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A54576	A compendious history of the Catholick church from the year 600 untill the year 1600 shewing her deformation and reformation : together with the rise, reign, rage, and begin-fall of the Roman AntiChrist : with many other profitable instructions gathered out of divers writers of the several times, and other histories / by Alexander Petrie ...	Petrie, Alexander, 1594?-1662.; Church of Scotland. General Assembly.	1657 (1657)	Wing P1879; ESTC R4555	1,586,559	1,238

communication is extended We believe that upon the personal vnion followes so reall a communication of properties whereby the Son of God communicates unto the assumed nature his omnipotence omnipresence omniscience power of quickning c. by which communication the Godhead becomes not weaker but his humane nature is exalted and not abolished as is the union of the body and soul and of the fire and iron the body lives verily but by vertue of the soul and the iron burneth but by vertue of the fire neither is any of them turned into another therefore we believe that because of this personal union Christ according to his manhood is almighty or which is all one the humane nature of Christ is almighty For the Scripture gives unto him even as he is man all power which is no other thing but omnipotency and in testimony of this he gave sight unto the blind ........ We believe that Christ in his manhood now in the estate of glory and Majesty perfectly knowes all things that have been or shall bee For the Spirit was given him not in measure ..... but where it is said he knew not the day of judgement it is not meant simply of his manhood but of the form of a servant which afterwards he layd aside The Scriptures also bear witnes that Christ in his humanity is present with all creatures especially with his Church Beloved I am with yow untill .... but the manner of this presence is not exprest and so we believe not that he is locally or physically but supernaturaly with all his creatures how this is in true humility we confess that we are ignorant We believe also that in his flesh he hath the power of quickening as he said I am the bread of life and he had this majesty of omnipotency and of ..... as he is man because of the personal vnion even in the wombe of his mother but he shew it not then after he was born he shew it in miracles so oft as it was needfull and so far as the respect of his office and calling did require for he was then in form of a servant and had abased himself that he might suffer But the exinanition or form of a servant which was but for a time derogates nothing from his Majesty into which he entred fully when he went up to heaven and sate at the right hand of God this right hand is the Majesty of Christ reigning praesenter according to both natures both in heaven and earth this is to sit at the right hand of God And this our Mediator is to be adored with all religious worship according to both natures for we have not two Christs whereof the one should be worshipped and not the other but of wholl Christ it is said Let all the Angels worship him On the morow Beza answered thus There is ambiguity in the word communication it signifieth the personal union and also the effects of it We believe a real communication that is an union of natures in which union both natures remain distinct both in their own properties and therefore that communication whereby his humane nature is said to be every where and almighty is not so much as verbal but is as false as if yow would say His humanity is become his Deity Although all the properties of the Deity may be attributed unto Christ-man that is unto his person even named by his manhood or in concreto as we say The man Christ is almighty and eternal but neither may the natures be spoken one of another neither the properties of the one be given unto the other for this is a sure rule In the personal vnion both natures remain distinct and they both distinctly do what is proper unto them So the Word is distinctly that which the worde is as the flesh remaines distinctly the flesh Briefly as are two natures in Christ distinct in number and not separated one from the other so there are two wills and two workings or operations but one work as there is but one person Neither can that saying of Athanasius be otherwise understood It pleased the Worde to shew his Divine nature by that flesh in it and with it As for the alledged places of Scripture those concerning the power and authority of Christ are impertinently brought because his power or authority should be reckoned amongst the gifts bestowed on his flesh And so those places concerning his omnipotency and omnipresence must be understood of his person or Deity and not of his manhood To this purpose he cited some testimonies as of Tertullian Wee see a twofold estate not confounded but united in one person God-man and the properties of both natures are so safe that the Spirit or Deity shewes his own things in him that is his virtue works and signes and the flesh exerciseth its passions being hungry when with Satan and thirsty with the woman of Samaria As for that power of vinification we deny not that the flesh of Christ hath that power but not in that sense as yee take it for the flesh is vivificative not with that virtue which is proper unto the Deity that is not communicable but first because in this flesh Christ hath abolish'd death for us having fulfilled all things that were required to acquire eternal life unto us and then because by means of this flesh being communicated spiritually unto us by faith we receive life from Christ God-man It 's manifest that those gifts which were powred on the flesh of Christ were not at one instant perfectly bestow'd on his soul and body because he is said to have grown as in stature so in knowledge and grace and he was verily subject unto all our infirmities excep sin in time of his humiliation and so after his ascension he began not the use and declaration but the consummation of his power and glory The form of a servant and the exinanition signify not both one thing as yee suppose but by the form of a servant we understand his very humanity according to which he ever was is and shall be inferior to himself the Word and by which he is of the same nature with us though he hath laid aside all our infirmities when the work of our redemption was finished but among those infirmities circumscription is not to be numbred or else when he shall come in a bodily circumscribed substance he were not then most glorious but base having resumed that infirmity We profess also that Christ reigneth now and hath all power both in heaven and earth according to both natures but not praesenter in respect of his flesh for now as the Apostle saith we are strangers from Christ and he desired to be out of the body that he might be with Christ And it is said He will come again to wit visibly and bodily Lastly in that one adoration of our one and only Mediator according to both natures we divide not the person but we distinguish the natures for the Worde

maner of Ecclesiastical honor the limbs of the divel and enemies of God in a word they bring Lucifer into the Church of Christ He taught also that there is no law belonging unto the salvation of man but the Gospel of Christ 6. Joachim Abbot of Curacon in Calabria about the year 1200. held and and taught that the Pope and his Court were the Antichrist because they were drowned in simony and luxury by their wickedness they hindered the Jews and Pagans from converting unto Christ He wrote prophetical pictures upon the Revelation with Italian expositions wherein he sharply taxeth the Pope and his Clergy In his Commentary on Jeremiah he saith The days shall be perillous from the year 1200. until the last times when the law of liberty shall appear the Gospel of Christ shall be preached and the Church shall be purged as the wheat from the chaff and tares Pope Innocentius the III. condemned him as thinking amiss of the Trinity and saying that he who believeth the Trinity of persons and unity of nature or essence establisheth a quaternity But as we said Antoninus sheweth that the Pope condemned that error as his but he condemned not himself And Mar. Luther in a peculiar Treatise cleareth this Joachim from all error of the faith in the Trinity Catal. test verit lib. 17. and certainly all is not sure that is set down in the Decretals M. Fox in Act. Monim sheweth ex Roge. Honeden that when Richard King of England went to Syria by the way he sent for Joachim to meet him in Sicily and asked him many things among the rest he asked what he thought of the coming of the Antichrist He began to expound the mystery of the seven Kings in the Apocalypse these are seven persecutors Herod Nero Constantius Mahumet Melsemutus Saladin and Antichrist and Antichrist is now sitting in the City of Rome and in his Apostolical throne as the Apostle saith he is an adversary and exalteth himself above all that is called God Also he foretold the estate of the Church all the Church of the Saints shall be hid for the elect of God what they know they shall know it to themselves so that they will not presume to preach publickly because of prevailing darkness not that they will leave to encourage and exhort the faithful privately but because they will not dare to preach publickly Vsser de Eccles statu cap. 6. ex Roge. Honen annal in Rich. II. 7. Conradus a Lichtenal was made abbas Vrspergensis An. 1215. In the History of Henry the V. Emperor he sheweth that many at that time did reprove peregrinations and indulgences and in that place he calleth them a novelty He writeth many things in favor of Popes yet the force of truth sometimes prevaileth with them he condemneth Pope Gregory the IX for excommunicating the Emperor without just causes and without all order he condemneth the Pope for taking Lands from the Emperor in his absence whereas he had forced him to go away and for killing some who were signed with the Cross because they were going to aid the Emperor against the Turks which saith he is most abominable to speak He made this rhime of the avarice of Rome Epephonema ex vita Phil. Imp. Gaude mater nostra Roma Quoniam aperiuntur cataractae Thesaurorum In terra Vt ad te confluant rivi aggeres Nummorum In magna copia Laetare super iniquitate hominum Quoniam ad recompensationem Tantorum malorum Datur tibi pretium Iocundare Super adjutrice tua discordia Quae erupit de puteo Infernalis abyssi Vt accumulentur tibi Multa pecuniarum praemia Habes quod semper sitisti Decanta canticum Quia per malitiam hominum Non per tuam religionem Orbem vicisti Ad te trahit homines Non ipsorum devotio Aut pura conscientia Sed scelerum multiplicium perpetratio Et litium decisio Pretio comparata c. Ex Catalog test ver lib 16. This is expounded of the frequent gadding to Rome in the days of Pope Innocentius the III. See pag. 317. 8. Thore 8. There is extant a constitution of Lewes surnamed the blessed King A protestation against the Pope's Bull and an appeal of France bearing the date An. 1228. sub tit de Taliis wherein he regrateth the avarice of Popes saying The exactions and grievous burthens of moneys that are laid on the Churches of our Kingdom by the Court of Rome and whereby the Kingdom is miserably exhausted and more yet may be by burthens which are said to be lately imposed We will that these be levied upon no condition nor gathered except onely for a reasonable pious and most urgent or inevitable necessity and by our express and willing consent and with the consent of the Church it self of our Kingdom At that time the Senate of Paris did present unto John Santroman the King's Advocate the Pope's Bull to be read and answered He replied saying The greatest confusion of all things would arise upon the accepting and comprobation of that Bull for by Authority of such in former times the people of the Kingdom had in great number gone out of the Kingdom unto Rome of whom some became slaves or clients to the Cardinals and some living more liberally had wasted their patrimony idly and others in the City or by the way had perished with the inconvenience of the air and frequent pestilence and so France was exhausted of subjects especially of the learned men He sheweth also how vast sums of money were carried away for vacancies and avowsancies of Bishopricks and Abbeys and other titles in the Church so that sometimes ten or twelve Bulls were sold for one Priesthood and if this custom shall continue said he it shall come to pass that who hath any store of moneys will send to Rome and buy a Priesthood unto his Son or Cousin The Rector of the University of Paris spake to the same purpose and having protested at length against the Bull he appealeth from the iniquity thereof unto the next Councel Brut. Fulmen ex Chronic. Britan. Armoric lib. 4. 9. And because we have heard a little of the exactions which the Court Romish Simony laid upon the Nations to make this more clear I will add from the same Brut. Fulmen pag. 66 67. an example of France there the Author saith It is most certain two sorts of simoniacal merchandise of those things that are called spiritual are exercised at Rome by the Pope one whereby Priesthoods are sold openly without dissimulation and that is very gainful another not so lucrative but no less abominable which is called Taxa poenitentiariae Apostolicae The names and titles of the former are innumerable but of such a multitude the principal are reckoned The tribute of Annates or vacancies by this word is understood a years revenue which is paid unto the holy treasury of the Pope and these are often doubled or tribled Item the tribute by