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A02617 The Iesuites banner Displaying their original and successe: their vow and othe: their hypocrisie and superstition: their doctrine and positions: with a confutation of a late pamphlet secretly imprinted and entituled: A briefe censure vpon two bookes written in answeare to M. Campions offer of disputation. &c. Compiled by Meredith Hanmer M. of Arte, and student in diuinity. Hanmer, Meredith, 1543-1604. 1581 (1581) STC 12746; ESTC S103736 58,079 96

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of heauen 8. The Iesuites doctrine THE regenerate in this life are able by their workes to attayne vnto the perfection of the Law Censur Colon. Andrad Canis Agayne Whosoeuer shall say that the commaundements of God to the man that is iustified and in the state of grace are vnpossible to be fulfilled let him be accursed Concil Trident. sess 6. canon 18. 8. The Catholikes doctrine THE regenerate in this life cannot by their works attaine vnto the perfection of the Lawe but are found iust before God onely by fayth in Christ Iesus who of God as S. Paule sayth is made vnto vs wisedome and righteousnes and sanctification and redemption Wee know that whatsoeuer the Law sayth it saith vnto them that are vnder the Law that euery mouth be stopped and all the worlde be culpable before God Therefore by the workes of the Lawe shall no flesh bee iustified in his sight As many as are of the woorkes of the Lawe are vnder the curse For it is written cursed is euery one that continueth not in all thinges which are written in the booke of the Law to doe them and that no man is iustified by the woorkes of the Law before God It is euident for the iust shall liue by fayth Whosoeuer yee bee that are iustified by the Lawe yee are fallen from grace For if Abraham were iustified by woorkes hee hath wherein to reioyce but not with God For what sayeth the scripture Abraham beleeued GOD and it was counted to him for righteousnes Nowe is it not written for him onely that it was imputed to him for righteousnes but also for vs. The Israelites beeing ignoraunt of the righteousnesse of GOD and going about to establishe their owne submitted not them selues to the righteousnesse of GOD for Christe is the ende of the Lawe for righteousnesse vnto euery one that beeleeu●●h Againe the wisedome of the fleshe is not subiecte to the Lawe of GOD neither in deede can bee Our sauiour sayde vnto the Iewes did not Moses giue you a Lawe and yet none of you keepeth the Lawe The like hath Saint Paule to the Galathians They them selues which are circumcised keepe not the Lawe Peter sharply rebuked the Pharises which thrust in among the christians the obseruation of the Law and the confidence reposed in the righteousnes which they thought came thereby saying Why tempt ye God to lay a yoke on the Disciples neckes which neither our fathers nor wee were able to beare For wee beleeue through the grace of the Lord Iesus Christ to be saued a● they doe The like hath Saint Paule in a large discourse among other thinges saying of Iesus Bee it knowen vnto you men and brethren that through this man is preached vnto you the forgiuenes of sinnes and from all thinges from which y● could not be iustified by the Law of Moses by him euery one that beleeueth is iustified It is of his fulnes as Iohn sayeth and not of our owne that all wee haue receiued He is the fulfilling of the Law for righteousnes vnto euery one that beleeueth 9. The Iesuites doctrine NOT onely in morall affayres and ciuill actions hath the will of man much sorce but also in matters appertayning vnto saluation so that man can doe nothing vnlesse his will be yelding prompt and readie to receiue the grace of God Censur Colon. Canisius Catechis Andrad Orthodox explic lib. 4. Agayne Whosoeuer shal say that the free will of man after the fall of Adam is lost and extinguished or that it is a thing hauing a bare title or rather a name without the thing and last of al brought into the church as a figment of Satan let him b●e accursed Concil Trident. sess 6. canon 5. 9. The Catholikes doctrine NOT onely in morall affayres and ciuill actions tending to good hath the wil of man little force but also much lesse in matters appertaining vnto saluation so that man can doe nothing that good is vnlesse his will be tempered by the spirit of God to yeeld made prompt and readie to receiue the grace of God No man sayth Christ can come vnto mee vnlesse the Father whiche sent me doe drawe him Agayne sayeth hee vnto the Iewes Therefore sayde I vnto you that none can come vnto mee vnlesse it bee giuen him of my Father Saint Paule saieth No man speaking by the spirite of GOD calleth Iesus ex●●rable Also no man can saye that Iesus is the Lorde but by the holye Ghoste Iohn the Baptist tolde the Pharises that wee●dred at the d●oinges of Christ A man can receiue nothing except it be giuen him from aboue Then let no man bragge neither of will neyther of woorke For what hast thou sayth Sainte Paule whiche thou haste not ●●c●i●●d if thou hast receiued it why doest tho● glory as if thou haddest not receiued it This haue I found s●●●● Solomon that GOD hath made man righteous but they haue sought many inue●tions He that made man from the beginning left him in the power of his counsell and gaue him his commaundementes and preceptes he lay● before him water and fire life and death man chose the woorst yeelded vnto the woman whome the serpent had woon lost his integritie was expelled paradise and inioyned in miserie to till the earth and in the sweat of his browes to eate his bread His power to reach his hande to the tree of life was cut of his libertie of walking in paradise was by his fall stopped his giftes corrupted and himselfe together with his posteritie became the slaues of Satan being brideled with the ●ur●e of sin So that nowe we confesse with Ieren●ie O Lord I know that the way of man is not in himselfe neither is it in man to walk and to direct his steppes Euery good gift and euery perfect gift is from aboue Not I saith S. Paule but the grace of God which is within me Againe Thus I liue yet not I but Christ liueth in mee Not the good which I would doe I but the euil which I hate that doe I. It is not in him that willeth nor in him that runneth but in God that sheweth mercie Neither is he that plant●th anything neither he that watereth but God that giueth the increase O generation of Vipers saith Christ vnto the Pharises How can you speake good thinges when ye are euil Can the Black●●Moone change his skinne or the Leopard his spottes then may ye also doe good that are accustomed to doe euill saith the Lord. The steppes of man sayth Solomon are ruled by the Lorde howe can a man then vnderstand his owne way Againe The kings heart is in the hand of the Lorde as the riuers of waters he turneth it whither so euer it pleaseth him Therefore is it that the Church calleth most humbly vpon the Lord saying Turne thou vs vnto thee O Lorde and we shalbe turned heale me O Lorde and I shalbe whole saue me and
not your nature be estraunged neyther goe yée about to thrust into this land for reine power such people as curse not only y ● ground wée tread vpon but also our bodyes and soules and are ready to cut all English throates if they might haue accesse vnto vs. Yée say ye haue vowed yet heare what your law saieth In malis promissis rescinde fidem in turpivoto muta decretum quod incuatè vouisti ne facias impia est promissio que scelere adimpletur In euill promises breake thy fayth in a shamefull vowe alter thy minde which thou hast vnaduisedly vowed doe not that vowe is wicked which is performed with mischiefe The rules of your order are not as yet come to my hands but the oth which all you take that professe the Romish religion I may not conceale from the reader and reading it I cannot chuse but lament to sée your flauerie and bondage and the liuely caracter of Antichrist therby imprinted not onely in the hand of the labourers but in the forehead of professours and consciences of all those y ● buy and sell traffike in his countries dominions In english thus I. N. do firmly admit embrace the Apostolike and Ecclesiasticall traditions and the rest of the obseruations and constitutions of the same church Also I doe admit the holy scripture according vnto that sense which the holy mother the Church hath and doth hold it to whome it appertaineth to iudge of the true sense and interpretation of the holy scriptures neyther will I euer receaue or interpret it but according vnto the vniforme consent of the fathers I doe also professe that there are truely and properly seauen sacraments of the new law ordayned by Iesus Christ our Lord and for the saluation of mankinde though not all to euery one necessary To wit baptisme confirmation the Lords supper penance extreame vnction order and matrimonie and that they conferre grace and of them baptism confirmation order without sacriledge may not be reiterated I doe also receiue and admit the receiued and allowed rites of the catholike church in the solempne administration of al the aforesaid sacraments I doe embrace and receiue al euery the things which of original sinne and iustification haue beene defined and decreed in the holy synode of Trent I professe in like sorte that in the masse there is offered vnto god the true proper propicia tory sacrifice for quick dead And that in the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist there is truely really and substantially the body and blood together with the soule and diuinitie of our Lord Iesus christ and that there is a conuersion of the whole substance of bread into the bodie and the whole substance of wine into blood the which conuersion the catholike church calleth transubstantiation I confesse with all that vnder one onely kind whole and perfect Christ and the true sacrament is receiued I doe constantly hold purgatory and that the soules there detayned are relieued by the prayers of the faythful and in like sorte that the Saintes raigning to-together with christ are to bee honoured and callled vppon and that they pray vnto God for vs and that theyr relyques are to bee worshipped I doe firmely auouche that the Images of Christ and the mother of God alwayes a virgin and also of other Saintes are to bee had and retayned and that we are to giue them due honour and worshippe I doe affyrme that the facultie of pardons hath beene left by Christ in the church and that the vse of them is very wholsome to christian people I doe acknowledge the holy catholike Apostolike church of Rome for the mother and mistresse of all churches I doe promise and sweare true obedience to the Byshop of Rome successour of blessed Peter prince of the Apostles Vicar of Iesus Christ I do also vndoubtedly receiue and pro●esse al that haue beene delyuered defined and declared by the holy cannons generall councelles and specially by the holy Synode of Trent and withal al things contrary and haeresies whatsoeuer haue by the church beene condemned reiected and accursed I also doe condemne reiect and accurse This true catholike fayth without the which none can be saued the which I doe presently willingly professe and truely holde the same wholy and imaculate vnto the last gaspe most constantly to retaine teach and preach as much as in me shall lye I the same N. do promise vowe swere so God me helpe the holy Gospels of God New commeth Pope Impius 4. with his farewell Let it not be lawfull therefore for any man at all to infringe this page or leafe of our ordinaunce inbibition derogation will statute decree and commaundement or with rash enterprise to contrary the same if any therfore presume to attempte the same let him knowe that he incurreth the indignation of almightie GOD and of blessed Peter and Paule the Apostles Dat. Rom. apud 5. Petrum Anno 1569. Id. No●em Pontific nostri ann● 5 Good God what periurie Idolatrie heresie blasphemy there is contained in the aforesaide oth And the spirit of Antichrist is plainly reuealed in the cursed conclusion folowing after In trueth such traditions as are contrary and besides the word of God though they be called Apostolike are not to be receiued that sense and exposition of the scriptures which the Church of Rome deliuereth is not the right and perfect vnderstanding the Church and especially as you deliuer it the Church of Rome is not iudge of the scriptures there are but two Sacraments Baptisme and the Lordes supper the rest by you added art of an other kinde and nature in which sense wée may say as Ierome saide of the Reuelation Looke howe many wordes we finde there so many Sacramentes there are The Sacraments confer not grace as you imagine Ex opere operato the rites in the administration of the Sacraments retained in the Church of Rome are childish superstitious and impious that doctrine of originall sin and iustification lately decréed in the councell of Trent is plasphemous and abhominable The Masse is an Idoll and the sacrifice there pretended for quicke and dead is a deceiuing of the people the Eucharist is not reall substantiall with the soule and diuinitie of Jesus Christ neither transubstantiated the Sacrament is not perfect when it is deliuered vnder one kinde Purgatorie is a fable neyther are the soules of the departed relieued by the prayers of the lyuing the Saintes are not to be inuocated their reliques are not to be worshipped neither Images to be adored Popes pardons are to no purpose but a deluding of Gods people and the filling of the poke Rome is neither catholike apostolike nor the Lady and mistresse of al other Churches the Pope is not the true successour of Peter neither the Uicar of Jesus Christ to receiue what Rome receiueth and condemne what shee condemneth is ●o deliuere Barrabas and crucifie Christ to embrace