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A02607	An inquisition of the true church, and those that revolt from it being a sermon pronounced at the second session of the Parliament / by Christopher Lo. Archbishop of Armagh, and Primate of all Ireland.	Hampton, Christopher, 1552-1625.	1622 (1622)	STC 12737.5; ESTC S4341	16,169	42

hath ordeyned that their fruit shall remaine who dare say that it shall not remaine The gifts and graces of God are without repentance Of Davids faith of Peters and others that fell into enormious sins I say with Tertullian Caepit arescere sed non exaruit mota fuit sed non amota concussa sed non excussa nut extincta Their faith began to wither but it withered not it was moved but not removed it was shaken but not extinguished The grace of faith and the holy Ghost may be and are often lost even of them that are regenerate in part concerning some certain gifts more or lesse but cannot be lost wholly because the Lord reserveth a seede in them For example David lost the rightnesse of heart and integrity of spirit when he fell into his foule sinnes of adultery and murther yet was he not bereaved of these wholly for then hee could not have prayed for restitution unto them How shall they call upon him in whom they have not beleeved Marke then in David that seed which S. Iohn saith is left Oh the unsearchable riches of our God his goodnesse and mercie that reserveth a seed of regeneration in our most heavie sad downefalls For except the Lord of Hosts had left this seed we should all have beene as Sodome and as Gomorra Theophilact writeth to the like purpose of Peter upon Luc. 22. Although Peter thou shalt find a concussion for a while yet hast thou the seeds of faith left within thee although the breath of the Tempter shake downe some leaves of thy faith yet the root holdeth life and thy faith shall not fayle Will you see a lively representation or spectacle hereof Looke upon the same man the same Peter Mat. 14. when he was walking unto Christ upon the Sea and trampling downe the proud waves thereof with his feet he began to be drowned in that haughtie enterprise but Christ reaching out a hand unto him held him up Blessed bee that sweete that comfortable that helpfull and healthfull hand of Iesus Christ which is reached out to us all in our severall necessities And so to conclude this point with sensible divinitie which most of us that observe it hath experience of though our faith be often shaken as Peters was with our owne infirmities yet it standeth fast by the mercies of God in Christ Hee seeth no iniquitie in Iacob nor transgression in Israel or if he looke upon it hee beholdeth all the Items Obligations thereof cancelled and fastened to the Crosse of his Sonne So as indeed there is no condemnation left to them that are in Iesus Christ VVe are afflicted on every side yet are we not in distresse wee are in doubt but wee despaire not we are persecuted but not forsaken cast downe but we perish not Nihil Christiano foelicius eui promittitur regnum coelorum nihil laboriosius qui quotidiè de vita periclitatur nihil fortius qui vincit diabolum nihil imbecillius qui à carne superatur Nothing more happie then a Christian because hee hath promise of the kingdom of heaven nothing more painfull because hee runneth in hazard of his life every day nothing more valiant because he overcometh the divell nothing more feeble because he is vanquished by his own flesh This summe is that wee have a great treasure given unto us of God in faith and beleeving his promises but we carry this treasure in earthen vessels subject to many knocks Let us therefore worke out our salvation with feare and trembling first by distrusting our owne abilities and attributing all to God through Iesus Christ Secondly in beleeving his promises therein So wee shall bee humble in our selves with feare and trembling yet confident in God which worketh all in us both to will to performe When we are weake he is strong and out of our weakenesse bringeth forth his owne power He predestinateth us to be of his family by his eternall counsell inrolleth us by our Baptisme calleth us by his holy word nourisheth us with the body and bloud of his Sonne Iesus Christ sealeth and confirmeth us to constancie by the effectuall operation of his blessed Spirit And so those which revolt from us in these bands what outward shew soever they make of Catholiques yet are they not of the true Church but so persisting they have no portion no right no memoriall in Ierusalem Howbeit let us pray the Father 〈◊〉 Lord Iesus Christ to take away the va 〈…〉 ●s laid 〈◊〉 their hearts to the intent 〈…〉 red together into one fold to 〈◊〉 ●hip to ●●●fesse to call upon Father Sonne holy Ghost three persons and one God praysed and magnified in the Church throughout all generations AMEN FINIS Epist 7. 1. Cor. 14. De votis Monastic De simplic praelator Psal 84. Heb. 11. Luc. 19. Aug. Epist 166. Cypr. de laps Ser. 5. Hierony in cap 5 ad Galatas 2. Cor. 2. Hierony in cap. 1. ad Galatas Sess 4. Cypr de laps Hom. 17. Chrysost in Mat. hom 46. De unitat eccles Ioh. 15. Rom. 11. 2. Cor. 4.8 Hieronym epist ad Rusticum

his eternall Spirit nor without his death whereas hee died but once for ever And where these things be done the essentiall parts of the Sacrament are not kept therefore no Supper no Sacrament but an horrible prophanation and plaine sacriledge Adulterum est impium est sacrilegum est quodcunque humano furore instituitur ut dispositio divina violetur Whatsoever is instituted by humane temeritie to violate God his ordinance is adulterous it is impious it is sacrilegious As for those mens discipline whereby people should bee brought to the obedience of Christ his commandements the world seeth their wilfull negligence In which case I must needs approve of that which S. Chrysostome writeth to the people of Antioch Mihi Civitas non habens bonos cives omni villa vilior est The Citie that is not inhabited with good men is more unpleasing to mee then the basest village Seeing therefore the Church of Rome reteyneth not the sincere puritie of the word seeing it hath abolished one of the Sacraments corrupted the other prophanely seeing it hath little or no care at all of godly discipline men may peradventure make doubt or question whether it be the Church of God or no I dare not wholly take away the name of a Church from it I know that Antichrist shall sit in the Temple of God that Baptisme cannot bee administred out of the Church And when the intire forme of Baptisme is observed S. Augustine is resolved Non haereticus sed haeretici manu Christus baptisat There it is not the hereticke that baptiseth but Christ doth it by the hand of an hereticke Therefore the Councel of Nice determined very gravely that there should bee no rebaptization of such as were baptized by heretickes Yet I doe not allow the Romish Synagogue to bee a Church simply but by equivocation and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the woman carrieth the name of your wife which you did once marry and afterward found her defiled with adultery yet because she keepeth the marriage Ring and some other pledges of her former wedlock she still beareth the name of your wife So it is with the Church of Rome albeit for her adulteries she hath deserved a divorce justly yet because the Bridegroome hath not given her his bill of divorce but suffered her hitherto to hold Baptisme as it were the marriage Ring I account it a Church but miserably deformed and infected with infinite errors I cannot reckon it lesse then a part of discourtesie of more advantage then Gods truth needeth so to contend with the adversaries thereof as not to admit of those graces amongst them which God is pleased to vouchsafe unto them Let us give every one his right let our adversaries in the name of God hold their due let us willingly yeelde them all that doth appertaine unto them and let us taxe their corruptions neverthelesse with all freedome This is heroicall this is Propheticall this is Apostolicall and much more then they will yeeld unto us For without hearing of us or our cause they which are parties against us take upon them to be our judges too and to condemne us for heretickes for schismatickes and to have no Church at all Like to Athalia that seeing the right heyre Ioas crowned King of Iudah cryed Treason treason when shee was greatest traytor her selfe Indeed if wee unchurch Congregations for schisme or for simple heresie there will be no good warrant unlesse the heresie impugne one of the three persons of the holy Trinitie directly then the heresie is not single but ariseth to infidelitie which is the bane cut-throat of all Churches But our adversaries doe charge us also with Apostasie and that is a marke of Antichrist mentioned in our Text They went out from us but they were not of us Hereupon our Rhemish Seminaries note that Luther and Calvin went out of their Church that is of Papists became Protestants but they came not out of ours that is the Catholique Church which is forsaken To admit that which will not easily bee proved that England first received the Christian faith from Rome both in the time of Eleutherius their Bishop and also in the time of Augustine their Monke yet wil it not thereon follow that we must still fetch our Religion from Rome as from the chiefe fountaine and well-spring of all godlinesse For if any man fall away from that Church which is not Christ his spouse hee cannot be charged justly with Apostasie Nullus pudor est ad meliora transire It is no shame to change for the better Or if a man doe leave and depart from a particular Church in bodie and yet forsake not the communion and fellowship of the Apostles doctrine nor the Sacramēts rightly administred but holdeth them with all other sincere Churches that man is no Apostata Non ille de Ecclesia exire videtur qui corporaliter exit sed qui spiritualiter veritatis Ecclesiasticae fundamenta reliquit Hee goeth not out of the Church that departeth corporally but hee that spiritually hath forsaken the foundations of Ecclesiastical truth The right apostasie is a falling away from the true Catholique Apostolique Church of Christ and therefore from Christ and that by revolting from the Apostles doctrine the communion of the Catholique faith They went out from us If Luther Calvin and our selves went out of the Church of Rome wee incurre no crime of apostasie therein because we left that Church which was neither Catholique nor Apostolique We left not Bethel that is the house of God untill it became Bethaven that is the house of iniquitie An Apostolique Church it is not because it resteth not upon the doctrine of the Apostles but is fallen from it as wee have formerly shewed In which case we have S. Augustines grave advise Ne Catholicis quidem Episcopis consentiendum est sicubi sorte fallantur contra canonicas Scripturas aliqui sentiant No consent is to bee given to those Bishops which are Catholique when they are deceived or hold any thing contrary to the canonicall Scriptures Wee then in going out of that Church where the word of God is not purely taught the Sacraments are not administred duely according to our Saviour Christ his holy institution and God is not worshipped after the Apostles doctrine make no default or departure from the Church but as Moses went out of Egypt Lot out of Sodom Elias from Baals Priests and that is no apostasie but a renunciation of their apostasie that wee might marshall our selves under the Standard of our head and Captaine Christ Iesus and so enter into true Hierusalem which is mother of us all If the Church of Rome give impediment to us in this passage it is a step-dame no true mother no Apostolike Church Neyther is it the Catholike but a particular Church as the Churches were of Alexandria Milan Ephesus c. The Church is called Catholike first in respect of place