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A60205	A confession of faith of James Salgado, a Spaniard, and sometimes a priest in the Church of Rome dedicated to the University of Oxford : with an account of his life and sufferings by the Romish party, since he forsook the Romish religion.	Salgado, James, fl. 1680.	1681 (1681)	Wing S375; ESTC R13433	10,044	21

spake to the Capernaits in a Metaphorical but also they take the Cup from the Laity as though they were unworthy to bear in their Memory the Bloud of Christ that which was shed for the Salvation of their precious and Immortal Souls As concerning the Offices of Christ I firmly hold and Believe that he is a King Prophet and Priest As a King he is Head of the Church which by his Prophetick Office he leads into all Truths by the Operation of his Holy Spirit and which by his Priestly Office he delivers from the Power of Satan Sin Death and Hell and that by shedding his own precious Bloud For God redeemed the World by his own Bloud So the Scripture teacheth us Act. 20.28 Now as to these Offices of CHRIST the Church of Rome errs exceedingly by adding to this our King a Companion to wit a Queen the Mother of our blessed Saviour who notwithstanding owns him for her Lord in her Canticle This Church also errs as to the Sacerdotal Office of Christ when even to this very day the Priests offer him up in their Idolatrous Mass a Sacrifice to God for the Sins both of the quick and Dead Seeing 't is not only apparent out of Daniel that Sacrifices and Oblations were to cease in the Days of the Messiah and that Christ by one Oblation of himself perfected for ever them that are sanctified and that which is but one is indivisible and not only so that Christ is the Consummation of all of them but it points out also the modus or manner of that Consummation namely that it was accomplished by that one Oblation of himself once for all But also because none can be Priests of the New Testament according to the order of Melchisedeck but Christ only because he alone is Eternal and by that means is contradistinguished from the Levitical Priests which were not suffer'd to continue by reason of Death As to their distinction of a bloudy and unbloudy Sacrifice as also of Primary and Secondary Priests because not grounded upon the Scriptures we reject it with the same Facility as they propound it To this Office of Christ it appertains that by his merits he makes us worthy of Divine Justification For all be it God Justifies the ungodly as the Apostles speaks yet for all that he does not Justifie such a one as is simply unjust but such a one as is accounted Just in Christ by vertue of that satisfaction of Infinite value performed by him Which Justification according to the tenor of the Scriptures is not imputed unto us for any desert that is in us but only upon the Account of Christs merits neither is it obtained by such deserts but by faith only in him who is the Propitiation for our sins Against this Doctrine the Romanists early contended saying that we are justified by works by which means they confound justification with sanctification Whereas the Apostle saith Therefore by the works of the Law shall no flesh living be justified and again That the Righteousness of GOD is manifested to all by Faith Yea he directly affirms that we are justified by Faith only True it is the Romanists themselves grant that we are justified by Faith but so as that it is by a work which yet is false because the Apostle opposeth works to Faith For this Cause Faith is to be lookt upon as it is a Relation or an Hand to apply a Plaister to the fore of sin which not by any vertue of it's own but by Efficacy of some vertue apply'd to the thing it self makes us heirs of Eternal Life St. James indeed saith that Men are justified by Works and not by Faith only But that I may pass by the Interpretation of some that will have this to be understood of justification in another World when the works of all men shall be sifted and examined It may be said that these words may and ought to be understood of such a Faith as is destitue of good Works and which is dead without them which very thing we also assert when we do by no means separate Works from Faith but always profess that Faith is to be joyned with good Works or in short that an Active and working Faith renders us just before Gods Tribunal Therefore Faith only justifies us but yet that Faith must not be alone or separated from good Works no otherwise then as the Eye only seeth but not the Eye that is separated from the Body and the hand only weighs any thing but not unless it be joyned with the Body Moreover as justification is to be taken in a forinsecal sense as we have shewn so 't is certain that it is wrought in an Infant and not by parts And therefore upon that account I rejected Purgatory because the fault being forgiven the punishment should be remitted also Neither does this make any thing against our Proposition that GOD sometimes sends diverse afflictions even upon just Persons for these are to be referred to the Category or Predicament of Fatherly Corrections rather than to that of Punishments For there is no Condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus Rom. 8.1 Neither do those Fears to which the Faithful are Subject signifie so much a servile Dread as a Filial Reverence because as we ought to work out our Salvation with sear and trembling So we are sure that nothing can work together for ill to them that Love God From hence flows the certainty of our Election which because it has more Assertions of it in the Church of Rome then detractors from it I need not much dispute about it Neither does the account of brevity require that I should enumerate the several questions of prescience prevision and predestination as things formally different among themselves seeing we have a brief compendium of them set down by the blessed Apostle Paul from whom any one may take it Rom. 8.30 I grant indeed that Prescience in its formal signification differs from Predestination as a selection out of a Number of Multitude does from the end to which the Objects as consider'd in themselves are destined and design'd But yet in the mean while I do not admit of any foresight of works which may in the least belong to those that are foreknown and the Establishment of their own Salvation For God chuseth no man upon the account of works foreseen but that they may perform these good Works after they are chosen All which things being well Considered I perceive a plain distinction to arise betwixt the Church Visible and Invisible not so much that the Universal Church is to be called Invisible from its outward non-appearance to Men but from the internal qualities of it because though many belong to the outward Communion yet God only knows who are his And from hence I concluded that it was an easie matter for me to give an answer to that famous Objection of the Papists Where was the Reformed Church before Luthers and Calvins time Namely that

A CONFESSION OF FAITH OF James Salgado A SPANIARD and sometimes a Priest in the Church of Rome Dedicated to the University of Oxford With an Account of his Life and Sufferings by the Romish Party since he forsook the Romish Religion LONDON Printed for William Marshall at the Bible in Newgate-street 1681. To all and Singular Members of the University of OXFORD To the Reverend and most Excellent Mr. Vicechancellour To the Reverend and Eminent Heads of Colledges And to the Worthy Fellows of the same James Salgado A Spaniard wisheth Felicity both Temporal and Eternal I Should be very Injurious to your bounty Liberally bestowed upon me O ye Men every one famous according to his Title and Degree unless according to the Old Custom of the Romans I should Crown that Fountain with Laurel from whence I drew Water For 't is a great Sign of Inhumanity to receive a benefit and not to return it again The Heliotrope must conform it self according to the Suns motion because as it cannot avoid it's Light so it ought not to decline its influence But this acteth so effectually upon it that it is forced to turn its Head to the Course of the Sun You have relieved my Misery O ye Gentlemen of the University and that so effectually that you have invited me to a Publick acknowledgement of your benevolence toward me which I am now willing to do lest by any longer delay this good purpose of mine should lose its reward This little Book therefore I lay before your Feet expecting what Censure you 'll please to bestow upon it You 'l take my Endeavours I hope in good part and pardon this my temerity If taking a little pains in this exercse as Sylla the Roman Dictator was wont to carry a little Image of Jupiter in his bosom So I presume to bear your Portraicture in my heart and this I will do beyond the reach of all envy and shall account it among the Number of the greatest Vertues to be found guilty of such a fault neither because you have done me a kindness therefore shall it be lawful for me to be ungrateful With Cyrus therefore favourably receive me as a genuin and true Persian and do not disdain to enlighten me with the bright raies of your further Benevolence who desires to borrow some splendor from your shadow Fare ye well most worthy Gentlemen and be entirely favourable to one that admires your dignities and is Your Servant James Salgado A Converted Spaniard A CONFESSION of FAITH IN the Name of GOD Amen After I had been admitted to the Order of Priest-Hood in the Church of Rome and now perceived that I was to look after the Cure of other Mens Souls committed to my Charge as well as my own I very often consider'd with my self how I might safely enter upon the way of Salvation and so provide salutary supplies both for my self and also for the Flock committed to my Custody 'T is very true that the Romanists debar the Common People from reading the Holy Scriptures as from the Food of Life but yet those of the Clergy and that especially in Spain my Native Country as well as other Roman Catholicks are wont more Religiously to exercise themselves in Reading the Sacred Scriptures The same thing happened to me also and while I was Reading Gods Holy Book I lighted upon those words of the Apostle 2 Tim. 3.16 All Scripture is given by Divine Inspiration and is profitable for Doctrine for Reproof for Correction and for Instruction in Righteousness That the Man of GOD may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good Works In which Words the blessed Apostle seemed to me to have drawn a Presbyter in his lively Colours and not only to have shewn and prescribed a Method of Preaching the Gospel but also to have discover'd the matter and Fountain from whence 't is to be drawn and which is more to have open'd a way which might bring the Man of God that is the Mimister of CHRIST to an undoubted Consummation For he mentions the Scriptures which he acknowledgeth to contain in them the whole Treasure of Gods Divine Will seeing he has both expressed those four Fountains of Christian Morality and also denounced him accursed whosoever shall offer to Preach any other Gospel than that which he Preached and withall Pronounced Peace upon every one that walketh according to this Rule Gal. 1.9 and 6.16 When I had ponder'd these things with my self and perceived such great and Magnificent things to have been spoken by the Apostle concerning the Scriptures he being such a one as had affirmed to the Elders of the Church of Ephesus that he had made known unto them the whole Counsel of GOD Act. 20.27 and yet withall that he spake nothing but what Moses and the Prophets had said before him At last I came to this Conclusion That the Holy Scriptures are the only Writings wherein we may be instructed concerning the Method and means of our Salvation and that out of them only we are to instruct the People and to Convince the Gain sayers To this Rule therefore I applyed all those Controversial Questions which usually past between Divines as being very desirous to know the Internal parts of every Profession in Religion that by this means I might the safer adjoyn my self either to this or that party and with a good Conscience worship GOD and his Anointed JESUS CHRIST And truly I could not own any other to be the true Religion which might be weighed in the Ballance of Gods Divine Law and the Promises besides the Reformed Wherefore I made a Covenant with my Soul That I would forthwith adjoyn my self ●o the Reformed Church and forsake the Romish Idolatry which also I did in France and that in the Assembly of CHARENTON and with great joy of my mind I did there unite my self to the Mystical Body of my Saviour But as every Man must live by his own Faith and none can be judged before Gods Tribunal unless it be by his own Conscience there being no Mediator to intercede betwixt that and GOD. So also I might have been one of the Resormed Religion without making any External Profession of my Faith Notwithstanding because of the Commands of my Friends and common Custom so requiring therefore I was the more willing to testify unto the World my intimate and sincere Confession in these following particulars With GODS help therefore I. In the first place I Confess that the Holy Scriptures are sufficient for Salvation and that they are the Supreme Normal Judge of all Controversies 'T is very true that as GOD is the Author of the Scriptures so he is likewise the Supreme Judge of all Controversies but none is to be acknowledged for the subordinate and Normal Judge of them but the Scripture only Neither is the Heresie of the Papists to be admitted who make the Church to be the Supreme Judge of Controversies Which Church as they call it whether it consists