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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57053	A Request to Protestants to produce plain scriptures directly authorizing these their tenets.		1686 (1686)	Wing R1119; ESTC R26987	3,090	6

A REQUEST TO Protestants To produce Plain Scriptures directly authorizing these their Tenets I. Scripture is clear in all Necessaries to every Sober Enquirer II. The Secular Prince hath all Spiritual Jurisdiction and Authority immediately from and under God III. Justification by Faith alone viz. a Persuasion that we are justified is a wholesom Doctrin IV. The Substance of Bread and Wine remains after what it was before Sacerdotal Consecration V. Our Lord's Presence in or with the Eucharist is meerly gracious and influential and if more only to the Faithful VI. Adoration of the Eucharist i. e. of our Saviour under the Species of Bread and Wine is Idolatry VII All Christians whenever they communicate are oblig'd to receive in both Kinds VIII Chastity deliberately vow'd may be inoffensively violated IX All Christian Excellencies are commanded X. Every Soul as soon as expired is convey'd to Heaven or Hell XI Desiring the Intercessions of the Blessed is more Superstitious and derogatory to our Lord's Mediatorship than entreating the Prayers of Holy Men Militant XII Honouring the Cross the Reliques and Representations of our Lord and his Saints with that degree of Reverence as we do the Gospels commonly kiss'd and sworn by Altar and other Sacred Vtensils is Idolatry XIII The Pope is Antichrist XIV Every Prayer us'd in Divine Offices must be in a Language vulgar and intelligible to every Auditor XV. A Company of Christians voluntarily separating from all other Christian Societies condemning their Doctrins 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 Vnity and a Charitable Part of the Catholic Church 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 Clergies Defection and depriving them heap to Themselves Teachers of their own sending and instruction IN these positive Propositions if Protestants have any affirmative Belief do's their Religion chiefly consist because Baptism and such Articles of the Creed as are still uncorrupted by them are no more theirs than * Tertul. de Praescript c. 36. Constat ratio Propositi nostri definientis non esse admittendos Haereticos ad ineundam de Scripturis provocationem quos sine Scripturis probamus ad Scripturas non pertinere Nullum jus capiant Christianarum Literarum the Scriptures were the Valentinians they are the Churches Peculiar and claim'd by Her against all novel and unjust both Forreiners and Out-laws but what-ever they have invented or chosen that belongs as Sin to a deprav'd Will properly to them thence they derive their Title and thereto must we precisely confine their Religion Now Protestants as all other Deserters of Truth and Unity conscious of their own Deficiencies as to Defensive Weapons are more earnest and sollicitous to invade † Tertul. de Praescript c. 42. Negotium illis non Ethnicos convertendi sed nostros evertendi Ipsum opus eorum non de suo proprio aedificio venit sed de veritatis destructione nostra suffodiunt ut sua ●edificent Catholic Doctrins than to justifie their own Inventions more ready also to assault particular Doctrins than that decisive and most conspicuous Truth Church-Authority obliging all Christians to repose in and assent to her Decisions in all Points of necessary Faith In Disputes their usual Clamor is Alledge Scripture Produce Reason Intimating the Catholic Church must to convince them offer Scriptures and Reasons demonstrating what they contradict not with the Auxiliary of her Authority but against the most impudent prejudice of themselves being Judges Yet could this be perform'd solent oculis clausis denegare qui non credunt factum esse quod nolunt Hieron adv Lucif Like to those who will not believe that to be which they have no mind should be it is not unusual with them to shut their Eyes and deny it She however gentle patient and apter to teach her own than to pry into and other ways perillously confute contagious Doctrins to recover such Strays out of the Snare of the Devil instructs them by rightly dividing the Word of Truth and by yielding those Reasons of the Faith that is in her as It a Revelation and Mysterious can condescend unto What Protestants so insultingly demand we then retort and what the Catholic Church returns we expect Nor can they here take Sanctuary under Negatives for the above-recounted Points are Positive and Affirmers must prove We then require express Scriptures and solid Reasons for these Novelties or a disavowing and Anathema of what they cannot thus defend Neither shall Perversions of the One Calumnies and Falacies in lieu of the Other satisfie us Their Private Spirit adulterating Scripture by corrupt Translations sacrilegious Mutilations blasphemous Misapplications gross Wrestings and false Interpretations Their Wit imposing on the credulous Multitude Indefinits Non-consequences Ambiguities Drollery Digressions evading the Cause and if any Truth utterly impertinent to the Controversie I say these Phantomes and Abuses of Scripture and Reason will not content us tho' thereby the Delusion Protestancy be strenghthned as 't was begotten for can a Falshood be supported without lying and wretched Souls seduc'd to confide in damnable Fables Their Brethren * Tertul. ibid. Agnoscit naturam suam originis suae morem profectus rei Id●m licuit Marcionitis quod Marcioni de suo arbitrio fidem innovare by Descent and Iniquity the Socinians steering by the Blast of a Private Spirit the Chart o●●lear Scripture and Compass of Human Reason have made shipwrack of Faith and their other Relations the Antinomians adding another Protestant Implement Faith alone is a wholesom Doctrin have made shipwrack of a good Conscience and no other Protestant either does or can without confusion to his own Principles hinder their being cast away When Prelatical Protestants are prest with Church Authority and submission of Judgment they strait retire to Hobbism their Lay-Supremacy declaring their Prince the Sole and Sovereign Judge in all Causes Spiritual and that a Christian certain of the Truth of his own Profession and of the Falshood of the Establish'd Religion may not unless permitted by the Prince or enabled by God to work Miracles preach his own and decry the other And will not such absolute Lay-Authority indeed unknown to St. Austin when he wrote de Unit. Eccles c. 13. Neque enim quia orbe terrarum plerumque regna dividuntur ideo Christiana Unitas dividitur cum in utraque parte sc multis regnis Catholica inveniatur Ecclesia indivisa Will not I say such absolute Lay-Authority tho pernicious to Catholic procure a National Unity We see nothing like it because when the Supremacy grows suspicious or heavy on their Private Spirits and disfavours Protestant Libertinism in Opinion and Life then Supremacy was devis'd against a Foreign not Domestic Ecclesiastical Authority and the King was only the Church of England's Father-in-Law or Guardian in her Minority chosen who● she broke loose from the Pope and General Councils but now she is at discretion and means to challenge and exercise her essential Rights Rights inalienable notwithstanding the Encroachments of some and Usurpations of others Having thus disclaim'd all Clerical Authority whether Conciliary or Papal Primatical or Diocesan and attributed it to the Sovereign and now deposing Him also from his Spiritual Supremacy and Absoluteness with a The Church hath her Rights c. what can be intended by these new Church-Rights consistent with Supremacy What can these perplex'd People perplex'd most justly by their own Servileness to some and Disobedience to others what can they erect in stead of their Head's now-rejected Prerogative but an Equality of all the Headless Members I say a Parity or an individual Supremacy must be retreated to as least unjust and more free than preferring one or more Tyrants For thus the King shall have no Superior as no Subject Spiritual all will share alike as they ought to do in the Spoil and according to Custom a Republic succeeds a Monarchy The Royal cashier'd the Synodical Authority and the Popular i. e. every Man 's the Royal Authority Thus Cranmer's and Tillotson's Court-Doctrin is relinquish'd and Stillingfleet's Maxim entertain'd That none be constrain'd to Submission of Judgment to any Authority but All be left to judge according 〈◊〉 the Pandects of the Divine Law Ipsi sibi Laici sunt Episcopi * St. Jerom of Hilarius the Roman Deacon separating from all the World Nor are these individual Catholic Churches without their Schisms Cum sint non modo non parent praesidibus sibi ipsis autem non constantibus quotidianam fidem cudunt but refusing to obey their Rulers and contradicting themselves every day invent a new Faith Published with Allowance LONDON Printed by Henry Hills Printer to the King 's Most Excellent Majesty for His Houshold and Chappel 1686.