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A07782	A Christian dialogue, betweene Theophilus a deformed Catholike in Rome, and Remigius a reformed Catholike in the Church of England Conteining. a plaine and succinct resolution, of sundry very intricate and important points of religion, which doe mightily assaile the weake consciences of the vulgar sort of people; penned ... for the vtter confusion of all seditious Iesuites and Iesuited popelings in England ...	Bell, Thomas, fl. 1593-1610.	1609 (1609)	STC 1816; ESTC S101425	103,932	148

be too chargeable to you if I tarry long with you Remig. I liue as you sée like a scholler and kéepe but a sparing diet if you can content your selfe therewith I shall ioy thereat For I know assuredly that our mercifull God who fréely without my deserts sendeth me al things necessary for my bodily sustenance and who hath also fréely promised not to suffer a cuppe of cold water giuen in his name to passe at any time without reward will neuer sée or suffer me to want things necessary to my selfe for bestowing Christian hospitality vpon my neighbour for his sake yéeld therefore your serious attention and ye shall behold these thrées things as cleare as the noo●e day viz. the false and erroneous faith of your Bishops of Rome their most brttish and de●estable liues and their interrupted and most uncerta●● succession as which is so mingled and mangled or rather so defaced and vtterly extinguished that no man can tell what indéede to make thereof Of which thrée points while I shall distinctly discourse I would haue you to put forth plainly and at large all such doubts as any way doe trouble you for that I hold the best course for your full satisfaction and confirmation in the truth of the true auncient Cathalike and orthodore faith CHAP. 2. Of the false and erroneous faith of the late Bishops of Rome Theophilus VVE at Rome hold it constantly for an article of the Chatholike faith that our Popes and Bishops are the successors of S. Peter and therefore can they not erre in faith or doctrine no more then S. Peter could for whose faith Christ prayed that it should neuer faile Remig. How the late Bishops of Rome are S. Peters successors it shall be shewed God willing in the chapter of succession Let vs now vnfold and sincerely examine the faith and doctrine of some speciall Popes in particular for the view and consideration of a few will be a sufficient tryall for all the rest Theoph. I must needes yeeld thereunto for we hold it a part of the Catholike faith that Christs prayer was effectuall for all S. Peters successors alike so as if any one of them can be conuinced to haue erred we cannot safely relie and ground our faith vpon the rest Remig. That the Bishops or Popes of Rome as ye call them may become heretikes yea that they haue béene heretikes de facto it is a thing so cleare as I shall not neede to stand long vpon the same for many popish decrées and Papall constitutions tell vs that Popes may be deposed when and so often as they swarue from the true faith and become heretikes indéede which decrées and constitutions must perforce presuppose that the Popes may be heretikes indéede for otherwise they should be frustrate and to none end at all one popish Canon and decrée hath these expresse words the Pope iudgeth all and must be iudged of none vnlesse he swarue from the faith and be an heretike another Canon hath these words sheepe which are committed to their pastor may neither rebuke him nor in any wise accuse him vulesse he depart and forsake the faith these are the words of the Popes owne Canons I doe alledge them truely as I meane to do all the reste whatsoeuer I shall speake of the Popes themselues or of any popish writer which I proteste vnto you once for all as I will answere the saine at the dreadfull day of generall doome Now we sée by these Canons that the Popes may be heretikes and in the case of heresie be censured controlled and condemned Theoph. I heartily thanke you for this your Christian protestation it fully perswadeth me that I may safely giue credit to all your allegations and asseuerations whatsoeuer you say of our Popes Popish writers and their Faith and Doctrine But can yee name any Pope indeede that hath been an Heretique or an Apostate from the Faith our honorable and learned Cardinall the Iesuite Bellarmine statly denieth it Remig. Pope Anastasius Pope Honorius Pope Iohn and others haue beene Heretickes Vignerius Melchier Canus Alphonsus and Adrianus all foure famous and learned Papists and one of them Adrianils sometime Pope himselfe doe affirme it and defend it for a constant and vndoubted truth Nicholaus de Lyra a famous Popish Frier so learned a man that Sir Thomas Moore called him a great Clearke as he was indéede preueth euidently that the Church doth not consist in men by reason of power or dignity either Ecclesiasticall or Secular and this is the ground and foundation vpon which hée buildeth his assertion because saith Fryer Lyra many Princes and Popes and others of the inferiour sort are sound to haue swarued from the faith and to haue béene flat Apostataes Yea Iosephus Angles a famous Popish Bishop and religious Fryer in that very booke which hée deliuered to the Pope himselfe behold the force of truth confirmeth this mine assertion in these expressed words Papa hereticus aut Apostata c. The Pope being an Heretique or Apostata may bee deposed by a generall Councel and the reason is because as none can be a Prelate of any religion which is not professed in that religion so neither can he be Pope that holdeth not the faith o● the Church Thus you see it cléere euen by Popish famous Doctors the Popes owne decrées such 〈…〉 none can be better that the Bishope of Rome may forsake the Christian faith teach false Doctrine and become flat Apostataes Yea that de facto the same hath béene verified of sundry Popes in very déede Theoph. Our Cardinall Bellarmine and other learned Catholiques tell vs that our Pope is a double person priuate and publique that as he is a priuate person hee may thinke speake write and hold erroneous opinions false doctrine and whatsoeuer else yet this notwithstanding that the Pope as he is Pope and a publique person can neuer erre in any matter of faith nor iudicially define any thing against the truth This our famous Dominican Fryer Dominicus de Soto setteth downe in these expresse words quamuis Papa vt Papa c. Albeit the Pope as Pope cannot erre that is to say cannot set downe any errour as an article of our faith because the holy Ghost will not that permit neuerthelesse as hee is a priuate person he may erre euen in faith as he may do in other sinnes Remig. This indéede is the ground and foundationo all Popish faith and doctrine that the Pope may erre as a priuate man but not as Pope and publique person for this cause doth M. Watson tell vs in the name of all the secular Priests in their conflict against the traiterous Iesuits that as the prudent Gréeke appealed from Alexander furious to Alexander sober and Bishop Crostrate from Pope Adrian priuate to Pope Adrian publique and as sumus pontifex in cathedra Petri so may the secular Priests the Popes deuoted vassals notwithstanding any decrée

we haue head if may be a point of Christian faith and yet not necessary to saluation and consequently if this point were not knowne by the scriptures yet might the scripture containe all things néedefull to saluation Secōdly that y● holy scripture sheweth itself to be Canical and the pure word of God for as holy Dauid saith it is a Lanterne to our féete and a light to our pathes as Saint Peter saith it is a light that shineth in the darke and S. Paul saith Gods word is liuely and mighty in operation and sharper then any two edged sword it is not incke and paper or a bare and dead Letter but quicke and powerable and sheweth it selfe as light to the children of light For as the same Apostle telleth vs if Christs Gospell be hid it is hid in them that perish in whom the God of this world hath blinded the mindes of them which beleue not lest the light of Christs glorious Gospell should shine vnto them yea the selfe same Apostle saith that the spirituall man iudgeth all things Saint Iohn also saith that the v●ction which Gods children haue receiued teacheth them all things And what néede many words Christ himselfe assureth vs that his shéepe heare hi● voy●● and that they follow him because they know his voyce he addeth that they will not follow a straunger and he yéeldeth this reason there●● because they know not the voyce of straungers this is confirmed by an old receiued Theologicall maxime viz that when wee pray we speake to God but when we read or heare the holy scripture redde then God speaketh to vs but certes when God speaketh to vs if we be his wee will heare him if we be his shéepe we will know his voyce and follow him Thirdly that euery part of the new Testament doth affirme it selfe to be the pure word of God for it saith the holy Gospel of Iesus Christ according to Matthew Marke Luke and Iohn the Actes of the holy Apostles written by Luke the Euangelist the Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Romans Corinthians Galatians Ephesians Philippians Colossians Thessaloniti●ns Timotheus Titus and Philemon the Epistle of Peter Iames Iude and Iohn the seruants of Iesus Christ the reuelation of Iesus Christ which God gaue vnto Iohn his seruant by his holy Angell Fourthly that the new Testament giueth testimony to the old and the old to the new in the swéete harmony of diuine truth for Christ himselfe te●l●th vs that all must come to passe which are written of him in the law in the Prophets and in the Psalmes and for this end was it that Abraham answered the rich glutton in these words they haue Moses and the Prophets let them heare them as if he had said now the law is not studied now the Prophets are contemned and now God is not heard speaking in his holy word some would haue Angels come downe from heauen some desire myracles others the dead to rise againe howbeit to heare Moses and the Prophetes which is to read the scriptured for Moses and the Prophets were dead many hundred yéeces afore is the true and onely way to attaine eternall life this reason striketh dead as which proueth the scripture of the old Testament to be Canonicall and the pure word of God and this reason is confirmed by Saint Paul when he telleth vs that he was put apart to preach the Gospel of God which afore was promised by his Prophets in the holy scriptures and it is further confirmed because the same Apostle saith in an other place that he taught nothing but which Moses and the Prophets had foretold should come to passe Fifthly that these holy writings of Moses and the Prophetes were common among the Iewes in Christs tune and yet did Christ neuer once reproue the Iewes for any corruption therein or charge them with changing adding or taking away of any one iote or title either of the law or of y● Prophets for our mercifull and powerable God who caused Balaam to blesse when he entred to curse who when Saul was a cruell persecuter blasphemer and rauening Woolfe made him with one word as méeke as a Lambe who shut vp the Sea with doores and staied her proud waues appointed her boūds whither she should come but no further enforced y● aduersaries of the truth the Iewes I meane to preserue the holy scriptures of the old Testament inuiolable and pure from all corruption and not to adde any thing thereto or take ought therefrom neither to prophane the same with the least mixture of mans word our Lord Iesus assured vs hereof when he constantly pronounced that it was more easie for Heauen and Earth to passe away then that one title of the law should fall thus you see or may sée I wéent that the popish inuincible bulwarke is battered downe made euen with the ground for none but God alone can infallibly foretell things to come Theoph. Your reasons are vnanswerable in my iudgement and your manner of disputation so forcible as it is able fully to perswade any indifferent reader Howbeit I do not yet see how the holy scripture doth proue it selfe canonical for if that were possible to be proued not onely our Iesuite Pars●as but the Pope his Cardinals and all his Iesuited Popelings should be confounded euerlastingly Remig. I haue proued out of Christs own words that whatsoeuer is contained in the law of Moses in the bookes of the Prophets in the Psalmes that same must néeds be true and come to passe and consequently whatsoeuer scripture must néedes come to passe and cannot but bee true that Scripture doubtles is Cannonicall and y● pure word of God for onely Gods prediction of future things is infallible Theoph. Doe not many godly people especially the zealous Preachers of Gods word vtter many speeches which must needs come to passe and cannot but be true Remig. I answere with this distinction that words vttered by men may be considered two waies First as the words of pure man Secondly as Gods words pronounced by pure man The words vttered by man the second way must néedes come to passe and cannot but bee true and therefore do we receiue and reuerence as the pure word of God and Canonicall scripture all the law giuen by Moses as also all the rest of the old and new testament this day truly acknowledged for Canonical and holy writ but words vttered by man the first way are fallible and may deceiue both the speaker and the hearer For as Gods Prophet telleth vs all men are lyars another Prophet accurseth him y● putteth his trust in man another Prophet was deuoured of a Lion for y● he gane credit relyed vpon the feined reuelation of an old Prophet in Bethel for none can infallibly foretell things to come except one that is Almighty and all-sufficient of himselfe Theoph. Men tell vs that the sunne shall rise at such an