all Giuen at Paris Sept. 21. 1654. LANCASTER Professour of Diuinity and Censurer of bookes in England The cheife Errours in printing Page 2 there their p. 17. witht he with the. 20. authoritority authority 24. some anes some meanes 44. declace declare 45 wich which 57. paofesse professe 57. lin 22 not nor 58 hy by 60. voon vpon 60 af alse a false 68 oue our 64. eratederect 64. fi●d fixed 64. anotheri another 82. life like 85. life like 137. condemning contemning 153. the eues theeues 165. Danid Dauid 183. there in is there is in 301. ef of 301. lsgacy legacy 310. lin 23. by dy lin 31. consecrate consecrated 313. lin 24. then thee 316. kinden kindes 3●8 barished vanished 343 absently absolutly 358. hedrew Hebrew 384. fathers hould father should 426. atheiued atcheiued 433. liues on liue on 439. whorty worthy 481. thinigs things 483 putting darknesses darkenesse fulnesses fulnesse 494. and en an end 499. be try he try 532. sometihing something 5●3 departing departed 557. by glad be glad 559. Glory into the ihghest God Glory in the highest to God 565. sixty tens six tens 589 is patrone his patrone 600. outwards outward 602. whit a long with a long 618. but to mutuall but to exhort them to mutuall 625. lin 1. spiritually supernaturally 626. he will but he will but. 630. laaine latine 639. theit their 645. consist subsist 684. seruants of seruant of 685. in intentions in intension 703. fly grom fly from 704. is in worse are in worse THE DISCOVRSES conteined in this Booke The first Discourse Of the education of children and of the obligation which all haue to learne the Christian dostrine The Second Of Faith The Third Of the signe of the Crosse The Fourth Of the Creede The Fifth Of the Sacraments The Sixt Of the Commandements The Seauenth Of the Pater Noster The Eighth Of the Haile Mary The Ninth Of the Rosary The Tenth Of the Masse The Eleauenth Of the Praecepts of the Church The Twelfth Of Sinne. A PREFACE to the Reader THE great want of instruction which I saw in many mouing mee to apply my selfe more seriously to the practise of catechizing I tooke into my hands that Catechisme which the Councell of Trent caused to be made and was settforth by commande of Pius Quintus Pope and is commonly called the ROMANE CATECHISME Which as it hath the authority not of some one authour onely but was made by expresse commande of an intire and that soe flourishing a Generall Councell it may iustly take place of all other Catechismes and is of all others the most worthy to be followed And it added not a litle to the esteeme which I had of that booke to vnderstande afterwards that it came cheifly by the care and paines of that blessed man and late mirrour of pastors S. Charles Borromaeus The first thinge which I obserued in it was an earnest desire and almost continuall exhorting of pastors to the catechizing of their people This it commendeth not onely once of purpose in the beginning but all ouer in euery cheife subiect which it treateth and almost in euery thinge which it mentioneth it