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A93958	Ad clerum. A sermon preached at a visitation holden at Grantham in the county and diocess of Lincolne, 8. Octob. 1641. By a late learned prelate. Now published by his own copy.	Sanderson, Robert, 1587-1663.	1670 (1670)	Wing S580; ESTC R228093	21,750	45

that rightly understandeth the Tenets of the Romish Church but will easily grant if he shall duly consider what a masse of humane Traditions both in point of belief and worship are imposed upon the judgments and consciences of all that may be suffered to live in the visible Communion of that Church and that with opinion of necessity and under paine of damnation The Popes Supremacy Worshipping of Images Invocation of Saints and Angels the propitiatory Sacrifice of the Mass Purgatory the seven Sacraments Transubstantiation Adoration of the host Communion under one kind Private Masses forbidaing Priests Mariage Monastical Vowes Prayer in an unknown tongue Auricular Confession All these and I know not how many more are such as even by the confession of their own learned Writers depend upon unwritten Traditions more than upon the Scriptures True it is that for most of these they pretend to Scripture also but with so little colour at the best and with so little confidence at the last that when they are hard put to it they are forced to fly from that hold and to shelter themselves under their great Diana Tradition Take away that it is confessed that many of the chiefe Arcicles of their Faith nutare vacillare videbuntur will seem even to totter and reel and have much adoe to keep up For what else could we imagine should make them strive so much to debase the Scripture all they can denying it to be a Rule of Faith and charging it with imperfection obscurity uncertainty and many other defects and on the otherside to magnifie Traditions as every way more absolute but meerly their consciousness that sundry of their doctrines if they should be examined to the bottome would apeare to have no sound foundation in the Written Word And then must needs wee conclude from what hath been allready delivered that they ought to be received or rather not to be received but rejected as the Doctrines and Commandments of men Nor will their flying to Tradition help them in this case or free them from Pharisaisme but rather make the more against them For to omit that it hath been the usual course of false teachers when their Doctrines were found not to be Scripture-proofe to fly to Tradition do but enquire a little into the Original and growth of Pharisaical Traditions and you shall find that one egge is not more like another than the Papists and the Pharisees are alike in this matter When Saduc or whosoever els was the first Author of the Sect of the Sadduces and his followers began to vent their pestilent and Atheistical Doctrines against the immortality of the Soule the resurrection of the Body and other like the best Learned among the Jewes the Pharisees especially opposed against them by arguments and collections drawn from the Scriptures The Saduces finding themselves unable to hold argument with them as having two shrewd disadvantages but a little Learning and a bad cause had no other means to avoid the force of all their arguments than to hold them precisely to the letter of the Text without admitting any exposition thereof or collection therefrom Unlesse they could bring clear Text that should affirme totidem verbis what they denied they would not yeild The Pharisees on the contrary refused as they had good cause to be tyed to such unreasonable conditions but stood upon the meaning of the Scriptures as the Sadduces did upon the letter confirming the truth of their interpretations partly from Reason and partly from Tradition Not meaning by Tradition as yet any doctrine other than what was allready sufficiently conteined in the Scriptures but meerly the Doctrine which had been in all ages constantly taught and received with an Vniversal consent among the People of God as consonant to the holy Scriptures and grounded thereon By this means though they could not satisfie the Sadduces as Heretikes and Sectaries commonly are obstinate yet so farre they satisfied the generality of the people that they grew into very great esteem with them and within a while carryed all before them the detestation of the Sadduces and of their loose errors also conducing not a little thereunto And who now but the Pharisees and what now but Tradition in every mans eye and mouth Things being at this passe any wise man may judge how easy a matter it was for men so reverenced as the Pharisees were to abuse the credulity of the people and the interess they had in their good opinion to their own advantage to make themselves Lords of the peoples faith and by little and little to bring into the VVorship whatsoever doctrines and observances they pleased and all under the acceptable name of the Traditions of the Elders And so they did winning continually upon the people by their cunning and shewes of Religion and proceeding still more and more till the Jewish Worship by their means was grown to that height of superstition and formality as we see it was in our Saviours dayes Such was the beginning and such the rise of these Pharisaical Traditions Popish Traditions also both came in and grew up just after the same manner The Orthodox Bishops and Doctors in the antient Church being to maintain the Trinity of Persons in the Godhead the Consubstantiality of the Sonne with the Father the Hypostatical Union of the two Natures in the person of Christ the Divinity of the Holy Ghost and other like Articles of the Catholike Religion against the Arians Eunomians Macedonians and other Heretikes for that the words Trinity Homoüsion Hypostasis Procession c. which for the better expressing of the Catholike sense they were forced to use were not expressely to be found in the holy Scriptures had recourse therefore very often in their writings against the Heretikes of their times to the Tradition of the Church Whereby they meant not as the Papists would now wrest their words any unwritten doctrine not conteined in the Scriptures but the very doctrine of the Scriptures themselves as they had been constantly understood and believed by all faithfull Christians in the Catholike Church down from the Apostles times till the several present ages wherein they lived This course of theirs of so serviceable and necessary use in those times gave the first occasion and after-rise to that heap of Errors and Superstitions which in processe of time by the power and policy of the Bishop of Rome especially were introduced into the Christian Church under the specious name and colour of Catholike Traditions Thus have they troden in the steps of their forefathers the Pharisees and stand guilty even as they of the Superstition here condemned by our Saviour in teaching for doctrines mens Precepts But if the Church of Rome be cast how shall the Church of England be quit That symbolizeth so much with her in many of hir Ceremonies and otherwise What are all our crossings and kneelings and duckings What Surplice and Ring and all

face of the times in some respects than in the words of the Prophet Jeremy The Prophets prophesie lyes and the Priests get power into their hands by their means and my people love to have it so And what will you do in the end thereof What the end of these insolencies will be God alone knoweth The increase of Profanenesse Riot Oppression and all manner of wickednesse on the one side and the growth of Errour Novelty and Superstition on the other side are no good signes onward The Lord of his great mercy grant a better end thereunto than either these beginnings or proceedings hitherto portend or our sins deserve And the same Lord of his infinite goodnesse vouchsafe To dispell from us by the light of his Holy spirit all blindesse and hardnesse of heart To purge out of us by the fire of his Holy spirit all drosse of pride and bypocrisie To increase in us by the grace of his Holy spirit the love of Truth and Godlinesse To support us by the comforts of his Holy spirit amidst all our distresses and fears And to lead us by the guidance of his Holy spirit along the paths of holynesse unto the ports of happinesse And all this for the alone merits sake of his blessed Son and our alone Saviour Jesus Christ To which blessed Father Son and holy Spirit be ascribed by us and the whole Christian Church all the kingdom the power and the glory from this time forth for evermore Amen Amen FINIS Luk. 12. 1. Matth. 16. 12. 1 Cor. 5. 8. Percutit illos atrociore recriminatione Eras in Paraphr 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys Hom. 51. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysoft ibid. Isai 29. 13. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Acts 26. 5. Luk. 16. 15. 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Tim. 4. 2. 1 Thess 5. 21. 1 Joh. 4. 1. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Mark 10. 19. Luke 18. 20. Jer. 35. 6. 5. Jer. 35. 18 19. Abridgm Linc. p. 44. 6. Per appositionem Erasm Beza 7. Jer. 23. 28. 1 Cor. 3. 12 15. Gal. 1. 8. 2 Joh. ver 10. 8. 9. 10. 11. Matth. 15. 12. 1 Cor. 3. 12 15 12. 13. Andradius Multò maxima pars Evangelii pervenit ad nos traditione perexigua literis est mandata Hos Confess c. 92. Egenum elementum Hosius Plumbea regula Pighius c. a V. Chamier Tom. 1. Panstrat Lib. 9. cap. 16. Jewels Defence 2. chapt 9. b Non malè comparari Pharisaeos Cetholicis Serarius apud Hall Serm. on Matt. 5. 30. c Sadoc discipulus Antiqui Sochaei author sectae Sadducaeorum secundùm Rabbinos V. E l. Tisb in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Schindler in Lexic Pentagl Sed hoc ut commentum Rabbinicum exigit Montacutius qui Sadducaeorum o iginem ad Dositheum quendam refert ex authoritate Epiphanii aliorum eosque Sadducaeos dictos confirmat a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Justitia ob mores austeros in judiciis severitatem V. Montacut Appar 7. §. 49. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Joseph 13. Antiqu. 18. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epiphan in Ptolom Justinian Novel 146. alii 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys Hom. 51. in Matt. 15. Mox subsecuta est corruptela Calvin in loc 16 Exod. 8. 14. 17 1 Cor. 8. 8. 18. Rom. 13. 5. 19. a The Ceremonies that remain are reteined for discipline and order which upon just causes may be altered and changed and therefore are not to be esteemed equal with God's law Preface of Cerem b The Church hath power to decree rites and Ceremonies but it ought not besides the Scripture to enforce any thing to be believed for necessity of salvation Artic. 20. Every particular or National Church hath authority to ordain change and abolish Ceremonies c. Art 34. 20. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost Orat. 2. contr Judaeos 22. That the observation of Annual Festivals in memory of Christ or his Apostles as Christmas Easter c. is Antichristian superstitious and unlawful 24. 25. 26. 1 Cor. 11. 31. 27 1 Cor. 11. 23. 15. 3. Quod accepisti non quod excogitasti Vinc-Lirin cap. 27. Num. 22. 18. 28. 1 Joh 4.1 Act. 17.11 1 Thess 5 21. Jude 16. Gal. 1. 8. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrys Hom. 13 in 2. Corinth 30. Jerem. 5. 31. 32.