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A12213	A reply to an ansvvere, made by a popish adversarie, to the two chapters in the first part of that booke, which is intituled a Friendly advertisement to the pretended Catholickes in Ireland Wherein, those two points; concerning his Majejesties [sic] supremacie, and the religion, established by the lawes and statutes of the kingdome, be further justified and defended against the vaine cavils and exceptions of that adversarie: by Christopher Sibthorp, Knight, one of His Majesties iustices of his Court of Chiefe Place within the same realme.	Sibthorp, Christopher, Sir, d. 1632.	1625 (1625)	STC 22524; ESTC S117400	88,953	134

ground also I thus frame my argument That Church which holdeth a Religion Faith and doctrine differing or contrarie to that which was taught by the Apostles in their times is not Apostolicall But the Popish Church holdeth a Religion Faith and doctrine differing or contrarie to that which was taught by the Apostles in their times as is apparant if you compare them together examining the severall and particular Positions in these points of Controversie by the writings of the Apostles the rest of the Canonicall Scriptures as is also shewed at large in my former book whether I likewise referre you for the proofe of this Minor Proposition And therefore the Popish Church is not Apostolicall But mine Adversarie taketh here exception to our Church affirming it in three points to be hereticall First in the point of Iustification For he saith it was the heresie of the Symonians and Eunomians to hold Iustification in Gods sight by grace and by faith onely as the Protestants doe And that S. Augustine also affirmeth it to be an error that sprung up even in the Apostles dayes But touching the Symonians they held Ir●n libr. 1. c. 20 as Irenaeus declareth That they were to be saved by the grace of Simon Magus their sect Master whom they make their God and Saviour The Protestants hold no such abominable thing but contrarywise hold that they are to be saved by the grace of CHRIST What Is it all one with Papists to be saved by Simons grace and by the grace of CHRIST As for the Eunomians such was their doctrine of Faith as that they rejected or made no reckoning of good workes at all Aug. hares 54. Yea they held as S. Augustine sheweth Quod nihil homini obesset quorumlibet perpetratio peccatorum That the committing of any sinnes whatsoever did not hurt a man The Protestants teach no such wicked and damnable doctrine but cleane contrarywise doe teach that the Faith that justifieth and saveth a man is not a dead but a lively Faith that is such as is accompanied with good works and with a godly conversation although Ierem. 23.6 Ierem. 33.16 2. Cor. 5.21 Rom. 10 4. Rom. 9.30.31 32 Rom. 3.14 Ioh 3.14 15 16. Iohn 1.12 in the act of our justification in Gods sight and censure it is Faith alone and not the workes that is the hand or instrument whereby wee apprehend or receave CHRIST IESVS who is indeede our righteousnesse As the eye in respect of the rest of the members wherewith it is accompanied is not alone yet in respect of the power and facultie of seeing it is sole and alone And as in fire likewise there is both heare and light and the heate is not alone but accompanied with the light and yet it is the heate onely and not the light that warmeth the bodie So in a man justified there is Faith and good workes accompanying it and in respect of the good workes wherewith it is accompanied it is not sole and alone but yet in the Act and point of Iustification in Gods sight as it apprehendeth Christ our righteousnesse it is sole and alone good works having no part with it in that action As for that which is alledged out of S. Augustine I answered it in my former Booke and now I answere it once againe Aug. de fide oper cap. 14. or rather S. Augustine himselfe answereth it whilst he sheweth That the error which sprung up in the Apostles dayes was of such as held Faith onely to be sufficient to salvation although they did no good works at all but lived wickedly dissolutely lewdly which is indeede an error and a grosse error Galat. 5.6 Iam. 2 14. 1. Pet● 29.11 12 2 Pet 1 10. 1. Iohn 3.10 and which the Protestants with S. Augustine with S. Paul with S. Iames with S. Peter with S. Iohn with all the rest of the sacred Scriptures doe likewise utterly condemne The second point wherein he supposeth heresie in our Church is concerning their Popish Purgatorie It is true that we denie it Neyther are the Papists able to prove the deniall of it to be eyther heresie or error My Adversarie saith That Luther Calvine others did likewise denie it what of that was it therefore heresie Or in what Church was it censured and condemned to be heresie If by any he must say it was by his owne the Popish Church which condemneth indeede not only that but all other doctrines and Positions of the Protestants wherein they differ from them be they never so true But it is proved in my former Booke Col●s 2.19 That Papal Rome is the whore of Babylon and that the Popish Church hath not Christ but Antichrist to be the head and to rule and raigne over it Neyther is it mine opinion alone that the Pope of Rome the head and ruler thereof is the grand Antichrist and consequently his Church the false Antichristian Church but it is the opinion and position of all sound Protestants likewise as their many and sundrie learned Works written in defence of that Protestant Position against the Papists doe plentifully and at large declare Now then is it any mervaile or any matter that the false adulterate and Antichristian Church condemneth the right beleeving Orthodoxe and true Christian Church and her Positions Yea in this point against their Purgatorie did the Apostolicke Primitive and most ancient Church beleeve as wee doe For S. Paul saith 2. Cor. 5.6 8. Thil. 1.23 of all Gods people That whilst they are in the bodie they are absent from the Lord and that when they goe out of the bodie they are present with the Lord. And so holdeth S. Cyprian Cyprian de mortalitat sect 2 ●d●t 159● That the servants of God then have peace and then enjoy free and quiet rest And that being drawen out from the stormes of this world they arrive at the haven of their everlasting habitation and securitie Againe he saith Ad refrigerium justi vocantur ad supplicium rapiuntur injusti The righteous are called to a refreshing Ibidem sect 11. the unrighteous are haled to torment Ibidem sect 14. In somuch that hee saith further concerning godly persons when they die that Nec accipiendas esse hic atras vestes quando 〈◊〉 ibi indumenta alba iam sumpseriut For them blacke mourning garments are not to be worne here because they have there alreadie put on white rayment Iustin respons ad Orthodox quaest 75. Iustine Martyr likewise saith That after the departure of the soule out of the bodie there is presently made a difference betwixt the just and the unjust For the soules of the just goe to Paradise where they have the comerce and sight of Angels and Archangels c The soules of the unjust to the places in Hell Hilar. in Psal 2. S. Hillarie also observeth out of that which is mentioned in the Gospell concerning the Rich-man Lazarus that as

strange Clearke be received or Ordered without Letters of Commendation and licence from his owne Bishop Cap. 50. 25. That no man be made Priest under thirtie yeares of age neyther then at randome but appointed and fastned to a certaine Cure Cap. 11. That no Bishop meddle with giving orders in another mans Diocesse Cap. 2● Cap. 42. That onely the Bookes Canonicall be reade in the Church That the false name of Martyres and uncertaine memories of Saints be not observed Cap. 15. Cap. 82. That Sunday be kept c. That the Pastors and Ministers rightly preach and teach the people committed to their charge Jbidem That they suffer not any man under them to propose to the people opinions of their owne devising not agreeable to the holy Scriptures but shall themselves teach profitable and good doctrine tending to life everlasting and instruct others to doe the like Cap. 22. And first of all they shall teach all men generally to beleeve the Father the Sonne and the Holy Ghost to bee one Omnipotent and Eternall and invisible God Creator of Heaven and Earth and of all things in them And that there is but one God-head Substance and Majestie in the three Persons of the Father the Sonne and the Holy Ghost Item They shall preach E d●m cap. 82. That the Sonne of God tooke flesh by the working of the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary shee remayning alwayes a Virgin for the salvation and reparation of makinde That he suffered was buried the third day rose againe and ascended into heaven and that he shall come againe in Majestie to judge all men c. Item Ibidem They shall diligently preach the Resurrection of the dead Item They shall teach all men with all diligence Ibidem for what offences they shall be condemned with the Divell to paines everlasting The Apostle telling us That the workes of the flesh are manifest which are fornication uncleannesse wantonnesse idolatrie witchcraft enmities emulations wrath contentions seditions heresies envie murthers drunkenesse gluttonie and such like of which I tell you now as I tould you before saith the Apostle That they which commit such things shall not inherit the kingdome of God These things therefore which the great Preacher of the Church of God recko●eth by name let them be with all care prohibited remembring how terrible that saying is That they which doe such things shall not come into Gods kingdome Moreover Admonish them saith he Ibidem with all earnestnesse concerning the love of God and of their neighbour concerning Faith and Hope in God Humilitie Patience Chastitie Continencie Liberalitie Mercie giving of Almes acknowledging of their sinnes And concerning forgiving of such as trespasse against them according to the Lords Prayer assuring them that they which doe these things shall obtaine the kingdome of God This we charge and enjoyne you saith he speaking to the Bishops and Cleargie men with so much the more diligence because we know that in the latter times shall come false teachers as the Lord in the Gospell foretold and his Apostle Paul to Timothy testifieth Caroli praefat in Leges Franc. And againe he saith thus therefore you Pastors of Christs Church and Guides of his flocke c have we directed Commissioners unto you who together with you are in our Name and by our Authoritie to redresse those things which neede reformation And to this end have wee here annexed certaine briefe Chapters of Canonicall or Ecclesiasticall institution such as we thought meetest Let no man thinke or judge this our admonition to Godlinesse to be presumpteous whereby wee seek to reforme things amisse to cut off things superfluous and to bring men to that which is right but let them rather receive it with a charitable minde For in the Booke of Kings wee reade what paines that Godly King Iosias tooke to bring the kingdome given him of God to the true worship of the same God by visiting correcting and instructing them not that we compare our selves with his sanctitie but that wee should alwayes imitate such examples of the Godly Here wee see the reason why these Chapters or Lawes were made and Commissioners appointed and sent from the King to put them in execution and that also the examples of Iosiah and such other Godly Kings of Israell and Iuda are to be made patternes and precedents and to be imitated by all Kings and Princes in the Christian Church as touching the good care endevour and paines they are to take everie way they can for the advancement of Gods Religion Legum Franc. lib. 2. cap. 1. After Charles the great were Lodowicke and Lotharius Emperors which Emperors also spake thus to the Bishops and Magistrates of their Dominions You have all no doubt eyther seene or heard that our Fathers and Progenitors after they were chosen by God to this place made this their principall studie how the honour of Gods holy Church and the state of their kingdome might be decently kept Cap. 2. And we for our parts following their example seeing it hath pleased God to appoint us that we should have care of his Church and of this kingdome are very desirous so long as we live to labour earnestly for three speciall things viz. to defend exalt honour Gods holy Church and his servants in such sort as is fit● to preserve Peace and to doe Iustice to all the people And though the chiefe of this service consist in our person Cap 9. yet by Gods and Mans Ordinance it is so devided that everie one of you in his place and calling hath a part of our charge So that I should be your admonisher and you all my coadjutors Yea not only did these Emperors extend their Authority to causes Ecclesiasticall and concerning Religion but had also the Supremacie over all Bishops even over the Bishop of Rome himselfe in their times For so it appeareth by the submission which Leo the fourth Bishop of Rome made to this Lodowicke the Westerne Emperor in these words If saith he we have done otherwise then well Caus 2 quast 7. Cap. Nos si and not dealt uprightly with those that are under us we will amend all that is amisse by the judgement of your highnesse beseeching your hignesse for the better triall of these surmises to send such as in the feare of God may narrowly sift not onely the matters informed but all our doings great and small aswell as if your Majestie were present So that by lawfull examination all may be finished and nothing left undiscussed or undetermined In all things great and small this Bishop of Rome as you see submitted himselfe to the Emperor and to those Commissioners which he wou'd please to send for the sifting and examination of those matters layd to his charge promising to amend all that was amisse in him according to the Emperors owne judgement Wherefore this was not a matter of modesty or