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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

is not given to all the faithfull but to some only in particular yea he presupposeth that one may have the gift even to work miracles and yet may want the gift truly to interpret the Word of God Therefore a man by his own private spirit cannot rightly interpret Scripture 2 Peter 1.20 Knowing this first that no Prophesie of the Scripture is of any private interpretation for the Prophesie came not in old time in the Margent or at any time by the will of man ●ut holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy Ghost See how clear●y the Apostle taketh this faculty and ●uthority from a private and prophane man restraining the same to a company ●nd society of men and those also of ●ome special note for their sanctity ●nd holinesse assuring us that they ●pake as they were moved by the ho●● Ghost 1 John 4.1 Beloved beleeve not very spirit but try the spirits whether they are God By which words we a●● taught that the spirits of others are t● be examined whether they proce●● from God or not but this Caveat ca●not be understood of the spirit of th●● whole Church since then it would fo●low that there should be none left t● try the said spirit of the Church eve●● particular man being included therei● If then it be to be meant of priva●● men as needs it must it follows th●● a private spirit cannot be this Judg●● since it self is to undergo the Judgement and examination of some other● ¶ The Fathers that affirm the sa●● are S. Aug. epist 16.2 and l. de B●●ptismo cap. 18. ad Epictetum S. Ba●● epist 78. S. Amb epist 32. S. L●● epist 53. S. Hier. lib. cont Lucifer● nos Vincent Lyr. cont prophan her● novitates Yea Martin Luther hi●self the Protestants great Grand-F●ther saith lib. de potestate Papae 〈◊〉 are not certain of any private pers●● whether he hath the revelation of the ●●ther or no but that the Church hath 〈◊〉 we ought not to doubt They affirm VI. That S Peters faith hath failed COntrary to the express words of their own Bible Luke 22.31.32 ●imon behold Sathan hath desired to ●ave you that he may sift you as wheat ●ut I have prayed for thee that thy ●aith fail not Sathan required to sift ●hem all the Apostles but our Lord ●ere prayed for Peter onely that his ●aith principally might not fail There●ore S. Peters faith hath not failed Matth. 16.18 And I say unto thee ●●at thou art Peter and upon this rock 〈◊〉 will build my Church and the gates 〈◊〉 hell shall not prevail against it But ●●d S. Peters faith failed the gates of ●●ll had long ago no doubt prevailed Matth. 23.2 The Scr●bes and the ●harises sit in M●ses seat all therefore ●hatsoever they bid you observe that ●●serve and do How could Christ bid ●●e people of the old Law ●o all what●●ever he shold bid them by those that sate in Moses chair if they could err● But God hath no lesse preserved th● truth of Christian Religion in the cha● of S. Peter which is in the new La● answerable to that of Moses in the o● Therefore neither S. Peters Faith n● Chair hath failed John 11 49 51. Speaking of Caip● the High-priest saith And this he spa●●● not of himself but being High priest th● year he prophesied that Jesus should for that Nation See how in this m● wicked time of the Sinagogue the ve●● Dregs and out-cast of that disobedie● people yet speaking forth of that Cha●● which Christ had commanded to heard and obeyed touching matters faith answer truly and their chief shops prophesie ¶ So Leo ser 3. de assump sua affir● the same The danger was common all the Apostles but our Lord took spe●● care of Peter that the state of all the might be more sure if the Head were vincible They affirm VII That the Church can err and hath erred COntrary to the express words of their own Bible Isai 59.21 As ●or me this is my Covenant with them saith the Lord. My spirit that is upon thee and my words which I have but in thy mouth shall not depant out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy ●eed nor out of the mouth of thy seeds seed from henceforth and for ever Therefore the Church cannot err John 14.16 I will pray the Father and he shall give you another Comforter that he may abide with you for ever even the spirit of truth But the Apostles themselves lived not for ever therefore this is to be understood of the perpetual aboad of the spirit of truth with their Successors Matth. 18.17 And if he neglect to hear the Church let him be unto thee ●as an heathen man and a Publican Whence is clearly to be gathered tha● the Church in her Censure cannot er● Isai 35.8 And a high way shall 〈◊〉 there and a way and it shall be call the way of Holiness the unclean sha●● not press over it but it shall be for those the waifaring men though fools sha●● not err therein How far deceive then are many simple souls who do a●firm that the whole Church and a● holy men that ever have been there●● for these thousand years how wi●● soever have all erred Ephes 5.27 That he might prese●● it to himself a glorious Church n● having spot or wrincle or any su●● thing but that it should be holy a● without blemish Note well these word without spot wrincle or any blemis● and tell me now if it be possible tha● reading this thou canst ever believ● that she hath ever taught such horrib●● blasphemies and abominations as a● this day she is charged with See more John 16.13 Ephes 5 2● Isai 9.7 Ezech. 37.26 Luke 22 3● Mat. 22.3 1. Pet. 2.9 John 17 1● Cor. 11.25 Ps●l 10.25.29 Ephes 2.10 John 10.16 Acts 4.32 Eph●s 4.5.11 Luke 10.16 Deut. 17.8 Jerem. 3.15 Malac. 27. M●t. 16.18 Acts 15.28 2. Cor. 13.8 1. Tim. 3.15 ¶ The Fathers a firm the same expresly S. Aug. cont Cres●on lib. 1. cap. 3. Also upon the 118. Isal t●e place begins Ne auferas de ere meo verbum veritatis usquequaque S. Cypr. Epist 55. ad Cornel. num 3. S. Irenaeus lib. 3. cap. 4. with many others They affirm VIII That the Church hath been hidden and invisible COntrary to the expresse words of their own Bible Mat. 5.14.15 Ye are the light of the world a City that is set on a hill cannot be hid Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel but on a candlestick and it giveth light to all that are in the house But the Catholick Church is such a light such a candle and such a City built upon Christ as upon 〈◊〉 mountain therefore had not nor ca● be hidden nor is invisible Mat. 18.17 Tell the Church if 〈◊〉 neglected to hear thee but if he neglect to hear the Church let him be unto th● as a heathen man and a Publican Bu● it were a very hard case

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