Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	church_n	doctrine_n	exposition_n	3,685	5	11.7155	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66406	The papist represented, and not misrepresented being in answer to the second sheet of the second part of the Papist misrepresented and represented : and for a further vindication of the catechism truly representing the doctrines and practices of the Church of Rome, in the point of their praying to the cross.	Williams, John, 1636?-1709.	1687 (1687)	Wing W2714; ESTC R2074	11,430	18

better than Professors of Folly and Non-sence bundles of Absurdities and Prophaneness c. One would think that this Author from a certain pique he has taken against what he so often calls a Grave Catechism had forgotten all Gravity and Respect to the most serious matters Stand clear have a care beware Who and what are these addressed to No other than a holy St. Paul an excellent St. Chrysostom and the chief Sum of the Articles of our Faith. For God's sake are there no more decent Forms of Speech to describe these things by And are we to discourse of them as if we were at some light and rustical Pastimes But what can be strange in this kind when it shall be suggested that there is as much reason to say St. Paul reverenced the material Cross above all things in Heaven and Earth because he saith God forbid that I should glory save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ As much reason to say he looked upon the Wood of the Cross as that which had purchased Man's Reconciliation to God because he saith Man was reconciled to God in one Body by the Cross as there is for saying the Church of Rome prays directly to the Cross because she salutes it with Hail O Cross our only Hope and as if there was no more reason to apply this to a material Cross than there is these and the like Texts of St. Paul. He doth indeed intimate and would have it understood that the material Cross is herein concerned For thus he saith To do right to St. Paul St. Chrysostom c. besides giving a bare Narrative of their Expressions it ought to be explicated to the People that in these high Encomiums they do not understand the meer material Cross. But when he can prove there was any material Cross then used and that those Encomiums do in any sense belong to it then it will be time enough to answer further to his Exceptions but till that time what I have already said about the Notion of a Cross the Consecration the Adoration of it and I will venture to say their Prayer to it is sufficient to shew that though there be good reason to understand St. Paul in a figurative sense there is none to understand the Phrase before recited and used in the Romish Church in that sense If our Author expects an Answer to his Heathenish Catechism as he calls it which is a Name very proper for it I shall instead of that only put a few Questions and conclude Q. Whether the Crosses used in the Religious Service of the Church of Rome be mere pieces of Wood c Q. Whether they may not and are not to adore the Cross tho they may not adore a meer piece of Wood Q. How the Cross which they pray to Christ to bless is made the stability of Faith and increase of good Works Q. How the Cross upon which Christ hung may be Christ who hung upon the Cross FINIS Pap. Misr par 2. c 2. Ibid c. 2. Ibid. De Cruce l. 1. c. 49. Chap. 51. Misrepr p. 2. c. 2. c p. 10. Pontificale in benedic Nov. Crucis Salutare De Cruce l. 1. c. 50. Pontific ibid. Ibid. c. 49. Missal Rom. in Para●●ev Fer. 6. Lud. de Paramo de Orig. S. Inquis l. 2. tit 3. c. 8. n. 5. Bellarm. de Scriptor Eccles An. 300. Ibid. de Venant Fortun. Lib. 1. de Cruce c. 53. Fest. Invent. Crucis ad Vesper Dom. Soto de Instit. Jure l. 2. q. 3. art 2. in fin Cathar de cultu ador Imag. p. 133 137. V. Simon Majolus pro desens sacr Imag. centur 13. c. 14. Page 12. See the defence of the Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England Append p. 121. L'Office de la Semaine Sancte Francois Latin. 8 o à Lyon p. 1667. Remarques p. 317. Page 11. Page 11. Page 12.