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A04191	A treatise containing the originall of vnbeliefe, misbeliefe, or misperswasions concerning the veritie, vnitie, and attributes of the Deitie with directions for rectifying our beliefe or knowledge in the fore-mentioned points. By Thomas Iackson Dr. in Divinitie, vicar of Saint Nicholas Church in the famous towne of New-castle vpon Tine, and late fellow of Corpus Christi Colledge in Oxford.; Commentaries upon the Apostles Creed. Book 5	Jackson, Thomas, 1579-1640.	1625 (1625)	STC 14316; ESTC S107490	279,406	488

restraint that none after their times should be enrolled in the Catalogue of Saints or worshipped though in some particular Country or Province onely without the approbation of their successors So approved it was a point of sacriledge to deny them solemn worship or doubt of their admission into the Church triumphant To invest the soules of men deceased with robes of glory is by this reckoning but an exercise of the same authoritie which giues Bishops their palls we will suppose so But did Basil Ambrose Hierom Austin Gregorie the Great or others adored for Saints by the Catholicke Church Romane attaine to this dignitie by any Popes donation Were they as solemnly canonized as S. Bernard S. Thomas Becket S. Francis S. Dominick S. Thomas of Aquine or some others that died since Innocent the second If they were not either the Popes approbation is nothing worth or S. Francis and S. Dominicke are so much better Saints than Hierom Ambrose or Austin as it is worth Or were these men of such extraordinary worth that they needed no Papall testimony Rather to affirme this were to deny the Popes Supremacy a point of greater danger in Rome than to say in England any could be made Dukes or Earles without the Kings Maiesties consent or approbation How then came these reverend Fathers by such honour as hath bin done vnto them for many hundreth yeares by the vniversall Church More by custome than by expresse law or solemne warrant Bellarmine out of Aquinas prima secundae quaest 97. Articulo 3. giues vs to vnderstand that as customes in other cases haue the force of lawes from the tacite consent of the Prince without which they haue no force at all but rather antiquitie of errour and continuance of corruption so the worship of Saints though brought in by the generall custome of particular Churches hath iust force and authoritie either from the expresse or racite approbation of the Pope He is the sole spirituall Monarch I haue often read it though I never beleeved it that the visible head of the Church speaking ex cathedrâ cannot erre in matters of faith but I never suspected it had beene any where written what now I read in Bellarmine that the bodie of the Church cannot erre in matters of fact made publicke onely by example and custome whose originall is more hard to be found out than the head of Nilus if it shall please the Pope to be silent or not to pronounce against them ex cathedrâ But we must cease to be men before we can beleeue his Holinesse to be such an omnipotent God as can make all them Saints whom the people throughout most Churches haue made choice of for their Patrons Such abuses as bad custome had brought into some places about the time of Alexander the third might for ought we know haue overspread many Churches in times before 2. But if the Popes approbation be sufficient to warrant the publicke adoration of Saints Alexander the third was two wayes too blame First in seeking to reforme the abuses or bad customes of most particular Churches seeing these by his connivence would haue beene no abuses or by his approbation lawfull services Secondly in so applying his medicine as there was no likelihood but it should rather exasperate than asswage the present disease or prevent future contagion For how far did he restraine the people from wonted superstition Did he prohibite all men to present their devotions vpon their knees or to vow pilgrimages to any that were not canonized by him or his Successors No in that the words of the Decree expresly forbid all publike worship of Saints not canonized the Interpretors gather it was his purpose to allow them private worship They may yet haue houshold Saints of their owne choosing to whom they may tender all the points of religious obsequies hitherto mentioned not in secret onely but as many looking on as lift so it be not in the open Church or in solemne service For publicke worship such as in that Decree is onely forbidden is not opposed to secret or private worship where none besides God and good friends be present The prohibition of it vnlesse the penaltie be great and the enquirie strict licenceth any worship that is not tendred in the name as the institution of the whole Church Now as Printers sometimes gaine more by forbidden bookes then by such as are authorized for publicke sale so hath the divell found opportunitie to enlarge his service by this vnseasonable restraint of it The vniversall prohibition to worship any for Saints in publicke Liturgies that were not canonized hath by a kinde of Antiperistasis intended the peoples superstitious bent to worship more private Saints than otherwise would haue beene thought on with greater devotion in their chambers or private chappells than if their open service had beene authorized in Churches A man may take a deadly surfeit as well at home as at a publicke feast and spirituall surfeiting or drunkennesse being the disease which Pope Alexander sought to cure his prescript was no better than if a Physician should strictly charge an intemperate glutton or drunkard to be abstemious at great feasts abroad leaving him to his bellies discretion at his owne Table or amongst his companions in private meetings 3. This our judgement by these Analogies vpon Pope Alexanders successe-lesse medicine wants not approved experiments For the intollerable abuse of submissiue servitude to a numberlesse rout of base obscure private Saints was never greater never more rise than in the ages betweene the reformation pretended by Pope Alexander and Luther And it seemes the Trent Councell was partly of this minde in that to Bishops within their Diocesses it leaues more authoritie in judging of miracles in admission of new reliques in setting vp new fashioned images than the former decree by Bellarmines interpretation did Yet if any doubtfull case or questionable abuse of greater moment should any where happen the consent and advise of the Metropolitan and other neighbour Bishops must be demanded in a provinciall Synode before the Bishop of the Diocesse take vpon him precisely to determine one way or other alwayes provided that no novelties or rites before vnusuall in the Church be established before they know his Holines pleasure CHAPTER XL. That the medicine on which the present Romish Church doth now relie is worse than the disease it selfe That they make the Pope a greater God than the Heathen did any other God besides Iupiter 1. FRom this positiue decree we may infer that not all their private doctors onely as Valentian and Bellarmine in the name of the rest avouch but their whole Church representatiue the Councell and Pope joyntly agree in this conclusion Whatsoever religious rite or forme of worship is once approued by the Pope thus consulted may not be suspected of superstitiō c. And when the Councell professeth their desire that all superstition may be abandoned in the inuocation of Saints the adoration