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A71250	A second defence of the exposition of the doctrine of the Church of England against the new exceptions of Monsieur de Meaux, Late Bishop of Condom, and his vindicator, the first part, in which the account that has been given of the Bishop of Meaux's Exposition, is fully vindicated ...	Wake, William, 1657-1737.	1687 (1687)	Wing W260; ESTC R4642	179,775	220

had no being in the Church for the first 300 Years n. 57. The VINDICATOR's Proofs particularly examined and shewn to be either False or Ridiculous n. 59. That the Fathers of the first three Centuries pray'd to God ONLY n. 66. My presumption heretofore alledged for this viz. That those Fathers did not believe that the souls of the Just went immediately to Heaven justified and the VINDCATOR's Answer shewn to be insufficient n. 73. Sixtus Senensis in vain Misrepresented by Him. n. 76. That this practice did not pass quietly in the following Ages n. 82. His pretence that the Fourth General Council pray'd to Flavian both false and impertinent n. 80. His little exception of the few Writings that remain of the Primitive Fathers neither true nor to the purpose n. 78 85. How this Practice by degrees crept into the Church n. 89. IId PERIOD What Grounds this Superstition had in the Fourth Century That most of the Addresses of this Age were rather Rhetorical Flights than formal Invocations n. 92. Eight differences proposed between what the Fathers of the Fourth Age did and what those of the Church of Rome do now as to this Matter n. 96. That the Invocation of Saints was never solemnly establish'd in the Church before the latter End of the 8th Century n. 97. c. SECT IV. What our Reasons are against this Service The true state of the difference betwixt us as to this matter n. 105. That the Church of Rome do's exact a complyance in this Practice ANATHEMATIZE those who Oppose it n. 106. That this is 1st Repugnant to God's Holy Word n. 111. 2dly Contrary to Antiquity n. 119. 3dly Unreasonable in the Constitution n. 126. Because They are neither certain that the Saints hear their Prayers n. 127. Nor that those whom they Pray to are indeed Saints n. 128. And Pray to many as such that never lived in the World. n. 130. Such were S. George n. 130. S. Lazarus S. Longinus S. Christopher S. Ursula c. A brief Account of whose Acts is offer'd and their falseness observed A pleasant Relation of a Bishop and Martyr made out of two words of an ancient Inscription and the great Miracles that were wrought at his Monument n. 134. That the wiser Papists complain of this Extravagance 4thly That it is unprofitable and Impious in the Practise n. 139. That it is Unprofitable n. 139. That it is Impious n. 143. Several remakable Instances of Impiety in this practice n. 147 c. The whole conluded with an account of the PROCESSION of the JESUITS of LUXEMBOURG May 20. 1685. n. 157 c. The ANSWER TO THE Fourth ARTICLE Of IMAGES and RELIQUES THE Sum of this Chapter reduced to three General Considerations SECT I. Of the Benefit of Pictures and Images n. 4. Concerning which it is observed 1st That the VINDICATOR ought not at this time to confound PICTURES and IMAGES together n. 6. 2dly Nor single Figures and Historical Representations Ibid. § 2. 3dly That it is impertinent to this Point to discourse of the BENEFIT where the Dispute is concerning the WORSHIP of Images Ibid. § 3. For that 4thly No Benefit were it ever so great would be able to excuse this Ibid. § 4. 5thly That Images are not useful to the Ignorant as is pretended Ibid. § 5. 6thly But on the contrary very pernicious and injurious Ibid. § 9. An Account of Horrible Abuses in many of their Images and Pictures Viz. Of GOD the FATHER n. 7 8. Of the HOLY TRINITY n. 9. Of our SAVIOUR CHRIST n. 10. And of the B. VIRGIN Ibid. c. The Pretence that there is now no danger of IDOLATRY in all this proposed and the way open'd to the refuting of it n. 15 16. SECT II. The Charge of Image-Worship made Good and the Evasions answer'd by which the VINDICATOR endeavours to excuse his Church from the Guilt of it n. 17. This is done in three Particulars I st The Voice of the Ch. of Rome proposed in Her Definitions as to this Matter n. 18 19. IIdly This Voice interpreted by Card. CAPISVCCHI who approved Monsieur de MEAVX's Exposition and to whose Book Mr. de MEAVX himself appeals n. 20. After rejecting several Opinions which in the Cardinal's Judgment did not allow sufficient Honour to Images n. 21 c. He concludes it to be the CHURCHES SENSE that the SAME Worship is to be given to the IMAGES as is given to the THINGS represented by them n. 26. That Aquinas allow'd Supreme Divine Worship to the CROSS contrary to the VINDICATOR's Pretences n. 27. Some Reflections upon what this Cardinal has said with reference to the Point before us n. 28 c. An Account of one of the Roman Church lately put into the INQVISITION for denying the Worship of Images recommended to the VINDICATOR's Consideration n. 32 33. IIIdly This farther shewn to be the Sense of the Church of Rome from those Authorized Practices I alledged in my DEFENCE 1. The Instance from the Order of Receiving an Emperor justified n. 35. 2dly The Argument from the Office of CONSECRATING A NEW CROSS made Good and the VINDICATOR's Evasions shewn to be inconsistent with the Design of it n. 36. Of their AGNUS DEI's and the Superstition that is committed in the Design and Consecration of them n. 44 45. Of HOLY WATER and the Superstition committed in the Design and Use of it n. 47. Of INCENSE n. 51. That the Primitive Church used Incense n. 51. But that this is no Plea for what the Church of Rome do's now The Consecrating and Burning of Incense in that Church Superstitious n. 52. Idolatrous n. 54. 3dly The Instance of the GOOD-FRIDAY Service farther vindicated And the Exceptions made against it shewn to be frivolous n. 56. That those of the Church of Rome do suppose this to be a good Proof of their paying Divine Worship to the CROSS n. 60. Two extravagant Proofs to excuse this Worship from being Idolatrous proposed and answered n. 61 62 63 c. 4thly The Argument taken from the HYMNS of the Church of Rome justified n. 65. And the VINDICATOR's Interpretation of them shewn to be absurd n. 69. SECT III. That the Church of Rome thus worshipping of Images is truly and properly guilty of IDOLATRY This made good in two Points n. 76. I. POINT Of the true Nature of IDOLATRY The late Notion of IDOLATRY proposed and that in this sense we do not charge the Church of Rome with it n. 77. What IDOLATRY according to the Scripture is shewn in two Particulars I st Q. Whether according to the Scripture-Notion of IDOLATRY those may not be guilty of it who yet both know and worship the One True GOD n. 78. That they may made manifest from the Instances 1st Of the Golden Calf n. 80. 2dly Of the Calves of Dan and Bethel n. 86. Other Arguments to make good the Affirmative of this Question n. 93. That this was the Notion of the Primitive Fathers n. 94. And is

good Intention to stop the Course of Heresy in that Country Upon this he dismiss'd them but from that time began seriously to apply himself to read the Holy Scriptures telling them that he would no longer trust his Salvation to Men who defended their Religion by such pious Frauds so they called them but which were indeed Diabolical Inventions And in a short time after both himself and his whole House made open Profession of the Reformed Religion Anno 1564. And thus much be said in Answer to your IVth Article FINIS Books lately Printed for Richard Chiswell A Discourse concerning the Celebration of Divine Service in an Unknown Tongue Quarto A Papist not Misrepresented by Protestants Being a Reply to the Reflections upon the Answer to A Papist Misrepresented and Represented Quarto An Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England in the several Articles proposed by the late BISHOP of CONDOM in his Exposition of the Doctrine of the Catholick Church Quarto A Defence of the Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England against the Exceptions of Monsieur de Meaux late Bishop of Condom and his Vindicator 4o. A CATECHISM explaining the Doctrine and Practices of the Church of Rome With an Answer thereunto By a Protestant of the Church of England 8o. A Papist Represented and not Misrepresented being an Answer to the First Second Fifth and Sixth Sheets of the Second Part of the Papist Misrepresented and Represented and for a further Vindication of the CATECHISM Quarto The Lay-Christian's Obligation to read the Holy Scriptures Quarto The Plain Man's Reply to the Catholick Missionaries 24o. An Answer to THREE PAPERS lately printed concerning the Authority of the Catholick Church in Matters of Faith and the Reformation of the Church of England Quarto A Vindication of the Answer to THREE PAPERS concerning the Unity and Authority of the Catholick Church and the Reformation of the Church of England 4o. Mr. Chillingworth's Book called The Religion of Protestants a safe way to Salvation made more generally useful by omitting Personal Contests but inserting whatsoever concerns the common Cause of Protestants or defends the Church of England with an exact Table of Contents and an Addition of some genuine Pieces of Mr. Chillingworth's never before Printed viz. against the Infallibility of the Roman Church Transubstantiation Tradition c. And an Account of what moved the Author to turn Papist with his Confutation of the said Motives An Historical Treatise written by an AUTHOR of the Communion of the CHVRCH of ROME touching Transubstantiation Wherein is made appear That according to the Principles of THAT CHVRCH This Doctrine cannot be an Article of Faith. 4o. The Protestant's Companion Or an Impartial Survey and Comparison of the Protestant Religion as by Law established with the main Doctrines of Popery Wherein is shewed that Popery is contrary to Scripture Primitive Fathers and Councils and that proved from Holy Writ the Writings of the Ancient Fathers for several hundred Years and the Confession of the most Learned Papists themselves 4o. A Sermon preached upon St. Peter's day By a Divine of the Church of England Printed with some Enlargements The Pillar and Ground of Truth A Treatise shewing that the Roman Church falsly claims to be That Church and the Pillar of That Truth mentioned by S. Paul in his first Epistle to Timothy Chap. 3. Vers 15. 4o. The Peoples Right to read the Holy Scripture Asserted 4o. A Short Summary of the principal Controversies between the Church of England and the Church of Rome being a Vindication of several Protestant Doctrines in Answer to a Late Pamphlet Intituled Protestancy destitute of Scripture Proofs 4o. An Answer to a Late Pamphlet Intituled The Judgment and Doctrine of the Clergy of the Church of England concerning one Special Branch of the King's Prerogative viz. In dispensing with the Penal Laws 4o. A Discourse of the Holy Eucharist in the two great Points of the Real Presence and the Adoration of the Host in Answer to the Two Discourses lately Printed at Oxford on this Subject To which is perfixed a Large Historical Preface relating to the same Argument Two Discourses Of Purgatory and Prayers for the Dead The Fifteen Notes of the Church as laid down by Cardinal Bellarmin examined and confuted 4o. With a Table of the Contents Preparation for Death Being a Letter sent to a young Gentlewoman in France in a dangerous Distemper of which she died By W. W. M. A. 12o. The Difference between the Church of England and the Church of Rome in opposition to a late Book Intituled An Agreement between the Church of England and Church of Rome A PRIVATE PRAYER to be used in Difficult Times A True Account of a Conference held about Religion at London Sept. 29 1687 between A. Pulton Jesuit and Tho. Tenison D. D. as also of that which led to it and followed after it 4o. The Vindication of A. Cressener Schoolmaster in Long-Acre from the Aspersions of A. Pulton Jesuit Schoolmaster in the Savoy together with some Account of his Discourse with Mr. Meredith A Discourse shewing that Protestants are on the safer Side notwithstanding the uncharitable Judgment of their Adversaries and that Their Religion is the surest Way to Heaven 4o. Six Conferences concerning the Eucharist wherein is shewed that the Doctrine of Transubstantiation overthrows the Proofs of Christian Religions A Discourse concerning the pretended Sacrament of Extreme Vnction with an account of the Occasions and Beginnings of it in the Western Church In Three Parts With a Letter to the Vindicator of the Bishop of Condom The Pamphlet entituled Speculum Ecclesiasticum or an Ecclesiastical Prospective-Glass considered in its False Reasonings and Quotations There are added by way of Preface two further Answers the First to the Defender of the Speculum the Second to the Half-sheet against the Six 〈◊〉 A Second Defence of the Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England against the new Exceptions of Mons de Meaux late Bishop of Condom and his Vindicator The FIRST PART In which the Account that has been given of the Bishop of Meaux's Exposition is fully Vindicated the Distinction of Old and New Popery Historically asserted and the Doctrine of the Church of Rome in Point of Image-worship more particularly considered 4o. The Incurable Scepticism of the Church of Rome By the Author of the Six Conferences concerning the Eucharist 4o. Mr. Pulton Considered in his Sincerity Reasonings Authorities Or a Just Answer to what he hath hitherto Published in his True Account his True and full Account of a Conference c. His Remarks and in them his pretended Confutation of what he calls Dr. T 's Rule of Faith. By Tho. Tenison D. D. A Full View of the Doctrines and Practices of the Antient Church relating to the Eucharist wholly different from those of the Present Roman Church and inconsistent with the belief of Transubstantiation Being a sufficient Confutation of CONSENSVS VETERVM NVBES TESTIVM and other Late Collections of the Fathers pretending to the Contrary 4o. An Answer to the Representer's Reflections upon the State and View of the Controversy With a Reply to the Vindicator's Full Answer shewing that the Vindicator has utterly ruin'd the New Design of Expounding and Representing Popery

Plots Persecutions and such like 2. The Means of Fraud and Deceit your false Expositions and Misrepresentations of your Doctrine to deceive the ignorant and unwary till you get them into your Nets 3. The Means of Confidence and Vncharitableness your bold Anathema's and vain thundrings of Damnation against all that differ from you your assuming the Name and Priviledges of the Church Catholick to your single Communion and excluding all others out of it as Schismaticks and Hereticks And lastly to mention no more the Means of gross Ignorance and blind Obedience by depriving Men of their liberty of reading the Holy Scripture by keeping your Service in an unknown Tongue by teaching Men to depend intirely upon your Churches Dictates and not to depart from them tho Sense Reason Scripture all be contrary to them These are I confess some of those peculiar Means whereby you have sought to procure Christian Peace and Experience tells you that they are indeed the most advantageous of any to the Cause you have to defend And if these be the Means which you say we have opposed I hope we shall always continue so to do and rather bear all the Evils of these Divisions than either buy Peace upon such Terms or pursue it by such Means as these 5. Ad p. 2 3. To what I observed from the late Methods that had been taken up in our Neighbour Country to avoid the entring upon particular Disputes which I said you were sensible had been the least favourable of any to your Cause you reply That you have never declined fighting with us at any Weapon which how true it is the account before given of your managing the present Controversie with us sufficiently declares And indeed you seem in some sort to have been sensible of it and therefore recur to your Antient Authors for proof of your Assertion The Sum of what you say is this 6. Reply That there have been three sorts of Protestants since the Reformation 1. Some who appealed to Scripture only neither would they admit of Primitive Fathers nor Councils 2. Others who perceived that they could not maintain several Tenets and Practices of their own by the bare words of Scripture and despairing of Fathers and Councils of latter Ages pretended at least to admit of the first four General Councils and of the Fathers of the first three or four hundred Years 3. Others finally who ventured to name Tradition as a useful Means to arrive at the true Faith. And all these you say you have convinced of their Errors 7. Answ It has always been your way to multiply Sects and Divisions among Protestants as much as ever you were able and then to complain against us upon the account of them and here you have given us a notable Instance of it The three Opinions you have drawn out as so many different Parties amongst us do all resolve into the very same Principle That the Holy Scripture is the only perfect and sufficient Rule of Faith So that all other Authorities whether of Fathers or Councils or unwritten Tradition are to be examined by it and no farther to be admitted by us than they agree with it This is in effect the common belief of all Protestants whatsoever as appears from their several Confessions and might easily be shewn out of the Writings of our first Reformers and the most eminent of those who have lived since and built their Faith upon the same Foundation It is true indeed there have been some who the better to maintain their Separation from the Church of England have from this sound Principle That nothing is to be received by us as a Matter of Faith but what is either plainly expressed in the Holy Scripture or can evidently be proved by it drawn a very ill Consequence viz. That nothing might lawfully be done or used in the Worship of God unless there were some Command or Example for it in Scripture and have by this means run themselves into great Inconveniences But the Rule of Faith which an uninterrupted Tradition by the common consent of all Parties of Christians however otherwise disagreeing in other Points has brought down to us and delivered into our hands as the Word of God this has among all Protestants been ever the same viz. The Holy Scripture And if for the farther proof of the Truth of our Doctrine we have at any time put the issue of our Cause to the decision of the Church of the first three or four hundred Years it is not because we suppose that those Fathers who then lived have any more right to judg us or determine our Faith than those that follow'd after but because upon examination we find them to have yet continued at least as to the common Belief received and establish'd amongst them in their Purity and that what was generally establish'd and practised by them was indeed conformable both to their and our Rule the Word of God. 8. This then is our Common Principle and this you cannot deny to be most reasonable For whatsoever Authority you would have us give to those Holy Fathers yet it cannot be doubted but that 1st Being * Durandus l. 4. Sent. d. 7. q. 4. de S. Gregorio Nescio cur non possit dici quòd Gregorius cum fuerit Homo non Deus potuerit Errare Men subject to the same Infirmities with our selves they were by consequence obnoxious to Errors as well as we and therefore may not without all examination be securely follow'd by us Especially if we consider 2dly That we are expresly forbid in Holy Scripture to rely on any Persons whatsoever without enquiry whether what they teach be true or not Dearly Beloved says St. John believe not every Spirit 1 John 4.1 but try the Spirits whether they be of God or no. The same is St. Paul's Doctrine To prove all things and then hold fast that which is good 1 Thess 5.21 St. Peter exhorts all Christians to be ready to give a reason of the Hope that is in them 1 Pet. 3.15 And our Blessed Saviour himself once gave the same encouragement of examining even his own Doctrine And why says he of your selves do you not judg that which is right Luke 12 57. Nay but 3dly these Holy Fathers were not only capable of Erring but in many things they actually did Err and are forsaken by you upon that account The Millenary Opinion was generally received in the first Ages of the Church They derived it from St. John to Papias from him to Justin Martyr Irenaeus Melito Tertullian c. Yet is this Opinion now rejected by you The Doctrine of the necessity of Communicating Infants was the Common Doctrine of the Fathers in S. Austin's Time and is confess'd by your most Learned Men Cardinal Perron and Others to have been generally practised in the Church for the first six hundred Years Concil Trid. Sess 21. Can. 4. Yet have you Anathematized those who shall now assert with