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A01490	An apology against the defence of schisme Lately written by an English diuine at Doway, for answere to a letter of a lapsed Catholicke in England his frend: who hauing in the late co[m]mission gone to to [sic] the Church, defended his fall. Wherin is plainly declared, and manifestlye proued, the generall doctrine of the diuines, & of the Church of Christ, which hitherto hath been taught and followed in England, concerning this pointe.	Garnet, Henry, 1555-1606.	1593 (1593)	STC 11617.2; ESTC S100190	128,732	216

separated as those which did in the exteriour shew communicate with Idolaters heretickes schismatickes But those especially and with greater difficulty which in a farre higher degree of apostasy heresy or schisme although onely in the exteriour shew had deuided them selues from the Church of God Why doe you not then long for this peace and why doe you not thinke it manye thousand yeeres vntill you may heare that sweet voice which amongst Catholickes is pronounced in the holy Masse PAXTECVM Peace be vnto thee For how can there be peace vnto you which disunite your selfe from that vnion which peace maketh of one sheepfould and one shepheard or who is your shepheard I pray you Sir Tinker or Sir Cobler for you must not deny but that he is the shephearde of whosoeuer he shaketh his filthy fodering vnto Or if sometimes before you be restored vnto peace with the trew Church of Christ you presume to entrude your selfe vnto the holy misteries with what hellish confusion doe you heare that sacred word of Catholicke Peace which you haue forsaken No no. you haue broken that Peace neither must you looke for any peace vntill you haue renued that perfect vnion which Christ hath made in his Church Neither yett must you thincke that Christ his Church hath any need of your person alas it is but a small accesse of gaine The holy Church it selfe cannot be deuided For it is most perfectly one you may be deuided from it and so are therfore as an vnfruitfull branch saue that you haue a litle time God knoweth how short to returne vnto the Vine in present daunger of being threwen into the fier This Peace therfore being so important and consisting in the vnion of wills or desires Lett vs examine a little how many thinges there are in which the Church of Christ is to maintaine vnity wherin her perfect Peace doth consist The vnity therfore of the Church consisteth in two thinges Wherein the vnity of the Church doth cōsist 10.21 in the connexion or communication of the members of the Church one with an other and in the order of all those members vnto one head that is Christ our Sauiour and he to whom he committed his sheepe on earth Io. 21. Col. 2. Both these partes of the Catholicke vnity doth S. PAVL describe whan he saith of some that had so deuided them selues from Christ his Church that they are in vaine puffed vpp by the sense of their flesh not holding the head whereof the wholle bodye by jointes and bandes being serued and compacted groweth to the increase of God This vnity haue you and doe continually cutte a sunder therfore are you not a peacemaker such as God hath blessed and so blessed are they which shall procure the vnity of the Church that they shall be called the children of God Mat. 5. but a peace breaker a deuider at the least of your selfe from such vnion a fugitiue from the Tentes of your Captaine Christ Finally in one word which comprehendeth in it selfe many enormities a Schismaticke §. 24. That you cutte a sunder this vnity and so incurr the detestable crime of schisme I thus proue vnto you The Connexion and vnion of the members of the Church one with an other is such that it must make them as one kingdome one common wealth one citty one house one congregation vnder one gouernour yea one bodye vnder one heade For otherwise the Church could not be one as we are taught in our Creed and all other vnions which may be found in the Church this which we speake of being once taken away cannot make the Church one but may onely geue it a certaine relation vnto one thing which relation diuerse thinges neuer so contrary one to an other may haue Diuers vnities in the Church Io. 6. Eph. 4. Ibid. 1. Cor. 12. There are diuerse vnities in the Church it hath one begining from one God which called it one end and hope of the same vocation which is euerlasting felicity the same meanes to attaine to such an end which is one saith one baptisme and all Sacramentes the same one Holy Ghost which gouerneth the Church and distributeth to euery one his diuerse graces But none of these vnities make the Church one but by them either she may be saide to proceed from one or to be directed to one or to go one and the same way or to be subiect vnto one externall gouernour not vnited vnto her as a necessary parte and intrinsecally ioined vnto her which is the holy ghost But that is the essentiall vnity of Christ his Church Rom. 12. The Essentiall vnity of the Church which maketh it fully and most perfectly one that it is one misticall body whose head being vnited vnto the members and the members amongst them selues with the same head are now truely and perfectly not from one or to one or by one or vnder one but one very selfe same thing This is that vnseamed coate of our Sauiour which cannot be deuided from which whatsoeuer part is cutte ceasseth to be a part of a garment for Christs garment hath no part Cyp. 1. 〈◊〉 vnit ecc but as a bough once broken from the tree withereth As a riuer seuered from the fountaine drieth vpp As the beame deuided from the Sunne in a moment vanisheth away Now Sir can you any way perswade your selfe to be in this vnity whan you go to your herticall congregations L. de fid Simb c. 10. S. Augustine maketh a flatte opposition betweene the Catholicke Church and hereticall congregations Catholickes Church hereticall congregations opposite The heretickes and scismatickes saith he call their Congregations Churches Where is Caluins Church but in his congregation Where is Luthers Church but in his congregation Where is the trew Church but in the visible congregation gathered in the vnion of the See of PETER Who would doubt going into S. PETERS Church at Rome and seing the multitude there present at the Diuine seruices to say that this is the Catholicke Church And who doubteth also whan he seeleth in London streetes Caluins blacke sanctus to fill his eares to say this is the Church of the Caluinistes The de finition of the true Church Define me I pray you the trew Church It is the congregation of many men professing the faith of Christ and vsing the same ceremonies and Sacramentes vnder the trew Pastours The definition of Caluins church Now define also the Church of Caluine It is the congregation of many men professing the same faith of Caluin and vsing the same ceremonies and seruices and sacramentes vnder a Caluinian Pastour What exempteth you from this definition your inward faith your inward deuotion towardes PETERS See see how by going to Caluins Church you haue gotten Caluins imagination of the nature of the Church Caluin dreameth out a Church inuisible L. 4. inst c. 1. §. 7. and manifest onely vnto the eies of God Of this