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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19747	A protestation against popery by way of a confession of Christian religion collected for the benefit of private friends	I. D., fl. 1607.; Dunster, John, attributed name.	1607 (1607)	STC 6172; ESTC S117486	16,972	41

neither bodily eies yet visible in some particular churches ●…to ●…eti ●…st ●…lt ●…ici ●…eti ●…es●… as now in England for the welfare of which church my praier hath euer bin that in the Canticles Arise ô North come ô South and blow on this garden that the spices ther of may flow out yet so as subiect to change haueing a waxing and a waning like the moone for somtime we read that Christ saith of his Church who is she that looketh forth as the morning faire as the moone pure as the sonne terrible as an army with banners Somtimes againe we read of the Church that she is driuen by the red dragon into the wildernes and hath sent after her a riuer of water to swallow and drowne her vp 5 This Church is a body coupled togither by ioints Ephes 4.16 therefore must haue a head the which head I confesse Christ Christ alone to be according to that Coloss 1.18 Et ipse caput corporis t Ecclesiae for no other Creature whatsoever cā performe the offices of a head to this body which are vi intus agente as Paule speaketh Eph. 5. To giue efficacy quickning to the same and to powre forth oile in great aboundance into the seaven lamps which stand in the golden candlesticke in the temple Gregor Mag. 〈◊〉 the bes●… shops o●… and im●…ate pre●… for t●… Bonifa●… tragic●… clamit●… go aut●… denter●… quia q●… quis s●…●…uersal cerdo●… cat ve●… ri de si●… in ela sua A●… christi●… prec ●… quia biend●… teris ●… ni●… as it is in the vision of Zacharie and therefore the first and best Bishops of Rome never durst arrogate vnto themselues to be the general fathers and heads of the Church nor any in more corrupted times vntill Boniface the 3. about 600. after Christ having absolved frō Parricide Phocas who had killed Mauricius the Emperour and his Lorde obtained in lew of this Church blessing to be called the Oecumenicall and generall head of the Church which ever since the Bishops of Rome haue continued do seeke to mainetaine by a distinction minted by them That Christ indeed is the head of the triumphāt and Militant Church both and the Pope of the Militant only againe That Christ is the head of the Church by soueraigne preheminence in a more diuine ample absolute excellent and transcendēt sort but the Pope is Head only Ministerially Foolish men that seeke to couer their ambition with such Figleaues as these are for what need Christ of a ministeriall head to supply his presēce in the Church and if the Pope of Rome be that head how wisely hath Christ prouided that Error and Heresie shall neuer preuaile in it seing the Pope may erre non solum actu externo in quaestione facti errore exempli in declaratione opinionis propriae in iis quae obiter dicat in mediis ante conclusionem sed etiam in rebus fidei vt summus pontifex vt publicum os ecclesiae in definitiuâ sententiâ for many of them haue bin Heretickes witnes Liran in Matthew 16. legimus multos pontifices apostatàsse a fide this Bellarmine doth in some sort grant when he faintly deuieth it if not rather insinuateth the same ●…b 4. de ●…ontif Non est proprie Heretica ista sententia puta papam errare posse it may be as Stapleton will haue it an erroneous a scandalous ●…ont 3 ●…4 an offensiue position but non est proprie heretica 6 The true markes and badges of this Church are only two the sincere preaching of the word the 2 lawfull dispensation of the sacraments not Antiquity nor multitude nor miracles nor the rest which Bellarmine repeateth to the number of foureteene 1 The sincere preaching of the word to which we admit nobody but he that is lawfully called by the Church and Christian magistrat neither do J see how the Papists can obiect vnto Luther and other ministers in the Reformed Churches to haue no lawfull calling seeing they receiue their ordination from themselues and we do not deny but the Popish Bishopps in creating ministers howsoeuer they vse more ceremonies then need of truly to conferre the office vpon whom they lay their hands I professe that ministers thus called haue a right to the vse of the Keies The keies of the Church are the power of binding and loosing of retaineing and remitting of sinnes I beleue that sinnes are only remitted by god for I acknowledg it to be his incommunicable property to forgiue sinne according as he proclaimeth of himselfe Ego ego sum qui deleo iniquitates tuas propter me etc. and that man hath but a secundary and ministeriall power to wit to publish forgiuenes of sinns to those whome God in heauen hath forgiuē for we are but Embassadors and doe intreat for Christ sake Reconciliamini Deo otherwise if the minister doe take vpon him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vpon any absolute power resting in himselfe to forgiue sinns the sinner to be absolued may say vnto him as Augustine hath it Quid ego homo nisi ager sanandus vis mihi esse medicus mecum quaere medicum for he sinfull man as he is hath need of one to forgiue his sinnes likwise I acknowledg power in the minister to retaine sinne and to award Excommunication against desperate and scandalus offenders only I could aduise they would remenber and practise these few rules following 1 That such ecclesiasticall curses be denounced according vnto the word of god 2 That they put a difference betwene priuate and publike sinns betwene delicta scelera 3 That they be not too sharp in their censures remembering that of Chrysostome Si Deus est tam benignus vt quid sacerdos eius tamausterus Against the first the Bishopp of Rome highly offendeth when euery Easter day he excommunicateth the Reformed Churches before his solemne Masse for wheras the Pope denounceth his curse against vs Quod haretici we knowe the cause is false and therfore the curse not effectual seeing as it is in the Prouerbs A curse causelesse shall not come and therfore we say with Tertullian Dum a vobis damnamur a Deo absoluimm 2 The second note of the Church is the rightfull administration of the Sacraments Now Sacraments are only two 1 Baptisme 2 The Lords supper I confesse Baptisme to be a leale of the couena●● of grace and therfore children being contained in the couenant promissio facta est vobis et liberis vestris are to receue the seale of the couenant and to be baptised howsoeuer first the Pelagian and since the Anabaptist with great fury greater phrensy teach the cōtrary we haue nothing so commonly in our mouths as that comfortable saieing of Christ in S. Augustine Baptisma quare Domini ego quaesiui serui howsoeuer Campian doth put on a whores-forehead and impudently charge vs to make Baptisme but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 si habeas