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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38514	An epistle of a Catholique to his friend a Protestant touching the doctrine of reall presence. Or, the answer to a question propounded in these tearms What should move you, contrary to the plain testimony of your senses, to believe, that after consecration the bread and wine in the sacrament is become really Christs very body and blood.		1659 (1659)	Wing E3164AA; ESTC R222634	19,912	20

and hold a thing so repugnant and absurd to sense and all humane reason as Sectaries make the Faith of Catholicks in this point seem to be and that the generation of Catholiques should do and believe this from age to age to almost seventeen hundred years and this without any self or by-ends of profit pleasure honour or other interest whatsoever but purely for conscience sake and out of obedience to Gods word and to the Catholique Doctrine of Christianity This certainly may seem no less then a miracle in our eyes we must confess the finger of God and his special Providence to be in it unless we be very partial especially if on the other side we do but consider how every other Sect that hath risen and upon pretence of reforming abuses and errors hath ever persecuted the Mother-Church really for her not complying with them in their greater Errours as for example the Arians in that of the Trinity the Calvinists in that of the Eucharist c. endeavouring still to make the Church forsake her first Faith and comply with them in their following of sense and humane reason contrary unto Faith I say if we do but consider how short-liv'd and how little or nothing prevailing both these and all other Sects have been how they have been able to do nothing but onely to procure disturbance and persecution to good Christians in some particular parts of the Church we must needs more clearly see and acknowledge the hand of God in it and that as it was their intent indeed and endeavour to disturb and destroy so Gods intent and purpose was to purifie his Church thereby and to purge it of Hypocrites and Time-servers and such like dross St. Austin expresseth the evil practices of these men by the similitude of barking Dogs They bark saith he in his Book de Vtilit cred cap. 17. speaking of Heretiques and Sectaries They bark perpetually against the Apostolique Chair but all in vain Th●y effect nothing by their barking Yea he confesseth that even himself was a Barker too all the time that he was a Manichean that is he was one that exercised the patience of true Christians by detraction and other injurious treating of them St. Paul saith 1 Cor. 11.19 There must be Heresies among you that they which are approved may be made manifest and for that reason God permitteth some Heresies and Sects as it were to reign and carry all before them for a time By false Teachers saith Moses Deut. 13.1 2 3 4. God proveth you whether ye will cleave unto the Lord your God with all your hearts and with all your souls Nevertheless they also in time declining the infallible rule of Faith which is the Authority and Tradition of the Catholique Church and refusing to be obedient and to captivate their understanding to the high mysteries of Faith but following humane reason and their own private sense have vanished and come to nothing All their wit and worldly glory and power and interest and learning could not preserve them from the contempt and violence of some contrary Sect. Witness the late Protestant Church of England How was it it established and secured as to all humane judgement from all danger and from all fear of being so suddenly rooted up How was the Government thereof settled by Bishops confirmed by Law and countenanced by the State Their form of Ordination Articles Sacraments Liturgy and their whole order of Worship so regulated and so ratified both by the Prince and State that nothing could seem to be desired more Yet because it was all of private judgement all differing or contrary to the Tradition of the Catholique Church and done either out of hatred or contempt or contradiction to the Apostolique Sea whose Authority is the root and fountain of all true Christian Ecclesiastical Unity how suddenly is her day come what a strange unexpected unfeared judgement hath taken her away in the height of her worldly glory For non-compliance she persecuted the children of her Mother-Church even to bloud imprisoning multitudes of them unto death but as for her Priests hanging and drawing and quartering them as Traitors and the most infamous of all sorts of Malefactors whatsoever and setting their flesh upon poles to be meat for the fowls of the ayr and permitting none to bury them and taking Two of Three parts of the Lands and goods of the Common people that professed themselves Catholiques But O ye stand now amazed and behold how she is judged She that was thus bottomed strengthned and established in her way of Religion and Church-government she that sate as Queen and said in her heart I shall see no widdow-hood what is become of her where is she to be found in the whole earth in less space then one hundred of years she is both risen and fallen and come to nothing and though her sin in the punishment thereof be even written upon her forehead yet she repents not but like the strange woman in the Proverbs she wipes her mouth and saith I have not sinned I have done no ill I am not either Heretique or Scismatique Our original Ordination was good our compliance with Princes for our safety is warranted by the examples of some other Nations though we have dissented from our Mother-Church and from all the world beside in doctrine in ordination of Priesthood in a Leiturgy and worshipping of God in the Sacraments and Church-government yet all this is nothing so long as our selves being judges we are one in Fundamentals we are neither Schismatiques nor Heretiques how much soever we be outwardly cast down Thus they seem to plead But O miserable Apology how unable is it to justifie or palliate Schisme especially the Schisme of them who for so many years together have laboured the extirpation of that Church which first brought them off from Paganisme to Christianity Consider this I pray ye that are now upon the stage that ye act not against Gods Church Destroy it you cannot persecute it trouble and afflict it you may for a time so long as it pleases God to permit you but you shall sooner destroy your selves then it Remember what befel Pharaoh who thought by oppression to keep Israel low and weak but his wisdom proved folly What became of Jeroboams wisdom 1 Kings 12. though he was made a King of the ten Tribes yet he ought not to have altered Gods worship 'T is true in doing so his policy aimed onely at his own safety but yet that proved his ruine And for you my friends the Catholiques of this Nation who have solemnly in your Baptisme promised and professed to believe the Articles of Christian Religion and the Catholique Church as also to forsake all that appertains to the lust of the flesh to the lust of the eyes and pride of life which are not of the Father but of the Devil 1 John 2.16 in this Covenant be ye faithful to the death The time we have to labour for Eternity is