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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07475	An examination of certaine motives to recusancie. By W. Bedell	Bedell, William, 1571-1642.	1628 (1628)	STC 1786; ESTC S113798	20,794	67

sheweth in his answer to Card. Bellarm. Loe the Schisme that we are blamed for The Church of England finding in the Service of God divers things impertinent and uncertaine as themselves confesse endeavoured to restore it according to the ancient rule rite of the holy Fathers as they also after her pretend She hath brought the whole Realme to one use which they also imitate She hath taken upon diligent survay of the service of all Churches whatsoever seemed most pleasing unto Almighty God as Saint Gregory adviseth She hath appointed it should be in a language understood by the people as both the use of the Primitive Church warranted and Saint Paul expresly commandeth and the very light of reason requireth And this Service whereat themselves cannot take the least exception is branded with the note of Schismaticall Albeit the Church of England professeth to hold Communion with the Catholick Church throughout the world yea with that of Rome it selfe in all points of the Catholick Faith And Christ be judge betwixt us and these politick make bates which for no other cause but the maintenance of their faction doe make contention among brethren But the next accusation is sorer and comes home to the quick he saith The doctrine now preached is heresie and for such condemned and instanceth in eight points and referres to the Catalogues in Saint Epiphanius Philastrius and Saint Austin Let us see the particulars Simon Magus was condemned for Heresie for saying That faith alone doth justifie THis heresie of Simon Magus is neither reported in Epiphanius nor Philastrius nor Saint Augustine nor any thing like to it Ireneus indeed relates that he taught such as placed their trust in him and his harlot Selene not to regard the Prophets but freely to doe what they list for that men were saved by his grace and not by just workes With what forehead doth this man attribute this heresie to the Protestants as if the Grace of God and Faith in our Lord Iesus Christ were all one with the grace of Simon the Sorcerer and trust in him and his Strumpet and the shutting out of our workes from justification with the giving liberty to men to live as they list The doctrine preached in the reformed Churches is the doctrine of Saint Paul Rom. 3. 20 21 22 23 24 28. and in many places besides where he teacheth that by the deeds of the Law there shall no flesh be justified in his Gods sight for by the Law is the knowledge of sinne but now the righteousnesse of God without the Law is manifested being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets Even the righteousnesse of God which is by faith of Iesus Christ unto all and upon all them that beleeve for there is no difference for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Iesus Christ Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousnesse for the remission of sinnes that are past through the forbearance of God vers 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the Law And this is the constant teaching of all antiquity That we are justified by the grace of God through the redemption that is in Christ Iesus by faith in his blood without the workes of the Law Cerinthus likewise for saying that Children may be saved without Baptisme HEre I cannot but marvell at the boldnesse of this Collector for not onely none of all the three Authors to whose Catalogue of heresies he sends us doth mention any such opinion of Cerinthus as this but Epiphanius relating his opinions adds as a report that had come to him that some among the followers of Cerinthus departing this life before they had obtained baptisme others were baptized for them to free them from punishment at the resurrection Whereupon also he saith it came to him by tradition that the Apostle said If the dead rise not at all why are they then baptized for them If Cerinthus and his followers were baptized for the dead let the Reader judge how likely it is that he should teach children may be saved without baptisme Ptolomeus was noted as an heretick for saying That it was not in man to keep Gods Commandements THis doctrine whether it be true or false I doe not now examine None of these three Authors to whom he refers us doe attribute it to Ptolemeus although Epiphanius sets downe a large Epistle of his to Flora wherein he holds the Law was not given by the perfect God as being it selfe unperfect with many like blasphemies Touching the ten Commandements he saith They containing a pure ordinance but not having accomplishment needed to be fulfilled by our Saviour If this be the Heresie which this Collector intends to be renewed by the Protestants that the Morall law is holy but we could not keep it and therefore Christ came to fulfill it their defence will be easie Now it shall suffice that Epiphanius neither doth attribute this to Ptolomeus as a new opinion nor note him for it as an heretick Montanus for denying the Sacrament of Penance MOntanus was one of the false Prophets of the sect of the Cataphryges of whom none of all the three Authors we are sent to mentioneth any such thing as this Collector imputes unto him That which I think was in his minde though he mistooke the name was of one Novatus that was the ring-leader of the sect of the Cathari or Puritanes who taking occasion of offence because many which in persecution had denied the truth were afterward admitted to the communion of the Church by penance separated himselfe holding that to such as fell after baptisme there was no place for penance Thus Philastrius Epiphanius and Saint Augustine saith The Cathari denie penance following Novatus As for the terme Sacrament none of all these mention it This opinion is as much detested by the Protestants as by the Romists themselves Aërius for denying praiers for the dead AErius as both Epiphanius and S. Augustine relate was an Arrian which made a faction against Eustathius his Bishop an Arrian likewise and drew a multitude after him into the fields and woods By his words set downe in Epiphanius we may see his opinion With what reason saith he doe yee after death name the names of the dead For if hee that is alive praies or deales a dole what shall the dead be profited thereby And Epiphanius after justifies that practise that then was in the Church of reciting the names of the deceased and making a memoriall both for the just and sinners for sinners imploring the mercy of God for the just both the Fathers Patriarchs Prophets Apostles Evangelists Martyrs and Confessors Bishops and Anachorites and all Orders that they might sever our Lord Iesus Christ from the order of other men by