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A07105	A treatise of schisme Shewing, that al Catholikes ought in any wise to abstaine altogether from heretical conuenticles, to witt, their prayers, sermons. &c, deuided into foure chapters, whereof 1. Conteineth sundry reasons to that purpose, grounded for the most part vppon scriptures and fathers. 2.Examples out of holy scriptures. 3. Examples out of ecclesiastical histories. 4. Answeres to the chiefe obiections. By Gregorie Martin Licentiate in Diuinitie.	Martin, Gregory, d. 1582.	1578 (1578)	STC 17508; ESTC S107013	61,358	188

execution But of the sinne of Schisme we reade Si nouam rem fecerit Dominus vt aperiens terra os suum deglutiat eos et omnia quae ad illos pertinent etc. If our Lorde should doo a newe thing that the earth opening her mouth doo swalowe them and al thinges that doo appertaine vnto them and liuing they shal descende to hel by this you shal knowe that they haue blasphemed our Lorde god Also the tenn tribes which through Schisme reuolted from the kingdome of Dauid were most gréeuously punished and in fine fel from Schisme to Idolatrye Moreouer as longe as Abraham abode amonge the Chaldeis who were Idolatrers it is not found that our Lord appered much vnto him althogh as it may be thoght he was a good man but when he departed from thence we reade that often God appered vnto him and as of a benefite most singuler doth put him in remembrance of his deliuerie Ego dominꝰ qui eduxi vos de terra Hurr Chal deorum Iacob the beloued did refuse to goe into the company of reprobate Esau although by giftes he had pacified him neither woulde suffer anye of his seruantes to be among his herdmen Ismaels playe with Isacke did so offende Sara that it is called in Scripture persecutiō Hard it was although Abrahā prostrate besought it to saue Lot from the wrath of God in Sodoma yea his wife for looking once backe towardes the place where the wicked were is eternally punished and Peter the prince of thapostles by entring into the palace of the high Superintendent warming him self at their fire is driuen to deny his faith Iohn the beloued could not escape their hands but by leauing his gaberdine behind glad to escape starke naked These are written for our instructions that we shoulde beware of false heretikes and Schismatikes whose spéech créepeth as doth the disease of a cancar infecteth those that it toucheth The Church therfore as a careful mother hath by Canons of antiquitie vtterlye forbidden her children to come nere the forsaken company as by the cotations in the margent may appere Bruno a learned writer saith that ech prouiso wherby heresies schismes are to be auoyded doo consist in these Haereticorum communione collegiis conuenticulis Scholis praedicationibꝰ doctrinis libris falsis ab haereticis vel compositis vel deprauatis By communicating with heretikes in their colleges conuenticles or prophecying prechings schooles or in bookes either by them fally made or by their notes corrupted for as by these things being suffred heresies Schismes doo grow encrease take rooting and infect So these occasions being prohibited cutt off they are either suppressed or vtterly extinguished To communicate with heretikes in these thinges is for thrée causes forbidden by the Churche and that vppon paine of the censures therof The first because heretikes are cutt from the Churche with whom neyther the Churche nor they of the Churche ought to haue eyther felowshipp or communion Secondly because Catholikes communicating in any of the premisses with heretikes corum se peccatis inuoluant doo wrapp them selues to be giltie in their sinns as it is written Depart from the tabernacles of these wicked men Schismatikes touche nothing that apperteyneth vnto them least in their sinnes you wrapp your selues Thirdly least in vsing their societie you be made one of them Qui stat videat nè cadat For their spéeche and company doth infect An emulamur dominum Shal we prouoke or trye whether God dare punish vs Are we stronger then he that we can abide his displeasure We doo euery day prouoke him to anger when we come to the conuenticles of his enemies It is not good to sustaine his displeasure And therfore is it forbidden by the Constitutions of the Apostles Impios haereticos qui impoenitentes fuerint c. The wicked heretikes that haue seperated them selues from the faithful Catholikes cast off for they are impenitent and charge the Catholikes to abstaine from their felowshipp by al meanes neither let them haue anye communication with them in spéeche or prayers for they are aduersaries and thieues to the Churche they begile the flock defile the heritage We warne you therefore that ye auoyde them least they intangle your soules in their snares for it is not lawful to runne with théeues No man can serue two masters at once Thus farre the Apostles We sée what charge they gaue to the children of the housholde For like as the life of the body procéedeth from the quickening spirite for vntil the breath of life was into the nosethrils of man breathed the body was senselesse without life for the life of the body is the soule made after the Image of God al the members as long as they remaine in the body haue life and strength effectual to their appointed operation procéeding from the soule in the same body for that purpose abiding But if either legge arme eare or nose be cut off from the body the life of the soule foloweth it not it is deade vnprofitable wretched and miserable the life of the soule foloweth not a deuided member Euen so looke what the soule of man doth in the natural bodye of man the same doth the holy Ghoste in the mistical bodye of Christe By Baptisme we haue put on Christe Quotquot in Christo baptizati estis Christum induistis We are incorporate into his body as truly as the leggs armes and head are by sinewes organically ioyned to the life of thy soule So truely are they that haue putt on Christe in Baptisme vnited vnto the mistical body of Christe which is the Catholike Churche The soule or life of which body is the holy Ghost like as the life of man is his soule As long as we remaine in this bodye mistical in this vine as true members as true branches so long haue we life grace giftes proportionable vnto the part that we occupie in the mistical body If we cutt off our selues by heresie by schisme by going into the Church where it is or where any part of the schismatical seruice therof is said or preached we haue no more the life graces and giftes of the holy Ghost to merite life euerlasting then hath the leg or arme cut off from the body the life of the soul which onely remaineth in the body The graces of the holy Ghost doo not folowe a deuided mēber what good works soeuer he doo they helpe nothing to merite life but he is a dead mēber withered to be cast into the euerlasting fire of hellish paine and woful miserie Vbi ecclesia ibi spiritus vbi spiritus dei illic ecclesia omnis gratia spiritus autem veritas Wher the Church is there is the spirit where the spirite of God is there is the Church al grace the spirit is truth And S. Augustine saith Qui ecclesiā relinquit