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A56075 Protestancy destitute of Scripture-proofs 1687 (1687) Wing P3817; ESTC R217047 5,943 12

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intelligible not only in Christendom but in every Auditory Intelligible I say where needful to every one by either Actions Ceremonies and Circumstances or by Custom affinity with the Vulgar or Books interpreting and containing Prayers correspondent to every part wherein the Auditory is concerned XV. A Company of Christians voluntarily separating from all other Christian Societies condemning their Doctrines and Rites destitute also of any visible Correspondence with them in the Eucharist in any Religious Assemblies or solemn Devotions can notwithstanding this perverse entire and manifest separation be a Mystical Member of Christ in Catholic Unity and a Charitable part of the Catholic Church This Proposition relates to Matter of Fact of the highest Moment which we affirm Protestants to have done and desire them to make out by Scripture the lawfulness of it and it's consistency with Catholic Unity and Charity If 2 Cor. 6.17 Come out from among them and be ye separate saith the Lord and touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you be intended for a proof of it then it must import that it is the Duty of one Christian or a Party pretending to be a National Church to come out of the Catholic Church and be separate from Her as from an Unclean Thing that God may receive them Less than this will not reach the Protestant Case and so much as this will by no means agree with One Holy Church wherein alone the Communion of Saints Remission of Sins and Life Everlasting are to be found Yet a properer Text this Author does not alledge to Patronize his Schism XVI The whole Clergy of the Catholic Church may Apostatize from fundamental Truth and Holiness whilst part of a National Laity may preserve both discover the Clergie's Defection and depriving them heap to Themselves Teachers of their own Sending and Instruction This Apostacy at the least is taught in the Nineteenth and Twenty First Articles and Homily against the Peril of Idolatry And Lay-supremacy recognized to be in Queen Elizabeth by the Laity only gave Prelatic Ministers all the Mission and Instructions they have Now we desire to see proved by Scripture that such Apostacy should ever befal God's Church and Clergy and that the Laity have such Authority to deprive and create Clergy-men to teach and send them The Answerer is mute as to Proofs and manifests himself either meanly versed in the Story of his Party or no Friend to Ingenuity and Truth For He confidently says all the World knows it to be false That only a Major Vote of a Parliament of Lay-men in England condemned and rejected the Doctrines of the Church of Rome Yet this is certainly true and attested by Protestant Historians and Records which assure us that all the Bishops and the whole Convocation declared against Lay-supremacy and other Protestant Points and for Non-compliance therewith were almost all deprived The Queen and Her Lay-Parliament enacting Supremacy whereby she imposed new Doctrines displaced the Catholic Clergy and created Prelatic Ministers This then is the true State of Prelatic Protestancy and one would think being a change concerning Religion should have some Scripture or because extraordinary should have Miracles to countenance it But just so much of the One as of the Other appears in it's behalf And this is enough to manifest how destitute of Scripture-Warrant Protestant Opinions and Practices are and that the Request is not answered FINIS London Printed by Henry Hills Printer to the King 's Most Excellent Majesty For his Houshold and Chappel 1687.