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A20163	An ansvvere to one question Wherevpon dependet[h] the resolution of all controuersies, doubts, and questions, which are, or can be made about matters of faith[.] Wherefore it is dilige[n]tly, & carefully reade, and duely pondered, after prayer made to God for the light of his grace, without which it cannot be rightly vnderstood in such sort as is fit. Permissu superiorum.		1628 (1628)	STC 660; ESTC S115860	8,090	24

as appeareth by the Texts afore-cited Therefore the Authority of Doctours and Pastours of the Visible Church in all ages is Infallible in all points with vnanime consent or by their full Aucthoritie they teach to be deuine Truth whether the poynt be great or littell Fundamentall or not Fundamentall or whether they bring proofe for that they teach out of Scripture or not For in the afoure said text there is no such Limitation of great or little Fundamentall or not Fundamentall points of Truth Nor any such reflrictiue Condition of proouing what they teach out of Scripture Seendly I prooue the same by Sentences of ancient Fathers First S. Irenaeus S. Iren. l. 3. cap. 4. who liued in the next age to the Apostles sayth We ought not to seeke Truth from others which we may easily receaue from the Church Sith the Apostles haue layd vp in it as in a rich tresury or storehouse most fully those things which are of Truth c. And a litle after to shew that this is not meant with onely Limitatiō of Fundamentall points he addeth saying and if controuersie arise euen about some small questiōs should we not haue recourse to the most ancient Church in which the Apostles did Cōuerse and take from them what is certaine and cleare in this question And further to shew that it is not necessary that this Church must prooue euery thing she doth teach out of Scripture he presently addeth What if the Apostles had left vs no Scripture ought wee not to haue followed the Order of Tradition 2. Tert. lib. de Praesiript Tereullian saith The order of things doth require that this Question should first be propounded to whome doth faith belonge as if he should say which is the true Church Whose are the Scriptures from whome by whome when and to whome was the Discipline deliuered by which we are made Christians for where the trueth of Christian Discipline and Faith shall appeare to be there shal be the Trueth of Scriptures and expositions and all Christian Traditions By which we may learne that although to one who doth beleeue Scriptures we may out of them prooue which is the true Church yet to proceed according to right order of things the true ancient alwaies Visible continued Church is to be found first and from the true Church we must finde which be true Scriptures which true Expositions and all true Christian Traditions 3. S. Cyprian saith S. Cyprian lib. 1. c. 3. That from no other roote do Herisies and Schismes springe but from this that men doe not obey the Priest of God neither do consider that in the Church there is on Priest and one Iudge for the time in steed of Christ 4. S. Basill saith S. Basil lib. de Spiritu sancto c. 27. The Doctrines which are in the Church now proposed and Preached we haue partly from the written Doctrine partly from the Traditions of the Apostles brought vnto vs in mistery both which are of like force to piety 5. S. Chrsyost vpō these words 2. Thess 4.14 S. Crysostome vpon those wordes hold the traditions c. saith Hence it is euedent that the Apostles did not Deliuer all in writing but many thinges without writing and that the one and the other are a like worthy of Credit 6. S. August lib. contra epistolam fun damenti cap. 5. S. Augustine attributeth so much to the Authority of the Church that he saith I would not beleeue the Gospell it selfe if the Authority of the Church did not induce me And speaking of a poynt which could not be prooued out of Scripture Lib. 1. cōtra Crescon c. 32. or 33. he saith The Truth of Scripture is holden by vs when we do that which pleaseth the whole Church which the Authority of the same Scriptures doth cōmēd because holy scripture cannot deceiuē whosoeuer is afraid to be deceiued with the obscurity of this Question Let him aske the Iudgment of the Church which without all ambiguity the holy Scripture doth Demonstrate Epist 118. c. 1. And in his Epistle he affirmeth That it is most insolent madnes to dispute against that which the Church doth vniuersally practize See Saint Augustine de vtilitate credendi cap. 10. vsque adsinem libri S. Vincētius Lirinensis in his goulden treatise against he resie c. 1. Lastly S. Vincentius Lirinensis liuing neere to S Augustines time first aduiseth as a Rule to Discerne and to preserue vs from heresy to Ioyne the authority of the Catholick Church her Tradition and Interpretation to the written Word of God in regard the height of Scripture is such as euery man doth not take it in one and the same sense but so many sensuall men so many sensuall senses of it may be made And he assureth that this Church of Christ is so diligent and wary a keeper of Doctrine Deliuered as a sacred Depositunn vnto her that nihil in his permut at nihil minuit nihil addit she neuer chaungeth any thing to wit by misinterpretation of the sense and meaninge of any point of Faith nor diminisheth any thing to wit by Denying what was once held for a point of Faith nor addeth anie thing to witt by affirming any thing to be a Deuine Truth which was no at first for such Deliuered by Christ his Apostles And a little after he sheweth that although it may seeme that the Church in the Decrees of her Coūsels may haue made some addition or change yet indeede the addition or change is not in substance or in sense but only being excited by nouell Heretiques she setteth downe in writinge what from our Elders shee receiued by only Traditiō and the better to expresse in words what was infoulded in ancient Beleife she somtymes giueth to an old article not a new sense but a new name as for example the Conncell of Nice added the word Consubstansttiall and the Lateran Councell the word Transubstantiation with out any mutation of the Sense of the Article 3 I prooue the same Verity by these ensuing plaine reasons The first Reason If the Authority of the Church be not Infallible but as the Authority of other men onely fallible and such as may erre and hath erred in any one point proposed as a deuine Truth by Vnanimous Consent or ful authority of it It will follow that we neuer haue nor can haue according to the ordinary Course of Gods prouidence anie Infallible certainty of any other Point of our Faith proposed by the Vnanimous Consent or full Authority of the same Church For if it can erre and hath erred in any ponit so Deliured we may iustly feare and haue no assured ground to assure that she teacheth Infallible Truth in any fo the rest As S. Augustin sayth of holy Scrirture if we once admit any vntruth to be in any one parte of it we shall thereby take away all infallible authority and credit from it in all the rest But if we neyther

AN ANSVVERE TO ONE QVESTION WHEREVPON DEPENDET● The Resolution of all CONTROVERSIES Doubts and Questions which are or can be made about matters of FAITH Wherefore it is to be diligētly carefully reade and duely pondered after prayer made to God for the light of his grace without which it cannot be rightly vnderstood in such sort as is fit Permissu Superiorum Printed at DOWAY MCDXXVIII THE QVESTION WHether is it necessary that there should be in all ages since Christ a Visible Christian Church hauing in it lawfully sent visible Pastours and Doctours teaching with Infallible Authority One and the same Infallible sincere and intire Faith of Christ necessary to saluation without admixtion of any errour proposed as deuine Truth by addition or detraction or mis-interpretation contrary to the Doctrine first deliuered by our Sauiour and his Apostles which Church hath bin such THE ANSWERE It is necessary that one such Church be and the Roman Catholicke Church only is such For Declaration of the truth of this my Answere IT Is to be noted 1. That although Almighty God by his omnipotent power could by extraordinary meanes breed infallible supernaturall Deuine soule-sauing Faith in men without vsinge the help of any visible Doctours Pastours or any other liuing creature Yet if we speake as we ought according to the ordinary law course of Gods prouidēce manifested in the Holy Scriptures and confirmed by Histories and daily experience It is necessary that there should be in all ages some or other Visible Doctours and Pastours or lawfully sent Preachers authorised by Almighty God and assisted by the Holy Spirit of Truth promised for euer to be in the said Church to teach it all Truth For otherwise people of each age could not be sufficiently instructed nor confirmed in Infallible certainty and vnity requisite in soule-sauing Christian Faith nor preserued from wauering in vncertainety or wandering in errours contrary to that One Infallible entire and sincere Faith of Christ which is necessary to saluation Note 2. That the Necessity of Doctors and Pastors in the Church is not only generally acknowledged by ancient Fathers and all other learned Catholiques of this age but is also confessed by the Learneder sort of Protestants Only Protestants deny these Doctours and Pastours of whatsoeuer age after the Apostles to haue Infallible Aucthority although teaching with vnanimous consent or with full Authority of a lawfully called continued and confirmed Generall Counsell vnlesse it be in points Fundamentall or soe farreforth as they prooue out of Scripture But Catholickes hold the Authority of the Church to be Infallible in whatsoeuer point of Faith This therefore being the chiefe point in Question I will prooue that there is Infallible Aucthority in the lawfully sent Doctors Pastours and Preachers of the Visible Church of Christ soe farreforth as in any age after Christ they teach and propose to people doctrine to be beleeued by deuine Faith with vnanimous consent or with there full Aucthority in any lawfully called continued and confirmed Generall Councell whatsoeuer the point of Faith be Fundamētall or not Fundamentall prooued out of Scripture or not soe prooued This I prooue first by plaine texts of holy Scriptures My spirit which is in thee Isa 59.21 and my word which I haue put in thy mouth shall not depart out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy seed nor out of the mouth of the seed of thy seed from benceforth for euer I will aske my Father Ioan. 14.16 and he will giue you another Paraclete that he may remaine with you for euer the spirit of Truth When the spirit of Truth shall Come Ioan. 16.13 he shall teach you all Truth Going teach all nations c. taching them to obserue all things whatsoeuer I haue Commanded you Matth. 28 19.20 and behould I am with you all dayes vnto the end of the world Preach the Gospell to euery creature and he that will not beleeue shall be condemned Mare 16.16 Hee that will not heare the Math. 18 17. Church let him bee to the a Heathen and Publican Vpon the Chayre of Moyses Scribes Math. 23.2 3. and Pharises haue sitten all things therfore whatsoeuer they shall say to you Obserue yee and doe Hee that heareth you Luc. 10.16 heareth me he that despiseth you despiseth me Obey your Prelates and be subiect to them for they Watch Heb. 13.17 as being to render accompt for your Soules The lipps of the Preist shall keepe Knowledg Malach. 2.7 and they shall require the Law out of his Mouth because he is the Angell or Messenger of the Lord of Hostes He that shal be proud refusing to obey the Commaundement of the Priest Deterom 17. who at that time doth minister vnto the Lord by decree of the Iudge that man shall dye How shall they beleeue Rom. 10.14.15 whome they haue not heard How shall they heare without a Preacher How shall they preach vnles they besent Hee hath giuen some Apostles Ephes 4. Some Prophets and Euangelists others Pastors and Doctours c. that we be not now little ones wauering and Carried about with enery wind of Doctrine The Church of the Liuing God is the Pillar and Ground of Truth 1. Tim. 3.15 Out of which texts I frame this argument THose to whome Almighty God hath promised the spirit of Truth to teach them all Truth and in whose mouth he hath placed his word and this not for one or two or moe of the first ages after Christ but for euer all dayes vntill the end of the world making them his Legates and Messengers ouer the whole world and out of whose mouth people are to require his Law in whome they are commanded to heare beleiue and obey in whatsoeuer they teach as if Christ Iesus himselfe did teach and this vnder paine of Death and eternall Damnation and of being accompted as Heathens and Publicans Those I say to whome such Promises are made and such Authority is giuen by Allmightie God without any Limitation or restictiue Condition must needs be thought to haue farre more Authority then any others to whome no such Promise was made nor Authority giuen yea they must needes be thought to haue Infallible Authority and to be a firme Pillar and Ground of Truth as S. Paul stileth the Church soe as they neuer did nor shall be permitted to teach any errours by Addition Detraction or Misinterpretatiō of Gods Word at least with vnanimous Consent and when by a Visum est Spiritui Sancto et nobis or some such like signe of vsing their full Authority they expresse thēselues to teach as Gods Legats Messengers and lawfully sent Preachers not thire owne Priuate inuentions or opinions but the publique Doctrine of God and the Church But to the Doctours and Pastours of the Catholick Visible Church in all Ages these Promises were made and this Authority was giuen without any Limitation or restrictiue Condition