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A79926	A sermon preach'd at St. Michan's Church in Dublin, February the 23d, 1700. Upon receiving into the communion of the Church of England, the Honble Sir Terence Mac-mahon, Knt & Barnet and Christopher Dunn, converts from the Church of Rome. : Wherein is an account also of a late controversie, betwixt the author and some Romanists. / By John Clayton, Præbendary of St. Michan's.	Clayton, John, 1657-1725.	1700 (1700)	Wing C4609A; ESTC R37725	14,592	24

this reason our Saviour commanded the People to have all strict regard to the Scribes and Pharisees that sat in Moses Chair all therefore whatsoever they bid you observe that observe and do And then they urge that the Argument holds stronger as to the Christian Church for now is our Faith built on more sure and establish'd on better Promises and on a more firm and compleat Word of Truth according to Hebrews 8. 6. To all which our Church has given very full Answers and shown how Mean Trivial and Trifling a way of Arguing they Use In that they wrest the plain sense of these Texts to a quite different meaning then ever was intended I will indeed allow them that if the Jewish Church was Infallible then the Romish Church is also Infallible But if the Jewish Shanedrim knew not nor owned the Lord of Life but erred in the main Article of their Faith relating to the Messias and Crucifi'd Christ If Pontius Pilate put Him to Death at the Instigation of the a Matth. 12. 22. Chief Priests and Elders And if Caiaphas b John 11. 49 who was that Year the High-Priest was particularly in the Conspiracy and Ring-leader c Matth. 26. 3 57. thereof Let them boast of their Paralel Principles and Arguments of more Validity I shall take them to be what Christ called those Scribes Pharisees but d Matth. 15. 14. 23. 16. Blind-Guides and Men of the worst Principles Blind Leaders of the Blind And that it will be more tollerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the Day of Judgment then for them And Secondly Then as to those general Promises they instance in by those several Texts of Scripture before cited they prove nothing against us if they were allow'd to refer to this matter For being spoke indefinitely to the Church diffusive there would be nothing determined thereby but the Controversy would still remain Whether our Church or their Church or some other amongst the various Sects in the World were thus Infallible These were Promises made to all the Apostles at large to St. James and St. John as well as to St. Peter that he would give them the Spirit of Truth the Holy Ghost to reveal to them all necessary Truths for the Establishment of his Church which afterwards he would accordingly preserve to the end of the World so as that it should never cease to be a Church that there should never cease to be a true Christian Church here on Earth But there is no Promise that does Import that he would preserve it from all Errors so as to render it Infallible The truth of these Revelations and of Christ's Church is preserved and I doubt not hereupon but it will be preserved to the end of the World in the Scriptures and Apostles Creed and so forth and in a certain number of faithful People that shall hold and stand firm in that Faith throughout all Ages And so in the darkest times of Ignorance * About the 10th Century called Saeculum Obscurum which was when Popery was most prevalent there were still a Remnant of God's People of whom it might be said as of those of old when there were a Remnant of several Thousands left that bow'd not the Knee to Baal which latent numbers of Orthodox were the true visible Church on Earth and St. Paul makes application of this Text 1 Kings 19. 18. to the same use Rom. 11. 4. Therefore to come to the Third sort of Proofs whereby they would prove a particular and singular Grant Assigned by Christ to St. Peter and to his Successors of the Church of Rome This indeed if it could be made clear would be to the purpose But there are a great many Propositions and Parts contain'd herein that if Critically Examin'd would more than puzzle them to make out But taken in gross they are so confused and fluctuate so very strangely in their Opinions and Assertions as to this matter that there is no fixing of them or binding of them to be Determin'd thereby My Text is one of the strongest of this Nature that they produce which therefore I shall Answer And for this I need not particularly Expound the Words For at once I shall give a plain Answer to all that can be said on this Text and all others they produce of the like nature For these Words must be either spoke directly to St. Peter in particular or else to all the Apostles in general If to all the Apostles then according to this Interpretation all the Apostles and all their * Summa potestas Ecclesiastica non solum data est Petro sed etiam alijs Apostolis Bellarmin De. Rom. Pontif. L. 1. C. 9. Omnes fuerunt Capita Pastores Universae Ecclesiae Ibid. C. 11. But then he adds Sed Petro data est ut Ordinario Pastori cui perpetuò succederetur aliis tanquam delegatis quibus non succederetur Fuit enim in illis Ecclesiae primordiis necessarium ad fidem toto Orbe Terrarum celeriter disseminandam ut primis praedicatoribus Ecclesiarum fundatoribus summa potestas libertas concederetur Mortuis autem Apostolis Apostolica authoritas in solo Petri successore permansi● This is Answered by the Bishop of Granada and the Bishop of Paris when the same was urged in the Councel of Trent That it was an Audacious Saying without Ground Authority or Reason Invented about 50 Years before by Cajetan to obtain a Cardinals Cap but had been Ignomini●usly Censured by the Divines of the Sorbon since and was unknown to former Ages being inconsistent with the 20th of Matth. Vers 20. vid. Hist Council of Trent by Pietro Polano Octob. 13. 1562. Successors have an equal pretence to Infallibility as St. Peter and his Successors have Which confounds their Notion and the grand Authority of their Church which therefore they will not allow Therefore on the other Hand if these Words were directed to St. Peter in particular then the Pope of himself must be Infallible without the assistance of a Councel which is contrary to the Tenents of all the Persons of the Romish Church I meet with for they utterly deny it and when they can be got to declare themselves on this Head they say it is the Pope together with his Councel that is Infallible but not otherwise And hereupon it is That they rarely put stress on any Scripture Proofs as to this point but 〈◊〉 mostly to Tradition as giving them the largest Scope and being most beyond the Capacity of the Vulgar And for which they can bring a company of their own Forgeries and Authors and so never want a Proof So far at least as to invert the Order of Dispute and like subtle Attorneys to make us become Plantiffs instead of Defendants Yet our Case is so Plain and Good that we never refuse thus to joyn Issue if so that they will but first fix their Principle and declare where it is that they place this Infallibility

oppositum praemissorum tanquam Haeretici arcendi s●nt graviter puniendi Quod nullus Pre●byter sub paena Excommunicationis communicet populum sub utraque specie Panis Vini Item ipsa Sancta Synodus decernit declarat super ipsa materia ut effectualiter puniant eos contra hoc decretum excedentes qui communicando populum sub utraque specie Panis Vini exhortati fuerint sic faciendum esse docuerint si ad paenitentiam redire non curaverint animo indurato per censuras Ecclesiasticas per eos ut Haeretici sunt coercendi Concil Constant Sess 13. Constance command That they be Excommunicated who contrary to their Decree Exhort the People to Communicate in both kinds of Bread and Wine and do take upon them to Administer the Sacrament to the People after that manner and requires that they be treated as Hereticks if they persist in so doing without Repentance The Council of a Binius ex Baronio Not. 1. in Laodicen Concil Hoc Concillium antiqua nobilitate celeberrimum Graecorum atque Latinorum Scriptis celebri memoriae commendatum fuit Laodicea excludes those Books commonly called the Apocripha from the Canon of Scripture And the Canons of this Council were received into the Code b Canon de Libel Distinct 20. Cod. Can. Ecclaes Univer of the Universal Church and confirm'd by the c Concil Chalcedon Act. 4. Act 11. Act. 13. 4th and d Concil Constantinop in Trullo Can. 2. And by Imperial Law of the Emperor Justinian Novel 131. 6th of their General Councils which is directly contrary to the Doctrine of the Church of Rome settled by later Councils The Council of Basil deposed the e Pope Eugenius IV. Constituted Amadeus the Duke of Savoy Pope viz. Felix V. Pope and condemned the Council f Jac. Meyerus in Annalibus Flandr Lib. 16. Basiliense Floren●ium adeo nihil Concordiae habebant ut utrumque alterum Synagogamque Satanae nominaret of Florence The Lateran Council under a Sess 40. habita Maij 4. Anno. Dom. 1515. Concilium Constantiense ubi definit Concilium esse supra Papam reprobatum est in Concilio Florentino Lateranensi ultimo Bellar. de Concil L. 1. C. ● Leo. 10. decreed Infallibility to be in the Pope alone and that he had a Superiority and Supremacy in himself alone above all Councils The Councils of b Sess 45. Constance and c Concil Basil Sess 2. apud Binnium Tom. 8. p. 22. Sess 18. p. 55. Sess 33. p. 95. Sess 38. p. 101. Basil decree the Superiority of a General Council above the Pope and that they have Authority to Decree matters of Faith without him And one of their Decrees runs thus * Concil Basil Sess 23. 37. Consil Const Sess 39 That for the future every one that is to be chosen Pope shall in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost with Heart and Mouth profess to God Almighty and to blessed Peter firmly to believe and hold as long as he shall live the Holy Catholick Faith according to the Traditions of the Apostles and the General Councils and in particular of the General Councils of Lateran Lyons Vienna Constance and Basil and to keep that Faith to a tittle unchanged and to Preach Confirm and Defend it with their Life and Blood And the following Popes till after the time of Eugenius the IV. made this Profession They Decreed also † Concil Basil Sess 2. That General Councils have Authority immediately from Christ and that the Pope himself is bound and obliged to stand to the Declaration and Definition of these Councils And further says This is a d Veritas fidei Catholicae Concil Basil Sess 33. Censendus est haereticus sine interitu salutis Idem Truth belonging to the Catholick Faith which who Pertinaciously resists is to be deemed a Heretick being an Article of Faith which cannot be neglected without the loss of Salvation These Decrees were Establish'd by Pope * Vid. ●inn Concil Basil Sess 29. Sess 38. Martin V. and by virtue hereof John III. and Benedict XIII were deposed and hereby Eugenius IV. was made Pope And yet Popery as they have newly Modell'd it advances a third Position that Infallibility is in the Church somewhere which my Adversary very Candidly to save a fruitless Search fix'd in the Pope and Council together So that here are Three Positions contrary one to another about this Infallibility and place the Infallibility where you please there is accordingly an infallible Determination that there is no such Infallibility in any of them For when they have said all they can on this last Point which seems the strongest and let them set it off with as much Pomp and Ostentation of Words as possibly they can the aforesaid Instances can never be answer'd and it is further manifest that this is only a Collusion and Mask to convey the Pope's Infallibility into the Hearts of the People For when they say the Pope is Infallible General Councils are Infallible the Church is Infallible it is plain they never meant to make three distinct Infallibilities but one Infallibility which must rest virtually in the Pope for otherwise the Church would be always without an Infallible Guide but when a Council sits To evade this they say at other times the Church and Council is virtually in the Pope who by a Synechdoche is Infallible Then the Pope is always Infallible but when a Council sits and hereby is a fresh occasion given for that Flout that was past on the Council of Trent about the Pope's sending to them the Holy Ghost in a Port-Mantue And thus there is nothing more plain then that they Center this Infallibility in the Pope simply But the Papist Mis-represented and Represented * In the Chap of the I fallibility of the Church says He Believes That the Pastors and Prelates of his Church are Fallible What without an Equivocation Does he herein include the Pope Honest Men deliver themselves as plainly as they can possibly contrive especially in such Matters But this seems Equivocal for otherwise why does he lay the Foundation of this Infallibility on such places of Scripture as my Text and the like For there is not one Tittle or Word that can refer to placing an Infallibility in St. Peter in Council only but if their Infallibility be derived hence and founded hereupon it must be in St. Peter simply and yet as if it were out of a Divine Prescience to determine such Disputes and Controversies and Pretensions the very next thing that follows shows that St. Peter was so far from being Infallible that he so grosly Erred as to cause the same Gracious Lord Jesus Christ to say within Five Verses of my Text unto the said Peter Get thee behind me Satan Mat. 16. 23. thou art an offence unto me for thou savourest not the things that be of GOD but those that be of Men. And so