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The iudgement of the Apostles and of those of the first age, in all points of doctrine questioned betweene the Catholikes and Protestants of England, as they are set downe in the 39. Articles of their religion. By an old student in Diuinitie.
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Broughton, Richard.
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1632
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STC 3898; ESTC S114820
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euidently proued against this their Article that the Church of Rome in euery age as they haue before declared assisting and directing the Christian Britans here and concurring and agreeing with them ineuery point and article of Religion neither did nor could be said to haue erred in matters of faith And this these Protestants expressely confesse when they generally acknowledge as all Antiquities doe that there was then no materiall or essentiall difference in matters of faith betweene the Christian Britains except some Pelagian heretiks among them and Sainct Augustine with his company being sent from the Church of Rome the Pope then being a greate S. Gregory the most learned and holy Pope that euer was by these mens Testimony Gregorius magnus omnium PoÌtificum Romanorum Balaeus l. 2. de Act. Rom. Pontif. in Gregorio Mâgââo doctrina vita praestantissimus And therefore by them and all holy writers stiled Gregory the greate And wherein soeuer any difference though ceremoniall obseruing of Easter any ceremony about the ministering of Baptisme or giuing holy Orders was betweene the Roman Church and the Britains all writers both Catholiks and ProtestaÌts proue the Roman Church professed the truth And the Britains were in the errour and so they freely and publikely in their first meeting coÌfessed as Sainct Bede and our Protestants themselues Bed hist Eccles l. 2. c. 2. with others acknowledge Tum Britones confitentur quidem intellexisse se veram esse viam iustitiae quam praedicaret Augustinus and this was inuincibly proued vnto them both by vnanswearably humane arguments and diuine testimony and miracle And they afterward generally corrected and conformed themselues to the Romane Church in all things formerly questioned betweene them as all Antiquaries Brittish English Forreine domesticall Catholiks and Protestants agree neuer contending about any question moued by Protestants against the present Roman Church but both the Romane Church then and our Britains as the whole Christian world also iointly agreing in euery article against this new Protestant Religion And this is manifestly proued particularly already in all articles yet examined and so will be in all that followe Therefore it is manifestly false by all testimonies auncient later forreine domesticall Catholikes and Protestants euen in their publike decrees and Confessions that which this Article so desperately hath deliuered The Church of Rome hath erred in matters of faith and the contradictory that it hath not so erred nor shall at any time so erre is euidently true by all witnesses This will be yet more euidently manifested in the two next following examinations and others THE VIII CHAPTER The 20. Article thus examined and in whatsoeuer contrary to the Church of Romè thus condemned THEIR 20. and next article intituled of the authority of the Church is this It is noâ lawfull âor the Church to ordaine any thinge contrary to Gods word written neither may it so expound one place of âcripture that it be repugnant to another Wherefore âlthough the Church be a witnesse and a keeper of holy ârit yet as it ought not to decree any thing against the âame so besides the same ought it not to enforce any âhing to be beleeued for necessity of saluation In this article no thing needeth other answeare or confutation then is made before in their article of Scriptures and traditions where the pretended sole necessity of the written Scriptures heretikely insinuated is most plainely confuted both by the Apostolike doctrine and practise of this age and otherwise And the supreame power and authority which here they giue vnto the Church to be a witnesse and keeper of holy writ and the cheifest expositour thereof and as their common glosse ââ this article is the Church hath authority to Iudge and determine in controuersies of faith doth vtterly disable and condemne those Protestants to haue any colour or pretence to hold the truth in any one article they maintaine against the Roman Church either concerning Scriptures Church or anâ thing else for the Church which onely was and â visible as they haue described the true Church before hath in all and euery article condemned aâ such Protestant Innouation And for these men to say as they haue done ââ their 19. Article that the Church is a congregatiâ of faithfull men in which the pure word of God â preached and the Sacraments be duely ministred anâ to make it an article of faith as they doe in theâ publike profession of the Creede that this Church one holy and Catholike doth so continue for ãâã without interruption or corruption in ministriâ Sacraments and preaching doctrine and the things are in their censure should onely be take from the written word and Scriptures It is vnpoâsible in such proceedings that the Church shoâ ordaine any thing contrary to Gods word writteâ or so expound on place of Scripture that it be repugnant to an other For otherwise it should neither be one holie or Catholike but diuers different vnholy particular no pillar of truth but a forge of falsehood no howse of God no spouse of Christ no saluation to be had or hoped for in any Iudgment Catholike or Protestant but in the true Church of Christ To this the Apostolike men of this age giue Ignat. epist ad Philadelp Ephes Trall Magn. Antiochen Ignat. ep ad Philadelp euident testimony Sainct Ignatius doth make the Iudgment of the Church both supreame and certaine and receauing penitents and saith Christ hath firmely builded his Church vpon a hile by spirituall building without help of mans hands against which the floods dashing and windes puffing could not ouerthrowe it nor any spirituall wickednesses shall euer be able to doe it but they shall be weakened by the power of our Lord Iesus Christ. Iesus Christus secundum propriam voluntatem suam firmauit Ecclesiam super Petram adificatione spirituali citra humanarum manuam operam in quam collisa flumina venti non potuerunt eam subuertere nec id valcant vnquam spirituales nequitiae sed infirmentur virtute Domini nostri Iesu Christi And saith plainely as there is but one flesh and blood of Christ shedd for our sinnes one Euchariste one Altare one Priestly order one God the Father one God the sonne one holy Ghost so there is but one preaching and one faith and one baptisme and one Church which with their sweate and labours the holy Apostles haue founded in the blood of Christ from the one end of the earch to the other vnapraedicatio fides vna vnum baptisma vna Ecclesia quam suis sudoribus laboribus fundarunt sancti Apostoli à finibus terrae vsque ad fines in sanguine Christi Sainct Clement Câem Rom. Const Apost l. 1. c. 1. saith the Catholike Church is the plantation of God and his chosen vineyard which cannot be digged vp or destroied Dei plantatio est Catholica Ecclesia vinea eius electa So that no other can be planted or chosen by
sine originali peccato fâ esse Atque it a in primo momento cum viuere inâret omnis peccati expers erat And saith that eâ from her conception she was full of grace and hauing no place for any sinne Maria Virgo ââ In Euang. de Annunt Mar. animaÌ plâna gratia concepta est Gratia Deiipsam ââ boni abundantem facit Et ab omni malo liberat Dâcum ea est hoc est omne quod facit aut omittit diuiâ est in eo a Deo perficitur ad haec tutatur eam âfendit ab omni quod obnoxium incommodum esseâ Antiquitat Glaston manuscrip tabul lign fixe Io. Capgrau in vit S. Iosephi ab Aramathia Guliel Malmesbur l. de anâiq coenob Glastonien test That from her conception she was full of grace whatsoeuer she did or omitted was holy and diâ she was free from all thing illor sinfull Her hoâ here in Britaine was so greate and timely that ââ in 31. yâares of the passion of Christ and 15. of the blâ Virgins Assumption anno post Passionem Dominâ cesimo primo ab Assumptione vero Virginis glorâ quinto decimo S. Ioseph and his holy company by â monition of the holy Angel Gabriel and diuine waâ âilded here a Chapell vnto her honour It is accompted âe first Church of Britaine dedicated miraculously by âhrist in honour of his Mother The ChristiaÌ builders in âeate deuotion watching and fastings and prayers âere serued God and the blessed Virgin and by the âlpe of the blessed Virgin were releiued in their necesâies Praedicti sancti per Archangelum Gabrielem in âisione admoniti sunt Ecclesiam in honore sanctae Dei ânetricis perpetuae Virginis Mariae in loco caelitus ââonstrato coÌstruere Qui diuinis admonitionibus obeâentes capellam consuminauerunt Et cum haec in hac âione prima fuerit Ecclesia ampliori eam dignitate ââ filius insigniuit ipsain in honore suae matris dediândo Duodecim sancti praedicti in eodem loco Deo âatae Virgini deuota exhibentes obsequia vigilijs ieâijs orationibus vacantes eiusdem Virginis Dei âetricis auxilio in necessitatibus suis refocillabantur âhus haue our most auncient antiquities both by âatholiks and Protestants testimonies The three next articles being thus intuled The â of sinne after Baptisme the 17. of predestination and âection and 18. of obtaining eternall saluation onely â the name of Christ doe not seeme in equall and âorall construction euen as they expound themâlues to haue opposition to any Catholike doârine but to haue beene receaued by them to conâmne newly risen vp heresies among them as liârtines denyers of saluation to penitent sinners âedestinaries not respecting to liue well vpon âicked presumption of their predestination and âch as affirmed that euery man shall be saued Iew âurke Pagan or whatsoeuer Infidell or heretike âall be saued by the law or sect which he professeth that he be diligent to frame his life according to that law and the light of nature as is plainely registred â set downe in those Articles THE VII CHAPTER The 19. Article examined and condemned by the same authority THEIR next and 19. Article intituled of â Church is this The visible Church of Christ iâ congregation of faithfull men in which the pure worâ God is preached and the Sacraments be duely ministrâ according to Christs ordinance in all those things thâ necâssity are requisite to the same As the Churâ Hiârusalem Alexandria and Antioche haue erred â also the Church of Rome hath erred not onely in thâ liuing and manner of ceremonies but also in matters â faith Hitherto this article Whose definition â description of the Church if wee should alloâ wee are sufficiently instructed by that is said bâfore that the Protestants new congregation câ not be this true visible Church of Christ eââ from the truth in so many necessary and requiâ things as hath beene proued in all Articles befoâ wherein it opposeth the receaued doctrine of tâ primatiue Apostolike age and the present Churâ of Rome as the like demonstration shall be maâ against them in all their contradictory Articâ following in their due place And so is also and ââ be most manifest that the present Roman Churâ agreeing in all those Articles both already heâ after to be examined with the vndoubted ââ Church of the Apostles and this their age is ââ must needs be the true Church of Christ Aâ âeir assertion in the second parte of this Article âhat the Church of Rome hath erred not onely in their âing and manner of ceremonies but also in matters of âith is most euidently false and impudently slaunâerous And the open dore to infidelity For if all âe commaunding Churches in the world Hieruâlem Nicen. Concil Can. Parlament â of Queene Eliz. Parl. â Iacob 1. Caroli Alexandria Antioche and Rome as they are ât downe in the first greate Councell of Nice and âproued by the Parlaments and Parlament Reâgions of Queene Elizabeth King Iames King âharles haue erred in matters of faith as this Arâle affirmeth then all other Churches all being âbiect vnto them haue likewise erred And this âw Protestant pretended Church not being then ârunge vp being noe congregation of faithfull âen in that time nor any congregation or men at â and so neither hauing the pure word of God âeached nor Sacraments duely ministred nor any âe point of doctrine yet preached or Sacrament ânistred nor man to preach or minister any such âuld not nor can possibly by their owne rule and âdgment be the true visible Church or any âember peece or part thereof That true primaâe and Apostolike Church teaching by all Preists âd Cleargy men it had both to the congregation â faithfull men to vse these mens phrase conârted and to others yet not Christians all those âcessary articles hitherto examined contrary to âotestant Religion when the onely want of any âe of such necessary things by their owne definiâe sentence before taketh away the name and âe to be the true Church at this present any âe past or to come the preaching of the pure ârd of God due ministring of the Sacraments in all things of necessity being one and the same â all persons in all times and places And to be of any other minde quite crosseth wiâ Christs Institution and the continuance and visiâlity of his Church which both that article of theâ Creede I beleeue the holy Catholike Church and tâ their article and confession of an euerduring visibâ Church doth proue For if at any time after Chriâ founding his Church either in this Apostolike â any age after it had generally erred in matters â faith that it retained not the name and truth of â true Church there was then by this article no tâ Church in the world For whosoeuer it was whâ wee will dreame to haue beene the first finder oâ of this generall errour and supposed Apostaâ Martine