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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51427	The presentment of a schismaticke by Thomas, Lord Bishop of Dvrham ; in his sermon preached at the cathedrall church of Saint Pauls the 19 of Iune, 1642.	Morton, Thomas, 1564-1659.	1642 (1642)	Wing M2846; ESTC R22069	15,026	30

felonious or trayterous intention Let us but opening our eyes and we shall easily see their slanderous lying also for behold our Church in her service Booke doth make knowne to all the world that shee doth detest the superstition of the Romish Ceremonies by condemning their superstitious opinions First in making them necessary parts of Gods worship Secondly in ascribing an efficacious sanctitie unto them Thirdly by arrogating a meritorious condignity from them unto themselves Yea and besides she instructeth her Reader that she hath professedly purged her Liturgie of all those Lees and dregges of superstitious opinion of Papists which makes this their slander farre more slanderous Yet notwithstanding they persist in condemning the said Ceremonies as having bin either used or abused in Popery stil bewraying their ignorances for even this our Apostle did make use of the saying of Poets Menander Aratus and Epimenides all Heathens And shall therefore such Divine sentences be called Heathenish I cannot omit the peece of Prayer in our Liturgie which is That God will accept of our bounden duetie not weighing our merits but pardoning our offences the same hath been continually used in the Romish Masse beseeching God that hee would admit of them and their devotions Non tanquam aestimater meriti sed tanquam veniae largitor Not as an esteemer of merit but as a giver of pardon wherein the Romish will they nill they disclaime all conceipt of merit in their publike Liturgie which is a condignity of a work by the exact Law of Gods justice deserving an eternall reward which merit notwithstanding they maintaine in their new Romish Creed and bookes of controversies as an Article of their faith howbeit This sentence was that which brought the great Cardinall Bellarmine upon his knees when after his long and large dispute about justification by perfection of workes hee was inforced at last to cast Anchor absolutely upon the mercies of God as for so hee saith Tutissimum The most safe refuge of mans soule this being granted the same sentence serveth us both for a testification of this our saving truth to our selves as also for a confutation of the Popish error of merits which is a judging out of his owne mouth Wee demand then ought our Church to have used this sentence or not if so then is not this prayer therefore to be called Popish because used in Popery but ought she not Then doe they fondly affirme shee ought not use a forme of prayer which is both wholsome for him that prayeth and usefull to convince the Romish Church of Error in her superstitious opinion of merit But our Saviour hath taught us a more Divine lesson saying Wisdom is justified of her Children to let us understand that truth is truth wheresoever it soundeth even as a Pearle is a Pearle of price although it be taken out of the head of a toade I have insisted on this point because it may justifie our whole Liturgy against the censuring of a rite Popish for that it was used in that popish Church But there next blow is harder condemning such rites because abused by Papist● albeit not ignorant that herein wee can justly appeale not onely to the custome of ancient Churches of Christ but even to their owne schismaticall assemblies for the Primitive Fathers at the first dawing of publike peace in the Church began to convert the Temples of Pagans although they had beene the brothell houses of devils into the Houses of God consecreated to his worship And our opposites themselves can sometimes bee contented to use these Churches wherein was professed and practised that Popish Liturgy which they and justly inveighed against as indeed Idolatrous which is the blackest brand that can bee put upon any worshippers and which these opposites cast upon our Church as their last filth and dung This they do because of two kind of kneelings one at the administration of the holy Communion the other of bowing at the hearing of the name of Jesus To the first our answer is that Papists will not approach to our Sacraments Or if any doe yet it is in opinion that our consecration doth not operate their faigned transubstantiation and also the professed Protestants believing that there is therein no corporall presence of Christ cannot adore that as Christ which they know is not Christ and therefore can as impossible bee Idolatrous as the Papists in the worshipping their breaden God cannot possibly but be our reason is that that was an Article of Faith in the Primitive Churches of God whereunto we may justly appeale in a doctrine never to be repealed It is this That it is impossible for any Creature to be in two places at once not excepting the sacred body of Christ which their Catholike doctrine they professed for two causes one to avouch the prerogative of God to whom the existence in diverse places at one time is properly essentiall and this they grounded upon that divine foundation the Scripture of God Psalme 39.6 wherein the Psalmist in professing the Diety of the spirit of God saith Whether shall I goe from thy spirit if I goe up to Heaven thou art there if downe to Hell thou art there also and if to the outermost part of the Sea thither shall thy hand lead me The Argument thus The spirit of God is here and there and yonder therefore it is in diverse places at one time and consequently GOD because by the same essentiall property hee is as well in three Millians of places and indeed every where as hee is in any three or two and this they confirme by two circumstances First that the spirit of God was at one time in diverse Prophets Jeremie in Judea Daniell in Babylon Ezechiel in Chobar this in the Old Testament accordingly in the New the same spirit of God at one and the same time was in the Apostles when they were dispersed in diverse nations in the world for preaching the Gospell of Christ There second reason of this their dispute was to preserve the integrity of the body and humanity of Christ According to that caution of Augustine Cavendum est ut ita divinitatem Christi astruamus ne humanitatem ejus auferamus Wee are so to defend the divine nature of Christ that we destroy not his bodily and humane nature And therefore they distinguish both natures in respect of locall existence arguing thus Although the Deity be in Heaven yet is it then on Earth also and if on Earth then is it in Heaven but the humane Nature of Christ if it be on Earth it is not in Heaven and when in Heaven then is it not on Earth This was the Catholique Faith in those perfects and purest times of Christianity and that this was believed of them as an Article of Faith is as plaine Because they maintained that Truth against the Hereticks of their time who impugned the essential properties of Christs body with one Article of ancient Faith doth strangle more all the virall parts of