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A08826	Christianographie, or The description of the multitude and sundry sorts of Christians in the vvorld not subiect to the Pope VVith their vnitie, and hovv they agree with us in the principall points of difference betweene us and the Church of Rome.	Pagitt, Ephraim, 1574 or 5-1647.	1635 (1635)	STC 19110; ESTC S113912	116,175	260

contra Christi praceptum agat qui sub vtraque specie communicare praecipit Prateol elench Alphab omni Haeres lib 7 pag. 202 The say of necessitie they must Communicate in both kindes both of the bread and the wine so that if any take it vnder one kinde although a lay-man he is said to sinne because they say he doth against Christs Commandement Who hath commanded to communicate under both kindes 5 They denie Purgatorie fire Cyrill 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cap. 18. pag. 66. Patriarch of Constantinople We beleeve the soules of the dead to be in blisse or in damnation according as every one hath done Nilus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nilus pag. 119. de Purgator igne Archbishop of Thessalonica Wee have not received by Tradition from our Teachers that there is any fire of Purgatorie nor any temporall punishment by fire and we doe know that the Easterne Church doth not beleeve it Alfonsus de Castro It is one of the most knowne errors of the Graecians and Armenians Vnus ex notissimie erroribus Graecorum Armenorum est quo docent nullum esse Purgatorium locum quo animae ab has luce migrantes purgentur à sordibus quas in corpore contraxerant antequam in aeterna Tabernacula recipi maereantur Advers Haeres lib. 12. pag. 188. that they teach that there is no place for Purgatorie where soules after this life are purged from their corruptions which they have contracted in their bodies before they deserve to be received into the eternall Tabernacles Guido sarth Quintus error Graecorum est quia dicunt Purgatorium non esse De Haeresibus Graecorum It is the fifth error of the Greekes that they say there is no Purgatorie Gaulter That there is no Purgatorie Purgatorium non esse quod idem Calvinus c. De Photio pag. 603. which Calvin affirmeth c. 6 They allow married Priests 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Prim. Patri Respon p. 129. Jerem. Patr. Wee doe permit those Priests that cannot containe the use of Marriage before they be consecrated for GOD hath commanded Marriage And we are not ignorant Marriage being forbidden to Priests filthie things to be committed by them Pope Stephen the second The Priests Deacons Distinctio 31. Aliter and Subdeacons of the Easterne Church are married 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyril Resp ad inter 4. p. 97. 7 Concerning Jmages Cyrill the Patriarch We doe not forbid Pictures the Art is noble We grant unto them that wil have them the Pictures of Christ and Saints but their adoration and worship we detest as forbidden by the holy Ghost in holy Scripture lest we should ignorantly adore Colours Art and the creature in stead of our Creator and Maker Damascen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Damascen lib. 4. cap. 17 p. 343. Basileae They make no Image of God Who can make an Image of God who is invisible incorporeall and incircumscriptible c. 8 For the Bookes of Canonicall Scripture they agree with us Damascen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ortho. fidei lib. 4. cap. 18. The Wisedome of Salomon and others are not numbred amongst the Canonicall Cyrill 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Respons 3. pag. 91. the Patriarch Wee beleeve the Bookes of Canonicall Scripture to be those which the Laodicean Synod hath set downe and which the Catholicke Orthodox Church of Christ being illuminated by the holy Ghost hath confessed to this day to wit 22 Bookes of the Old Testament 9 The sufficiencie of holy Scripture Cyrill 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyril p. 91. Resp 3. We call the holy Scriptures all the Canonicall bookes which we receive as the rule of faith and of our salvation and so we do retaine them and chiefly because being divinely inspired they set before vs the doctrine which is sufficient to instruct to inlighten and to make perfect him that commeth to the faith Againe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyrill cap 2. pag 5. Lomb lib 1. Distinct 11. v. Dicunt quod veritas in Evangelio fidem integram continet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nilus de caufis dissent pag 2.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 de Ortho fide lib. 1 cap. 1. the Authority of the Scripture is aboue the authority of the Church c. Men may erre and be deceaved but the holy Scripture cannot erre nor deceive nor be deceived but is alwayes infallible and certaine Lombard The Grecians beleive and say that the truth in the Gospell conteineth intirely the faith that is to say the doctrine of Faith Nilus Archbishop of Thessalonica To accuse the Scriptures is as great a fault as to accuse God himselfe But God is void of all blame Damascen whatsoever is delivered unto us in the law and the prophets by the Apostles Evangelists that we receive acknowledge reverence and be sides these we require nothing else 10 They do not forbid the Laitie the reading of the Scriptures 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyrill Respon 1. pa. 81. Cyrill the Patriarch As the hearing of the holy Scriptures is forbidden to no Christian man So no man is to be kept from the Reading of it For the word is neere in the mouth and in their harts Therefore manifest iniurie is offered to any christian man of what ranck or condition soeuer he be who is deprived or kept from reading or hearing the holy Scriptures 11 They Renounce workes of Supererogation and Merit workes Hierem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Patriarch Affirmeth That we must doe good workes but put no confidence in them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Prim. Respons Patr. cap 6 pa. 71 we must not trust nor beleeve in Them Although we have fulfilled all things yet we are unprofitable servants according to the words of our Saviour Cyrill the Patriarch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyril cap. 13. We beleive a man to be Iustified by faith not of workes They concurre in Assertion with the Protestants Sir Fdwin Sands Relation of the religion in the West sect 53. That it is impossible for any creature to merit as by way of right the least dramme of reward at his Creators hands But whatsoever reward is bestowed vpon the creature floweth forth from the meere bountie and gratiousnes of the Creator who as in goodnes alone and meere grace did make him so also in meere grace doth advance him to that high happinesse 12 They allow not private Masse Chytraeus No private Masses are celebrated amongst the Greekes Constat missas privatas absque cōmunicantibus non ab eis celebrari solere Chyt de statu eccles pag 14 without other Communicants as their Liturgies and Faithfull Relations testifie Ioannes Hoff-meisterus Res ipsa clamat tam in Graeca quam latina ecclesia Non solum Sacerdotē sacrificātem sed et re The thing it selfe doth speake and cry alowd both in the Greeke and in the Latin Church that not only sacrificing Priest but the Priest and Deacons and the

Churches and many others whom they scandall and accuse of divers heresies and errors which we and they abhorre and detest This point I will conclude with Doctor Fields observations First Doct. Field of the Church lib 3. cap. 1. that by the mercifull goodnesse of God all these different sorts of Christians though distracted and dissevered by reason of delivering certaine points of faith mistaking one another or variety in opinion touching things not Fundamentall yet agree in one substance of faith and are so farre forth orthodox that they reta in a saving profession of all divine verities absolutly necessary to salvation and are all members of the true Catholicke Church of Christ The second that in the principall controversies touching matters of Religion betweene the Papists and those of the reformed Churches they give testimonie of the truth of that which we professe As Docter Field also hath collected 1 They all denie and impugne that supreame universalitie of Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction which the Bishop of Rome claimeth 2 They thinke him subiect to error as other Bishops are 3. They deny that he hath any power to dispose of principalities kingdomes of the world or to depose Kings 4 they acknowledge all our righteousnesse to be imperfect and that it is not safe to trust thereunto but to the meere mercy and goodnesse of God 5 They ad●nit not of the merit of Congruence condignitie nor works of Superrogation 6 They teach not the doctrine of satisfactions as the Romanists doe 7 They beleeue not Purgatorie and pray not to deliver men out of temporall punishments after this lfie 8 They reiect the Romish doctrine touching Indulgences and pardons 9 They beleeve not that there are seven Sacraments 10. They omit many ceremonies which the Roman Church useth in Baptisme as spittle c. 11. They haue no private Masses 12. They minister the Communion in both kindes to all communicants 13 They beleeve not transubstantiation nor the now reall sacrificing of Christ They have their divine service most of them in their owne tongue 15. Their Preists are married and although they permit thē not to marrie a second wife without dispensation yet if any do they do not avoid or dissoluethe mariage 16. They make no image of God 17 They have no Massy Images but pictures onely 18. They think that properly God onely is to be invocated and howsoever they have a kinde of invocation of Saints yet they thinke that God onely heareth them and not the Saints And thus much of the Vnity of these Churches with us 4 The Vnitie of the Reformed Churches appeareth by their severall Confessions OF Auspurge Set downe in a booke called the Harmonie of Confessiōs of the faith of the Chrislian Reformed Churches Printed Cambridge 1586. which was first presented in the Germaine tongue at the Citie of Auspurge in the yeare 1530 to Charls the fift being Emperor by certaine most renowned Princes of Germanie and other States of the sacred Empire whō they call Protestants Of Straugsborough Constance Meminga Lindan presented to the said Emperour Of Basill called also the Confession of Millaine Of the Helvetian Churches Of the Saxon and Meissen Churches Of Wirtemberge presented by the Ambassadours of Christopher Duke of Wirtemberge and Tecca Earle of Mountbelgard presented to the Councell of Trent the 24 of the Month of Ianuary Anno. 1552. Of the French Confession which was in the yeare 1559. presented to Francis the second King of France Of the latter Confession of the Helvetian Church which was written by the Pastors of Zurich in the yeare 1566. Of Belgia which was published in French in the name of all the Churches of Belgia in the yeare 1566 and in the yeare 1579. In a publique Synod held at Belgia it was repeated confirmed and turned into the Belgian tongue Of Bohemia published in divers places was also approved by common testimonie of the Vniversitie of Wirtemberg● published in the yeere 1532. Of Scotland subscribed by King James of famous memorie and the States thereof to the glory of God and good example of all men At Edenborough the 28 day of Ianuary 1581 and in the 14 yeere of his Maiefties Raigne Although some private men led more by passion and their owne selfe pleasing conceipt then by the sacred rules of piety and truth have laboured to sow the tares of dissention in the vineyard of the Lord and have made Crooked some branches cleaving unto them as Anabaptists Brownists and others yet the generall societies of these Orthodox Churches in the publique confessions of their faith do so agree that there is a most sacred har mony betweene them in the more substantiall points of Christian Religion necessary to salvation as touching the Holy Scripture the Sacred Trinitie the person of the Sonner of God God and man The providence of God Sinne Freewill the Law the Gospell Iustification by Christ faith in his name Rogeneration the Catholique Church and supreme head thereof Christ the Sacraments their number and use the state of Soules after death the Resurrection Doctor Potters want● of charitie pag. 93. Doct Field of the Church pag 819. and life eternall They differ rather in Phrases and formes of speech concerning Christs presence in his holy Supper other things then in substance of doctrine and also in Ceremonies And to manifest preface to Mr. Brerwoods enquiries this their unity The first Act in the Polonian Synods of which they have had divers lately as before in which assembly are Protestants embracing Bohemick Augustan and Helvetique confessions The first Act is a religious confession of their unfeined consent in the substantiall points of Christian faith necessary to Salvation and also that all disputation should be cut of concerning the manner of Christs presence All of them beleeving the presence it selfe and that the Eucharisticall elements are not naked and emptie signes but doe truely exhibite to the faithfull receiver that which they signifie and represent And for as much as they all accord in the substantiall veritie of Christian doctrine they professe themselves to be content to tollerate diversities of ceremonies according to the divers parctise of their particular Churches 5 Of the differences and want of unitie in the Roman Church WHereas our Adversaries boast much upon unitie and thinke it to be the glorie of their Church as Coster writeth that the Catholickes in the world are under one Pope whom they all obey and constantly retaine one faith they speake one thing they thinke one thing and beleeve one and the same in all things so that they disagree not in the least point of Religion Yet for all this their want of unitie will appeare not onely in the want of concord and love one to another but also in their difference in opinions amongst themselves and moreover they in their new doctrines differ from all the true Catholike Churches of the world yea even from holy Scriptures it selfe Their want of concord and unitie