nother fol. 125. The imperfectioÌ„ of our owne workes fol. 130.2 Thre maner of powers to forgeue synnes fol. 132. Two thynges to be learned in S. Paules saiyng Ro. 8. fol. 137. The Lawe hath moe endes then one fol. 137.2 Twoo thynges to bee noted fol. 140.2 The spirite of god worketh in vs our regeneration fol. 24. V Unto whom hell is ouercome fol. 6.2 Uaine opinions of sundry meÌ„ fol. 29. Vsia fol. 73.2 VV Wherefore Christe was iudged and condemned before Pilate fol. 1.2 What the Serpent signified ibidem Why the Sacrifices of the old Lawe were offered often fol. 2.2 Why Christe was laide in a newe graue fol. 4.2 Why Christe was laide in a nother mans graue ibidem What the newe graue signified fol. 7. What was signified by the graue that was he wen out of the stone ibidem What is to bee vnderstanded when we saiâ— â–ª Christ barowed hell fol. â—â—2â— Whereto God had respecte in his sonne our sauiour fol. 5.2 What thyng caused Christ to be so heauie before his death fol. 8. What Abrahams bosome is fol. 9.2 What we learne by the third of Iohn fol. 23.2 Wherin the fire of purgatory doth differ froÌ„ the fier of hel 12.2 We are al saued by priuiledge fol. â—3 What is the firste foundation of our election fol. 18. What fruicte their doctrine doeth bryng that condemne children that dye without baptisme fol. 19. Without faith no man can be deliuered from condempnation fol. 20. What daunger it is to refuse to receiue the sacrameÌ„ts f. 20. What we ought to doe if we should followe the Fathers in all thynges fol. 22. Why the spirite of God is called fire fol. 24. Why the holy ghoste is called water fol. 24.2 What certaine of the learned called Augustine for his rigour towardes infantes not Baptized fol. 26.2 What moued Augustine to write as he did of children not Baptized fol. 27. Wherin the Anabaptistes exceeded fol. 27. Whereof Confirmation dyd come fol. 27.2 Why the Fathers did magnifie the Sacramentes so much fol. 29. What profite commeth to theÌ„ that are perswaded in this doctrine fol. 30.2 What many foolishe people vsed to doe in carriyng their children to Idols fol. 31. Wee doe parte our saluation betweene Christes death and his resurrection fol. 31.2 What it is to bee dead vnto synne fol. 32.2 What a large doctrine our baptisme doeth preache vnto vs. fol. 34. What it is to sit on the right hande of the Father fol. 35.2 What the Papistes must doe if they wyll haue vs to beleue them 47.2 What it is to receiue the Sacrament vnworthely fol. 48. Why the papists can not perceaue in what parell they bee fol. 49. Wherin the papists haue the Fathers in estimation fol. 53. Wherin we must beare with our weake brethren fol. 53. Why the sacramentes were ordeined fol. 16.2 We do make more then bare signes of the Sacramentes fol. 58.2 What honour we ought to do to the sacrament ibid. What we learne of the lordes wordes in Zacharie fol. 60. Why Christ would be baptized fol. 63.2 Who can choose but laugh at the papistes fol. 68. Why the sacramentes be called by the names of the thynges whereof they bee Sacramentes fol. 69. What this word Signum doth signifie in the .2 of Luk. f. 72.2 What it is to examine our selues fol. 57. and 76.2 Who they be that féede effectuously vppon the bodye and blood of Christe fol. 76.2 Why Christ our sauiour was man. fol. 81.2 What is the chief marke that the papistes shoote at fol. 89. Why the Apostles were called light fol. 87 2 What properties must bee in hym that we must pray vnto fol. 89.2 What was the meanyng of the Prophete Ieremie fo 96. What is signified by psalmes hymnes and songes fol. 104. What the Sunne doth signifie fol. 104.2 What the Moone doth signifiâ— fol. 105. What the Starres doe signifie ibidem We must beleue in Gods power Gods prouidence Gods goodnesse fol. 111. What the true Churche of Christe is fol. 111.2 Who can bee the heade of the Churche fol. 112. Who bee the kéepers of the keyes of Gods kyngd fo 114.2 What it is to loose ibidem What it is to bynde fol. 115. Wherof the certitude of gods worde doth depende fol. 118.2 When the Churche can not erre fol. 122.2 When the Churche can and doeth erre ibidem Whole vniuersall Churche doeth neuer fall awaie from God. ibidem Why it is called the inuisible Churche fol. 122. We muste not deuide our selues from the Churche bicause the wicked are among vs. fol. 123. Whence this worde iustificare hath been borowed and what it signifieth fol. 124. Why God doeth crowne his giftes in vs. fol. 129.2 What the nature of merite is fol. 130.2 What we are as long as we are without the spirite of god fol. 135. What this worde Apochripha is fol. 135.2 What this word CanoÌ„ is ibi Why the faithfull are saide to be free fol. 141. What thyng caused Christ to be so heauie before his death fol. 8. What Christes goyng downe to hell is fol. 9. Without faith no man can be deliuered from condemnation fol. 20. Whereto the Papistes haue brought the order of confirmation fol. 28.2 What it is to bee crucified to the worlde fol. 32. Wherefore the Sacramente was instituted fol. 56.2 What greate absurdities doe come of the doctrine of traÌ„substantiation fol. 67.2 What Christe meant by the keyes fol. 114. FINIS
the decree confirmeth that doctrine Melchiades an aucther of the Papistes and a Pope saieth Sacramentum manus impositionis sicut nisi à maioribus perfici non potest ita maiori veneratione venerandum est tenendum The Sacramente of laiyng on of handes as it cannot be made but onely of the greater so is it to be worshipped with greater reuerence and so to be defended This is a verie straunge religion that a drop of grease enchaunted and coniured with mumblyng of a fewe wordes to be compared to Christes sacrament preferred before the water sanctified by the worde of god But this is their maner to depraue Gods lawes dignifie their owne I marueile what aucthoritie thei haue to make this a sacrament for I am sure that none can make a sacrament but he that can geue power strength and vertue to it but the Pope can geue no power strength and vertue to it therefore he cannot make a Sacrament for we are not makers nor cōsecrators of sacraments but ministrators Saint Augustine saieth Accedat verbum elemento fit sacramentum Let the worde come to the element and it is made a sacrament Here I consider two thinges that a sacrament consisteth of the worde and the element now let them shewe mée the worde for their sacrament of confirmation that it maye bee put to the elemente but here they are dumbe To speake further howe they haue brought this order of confirmation whiche at the beginnyng was ordained as you haue heard before for good purposes to toyes trifles and gewgawes As Oyle to grease them Spittle to poyson them Salte to drie them vp Bandes aboute their neckes to choke them Tapers burning in their hands to consume them with a nomber of other toyes and superstitions of them deuised without any foundation or warraunt in Gods worde Wherfore I perswade my selfe that rather fonde Nurses haue inured them then conscience or reason perswaded them Scriptures haue thei none but the same condemne them nor godly fathers any but the same be against them But now come againe to some other of the Anabaptistes saiynges and obiections that they bryng against the baptisme of infantes we doe not reade saie they that the Apostles did baptize any children in those families housholdes which thei did baptize Howe coulde it then be that they had baptized the whole housholdes as they them selues do write that thei did if thei had left the children that were in them if at least there were any vnbaptized Are not the children part of the householde yea are they not rather the chief parts of the houshold Isaac was so of the housholde of Abraham that for his sake Ismaell with his mother was driuen out of the doore and cleane put awaie If then the Apostles did baptize the whole housholdes as thei themselues doe testifie without all doubte they baptized also the litle infantes that were in them For as in the olde lawe when any straunger forsaking his Idolatrie would be ioyned vnto the people of God professe the same religion that they professed both he and all his men children were circumcised were they neuer so young so in the Apostles tyme and many yeres after when any were conuerted vnto the faith of christ not onely they but all their whole housholdes both olde and yong were sealed vp with the seale of the people of God. The holy Apostle saieth that any man that hath not the spirite of Christe the same is none of his Whereby it foloweth that whosoeuer hath the spirite of Christe the same is one of his And againe that any man whiche is Christes the same hath his spirite But the litle infantes children of the christians not only as soone as they be borne but also as soone as thei beginne to liue in the mothers belly are Christes that is to saie they pertaine vnto Christe and vnto his kyngdome as he hath plainely declared vnto vs by the example of Iohn Baptiste Ieremie and of many other Therefore I doe conclude that they haue his spirite and that thei ought to be baptized For Saint Peter saieth can any man forbid water that these should not bee baptized whiche haue receaued the holy ghoste as well as we Sith then that yong children haue the spirite of Christe bicause that thei are his who but Antichriste will forbid them to be baptized It is to be noted then that in Augustines tyme many were exceedyng negligent about the sacramentes which thing hath caused the auncient fathers to magnifie the same so muche And therefore they that did come after them not consideryng the causes why they had doen so did take the wordes rawly taking no héede to their figuratiue and hiperbolicall speaches wherby it did come to passe at length that thei did make plain ydols of the sacramentes as though the vertue of our sauiour Christ and the whole efficacie of our religion shoulde consist in the visible and corruptible elementes or signes There were many among them that had receaued the Gospell whiche did deferre to be baptized till the very houre of their death some of them doyng it by negligence and some againe bicause that thei were perswaded that in baptisme all the synnes that could be in man should be washed awaie for this cause thei taried as long as they coulde that so thei might depart out of this life cleane and pure from all synnes yea many whiche thyng was worse did take vpon that hope the greater boldenesse to synne Which thyng did moue S. Chrisostome also Basilius Magnus to write very sharply against their maner of doynges and to rebuke them that dye so very sore As they then that were of age did deferre and prolong their baptisme so it is not to be doubted but that thei did the like in their owne children for the causes aboue rehearsed And therfore it is no marueile if Saint Augustine or any other in his name whosoeuer he be hath written and spoken this of baptisme for to redresse suche faultes negligences and opinions and for to stirre and moue the christians to do better their duetie in that pointe aswell for themselues as for their children For this cause it was also ordained in the auncient catholike churche for as the ecclesiasticall histories doe testifie they baptized but once in the yere in Thessalia where it came to passe that many dyed without baptisme that baptisme shoulde be ministred twise in the yere that is to saie at Easter and at Whitsontyde There might be yet an other cause that did moue this authour to speake after this fashion He did see that many were infected with the heresie of the Pelagians which did attribute litle or nothyng vnto the grace of God and as they regarded nothyng originall synne so thei did wonderfully magnifie and extol the strength and power of man Wherfore thei had also baptisme
Israelites were saued by the inwarde circumcision Actes 10. Cornelius Though we haue neuer so stroÌ„g a faith yet ought we not to despise the Sacramentes Matth. 3. Luk. 3. Luk. 1. Rom. 9. Iere. 1. Galat 1. The chosen among the heatheÌ„ were saued without circumcision Iona. 3. 4. Reg. 5. Iob. 24. What is the firste foundation of our election Ephe. 1.2 Rom. 8.9.10 1. Pet. 1. The efficieÌ„t The materiall The formall The finall cause of our saluation Iosua 5. Marke this ye cruell papistes The Sichemites Gen. 34. Mat. 12. Mark. â— Luk. 6. Iohn â— By baptisme the children of the christians are brought vnto Christe Mat. 21. Mark. 11. Luk. 19. What fruite their doctrine bringeth the condemne â–ª still borne children Obiection Aunswere Luk. 1â— Luk. 16. The comfort that they had in the bosome of Abraham Rom. 14. A question Obiection Iohn 3. Mark. 16. Aunswere Without faith no man can be deliuered from comdemnation What daunger it is to refuse to receaue the holy Sacramentes Augustine Example August in Io. tracta 80. These thinges are diligently to be noted and marked Chris. Ho. 27. A question A great absurditie graunted Sent. 4. dist 4. ca. Sunt August de ciuitate dei lib. 13. cap. 7. De consecrat Distinct. 4. cap. Baptismi De vnita bapt lib. 4. Lib. 4. de bapt Glossa de consecra distinct 4. S. Bapti Cyprian Luk. 23. August in Psalm 34. Rom. 10. Note this Dâ— consecrat distinct 4. ca. baptismi Senten 4. diâ—â—â—nct 4. Ambr. de obitu valenti Chanes de Sacramentis August in Ioh. tracta 80. Gen. 25. Mala. 1. Rom. 10. Iere. 1. Luk. 1. Galat. 1. The place is the thirde of Iohn Iohn 6. The Euchariste ministred vnto litle infants The maner of the Iacobites and Grekes The maner of the Bohemians and Morauians Marke what we ought to do if we should follow the fathers in al thinges The cause that the fathers did thus erre An errour of certaine fooles Iohn 6. August de ciuitat dei lib. 27. cap. 25. A mery story of the Person of Trumpington Hiero. in 1. cap. and Galat. Cypri ad Nouatianum â—omo 2. Thei may as lawfully do one as the other Hebr. â— Mat. 28. 1. Cor. 14. Argumentum minore ad marus Caâ— 100. August contra Epist. Parmeniani 2. ca. 13. Libr. contra herese 1. Gen. 22. Mala. 1. Ierem. 1. Luk. 1. Rom. 8. 9. Nora 1. Sam. 1â— Not lawfull for Midwiues to baptize in any case Howe the place of the .3 of Ioh. ought to be vnderstanded 1. Pet. 1. 2. Cor. 3.5 1. Cor. 15. Iohn 3. Phrases of Scriptures 2. Cor. 15. Iohn 3. The spirite of God worketh in vs our regeneration Obiection Aunswere Matth. 3. August lib. de Haere cap. 59. Alphons de Haere lib. 2. Bern. Luk. Cato Haere lib. 2. Why the spirite of God is called fire Actes 2. Iohn speaketh of the holy ghost first Christ speaketh of the water first The holy ghost for many causes is called by sundry names in the Scriptures Why the holye ghost is called water Psal. 50. Hebr. 6. Psal. 1. Iohn 4. What Christ woulde haue vs further to vnderstande by this maner of speaking Esai 44. Ezech. 36. Actes 2. Ioel. 2. Iohn 4. Iohn 7. Sent. lib. 4. distinct 4. cap. his autem The doctors forced to confesse three maners of Baptisme De consecra distinct 4. Ca. Bapti Senten 4. distin 4. Ca. his autem August de vni Bapti Iohn 11. Obiection In the auncient Church they that had receaued the Gospell and were not baptized were called Catechuminie bicause that thei were instructed in the faith Aunswere Holcot Sent. 4. distin 4. que 1. Sent. 4. distin 4. Cap. his auâ—â—in The papistes owne doctors condemne them An example 2. Cor. 8. August in Leuiti que 88. Sent. 4. dist 4. Obiections August lib. de fide ad pet Aunswere The papistes vnwares to them selues ouerthrowe their owne Lymbe What certen of the leâ—rned called Saint Augusti for his rigour towardes infantes not baptized Augustines modestie in writing of matters of religion What moued Saint Augustine to write as he did of childreÌ„ not baptized Some make any ydol of the sacramentes Others make none account of the sacramentes Wherein the Anabaptistes exceeded Genes 22. Hebr. 11. Math. 19.14 Marke 13. Luke 18.15 August Epist. 23. Whereof confirmation did come Aug. de bap cont Don. li. 3. Cap. 16. Lib. 4. distin 7. cap. 2. The Papist doth openly mainteine an herisie of Donatus Melchiades Oyle for a Sacrament â–ª more fit for a Sallet Math. 15. An argument Aug. in Ioh. tract 80. Whereto the papistes haue brought the order of confirmation Obiection Aunswere Actes 16. â— Cor. 1. Gen. 21. This the wicked Anabaptistes can not abyde Rom. 8. â—n argumeÌ„t Luke 1. Ierer 1. Actes 10. What caused the fathers to magnifie the Sacraments so muche How at leÌ„gth they that vnderstoode not the Fathers did make plaine Idols of the Sacramentes Uaine opinions of sundrie men Chrisost. in Epist. ad Heb. Historia Tripartita De conse distinct 4. Pelagians Originall sinne Gulielmus parisiensis in lib. Summa de vitus virtut Psal. 51. Iohn 3. Iob. 14. Rom. 5. The signe the figure manye tymes are taken for the thinges that they doe signifie Gen. 17. Exod. 12. Gala. 3. Rom. 6. Actes 8. Why Luke saide Simon did beleeue How Sainct Aug. other auÌ„cient writers expounded this place of the .viij. of the Actes What profite and commoditie doth come to them that are perswaded in this doctrine Genâ— 17. What many foolishe people vsed to do in carying their childreÌ„ to ydols Reuel 14. Iohn 5.11 Eccle. 3. Luke 16. Luke 27. 1. Cor. 2. Barnarduâ— in annunciationâ— Marie Ser. 1. Rom. 5. The thirde day he rose again from death Rom. 4. 1. Cor. 15. We do part our saluation betweene Christes death his resurrection Gala. 3. 1. Pet. 1. The fruites of Christes glorious resurrection The office of Christ our Sauiour Rom. 6. Coloss. 2. 1. Cor. 15. Hosea 1â— Deut. 21. Galat. 3. 1. Cor. 15. Coloss. 1. 1. Cor. 15. How Christ is the first fruites of them that sleepe Iohn 12. 1. Reg. 17. Iesus christe hath taken a pledge of vs and hath left vs one Actes 2. Ephe. 1. Rom. 8. Gala. 4. 1. Peter 1. 2. Peter 1. Iohn 12. 1. Cor. 15. Thessal 3. Coll. 3. Rom. 6. Howe we ought to practise the whole life of Christ in our selues Psal. 51. Iob. 14. A spirituall conception and birth 1. Pet. 1. Galat. 4. Ephe. 5. Iohn 3. Ephe. 4. 1. Cor. 15. 2. Cor. 11. Ephe. 5. Gala. 6. Galat. 5. What it is to be crucified to the world Rom. 6. What it is to be dead vnto sinne Rom. 6. Ephe. 4. 1. Tim. 5. Reuel 3. Matth. 8. Coloss. 3. Rom. 12. Ephe. 6. Matth. 3. Howe we do dye with our Sauiour Christ. How we do rise with Christ. Phil. 3. Coloss. 3. The signification of baptisme What the signification of water is in our baptisme Exod. 14.