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A33984 Utrum horum, or, The nine and thirty articles of the Church of England, at large recited, and compared with the doctrines of those commonly called Presbyterians on the one side, and the tenets of the Church of Rome on the other both faithfully quoted from their own most approved authors / by Hen. Care. Care, Henry, 1646-1688. 1682 (1682) Wing C535; ESTC R2383 50,749 167

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the most part of Godfathers are appointed they especially that are Rich at the time of Baptism take hold of the Rope and as the Suffragan sings before as is wont to be done in Baptizing of Children they all make the Responses and after name the Bell which as Christians use to be is then dressed in new Garments And after they have a sumptuous Feast and the Suffragan is rewarded liberally This is sure something more than a Metaphorical Baptism I shall only add one more strange Doctrine of the Church of Rome touching Baptism and that is That a Child may be Baptized in its Mothers Womb by a Pipe This I find Asserted in a Treatise Intituled Compendium Dianae The Words pag. 201 are these Pueri si moriantur in utero matris nihil obstat quo minus possint Baptizari si Actio Ministri possit ad ipsum puerumetiam in utero matris existentem pervenire ut si fistula possit pertingere ad ipsum Infantis Corpusculum vel propter Matris Cicatricem aspersio aquae possit ad illum pertingere hoc etiam si acceleretur matris mors dummodo sit certo moritura tunc enim etiam ipsa mater tenetur permittere ut proles Baptizetur Res 12. In English thus If Children dye in their Mothers Womb nothing hinders but that they may nevertheless be Baptized if the action of the Minister may extend to the Child it self although remaining in its Mothers Belly as if a Pipe may reach the Infants Body or by or through the Cicatrix of the Mother I must leave the Reader here to guess at his meaning the sprinkling of the Water may reach thereunto And this although thereby the Death of the Mother be hastned provided she must certainly dye for then even the Mother her self is bound to permit that her Child be Baptized But I suppose the Reader as well as my self is nauseated with such fulsome Poposh Divinity Le ts therefore hasten to another Article The eight and twentieth Article of the Church of England Of the Lords Supper THE Supper of the Lord is not only a sign of the Love that Christians ought to have amongst themselves one to another but rather it is a Sacrament of our Redemption by Christs Death Insomuch that to such as rightly worthily and with Faith receive the same the Bread which we break is a partaking of the Body of Christ aud likewise the Cup of Blessing is a partaking of the Blood of Christ Transubstantiation or the change of the substance of Bread and Wine in the Supper of the Lord cannot be proved by Holy Writ but it is repugnant to the plain Words of Scripture overthroweth the Nature of a Sacrament and hath given occasion to many Superstitions The Body of Christ is given taken and eaten in the Supper of the Lord only after an Heavenly and Spiritual manner And the mean whereby the Body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is Faith The Sacrament of the Lords Supper was not by Christs ordinance reserved carried about lifted up and worshipped The Presbyterians That Doctrine which maintains a Change of the substance of the Bread and Wine into the substance of Christs Body and Blood commonly called Transubstantiation by Consecration of a Priest or by any other way is repugnant not to Scripture alone but even to common Sense and Reason overthroweth the Nature of the Sacrament and hath been and is the cause of manifold Superstitions yea of gross Idolatries In this Sacrament Christ is not offered up to his Father nor any real Sacrifice made at all for Remission of Sins of the quick or dead but only a Commemoration of that one offering up of himself by himself upon the Cross once for all And a Spiritual Oblation of all possible Praise unto God for the same So that the Popish Sacrifice of the Mass as they call it is most abominably injurious to Christs one only Sacrifice the alone propitiation for all the Sins of the Elect. The Papists If any one shall deny That in the Sacrament of the most Holy Eucharist is contained truly really and substantially the Body and Blood together of our Lord and so whole Christ but shall say That he is in it only as in a Sign or Figure or by his Vertue or shall say that the substance of Bread and Wine remains or shall deny that wonderful and singular Conversion of the whole substance of the Bread into the Body and of the whole substance of the Wine into the Blood the species only of Bread and Wine remaining which Conversion the Catholick Church most aptly calls Transubstantiation Let him be Anathema If any one shall say That Christ exhibited in the Eucharist is eaten only Spiritually Let him be Accursed The nine and twentieth Article of the Church of England Of the Wicked which eat not the Body of Christ in the use of the Lords Supper THE Wicked and such as be void of a lively Faith although they do carnally and visibly press with the Teeth as S. Augustin saith the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ yet in no wise are they partakers of Christ but rather to their Condemnation do eat and drink the Sign and Sacrament of so great a thing The Presbyterians Although ignorant and wicked Men receive the outward Elements in this Sacrament yet they receive not the thing signified thereby but by their unworthy coming thereunto are guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord to their own Damnation The Papists All Communicants do eat the Very and Natural Body of Christ Jesus If an Infidel receive the Sacramental Species he eats Christs Body under the Sacrament Thom. Aquinas p. 3. A. 3. ad 2. The Body of Christ saith Claudius de Sainctes Repet 2. cap. 6. is as truly and really received of Vnworthy as of Godly Communicants And Bonaventure in 4. d. 9. A. 2. q. 1. calls it the common Opinion of the Doctors Certitudinaliter verum a most certain Truth Nor is this all but they hold That the very Body of Christ may be received by Beasts and Vermine If a Dog or a Mouse saith Aquinas in the place just now cited ad Tertium eat the Sanctified Host the substance of Christs Body ceaseth not to be there as long as the Species do remain Nay Durandus adds That the Devil himself may eat Christ His Words are these Competit Bruto Angelo cuicunque vel Bono vel MALO species Sacramentales sumere A Brute or any Angel Good or BAD may receive the Sacrament Durand in 4. dist 9. q. 3. num 6. ad primum 'T is true some of their ancient Schoolmen were not arrived to such irreverent conceits Peter Lombard l. 4. d. 13. A. puts the Question What does the Mouse eat when she gets part of a Consecrated Host And Answers modestly Deus novit God knows And Bonaventure in 4. d. 13. a. 2. q. 1. could not endure to hear That Christs
Papists agree to the first Part of this Article But as to the latter Part whereas the Church of England and Presbyterians do declare the Passion of Christ to have been a sufficient Sacrifice both for Original and Actual Sins They on the Contrary First by their Doctrine of the Sacrifice of the Mass Prayers unto Saints Popes Pardons and Purgatory do make void the Passion of our Blessed Saviour or that it puts away but Original Sin only See for this Article 31. Secondly They Teach Although our Saviour have Suffered for all Men in general yet both each man must suffer for himself in particular Rhem. Annotations on Rom. 8. 17. and that the Works of one Man may satisfie the Wrath of God for another Same Annotations on Coloss 2. 24. The third Article of the Church of England Of the going down of Christ into Hell AS Christ dyed for us and was Buried So also is it to be believed That he went down into Hell The Presbyterians Although by the Writings of the Ancients it appears That this Clause in the Creed was not so usual of Old Time in the Churches yet in delivering a Summary of Doctrine it is necessary As that which contains an useful and not to be slighted Mystery And so he proceeds to explain it of the Anguish and Internal Sufferings of Christ under a Sense of the Wrath of God for the Sins of Mankind when the Chastisement of our Peace as the Prophet speaks was upon him And Doctor Fulk on the Rhem. Testament Matth. 27. Sect. 3. expresly clears Calvin in this point The Assembly in their larger Catechism thus express their Sense Christs Humiliation after his Death consisted in his being Buried and continuing in the State of the Dead and under the power of Death till the Third Day which hath been otherwise expressed in these Words He descended into Hell So that the Article is agreed both by them and Calvin nor hath the Church of England thought fit particularly to explain it but left it free to be understood in any such sound Sense as is not contrary to Scripture or the Analogy of Faith Indeed there hath been great Diversity of Opinions between Men both Good and Learned about it Many there are that by Hell here understand the Grave and I think none will deny but the Word is capable of such a Sense but then the Sense must run thus He was Crucified Dead and Buried and Descended into the Grave which is a vain Repetition for if he were Buried he must be in a Grave And such a Tautology is not to be supposed in so brief a Summary of Faith But in my private Thoughts I have happen'd upon a Notion which avoids that Absurdity and that is this When our Blessed Lord was Crucified and Dead and his Body Buried his Humane Soul return'd to God in which Sense he saith to the Thief This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise and afterwards when it came to re-enliven and be united to the Body in the Grave at his Resurrection why may not that be the Descent here intended And so the Sense be thus He was Crucified Dead and Buried He that is his Humane Soul at the time appointed descended into Hell that is the Grave and then the Third day he rose again c. Nor do I perceive that this Interpretation how new soever it may seem does in any kind Contradict the Analogy of Faith However I submit it to the Censure of the Learned Pious Reader But The Papists Teach a quite contrary Doctrine to all this viz. That the Souls of the Patriarchs and Holy Men that departed this Life before our Saviours Crucifixion were kept as in Prison but without pain in a certain Apartment of Hell which they call Limbus Patrum And that Christ that is the Soul of Christ did really go down into the Local Hell and deliver'd the said Captive Souls out of this Confinement and at his Ascension they accompanied him to Heaven Bellarm. de Christo li. 4. cap. 11 12 and 13. The Bosom of Abraham is the resting place of all them that died in perfect State of Grace before Christs time Heaven before being shut from Men. It is called in Zachary a Lake without Water and sometimes a Prison but most commonly of Divines Limbus Patrum for that it is thought to have been the Higher part or Brim of Hell the places of Punishment being far lower than the same which therefore be called Infernum Inferius the lower Hell Where this Mansion of the Fathers stood or whether it be any part of Hell St. Augustin doubteth but that there was such a place he nor no Catholick man ever doubted And the Fathers make it most certain That our Saviour descending into Hell went thither specially and deliver'd the said Fathers out of that Mansion which Truth though of all the Ancient Writers Confessed and Proved by Scripture yet the Adversaries they mean Protestants deny it as they doe Purgatory most Impudently The fourth Article of the Church of England Of the Resurrection of Christ CHRIST did truly Rise again from Death and took again his Body with Flesh Bones and all things appertaining to the perfection of Mans Nature wherewith he Ascended into Heaven and there sitteth until he Return to Judge all Men at the last Day The Presbyterians On the Third Day he Arose from the Dead with the same Body in which he Suffered with which also he Ascended into Heaven and there sitteth at the Right Hand of his Father making Intercession and shall return to Judge Men and Angels at the end of the World The Papists Seem in Words to own this Article but really deny it or Contradict themselves for they hold That the true Carnal Body of Christ is every day wherein Masses are said on Earth and at a thousand places at once Now if it be thus daily here how does it remain in Heaven and sit there till he return to Judge all Men at the last Day And if it be thus at so many places at an Instant must it not be a Fantastick Body And consequently do they not deny the Truth of Christs Resurrection or that he hath the same Body now which was Crucified Dead and Buried The fifth Article of the Church of England THE Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son is of one Substance Majesty and Glory with the Father and the Son Very and Eternal God Touching this Article there is no Dispute on either side The sixth Article of the Church of England Of the sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures for Salvation HOLY Scripture containeth all things necessary to Salvation so that whatsoever is not read therein or may be proved thereby is not to be required of any Man That it should be Believed as an Article of the Faith or be thought requisite or necessary to Salvation In the name of the Holy Scripture we understand those Canonical Books of the Old and New Testament