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A58886	Dr. Sherlock's preservative considered the first part, and its defence, proved to contain principles which destroy all right use of reason, fathers, councils, undermine divine faith, and abuse moral honesty : in the second part, forty malicious calumnies and forged untruths laid open, besides several fanatical principals which destroy all church discipline, and oppose Christs divine authority : in two letters of Lewis Sabran of the Society of Jesus.	Sabran, Lewis, 1652-1732.	1688 (1688)	Wing S217; ESTC R16398	73,086	90

Sectaries of forty years old can generally do who have seldom heard of any thing in the Concerns of Religion but Slanders and Misrepresentations of Catholic Doctrin It hath been my Lot to deal for some time with a Body of near two hundred Protestants on the score of Religion and I in truth Protest that I found not one in six that could give me any reasonable account of Christ being God and Man and dying for our Redemption We exact of each Christian that to the best of his abilities he improve his knowledge in the duties of Faith. 19. They teach a man need not know any thing but the Apostles Fol. 76. Creed therefore Heretics know and believe all things necessary to Salvation as long as they believe the Apostles Creed Did Christ teach any thing but what he would have known We teach that each Christian is bound to know all that he is bound to do and to understand all those necessary means left by Christ for his Reconciliation and Perfection though not expressed in the Creed we teach that each Man is not bound to know all that Christ hath taught but yet all that Christ has taught as necessary to him in his Station But this Calumniator confounds what is to be known necessitate Medii so that he who through no fault of his hath not learn'd it is however uncapable of Salvation which is all contained in the Creed with what must be known Necessitate Praecepti because God hath commanded all those who are in the occasion and in a capacity of being instructed in it to learn it 20. The Church of Rome teaches that the sins of those sinners Fol. 82 83. who do not repent of them nor amend their lives and consequently are not Expiated by the Death of Christ upon the Cross are Expiated by the Sacrifice of the Mass 21. That by the bare opus operatum by the offering this Sacrifice Fol. 83. of the Mass it self without any good motion in the Person for whom 't is offered his sins are Expiated 22. That when Christ was Sacrificed upon the Cross he Expiated Fol. 85. only for the Eternal Punishment due to sin and when Sacrificed in the Mass only for the Temporal Behold three loud Calumnies We teach that Christ on the Cross gave himself a full Redemption for all the Guilt and Debt of Sinners who apply to themselves that precious Blood by the means appointed by Christ That by the Sacrifice of the Mass as also by any good Christians Prayers for obdurat sinners such Graces may be obtained as shall work in them their Salvation but that no sin is remitted to an impenitent sinner And all we mean by opus operatum hath no reference to him who receives the Sacraments to the whole effect whereof a stubborn and unconverted sinner puts ever a full stop but in reference to those who Administer the Sacraments from whose Piety they take not their force Baptism given by a Priest in the state of sin having as much its whole effect as given by a Saint because it takes its value and force from Christ the chiefest Minister in the conferring of it so the Church did teach by St. Augustin heretofore against Parmenian the Heretic so She teaches to this day 23. Catholics think that the Intercession of the Virgin Mary Fol. 87. or the most Powerful Saints can prevail with our Saviour to do that which according to the Laws of his own Mediation they know he cannot and will not do How can any man be so stupid as to think this Yet so it is A bare-face Calumny For we teach that the blessed Saints only join their Prayers to ours to obtain of Christ for us what he in his mercy will have them to ask it being a most proper effect of Christ's Mediation to challenge Blessings for several Members of his Mystical Body on the account of the whole or moved by the love he bears to the holier Members thereof since he hath declared that many joining together to Petition in his Name will obtain Blessings which had not been granted to the single Prayers of some one 24 25 26. By the Doctrin of Purgatory they mightily abate Fol. 87 88. the terror of Hell considering how many easie ways there are for rich Men to get out of Purgatory who have Mony enough to buy Indulgences while they live or Masses for their Souls Here are three Calumnies that lie thick together The first that Catholics exempt sinners from Hell who in the Protestant Doctrin would be Condemned to it No unrepented Mortal sin is lodged in Purgatory or escapes Hell. Secondly That Indulgences may be bought for Mony or avail a Soul undisposed to receive the benefit of them through want of Contrition the guilt of sin not being before remitted The Third that Masses said for any Soul in Purgatory avail such as during life have not deserved and merited that mercy which untruth I have before defeated with the words of St. Augustin delivering our Faith in the 110. Chapter of his Enchiridion to Laurence 27 28 29. The Sacrament of the Lords Supper besides the Fol. 91. supernatural conveyance of Grace is a great Moral instrument to Holiness representing to us the love of our Crucified Lord the merit and desert of sin requiring the Exercises of a great many virtues c. But in the Church of Rome this Sacrament is turned into a dumb Shew which no body can be edified with or into a Sacrifice which Expiates sins and serves us instead of a holy life Behold three crying Calumnies The First that amongst us there is no other use of the Sacrament of our Lords Supper but for a Shew or a Sacrifice whereas that holy Sacrament is received by all pious Catholics at least once a Month and by an Infinity once or oftner each week by our Priest daily The Second that we require no practice of any Virtue whereas we interpret the words of St. Paul Let a man try himself of the Sacrament of Penance in which we exact a true sorrow for past sins a firm purpose to dye rather than to fall into any other again a full satisfaction to all the persons we have injured in their Reputations or Fortunes or any other way a perfect entire reconciliation with our Enemies a removal of all the occasions that lead us into our former sins or may likely prove a stumbling Block for the future a breaking and subduing of our Passions by penitential works Devotion towards the admirable Mystery of our Redemption humility in accusing our selves of our most secret sins a firm hope of Remission c. But these things are with Dr. Sherlock no Christian Virtues A Third that our exposing of the blessed Sacrament is a dumb shew and that so we assist at Holy Mass we hold no necessity of a Pious life whereas we feel that nothing speaks more the Mercies of God nothing moves us more to Christian Virtues than this great

's all the regard St. Paul bids us have for all such Innovators as pretend to a reformation of Faith which as Tertullian teaches is not liable to any because 't is not exposed to the least danger of failing the Gates of Hell Errors not being permitted ever to prevail against the Church which mov'd St. Augustin to declare thus his Sense We are certain Certi sumus neminem a communione genium se separare potuisse nam non quisque nostrum in suâ justitiâ sed in scripturis sacris quaerit Ecclesiam ut promissa est reddi conspicit Epist 48. Dic Ecclesiae si Ecclesiam non audierit sit tibi velut Ethnicus Publicanus Mat. 18. that no one can divide himself from the Communion of all Nations for not any one amongst us must seek the Church in his own Justice such as his own private Judgment frames but in the Holy Scriptures and he will find the Church such as she is there promised What Mark did our Blessed Lord set In whatever Offence received from a Brother whatever Scandal and there is not any greater than Heresie and Schism in case he hearken not unto obey not the Church let him be to thee as a Heathen or a Publican that is have no Converse with him separate thy self from him Certainly this Advice of Christ is perfectly opposite to that Obligation Dr. Sherlock would impose on all St. Irenaeus who received the true meaning of Christ's Doctrin from St. Polycarp St. John's Disciple understood it in a very different meaning when in his Fourth Book against Heresies he thus expressed himself ' T is necessary Qui in Ecclesiâ sunt Presbyteris obaudire oportet qui successionem habent ab Apostolis qui cum Episcopali successione charisma veritatis certum secundum placitum patris acceperunt reliquos vero qui absistunt à Principali successione quocunque loco colliguntur suspectos habere vel quasi Haereticos malae sententiae vel quasi scindentes eiatos sibi placentes aut rursus ut Hypocritas quaestus gratiâ vanae gloriae hoc operantes qui omnes decidunt à veritate l. 4. c. 42. to obey the Priests of the Church who have their Succession from the Apostles who with Episcopal Succession have received a certain Grace or Gift of Truth according to the Will of the Father all others who Separate themselves from the Principal Succession in whatever Place they may Combine together we must suspect as Heretics and of a wrong Opinion or as Schismatics proud Men full of the love of themselves or again as Hypocrites thus dividing themselves for Interests sake and Vain-glory who all of them are fallen from the Truth Is this to send us to read their Books St. Augustin also must be own'd of a very different Principle who having stated the Case as it is at present in this Nation gives this opposite Advice in his Third Sermon on the 30th Psalm Many Tongues contradict divers Heresies divers Contradicunt multae linguae diversae Haereses diversa Schismata personant linguae multae contradicunt veritati tu curre ad tabernaculum Dei Ecclesiam Catholicam tene à regulâ veritatis noli discedere protegeris in tabernaculo Domini à contradictione linguarum CC. 3. in Ps 20. Schisms and Divisions speak loud what Method is to be followed in this Case Run you to the Tabernacle of God the Catholic Church of which no Heresies contradicting one another can be Parts Do not depart from that Rule of Truth behold what Dr. Sherlock blames and calls Implicit Faith you shall be protected in the Tabernacle of God from these contradicting Tongues This is the true way taught and followed from the beginning of Interpreting Scripture of adhering to the genuin word of God when the Letter bearing several Constructions cannot reconcile different Opinions as the same holy Doctor observes We follow in this also the Authority of Canonical Scriptures when we follow what is Decreed Sequimnr sane in hâc re etiam Canonicarum Authoritatem Scripturarum cum hoc facimus quod universae Jam placuit Ecclesiae quam ipsarum Scripturarum commendat Authoritas c. L. 1. Cont. Cresc c. 31 32 c. by the Vniversal present Church which the Authority of the Scriptures themselves recommends unto us and because the holy Scriptures cannot deceive us whoever fears to be misled by the obscurity of this or any other Question let him consult about it that Church which we are without the least obscurity directed unto by the holy Scriptures This he had learn'd from St. John who assures the Members of that Church That they are not to seek any other Masters to teach them having that Holy Spirit Non necesse habetis ut aliquis vos doceat unctio enim ejus docet vos de omnibus 1 Joa 2. promised unto and guiding that Church which teaches them all truth St. Paul was of a very different mind as well as Religion from Dr. Sherlock when he orders even the Learned Bishop Titus to avoid an Heretic after one or two endeavors Haereticum hominem post unam secundam Correptionem devita sciens quia subversus est qui ejusmodi est delinquit cum sit proprio Judicio condemnatus Tit. 3. 10 11. to reclaim him knowing that such an one is cast off and is in sin being condemned by his own judgment which he opposes to that of the Church The first General Councils and the first Christian Emperors were of a different Religion and mind from this Doctor who Commanded all the Books written by Heretics to be burnt I will conclude this Point with St. Augustins Advice perfectly opposite to these unreasonable Principles a seasonable advice given to all Heretics wearied out with seeking in vain the truth by their own judgment without the direction of this unerring Guide Return and lie at Revertere sede in portu Catholicae fidei ubi nulla te possit fluctuosae curiositatis tempestas turbare Aug. in Hypognost Anchor in the Haven of Catholic Faith where no storm of a wavering curiosity can disturb you Dr. Sherlock in his Preservative f. 4. gives his Protestant this advice Ask them whether they will allow you to judge for your self in matters of Religion If they do not why will they trouble you with disputing You cannot be convinced unless you judge too and thereby resolve Faith into a private Spirit Here let our Protestant fix his Foot and not stir an Inch till they disown Infallibility I observed that this was to say 't is impossible to convince a man that in reason he ought to submit his judgment to that of another though infallible That such a Principle makes void all the right use of reason when it should lead us to submit to a just Authority that St. Paul pretended to Infallibility through the assistance of the Spirit of God who directed him and consequently that if