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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14430	The golden treatise of the auncient and learned father Vincentius Lirinensis. For the antiquitie, and vniuersalitie, of the Catholicke religion: against the prophane nouelties of all heresies: newly translated into English by A.P. Verie profitable for all such as desire in these dangerous times, to imbrace the true Gospell of Iesus Christ, and to remaine free from all infectio[n] of false doctrine as in the preface more at large is declared; Pro catholicae fidei antiquitate libellus. English	Vincent, of Lérins, Saint, d. ca. 450.; A. P., fl. 1596.	1596 (1596)	STC 24748; ESTC S119131	43,517	126

It were too long to rehearse vp all his workes for which he might haue bene compared to the cheefe pillors of Gods Church had not the prophane licentiousnesse of hereticall curiositie by inuenting I know not what new opinion spotted and discredited all his former labours whereby his doctrine was accounted not so much an edification as an ecclesiasticall tentation CHAP. VII HEREsome man perhaps requireth to know what heresies these men aboue named taught that is Nestorius Appollinaris Photinus This pertaineth not to the matter whereof we now intreat for it is not out purpose to dispute against each mans particuler error but only by a few exāples plainly and clerely to proue that to be most true which Moyses saith that if at any time any ecclesiasticall master yea a Prophet for interpreting the misteries of the prophetical visions goeth about to bring in any new opinion into the Church that the prouidence of god doth permitt it for our proofe triall But because it will be profitable I will by a litle disgression breefely set downe what the forenamed heretickes Photinus Appollinaris Nestorius taught This then is the heresie of Photinus he affirmeth that God is as the Iewes beleeue singuler and solitary denyning the fulnesse of the Trinitie not beleuing that there is any person of the word of God or of the holy ghost he affirmeth also that Christ was onlye man who had his begining of the virgin MARY teaching verie earnestly that we ought to worshipe only the person of god the father to honor Christ only for man This then was Photinus opinion now Appollinaris vaunteth much as though he beleeued the vnitie of Trinitie with full sound faith but yet blasphemeth he manifestly against our Lordes incarnation For he saith that our Sauiour either had not mans soule at all or at least such a one as was neither indued with mind or reason furthermore he affirmeth that Christs body was not takē of the flesh of the holy virgin MARY but descended from heauen into the wōbe of the Virgin holding yet doutfully and inconstantly some time that it was coeternall to the word of God some time that it was made of the diuinitie of the word for he would not admit two maner of substances in Christ the one diuine the other humane the one of his Father the other of his Mother but did thinke that the verie nature of the word was deuided into two partes as though the one remained in God and the other was turned into flesh that whereas the truth saith that Christ is one consisting of two substances he contrary to the truth affirmeth of the one diuinitie of Christ to be two substances and these be the assertions of Apollinaris But Nestorius sicke of a contrarie disease whilest he faineth a distinction of two substances in Christ sodenly bringeth in two persons and with monstrous wickednes will needs haue two sonnes of God two Christes one that was God and another that was man one begotten of the Father another begotten of his Mother And therfore he saieth that the holy Virgin MARY is not to be called the mother of God but the mother of Christ because that Christ which was borne of her was not God but man And if any man thinke that in his bookes he saith there was one Christ and that he preached one person of Christ I must needs confesse that he lacketh not ground to say so for that he did either of craftie pollicie the rather to deceaue that by some good thinges he might the more easely perswade nought as the Apostle saith By the good thing he hath wrought Rom. 7 me death Wherfore either craftely as I said in certaine places of his writings he vaunteth to beleeue one person in Christ or else surely he did hold that after our Ladies deliuerie two persons became in such sort sort one Christ that yet in the time of our Ladies cōception or deliuerie for some time after there were two Christes and that Christ was borne first like vnto another man and only was man and not yet ioined in vnitie with the person of God the word and that afterwarde the person of the word descended downe assuming and ioininge him selfe to that man in vnitie of person although he now remaine in glorie assūpted for some time yet there seemeth to haue bene no difference betwixte him and other men Thus then Nestorius Apollinaris Photinus like mad dogges barked against the Catholicke Church Photinus not cōfessing the Trinity Apollinaris main taining the nature of the Word conuertible not confessing two substances in Christ denying also either the whol soule of Christ or at least that it was indued with mind and reason beleeuing for his pleasure what he liked of the second person in Trinitie Nestorius by defending either alwaies or for some time two Christes But the Catholicke Church beleeuing aright both of God and of our Sauiour neither blasphemeth against the misterie of the Trinitie nor against the incarnatiō of Christ for it worshipeth one Diuinitie in Trinitie and reuerenceth the equalitie of the Trinitie in one and the same maiestie cōfessing one Christ not two and the selfe same both God and man beleeuing in him one person yet acknowledging two substances but yet beleeuing one person two substances because the word of God is not mutable that it can be turned into flesh one person least professing two sonnes it may seeme to worship a quaternitie not to adore the Trinitie CHAP. VIII BVT it is worth the labor to declare this matter more plainely more substantially more distintly In God is one substance and three persons in Christ be two substances but one persone In the Trinitie there is an other and an other but not another and an other thing In our Sauiour is not an other another but an other other thing How is there in the Trinitie an other and an other but not another an other thing Marry because there is an other person of the father an other of the sonne and an other of the holy ghost But yet not an other another nature but one the selfe same How is there in our Sauiour another and another thinge not another and another because there is another substance of the diuinitie and another substance of the humanitie but yet the deitie the humanitie is not another and another but one and the selfe same Christ one and the selfe same sonne of God and one and the selfe same person of the selfe same Christ and sonne of God As in a man the body is one thing and the soule is another thing but yet the body and the soule are but one and the selfe same man In Peter Paule the soule is one thing the body is another thing yet the body the soule are not two Peters nor the soule is not one Paul and the body an other Paul but one the selfe same Peter one and the selfe