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A48358 Holy characters containing a miscelany of theolocicall [sic] discovrses that is theology, positiue, scholasticall, polemicall, and morall built upon the foundation of scriptures, traditions, councils, fathers, divided into two books / written by George Leybvrn ... Leyburn, George, 1593-1677. 1662 (1662) Wing L1938; ESTC R18553 388,184 688

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preparation holy according to the interpretation of the ancient Fathers Furthermore though the faithfull of the new law do succeed in the Couenant established between Abraham and God Rom 9. The words whereof are these I will be God vnto thee and to thy seed after thee Gen. 17. neuertheless there cannot be alleadged any one Scripture-testimony to proue that the children of belieuing Parents be sanctified in vertue of the said Couenant for they are not Abrahams seed and heires in their Mothers wombe or as soon as they be born according to promise but after they be made sons of God by faith * Gal. 3. quicunque enim in Christo baptiz ati estis Christum induist is si autem vos Christi ergo semen Abrahae estis haeredes secūdum promissionem in Christ Iesus through baptism Gal. 3. Moreouer the Couenant was made on condition that euery man child should haue the foreskin of his flesh circumcised or otherwise cut of from the people of God Gen. 17. in consequence of which it is euident that euen in the old law the Male-sex descending from Abraham by corporall generation were not counted de facto indeed children of the Couenant without circumcision in like manner in the new law no man is Abrahams seed childe of the Couenant and Heir of blessednes according to promise that is not Christs afore by spirituall generation in baptism which is christian circumcision and the condition of promised blessednes Wherefore it is a weake imagination of modern sectaries to think that faithfull and holy Parents bring forth sanctified children Besides Isaac and Rebecca were most renouned for faith and holiness neuertheless not euen Caluinists will dare to say that their son Esau was sanctified in his mothers wombe Sithence the Sacrament of baptism is a requisite absolutly necessary vnto saluation according to the common and ordinary way instituted for the obtaining of it a christian woman conceiuing a child shall doe most prudently and christianly during the tyme of trauail to desire of God by dayly prayers and alms-deeds that the fruit of her womb may not be depriued of baptism and God whose power is not confined to Sacraments and whose mercy is aboue his other ordinary workes can be moued at the piety and deuotion of a belieuing Mother to vse a speciall priuiledge to bring the said child to the kingdom of Heauen though naturall causes doe obstruct the baptism therof howeuer Infants of what condition soeuer dying in their infancy vnbaptized with the guilt only of originall treason against the diuine majesty committed by their first Parent are but banisht the court of Heauen no sentence of sensible punishment passeth against them being their consent as to their own (f) According to S. Bernard cited by S. Tho. q. de malo ar 2. a man burnes in the fire of hell in regard of his own will onely But Originall sin is noe product of our own will will was not giuen to the treason so that their banishment is most milde and fauourable compared with the (g) According to S. Gregory Nazian Ora. 40. young babes which through misfortune are not baptis'd neither enjoy the glory of Heauen nor endure the pains of Hell which S. Austin l. de pec mer. remis c. 16. calleth mitissimam damnationem the mildest damnation and that no man may conceiue that S. Austin so nameth the condition of children that dye without Baptism as if he so named it in comparison of the torments those suffer which are punish'd with euerlasting sensible burnings in regard of their actuall personall sinnes ● 5. con Julia. cap. 8. affirmes expresly that his meaning is that children dying vnbaptised are not afflicted with so grieuous pains as that it were better they had neuer been born but Christ saith of the damned in Hell melius esset si natus non fuisset homo ille wherfore according to Christs own saying it were better neuer to be born then to dwell in Hell and hereby appear's that poena sensus sensible pain is not procured by originall sin and indeed the punishment a man incur's through originall sin is a priuation of beatificall vision onely according to S. Thomas in 2. dis 33. q. 12. ar 2. wherefore wheras S. Austin ser 14. de verbis Apostoli saith that children vnbaptis'd are on the left hand and goe into euerlasting fire doubtles he mean's not that they shall be tormented with the euerlasting burnings of Hell Besides perhaps S. Austin aggrauated the punishment of children vnbaptis'd in heat of dispute with the Pelagians that ascribed vnto them eternall felicity without the kingdom of Heauen Howeuer S. Austin in Enchir. ad Laur. cap. 47. ingeniously confesseth that he neither can nor dare define Qua qualis quanta set poena illa parvulorum sine baptismo morientium and names it onely mit●ssimam aut leuissimam poenam And doubtless though children that dye without baptism in as much as they be depriu'd of the clear sight of God suffer something of heauiness neuertheless it is not grieuous vnto them being they know that they are not depriu'd of heauenly blessedness in regard of any personall fault of their's again fince that heauiness or sorrow is not Poena sensus a sensible punishment there can be no outward cause thereof banishment of ill Angells and wicked men that haue by their own voluntary act engaged in a rebellion against God their soueraign lord In regard of the absolute necessary dependence that eternall life hath of baptism Christ out of a fauourable prouidence towards all mankinde so instituted this Sacrament that euen (h) According to Tertull. l. de Baptis c. 16. Lay-people can minister baptism lawfully when the necessity thereof vrgeth and cannot otherwise be supplyed which opinion S. Hierom assertes Dial. 1. adversus Lucif and truly the Apostles Ioan. 4. ministred the baptism of Christ while they were lay-men for they were made Priests at the last supper moreouer this doctrine is asserted as an Article of faith by the Council of Florence in the Decree of Pope Engenius priuate persons of what condition or sex soeuer vnclothed with authority by ordination or iurisdiction can both lawfully and validly exercise the administration therof in the occurrence of vrgent necessity occasioned through the absence of Pastors lawfully called therunto applying the true matter and true forme and employing also an intention conformable to Christ and his Church and albeit that setting aside the case of necessity baptism so administred is vnlawfull as to conscience in him that is the Minister therof neuertheless it is valid as to the essence of the Sacrament circumcision performed by vncircumscised Gentills was counted valid and the same reason makes for the validity of Baptism exercised by vnbaptized persons seeing there is parity between baptisme and circumcision as vnto necessary application But to proceed further as to the excellency of this Sacrament of Christ for so it is named properly and therfore
vnto making it warme and therby drawes it into whatsoeuer sin he pleaseth besides * Isa 54. ecce ego creaui fabrum diabolum sufflantem in igne prunas proferentem vas in opus suum the bellowes of the deuils own mouth wherwith he blowes the coales in this sire of luxury he bringes forth other instruments to the worke for example old whores which keep a school of incontinency instruct young maides in all vnclean acts of carnall wantonnes and sell their * Ioel. 3. puellam vēdiderunt pro vino biberunt Virginity for wine to drink are the deuils incendiaries that worke in the furnace of luxury I * Ier●m 1. ollam incensam ego video id est vetulam nigram Olla enim quantumcunque alba si ad ignem frequēter ponatur denigratur see saith the holy Prophet a seething pot that is an old harlot who boileth young women in the pleasures and lusts of the flesh vnto destruction both of body and soul As sire makes a pot black as a coal that was white afore and consumes it so at last the most beautifull men and women that frequente the fiery furnace of luxury become deformed and withered like a stock as to their bodies and in order to their souls most hatefull vnto God that * Deutro 23. Endures no whores of the daughters of his people nor no whore keepers of the sonns of his people for the one and the other is abomination in his sight Because the people of Israël began to commit whore dome with the daughthers of Moab God commanded Moses to take all the heads that is the principall among them and hang them vp against the sun in regard phinias slew Zambry fornicating with an Midianitisht woman he merited his priestly charge and dignity for euer Num. 25. and it matters not that lawes of some places namely in Italy suffer whores for the said lawes doe not consider the sin of whoredome but the peace and tranquillity of the common-wealth obtained through that indulgence in as much as adulteries and other great inconueniences tending to the disturbance therof are preuented and auoided therby to permit and to commit sin is not the same thing God permitteth wickednes which he doth not commit himselfe And though whores be exempt in regard of whore dome presisely from penall lawes of Magistratos which tollerat them neuertheless they are not deliuered therby from the tribunall of God that punisheth all wicked sinners In consequence of the premises t' is euident that no man ought (a) The common saying of two euills the lesser ought to be chosen is not meant of two sinnes which be spirituall euils but of corporall harms or dammages for according to the Apostle Rom. 8. noe man can lawfully commit the least sin although much good may come of it to commit a lesser for preuenting the doing of a greater sin wherfore S. Austin condemneth the fact of lot Gen. 19. that offered his innocent daughters to be deflowred for preuenting the filthy lusts of the Sodomits all though Lot was worthy of praise in regard of his abhorrence of so detestable a sin yet he deserued blame in seeking vnlawfull meanes to auoid it No wickednes ought to be done that good may come therby Furthermore the company * Tritum adagium est mare ignis mulier tria mala sed tamen minus tempestuosum est mare ignis minus inflammat in muliere omnia nocent oculi instar Basilisci vel solo aspectu venenant labia ora flammas vomunt vel leuis attactus inficit Et mulierem sacrae literae cum lcone vrso pardo colubro serpente comparant of wanton women is the deuils instrument that blowes the coales in this fire of luxury for through it loue is kindled as a fire vnto destruction Eccle. 9. a cat that sitteth neer the fire scorcheth her whit skin and a fly that toucheth the candle burneth its wings euen so a man that vseth (b) According to S. Hierom. à woman smiteth the conscience of a man with flams of fire and if young women dwell with men the deuil hath his snares among them the company of wanton women falleth into the snares of concupiscence and defileth his soul Besides as materiall fire is kindled by adding therto wood oyle and pitch so delicat meates * S. Hier● venter vino aestuans spumat in libidinem and strong wines taken immoderatly increase the flame of luxury and indeed whosoeuer eates and drinkes wantonly shewes no more willingnes to extinguish the burning coales of fiery lusts then he that castes into a house set on fire wood oyl and pitch shewes an inclination to quench it moreouer the body of man is not made for fornication or carnall vncleanes but for our lord that bought the whole man with the price of his precious blood to the end that both body and soul should serue to his glory our bodies are members of Christ and consequently a fornicatour is sacrilegious in as much as he giueth his body that is consecrated vnto God to any other likewise he is iniurious and contumelious to his body for he that committeth fornication (c) According to the Apostle 1. Cor. 6. fornication defileth the body with a peculiar kind of vncleanes so that carnall sensuality differs exceedingly from the inordinate delights of the other senses which haue nothing of brutall filthines howeuer carnall pleasure has no deformiry as to married people because of the vprightnes and integrity of conscience desire of issue holines of the Sacrament which therfore be called Bona matrimonij sinneth against his own Body where as other sins which a man doth are with out the body that is luxury defileth the body with a sordide brutall filthines which is not common a like to sinns committed by the other senses vix hearing seeing tasting smelling But notwithstanding all this euen among Christians of these daies doe rise cinick Philosophers which so flatter themselues in their carnall pleasures as to think that simple fornication hath nothing of mortall guilt Likewise the Digbean diuins so fool themselues as to beleiue that an outward sin for example outward fornication adultery incest murder doe not of necessity expell the loue of God out of the soul and in consequence therof do not obstruct the passage to Heauen and both the cinick Philosophy and the Digbean Theology lay claime to scripture testimony respectiuely for the proofe therof The cinick Philosophy alledgeth the first chapter of Osea where is mentioned that our lord said to Osea goe take vnto thee a wise of fornications and children of fornications and thence inferreth that luxury is lawfull as to simple fornication but t is a very weak inference for God commanded not the Prophet to commit fornication but matrimony with a woman that had fornicated afore that is to make an honest wife of a dishonest woman vnto representing a diuine mistery that might set forth
is a holy thing and ought to be obseru'd and perform'd in holines which doctrine is conform to the Apostles instructions 1. Cor. 7. He that giueth his Virgin in marriage doth vvell And Hebrae 13. Marriage honorable in all that is in all those which are indeed lawfully married In consequence of which the act of generation in persons married aright is both lawfull and honorable but in such as are not lawfully marryed together it is damnable 1. Timoth. 5. For example in Brothers and sister's and in Virgins that haue vow'd to God perpetual chastity consummation of marriage through carnall copulation though it be lawfull honest and laudable hauing a lawfull honest and laudable end which is the generation and education of children for the propagation and conseruation of mankinde neuertheless it addeth no essentiall perfection vnto marriage being extrinsecall therunto only Howeuer God in the begining made and determinated but (e) T' is set down Gen. 1. God created them male and female in the singular number and Gen. 2. they shall be two in one flesh wherfore S. Innocent cap. Gaudemus dediuortijs faith that one rib onely was converted into one and not into many women one man and one woman to contract marriage as t' is said afore forming of one rib one woman only wherby t' is plain that Polygamy which is a plurality of wiues in order to one man can challenge no institution from the begining and indeed such plurality setting aside extraordinary means for supplying of naturall imperfections is destructiue at least of the secondary end of marriage which is a sweet sociable liuing together of man and wife as appeareth by the example of Sara and Agar Gen. 16. of Anna and Phenenna 1. Reg. Again it is not consonant as to the law of nature that a man hauing once giuen the power of his body to one woman by marriage should afterward giue it to an other yet in as much as Polygamy in order to many wiues is not absolutely prohibited by any naturall ordinance and is consistent with the principall end of marriage which is procreation and education of children God can and hath de facto dispensed in it for both Sara and Agar were rightfull wiues of Abraham the Patriarch as likewise Anna and Phenenna of Alcana and Lia and Rachel of Iacob being the scripture praiseth these men for their great sanctity of life without reproaching vnto them plurality of wiues (f) Doubtless persons renown'd for sanctity of life would neuer haue married many wiues vnless God had inspir'd them and the ancient Fathers S. Hierom. Ep. 83. ad Ocia and S. Austin l. 22. con Faus affirme that God dispensed with the Patriarchs and Iews in the plurality of wiues But this Indulgence began onely in the dayes of Noe who taught it his posterity for neither Adam nor any other married many wiues before the generall deluge except Lameth Gen. 4. who therfore was counted an adulterer and is reproch'd for that same act by Pope Nicholas in an Epistle written to king Lotherius And albeit according to holy scripture all the wiues of one singleman except the first be sometymes nam'd Concubins neuerthelesse t' is not meant therby that the others were not true and lawfull but that they were secundary wiues which were also true and lawfull wiues And doubtless God inspired these holy men to doe so that therby mākinde might be sooner propagated and the diuine blessings promised to the children of Israel fullfilled wherof one was increase and multiplication of children As God after the generall deluge appointed the flesh of beasts to be meate for Noah and his posterity without any restriction at all Gen. 5. and afterward restrained that appointment or concession limitting it in order to the flesh of such beasts as by the law of Moyses were counted clean and vnpolluted and lastly ●nulling that restriction reduced the eating of flesh to the first concession so in the begining God instituted Monogamy that is to say marriage between one man and one woman only afterward he granted Polygamy that is power to take many wiues and lastly reuoked the concession of many wiues and reduced marriage * Matth. 15. ab initio non fuit sic id est ab initio non fuit Poligamia to it's first institution as also raised it which afore was a ciuil contract only to the dignity of a Sacrament (g) The Council of Constance sess 15. declar's marriage between persons baptiz'd and fit to contract a Sacrament of the new law taken in the proper sense Likewise the Council of Florence In the Decree of Pope Eugenius and Trent sess 24. cap. vnico can 1. Besid's the Apostle Eph. 5. nameth marriage a great Sacrament that is the marriage of those which are baptiz'd for of such only he speak's in the Chapter set down saying For yee were once darknes but novv light in our lord that is through baptism for according to holy scriptures and ancient Fathers baptiz'd and lightned importe the same thing for now marriage contracted by persons that are baptised and enabled to contract is a * Sentiunt communiter Theologi quodlibet matrimoniū validè contractum inter duas personas baptizatas esse propriè Sacramentum nec duae personae baptizatae validè contrahentes possunt facere vt illud non sit validum vbi obserua quod pecunia quae datur in matrimonio non datur pro matrimonio sed pro eius oneribus nempe pro nutritione familiae educations filiorum id genus alijs Jdeoque inde non committitur simonia Sacrament of the new law taken in the proper sense being cloathed with all requisits necessary ther to for first it is an outward sensible ceremony in as much as it is a contract expressed in outward words or other sensible signs secondly it doth effectually sanctifie such as receiue it aright through a speciall grace that is conferred on the married to loue each other mutuall after the imitation of that reciprocall loue and charity which is between Christ and his Church in respect wherof the Apostle Eph. 5. calleth the marriage of the faithfull baptised Magnum Sacramentum a great Sacrament but I speake sayes he in order to Christ and the Church exhorting withall husband's to loue their wiues euen as Christ loued the church which is his wife that was taken and formed out of his own side hanging vpon the cross a mystery S. Aug. often inculcates as Eue Adams wife was made of his rib and consequently bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh wherby is plainly manifest that the marriage of Christians lies iust claime to diuine institution also since there is no outward sensible signe or ceremony that effectually produceth sanctifying grace in the new law which is not instituted by Christ according to that of S. Iohn cap. 1. Grace and truth came by Iesus-Christ by the premises appeares that the marriages of vnbaptised persons (b)