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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01332	A sermon preached vpon Sunday, beeing the twelfth of March. Anno. 1581, within the Tower of London in the hearing of such obstinate Papistes as then were prisoners there: by William Fulke Doctor in Diuinitie, and M. of Penbroke Hall in Cambridge.	Fulke, William, 1538-1589.	1581 (1581)	STC 11455; ESTC S117689	47,991	130

rather then in faith although it was such an error in discipline as gaue the onset to one of the greatest errors of y e pope I meane his supremacie which then was reiected and countermaunded of all sides Therefore I will come to Pope Liberius who at the first manfully resisted the Arrians insomuch that for his constancie hée was by the Emperor Constantius put out of his Bishopricke and driuen into banishment But afterward being ouercome with tediousnes of banishment and seduced by one Fortunatianus as S. Hierome affirmeth he subscribed to the Arrian heresie and was restored to his See at Rome from whence he chased Foelix that occupied the place in his absence Thus haue you a Pope deniyng the eternal diuinitie of our sauiour Christ conuicted of heresie by y e testimonie of Hieronime one that liued in the same Churche not long after Héere the Papistes stampe and starcle denying the testimonie of Hieronyme as sufficient Yet thus muche at least is gayned that Hieronyme beleeued not this Popishe principle The Pope cannot erre for then hee woulde not haue affirmed that Pope Liberius subscribed vnto hereise But yf Hieronyme alone bée not sufficient what say you to Anthanasius Is hée a credible witnesse Hée liued in the time of Liberius and knewe him hee affirmeth the same of him But if Athanasius bée not great enough to carry away the matter what say you to Pope Damasus one of his successours coulde hée erre or no Uerily Pope Damasus chargeth him with reuolting vnto heresie saying That hée subscribed but yet hee was not rebaptised and entred into Rome like a Conquerour holding councell with the heretikes I knowe the impudent Papistes when they are driuen to the wall by this example of Liberius for their last refuge doe say that hee subscribed indeede to the condemnation of Athanasius but not to the Heresie of Arries which is a shamelesse lye Ad subscriptioonem Haereseos to the subscription of heresies saith Saint Hierome The like dothe both Athanasius and Damasus affirme Therefore wée haue founde one Pope falne into a damnable errour After him wée finde that Pope Innocentius erred although not in so waightie a matter For Innocentius defined against the Pelagians that it was as necessary for infantes to eate the fleshe of Christe and drinke his blood in the Communion as to bee Baptised As testifieth of him Saint Augustine saying Qui parvulis definiuit c. Whiche hath defined that little children can by no meanes haue life except they eate the fleshe of the Sonne of Man Some Papistes cauill that although the Pope may erre yet hée cannot erre in his definitiue sentence Beholde Augustine saith that Innocentius hath héere desined of this matter and yet it is an error which the Papistes them selues doe not holde at this day And yet Augustine affirmeth that this was the errour of all the Westerne Churches in his time But if any man thinke Saint Augustine no sufficient witnesse to depose against Pope Innocentius let him take paines to reade the Epistle of Pope Innocent himself sent vnto the Bishop of Africa assembled in councell Where y e words of Augustine cited out of him are plainely set downe But héere I knowe the vaine replie of the Papistes will bée readie to obiect that Pope Innocent and Augustine with the rest of the Catholike Bishops in that time did practise in déede to minister the communion to infantes as soone as they were baptised but that was no error so long as they did not hold it to bée necessary for infants to receiue the Communion Thus they graunt the practise and denie the errour eyther in the opinion or in the practise of those times But if they were not so impudent y t they had framed their foreheads not to blushe at any lye they woulde neuer against so cléere testimonies both of Augustine and Innocentius séeke to excuse them of that opinion which they doe so willingly maintaine The Pelagians denied that Baptisme was necessary for the saluation of infants whcih they said were without sinne both Augustine and Innocentius prooue the necessitie of Baptisme by the necessitie of communicating which may bot be graunted to any that is not Baptized Therefore saith Innocentius in his diffinitiue Epistle to the Affricane Bishops Illud vero quod eos vestra fraternitas asserit praedicare paruulos aeternae vitaepraemiis etiam sine baptismatis gratia posse donari perfatuum est c. But that thing which your brotherhood affirmeth them to preach that young children may obteine the rewards of eternall life euen without the grace of Baptisme it is a very foolishe thing For except they shall eate the fleshe of the Sonne of man and drink his blood they shall haue no life in themselues But they whiche defende this vnto them without regeneration seeme to mée that they will make fustrate Baptisme it selfe Beholde saith Augustine vpon these wordes Pope Innocent of blessed memory euery Bishop was called Papa in his time saith that little children cannot haue life without the baptisme of Christ and without the participation of the body and blood of Christ. By which saying you sée they affirme as well the necessitie of the one Sacrament as of the other For what other thing mooued them to giue the Communion to infants but because they thought it necessary to saluation while they missevnderstoode those wordes of Christ in the sixt of Iohn as though they had béene spoken of Sacramentall eating of Christes body as they did the other in the third of Iohn as though Chirst had spoken of the sacrament of Baptisme whiche hee saith of the necessitie of regeneration Furthermore where the Papists are inforced to affirme that it was not erronious but a laweful practise to minister the Communion to infants as to baptise them although the one bée not so necessary as the other the plaine doctrine of the Scripture doth confute them For S. Paule forbiddeth any man or woman to presume to the Lordes Table without examination and iudging of themselues which thinges because infantes cannot performe it can be none other but a méere prophanation of the Lordes Supper to minister it vnto young infants euen as it was of them which ministred it vnto dead bodies vpon the same erronious persuasiō of the necessitie thereof vnto eternall life And whereas the blinde Cardinall Hosius affrmeth that infants may aswell examine themselues by other men as in baptisme they beléeue by other men and therfore by the Churches authoritie without grounde of Scripture are baptized I answere if wee had not better grounde of Scripture then either the authoritie or reason of the Popishe Churche for the baptisme of infants wée woulde not practise if any more then we doe minister the Communion to infants But wée baptise them not for the faith of other mē but for the couenant of God which extēdeth euen to the séede of the faithfull so that there children are holy and not vncleane as the children