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A13641	Texeda retextus: or The Spanish monke his bill of diuorce against the Church of Rome together with other remarkable occurrances.; Hispanus conversus. English	Tejeda, Fernando de, fl. 1623.	1623 (1623)	STC 23923; ESTC S118367	21,226	44

it he hath perfected for euer those that are sanctified and hee euidently and plainely teacheth elsewhere that we are perfect and compleat in him but that which in euery respect is perfect needes not ought to make it more absolute Neither will I passe ouer in silence that I haue oftentimes-ruminated with my self viz. that this their doctrine of humane satisfaction vtterly ouerthrowes their Indulgences and Masses together with their Churches treasurie as they so call it for the bolsterers and maintainers of this opinion teach that of necessitie satisfaction must be made to the diuine iustice of Almightie God euen to the vtmost farthing and hereupon they would faine ground their Purgatorie where insufferable flames of fire are prouided and attend for all that depart this life according to their doctrine from whence there is no redemption vntill Gods wrath be fully appeased by their condigne punishments On this foundation I erect this edifice If of necessitie satisfaction must be made to the iustice of Almighty God in deserued punishments euen to the vttermost farthing then it is impossible to shunne or auoide these but of necessitie they must be vndergone euen to the vttermost farthing If this inference be true that we must needs satisfie the iustice of God in condigne punishments to the vttermost farthing how then can Masses Indulgences and the merits of Saints haue any vertue in them to extinguish the flames of Purgatorie But the very truth is howsoeuer the Papists denie in words that there is a necessitie imposed on vs to suffer condigne punishments as well in this life as the next for our demerits yet they make it good in their practises For according to the Cannons of the Church of Rome all those penances imposed by a confessor on petenciaries may be exchanged and conuerted into pecuniarie mulcts yea as Tolet in his summes auerres these penances may be deferred and put ouer heare to be vndergone in Purgatorie yea they may purchase their deliuerance from thence also for money For although a man deserue to remaine in that same fiery furnace vntill the day of the Lord that last generall Audit yet at one only Masse said at any allowed and priuiledged Altar which may be purchased for two or at the most three groates hath power and vertue enough to set the prisoner at libertie and to transport and carry him into heauen yea in that instant when he is rendring vp his body as due debt to nature hauing a pasport which they call bulla cruciata which is sold in Spaine for two groates any petty Priest hath power not onely to absolue him from the guilt but a so to free him from the punishment he hath deserued What are become then of Popish satisfactions when the most hainous offender may be discharged and acquitted for two groates Where wee may note by the way how that euer in the Church of Rome retribution is not made to any to his workes as he hath done in this life as the tenour of the Scripture runnes but according to his estate in the goods of this life For put the case that it should so fall out that two men of equall merit and desert to speak in their owne language so that if they were waighed in the ballance of the Sanctuary they would euenly poise should in one instant of time surrender vp their interest and title in this life and both of them should be adiudged to remaine in the fire of Purgatory vntill doomes-day if so in the behalfe of one of them one onely Masse be celebrated at a priuiledged and allowed Altar his partner that cannot be so befriended as to haue one saide for him hee poore soule must lie still by it there to receiue the recompence of his sinnes without the least hope of remission vntill the generall Iayle-deliuery whereas the former is forthwith loosed from his Fetters and carryed by Angels into Abrahams bosome alwayes prouided the Priest haue his money for the Masse for otherwise it hath not any vertue at all A third motiue perswading me to abandon Popery was their Doctrine of Transubstantiation affirming that the Bread and Wine in the Sacrament is really conuerted and transubstantiated into the very Body and Bloud of Christ First because it is not grounded on the Word of God as in a manner Thomas Auio sometimes a Cardinall in the Church of Rome the Popes Legate and President at one of their Councels ingeniously acknowledgeth in these words Caictan super 3. partem S. Thomae in quaest 75. art 50. Alterum autem quod Euangelium non explicauit ab ecclesia expresse accepimus scilicet conuersionem panis in corpus Christi but the other point is not plainely set downe in the Gospell but wee haue receiued it by tradition expresly from the Church to wit the conuersion of the bread in the Sacrament into the very body of Christ Iohannes Douns-Scotus fauours this opinion Super l. 4. sentent quaest 11. Fides saith he de hoc Sacramento est propter solam ecclesiae determinationem The ground of our beliefe concerning this Sacrament is onely the sentence and determination of the Church Occanus and Durandus de Sancto Porciano who was sometimes the Popes Penitentiarius Priest the Bishop of Melda and Prior generall of the order of Preachers all concurre herein in their iudgements as also some of the learnedst Doctors of the Romish Church adhere vnto them Secondly also it implies a contradiction that the body of Christ should be at one and the same instant of time both in heauen and in the consecrated hoast which these reasons I shal now produce seeme to me impregnably to proue First The Heauens containe our Lord and Sauiour Christs body is in heauen circumscriptiuely therefore he cannot be in any place without the heauen The Antecedent needes no proofe the inference is thus strengthened because as Thomas Aquinas Bonauentura Capreolus teach to whose opinion Vasquez also subscribes concerning the definition of circumscription Apud Suarem tom 3. part 3. viz. Circumscribi loco est corpus ita esse in hoc loco vt non sit extra illum To be circumscribed in place is for a body to be so in his place that it cannot bee without his place Therefore it is impossible that the Body of Christ should be circumscribed or contained in heauen and be also without the heauen The antecedent is acknowledged of all Thomists and is a principle in philosophy onely the Iesuites exccept against it who had rather oppugne and euen wage warre with truth it selfe then not humour the Pope but sith there is no contending with such as deny principles I haue done with those glosing parasites of Antichrist and come to the Thomists who that they may not fall into the danger of the Inquisition inuent certaine shifts to auoide the consequence affirming that circumscription or circumscriptiue being in place doth imply a denyall of any other circumscription or circumscriptiue being in place