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A43256	The touch-stone of the reformed gospel wherein the principal heads and tenents of the Protestant doctrine (objected against Catholicks) are briefly refuted. By the express texts of the Protestants own Bible, set forth and approved by the Church of England. With the ancient fathers judgements thereon, in confirmation of the Catholick doctrine.	Heigham, John, fl. 1639.; Kellison, Matthew, attributed name.	1676 (1676)	Wing H1370E; ESTC R216621	50,365	158

to be condemned as a Heathen for not telling 〈◊〉 hearing a Church which hath so closely lain hid that no man could here see feel or understand it for a thousand years 2 Cor. 4.3 But if our Gospel be hia● it is hid to them that are lost Loe th● censure of S. Paul upon all such as affirm that the Church or her Gospel ca● be hid Isai 2.2 And it shall come to pas● in the last days that the mountain 〈◊〉 the Lords house shall be established i● the top of the mountains and shall b● exalted above the hills and all nation shall flow unto it In hundreds of place do the Prophesies mention this Kingdom of Christ as Dan. 7.14 Mich● 4.7 c. Which should be all in vain if this his kingdom could be invisible for a Prophesie must be of things which may be seen and perceived by our senses otherwise every man might be a Prophet and foretel of things to come which if they should not come to passe he might answer that they had come to pass in very deed as he had prophesied but that they were invisible to the world Lo the visible absurdities of this invisible Church See more Psa 27.8 Rom. 19.14 1 Cor. 11.19 Psa 19.3 4. Isai 60.20 Act. 20.21 Isa 61.9 ¶ The Fathers commonly affirmed the same Origen hom 30. in Matth. The Church is full of light even from the East to the West S. Chrysostom hom 4. in 6. of Isai It is easier for the sun to be extinguished then the Church to be darkned S. Aug. tract in John calls those blinde that do not see so great a mountain S. Cyp. de Vnitate Ecclesiae to the same purpose They maintain IX That the Church was not always to remain Catholick or universal and that the Church of Rome is not such a Church COntrary to the expresse words of their own Bible Psalm 2.8 Ask of me and I shall gi●e thee the Heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession And Luke 1.33 He shall reign over the h●use of Jacob for ever and of his kingdom there shall be no end But none of these promises have been any where else so much verified as in the Church of Rome therefore both the Church had been alwayes universal the Church of Rome only such a Church Colos 1.3 c. We give thanks to God for you c. Since we heard your faith c. For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the Gospel which is come unto you as it is in all the world and bringeth forth fruit as it doth also in you since the day you heard of it and knew the grace of God in truth But no Faith or Gospel hath or is so dilated in all the world nor hath fructified and grown for so we read as the faith of the Roman Church hath done as appears more plainly by this which follows Rom. 1.8 First I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world Where in express terms S. Paul calls the faith of the whole world or Catholick faith the faith of the Romans that is of the Church of Rome Therefore the Church of Rome and no other is truly and indeed such a Church See more Colos 1.32 Gon. 22.18 Mat. 24.46 Acts 1.8 Dan. 2.25 Luke 24.4.7 Psal 46.9 Psal 72.8 we 71. Mark 16.20 Ezech. 13.3 Mat. 21.19 Acts 1.8 All which places are to be understood not that the whole world should be Catholick at one and the same time but that the whole should be converted to Christ at sundry times and that it shold comprehend a greater part of the world then any Sect of hereticks shold ever do and this is the true sense of being Catholick or Universal ¶ And to follow still our former Rule hear the Fathers that affirm the same S. Cypr. ep 57. writing to Cornelius Pope of Rome saith Whilest with you there is one mind and one voice the whole Church is confessed to be the Roman Church S. Aug. de unitat Eccles cap. 4. saith Who so dissent from the body of Christ which is the Church that they do not communicate with all the whole corps of Christendom certain it is that they are not in the Catholick Church S. Hierom in his Apologie against Ruffinus and in other places saith that it is all one to say Roman faith and the Catholick faith Again S. Aug. upon the Psal 45. we 44. but much more excellently in ep 161. ad Honorat The place begins Dignere ergo rescribere nobis As also cont lib. Petil. l. 2. cap. 16. The Reformers hold X. That the Churches Vnity is not necessary in all points of faith COntrary to the express words of their own Bible Ephes. 4.5 One Lord One Faith One Baptism Therefore Unity is necessary in all points of faith The reason is for that the Church being a Congregation of the faithful one Faith is necessary to make one Church but our Adversaries differ in matters of faith therefore they have not the Unity requisite to one Church James 2.10 Wh●soever shall keep the whole Law and yet offend in one point he is guilty of all And even so it is in our faith for who so denies one Article denies all Acts 4.32 And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul And again 1 Cor. 1.10 New I beseech you Brethren by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that ye all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you that ye be perfectly joyned together the same minde and in the same judgment Whereas our Adversaries are a hundred several minds and judgments there being an infinity of Se● among them without any the le●●● shew of Unity And therefore ca●●● not be the true believers mentioned 〈◊〉 the Apostles See more Jerem. 32.39 Cant. 2. ● Psal 67.7 Mat. 12.25 Mark 24. Luk 11.1 Mat. 18.19 Ephe●●● 2.14 15 16.8.22 Ephes 5 2● Philip. 3.16 Philip. 1.26 27. Ga●● 5.9 and 1.8 Colos 3.15 John 1.11 2 Cor. 13.11 Psal 121.3 ¶ And lastly to check by our common Rule the breakers of this Uni● and Rule S. Aug. eited by the M●nuduc p. 134. saith In Cathedra un●tatis posuit Deus doctrinam verstatis In the chair of Unity God hath place the Doctrine of verity As also cont●● Par. l. 3. cap. 5. The place begin Qui non vult sedere S. Cyprian li●● de unitat Eccles nu 3. saith Thi●unity of the Church he that h●ldeth not ●oth he think he holds the faith S. ●ilary lib. ad Constantinum Augu●um and many others XI ●hat S. Peter was not ordained by Christ the first Head or Chief among the Apostles and that among the twelve none was greater or lesser than other Contrary to the expresse words of their own Bible Mat. 10.2 Now he names of the twelve

astray that it is not in the power of any one no not of all our Adversaries that are in England to find in their own Bible one onely expresse Text I say one onely in their own Bible by which they can possibly prove one onely point of their false Doctrine● without their usual art of adding diminishing chopping or changing it by some interpretation or other which yet should be to alter the Text it self and to employ mans fancy instead of the pure word a thing by their own confession flatly forbidden them protesting that the Word of God doth in such sort contain all that which is necessary to salvation that it is not lawful neither for men nor Angels to add diminish or alter any part thereof and commanding their followers and adherents utterly to renounce all Antiquity Custom Multitude humane wisdom Judgment Decrees Edicts Counsels Visions yea and Miracles themselves to the contrary THE TOUCH-STONE Of the REFORMED GOSPEL The Protestants affirm I. That there is not in the Church one and that an infallible Rule for understanding the Holy Scriptures and conserving of Vnity in matters of Faith COntrary to the express words of their own Bible Rom. 12.6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us whether Prophecy that is interpretation according to the proportion or Rule of faith Whence we gather that Prophecy according to the Rule of faith is one of the gifts which God bestoweth on his Church Therefore there is in the Church one and that an infallible Rule to understand the holy Scriptures by Philip 3.16 Nevertheless whereto we have already attained Let us walk by the same rule let us mind the same thing Lo how plainly the Apostle speaks in this second place of a certain Rule to walk by clearly presupposing that in matters of faith we can never be of the same minde unlesse we walk by the same Rule Gal. 6.16 And as many as walk according to this Rule peace be on them and mercy And 2. Cor. 10.15 Having hope when your faith is increased that we shall be enlarged by you according to our Rule abundantly to preach the Gosple in the Regions beyond you and not to boast in another mans line Here again because every man is to direct and order his belief according to the doctrine of the Church therefore it is called by S. Paul both the Rule Line of our holy faith Again 1 Cor. 11.16 But if any man seem to be contentious we have no such Custome nor the Churches of God Lo how S. Paul still pleads the Rule and Custom of the Church against the contentious which if it could then by the sole prescription of twenty or thirty years and by the authority of so few Pastors stop the mouthes of new Sect-masters what ought not the Custome of sixteen hundred years and the decrees of so many hundred Pastors gain of reasonable modest and humble men And here I would have it to be noted that this Analogy or Rule of faith besides the titles already recited the holy Scripture in other places calls by the name of Form of Doctrine Rom. 6.17 A thing made ready to our hand 2. Cor. 10.16 The Depositum or Treasure committed to the Churches trust and ever most carefully to be kept by her 1. Tim. 6.20 And withall in the very self same places always stileth that which is contrary to this Rule by the name of Disunion Discord Disobedience forsaking of our first Vocation Division Contention Prophane and vain babling Opposition of sciences c. Whence plainly appear how great the necessity is for every Christian to keep this Rule the least breach whereof doth presently crack his Christian credit with the Church of God and with all good Christians See more Rom. 6.17 Gal. 1.6 Rom. 16.17 Acts 15 2. 1. Tim. 6.10 Rom. 12.16 ¶ According to this very Rule the Ancient Fathers affirm the same S. Irenaus l. 4. Cap. 45. Tert. de praesor And Vincent Lyr. in suo Commonitorio saith It is very needfull in regard of so many errors proceeding from the mis-interpretation of Scriptures that the Line of Propheticall and Apostolical exposition should be directed according to the Rule of the Ecclesiastical and Catholick sense Thus writeth this most worthy witnesse Tertul● Praescrip Adv. Haeres Cap. 15 Cap. 19. Saith We do not admit our Adversaries to dispute out of Scripture till they can shew who their Ancestors were and from whom they received the Scriptures For the orderly course of doctrine requires that the first Question be whose the Scriptures are by right from whom and by whom and to whom the Form of Christian Religion was delivered Otherwise prescribing against him as a stranger c. Thus he Behold how these two last ancient Fathers lay hold of and urge these two very terms Rule and Form of Faith and Religion even as before the Holy Scripture did from whence doubtlesse they took the phrase And with very great reason for the knowledge of Tradition which is the Form or Rule goes before the knowledge of the Scripture for the Rule must be first known before the thing ruled can be assuredly known as the Carpenter cannot know certainly that he hath ●●easured his timber nor the Taylor ●hat he hath measured his cloth aright except he first assuredly know that is measure be both true and right but ●he Rule of Faith to wit the Summe ●f those points that every Christian is bound expresly to know as delivered to him from hand to hand is the knowledge of Tradition The Protestants affirm II. That in matters of Faith we must not rely upon the Judgement of the Church and of her Pastors but onely upon the written Word COntrary to the expresse words o● their own Bible Mat. 23.2 Th● Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Mose● seat all therefore whatsoever they bi● you observe that observe and do I● which words Christ not only commands us in matters of Faith to have recourse to somewhat else besides th● onely written words to wit to the Pastors of the Church but bids more over to obey them and that not onely in some principal matters but in al● whatsoever without distinction o●●● limitation Therefore in matters o●●● faith we are not tied to rely onel● upon the written word Luke 10.16 He that heareth you heareth me and he that despiseth you despiseth me and he that dispiseth me dispiseth him that sent me Here again Christ our Lord honoureth and giveth as much authority to the Preachers of the Word as he can possibly do to the word it self saying He that heareth you c. Matth 16.19 Whatsoever thou shalt binde on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose in earth shall be loosed in heaven Where it is to be noted that he doth not say whosoever but whatsoever giving us thereby to understand that not onely the bonds of sins but as ●ell all other knots and difficulties in ●atters of faith