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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09662	The burnynge of Paules church in London in the yeare of oure Lord 1561. and the iiii. day of Iune by lyghtnynge, at three of the clocke, at after noone, which continued terrible and helplesse vnto nyght	Pilkington, James, 1520?-1576.	1563 (1563)	STC 19931; ESTC S114665	123,832	280

necessary to be obserued continually in the churche The cheife reason whereon they ground it is the saiynge of Saint Iames. If any be sicke let him call the elders of the congregacion and let them pray for him annointinge him with oyle in the name of the lord c. The other place of saint Marke where the Apostles vsed oile in healing the sicke thoughe they allege it it proues not their purpose euen as their owne Doctours teache Than was a time of miracles and God gaue that power of healynge diseases to confirme his gospell withall now it is not lawfull to looke for suche miracles If they wey the wordes of Saint Iames well they wil not so much glory in that their sacrament Saint Iames biddes theym annoint hym wyth oyle I aske them with what oyle I meane not whether with oile Oliue or lampe oile or other kinde of oile althoughe that question can not be aunswered out of the text of the scripture yet according to the general rule I graunt that where oile alone is named there is ment oile oliue but whither it be halowed consecrate oile or commen and vnhalowed I trust they will not saye vnhalowed for than their holy sacrament should stand on an vnhalowed thinge which is a great inconuenience than if it muste be consecrated I aske with what wordes and after what sort must it be done there is no wordes of consecration for the oile in Saint Iames nor in anye place of the Scripture If there be let them shew them but their owne Doctours say that there is none Than it must be halowed with woordes of their owne deuisinge why than folowes it consequently that man is better than God which is blasphemy to graunt It is a greater might and power to make a holy thinge than to make the vnholy and bare thinge it selfe as the baker makes the bread but Christes holy ordinaunce sanctifies the breade in his holye supper but in thys their sacrament God shoulde make the oile and the Byshoppe shoulde make it holye And because they stycke so stiflye that all consecrations stand in speakinge certayne woordes I aske what those wordes be where they be taught in the Scriptures and whether manne haue power of hys owne head to make a thinge holyer than God haies done and to deuise the woordes himselfe also wherewith it shalbe consecrated and made so holye the Scripture hays no suche wordes and that manne shoulde deuyse those holye wordes is great absurditie Whan these are aunswered ▪ more maye be replyed against them Againe I demaund what Scripture they haue to proue that Byshoppes onelye must halow this oile for those that be sacramentes in dede as Baptisme and the L. supper euerye Priest hais autoritye to vse minister and consecrate them accordynge to their holye institutyon and dooe all that belonges thereto as well as the Byshoppe Is this they Sacramente of an oylinge more holy than the other because Byshoppes a● more holye menne are put to the doing and consecratynge of the oile Yet one doubte more They haue ii sortes of Oile to annoint withall differinge in holynesse consecration and vse of them and yet both halowed by the bisshoppe One is of Oyle and Balsam blend together whiche is called commenlye oile and Chreame wherewyth Byshoppes and Priestes in their consecratinge and Children are anointed in Christenynge and that is more holy than thys for sycke persons is for this is Oyle alone withoute other thinges blend thereto as their maister teaches What scripture is there for these toies and the consecratinge of them Saynct Paule sais that our meate is sanctified by the word and prayer but I trust they will graunt a better consecration than this and more holines in that oile than in our daily meate But howe wil they proue it Further euery sacrament hais a promise anexed of god working some spiritual grace by thē in the receyuer bere is none such but S. Iam. sais the faithful prayer shal heale the sicke man The promyse here named is corporall bodily health and is attributed to praier and not to their sacrament Than as the promise is corporall so was this Oyle a corporall medicyne and Salue for diseased bodies althoughe I doubte not but than by such godly prayers and exhortacions god wrought a spirituall grace inwardly Nothinge was more commenly vsed for weake and wearye bodies than oile in all those countries and nothinge does more ease the paines of the sicke bodye than these supplinge oiles therefore partlye for the custome of the Countrye partly for the holsome strength and medicinable nature of oile and partly for an outwarde signe of an inward grace wrought by God while that gift of healinge diseases did continue in Christes Churche Saint Iames biddes them call the elders anoint him with oile in the name of the lorde and the faithful prayer shall heale the sycke person but what does that belonge or howe is it to bee applied to oure dayes where no suche gift is I woulde faine make an ende of their foolishnesse if it had any ende Their owne Doctors teache further that this annointing takes not away mortall sinne but venial onelye and that it must not be vsed as longe as there is hope of life in the sicke person than by their own doctrine it is not so holye a Sacrament nor a Sacrament at all Their opinion holdes that Sacramentes doe both gene grace and forgeue sin and should be geuen onelye to theym that haue vse of reason to repent for their sinnes and call on God for his mercye beynge not children but comen to full age this does not so nor is so vsed by their owne doctrine and therefore no sacramente The Popes holy water is as good or better as this their sacrament by this doctrine for he sais that his coniured water canne forgeue veniall sinne and driue away deuils to Than after their owne teachinge this their sacrament is not so good as the Popes holye water for it can driue away deuils beside forgeuinge veniall sinne whiche this oylinge can not But thus to teache is to blaspheme God in makinge Goddes Sacramentes woorse than the Popes dregges To conclude thautority and auncienty of this their sacrament from whence it comes and what it is Polychroni teaches lib. v. Ca. v. that Pope Felir iiii Graundsir to Pope Gregories father marke whether he was maried or no ordeined the sycke to be anointed with oile If ye loke for greater autours Uolaterram teaches the same but I had rather proue it by their own doctours because they call other newe felowes thā christ taught it not Forther where he charges vs with declynynge from the steppes of blessed fathers whi●he ordeyned in Paules mattins to be had at midnight all forenoone Masses and in the steple antems these thinges we do not onely not deny for we do not count suche supersticious Idolaters to be oure fathers in religion but we reioise and praise God for our