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A11054	A godlie and short discourse shewing not onely what time the inhabitants of this land first receyued the Christian faith: but also what maner of doctrine was planted in the same. Whereby may appeare, howe the reformation at this day in England is not a bringing in of a newe religion, but a reducing againe of the olde and auncient fayth.	Rosdell, Christopher, b. 1553 or 4.	1589 (1589)	STC 21320; ESTC S101597	36,383	98

which saieth whoso calleth vpon the name of the Lord shal be saued Iohn 4. Thus Christ hath taught vs saying when you pray say Our father which art in heauen and not our Lady which art in heauen Ephe. 3. Thus Paul bowed his knées to God the father of our Lord Iesus Christ not to any of the Saints Thus the congregation in the primitiue church prayed for the deliuerance of Peter out of prison Acts. 12. not to any of the Saints but to God himselfe and not through the mediation or intercession of any other then Christ For in those days long after the godly neither knew nor taught any other mediatour then the man Christ Iesus August de vera religi cap. vlt. As for the Saints departed Augustine sheweth what is to be done to them saying they are to bee honoured for imitation and not to be worshipped for religion And Epiphanius Epiph. con Collyridia lib. 3. tom 2. hae 79. speaking of the virgin Marie sayth In déede the body of the virgin was holy yet not God she was in déede a virgine and honourable yet not to be worshipped but shee did worship him that was borne of her according to the flesh They were wont to vse a poore reason taken from the similitude of an earthly king vnto whom men cannot haue accesse but by officers in their degrées As though God were like to a mortall man and had néede of a gard to saue him or of officers to informe him When the scripture saieth he knoweth all things yea euen the very thoughts of men and is more readie to heare our praiers then we are to make them Nowe whereas they make Christ the mediatour of saluation how agréeth it with commō sense and reason that they appoynt other intercessors séeing saluation is in Christ For saluation being once had what can wee require more or what lacketh he more to bee obteined of the saints which is sure to be saued only by Christ And yet in their Catholike denotations they teach men thus to pray to the blessed virgin Saue all them that glorifie thée What maruell though they agrée not with vs when they are contrary to themselues Here vnto also apperteineth the worshipping of reliques and the false adoration of Sacraments that is the outwarde signes for the things signified contrarie to the worde of God Deut. 4. Luke 6. which saith God onely is to be worshipped The xv Chapter Of the Sacraments Baptisme and the Lords Supper THe corruptions and errours of this later Church of Rome as touching the Sacraments are neither small nor yet a few For first by the institution of Christ and ancient obseruation of the godly there are but two Sacraments of the new testamēt to wit Baptisme and the Lords supper they haue added vnto thē fiue other sacraments And for better profe hereof the Apostle Paul in all his Epistles maketh mention of no sacraments besides the sacramental Supper Baptisme or washing of regeneration August ad Ianuarium Epist 118. And August speaking of Christ saith He hath bound the societie of the new people together with sacraments in number the fewest in obseruation the easiest in signification the most excellent as baptisme which is consecrated in the name of the Trinitie the cōmunication of his bodie blood And in another place he saith August de doct christiana lib. 3 cap. 9. At this time since by the resurrection of our Lorde there hath appeared a manifest token of our deliuerie we are not ouerladen with the burden no not of those signes which we nowe vnderstand but the Lord and Apostolicall discipline hath deliuered a certaine few in stéed of many and the same most easie to be done noble to be vnderstoode and pure to be obserued as the sacrament of Baptisme and the celebration of the bodie and blood of the Lord. Ambrose Ambrose also in his booke of Sacraments if it bee his maketh mention onely of Baptisme the Eucharist Secondly where as the worde of God hath ordeined these Sacraments not that wee should séeke our saluation in them but that by them we might be admonished of our saluation purchased by Christ that the promises of God might bee firme in vs through faith and we againe not onely consecrated to God but also discerned from all other people Rom. 8. As God gaue vnto Abraham the sacrament of circumcision as the seale of the righteousnesse of the faith which hee had when he was yet vncircumcised And also whereas by holy scripture we are taught that neither the Sacraments do nor yet the worde it selfe doeth profite vs without faith as appeareth not onely by the testimonie of the author to the Hebrews Heb. 4. where it is saide the worde which they heard profited them not because it was not mixed with faith in thē which heard it 1. cor 10. 11. But also by the example of the vnbeléeuing Iewes vnder the old Testament and of Iudas Simon Magus Ananias and Saphira his wife with others Iohn 13. Acts 5. who notwithstanding they both had vsed the Sacraments yet were they neuer the nearer to be saued because they wanted faith They contrariwise teach that the Sacraments doe not onely stir vp and confirme our faith in vs but also that they auaile and are effectuall without faith by the verie doing of the action without any good motion of the doer As is to be found in Thomas Aquine Scotus Catharinus others Thirdly beside manifold abuses which they commit in the sacrament of Baptisme by adding to the simple words of Christs institution diuerse other newe found rites fantasies of men where the old Church of Rome was wont to baptize men onely this later Church of Rome hath baptized Bels and haue applied the words of baptisme to water fire candels stockes and stones Finally as concerning the Lords Supper in the primitiue Church as appeareth by the example of Christ and testimonie of S. Paul 1. Cor. 11. the vse then amongst them was to haue the participation of the bread called the Lords bodie and of the cup called the Lords blood administred not at an altar as now it must needes if it please the Pope but at a plain boord or table where not the minister alone did receiue and the other looked on but the whole congregation together did communicat with reuerence thankesgiuing Yea Chrysost ad Eph. ser 3. cap. 1. if any did absteine from the holy Cōmunion and would be but a beholder onely the old fathers and bishops of Rome in the primitiue church when as yet the priuate Masse was not hatched did excommunicate him as a wicked person an Ethnicke De cōsecra dist 2. cap. secularis De cōsecra dist 2. cap. peracta And therefore in old time Calixtus decréed that after consecration all should communicate vnlesse they had rather depart out of the Church for so haue the Apostles saith he