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A06697	A profitable dialogue for a peruerted papist. Or a little labour of a lay men tending to the profit of a peruerted Papist: namely, by laying open vnto him his ovvne errour, in beleeuing that the Church of Rome cannot erre. Composed in dialogue maner, as it were betweene a simple lay man, and certayne graue diuines, and published onely for the benefit of the lay Papist. VVritten by R.M. gent. and student in Diuinity.	R. M., student in divinity.	1609 (1609)	STC 17149; ESTC S103258	25,816	46

visible congregation which may professe Christ by words and deny him by deeds another Fourthly touching Baptisme the outward Sacrament the washing of the outward man is one thing and the inward grace the clensing of the inward man another Fiftly touching the Eucharist The outward Sacrament also foode for the Body is one thing and the inward matter euerlasting life for the soule another and so foorth in the like Now the faithfull knowing well the differences in these things and that the one may be oftentimes taken without the other will neuer permit the aduersary to passe away vncorrected with any vntrueth therein be it neuer so little because from one error another may ensue but not possible directly an errour to proceede from trueth for Gods word is not both Yea and Nay in one thing but absolutely Yea or Nay as S. Paul testifieth γ 2. Cor. 1. As touching the maner of my collecting hereof I may iustly auouch it from the first authors themselues but admit it were otherwise yet let no man be so vayne as to thinke the trueth to be of lesse force in one place then in another but let him rather learne this wisdome from S. Paul that although Paul or Apollos or whosoeuer plant and water yet it is God onely that giues the blessing of increase * 1. Cor. 3. 6 7. And because God may giue that heauenly blessing to whom he will and without respect of persons γ Ephe. 6. 9. in hope of the same blessing vpon this my little labour rude and harsh in maner and forme though in substance according to trueth I will now require no more of thee courteous Reader but that thou wilt permit it thy fauourable pasport and not to reiect the maner of it more then to respect the matter in it in so doing thou shalt declare thy selfe a most faithfull friend to the simple Trueth and thereby not iustly to offend any whosoeuer Vale. A profitable Dialogue for a peruerted Papist Wherein he may clearely discerne his owne error in beleeuing that the Church of Rome cannot erre The first part briefly treating of the Church Lay man DIuine Augustine forasmuch as thy proper workes are of great fame estimation in the Church of Rome which now in part is fallen from that her first faith and integrity which sometime thou didst know her sincerely to hold for she doth now presumptuously auouch that she can not erre in any substantiall poynt of the Christian faith and by reason of that vaine and presumptuous opinion she is fallen by euill custome into diuers errours by which great controuersies among Christians do arise therefore in the behalfe of many simple Lay people we most earnestly craue of thée Reuerend Father to tell vs directly thy true opinion touching the vayne opinion of them which hold that the same Church cannot erre We certaynely perswade our selues that thy direct answeres herein will greatly preuayle with those our aduersaries for some of them haue written a N. D. Author of the Wardword in his 1. booke of of the ● conuersions of England Chap. 3. as a matter of great moment against Heretiks that Wheresoeuer any doctrine is found in any of the Ancient Fathers which is not contradicted nor noted by any of the rest as singular that doctrine is to be presumed to be no particular opinion of his but rather the generall of all the Church in his dayes for that otherwise it would most certaynly haue bin noted and impugned by others c. Therefore whatsoeuer is spoken by thée learned Aug. not yet contradicted they must thereby graunt it to be the Trueth of the Church in thy flourishing dayes We confesse that the true holy Catholike Church cannot finally erre for hell gates are not able to preuayle against it b Mat. 16. 18. but this holy Catholike Church we vnderstand to consist onely of the Elect as our Créede witnesseth euen the Communion of Saynts which without spot or wrinkle Christ by his precious bloud hath made glorious to himselfe c Ephe. ● 27. for against all other hell gates doe preuayle and that doeth the Euangelist S. Iohn witnesse saying d 1. Iohn ● 19. They went out from vs but they were not of vs for if they had bene of vs they would haue continued with vs But this cōmeth to passe that it might appeare that they are not all of vs c. But it is euident that against whosoeuer hell gates may preuayle they also may erre for it is most true that none can erre more then those that take the ready way to hell supposing they goe to heauen By which we may well hold against the Church of Rome that not all which receyue the outward Sacrament of Baptisme are then made members of that Church which cannot finally erre And by this wée may well proue also that the Bishop of Rome may as much erre as the meanest of vs Laymen Saint Ambrose sayth c Vpon S. Luk● the 6. Booke 9. Chap. that The foundation of the Church is sayth If thou wilt be a Rock sayth he thou shalt be in the Church because the Church is vpon a Rock if thou be in the Church the gates of hell shall not preuayle against thee the gates of hell are the gates of death but the gates of hell cannot be the gates of the Church And what are the gates of death that is to say the gates of hell but euery one of our seuerall sinnes c. And more in an other place f Vpon the 40. Psalm Where Peter the Rock is saith he there is the Church where the Church is there is no death but eternal life and therefore he added And the gates of hell shall not preuayle against it He then that liues and dyes in his sinnes both liues and dyes out of the vnity of that holy Church against which hell gates can not preuayle But for these things speake diuine Augustine Aug. My sonne g Against Cresconius the 2 booke Chap. 21 22. The Apostle Paul doth say h Ephe. ● 2. that the Church is made subiect to Christ The Church therefore ought not to preferre her self before Christ that she should thinke to be able to baptize those which are iudged or condemned by him but not possible of her selfe to baptize them because he alwayes iudgeth truely but the Iudges of the Church as being men are often deceyued Therefore forasmuch as pertayneth to the visible ministery both good and euill baptize But by them he doth inuisibly baptize of whom both the visible baptisme and the inuisible grace is Both good and euill then may sprinkle but to wash the conscience not any can do it but he which is alwayes good * None but God alwaies good And by this also by reason of the euill and polluted conscience the Church is ignorant of such as are condemned by Christ They are not thē in the Body of Christ which is the Church because

S. Iohn He himselfe doth expound how that may be done which he spake of what it is to eate his Body and drinke his blood He which eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood sayth he dwelleth in me u Iohn 6. 56. I●n him This it is then to eate that meate and drinke that blood to dwell in Christ and to haue Christ dwelling in him And by this he that dwelleth not in Christ and in whom Christ doth not dwell without doubt hee neither eates his flesh nor drinkes his blood spiritually although carnally and visibly hee presse with his teeth the Sacrament of his body and blood but rather hee doth eate and drinke the Sacrament of so great a thing to his owne Iudgement because hee presumes to come vncleane to the Sacraments of Christ which no man receyues worthily but hee which is cleane of whom it is sayd x Mat. ● 8. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God c. Lay. Then it séemes by thée contrary to the doctrine of the Church of Rome that the presence of Christ in the Sacrament is in such a spirituall maner that although the wicked may eate and drinke the same Sacrament vnworthily according to S. Paul y 1. Cor. 11. 27. yet they cannot by any meanes eate and drinke Christ himselfe the matter and substance thereof Whereby thou doost declare this thing to be an vnspeakeable mystery onely for the faithfull to vnderstand for it séemes here also by thée that none can receiue the Body of Christ but onely the liuely members of Christ that dwell in him so that as they dwell in Christ Christ dwelleth in them but this is not according to Transsubstantiation Therefore to satisfie our weake brethren speake yet more playne if thou canst reuerend Father and tell vs by some familiar example whether any can haue true life not eating and drinking that holy substance and also whether there bée any cause or spiritual sicknesse in man eating and drinking the Body and Blood of Christ to exclude him from that eternall life Aug. My sonne r In his ●6 Treatis vpon S. Iohn He hath not that life which doth not eate that Bread and drinke that Blood Indeed men may haue a temporall life without that but not at all the eternall He therefore which doth not eate his flesh nor drinke his blood hath not life in himselfe and he which eateth his flesh and drinketh his blood hath life He answereth to both because he sayd eternall It is not so in that meate which we receyue for the sustayning of this temporall life for he which shal not receyue it shall not liue yet for all that he shall not liue alwayes which doth receyue it for it may come to passe that many which haue taken that meate may dye by old age or by a disease or by some other cause But in this meate and drinke that is to say the Body and Blood of our Lord it is not so for both he which doth not receiue it hath not life and he which doth receyue it hath life and this likewise eternall Therefore he would haue this bread and drinke to be vnderstood the society of the body and his members a Iohn 14. 20. and 17. 21 22 23. which is the holy Church his Saints and faythfull c. The Sacrament of this thing that is to say of the vnity of the Body Blood of Christ is prepared on the Lords Table in some place dayly in some place at certayne times and is receyued from the Lords Table vnto some to life vnto some to destruction But the thing it selfe to which the Sacrament doth belong is to euery man to life to no man to destruction whosoeuer shall be partaker of it c. Lay. Here thou art most playne indéed that the wicked cannot eate and drinke Christ Iesus the Bread of life And by this also we finde that thou doost acknowledge according to S. Paul b 1. Cor. 10. 3 4 that the faithful Iewes did eate and drinke the same spirituall substance which we do but in their Sacramēts Christ to come in ours Christ is come the same spirituall vertue in both otherwise as thou doost affirme they could not haue entred into eternall life Aug. True my sonne c In his Booke of the profit of repentance Chap. 1. Whosoeuer in Manna vnderstood Christ did eate the same spirituall food which we do c. To the beleeuer it was neyther this nor that meate and drinke which belongs to the hungry and thirsty but to the beleeuer the same which is now for then Christ to come now Christ is come to come and is come are diuers words yet the same Christ c. Lay. What other difference is there betwéene their Sacramen●s and ours besides Christ to come and Christ is come Aug. d In his 26. T●eatis vpon S. Iohn In signes they are diuers but in the thing signifyed they are alike c. They did all drinke the same spirituall drinke but in the visible appearance they one thing we another but the same in spirituall vertue which that signifyed c. Hold firmely my sonne and make no doubt thereof e In his Booke to Peter the Deacon Chap. 18. 19. the same onely begotten Sonne the word made flesh to haue offered himselfe for vs a sweete smelling sauour to God f Ephe. 5. 2 A sacrifice and Hoste to whom with the Father and the holy Ghost beasts were sacrificed in the time of the old Testament by the Patriarks Prophets Priests and to whom now that is in the time of the new Testament with the Father and the holy Ghost with whom he is equall in diuinity the holy Catholike Church through the vniuersall world ceaseth not in fayth and loue to offer the sacrifice of Bread and wyne for in those carnall oblations there was a figuration of the flesh of Christ which for our sinnes he without sinne was to offer and of the Blood which he was to sheade for the remission of our sinnes But in this sacrifice there is a thankes-giuing and also a remembrance of the flesh of Christ which he did offer for vs and of the blood which the same God did shead for vs c. g In his 20 Booke against 〈◊〉 Chap. 2● Before the comming of Christ the flesh and blood of this Sacrifice was promised by oblations of similitudes in the Passion of Christ it was deliuered in the trueth it selfe After the Ascension of Christ it is celebrated by a Sacrament of remembrance c. Lay. We note here from thée one thing well worth the nothing against our aduersaries that is if Christ be really contayned in the Sacrifice of their Masse then Christ the second person in Trinity is offered to himselfe the second person in Trinity But we assure our selues that it cannot stand with thy grauity to allow of such absurdity Thou doost here call this 〈◊〉 The sacrifice of Bread

vnlesse they adde thereunto some matter of their owne deuising as namely by adding a condition to the holy text more then thou didst there expresse * Bellarmine in his 〈…〉 as though there were a defect in thy word by which all things are made perfit and by which at the last day they shal● iudge both the quicke and the dead But full well do thy faithfull people know by the direction of thy holy spirit that thou giuest not thy selfe for foode to any reprobate and vnworthy creature for thou sayst here most playnely that whosoeuer eateth and drinketh thy flesh and blood hath eternall life and therefore although the Sacrament thereof may be eaten and drunken both by the worthy and vnworthy receiuer as witnesseth thine Apostle Paul q 1. Cor. 11. 27. yet that blessed foode it selfe cannot so be eaten and drunken for the vertue thereof is to giue life to all that eates and drinks it and this is thy promise which can neuer be broken But most gracious Lord forasmuch as there be yet many weake people that cannot well vnderstand thée herein without adding to these thy words this word worthyly resolue them we humbly beséech thée whether it be so or not that some professed Christians may eate and drinke this sacred banket of thine euen thy selfe vnworthily and so dye in their sinnes as the vnworthy and faithlesse Iewes did notwithstanding they did eate Manna Speake so vnto them good Lord that they may both heare and vnderstand Christ My sonne Let those weake people of little faith marke well here what I say vnto them Haue not I graciously giuen you warning by my sacred word saying r Math. 16. ● and 15. 9. Take heede and beware of the leauen of the Pharises and Sadduces in vaine they worship me teaching for doctrines mens precepts Haue not I taught you by mine Apostle Paul faith is by hearing and hearing by the word of God * Rom. 10. 1● Iohn 8. 4● Mark 1● 24. He that is of God heareth Gods wordes c. * Iohn 5. 39. Are ye not therfore deceiued because ye know not the Scriptures neyther the power of God * Search the Scriptures My sheepe heare my voyce and I know them Iohn 10. 27. and 12. 48. and 14. 6. Luke ●1 23. and they follow me He that refuseth me and receyueth not my words hath one that iudgeth him the word that I haue spoken it shall iudge him in the last day I am the Way the Trueth the Life No man commeth vnto the Father but by me * Iohn 6. 〈…〉 He that is not with me is against me and he that gathereth not with me scattereth but * He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me and I in him As that liuing Father hath sent me so liue I by the Father and he that eateth me euen he shall liue by me Note well here what I say I speake not one thing and meane an other I make not my promise so absolutely and meane it but conditionally I say not he that eateth me worthily because no vnworthy creature that shall dye in his sinne can eate me And to make that most playne vnto you I say againe as I haue sayd already This is that bread which came downe from heauen not as your fathers haue eaten Manna and are dead he that eateth of this bread shall liue for euer c. Lay. For this thy playne declaration all prayse be giuen vnto thée O Lord for hereby all may discerne most clearely that thou doost not commit thy selfe to vnfaithfull creatures and to be foode for the reprobate as Iudas and such like We therefore most humbly pray thée to open the eyes of these blinde weakelings which by too much establishing the doctrines of men go about to contradict thée herein and so inspire their heartes with the grace of thy holy spirit that they may thereby discerne the onely cause of their great blindnesse But the same cause being by thy gracious help taken away they shall then clearely sée to séeke and find euen according to thy diuine direction ſ Math. ● 7. Let them sée O Lord that their Church of Rome doth yet erre and will erre still vntill shée acknowledge her owne weakenesse that she may erre But so aboundant is thy goodnesse mercy towards repentant sinners that if she would in due time repent her former errours with that vayne and presumptuous opinion touching her supposed purity in her owne doctrine generally no doubt thou wouldst not onely pardon all her erronious doctrines and superstitious cerimonies but also restore her to her first dignity and commendation and cause all her good and laudable Traditions and Customes which now in respect of her wilfull blindnesse in some poynts are little or nothing regarded by a great number to be as highly estéemed and as duely obserued as euer heretofore they haue bene for thy eternall wisedome doth more respect the good and faithfull intent of the dooer then the déed done whatsoeuer it be because whatsoeuer is not of true faith séeme it neuer so holy in the sight of man is no better then sinne in thy infallible Iudgement * Rom. 14. 23. In consideration whereof we most humbly beséech thée also to encrease in vs Protestants true and liuely faith which alwayes worketh by loue that we may be all in generall more zealous in thy seruice then hither to we haue bene for we here acknowledge before thée that knowest the secrets of all hearts who also hereafter shalt be our Iudge the knowledge without true zeale is more vnprofitable in thy sight then zeale without knowledge t Math. 21. 28. to 32. Luke 12. 47 48. Iohn 9. 41. Actes 10. 1. 10 5. Rom. ● 〈◊〉 5. 6. therefore as we professe thée in words so good Lord let vs expresse thée in workes that we may not be reckoned in the number of those foolish men that build vpon sand that is those that heare thy words and do them not u Math. ● 26. 27. We professe before thy diuine Maiesty that none can be saued but those that haue a faith working by loue x Gala. ● 6. 1. Tim. 1. ● Tit. 3. 8. Iames. 2. 20. other faiths we hold as dead and vayne in respect of Iustification but that faith onely which worketh by loue we hold to iustifie without the workes of the law euen as thine holy Apostle hath taught vs. y Rom. 3 ●8 Therefore for the great loue in thée declared vnto vs when thou didst suffer torments death for our sinnes we beséech thée swéete Iesus so to blesse the hearts of all true Christians that they may all from hencefoorth both liue and dye in peace and vnity Behold sayth thy Prophet Dauid * Psalm 1● how good how comely a thing it is brethrē to dwell euen together It is like the precious oyntment vpon the head that runneth downe vpon the beard euen vnto Aarons beard which went downe on the border of his garments and as the dew of Hermon which falleth vpon the Mountaynes of Zion for there the Lord appoynted the blessing and life for euer Let thine heauenly blessing therefore so blesse the Vniuersall Church here on earth that it may euen now without any more controuersies conclude a spirituall marriage as it were betwéene faith and workes that so wée may all both truely glorifie thée in this world also be made partakers with thée of that euerlasting felicity in the next world euen in that holy place of en●lesse ioy which from the foundations of the world hath bene prepared for thine elect z Mar● ●● 24 by thine heauenly Father our onely God and Creator to whom with thée our swéete Redéemer and the holy Ghost our sanctifier thrée persons and one euerliuing God be ascribed all prayse power honor dominion and glory both now and for euermore Amen FINIS Let no man deceiue himselfe If any man among you seeme to be wise in this world let him be a foole that he may be wise for the wisdome of this world is foolishnesse with God c. 1. Cor. 3. 18 19. Laus Deo et pax Christianis Glory be to God and peace among Christians Faults escaped In Page 5. line 23. for a principall Read the principall Page 12. line 24. for sayth he knoweth God Read sayth he knoweth God Page 24. line 5. in the mergent for Page 18. Read Page 15.