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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14688	A treatise of Antichrist Conteyning the defence of Cardinall Bellarmines arguments, which inuincibly demonstrate, that the pope is not Antichrist. Against M. George Downam D. of Diuinity, who impugneth the same. By Michael Christopherson priest. The first part.	Walpole, Michael, 1570-1624?	1613 (1613)	STC 24993; ESTC S114888	338,806	434

Fathers togeather euen those who were many ages before S. Gregory Heare in the name of the rest only S. Augustine epist 23. ad Bonifacium speaking thus VVas not Christ offered once in himselfe and yet in the Sacrament not only all the solemnityes of Easter but euery day he i● sacrificed and offered for the people §. V. Chytraeus THE Ghospell teacheth that not only outward actions repugnant to the law of God are sinne but also doubts of God carnall security and contumacy and concupiscence which is borne in vs and remayneth in those which are borne againe Rom. 7. The Papists deny that these euills remayning in those which are borne againe are sinnes repugnant to the law of God Bellarmine The Papists that is Catholikes teach in no place that only outward actions are sinnes but it is lawfull for you to lye for you learned that of your Father who stood not in truth Now we doubt not that doubtes of God carnall security contumacy and concupiscence are sinnes if they be voluntary but if they be inuoluntary as those desires of the flesh against the spirit were which S. Paul felt though he did not consent vnto them we constantly deny that they are sinnes Neyther do we striue with you about S. Paules words as though they seemed true to you and false to vs but about the interpretation of those wordes Neither must you take it ill if we preferre S. Augustine and all the Quyre of Saints before you new Vpstarts For thus speaketh S. Augustine lib. 1. cont duas epistolas Pelagianorum cap. 13. But concerning this concupiscence of the flesh I thinke they are deceaued or deceaue with which it is necessary that euen the baptized and this if he profiteth most diligently and be moued with the spirit of God doth striue with a pious mind But this although it be called sinne it is so called not because it is sinne but because it was made by sinne as a writing is called a mans hand because his hand made it §. VI. Chytraeus THE Ghospell teacheth that man in his weaknesse of nature cannot satisfy the law of God and that he is not iust and free from all sinne by this perfect fulfilling of the law Rom. 8. The sense of the flesh is enmity against God for it obeyeth not the law of God neyther indeed can it The Papists striue that man may satisfy the law of God and that he is iust and deserueth euerlasting life with this fulfilling of the law Bellarmine The Papists that is the children of the Catholike Church say not that man in this weaknesse of nature is free from all sinne for we acknowledge and professe that it is most true which S. Iohn saith in the beginning of his first epistle If we shall say that we haue no sinne we seduce our selues But because these daily sinnes neither take away iustice nor are so much against as besides the law since that for the remission of such offences euery Saint prayeth in opportune tyme Psal 31. and all the children of God doubtlesse iust and holy are taught daily to say Forgiue vs our debts Matth. 6. Therfore we are not afraid to say that man being iustifyed by the grace of God may by the help of the same grace both fulfill the law of God and by that fulfilling merit euerlasting life for we know who said And his Commaundements are not heauy Io. 1. 5. and who likewise said Call the workmen and render them their reward Matth. 20. And againe Come you blessed of my Father possesse the Kingdome prepared for you c. for I was hungry and you gaue me to eate Wherefore S. Augustine lib. de gratia lib. arb cap. 16. It is certaine saith he that we keep the commaundements if we will but because our will is prepared by our Lord we must aske of him that we may will so much as is sufficient that willing we may do And de spirit lit cap. 10. Grace is therefore giuen not because we haue fulfilled the law but that we may fulfill the law Neither doth that word of the Apostle moue vs The sense of the flesh is enmity against God for the same Apostle had said before Rom. 7. Therefore I my selfe with my mind serue the law of God but with my flesh the law of sinne But that which we do with our mynd we truly do and that which we do with our flesh if the mind repugneth is not our deed as the same Apostle saith If I do that saith he which I will not now I worke it not §. VII Chytraeus THE Ghospell teacheth that those only are good workes which are commaunded by God c. according to the rule which I commaund thee do only these thinges for thy Lord neither adde nor diminish The Papists contrarywise haue ouerwhelmed the whole Church with traditions c. Bellarmine These thinges haue bene already a thousand tymes repeated by you and refuted by vs. And it is false which thou saiest that it is in the Ghospell that those are only good workes which God hath commaunded for where I pray thee hath God commaunded virginity Doth not S. Paul say But of Virgins I haue not our Lordes precept 1. Cor. 7 And yet he saith in the same place that it is a good worke to remayne a Virgin Therefore saith he he that ioyneth his virgin in Matrimony doth well and he that ioyneth her not doth better Neither doth that rule much help thee Do only those things for the Lord which I commaund thee For God forbiddeth not any other thing in that place but that we corrupt not his preceptes but that we keep them entirely as he hath commaunded not declining to the right hand nor to the left Wherefore S. Aug. lib. de sanct virginit cap. 30. distinguishing precepts from counsailes for neither saith he as it is said Thou shalt not commit adultery Thou shalt not kill can it be so Thou shalt not marry those thinges are exacted these are offered If these be done they are praised vnlesse those be done they are condemned In those God commaundeth vs a debt in these if thou shalt supererogate or bestow any more Note he will restore it you at his returne §. VIII Chytraeus THE Ghospell teacheth that both partes of the Sacrament of the Lordes supper are to be ministred to all Christians and truly of the cuppe he expresly saith Drinke all of this The Papists contrariewise determine and define c. Bellarmine Hitherto we haue not seene that place of the Ghospell where we are taught that both partes of the Sacrament of our Lords supper are to be ministred to all Christians For our Lord saith not of the chalyce Drinke all you Christians of this but drinke you all of this and who those all were S. Marke explicated when he added And they dranke all of it but all Christians dranke not but all the Apostles who only then did eate with our Lord. §. IX Chytraeus THE Ghospell teacheth that true