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A29744 The vnerring and vnerrable church, or, An answer to a sermon preached by Mr. Andrew Sall formerly a Iesuit, and now a minister of the Protestant church / written by I.S. and dedicated to His Excellency the Most Honourable Arthur Earl of Essex ... I. S. 1675 (1675) Wing B5022; ESTC R25301 135,435 342

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THE VNERRING AND VNERRABLE CHVRCH OR An ansvver to a Sermon preached by Mr Andrevv Sall formerly a Iesuit and novv a Minister of the Protestant Church VVritten by I. S. and DEDICATED TO HIS EXCELLENCY The most honorable Arthur Earl of Essex Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Anno 1675. TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE MOST HONORABLE ARTHVR EARL OF ESSEX VISCOVNT MALDEN Baron Capel of Hadham Lord Lieutenant General and General Gouernor of his Maiesties Kingdom of Ireland Lord Lieutenant of the County of Hertford and one of the Lords of his Maiesties most honorable Priuy Council MY LORD I present vnto your Exllency a vindication of both Churchs vvhich a viper has endeauoured to byte that the Catholick has bred in her bosom to follovv the Truth if vve belieue him he forsooke all that vvas Deare vnto him he might haue vsed that phrase of S. Peter since that vvhat he had to forsake vvas but Netlyke but iustly may vvee think he expected from Your Excellency as S. Peter had from Christ a return of a Seat not such as Peter obtained but as the children of Zebedee did pretend But your Excellency vvhose Decrees are liuing Ecchos of the Royal sentiments vvill adiudge him rather a Chalice to drink than a Seat to exalt him a Chalice I say such as the Royal Piety of King Iames prescribed to those of his blasphemous opinion in the meeting of his Clergy at Southampton VVee detest in this point the cruelty of the Puritans and iudge them vvorthy of fyre vvho affirm that in the Popish Religion a man may not be saued My Lord all sober men of both Religions desire the execution of this sentence against this impious assertion pronounced in your Excellencies hearing and giuen vnto you in print to profane both your eares and eyes vvith a repeated blasphemy by a late Reuolted from our Church and that not only for a reuenge of the iniury don to your Excellency in particular in adiudging your Noble Ancestors vvho allmost all dyed in that Profession vnto Hell nor for condemning his ovvn to the like misery if for being of the simple sort he vvill not plead for their saluation but for the iniury don to Christian Piety to vvhich that Position is contrary in the iudgment of all learned Protestants But vvhat makes this execrable Position vnpardonable in our Aduersary is that his ovvn vvords accuse him to speake against his conscience pag. 116. he saies Their Tenets are inconsistent vvith saluation though ignorance may haply excuse many of the simple sort but not such as knovv or vvith due care and enquiry may knovv their error By this he exclues all VVyse men of our Profession from saluation and affords it only to the simple sort or those vvho haue an inuincible ignorance That heerin he speakes against his conscience its most apparent for in his discourse he often styles Thomas Aquinas a Saint the first Reformers and Passionat Sectaries degraded the Saints of their Canonization but Mr Sall as yet retains the respect due to their glorious memory VVhateuer he might say of others he knovvs vvell that S. Thomas Aquinas vvas of the Roman Religion a fryer of S. Dominicks Orders None of the simple sort or that could be inuincibly ignorant being vvell vers'd in Scripture and an Eminent Master in most sciences He belieued professed and taught our Tenets of Real Presence Purgatory c. He vvas then in Mr Salls iudgment a Saint reigning in Heauen and at the same tyme is condemned by him to hell because he belieued and professed Tenets inconsistents vvith saluation is not this to speake against his conscience He had vvit My Lord to vnderstand he could not iustify his separation from our Church if in our Church there vvas not somvvhat inconsistent vvith saluation for to separat from the true Church vnder pretence of her being guilty of som errors and of reforming her by purging her from those errors if the errors be not quite damnable and inconsistent vvith saluation is so far from being lavvfull that such Reformers cannot be excused from Schism All things should be endured saies S. Denis of Alexan. apud Euseb Hist Eecl l. 6. c. 25. rather than to consent to the diuision of the Church of God and saies Iren. l. 4. cont Heret c. 62. No so important Reformation can be made as the Euil of Schism is pernicious for if those Errors be consistent vvith saluation then they are no necessary cause obliging to a separation the separation from the true Church is Schismatical and damnable vvhen there is no need or necessary cause for separating consequently to separat from the true Church for Errors vvhich are consistent vvith saluation is a most damnable Schism Mr Sall felt perhaps the force of this consideration and to iustify his separation from the Church vttered that horrid blasphemy of errors in her inconsistent vvith saluation May it please Your Excellency to consider vvhat an iniury he does to your cause in seeking to iustify it by an assertion so contrary to your Church and so odious to your Excellencies Piety That there is no saluation in the Catholik Church That her errors are inconsistent vvith saluation It 's far from your Excellencies Piety to belieue that S. Thomas Aquinas admired by the VVord for his learning and sanctity vvas condemn'd to Hell and yet he belieued and taught the Real Presence of Christ's Body in the Sacrament it 's therefore no error inconsistent vvith saluation Your Excellencie vvill not belieue that S. Augustin is in Hell vvho professed and taught the Tenet of Purgatorie as appears in his Ench. c. 119. lib. 9. Conf. c. 13. and lib. de Haeres c. 53. vvhere he condemns Aetius as an Heretick for denying sacrifice should be offered for the dead Purgatory therefore is no Error inconsistent vvith saluation Your Excellencie vvill not patiently heare any man to say that S. Hierom is eternally damn'd and yet he thaught the veneration and vse of the sign of the Cross Epist ad Dem. and the veneration of Relicks of Saints lib. cont Vigil S. Chrysostom praied and exhorted to pray to Saints Hom. 43. in Gen. Hom. 5. 8. in Mat. and must vvee say that Chrysostom is damn'd to Hell These are the Errors vvhich Mr Sall affirms to be inconsistent vvith Saluation These are the Tenets in vvhose Profession he sayes no VVyse and Learned Man can be saued impiously condemning to Hell the forementioned Saints vvhich the Christian VVorld reueres for the Pillars of the Chnrch and not only them but all VVyse men Seculars and Ecclesiastick of all precedent ages to Luther if inuincible ignorance did not excuse them vvhich they could not pretend nor can vvee imagin they could haue being the most learned Doctors of Gods Church If this Treatise did contain nothing else but a check of this rash and impious assertion it vvould not be vngratefull to your Excellencie but had I left any thing vnexamined of vvhat he treats in his discourse he vvould