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faith_n	believe_v	church_n	infallibility_n	5,773	5	11.7611	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47202	Tricoenivm Christi in nocte proditionis suæ The threefold svpper of Christ in the night that he vvas betrayed / explained by Edvvard Kellett.	Kellett, Edward, 1583-1641.	1641 (1641)	Wing K238; ESTC R30484	652,754	551

springs whirlpooles and other ebullitions of waters arising in the deeps from the veynes of the earth at the bottome of the Sea or deepe Rivers and by reason of the inflowings of those many naturall Aquaeducts which tumble from our mountaines our freshets fountaines and rivers which doe not presently lose their pleasing taste and sweet savour but Arethusa-like retaine it for a while Likewise though we cannot deny but the vertue of the Sunne pierceth sarre deeper than foure fathomes even to the bottome of the mineralls and mines and much below them even perhaps to the center of the earth yet his rarifying power by which he exhaleth up still the lighter and thinner water and leaveth the heavier and salter parts in the Sea is conteined within foure fathoms depth from the upper superficies of the Sea that is the Sunne hath work enough to draw so much sweet water as to make the Sea salt for foure fathoms deepe There is an Iland a little from Hispaniola the Spaniards call it Arethusa which hath a fountaine in it comming by secret passages under both Earth and Sea and ariseth in that Iland For it bringeth with it the leafes of many trees which grow in Hispaniola and not in that Iland Oviedo mentioneth a little Iland called Navazza halfe a league from which are many rocks in the Sea five foot deep covered with water out of which issueth and shooteth up above the water of the Sea a spout of fresh water as great as a mans arme that it may be received sweet and good This was seen by Stephano della Rocca a man of good credit See Purchase his Pilgrim 9.14 The fresh waters below the deepe Sea may be a partiary cause that all the fishes of the Sea be fresh none so much as saltish For to those sweeter waters they can quickly descend though the salt water affordeth them more prey and more desire to multiply and perhaps more desire to play therein Thou-hast formed Leviathan to play in the Sea Psal 104.26 When fishes are dead how little salt in a short time salteth them whom the whole Sea could not season or reduce to a rellish of saltnesse whilst they lived New Inventions which are profitable I admire and the Inventors I do adore Certainly many things may be perfected which yet we will not beleeve Who would have thought that the River-water should be the chiefe ingredient to make Gunpowder The Turks have found it Or that Allum hills should distill a liquor like unto oyle and sulphur or brimstone whereof the Spaniards make excellent Gunpowder as Purchase relateth pag. 16.6 Our brackish fountaines our Bathes our Brimstony springs or rivelets may perhaps doe the like The Lake Mardotis or Maraeotis now called Buchira saith Master George Sandys in his Journey Lib. 2. folio 112. by the Citie of Alexandria was by a narrow cut joyned unto another Lake farre lesse and nearer the Sea which at this day too plentifully furnisheth all Turky with Saltpeter saith Purchase in his Pilgrimes part 2. chap. 8. parag 1. fol. 900. from the said Master G. Sandys loc cit fol. 113. 114. Whereupon I could wish that the sonnes of Art would make experiments in some of our Lakes or Rivers or Fountaines which taste of brimstone or are likely to yeeld such effects though messengers were sent both to taste of that Aegyptian Lake and to see their manner of making Saltpeter there If there may not be more profit and benefit to mankinde if this Invention were perfected and in use than by the wilde discoveries of the Man in the Moone or the fancies of the Lord Verulam in the New Atlantis or the Northren Iland all made of Loadstones found onely in the braines of Campanella De sensu rerum 1.8 for the best Loadstones are in the East Indies in China and Bengala saith our Doctor Gilbert de Magnete 1.2 pagina 9. Who also is confident that the Loadstone doth eate the filings of iron and is nourished with it as he experimentally tryed and saw then am I much deceived Yet give Campanella his due lib. 4. cap. 19. from whom the Fabulous Man in the Moone tooke the Art of Flying The Art of Flying seemeth possible to me saith Campanella The Dancers on ropes seeme to fly If therefore a man use fit meats and get the agility of such as walk on ropes and procure wings like to Cranes and knows how well to imitate them if armes thighes and leggs be fitted with wings he may perhaps fly The Man in the Moone addeth much to this Invention yet is but a Fable But that two Ships of equall both burthen and shape one should be yare of sayling because he consenteth to such an end and the other slow and unfit for sayling because it is more against it and unwilling to consent unto sayling I say these are strange formes of expression used by Campanella 3. in fine As for the makers of Clocks complaining of the same point I say the temper of mettalls is not so exact but there may be some predominant purity in some part rather than in other In darknesse a little hole affordeth light The West Indies were found our per Minima indicia by very small discoveries One is the beginning of number The least weight is the beginning of weighing and the least measure the beginning of measuring saith Cusanus A minimis maxima oriuntur The greatest things in the world have but small beginnings A spark may kindle a fire A little sprig may save a man who is upon drowning Statesmen have found the greatest mischiefes that ever were intended to subvert any State by small beginnings obscure words and indifferent actions Yet from These have they sought and wrought out more hidden evills Feare and Doubt sharpning suspition Suspition animating them to a more in ward Disquisition either by that multiplex interrogatio the evidencer of Truth in Examinations or by Torture if occasion be Where evident Scripture fay leth strong Presumption or Tradition or Reason may carry it Tertullian de Coronâ Militis Si Legem unsquam reperio sequitur ut Traditio consuetudint morem hunc de dederit habiturum quandoque Apostoli authoritatem ex interpretatione Rationis If I finde not a Command or Law that women should be vayled Tradition hath made it a custome which sometimes shall have Apostolicall Authority because it standeth with Reason If we cannot have infallible proofes yet such proofes as shelter themselves Sub patrocinio Rationis under the protection of Reason must not be rejected If we cannot finde Verum the Truth which Democritus said was hid deep as in a Well yet let us take hold of verisimile of that which hath some colour of Truth and make much of It. I care not if I be found fault withall when I determine things probable probably I presse no man to beleeve points of opinion as points of Faith nor doe I goe about to build Infallibility upon the sands nor labour I to make

reines as quarries of stones my parents knew no such disease though they lived long my right hand heretofore carelesly unfenced and undefended from the cold alas for the time hath swelled with the gowt as if it would break I have been often sick always weak yet have I prevented antelucanam opificum industriam nox ad diem accessit Early and late have I performed my hard taske Yea Midnight hath conceived full many of the dayes expressions and oft have I arose from my bed and meales with a Conclusum est to prevent forgetfulnesse But the manifold avocations by my own private affaires and especially by publick employements both in Ecclesiasticall and Civill Justice have after their dispatch set an edge and sharpned the appetite of my endeavours The unbent bow hath prepared it selfe for the stronger shooting or delivery Yet now my senses decay my memory faileth me I have no courage or incouragement I am out of heart I am worne to the stumps and spent I must imitate old Ennius his race-horse to whom age afforded quiet and exempted from more active exercise craving pardon if my book in some passages have partaken of my weaknesse and infirmities or languishing And now thou great Work of mine concerning the Estate of humane soules from their creation to the day of the generall Judgement exclusively on which I have bestowed thousands of houres Lie still and sleep S. Hierom did seeme always to heare Surgite Mortui venite ad Judicium Arise you dead and come to Judgement And me thinks I heare the repeated precept as spoken to my selfe and such only as are in my case 1 Thess 5.17 pray without ceasing pray always Luke 21 3● Yea though I be enfeebled and faint wronged and distressed as the widow was yet the rather ought I alwayes pray and not faint Luke 18.1 The very Mcores of Morocco pray six times in 24. houres And thinck he is not held worthy to beare witnesse to a truth who hath not said his prayers six times in a naturall day Seven times a day did David prayse God Psal 119. vers 164. Some have held and sure that Christian doth best who saith the Lords Prayer at least seven times in a day There never was composed a perfecter and sweeter prayer To what prayer shall God give eare if not to the prayer composed by his own son which the extravagant bablings of Pharisees and battologies of those who Longum precantur love long prayers as Tertullian phraseth it and the sudden extemporary ebullitions of Lip-holy seeme-Saints are as far inferior as Hell is to Heaven which no men no raptures of Angels or Archangels can mend O Lord prepare my heart to continue in Prayers and guide my prayers to please thee through him in whom thou art well pleased Jesus Christ our blessed Saviour and Redeemer 2. I will go briefly to work Concerning the divisions of these times and the scruples from these words I wholly put them off to the Masters of Controversies and the Anti-Bellarminian Canvasers and I refer my selfe and my beliefe to the Doctrine of the Church of England assenting to her wholly so far as my knowledge reacheth and in other things beyond my capacity implicitly beleeving in her For I see no reason but in such things as the Lay-man and Ignorant must trust in his Priest by an implicit Faith so the Clergy man ought to trust in his Church It is no false ground whatsoever the ignorant Zelotes do say or write but fit to be imbraced To confesse and follow Scripture expresse in things apparent and to beleeve such senses thereof as may be though to us unrevealed Not can it be amisse to subscribe to our Church in points beyond our Sphere Needle or Compasse but to Follow the Faith of our Governors Overseers and Pastors That which I know is good what I know not I beleeve to be better said Heraclitus of old To her I subject in humblest manner all my Writings with my selfe professing in the sight of God who searcheth soules and tryeth consciences that I beleeve the Church of England to be the purest part of Christs Militant Church pro quâ non metuam mori as one said in another case In the defence whereof I could be well content if occasion served to sactifice my dearest blood In a more particular expressing I unbosome my thoughts thus We have had foure right Reverend and most learned Lords Bishops Bishop Jewel Bishop Andrewes Bishop Morton and Bishop White who have written polemically and unanswerably of this subject and may give content to any indifferent Reader Many other Heroës of our Church of England have also done excellently well but the incomparable Mr. Hooker exceeds them all Let them who have him not buy him who have him study him and who is scrupulous concerning these words This is my Body c. let him reade and diligently consider and he may safely beleeve what Mr. Hooker writeth in his Ecclesiasticall Polity lib. 5. Par. 67. I cannot but transcribe part Thus then divinely he proceedeth p. 179. Variety of Judgements and opinions argueth obscurity in those things whereabout they differ But that which all parts receive for truth that which every one having sifted is by no one denied or doubted of must needs bee matter of infallible certainty Whereas therefore there are but three expositions made of This is my Body The first This is in it selfe before participation really and truly the naturall substance of my body by reason of the coëxistence which my omnipotent body hath with the sanctified element of bread which is the Lutherans interpretation The second This is in it selfe and before participation the very true and naturall substance of my body by force of that Deity which with the words of Consecration abolisheth the substance of bread and substituteth in the place thereof my body which is the Popish construction The last This hallowed Food through concurrence of divine power is in verity and truth unto Faithfull receivers instrumentally a cause of that mysticall participation whereby as I make my selfe wholy theirs so I give them in hand an actuall possession of all such saving grace as my sacrificed body can yeeld and as their soules do presently need this is to them and in them my body Of these three rehearsed Interpretations the Last hath in it nothing but what the rest do all approve and acknowledge to be most true nothing but that which the words of Christ are on all sides confest to inforce nothing but that which the Church of God hath always thought necessary nothing but that which alone is sufficient for vvery Christian man to beleeve concerning the use and force of this Sacrament finally nothing but that wherewith the writings of all Antiquity are consonant and all Christian Confessions agreeable And as truth in what kinde soever is by no kinde of truth gain-faid so the mind which resteth it selfe on this is never troubled with those perplexities which the