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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

Yea it were a thing both ridiculous and impious to make them Trayclears Carriers of Drugs or Paracelsians Mark 16.18 They shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover But first our Reformers are no true Priests Secondly they lay not their hands upon the sick Thirdly they anoint them not with oyl in the name of the Lord as S. James willeth Let them say the truth then and shame the devil are not they sick in their wits who will oppose so plain Scriptures ¶ See the Fathers that affirm the same Origen hom 2. in Levit. S. Chrysost lib. 3. de sacerd S. Aug. in Speculo serm 215. de temp Venerable Bede in 6. Mark 5. Jac. with many others XLIII That no interiour Grace is given by imposition of hands in Holy Orders And that ordinary Vocation and mission of Pastors is not necessary in the Church COntrary to the expresse words of their own Bible 1 Tim. 4.14 Neglect not the gift we reade grace that is in thee which was given thee by prophesie with the laying on the hands of the Presbytery See how plain it is that holy Orders do give place D. Kellison handling this Question touching the Mission of the Reformers proveth learnedly in his Reply page 7. 44. that this foundation being disproved the whole frame of their Church and Religion falls yea that they have neither true faith nor worship of God and his reason is this if faith depend of hearing hearing of Preaching Preaching and administration of Sacraments of Ministers and Preachers and Preachers and Ministers of their mission where there is no mission as they have none there can be no true faith nor lawful administration of Sacraments and consequently no Religion Therefore vocation is necessary in the Church 1 Tim. 1.6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God which is in thee by the putting on thy hands How plain the Holy Scripture is against them But they reply that laying on of hands is not needful to them who have already in them the spirit of God and inward annointing of the holy Ghost To which very question Theodoret maketh answer that God commanded Moses Num. 27. to lay his hands upon Josue whereas by the Testimony of God himself Josue had already in him the spirit of God S. Paul although he were called immediately from Heaven yet was afterward sent with laying on of hands Act. 13.3 Heb. 5.4 And no man taketh this honour unto himself but he that is called of God as was Aaron Here our adversaries reply again that Aaron had no external vocation but this is easily solved for Aaron was the first of his Order and therefore could not have his calling by succession and whose case is far unlike to our Reformers unlesse they will confesse also that they are the first of their Order wherein they shall be easily believed See more Acts 13. 2 Tim. 1.6 1 Tim. 5.22 2 Tim. 1.8 Num. 27.23 ¶ See also the holy Fathers that affirm the same S. Aug. lib. 4. quaest super Num. S. Cyp. ep ad Magnum Optatus Milevit the place begins Ne quis Miretur Tertullian in praescript the place begins Edant origines XLIV That the Priests and other Religious persons who have vowed their chastity of God may freely marry notwithstanding their vow COntrary to the expresse words of their own Bible Deut. 23.22 When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God thou shalt not slack to pay it for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee and it would be sin in thee but if thou shalt forbear to vow it shall be no sin in thee Out of which words two things are clearly proved The one that it is both lawfull and laudable to make Vows the other that Vows being once made do binde where otherwise there was no obligation before therefore such as have vowed Chastity may not nor ought not afterwards attempt to marry which if they do they break their Vow 1 Tim. 5.11 12. But the younger widdows refuse for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ they will marry having damnation because they have cast off their first faith All the ancient Fathers that write upon this place expound these words of the Apostle of the Vow of Chastity or of the faith and promise made to Christ to live continently as is abundantly proved in the Rhemes Testament upon this place 1 Tim. 5.15 For some already turned aside after Satan To marry after the vow of chastity once made is here termed by the Apostle himself turning aside after Sathan And hereupon it is that we call the Religious that after marry as Luther Bucer Peter Martyr and the rest of that lascivious rabble Apostates Gods adulterers incestuous sacrilegious and the like See more Psal 66.16 Numb 6.2.18 Josue 21.26 Ierem. 35.18 Eccl. 5.3 Acts 21.23 ¶ See also the Fathers in confirmation thereof S. Aug. lib. de bono viduit c. 9. Athanasius lib. de virginitat S. Epiphanius haeres 48. S. Hier. cont Jov. l. 1. c. 7. What is to break their first faith saith S. Aug They vowed and performed not in Psa 75. The place begins Quid est primam fidem c. XLV That fasting and abstinence from certain meats is not grounded on holy Scripture nor causeth any spiritual good COntrary to the expresse words of their own Bible Jerem. 35.5 And I set before the Sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of Wine and Wine-cups and I said unto them drink ye Wine But they said we will drink no Wine for Jonadab the Son of Rechab our Father commanded us saying Ye shall drink no Wine neither ye nor your sons for ever Thus have we obeyed Jonadab our Father in all that he hath charged us Therefore fasting is grounded upon holy Scripture Luk. 1.15 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord and shall drink neither Wine nor strong drink Thus was abstinence not onely foretold but also prescribed by the Angel which plainly proveth that it was both a worthy thing and also an act of religion in S. John Bapt. as it was in the Nazarites and Rechabites afore-mentioned Acts 13.3 And when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them they sent them away Hence the Church of God hath sufficient ground and warrant for the using and prescribing of publick fasts which was not fasting from sin as our Reformers forsooth pretend for such fasting they were ever bound to keep and that at such times or seasons as the Church pleased to prescribe as in Lent or the like and not when every man lists or the toy takes him in the head as Arius and other Hereticks did teach testified by S. Aug. Haeres 53. Matt. 17.21 Howbeit this kinde of devils goeth not out but by prayer and fasting Behold the great force of prayer and fasting able to expell the very devil Therefore it causeth great spiritual good See more

Joel 2.12 Matth. 6.16 Matth. 9.15.29 Toby 12.8 Luke 2.37 Act. 14.22 2 Corinth 11.37 2 Cor. 6.5 Num. 30.14.1 Tim. 4.3 ¶ And the Fathers S. Ignat. ad Philip S. Basil orat de jejunio S. Chrysost orat in sanct Lavacrum hom 1. in Gen. S. Ambr. ser 4. S Hier. in cap. 18. Isa and many others XLVI That Jesus Christ descended not into hell nor delivered thence the souls of the Fathers COntrary to the express words of their own Bible Ephes 4.8 When he ascended up on high he led Captivity captive in their margent or a multitude of captives and gave gifts unto men Now that he ascended what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth These freed Captives to be the souls of the glorified no man in his right wits will say nor the souls of the damned for so the devils should be brought again into heaven therefore they were the souls of the Fathers which Christ delivered out of Limbus Acts 20.27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption These very words S. Aug. applieth to the proof of a third place and saith Who but an infidell will deny Christ to have descended into hell Epist 99. ad Exod. 1 Pet. 3.18.19 Being put to death in the flesh but quickned by the spirit by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison Now to understand by the word prison heaven there is no sense since it is called the seat of God and not the prison of God To understand it of the wicked Calvin himself opposeth this opinion and maintains that S. Peter speaks of the good who were known from the dayes of Noah And hereto that this doctrine destroieth an article of our Creed Therefore Christ descended into hell Heb. 11.38.39.40 And those all having obtained a good report through faith received not the promise to wit of heaven God having provided some better thing for us that they without us should not be made perfect to wit in their perfect and compleat glory Whence it follows necessary that they must needs grant another place distinct as well from the Heaven of the saved as from the Hell of the damned wherein these holy souls were detained Mat. 12.40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the Whales belly so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth But how I pray is this Figure fulfilled if Christ were not as many days and nights in the heart of the earth as Jonas was who was not in the whales belly in body only but also in soul Whence it followeth that either Christs holy soul was three days and three nights in the heart of the earth as well as his body or that this place of Scripture is either false or unfulfilled Which were most absurd to affirm Matth. 27.52.53 And the graves were opened and many bodies of Saints which slept arose and came out of the graves after his resurrection and went into the holy City and appeared unto many Understood by S. Ignatius Bishop of Antioch of Limbus Patrum writing to the Citizens of Trallis thus many arose with our Lord for the Scripture saith that many of the bodies that slep arose with our Lord. He descended alone returned with a multitude Zach. 9.11 As for thee also by the bloud of thy Covenant I have sent we read let forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water Both S. Hier and S. Cyril understand this pit to be meant of Limbus Patrum And with very great reason for how absurd were it to say that the damned have their share in the bloud of the Covenant Or that they are set forth of their infernal pit Or that they may be said to be thy prisoners that is Christ but rather the prisoners of the devils Yea where I pray to speak properly hath Christ had any prisoners at all which he hath let forth if not out of this place Therefore either Christ let forth prisoners out of Limbus Patrum or this place likewise as the former is either false or not yet fulfilled Like unto this is that of 1. Samuel 2.6 The Lord killeth and maketh alive he bringeth down to the grave we read hell and bringeth up we read back again See how plain and conform the faith of that old Church was and is to this of ours bringeth down to hell or bring-back again which hardly in any clear sense can be averred if Limbus Patrum be denied As for the word grave which they erroneously have added in stead of Hell to diminish the force of so plain a place why do they not as well foist the same into their Creed in stead of Hell as here they have done and say Was crucified dead an buried he descended into the grave Who doth not see this absurdity See more Osee 6.3 Psal 16.10 2 Pet. 3 19. Zach. 9.11 Rom. 10.6 Eccl. 24 45. Psal 23.7 Gen. 37.35 ¶ See also the Fathers that affirms the same S. Hier. in 4. and Ephes S. Greg. lib. 13. Moral cap. 20. S. Aug. in Psal 37. vers 1. The place begins Futurum est enim c. XLVII That there is no Purgatory fire or other prison wherein sins may be satisfied for after this life COntrary to the expresse words of their own Bible 1 Cor. 3.13.25 The fire shall try every mans work of what sort it is If any mans work shall be burnt he shall suffer loss but he himself shall be saved yet so as by fire S. Augustine writing upon the 37. Psal and drawing these very words of the Apostle into his discourse saith Because it is said he himself shall be safe that fire is therefore condemned Yea verily though safe by fire yet that fire shall be more grievous than whotsoever a man can suffer in his life Thus he Therefore there is a Purgatory fire wherein sins may be satisfied for after this life John 11.22 But I know that even now whatsoever thou wilt ask of God God will give it thee S. Martha the sister of S. Ma. Magdalen believed that our Lord whom then she held only for a holy man or Prophet and not for the Son of God could obtain of God something profitable to her brother Lazarus who was deceased For having said Lord if thou hadst been here my brother had not been dead she presently added But I know that even now whatsoever thou wilt ask of God God will give it thee Which speech she could never have used in any good sense if she had not learned this doctrine of the Synagogue who offered sacrifices alms and prayers for the departed and unless she had known and believed that the dead might be holpen by the piety of the living as Cardinal Allen learnedly concludeth in his Treatise of Purgatory Acts 2.14 Whom God hath raised up losing the sorrows of hell In which words two things