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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19355	One God, one fayth. Or A discourse against those lukewarm-Christians who extend saluation to all kinds of fayth and religion; so, that the professours do belieue in the Trinity, the Incarnation, the passion &c. howsoeuer they differ in other inferiour articles. VVritten by VV. B. Priest.	Anderton, Lawrence.	1625 (1625)	STC 578; ESTC S118955	85,092	194

Touching Baptisme the Catholikes belieue that Children as being borne in Originall sinne cannot be saued except they be baptized with water according to those words of S. (1) Ioan. 3. Iohn Vnlesse a man be borne againe of water and the spirit he cannot enter into the kingdome of God The (2) Willet in his meditation vpon the 122. Psalme and Caluin and Beza most frequently Protestants belieue that Infants dying vnbaptized may be saued Touching the Sacrament of Pennance or Confession The Catholikes belieue that after a Christian hath committed any one mortal sinne that sinne cannot be forgiuen him but by meanes of cōfessing the said sinne to a Priest of the new Testament and receauing absolution therof from him answereably to that of S. (3) Ca. 20. Iohn whose sinnes you shall forgiue they are forgiuen them and whose sinnes you shall retayne they are retayned The Protestants belieue that neither the confession of sinnes to man nor the absolution of man is necessary for the remitting of sinne vnto them but that it is suficient to confesse them only to God And thus according to this their diuersitie of doctrine either the Protestants for want of this Sacrament graunting it to be necessary after he hath once mortally sinned cannot be saued or the Catholike for practising a false superstitious manner of seeking to haue his sinnes remitted supposing it to be repugnant to the Institution of Christ cannot haue them remitted and consequently cannot be saued Touching the most blessed Eucharist The Catholikes belieue that the verie body and bloud doth lye ineffably and latently vnder the formes of bread and wyne according to that (4) Mat. 26. This is my Body This is my bloud That (5) Ioan. 6. Vnlesse we eate his Body and drinke his bloud we shall not haue life euerlasting Lastly that we are to Adore Christ his Body being accompanied with his Diuinitie in the said Sacrament The Protestants do belieue that his true Body as neuer leauing heauen cannot possibly be truly and really vnder the formes of bread and wyne and consequently they belieue that the eating of his body and drinking of his bloud is not necessary to Saluation finally they hould our Adoratiō of the Sacrament to be open Idolatry and tearme Catholikes Idolaters for the adoring of it And thus the Protestants as not feeding vpon this Celestiall foode shall not haue life euerlasting if the Catholikes doctrine heerin be true or els Catholikes suppose they should erre for teaching and practising Idolatry heerin should incurre damnation Touching the meanes of our Iustification the Catholikes belieue that not only faith but works also do iustify The Protestants reiect all workes from Iustificatiō teaching that only fayth doth iustifie man yea they further proceede affirming that who once hath true faithe is most assured and (a) Caluin in Instit passim Kemnitius in exam Concilij Trident. certaine of his saluation whereas the Catholikes reputing this as meere presumption are willing according to the (b) Phil. 2. Apostle to worke their saluation with feare and trembling To be short the Protestants (*) so Luther in art 10. 11. 12. Caluin in Antidot Concil Trident. sess 6. Melancthon in locis tit de fide do teach that a man by thinking himself to be Iust is by this meanes become Iust wheras the Catholikes doe hould this doctrine not only to be phantasticall but also in (c) Vide Bellarm. l. 3. de Iustificat reason most absurd Touching grace without which man cannot be saued The Catholiks belieue that God out of the abysse and depth of his infinite mercie offereth to euery Christian sufficient grace wherby he may be saued and therfore they doe encourage euery one to endeauour to seeke their saluation The (d) This is taught by Caluin and Beza in whole Treatises and by D. Willet in his Synopsis of anno 1600. p. 589. Protestants teach that God giueth not this sufficiencie of grace to euery one but to certaine men only and that diuers there are who notwithstanding all their endeauour to belieue truly and liue vertuously yet cannot nor shall not be saued Touching the Decalogue or ten Commaundments The Catholikes belieue that except a Christian doe keep them he cannot be saued according to that saying of our Sauiour (d) Mat. 19. If thou wilt enter into life keep the Commaundments The (e) D. Reynolds in his 2. Conclus annexed to his Cōference p. 697. D. Willet in his Synopsis p. 564. Protestants do absolutely teach an impossibility of keeping them And thereupon (f) Serm. de Moyse Luther thus affirmeth The ten Commaundements appertaine not to vs. Lastly Touching the Pope or Bishop of Rome The Catholikes doe belieue that he is vnder Christ the supreme Pastour vpon Earth that who doth not communicate with him in Sacraments and doctrine not yealding him all due obedience in subiecting their iudgments in matters of faith to his iudgment and sententionall definitions set downe in a generall Councell cannot be saued The Protestants doe teach the Bishop of Rome is that Antichrist which is decyphered by the (g) 2. Thes 2. Apocal. 13. 17. Apostle and which is the designed enemy of Christ and that whosoeuer imbraceth his doctrine or enthralleth as they write their assents to his Cathedrall decrees in points of Religion cannot obtayne Saluation Thus far of these points in which I haue made particuler choyce to insist omitting some others of like nature because we see that most or all of them doe immediatly principally as is aboue said touch the meanes of purchasing of grace of remission of our Sinnes and of obtayning our Saluation being maintayned for such by the Catholiks but vtterly denyed and reiected by the Protestants And heere I now vrge two things First if these former doctrines as they are belieued by the Catholikes doe immediatly concerne Saluation become necessary meanes thereof as instituted by Christ then cannot the Protestants as reiecting all such Doctrines and such meanes both in beliefe and practise be saued If by a supposall they be not of that nature but false in themselues and the contrary doctrines of Protestants true then cannot the Catholikes as belieuing false doctrines immediatly touching mans Saluation and accordingly practising them be saued from which forked argument it may demonstratiuely be inferred that it is impossible that both Catholikes and Protestants the one part belieuing the other not belieuing the foresaid doctrines should both be saued Secondly I vrge that a false beliefe not only in these articles but also in all other Controuersies betweene the Catholike and Protestant is playne Heresy And this because this false beliefe is comprehended within the definition of Heresie as being in it selfe an Election and choyce of a new or false doctrine wilfully maintayned against the Church of God and therfore it followeth that eyther the Catholikes or Protestants for their persisting in this false beliefe or Heresie maintayning it