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A16909	A briefe treatise of diuers plaine and sure waies to finde out the truth in this doubtfull and dangerous time of heresie Conteyning sundrie worthy motiues vnto the Catholike faith, or considerations to moue a man to beleeue the Catholikes, and not the heretikes. Set out by Richard Bristow priest, licentiat in diuinitie.	Bristow, Richard, 1538-1581.	1599 (1599)	STC 3800; ESTC S106653	144,155	432

thē What those things are S. Augustine a litle before did partly vtter and by reading ouer this Treatise thou shalt more fullie know Which whosoeuer will vouchsafe to doe vvith any crumme of the feare of God I meruaile much but hee will confesse in his mouth or heart that the truth of Christ is on our side So plainely shall he here perceaue that our religion it is vvhich was deliuered to the world by Christ our Lord and his Apostles vvhich also euer since hath still continued which is also most sure hereafter to continue alwaies to the end no might nor ma● no craftes nor wiles euer able to cast● downe Whereas all other Religions which before in part I rehearsed out of all Ages as they had their beginning so haue they had also their ending except only these present Sectes brought in by Luther whose end also yet no doubt shal be seene as hath bin seene their begining that as it were but yesterday they neuer being so much as one Age yeare day or houre in any part of the world before Al this and much more of like importāce shal he find here most clearly proued That and if they also which please themselues in thinking that there is no God nor Christ will read the same I hope that therby with the grace of God they shall see how fowly they deceaue themselues Howbeit vnto them I ment not this small labour of mine For that which should haue bin prepared for thē directly should haue bin I know somewhat of another sort which hereafter might peraduenture be done but that it is a shame of all shames only to heare that ●hristian stockes are growen such ●pes so out of kinde Yet because the ●atholike faith and the faith of Christ stand both vpon one and the selfe-same groundes as in deed they be all one but only that Heretikes forsaking the Catholike faith thinke yet that they haue hot forsaken Christ his faith such a one shall in pervsing these groundes of the Catholike faith vnderstand withal many groundes of Christ his faith as that he is now come not to beleeue in Christ hee came thither by forsaking first the Catholike faith And therfore as I haue said if it will please him to know these groundes and to consider wel vpon certaine of them he shall with the helpe of Christ return again both to the Catholike faith and to the faith of Christ And so I trust that by the grace of god it shal do good to al sorts of men confirme Catholikes reclaime Heretikes and lighten euen the Atheistes themselues But and if any man will needes continue wilful and obstinate as no doubt very many wil Non enim omnium est fides for faith is not for all men yet because Nemo perit nisi filius perditionis let others in the name of God looke vp and no more take darkenes for light night for daie poyson for medicine death for saluation Let no man nor nothing make Christian men to go from Christ Let none keepe the Children of the Church out of the Church They that needes wil perish let them perish by themselues alone Let thē remaine alone without the Church that will not returne vnto the Church Let them alone pay the price of their headines rebellion who for nothing that Moises saith or doth wil be brought to yeld vntill God doth shew his might vpon them as he did on Pharao They that will not be drowned with them in Hell come out of Egypt in the name of God with the children of Israel Christ hath sent vs this time to make the proued knowen and manifest to see who loueth him or the world better denouncing plainly to vs al that Whosoeuer loueth Father or mother more then me is not worthy of me whosoeuer loueth son or daughter aboue me is not worthy of me whosoeuer taketh not his Crosse foloweth me is not worthy of me Let vs therefore both for his feare or his loue take affliction for his sake What auaileth it a man to saue or gett say not a few akers of Land a house or ●wo yea a Kingdome or Empire but also the very whole vniuersall world and then a litle after not only to forgo al that againe but also to leese irreparably himselfe and his own soule If therefore it chaunce any man to leese for his cause either house or brethen or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands and liuings let such a one remember his fidelity omnipotencie that he hath saied Hee shal receaue an hundred-fold as much and inherite euerlasting life If some mighty trustie petson king or Queen should say vnto any one of his subiectes forgoe for my sake to day thy liuing to morow I will giue thee another as good or better who would not only to haue his fauour accord to his desire what is it thē els but lacke of faith or rather plain infidelity that for Christs word whose might and trustines and reward is incomparably greater hys loue infinitly better we wil do nothing doubtlesse either his promises or his menaces or both we doe not beleeue Verily if wee haue but one graine of faith then will wee doe not only with those our exteriours but also with our life it selfe as he requireth M●● 10. He that findeth his soule shall leese it saith he and hee that leeseth his soule for me shal finde it Or do we think that we deny not him vnlesse we say expressely I deny Christ be not deceaued Doth not Saint Paul say of some factis autem negant Tit. 4. that they deny God by their deedes and doth not Christ himselfe say Qui recipit vos me recipit Mat. 10. Hee that receaueth you receaueth me And againe to Saul doth he not say Act. 9. Quid me persequeris why doest thou persecute me whereof Paul himselfe saith 1. Cor. 15. persecutus sum Ecclesiam Dei I did persecute the Church of God Mat. 5 Doth not Christ againe make these two al one Beati qui persecutionem patiuntur propter iustitiam and Beati estis cum persecuti vos fuerint propter me Blessed are they which suffer persecution for righteousnes and Blessed ye are when they persecute you for me And againe wil he not say in his generall Iudgement at the last day Quamdiu fecistis vni ex his fratribus meis minimis mihi fecistis Quamdiu non fecistis vni de minoribus his nec mihi fecistis For as much as you did it to one of these my brethren the lowest you did it to me for as much as you did it not to one of these the lowest neyther to me you did it therefore thinke we not but that there be diuers and sundry waies both of confessing and also of denying him If we haue but common wit vvith vs we may consider that it is extreame folly the things which very quickly wee

but euen so obserued in that time also that ranne or passed betweene Saint Paul and S. Augustine As presently you heard him speake of Exorcization and Exufflation of children in Baptisme and * In the 5. motiue before I alleaged out of him a practise likewise of his owne time of a Priest of his owne that offered as we doe in the Masse the sacrifice of Christs bodie in a certaine forme to deliuer it from the vexation of vvicked spirites * In the 7. motiue In another place I shewed that his mother worshipped the Blessed Sacrament of the Aultar with Religion euery day as verie God Christ himselfe desiring at her death to haue it offered to God for her soule for her sins which he also then caused to be done and long after in writing desired all Priestes to doe for her the like In another place hee witnesseth the practise of the Church about the same Blessed Sacrament to haue then beene such that children when they should afterward come to yeares if they were not otherwise taught by other mens admonition or by their owne experience would verily thinke that our Sauiour was neuer in other forme vpō the earth but in that forme only which they see at Masse His words are these De Trin. lib. 3. cap. 10. Infantes non nouerunt quod in altari ponitur peracta pietatis celebratione consumitur vnde vel quomodo conficiatur vnde in vsum religionis assumatur Et si nunquam discant experimento vel suo vel aliorum nunquam illam speciem rerum videant nisi inter celebrationes Sacramento●●●um offertur datur dicaturque illis authoritate grauissima cuius Corpus Sanguis sit nihil aliud credent nisi omnino in illa specie dominum oculis apparuisse mortalium de latere tali percusso liquorem illum omnino fluxisse Infantes know not that which is layed on the Aultar being ended the celebration of pietie so he calleth the Holie Canon is consumed whereof or how it is consecrated from whence into vse of Religion it is assumpted And if they neuer learne by experience eyther of their owne or of others and neuer see that forme of things but at celebrations of the Sacraments so he calleth Masses when it is offered and giuen be told them vvith authoritie most vveightie whose Body and Blood it is no other thing will they beleeue or conceaue but verily in that forme our Lord to haue appeared vnto the eyes of men and out of such a side being striken that liquour verily to haue issued Then touching the practise of other thinges also as going a pilgrimage to Holy places worshipping of Relickes praying to Saints praying for the dead it is so plaine by all the writers of those times that they were then no lesse vsed then now they be that no thing there is which can more copiously be shewed as all that read Antiquity know right wel My purposed breuitie as I haue often sayed suffereth not the allegatiō of many testimonies but one short saying wil I aleadge of S. Augustines which in very few wordes doth manifestly witnesse vnto vs the practise of all those foure thinges at once vvhich I haue named De cur pro mort in fine Thus he sayeth Quod vero quisquam apud memoriam Martyrum sepelitur hoc tantum mihi videtur prodesse defuncto vt commendans eum etiam Martyrum patrocinio affectus pro illo supplicationis augeatur That any man is buried at some Memorie or Relicke of Martyrs vnto me it seemeth in this onely to auaile the departed that commending him also to the patronage or intercession of the Martyrs the deuotion of his friend which maketh supplication for him encreased may be Here haue you expressie Relickes of Martyrs for so he meaneth by a memory as if you doubt you may gather out of another place where he saith De Ciui Dei li 22. cap. 8. Memoriam Martyris Episcopus in manu portabat The Martyrs Memory did the Bishop beare in his hand You haue also here praying to Martyrs praying for the dead Pilgrimage to Relickes so liuely that you see the practise thereof was as I may say infinite people not being content only in their life time to vse it continually but also after their death to make such Pilgrimage once for euer there to rest both their owne bodies and their friends with the holy Relickes vntill the vvorldes end In so much that bold I am to say and proue it well I can that whereas Christian people of those first ages are counted as they were indeed far more Godly and more holy and more deuout then wee for no other cause it was but onely because they practised the things aforenamed and such like much more often more religiouslie and as the Heretikes would haue it falsly called and counted much more superstitiously then we doe more going a Pilgrimage more kissing of Relikes kneeling vnto them more crying out to Saints and all other such thinges much more in those dayes then in these therfore I say people then more deuout and religious then now Such going then a pilgrimage to Ierusalem that S. Hierome sayeth of the Holie places of our Sauiours Natiuitie Crosse Resurrection and Ascension ad quae de toto orbe concurritur In Isa 19 vnto which holy places there is concourse of people out of all the world euen the very holie earth of our Sauiours sepulcher brought home by Pilgrims and giuen to theyr friends and vsed to hang in their chamber to saue them from euill yea so reuerenced that they would not keepe it in their chambers but build Churches to lay it in for people at it to serue God to come to it a Pilgrimage and that with following of great Miracles De Ciui Dei li. 22. cap. 8. all which S. Augustine writeth of his owne time being himselfe a partie therein Such going a Pilgrimage to Rome likewise at Rome In Ezech. 40. that S. Hierome writeth againe Solebam puer Romae cum caeteris eiusdem aetatis propositi diebus Dominicis Sepulchra Apostolorum Martyrū circuire crebroque Cryptas ingredi c. My vse was being a boy at Rome with others of the same age and meaning vpon Sondaies to goe about the Apostles and Martyrs Sepulchers often to enter into the Cryptes c. Which are places vnder the ground full of Martyrs bones and ashes still to this day visited much of Pilgrims Finally all Antiquity is full of such practise bearing plaine witnesse to the practise of the other pointes also of our Religion as might easily be shewed if breuity did permit or if these foresaied were not sufficient And yet as I proued before out of S. Augustine and S. Paule for finding and knowing of the Truth sufficeth the practise alone of the church that now is And diligentlie is it to be noted that so plaine and vndoubted