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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81975	An explanation of the Roman Catholicks belief concerning their church, vvorship, iustification, and civil government and their other tenets: as it was presented to some persons of quality, for their particular satisfaction.	Franciscus a Sancta Clara, 1598-1680.	1656 (1656)	Wing D352; ESTC R229573	3,521	13

An EXPLANATION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLICKS BELIEF Concerning Their Church VVorship Iustification and civil Government and their other Tenets As it was presented to some persons of Quality for their particular satisfaction Anno Dom. 1656. An Explanation of the Roman Catholicks Belief concerning Their Church Worship Iustification civil Government and their other Tenets As it was presented to some Persons of Quality for their particular satisfaction WE believe the holy Scriptures to be of Divine inspiration and infallible Authority and whatsoever is therein contained we firmly assent unto as the Word of God the Authour of all Truth But since in the holy Scriptures there are some things hard to be understood which the ignorant and unstable wrest to their own destruction 2. Pet. 3.16 we therefore professe for the ending of controversies in our Religion and setling of peace in our Consciences to submit our private judgments to the Judgement of the Church represented in a free Generall Councell 2. We humbly believe the sacred Mysterie of the Blessed Trinity one Eternall Almighty and incomprehensible God whom onely we adore and worship as a lone having Soveraigne Dominion over all things to whom onely we acknowledge as due from men and Angels all glory 1. Tim. 1.17 service and obedience abhorring from our hearts as a most detestable Sacriledge to give our Greatours honour to any Creature whatsoever And therefore we solemnly protest that by the prayers we addresse to Angels and Saints we intend no other than humbly to sollicite their assistance before the Throne of God as we desire the prayers of one another here upon earth not that we hope any thing from them as original Authours thereof but from God the Fountain of all Goodnesse through Iesus Christ our onely Mediatour and Redeemer Neither do we believe any divinity or virtue to be in Images for which they ought to be worship't as the Gentiles did their Idols but we retain them with due and decent respect in our Churches as instruments which we finde by experience do often assist our memories and excite our affections 3. We firmly believe that no force of nature nor dignity of our best works can merit our Iustification but we are justified freely by grace Rom. 3.14 through the Redemption that is in Iesus Christ. And although we should by the grace of God persevere unto the end in a godly life and holy obedience to the Commandements yet are our hopes of eternall glory still built upon the mercy of God and the merits of Christ Iesus All other merits according to our sense of that word signifie no more than Actions done by the assistance of Gods grace to which it has pleased his goodnesse to promise a reward a Doctrine so farre from being unsuitable to the sense of the holy Scriptures that it is their principall design to invite and provoke us to a diligent observance of the Commandements by promising heaven as the reward of our obedience 1 Tim. 4.8 Godlinesse is profitable to all things having the promise of this life and of that which is to come And Rom. 2.6 God will render to every man according to his deeds to them who by patient confidence in well-doing seek for glory and honour and immortality eternall life And again Rom. 8.3 If you live after the flesh you shall die but is through the spirit you mortifie the deeds of the bodie you shall live And Heb. 6.10 God is not unjust to forget your work and labour of love which you have shewed for his name c Nothing being so frequently repeated in the Word of God as his gracious promises to recompense with everlasting glory the faith and obedience of his servants Luke 6.38 Nor is the bounty of God barely according to our works but high and plentifull even beyond our capacities giving full measure heaped up pressed down and running over into the bosomes of all that love him Thus we believe the merit or rewardablenesse of holy living both which signifie the same thing with us arises not from the self-value even of our best actions as they are ours but from the Grace and Bounty of God Luke 17.10 and for our selves we sincerely professe when we have done all those things which are commanded us we are unprofitable servants having done nothing but that which was our duty so that our boasting is not in our selves but all our glorying is in Christ 4. In the holy Eucharist or most venerable Sacrament of the body and bloud of our Lord We acknowledge that there are as in all other Sacraments two things The visible signe which is the forms of bread and wine to which noe Catholick may or doth direct his worship There is also invisible Grace signified the body of our blessed Lord whom being present we adore and worship with all possible reverence and thanksgiving from our hearts for so great a blessing warranted herein by our blessed Lord himself in each of the Gospels 5. We humbly confesse that from the beginning of Christianity the holy Communion was administred frequently in both sometimes in each kind according to severall circumstances and hence the holy Church following the piety of Christians who insensibly became accustomed to receive it almost universally in one kinde upon great motives did afterwards ordain to have it in one as now it is commonly administred though the receiving of it so is not matter of faith Neither do we believe that religious and devout communicants are hereby bereaved of any benefit or comfort in obeying the Churches orders since our holy belief instructs us Trid ses 21. a n. 3 that our blessed Lord the fountain of all grace is as equally present in one kinde as in both 6. The holy Sacrifice indeed of the altar we clearly believe ought to be celebrated in both kinds as now it is according to the divine institution Luk. 21.9 as being done in representation and commemoration of our Lords blessed passion on the crosse wherein the body and bloud were separated Whatsoever therefore propitiatory power our holy Religion attributes to this commemorative Sacrifice it is by virtue of the Sacrifice of the crosse as being by this applied to us This is the substance of our faith expressed in the Councell of Trent Ses 22. c. 1. so that still we humbly acknowledge the ground of our salvatlon to be derived from our Lords blessed and bitter passion 7. We freely acknowledge that is no way commanded by the Church that the people should pray in a language which they understand not nay there is given them all possible incouragement to encrease their devotions and with the Apostle to allure all if it may be to continuall prayer which is the life of our souls by ordaining and publishing most excellent prayers in vulgar languages for their use As to the lyturgies they of the Church properly belong to Church-men and therefore were anciently styled the Priests books lest the people should not receive full benefit by their publick use there is an expresse command of our holy mother the Church in the Councell of Trent Ses 5. c. 8. that the Pastours and all who have charge of souls in the very time of divine service should expound and make them plain to the peoples capacity as in the old times of the Church we find it was also ordained and practised Our faith teacheth us to exercise Christian Charity by humbling our selves before the divine throne of Gods mercy to begg forgivenesse as we do for one another here upon earth of the debts and trespasses of those middle sort of Christians as S. Augustine and the Councel of Florence call them In Enchyridie ad Laurentium De Civ l. 21. c. 24. who had not brought forth sufficient fruits of repentance dying in communion of the faithfull which indigent condition of theirs relievable by the Churches or the prayers of the faithfull surviving speaks what the ancient call Purgatory warranted herein by the practise under the law recorded and recommended in the Maccabees which being in no ●ort reprehended by our Lord or his Apostles amongst the rest of the Jews unlawfull practises was and is justly presumed to have been allowed by him as many of the Fathers understood his sermon in the Mount Mat. 5.29 1 Cor. 15.29 2 Cor. 3. and by them as is hinted by S. Paul whereupon it hath continued ever since in generall practise throughout all ages as even gravestones and all other Christian monuments do witnesse especially all ancient Lyturgies of the Saints and books of common prayers used in all Churches neither can we decern how possibly this may be conceived offensive to God whose justice herein we hope and do humbly endeavour to appease by our exercise of brotherly compassion 9. We firmly believe and highly reverence the Moral Law Exod. 20. Mat. 19. Eccles 12.13 being so solemnly delivered to Moses upon the Mount so expresly confirmed by our Saviour in the Gospel and containing in it self so perfect an Abridgement of our whole duty both to God and man Which Morall Law we believe obliges all men to proceed with faithfulnesse and sincerity in their mutuall contracts one towards another and therefore our constant Profession is that we are most strictly and absolutely bound to the exact and entire performance of our promises made to any person of what Religion soever much more to the Magistrates and Civil Powers under whose protection we live whom we are taught by the Word of God to obey not onely for fear but conscience sake and to whom we will most faithfully observe our promises of duty and obedience notwithstanding any dispensation absolution or other proceedings of any forraign Power or Authority whatsoever Wherefore we utterly deny and renounce that false and scandalous position that Faith is not to be kept with Hereticks as most uncharitably imputed to our practises and most unjustly pinned upon our Religion These we sincerely and solemnly professe as in the sight of God the searcher of all hearts taking the words plainly and simply in their usuall and familiar sense without any Equivocation or Mentall Reservation whatsoever