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A00796	A treatise of faith wherin is briefely, and planly [sic] shewed, a direct way, by which every man may resolue, and settle his minde, in all doubtes, questions, or controuersies, concerning matters of faith.	Fisher, John, 1569-1641.	1605 (1605)	STC 10915.5; ESTC S2122	65,176	166

Scripture as it is the manner of euerie sect maister to confirme his errour with words of Scripture yea the Diuell himselfe doth sometime for his purpose alledge words of Scripture Wherefore there is no reason wherby wee may bee assured that such men haue the Spirit of God but we may finde many reasons to conuince that they haue not this Spirit And to omitte for breuity sake the seeking out of any other euen the singularity or priuatenes of their spirit is sufficient not onely to moue vs to suspect it but also to condemne it and to assure vs that it cannot bee the Spirit of truth as is very well signified by S. Augustine who saith Veritas tua Domine nec mea est nec illius sed omnium quos ad eius communionem publicè vocas terribiliter admonens nos ne eam habere velimus priuatam ne priuemur ea Nam quisquis id quod tu ad fruendum omnibus proponis sibi propriè vendicat suum esse vult quod omnium est à communi propellitur ad sua id est à veritate ad mendacium Thy truth O Lord is neither proper to mee nor him but common to all whom thou dost publiquely call to the common partaking of its warning vs terribly to take heede that wee will not haue it priuate to our selfe least we be depriued of it For whosoeuer doth challenge that to himselfe priuately which thou dost propose publiquely to be enioyed of all and will haue that his owne which is common to all he is driuen from the common to this owne that is to say from the truth to a lie CHAP. X. That the doctrine and teaching of the true Church is the rule of faith THE fourth Conclusion is that this infallible rule which euery one ought to follow in all points of faith is the Doctrine and teaching of the true Church or cōpany of the true faithfull of Christ. This I proue by this reason If our Sauiour Christ hath promised to any cōpanie of men the presence of himselfe and the assistance of his holy spiritt of purpose to instructe teach them all trueth giuing withall peculiar charge commission to them to teache all natiōs and to preache to euery creature giuing also warrant to all that they may safely heare them giuing also commandement whereby he bindeth all to doe in all thinges according to their saying and threatning greatly those who will not heare and beleeue them then certainely the doctrine teaching of these men is in all pointes most true and infallible such as if the other conditions required in the rule of faith be not as they are not wanting may well be proposed to all sortes as an assured ground whereupō they may safely build an infallible Christian faith For looke what our Sauiour Christ hath promised must needes be performed and whatsoeuer he warranteth or commandeth may safely without danger of errour be done nay must of necessity be done especially whē he threatneth those and will not doe it and consequently if he haue promised to sende his holy spirit to teach any company of men all trueth it is not to be doubted but that he sendeth this his holy spirit and by it teacheth them all trueth sith the teaching of this spirit is vnfallible we are not to doubt but that this company is in all pointes infall●bly taught the trueth If also the same our Sauiour gaue warrant and commandement that they should teach vs that we should heare them and doe in all thinges according to their saying we may not likwise doubt but that they shall be able to teache all sortes of men in all pointes the infallible trueth and that all sortes of men may if they will learne of that company what in all pointes is the infallible trueth For otherwise by this generall commaundement of hearing them and doing according to their saying we should be boūde sometime to heare beleeue an vntruth and to doe that which were not vpright and good which without blasphemy to Christ his veritie goodnes can no way be thought But so it is that Christ our Sauiour hath in holy Scripture promised giuen commission warranted commaunded and threatened in manner aforesaide Therefore we can not doubt but that their is a certaine company the which is called the true Church of Christ which both is in all pointes of faith infallibly taught by the holy spirit and is likewise to teach all sortes of men in all pointes of faith what is the infallible trueth and therefore the teaching of this companie may well be assigned and proposed to all men as an vndoubted sufficient rule of faith The promise of our Sauiour Christ we haue first in the Gospell of S. Mathew ego ●obiscum sum omnibus diebus vsque ad cōsum●ationem seculi I am with you al the daies vntill the ende of the world in which wordes is promised the continuall presence of Christ himselfe who is veritas the trueth it selfe with his Church not for a while then or for a while now but all the daies vntill the end of the world Secondly we haue an other promise in the gospell of S. Iohn Ego rogabo patrem alium paraclitum dabit vobis vt maneat vobiscum in aeter●um spiritum veritatis I will aske my father and he will giue you an other paraelite the spirit of trueth that he may remaine with you not only for 600. yeares but for euer And againe in the same S. Iohn to shew vs for what purpose he would haue his holy Spirite remaine among vs for euer he saith Paraclitus quā●ittet pater in nomine m●o ille vos docebit om●●a suggeret vobis omnia quaecunque dixero vobis the paraclite whom my Father will sende in my name shall teach you all things shal put you in mind of al things whatsoeuer I shall say vnto you And againe Cum venerit ille spiritus veritatis docebit v●s omnē veritatē Whē that spirit of truth shall come hee shall teach you all truth The charge and commission is plaine in S. Mathew cuntes docete omnes gentes Going teach all nations And in S. Marke euntes in mundum vniuersum praedicate Euangelium omni creaturae Going into the whole world preach the Gospell to euery creature The warrant we haue in S Luke Qui vos audit me audit Hee that heareth you heareth mee By which wordes appeareth plainely that our Sauiour Christ would haue vs to heare and giue credit to his Church no lesse then to himselfe The commandemēt is expressed in S. Mathew Super Cathedram Moysisederūt Scribae Pharisaei Omnia ergo quaecunque dixeri●t vobis seritate facite The Scribes Pharisies haue sitten vpon the chaire of Moses All things therfore whatsoeuer they shall say vnto you obserue and doe Out of which words we may gather that wee are bound in all pointes

thinke that you are vnwise who pretending to trauaile toward the happy kingdome of heauen and to goe to that glorious citty the heauenly Ierusalem will leaue the beaten street in which al those haue walked that euer heretofore wēt thither who by miracles sometimes as it were by letters sent from thence haue giuen testimony to vs that remaine behinde that they are safelie arriued there You I say are vnwise that will leaue this way and will aduenture the liues not onely of your bodies but of your soules in a path found out of late by your selues neuer ●racked before in which whosoeuer haue yet gone God knoweth what is become of them sith we neuer had letter of miracle or any other euident token or euer heard any word frō thē to assure vs that they safely passed that way me thinkes I may account you most vnwise men that will aduenture such a pretious Iewell as your soule is to bee transported by such an vncertaine and dangerous waie I must needes thinke that sith there is but one right waie and that the way of the Catholique Church is a sure and approued safe waie you are very vnaduised who with the aduenture of the irreparable losse of your dearest and peerlesse treasure your soule will leaue this safe and secure way to seeke out a new vncertaine and perillous waie I must needes thinke sith the Catholique Rom●ne Church is as I haue proued the light of the world the rule of faith the pillar and sure ground of truth that you leauing it leaue the light and therefore walke in darkenesse forsaking it forsake the direct path of true faith and therefore are misse-led in the myst of incredulitie into the wildernes of misbeleefe finally that you hauing thus lost the sure ground of truth doe fall into the mierie ditc●●e of many absurdities and must needes be drowned in the pitt of innumerable errours and erring thus from the waie the veritie and the life which i● Christ Iesus residing according to his promise in the Catholique Church must needes vnles you will which I hartely wishe returne to the vnitie of the same Church incurre your owne perdition death and damnatiō of body and soule from which sweet Iesus deliuer you and vs all to the honour and perpetuall praise of his holy name AMEN Laus Deo Heb 11. Ser. 38. de Tempore (a) Ro. 2. Galat. 3. Ephes. 2. (b) Cōc Milea Can. 4. Concil Trid. sess 6. c. 7.8 Iren. l. 5. cap. 29. Chrysost. Hom. 32. in Ioan. Sermone de Fide Char. Cirill Alex. in Ioan. lib. 4. 1. Cor. 14 Ephes. 4. Ser. 4. in Natiu Dom. In cap. 4. ad Eph. Lib. 1. c. 3 Rom. 10. Ser. de Fidei confessione Hom. 12. in epist ad Hebraeos Hom. 83. in Matth. (a) Luc. 10. (b) 1. Thes. 2. Mar. c. 16. Math. 28. Ioan. 3. In the Greeke text aires es Gal. 5. Athanas. in Simb Teste theodoreto lib. 4. eccles histor c. 1● Gregor Nazianz. tract de Fide 1. Tim. 2. 1. Tim. 2. 1. Tim. 4. 2. Pet. 3. Aug. lib. de Sp. lib. c. 33. Prosper lit 2. de vocat gent. cap. 23.25.28 D. Ambros Ser. 8. in Psal. 118. Iren. l. 4. cap. 71. Lib. de vtil credendi 1. Cor. 2. Lib. de vtilitate credendi cap. 4. Ibidem Aug. l. 5. de bapt donat cap. 23. Basil. lib. de Sp. cap. 29. Epiph. haer 61. Rom. 3. 1. Cor. 2. Ibidem Ibidem Gal. 1. 2. Cor. 11 2. Iohn 4. 2. Cor. 2. 1. Iohn 4. Collat. 61. c. 11. Rom. 10. Mal. 5. Matth. 7 Iacobi 4. Lib. 3. de bapt donatist cap. 19. Ep. 222. Tract 18. in Ioanes Matth. 4. Lib. 12. Confess cap. 25. Mat. c. 28 Ioan. 14. Ioan. 14. Ioan. 16. Math. 28 Mar. 16. Luc. 10. Math. 23. Epist. 165. Luc. 10. Math. 18. Mar. 16. 1. Tim. 3. Lib. 1. Crescon cap. 33. 1. Tim. 3. Matth. cap. 28. Math. 16 Psal. 47. Dan. 2. Luc. 1. In Psalm 101. Conc. 2. Ibidem Is● ● 61 Luc. 4. Isa. 61. Math. 5. ● Tim. 2. Math. 10. Luc. 9. Rom. 10. Math. 18. Oratione de moderat in disput habenda Matth. 7. Isa. 60. Math. 20. Math. 3. Math. 23. Math. 13. Math. 25. ● Cor. 5. Hom. 30. in math Lib. de Vnitate Ecclesiae Lib. 4. in cap. 6. Isa. Lib. 3. ep parm cap. 4. Tract 2. in epist. Ioan. Lib. ep parm cap. 7. Lib. de prescript Taller bigger Tall. Tall. Lib. 3. de bapt donat cap. 19. Lib. 3. Faust. cap. 13. Isa. c. 35. 1. Cor. 2. Rom. 10. In Ps. 53. Lib. Ep. Fund cap. 5. 1. Ioh. 4. Eph. 4 Isa. c. 61. Lib. Ep. Fund cap 4. The first marke Vna proued out of Scripture Cant c. 6 Cypr. l. de vnitate Ecclesiae Aug. l. 6. in Ioan. Ioh. c. 1● Rom 12. 1. Cor. 10 Ioh. 17. Lib. de Prescript Ibidem The second marke Sancta 1. Cor. 3. 1. Cor. 5. Hebr. 10. Mat. 18. 1. Pet. 2. Luc. 10. Iac. 4. The third marke Catholica Isa. c. 59. Psal. 21. Psal. 71. Ibidem Aug in Psal. 71. Luc. 24. Aug. 1. de Vtilitate Ecclesiae Act. c. 1. Collos. 1. Mat. 13. Mat. 24. Act. 20. Ibidem 2. Tim. 3. Aug. in Psal. 57. 2. Tim. 3. Aug. l. de Vnitate Ecclesiae cap. 3. Mat. 24. Aug. l. 4. de Simb cap. 10. Aug. l. de Vnitate Ecclesiae cap. 3. Ephes. 2. Act. 1. Act. 2. Aug. l. de Pastor cap. 8. Lib. de prescript Lib. de prescript Lib. 2. Iouin S. Hier. in cap. 4 ad Ephes. Math. 16. Luc. 22. Chrysost. lib. 2. de Sacerdotio S. Leo Ser. 2. de anniuers assumpt suae ad Pontif. Ioan. 21. (a) Luke 10. Mat. 23. Mat. 16. Ioh. 16. Cypr. lib. 4. Epist. 9 Lib. 1. Epist. 3. In postilla super Euang dom primae aduentus Conc. 4. super cap. 21. Luc. Mat. 7. 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