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A07787	Two homilies concerning the meanes how to resolue the controversies of this time. First written in French, by Ph. Mornay, and now translated into English; Deux homélies du moyen de se résoudre sur les controverses de ce temps. English	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.	1612 (1612)	STC 18164; ESTC S112907	41,284	146

of sacrifice taken in a large sense with this word did they qualifie the christian service their prayers their Sacraments their Almes How farre safer had it beene to keep them in their owne proprietie and to teach them the right end of the old sacrifices that is their end in my cone only Sacrifice I had also appointed for a sacramēt of this one sa crifice of my flesh crucisied and of my blood shed for you That bread which you break 〈◊〉 Cor. 10 〈◊〉 16. the Cōmuniō of my body that cup which you blesse the Communion of my blood The reall communication in summe of all the blessings and benesittes that redound vnto you by this sacrifice And in as much as their devotion did wax cold instead of making my people participate of them they haue thought it enough onely to she we them vnto them they haue also taken my cup from them But I say vnto you that From the beginning it was not so Do but read the Apostle Without sheading of blood is no remission of sinne Heb 9. v. 22. And wilt thou therefore for the remission of thy sinnes take vnto thy selfe the place of the Iewes wilt thou once againe shedde my blood Read on further that which hee rehearseth vnto thee so often Christ hath appeared once to put away sinne by the sacrifice of him selfe V. 26. It is not then for nought that they shewe him so manie times vnto thee Againe We are sanctified by the offering of the body of Iēsus Christ once made C. 10. v. ●0 With one offering hath hee consecrated vs for ever and iffoneuer V. 14. why then doe we begin againe euery day That therefore which I haue fulfilled at once effectually and perfectly doe not thou accuse it of imperfection by reiterating it doe not darken the truth nor belie the vertue therof by the friuolous repre sentations That which I haue giuen thee for a Sacrament thanksgiving of that vnspeakable benesit do not thou account it as a Sacrifice That which God hath ioined seeing I haue ioined them to wit the sacraments in my holy Supper thou man vnder what colour soeuer it be do not separate them But lastly could our Fathers then oversee so grosly These good kings Iosaphat Hezekiah Iozia● those good servantes of God Hilkiah Esdras others did never make this questiō Seing they had the booke of the law and did know that therein they had the ordināces of God they rent their clothes beate their breastes confessed both their owne their fathers sins before the Congre gation they exhorted and by their own example brought the whole people to repentance What therefore coulde our Saviour euer leaue vs as Orphanes and his barke without a guide On the contrary hath he not left vs a lieuetenāt general a vice-God this man God on earth Else what becomes of that Tues Pe trus Pasce oves meas Thou art Peter and feed my sheepe But here our Lord wil answer thee I am that everlasting word that was made flesh for thee The on ly Emmanuell God with thee with you by my Spirit in mine holy word I am with you vntill the end of the world Ma●th 28 As for lieuetenants I haue as many as there are good Pastors and holy dispensers of my word and Sacraments here on earth But as for Generall or Vice-God there ought none to be over my state because I am every where present I haue no need of any how much so ever the mā be limited to a certaine place or be he as quick as he wil or is able to be I haue said indeode vnto Peter one of mine Apostles and vnto one for all Thou art Peter on this Rocke wil I build my church On this Rocke that is on his cō fession for he had confessed vnto me Matth. 16 Thou art the Christ the son of the living God And therevpon haue you placed vnder an Altar at Rome the supposed Reliques of Peter and haue called them the confessiō of Peter On this pretended confession haue you built S. Peters church It was not so that this holy Apostle vnderstood it when he told vs Pe● 2. v. ● Be yee as liuely stones made a spirituall house But vpon what truly not vpon this your cōfession but vpon his owne vpon him that is that living stone reiected by me and yet the chiefe Corner-stone elect and precious in Gods eies I told him also the gates of hel should not prevaile against it and all the power of Sathan shall be found weake against it And you haue thereby gathered that it must be a temporall puissant and invincible Empire But Peter vnderstood farre better this my style language He that shall beleeue in it in this liuing Stone in mee that am the Rocke of Israel shall never be confoūded I had likewise said vnto Peter I will giue thee the keyes of the kingdome of heaven Ioh. 22. whatsoever thou bindest on earth shall bee bound in heaven And I gaue them indeede vnto him vnto all his fellowes after my resurrection to wit the ministrie of reconciliation by the preaching of the Gospell And thence you haue concluded Thou art Peter Ergo the Bishop of Rome is the vniversal Bishop of the world hee shutteth and no man openeth he openeth no man shutteth Hee hath in his hands al power both temporall and spiritual he openeth heaven he shutteth hell quencheth the fire in Purgatorie he commandeth the Angels hee keepeth in awe the Divels he saveth or dāneth men at his owne pleasure he giueth dispē●ations contrary to the lawe of God and to his Gospell being not so much in the place of God as against God himselfe And yet are wee bound to beleeue that God is changed in opinion when he is altered in his But betweene these two propositions Thou art Peter The Bishop of Rome is Vice-God nay more then God What a gulfe is there to be filled And whence can it be filled but frō that bottomlesse deepe How much better did the holy Apostle vnderstand this Feed my sheepe that is with my word Feed saith he you Priests my fellowes in the Priest hood the flocke of Christ which is cōmitted to your charge not as bearing rule over the inheritance of the Lord bee they of the Clergie or lay-men but so that ye may defend the flock And whē the chiefē shepheard shal appeare you shal receiue that incorruptible crowne of glory And not here on earth a triple crown or kingdome This therefore was the meaning of the Lord farre different from thy glosse yet Peter himself is the interpreter And therfore would he haue answered thee here as before Frō the beginning it was not so The first Bishops of Rome for the space of 300. yeares vnder the Heathē Emperors for the most part were all Martyrs knewe neuer what this temporal iurisdiction meant As for the 400. years following vnder the

Iesus Christ no nor from his Apostles which are grounded only vpon visions in the aire vpon pretended reuelations and certaine tales farre worse then Apocryphall These notwithstanding are articles of beleefe more to be beleeued observed nay more indeed beleeued and obserued then the worde of Christ and the holy Scriptures But it may be that this is spoken to those three onely those three which were taken apart by our Lord were to learne some particular mystery thereby But that which is only spoken to one of them saith our Lord is spoken vnto all The mysteries and the secrets of God are not of the same nature that others are of They are spoken in the eare but to bee preached on the house tops And indeed thou seest that S. Paul did not sticke to apply these wordes to himselfe and the fathers haue told thee that it concernes all the Apostles And if all the Aposties then also all their disciples and successors all such as haue beleeued their word and haue receiued from them their calling to teach the word wee may say all Christians all the faithfull all the sheepe of our great sheepheard For saith he my sheep heare my voice Ioh. 10. they vnderstand not the voice of a stranger they flie backe from him We may say the very Catholike vniuersall Church For it is said vnto her Harken ô daughter Ps 45.10 consider and incline thine eare And how often hath it bin told vs that that which is said to Peter is said to all his successours and to the whole Church And for what reason should it not hold herein also To bee short when our Lord saith vnto his Apostles Hoc facite do this thou drawest from thence a perpetuall institution of a Sacrament of a sacrifice when God therefore saith here solemnly Hunc audite Heare him What right hast thou to restrain it to these few and to some peculiar mystery to the end that all thinges may be lawfull vnto you With what face canst thou deny that these words doe containe a lesson which is to bee continuall and vniuersall vnto the ende of the world how to limit the faith and life of a Christian within the compasse of Christ his voice of Christ his lawe of Christ his schoole which is the only Lawgiuer the only Master and only teacher in his Church But there is more in it yet for this lesson is more necessary for vs then it was then for them or at any other time whatsoeuer since his Apostles For vs I say on whome the last ages are come for vs whom so many ages by a consequent so many forestalled in their iudgement haue preuented by anticipat opiniōs by inueterated customs by presidents of antiquitie by renowne and maiestie which wil offer to part stakes with the Godhead and make themselues to be heard aboue the sonne of God aboue the Father himselfe For is there almost any age that hath not brought forth its own teachers Any teacher that would not haue his priuat opinions his owne inuentions I might say heresies And is there any of them that hath not built his own stubble on Christs foūdation sowne his owne tares in Christs field And how may al this be remedied Onely by this word alone Heare him heare none other let euery other voice be suspected by you Vnto him that sear cheth for the truth doubteth of his way and seeketh life he who is the truth the way and the life which also wil teach them doth of his own accorde offer himselfe And where then shall wee seek him This againe was an easie matter for his Apostles which had him at hand which were dayly in his company and did as it were draw it out of his breast For S. Paul likewise to whom it was yet graunted to heare him though in lightning in thunder But whither sendest thou vs to heare him He which is ascēded into heauen and fitteth at the right hād of the Father will not descend from thence vntill he comes to iudge the worlde And in the mean time what shal become of our doubtings Await patiently our Lord is not so farre from thee as thou imaginest Say not in thy heart Rom. 10. v. 6 7. 8. who shall ascend into heaven That is to bring Christ from aboue Or who shall descend into the deepe That is to bring Christ againe from the dead The word is neere thee This is the word of faith The Gospell which we read by the grace of our God which we preach Iesus Christ hath not left vs Orphans Hee hath not beene preuented by death hauing death in his owne power He is not dead without making a Testament nor gon from earth vp into heauen without a last will By his Testament he speaketh yet at this day and did speake in all the ages past and giueth his law to his family A Bastard he is or vnthankful that doth not heare him It is his Gospell and his holy Scriptures in the which he liueth and teacheth and iudgeth and beareth rule in his Church This Gospel by whose rule hee directeth the faithfull correcteth and reproueth the hereticks and vnbeleeuers and putteth a difference between the one and the other Of which S. Ireneus tels thee That Gospell which the Apostles haue preached haue they since given and delivered vnto vs tradiderunt in the Scriptures by the will of God to bee the foundation of our faith Then is it not by occasion only or by their owne instinct as some would make vs Beleeue August de ●on●en● ●vang l. 1. S. Augustin All that which our Lord would that wee should haue concerning his ●●tiēs and his sayings he hath commanded saith he to his Apostles to write it as with his owne hands As if therefore hee had writtten it himselfe if wee read it wee heare himselfe And S. Cyrill addeth All that Cyril l. 12 in loh c. 68. which they haue thought to suffice as well for manners as for doctrine Will we bee more able then they S. Iohn also the beloued Disciple of our Lord Ioh. 20. v. 31. These things are written not casually not by humane instinct but that you might beleeue that Iesus is that Christ that son of God and that in beleeving yee might haue life through his name And this beleeuing truely presupposeth hearing according to the wordes of the Apostle Faith is by hearing and hearing by the word of God The Gospell hath succeeded the law but as the truth succeedeth the shadow and manhood infancie that the doctrin might be made cleane and the condition of the Church amended God not being content that his lawe had bin written with his owne finger commaunded also that it should bee written in a booke that they should look in it that euery houshold from their first yeares should bee instructed in it Truly Christ the son of God our only lawgiuer hath in like manner prouided for his Gospell being to