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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51595	A remembrance for the living to pray for the dead made by a Father of the Soc. of Iesus.	Mumford, J. (James), 1606-1666.	1641 (1641)	Wing M3069; ESTC R26206	65,319	231

it forth by plentifull showres did heape vp an immense treasure of satisfactions superabundantly sufficient to satisfy for any paynes due to any sinne or sins whatsoeuer for else our offences might haue bin greater then his satisfactions there wanteth not therfore a cause euen superabundantly sufficient to supply any possible want of satisfaction which any man can be in so infinite a treasure is this 5. Secondly there is in the Church lawfull power and authority to apply to such as want satisfactions these superabundant satisfactions of Christ for otherwise this infinite treasure of the superabundant satisfactions of Christ our Lord heaped vp for vs and for vs only would be wholy vnprofitable to vs merely superfluous It would be like the treasure which that miserable wretch in S. Luke did keep lapped vp in his handkercher or the talent which that other in S. Matthew hid in the ground Now as the holy Scripture saith A hidden wisdome and an vnseene treasure what profit is there in eyther of them Eccl. 41. 6. Wherefore that this treasure may profit vs as it is superabundant there must be left on earth power to dispence forth out of this superabundancy as much as our necessities may require Which being so to whom should we thinke this power to haue byn giuen rather then to him to whome it was said Joan. 20. Feed my sheepe rather then to him to whom it was said Matth. 15. To thee I will giue the keyes of the Kingdome of Heauen For it is all one to haue the keyes of heauē and to haue authority to remoue the barre of the locke which shutteth heauen doore such a barre as sinne is not fully satisfied for I would know I say in whome we should put this power if not in him for to him the words following do clearly giue this commission Whatsoeuer thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosened also in Heauen Marke that word Whatsoeuer that is what thing soeuer it be which can bind a Soule whether it be guilt of sinne or guilt of paine due to sinne if thou dost loosen this band on earth it shal be loosened in heauen This was a promise which doubtles Christ who alwayes made good his word did perfectly keep 7. Out of this which we haue said this conuincing argument may be taken There is power left in the Church to forgiue sinne it selfe which doth deserue the paines we speake of therfore it is no wonder that there should be power to forgiue the suffering of these paines That there is power left to forgiue sins the text of Scripture doth literally affirme The Protestant if he standeth to the words of the Scripture hath not a word to say He must fly to his owne exposition of the Word which exposition why should any man in prudence follow rather then the exposition of the most learned and most holy Fathers of the Primitiue Church who studyed the Scriptures day night and may be farre more prudētly thought to haue vnderstood them aright then those who liue in an age so farre from Christ intangled with so many vncertaine opinions or rather certaine errours 8. If the Protestants tell vs they were men and might erre we will defire them to remember that they are also men and at least as likly to erre as they were If the Protestant sayth he followeth Scripture the playne words of Scripture are cleer against him in this point which is a point fundamentall concerning the forgiuenes of sin a thing wholy necessary to saluation That the Fathers teach Priests to haue power of forgiuing sin I will shew in a word S. Chrysologus Serm. 84. writing vpon those wordes Whose sins you forgiue shall be forgiuen them sayth thus Where be those men that affirme sins cannot be forgiuen by men vnto men Peter doth forgiue sins and with all ioy doth receiue the penitent he imbraceth this power granted by God vnto all Priests S. Leo the Great writeth thus Ep. 91. ad Theo. Christ Iesus gaue this power to the gouernours of the Church that by the doore of reconciliation they should admit them to the communion of the Sacraments being now purged But what more cleare then that of S. Chrysostome l. 3. de sacerd initio Jt was only lawfull to the Priests of the Jewes to cleanse or to speake more truly not to cleanse but to approue as cleansed the leprosy of the body But to our Priests it was granted not to cleanse the leprosy of the body but it was granted vnto them I do not say to approue for cleansed but throughly to cleanse the filth of the soule Heere you see condemned in as cleere words as can be spoken the errour of the Protestāts who say that the power of our Priests is to declare our sins forgiuē and not to forgiue them but S. Chrysostome sayth that he doth not say this J do not say to approue for cleansed but throughly to cleanse the filth of the soule This being proued let vs proceed 9. If Christs Vicar vpon earth hath power to forgiue the sins which did deserue eternall paine consequently to loosen the band of eternall paines can it seeme much that he should haue power to loosen the bands of temporall paine with which the sinner is tyed after his sins are remitted The contrary surely would seeme the greater wonder Yet because so I come to declare the third point which I vndertook concerning the thing inioyned to be performed for the gaining of Indulgences because I say all power giuen by Christ vnto his Vicar is well ordered and granted for the edification not for the destruction of the Church this authority of dispensing the treasures of Christs superabundant satisfactions was giuen so that it might be dispensed forth with prudēt liberality not powred out with lauishing prodigality Wherfore all Protestants Catholicks are to vnderstand that our most esteemed Deuines in this age are of opinion that it is not in the power of the Pope to grant an Indulgence for the performance of a good worke so litle that it cannot be a proportionable cause to grant this fauour As for example it is the example of S. Bonauenture 4. dist 20. q. 6. to grant a great sinner a plenary Indulgence for giuing an Almes of three halfe pence 10. But it is exceedingly to be marked that when the Pope granteth a great Indulgence which may be obtayned by doing of something perhaps as small as giuing an Almes of three halfe pence the reason of the grant of this Indulgence is not meerly that so little a good worke should be performed for then as S. Bonauenture teacheth it would be an imprudent and an impossible grant but the reason of the grant of such an Indulgence is the obteyning of some very great good and a good so great for this Bellarmine seemeth to require that the obteyning of it maketh more to Gods glory is more gratefull to him then it would be to haue our forgiuen sins punished