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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49413	Christian liberty not to be abused, or, Antient and primitive truth correcting some modern, or new abuses, of that which is so much pleaded for, and so little understood, viz. Christian liberty in a sermon preached in the church of Bridport within the county of Dorset, on Sunday the forenoon, being November 3. 1672 ... / by Rich. Luce ...	Luce, Richard, Presbyter of the Church of England.	1673 (1673)	Wing L3423A; ESTC R5778	16,643	38

write unto you of the Common Salvation it was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the Saints Ver. 3. It was ever held for a good Rule whereby to understand the legality of any practice or to try the truth of any Doctrine which Vincentius Lerinensis gives Id tenendum quod semper quod ubique quod ab omnibus Creditum est Id tandem facimus si sequamur Antiquitatem Universalitatem Consensum That is to be held which hath been believed alwayes every where and of all And that we do if we follow Antiquity Universality and Consent When Simon Magus Ebion Cerinthus Menander Carpocrates with the Gnosticks other hereticks forsook the communion of the holy Catholick Church Justin Martyr and St. Irenaeus tells us what became of them Justin Martyr Secunda Apologia per Christianis how they ran into those excesses that the followers of Simon Magus worshipped him as the Son of God that appeared unto the Jews in Samaria And Irenaeus after Justin Martyr Irenaeus lib. 1 cap. 20. saith that Simon Magus is said to be honoured of Claudius Caesar of many he was glorified as God he Taught that himself was he who as the Son appeared amongst the Jews that in Samaria he descended as the Father and amongst other Nations he came as the Holy Ghost That himself also was the highest Power i. e. him who above and over all things is the Father 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so exalting himself above all that is called God he also suffered himself to be called whatsoever men called him Who is the Father Eternal Moreover that his Trull Helena whom he called his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or prime conceit or principle did with him generate Angels and Powers of whom he also said that this world was made that according to his Grace men were saved that the God of the Jews was one of the Angels Created by him the said Simon and the said Holy Father St. Irenaeus in his 22 Chapter of his first book against Heresies chargeth the aforesaid Simon Magus to have said that he was the only Father who hath made Angels and Arch-Angels Virtues and Powers that his Picture or Figure was made according to the figure of Jupiter and of Selena or without doubt of Helena as Dr. Hammond notes after the figure of Minerva and these were to be worshipped Chap. 21. So Tertullian in his Tractate de Anima or of the Soul tells us How that Simon Magus was called of his followers The Highest or Soveraign Father Beloved I beseech you in the bowels of our Lord Jesus Christ to consider with your selves the dangerous and pernicious consequents of making Rents and Schismes in the body of Christ which is the Church It is a wonder if the Schismatick do find center till he become an obstinate Heretick or desperate Blasphemer witness that of Hacket who at his very Execution in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth died Blaspheming What should I speak of others in our own times know that out of Church there is no Salvation That the Church is known to be a true Spouse of Christ by that Faith and true Allegiance which she bears unto Christ This Faith is the Faith of Christ Crucified which she is not ashamed to confess with open mouth in the face of all the world Into this Faith she Baptized all them whom she listeth under the banner of our Lord Jesus Christ In the defence of this faith which our holy Mother the Church of England professeth at this time dyed all the holy Apostles and Martyrs viz. Saint Peter St. Paul Saint James Saint John and Saint Jude and all the rest of the Apostles This is that same faith which was born witness unto by the first four General Councils Namely Council of Nice consisting of 318. Bishops Anno Dom. 326. the first Council of Nice called under Constantine the great wherein Arius and his adherents who denyed the Divinity of the Son of God Of Constantinople 400. Bishops and upwards Anno Dom. 383. were condemned for Hereticks So the Council of Constantinople holden fourty years after that first Council of Nice under the Emperour Theodosius the Elder against Macedonius the Heretick who denyed the God-head of the Holy Ghost Of Ephesus 200 Bishops Anno. Dom. 451. And the first of Ephesus summoned by Theodosius the Younger against Nestorious who affirmed two Persons in Christ Lastly the Council of Calcedon At Calcedon 600 Bishops Anno Dom. 451. called and convened under Martian the Emperour against Eutyches who asserted that there was but one Nature in Christ made up of the Divine and Humane All these Councils held and determined the same most holy Faith which is received in the Church of England which we have in our Liturgy or Publick Service under the Names and Titles of the Apostles Nicene and Athanasian Creeds In the defence and maintenance hereof dyed the renowned Saint Athanasius Saint Cyprian Iereuaeus and other the Holy and Learned Fathers of the Primitive Church And to come nearer home to our own times Cranmer was Arch Bishop of Canterbury Ridley Bishop of London Latimer of Worcester Hooper of Glocester Farrar of St. Davids these Goly Learned Bishops Cranmer Ridley Latimer Hooper Farrar and those Godly Ministers also Saunders Taylor Bradford and many others under the Marian Persecution sealed this same holy Primitive Catholick and Apostolick Faith with their dearest heart-blood Not to trouble you with the instances of many faithful Confessours and Martyrs of a more Modern date whose blood cannot chuse but run fresh in most of our Memories All these I assure you dyed in the same faith which our Church hath taught us and doth still continue in teaching us to believe though hereunto too many I fear in our times who would be thought to be somewhat more wise then their Neighbours are too great Strangers This is that Faith upon which our Church is built and against which the Gates of Hell shall never be able to prevaile Though the Church be shaken by many confusions and disorders yet her Faith the best * Hae revelatio Patris est hoc Ecclesiae fundamentum est ●aec securitas aeternitatis est Hinc Regni coelorum habet clavem 2 hinc terrena ejus judicia coelestia sunt Hillac lib. 6. de Trinit security of Eternity is not shaken No! that remains still the same and so will do by the grace of God until the Angel in the Revelation shall proclaim that time shall be no more And now to conclude If any will forsake our Communion while we stand upon these terms I may justly say of them as Saint Ignatius said of the old Gnasticks and Disciples of Old Simon the Witch once and again before mentioned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If they had been true and genuine branches of God the Father they would never have been Enemies of