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A19649	An aunswer to sixe reasons, that Thomas Pownde, Gentleman, and prisoner in the Marshalsey. at the commaundement of her Maiesties Commissioners, for causes Ecclesisasticall: required to be aunswered Because these reasons doo moue him to think, that controuersies and doubts in religion, may not be iudged by the Scriptures, but that the Scriptures must be iudged by the Catholique Church. ... Written by Robert Crovvley.	Crowley, Robert, 1518?-1588.; Pounde, Thomas, 1539-1616.; Tripp, Henry, d. 1612.	1581 (1581)	STC 6075; ESTC S109107	34,598	58

necessary to be knowne to saluation euen by plaine scriptures And the rest I hope I shall be able to prooue in such sort as the Fathers haue prooued them against such as haue at any tyme denied them And first I must prooue that in the Godhead there be thrée distinct persons and but one substaunce This and the second that is that in Christe there be two distinct Natures and but one person I thinke I shall easily prooue The Prophet Dauid hath written thus Psal 110. The Lord hath sayde to my Lord syt thou at my right hande tyll I make thine enimies thy foote stoole The Lord shall send out of Sion the Scepter of thy power beare thou rule in the myddes amongst his enimies Thus much in the two first verses And in the fift verse he sayth thus The Lord at thy right hand hath wounded euen Kinges in the day of his wrath That the Prophet Dauid dyd in these verses of this Psalme speake of the diuine Maiestie and of the second person Christ it is manifested by that which S. Mathew writeth in his twenty and two Chapt. Vos quid dicitis de Christo cuius filius est What doo you say of Christe whose sonne is he c. The Lord. That is God the Father Sayde to my Lord. That is to God the Sonne c. Héere haue we two distincted persons the Father and the Sonne And in the seconde verse he sayth The Lorde shall send out of Sion the Scepter of thy power which is the worde of the Gospell And this Scepter was sent out of Sion by the holy Ghoste in the feast of Pentecoste when he rested vppon the Apostles in the shape of 〈…〉 rie tongues deuided So that héere we haue the thyrde person and so consequently thrée distinct persons The Father sayth to the sonne sit thou at my right hand c. And the holy Ghost sendeth the word which is the scepter of the power of the Sonne out of Sion And in the fift verse he sayth The Lorde at thy right hand shall wounde euen Kinges in the day of his wrath Thus speaketh the diuine Maiestie God the Father God the Sonne God the holy Ghoste one diuine Maiestie to the Church of Christe hée re milytaunt vppon earth So haue we the vnitie of the thrée distinct persons in the deitie And Christe him selfe expounding the first verse of this Psalme to be spoken of him selfe dooth a warrant vs that he béeing Dauids sonne after the flesh is neuerthelesse Dauids Lorde and therefore God And so bothe God and man and yet but one Christe For be sayth What say you of Christe Whose sonne is hée This might suffise to shewe that these two verities are not vnwritten as you do terme them But to satisfie you to the full looke what S. Mathew hath written in the last Chapter last words of his Gospell reporting the wordes of our Sauiour who sayth thus there All power bothe in heauen and earth is giuen vnto me Goe your way therfore and teach all Nations baptizing them in the name of the Father of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost teaching them to obserue all those thinges that I haue commaunded you And behold I am with you euerie day euen to the ende of the world Héere the man Christe receyueth from the diuine Maiestie all power bothe in heauen and in earth and by that power he giueth commission to his Apostles to goe and teache all Nations and to Baptize them in the name of the Father of the Sonne of the holy Ghost So that héere againe we haue thrée distinct personnes and their vnitie in giuing to Christe all power in heauen and in earth and the two natures in one person Christe in that he receyueth all power in heauen and in earth and giueth commission to his Apostles to teach and baptize If this will not satisfie you I refer you to that which S. Austine hath written in his booke De Trinit There shall you finde proofe vpon proofe that these verities are not vnwritten The thirde veritie that you say is vnwritten is that God the Father was neuer begotten It séemeth that you haue not read S. Peaules Epistle to the Ephesians for if you had you must néedes haue séene that this is no vnwritten veritie Saint Paule writeth thus Huius rei gratia flecto genua mea ad patrem Domini nostri Iesu Christi ex quo omnis paternitas in coelo in terra nominatur For this cause sayth S. Paule doo I bowe my knées to the Father of our Lorde Iesus Christe of whome all Fatherhoode bothe in heauen and in earth dooth take name I trow you will not now say that this veritie is vnwritten The fowrth veritie that you say is not written is that the holy Ghost procéedeth bothe from the Father and the Sonne as from one fountayne If you would reade that which S. Iohn hath written I thinke you would not say that this veritie is vnwritten Cum venerit paracletus quem ego mittam vobis a patre spiritū veritatis qui a patre procedit ille testimonium perhibebit de me c. When the Comforter shall come whome I wyll sende vnto you from the Father euen the spirit of trueth that procéedeth from the Father he shall testifie of me c. And in the twentie Chapter he sayth Haec cum dixisset insufflauit dixit eis Accipite spiritum sanctum When he had spoken these wordes he breathed vpon them and he sayde vnto them Receyue ye the holy Ghost c. If breath may be sayde to procéede from the person that breatheth then may we say that it is written that the holy Ghost procéedeth from Christe the sonne of God euen as it is written that he procéedeth from God the Father I wyll be bolde therefore without any more a doo to conclude that these fowre verities are not vnwritten but written in déede in the Canonicall Scriptures The fift vnwritten verity is the descending of Christ into hell this you must haue prooued by plaine wordes of Scripture the lacke whereof as you say hath caused many nowe a dayes to deny it flatly I am none of them that doo so deny it But that he descended in such manner as your Catholiques haue taught and as it hath bene set foorth in their Stage Playes and in their payntinges in glasse windowes else where I thinke would be as harde a thing for you to prooue any way as for vs to prooue by plaine wordes of Scripture that he dyd in déede descende into hell I thinke you wyll graunt that the spéeche vsed in the Créede concerning Christes descending into hell is figuratiue vsed by the figure Synecdoche wherein the whole is vnderstanded in the parte For you wyll not I thinke say that Christes body went into hell For that was buried and rested in the graue tyll the tyme that it was restored to lyfe againe Well Then it was his spirite