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A15511	Mercy & truth. Or Charity maintayned by Catholiques By way of reply vpon an answere lately framed by D. Potter to a treatise which had formerly proued, that charity was mistaken by Protestants: with the want whereof Catholiques are vniustly charged for affirming, that Protestancy vnrepented destroyes saluation. Deuided into tvvo parts.	Knott, Edward, 1582-1656.	1634 (1634)	STC 25778; ESTC S120087	257,527	520

the naked couer him despise not thy flesh Then shall thy LIGHT breake forth as the Morning and thy Health shall soone arise and thy Iustice shall goe before thy face and the Glory of our Lord shall imbrace thee Then shalt thou call our Lord will heare Thou shalt cry and he will say Lo heere I am And so he will not fayle to shew thee Where he is Namely in his owne Catholique visible Church Fasting likewise giues strength and wings to our Prayer for Prayer is good (e) Tob. 12. ● with fasting But nothing is more necessary then that they roote out of their soules preiudice of Opinion Feare Hope Auarice Interest humane Respects and such eyther corruptions of nature or temptatiōs of our Enemy to which men will the more easily be led to yield by the desire which they haue naturally to leade a life in liberty and not to aduenture the losse of such conueniences delights as they are wont to like so well as also not to incurre those disaduantages and afflictions to which a contrary course might make thē subiect Some of these thinges are excellently pointed at by S. Augustine when he writes against the Donatist Heretiques of his tyme which euery man ought seriously to consider how farre they may perhaps concerne himselfe How many sayth he being (f) Epist. 48● conuinced by euidence of truth did desire to be Catholiques but did deferre it from day to day for feare of offending their friends or kinsfolkes How many were tyed not by truth wherein they neuer much confided but by the heauy chayne of obdurate custome How many did belieue the faction of Donatus to be the true Church because too much assurednes made them drowzy disdainefull and sleuthfull To how many did the reports of ill Tongues shut vp the way to enter who sayd that we put I know not what vpon the Altar How many thinking that it was no matter on what side one were a Christian did therfore remaine among the Donatists because there they were borne And afterward We were frighted to enter by reason of false reports which we should not haue knowne to be false vnles we had entred into the Catholique Church as daily we heare from the mouth of Protestants conuerted to Catholique Religion Others say We did indeed belieue that it imported nothing in what Company we did hold the fayth of Christ. But thankes be to our Lord who hath gathered vs from diuision and hath shewed to vs that it agreeth to one God that he be worshipped in Vnity FINIS Faults escaped in the Print GOod Reader whereas through the absence of the Author of this Worke and by reason of an vncorrected written Coppy sent vnto the presse many errours mistakings haue happened in the printing especially hauing byn cōstrained through the difficulties of these times to vse the help of strangers and such as are ignorant in our tongue It is in all humble manner desired that these said Circūstances duly considered thou wouldest in no wise heerin condemne the said Authour as accessary heerto but fauourably affoarding thy Censure heerof and in reading ouer the Booke to correct them with thy pen they being heere exactly gathered by himselfe and set downe as followeth EPistle Dedicatory Pag. 7. lin 3. Catholiques Corrige Catholique In the Preface PAg. 2. lin 26. indifferent Corrige in different Pag. 7. lin 26. transfered Corrige transferred In the first Part. PAg. 38. lin 26. one the other Corrïge one and the other Pag. 44. lin 6. contentions Corrige contentious Pag. 45. lin 29. as there is Corrige as in Job is Pag. 51. lin 15. affirme knowledge Corrige affirme that our first knowledge Pag. 54. lin 8. it Corrige is Ibid. lin 24. then Corrige them Pag. 56. lin 25. languages Corrige languages Pag. 57. lin 25. Hospinians Corrige Hospinianus Pag. 59. lin 1. Caerlile corrige Carlile Pag. 61. lin 11. No! Corrige No. Pag. 67. lin 7. seditions corrige seditious Pag. 78. lin 6. not corrige no Pag. 79. lin 1. seuerall corrige seuerally Pag. 89. lin 16. they holy corrige the holy Pag. 95. lin 30. deleatur be Pag. 99. lin 4. sayth corrige he sayth Pag. 102. lin 8. Hold corrige hold Pag. 103. lin 1. Circumcision D. Potter corrige Circumcision D. Potter Pag. 105. lin 3. errours But x corrige errours x But c. for the letter x is not referred to Philaletes but to the Moderate examination c. Pag. 111. lin 2. at corrige it Pag. 113. lin 9. Text corrige Texts Ibid. lin 17. or corrige nor Pag. 115. lin 16. nor corrige not Pag. 119. in the Title Chap. 111. corrīge Chap. 1111. Pag. 124. lin 2. beliene corrige belieue Pag. 126. lin 25. their corrige there for in Latin it is ibi not illorum Pag. 135. lin 17. of few corrige or few Pag. 136. lin 22. danably corrige damnably Ibid. lin 26. damnably corrige damnably I meane it ought not to be in a different or curciffe letter because it is not D. Potters word though it follow out of his doctrine Pag. 140. lin 5. before to auoyd corrige before To auoid Pag. 141. lin 4. supposes it doth corrige supposes It doth Pag. 146. lin 25. name confesse corrige name J confesse Pag. 147. lin 19. which corrige with Pag. 149. lin 10. deleatur we Pag. 155. lin 11. we was corrige he was Pag. 161. lin 10. 26. Napier corrige Napper Ibid. lin 19. goodly corrige godly Ibid. lin 29. wilernes corrige wildernes Ibid. lin 31. Hailbronerus corrige Hailbronnerus Pag. 162. lin 15. for that corrige that for Pag. lin 17. conld corrige could Pag. 163. lin 29. haue also corrige haue not also Pag. 165. lin 22. men depart corrige men to depart Pag. 174. lin 5. Christopher Potter corrige D. Christop Potter Pag. 183. lin 20. at last corrige at least Pag. 184. lin 29. your grounds corrige your owne grounds Ibid. lin 30. inough corrige enough The like also pag. 185. lin 2. 6. 7. 8. inough corrige enough Pag. 185. lin 9. deleatur not Pag. 187. lin 6. breach in corrige breach in Pag. 190. lin 1. 2. And D. Potter corr And yet D. Potter Pag. 193. lin 7. Reformation corrige Reformation Pag. 197. lin 18. sencelenesse corrige sencelesnesse Pag. 200. lin 25. manuer corrige manner Pag. 204. lin 6. after impossible adde and damnable Pag. 209. lin 26. correct the parenthesis this What do you meane that they are his owne conceyts and yet grounded vpon euidence of Scripture Pag. 212. lin 16. the gouernment corrige her gouernment Pag. 215. lin 18. Augustines corrige Augustine Pag. 218. lin 14. deleatur that Pag. 221. lin 16. Gods Church corrige Gods Word Pag. 225. lin 24. A godly corrige A goodly Pag. 230. lin 5. for corrige from Pag. 233. lin 18. see by a corrige see now by a Pag. 235. lin 2. summoued corrige summoned Pag. 238. lin 22. these corrige those Ibid. lin 24. certainly corrige certainty Pag. 239. lin 9. from Authority corrige from

be some vniuersall Iudge which the ignorant may vnderstand and to whom the greatest Clerks must submit Such is the Church and the Scripture is not such 20. Now the inconueniences which follow by referring all Controuersies to Scripture alone are very cleare For by this principle all is finally in very deed and truth reduced to the internall priuate Spirit because there is really no middle way betwixt a publique externall and a priuate internall voyce whosoeuer refuseth the one must of necessity adhere to the other 21. This Tenet also of Protestants by taking the office of Iudicature from the Church comes to conferre it vpon euery particuler mā who being driuen from submission to the Church cannot be blamed if he trust himselfe as farre as any other his conscience dictating that wittingly he meanes not to cozen himself as others maliciously may do Which inference is so manifest that it hath extorted from diuers Protestants the open Confession of so vast an absurdity Heare Luther The Gouernours (a) Tom. 2. Wittemberg fol. 375. of Churches and Pastours of Christs sheep haue indeed power to teach but the sheep ought to giue Iudgment whether they propound the voyce of Christ or of Aliens Lubbertus sayth As we haue (b) In lib. de principi●s Christian. dogm lib. 6. cap. 13. demonstrated that all publique Iudges may be deceiued in interpreting so we affirme that they may erre in iudging All faythfull men are prinate Iudges and they also haue power to Iudge of doctrines and interpretations Whitaker euen of the vnlearned sayth They (c) De Sacra Scriptura pag. 529. ought to haue recourse vnto the more learned but in the meane tyme we must be carefull not to attribute to them ouer-much but so that still we retaine our owne freedome Bilson also affirmeth that The people (d) In his true difference part 2. must be discerners and Iudges of that which is taught This same pernicious doctrine is deliuered by Brentius Zanchius Cartwright and others exactly cited by (e) Tract 2. cap. 1. Sect. 1. Brereley nothing is more common in euery Protestants mouth then that he admits of Fathers Councells Church c. as far as they agree with Scripture which vpon the matter is himselfe Thus Heresy euer fals vpon extremes It pretends to haue Scripture alone for Iudge of Controuersies and in the meane time sets vp as many Iudges as there are men and women in the Christian world What good Statesmen would they be who should idëate or fancy such a Common wealth as these men haue framed to themselues a Church They verify what S. Augustine obiecteth against certaine Heretiques You sce (f) lib 32. cont Faust that you goe about to ouerthrow all authority of Scripture and that euery mans mind may be to himselfe a Rule what he is to allow or disallow in euery Scripture 22. Moreouer what cōfusion to the Church what danger to the Common wealth this deniall of the authority of the Church may bring I leaue to the consideration of any Iudicious indifferent man I will only set downe some words of D. Potter who speaking of the Proposition of reuealed Truths sufficient to proue him that gaine saith them to be an Heretique sayth thus This Proposition (g) pag. 247 of reuealed truths is not by the infallible determination of Pope or Church Pope and Church being excluded let vs heare what more secure rule he will prescribe but by whatsoeuer meanes a man may be conuinced in conscience of diuine reuelation If a Preacher do cleare any point of fayth to his Hearers if a priuate Christian do make it appeare to his Neighbour that any conclusion or point of faith is deliuered by diuine reuelation of Gods word if a man himselfe without any Teacher by reading the Scriptures or hearing them read be conuinced of the truth of any such coclusion this is a sufficient proposition to proue him that gain saith any such proofe to be an Heretique and obstinate opposer of the faith Behold what goodly safe Propounders of fayth arise in place of Gods vniuersall visible Church which must yield to a single Preacher a Neighbour a man himselfe if he can read or at least haue eares to heare Scripture read Verily I do not see but that euery well gouerned Ciuill Common-wealth ought to concur towards the exterminating of this doctrine whereby the Interpretation of Scripture is taken from the Church and conferred vpon euery man who whatsoeuer is pretended to the contrary may be a passionate seditions creature 23. Moreouer there was no Scripture or written word for about two thousand yeares from Adam to Moyses whom all acknowledge to haue been the first Author of Canonicall Scripture And againe for about two thousand yeares more from Moyses to Christ our Lord holy Scripture was only among the people of Israel and yet there were Gentils endewed in those dayes with diuine Faith as appeareth in Iob and his friends Wherefore during so many ages the Church alone was the decider of Controuersies and Instructor of the faithfull Neither did the Word written by Moses depriue that Church of her former Infallibility or other qualities requisite for a Iudge yea D. Potter acknowledgeth that besides the Law there was a liuing Iudge in the Iewish Church endewed with an absolutly infallible direction in cases of moment as all points belonging to diuine Faith are Now the Church of Christ our Lord was before the Scriptures of the New Testament which were not written instantly nor all at one time but successiuely vpon seuerall occasions and some after the decease of most of the Apostles after they were written they were not presently knowne to all Churches and of some there was doubt in the Church for some Ages after our Sauiour Shall we then say that according as the Church by little and little receiued holy Scripture she was by the like degrees deuested of her possessed Infallibility and power to decide Controuersies in Religion That some Churches had one Iudge of Controuersies and others another That with moneths or yeares as new Canonicall Scripture grew to be published the Church altered her whole Rule of faith or Iudge of Controuersies After the Apostles time and after the writing of Scriptures Heresies would be sure to rise requiring in Gods Church for their discouery and condemnation Infallibility either to write new Canonicall Scripture as was done in the Apostles time by occasion of emergent heresies or infallibility to interpret Scriptures already written or without Scripture by diuine vn written Traditions and affistance of the holy Ghost to determine all Controuersies as Tertullian saith The soule is (h) De test antm cap. 5. before the letter and speach before Bookes and sense before stile Certainly such addition of Scripture with derogation or subtraction from the former power and infallibility of the Church would haue brought to the world diuision in matters of faith and the Church had rather lost then