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The
right
Religion
,
evinced
by
L.B.
Romish
Church
Catholick
Church
Romish
Church
Nos autem non moveat aut turbet haeretici istius perfidi abrupta dementia , qui cum in tam ingenti dissentionis & schismatis crimine constitutus , & ab Ecclesia seperatus sit sacrilegà temeritate non dubitet in nos sua crimina retorquere . Cum sit enim à seipso nunc factus immundus , sordibus sacrilegis inquinatus , hoc nunc nos esse contendit , &c. Cyprian libell . ad Novat . Haeretic .
Luke
Fawn
Great
Constantine
Wheresoever
(
saith
he
)
and
whensoever
I
have
heard
(
as
I
have
done
often
)
some
,
no
small
ones
of
those
countreys
,
and
of
those
Courts
,
debate
upon
88
overthrow
,
they
ever
resolved
that
living
(
so
they
termed
that
renowned
Queen's
Reigne
)
there
was
no
such
like
attempt
to
be
made
;
but
she
being
dead
,
then
if
variety
of
Competitors
(
which
they
hoped
for
)
did
bring
confusion
it
would
be
good
fishing
;
otherwise
if
there
follow
a
Successour
peaceably
to
the
Crown
—
then
they
resolved
,
that
all
means
possible
were
to
be
used
,
that
peace
—
might
be
concluded
,
which
being
made
then
by
the
secret
endeavors
of
Priests
and
religious
men
(
who
might
be
sent
hither
with
more
security
then
before
)
we
must
draw
,
said
they
;
if
not
wholly
,
yet
to
be
at
least
our
indirect
favourers
and
friends
,
some
of
the
Commanders
,
and
those
who
cannot
be
won
by
pretence
of
religion
,
must
be
purchased
by
gifts
and
large
promises
.
But
above
all
we
must
labour
to
shake
hands
with
some
of
those
to
whom
the
care
of
the
Navy
,
the
Ports
,
and
Sea-coasts
is
committed
;
that
if
any
such
like
attempt
hereafter
be
thought
upon
by
the
Pope
,
or
his
Catholick
Majesty
,
we
may
find
some
favourites
.
Newcastle
:
That
we
are
not
justified
by
the
righteousness
of
Christ
,
which
he
in
his
own
Person
did
fulfill
without
us
,
but
by
inherent
holyness
which
Christ
within
us
inables
us
to
perform
.
2.
That
man
by
his
own
power
may
stand
perfect
,
and
that
men
may
be
perfectly
holy
in
this
life
.
3.
That
there
is
no
entrance
into
Heaven
for
any
not
perfectly
holy
,
unless
by
Purgatory
.
4.
That
every
man
in
the
world
hath
a
light
within
him
sufficient
to
guide
him
to
salvation
.
5.
That
the
Scriptures
are
not
a
rule
for
us
,
nor
are
the
spirits
to
be
tried
by
Scripture
,
nor
are
we
to
study
them
or
give
any
sense
of
them
.
Bishop
be
able
by
sound
Doctrine
,
both
to
exhort
and
convince
the
gain-sayers
,
1.9
,
10
,
11.
For
there
are
many
unruly
and
vain
talkers
and
deceivers
,
specially
they
of
the
Circumcision
,
whose
mouths
must
be
stopped
,
who
subvert
whole
houses
,
teaching
things
which
they
ought
not
for
filthy
lucres
sake
.
Whitakers
,
Reinolds
,
Chamier
,
Cameron
,
Perkins
,
Rivet
,
Bellarmine
,
Baily
,
&c.
There
shall
be
false
Teachers
amongst
you
,
who
privily
shall
bring
in
damnable
Heresies
,
—
and
many
shall
follow
their
perniciou●
ways
,
by
reason
of
whom
the
way
of
truth
shall
be
evil
spoken
of
;
and
through
covetousness
shall
they
with
feigned
words
make
Merchandize
of
you
,
&c.
to
the
Catholikes
of
England
to
the
Reader
truth
is
grown
so
loathsome
and
hateful
,
t●at
whosoever
goeth
about
to
tell
it
indangers
displeasure
,
they
despise
and
maligne
what
ought
most
of
all
to
be
cherisht
and
loved
,
of
whom
it
is
said
they
preferred
darkness
before
light
,
Joh.
That
truth
is
fallen
in
the
streets
,
yea
truth
faileth
,
and
he
that
departeth
from
evil
maketh
himself
a
prey
,
Isai
.
renowned
Catholikes
;
the
best
and
greatest
conquerours
,
brave
champions
,
great
,
glorious
,
good
conquerours
,
overcoming
themselves
,
and
what
not
?
many
,
glorious
for
the
truth
,
for
God
,
and
God
with
them
,
in
them
,
and
for
them
,
God
hath
just
cause
to
reward
them
.
Iren.
adv.
Haeres
.
lib.
&
lib.
the
best
and
greatest
conquerours
,
&c.
Spanish
Armado
OF
many
Religions
professed
in
this
Land
,
several
Writers
(
even
of
approved
integrity
,
and
profound
learning
)
have
so
clearly
demonstrated
that
there
is
only
one
true
rule
,
and
that
the
Roman
is
it
,
that
I
cannot
but
impute
the
ungeneral
acknowledging
of
the
same
to
prejudice
or
impatience
of
labour
;
to
prejudice
in
them
that
have
read
their
works
,
and
yet
do
not
believe
accordingly
;
to
impatience
of
labour
in
others
that
will
not
bestow
the
pains
to
turn
over
great
volumes
.
many
Religions
Mald.
in
Joan.
Calvin
,
Bucer
,
Bullinger
Reynold
.
praelec.
de
lib.
Apocr
Edvin
Sands
Those
principal
Writers
who
have
imployed
themselves
wholly
in
refuting
from
point
to
point
the
Protestants
Doctrine
and
Arguments
are
so
rare
in
as
by
ordinary
enquiry
not
to
be
found
—
the
controversies
of
I
sought
for
in
in
all
places
;
neither
that
,
nor
nor
any
of
such
quality
could
I
ever
in
any
such
Shop
in
set
eye
on
,
but
instead
of
them
an
infinite
of
meer
invectives
and
declamations
Europ
.
Specul
.
pag.
The
Papists
are
very
jealous
of
S.
Epistles
,
and
think
them
dangerous
,
so
that
some
of
their
of
late
in
Italy
in
solemn
Sermons
,
and
other
of
their
favourers
elswhere
in
private
communication
,
commending
S.
for
a
worthy
Spirit
,
have
censured
S.
for
an
hot-headed
person
,
who
was
transported
so
with
his
pangs
of
zeal
,
and
eagerness
beyond
all
compass
in
sundry
his
disputes
,
that
there
was
no
great
reckoning
to
be
made
of
his
assertions
,
yea
he
was
dangerous
to
read
,
as
savouring
of
Heresie
in
some
places
,
&c.
On
their
heads
were
as
it
were
crowns
of
gold
,
and
they
had
brest-plates
as
it
were
brest-plates
of
iron
,
and
the
sound
of
their
wings
was
as
the
sound
of
charets
of
many
horses
running
to
battel
,
and
they
had
tails
like
unto
scorpions
,
and
there
were
stings
in
their
tails
,
&c.
God
hath
appointed
the
means
to
mans
natural
happiness
to
be
acts
of
his
understanding
a●d
will
;
for
by
them
he
may
seek
and
find
out
God
,
as
he
is
the
Author
and
End
of
Nature
;
by
these
cleave
and
unite
,
and
so
enjoy
him
:
to
mans
supernatural
happiness
,
to
be
a
Conformity
of
Faith
to
the
Church
,
a
Conformity
of
Hope
to
our
Lords
Prayer
,
and
a
Conformity
of
Charity
to
the
Commandments
.
by
faith
a
man
comes
to
the
knowledg
of
God
as
he
is
the
Author
and
End
of
Grace
,
Emaus
,
Luk.
to
beleeve
all
that
the
Prophets
have
spoken
:
Beginning
at
Moses
and
all
the
Prophets
,
he
expounded
unto
them
in
all
the
Scriptures
the
things
concerning
himself
,
Going
,
teach
ye
all
Nations
.
Ans.
to
believe
on
him
whom
God
had
sent
(
Joh.
He
that
heareth
you
,
heareth
me
.
Ans.
He
that
heareth
you
heareth
me
If
any
man
teach
otherwise
,
and
consent
not
to
wholesom
words
,
even
the
words
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
—
he
is
proud
—
from
such
withdraw
thy self
,
Arias
Montanus
Elucid
in
Mat.
It
is
all
one
to
despise
Christ
,
Rhē
.
Annot.
and
to
despise
his
Priests
and
Ministers
in
the
Catholique
Church
,
to
refuse
his
doctrine
and
theirs
:
He
that
heareth
not
the
Church
,
let
him
be
as
an
Heathen
and
a
Publican
.
If
he
neglect
to
hear
thee
,
If
he
neglect
to
hear
them
,
Private
spirit
witnessing
both
to
small
and
great
,
saying
,
None
other
things
then
those
w●ich
the
Prophets
and
Moses
did
say
should
come
to
pass
,
Acts
This
I
confess
unto
thee
,
that
after
the
way
which
they
call
Heresie
,
so
worship
I
the
God
of
my
fathers
,
believing
all
things
which
are
written
in
the
Law
and
the
Prophets
.
I
found
that
by
consent
of
all
Christians
,
this
knowledg
of
the
means
to
attain
to
happiness
,
was
not
to
be
gotten
by
clear
and
evident
sight
,
nor
by
humane
discourse
founded
on
the
principles
of
Reason
,
nor
by
reliance
upon
Authority
meerly
humane
,
but
Only
by
Faith
Grounded
On
The
Word
of
GOD
,
revealing
unto
men
things
that
were
otherwise
,
only
known
to
his
infinite
Wisdom
,
—
seeing
the
Church
to
the
worlds
end
must
be
built
on
the
Apostles
,
and
Believe
Nothing
as
Matter
of
Faith
beside
that
which
was
delivered
of
them
,
as
St.
saith
,
Ephes.
the
Truth
of
God
revealed
and
expressed
to
us
,
is
the
Rule
of
Faith
,
Chap.
i.
e.
By
the
first
Conformity
man
comes
to
the
knowledg
of
God
as
he
is
the
Author
and
End
of
Grace
;
by
the
second
he
relies
upon
his
Mercy
and
Goodness
,
Vasq.
in
The
means
of
habitual
and
actual
divine
(
Faith
,
Hope
and
Charity
)
is
the
Tradition
of
the
Church
.
the
Tradition
of
the
Church
Vincentius
Lyrinensis
Faith
cometh
by
hearing
,
and
hearing
by
the
Word
of
God
,
Rom.
St
Paul
—
gives
to
Charity
the
preeminence
:
And
not
undeservedly
;
for
she
is
the
enlivening
Soul
of
Faith
and
Hope
,
&c.
both
they
—
being
(
out
of
her
company
)
as
dead
bodies
without
life
or
motion
,
&c.
Primasius
,
Augustine
Lyran.
in
It
's
the
Soul
of
Faith
,
&c.
faith
without
works
is
dead
Faith
,
hope
,
&c.
will
be
sufficient
,
and
good
works
not
required
,
where
for
want
of
time
and
opportunity
they
cannot
be
had
.
Salmeron
,
Tolet
,
Stella
the
breath
was
moved
to
it
by
this
reason
,
because
works
are
not
the
form
of
faith
,
but
certain
concomitant
effects
;
but
the
soul
is
the
form
of
the
body
.
Azorius
without
soul
without
spirit
or
breath
.
Bernard
Faith
that
is
without
works
is
dead
,
Faith
is
dead
without
works
throughout
your
Ladies
Psalter
the
Name
of
God
is
changed
into
the
Name
of
our
Lady
:
That
he
opposeth
and
exalteth
himself
above
all
that
is
called
God
,
or
that
is
worshipped
;
so
that
he
is
as
God
,
sitteth
in
the
Temple
of
God
,
shewing
himself
that
he
is
God
.
The
gates
of
Hell
shall
not
prevail
against
it
,
A
verâ
fide
subvertendo-scil
Whereby
it
is
evident
that
this
Church
doth
not
consist
in
men
of
ecclesiastical
or
secular
power
or
dignity
,
because
many
Princes
and
Popes
and
others
inferior
have
been
found
to
apostatize
from
the
Faith
;
wherefore
it
consists
in
those
persons
in
whom
is
true
knowledg
,
and
confession
of
faith
and
truth
.
Answ.
to
Reynolds
:
Innocentius
Chimaera
.
Azorius
it
's
agreed
upon
by
all
Catholikes
,
that
a
General
Councel
may
err
in
faith
and
manners
,
if
it
be
not
called
and
confirmed
by
the
Authority
of
the
Pope
of
Rome
:
learned
men
are
to
be
consulted
with
,
but
all
the
infallibility
is
in
him
alone
.
Supposing
it
for
granted
,
that
Christs
knowledg
of
Gods
revealed
Truth
,
and
his
power
to
convey
the
same
to
belief
,
raised
his
preaching
and
teaching
to
the
full
height
and
perfection
of
a
Rule
of
Belief
to
the
first
Christians
;
it
cannot
in
reason
be
denyed
,
he
having
communicated
his
said
knowledg
and
power
to
the
Apostles
,
and
in
them
to
the
succeeding
Churches
(
as
appears
by
his
own
words
,
but
she
may
challenge
a
like
interest
and
right
in
respect
of
after-Christians
:
whence
it
follows
,
that
all
matters
of
Belief
(
as
well
other
Points
as
Scripture
)
are
to
be
taken
up
upon
her
account
and
credit
;
and
that
whatsoever
comes
upon
any
other
score
,
is
to
be
reputed
Apocryphal
,
and
no
way
appertaining
to
the
obligation
of
Belief
.
Christs
preaching
and
teaching
was
a
Rule
of
Belief
.
Ans.
i.
e.
&c.
Luk.
was
a
Rule
of
Beliefe
to
the
first
Christian●
.
Ans.
Christs
knowledg
of
Gods
revealed
truth
,
and
his
power
to
convey
the
same
to
belief
,
raised
his
preaching
,
&c.
All
I
have
learned
of
my
Father
I
have
made
known
unto
you
.
He
that
saw
it
bare
record
,
and
his
record
is
true
,
and
he
knoweth
that
he
saith
true
,
that
ye
might
believe
.
Durand
,
Scotus
,
Gabriel
As
my
Father
sent
me
,
&c.
All
things
that
I
have
heard
of
my
Father
,
I
have
made
known
unto
you
,
Joh.
Thy
people
shall
be
willing
in
the
day
of
thy
power
.
He
having
communicated
his
said
knowledg
and
power
to
the
Apostles
,
and
in
them
to
the
succeeding
Churches
—
but
she
may
challenge
a
like
interest
and
right
in
respect
of
after-Christians
.
Ans.
succeeding
Churches
She
may
challenge
she
may
justly
challenge
a
like
interest
and
right
in
respect
of
after-Christians
,
i.
e.
All
matters
of
Faith
,
as
well
other
points
as
Scripture
,
are
to
be
taken
up
upon
her
account
,
&c.
Whence
it
follows
that
all
matters
of
belief
,
as
well
other
points
as
Scripture
,
are
to
be
taken
up
upon
her
account
and
credit
.
Ans.
other
points
Quemadmodum
omnes
homines
,
&c.
As
all
men
are
indued
with
a
certain
natural
light
,
whereby
they
understand
the
first
principles
to
be
true
,
without
labour
,
without
arguments
,
nor
is
there
any
that
demands
reasons
and
arguments
when
those
principles
are
propounded
:
So
also
all
Christians
enlightened
by
God
with
a
certain
divine
and
supernatural
light
,
do
acknowledg
the
first
principles
of
our
Faith
,
though
difficult
,
and
exceeding
reason
to
be
most
true
.
Origen
Si
quis
cum
omni
judicio
,
&c.
If
any
one
doth
judiciously
,
and
with
that
reverence
that
is
meet
consider
of
the
Sacred
Writ
while
he
reads
,
and
diligently
searcheth
into
it
,
most
certainly
(
having
his
minde
and
senses
affected
with
some
divine
inspiration
)
he
acknowledgeth
that
the
word
he
reads
is
not
the
word
of
men
,
but
of
God
,
and
of
himselfe
,
perceives
that
these
books
are
written
not
by
humane
art
,
or
mortal
eloquence
,
but
by
the
hand
of
God
.
Whatsoever
comes
upon
any
other
score
is
to
be
reputed
Apocriphal
,
and
no
way
appertaining
to
the
obligation
of
faith
.
Magna
All
Scripture
is
by
divine
inspiration
Lyran.
in
Vbi
deficit
humana
Doctrina
Multa
sunt
,
&c.
There
are
many
points
of
Christian
Doctrine
,
which
of
themselves
,
can
procure
to
themselves
credit
and
authority
.
Greek
Church
God
hath
endowed
her
with
inerrability
,
whereby
to
convey
the
truth
safely
,
and
without
danger
of
miscarrying
,
by
arming
her
proof
against
all
the
enemies
of
truth
,
against
ignorance
—
error
—
darkness
—
weakness
.
If
the
Church
cannot
convey
truth
safely
,
and
without
danger
of
miscarrying
,
but
by
the
gift
of
inerrability
,
then
Christ
hath
endowed
her
with
it
:
But
she
cannot
convey
truth
safely
,
and
without
danger
of
miscarrying
,
but
by
the
gift
of
inerrability
:
If
Christ
hath
armed
his
Church
against
the
enemies
of
truth
,
viz.
ignorance
,
darkness
,
error
,
and
weakness
,
then
hath
he
endowed
her
with
inerrability
;
but
he
hath
so
armed
her
:
In
a
dark
place
In
hujus
saeculi
nocte
,
&c.
In
the
night
of
this
world
full
of
temptations
,
vices
and
errors
,
where
there
is
hardly
one
to
be
found
without
error
,
against
which
this
light
is
necessary
.
Deus
non
semper
sequitur
ecclesiae
judicium
,
&c.
God
doth
not
alwayes
concur
with
the
judgment
of
the
Church
,
which
judgeth
somtime
by
stealth
and
ignorance
.
Circa
illa
,
&c.
Concerning
those
things
that
are
not
necessary
to
be
believed
expresly
,
it
s
not
necessary
that
the
Churches
judgment
be
alwayes
certain
.
Fieri
potest
,
&c.
It
may
be
that
the
Vice-head
may
be
distempered
as
the
natural
,
and
as
this
noxious
humour
,
so
that
may
diffuse
into
the
body
unsound
opinions
.
perfect
holiness
in
regard
of
Doctrine
is
not
in
all
times
and
places
,
because
great
men
may
not
only
doubt
,
but
err
in
some
points
of
Doctrine
,
and
yet
the
true
Church
remain
with
them
.
&c.
Although
the
Church
be
supported
by
divine
power
and
authority
,
yet
inasmuch
as
it
is
a
Congregation
of
men
,
something
through
humane
weakness
is
acted
by
it
which
is
not
divine
.
To
you
it
is
given
to
know
the
mysteries
of
the
Kingdome
of
heaven
.
Ans.
to
the
Apostles
,
and
such
as
have
the
guiding
and
teaching
of
others
,
deeper
knowledg
of
Gods
word
and
mysteries
is
given
,
then
to
the
common
people
,
as
also
to
Christians
generally
,
that
which
was
not
given
to
the
obstinate
Jewes
The
anointing
which
ye
have
received
of
him
abideth
in
you
,
and
ye
need
not
that
any
man
teach
you
,
but
as
the
same
anointing
teacheth
you
of
all
things
,
&c.
You
are
the
light
of
the
world
.
Ans.
God
is
light
,
and
in
him
is
no
darkness
at
all
,
a
light
Gregory
,
Burgensis
Cyran●s
note
A
City
set
on
a
Hill
,
I
will
send
unto
you
the
Spirit
of
truth
,
to
remain
with
you
for
ever
:
Thou
shalt
no
more
be
called
forsaken
.
the
Spirit
for
many
other
causes
is
given
to
divers
private
men
,
and
to
all
good
men
to
sanctification
;
but
to
teach
all
truth
,
and
to
preserve
in
truth
,
and
from
error
,
he
is
promised
and
performed
only
to
the
Church
,
and
the
chief
Governour
and
General
Councils
thereof
.
Christ
prayeth
that
the
Apostles
,
their
Successors
,
and
all
that
shall
be
of
their
belief
,
may
be
sanctified
in
truth
,
may
have
the
Spirit
of
truth
,
and
be
freed
from
error
.
She
is
the
Pillar
and
ground
of
truth
:
Hell
Gates
shall
not
prevail
against
her
.
She
is
the
Pillar
,
&c.
the
Gospel
which
was
preached
by
the
Apostles
,
was
afterwards
by
the
will
of
God
delivered
to
us
in
writing
,
(
Fundamentum
&
columnam
fidei
nostrae
futurum
)
that
it
might
be
a
ground
and
Pillar
of
our
Faith
.
qui
●cclsiae
illius
columneae
James
,
Cephas
18.
See
I
am
with
you
alwayos
to
the
end
of
the
world
.
Ans.
Quia
magna
eis
injunxerat
,
&c
because
he
had
laid
a
great
task
upon
them
,
to
comfort
them
he
saith
,
[
Behold
I
am
with
you
,
&c.
]
q.
d.
lest
you
should
complain
that
your
work
is
difficult
,
I
will
be
with
you
,
who
make
all
things
light
.
Either
Christ
was
not
of
power
to
keep
his
Church
from
strayings
,
or
that
he
wanted
fidelity
to
make
good
his
word
.
The
certaintie
Divine
Faith
requires
to
be
built
on
,
is
a
further
evidence
of
the
Churches
infallibilitie
for
how
is
it
possible
Faith
can
be
certain
,
if
the
Church
that
is
to
ascertain
it
be
uncertain
and
fallible
?
That
which
Divine
Faith
doth
build
upon
must
be
certain
and
infallible
(
else
Faith
it self
could
not
be
certain
)
but
it
's
the
Church
that
●ivine
Faith
doth
build
upon
,
therefore
the
Church
must
be
certain
and
infallible
.
Probare
concessa
,
leviter
pertransire
dubitata
,
These
things
are
written
that
ye
might
believe
,
i.
e.
In
quo
magis
confirmetur
auditor
;
whereby
the
hearer
may
be
more
confirmed
.
Habent
Moysen
,
&c.
they
have
who
taught
moral
actions
,
and
the
Prophets
who
delivered
mysteries
of
Faith
,
and
these
suffice
to
salvation
;
therefore
it
follows
,
let
them
hear
them
.
i.
e.
&c.
He
that
goes
beside
the
rule
of
Faith
,
doth
not
walk
in
the
way
,
but
departs
from
it
—
Neither
would
the
Apostle
himself
have
us
found
our
hope
on
him
,
but
on
that
truth
which
he
declared
:
That
which
was
spoken
by
him
was
better
,
then
he
by
whom
it
was
spoken
.
That
if
any
stay
in
the
resolution
of
the
Church
,
and
ascend
not
to
the
Scripture
his
assent
,
who
believes
,
because
of
the
authority
of
the
Church
is
not
an
assent
of
Theological
Faith
,
but
of
an
other
inferiour
order
,
viz.
by
which
Arg.
p.
Look
on
the
Churches
composure
and
nature
,
and
her
strength
will
appear
yet
more
,
by
reason
she
is
framed
,
and
made
up
of
men
,
Gen.
dispersed
and
spread
over
the
world
,
Act.
who
by
this
means
being
of
several
Nations
,
Ps.
different
tempers
and
interests
,
Luk.
neither
could
,
nor
can
meet
,
or
conspire
to
cheat
themselves
or
posteritie
with
a
lie
.
If
the
Church
be
composed
of
men
of
several
Nations
,
different
tempers
and
interests
,
then
it
's
infallible
;
but
it
is
so
composed
,
&c.
therefore
infallible
.
A.
That
society
that
is
framed
,
and
made
up
of
men
dispersed
and
spread
over
the
world
,
&c.
is
infallible
.
Pontius
Pilate
different
tempers
and
interests
They
are
not
above
,
but
very
neer
us
,
in
our
mouths
,
and
in
our
hearts
to
do
them
.
Hid
,
non
est
occultum
à
te
.
It
s
not
hidden
from
thee
.
in
your
mouths
in
ore
Levitarum
in
the
mouths
of
the
Levites
,
who
are
of
thy
people
—
that
thou
mayest
receive
from
them
those
precepts
that
concern
a
good
l●fe
,
and
that
they
may
teach
them
thee
without
delay
.
Praeciditur
hic
,
&c.
Here
is
cut
off
from
the
Jews
all
occasion
of
pleading
their
ignorance
of
the
Law
.
Ostenditur
,
&c.
Here
is
shewed
the
facility
of
that
righteousness
which
is
by
the
Faith
of
Christ
,
Si
de
sola
lege
,
&c.
If
this
were
spoken
only
of
the
Law
,
his
argument
were
frivolous
,
in
that
the
Law
of
God
is
nothing
easier
to
be
done
,
by
being
before
our
eyes
,
then
if
it
were
far
off
:
therefore
in
this
Chapter
,
as
in
the
fourth
,
doth
commend
unto
the
people
Gods
special
good
will
(
as
appears
by
that
place
of
in
bringing
them
under
his
tutorage
,
which
commendation
could
not
be
taken
from
the
naked
Law
:
Nor
doth
it
hinder
,
that
preacheth
of
ordering
their
life
according
to
the
rule
of
the
Law
,
for
the
free
righteousness
of
Faith
hath
the
Spirit
of
regeneration
accompanying
it
;
therefore
one
is
infer'd
from
the
other
,
because
the
observation
of
the
Law
is
through
the
Faith
of
Christ
.
My
yoke
is
sweet
,
my
burthen
light
.
A.
Christs
yoke
is
the
Gospel
which
unites
Jews
and
Gentiles
in
one
Faith
.
Lyranus
Lex
Evangelica
This
is
the
work
of
God
that
we
believe
on
him
whom
God
hath
sent
,
Joh.
Onus
patribus
antiquis
importabile
To
will
is
present
with
me
,
but
how
to
perform
that
which
is
good
I
find
not
,
Rom.
Semper
bonus
vult
,
&c.
A
good
man
hath
alwayes
a
will
not
to
sin
;
but
he
never
attains
to
this
perfection
in
this
life
,
that
he
should
not
sin
.
In
Lege
multa
jubentur
,
&c.
In
the
Law
many
things
are
commanded
,
which
the
Apostle
saith
cannot
be
done
;
in
the
Gospel
there
is
required
the
will
—
which
alone
may
suffice
,
and
be
rewarded
.
Noe
,
Ezekias
,
Josias
,
Josephat
,
Asa
,
Jotham
,
J
b
,
Simeon
,
John
Baptist
,
Zecharias
,
Elizabeth
,
B.
Virgin
Dictum
est
,
&c.
It
's
spoken
(
as
it
seems
to
me
)
of
their
conversation
,
which
was
approved
,
and
commendable
in
the
sight
of
men
,
and
which
none
could
justly
accuse
or
complain
of
,
&c.
Melito
,
Epiphanius
,
Hilarius
,
Hieronimus
,
Ruffinus
,
Sixtus
Senensis
&c.
That
man
in
this
present
life
may
attain
to
such
and
so
great
a
degree
of
perfection
,
that
thereby
he
becomes
altogether
impeccable
.
Gods
conditional
promises
to
and
his
Posteritie
,
could
be
tearmed
no
better
then
jeers
,
unless
the
Commandments
were
possible
.
A.
The
good
Lord
pardon
every
one
that
prepareth
his
heart
to
seek
the
Lord
God
of
his
Fathers
,
though
he
be
not
cleansed
according
to
the
purification
of
the
Sanctuary
;
and
the
Lord
hearkened
to
Who
hast
kept
with
thy
servant
my
Faiher
,
that
thou
promised'st
him
thou
spakest
also
with
thy
mouth
,
and
hast
fulfilled
it
with
thine
hand
,
as
it
is
this
day
.
I
will
make
an
everlasting
Covenant
with
you
,
even
the
sure
mercies
of
To
what
purpose
is
so
much
perswasion
in
books
and
Pulpits
to
live
well
,
if
the
Commandments
be
impossible
?
Is
living
well
,
any
other
than
keeping
of
the
Commandments
?
It
is
assuredly
as
ridiculous
,
as
impious
,
to
term
him
a
good
liver
,
that
steals
,
murders
,
and
commits
adultery
,
&c.
A.
Augustin
O
homo
in
praeceptione
cognosce
&c.
O
man
in
the
precept
know
what
thou
oughtest
to
have
.
They
should
deceive
if
it
were
possible
the
very
Elect
:
but
its
impossible
:
I
was
alive
without
the
Law
once
,
but
when
the
commandment
came
,
sin
revived
and
I
dyed
.
Therefore
God
hath
enjoyned
as
to
observe
his
Commandments
,
that
seeing
our
weakness
and
defects
,
and
that
we
cannot
do
what
we
ought
we
might
fly
to
the
mercy
of
God
.
Is
living
well
any
other
then
keeping
of
the
Commands
?
tearming
him
a
good
liver
that
steals
,
&c.
The
justness
of
Laws
that
inflict
severe
punishments
upon
the
breakers
of
the
Commandments
are
n●t
at
all
consistent
with
the
impossibility
of
keeping
them
:
Necessity
is
a
good
and
forcible
excuse
against
the
strongest
charge
.
The
very
light
of
reason
gives
testimony
to
the
Commandments
possibility
,
they
being
all
grounded
upon
reason
,
and
suited
to
her
bent
and
inclination
:
the
wickedst
man
alive
cannot
say
that
he
breaketh
any
Command
without
some
secr●t
check
of
conscienco
.
Answ.
the
wickedst
man
alive
,
&c.
This
is
repugnant
to
Christs
expresse
words
,
which
are
not
,
Math.
If
thou
wilt
come
to
Heaven
endeavour
to
keep
,
but
keep
the
Commandments
.
Many
a
good
endeavour
,
as
many
a
good
purpose
,
burns
in
Hell
.
Heaven
is
rhe
reward
of
doing
not
of
endeavouring
.
Strive
to
enter
in
at
the
strait
gatte
,
&c.
Mat.
Ask
and
it
shall
be
given
you
seek
and
ye
shall
find
,
&c.
that
perfection
of
charity
whereby
the
whole
heart
of
man
is
continually
and
actualy
carryed
towards
God
is
our
perfection
in
our
Countrey
,
but
not
p●ssible
in
this
life
,
in
which
because
of
human
infirmities
its
impossible
always
actually
to
think
of
God
or
to
love
him
:
but
there
is
another
kind
of
perfection
,
which
is
,
when
a
man
doth
wholly
endeavour
to
devote
himself
to
God
and
Divine
exercises
,
omiting
other
things
,
unlesse
so
far
as
humane
necessity
doth
require
,
and
this
is
possible
in
our
way
,
&c.
many
a
good
endeavour
burns
in
Hell
.
It
s
equally
unnatural
to
endeavour
impossibilities
,
and
to
desire
things
unknown
,
Who
would
chose
but
smile
to
see
one
leap
and
skip
as
aiming
to
soàr
and
fly
in
the
aire
,
knowing
it
to
be
possible
only
for
birds
that
are
fitted
with
wings
and
feathers
for
the
purpose
.
Reas.
What
the
Law
could
not
do
in
that
it
was
weak
through
the
flesh
,
&c.
Indeed
to
point
at
any
particular
,
that
doth
keep
the
Commandments
is
hard
,
no
man
knowing
whether
he
be
worthy
of
love
or
hatred
.
Reply
,
The
Commandments
(
say
you
)
may
be
kept
but
its
hard
to
point
at
any
particular
,
&c.
Egregii
Doctores
,
&c.
Brave
Doctors
who
say
that
may
be
done
which
they
cannot
shew
us
was
ever
done
.
But
that
all
in
general
may
keep
them
Christ
himself
assures
it
,
Wiling
all
to
be
saved
.
God
wills
no
thing
impossible
,
and
he
that
wills
the
end
,
wills
the
means
.
Rep.
.
they
could
not
beleeve
Answ.
It
s
in
the
power
of
men
to
love
God
so
far
forth
as
the
capacity
of
their
condition
reacheth
—
this
is
sufficient
to
denominate
,
and
render
the
subject
it
is
in
perfect
.
Reply
,
Religion
consists
in
belief
not
humane
grounded
upon
reason
but
relying
on
the
Churches
authority
and
the
assistance
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
Aquin.
22.
81.
1.
To
be
the
guide
of
belief
requires
further
ability
and
skill
,
to
lay
open
immediately
to
belief
Gods
reveled
truth
,
a
prerogative
belongs
to
the
Church
,
and
no
other
;
as
to
whom
alone
revelation
was
made
.
The
Religion
of
sectaries
is
vain
their
b
lief
being
grounded
on
some
humane
respect
,
not
upon
the
warrantable
authority
of
the
Church
.
ibid.
Answ.
Consult
Azorius
For
them
to
deserve
the
name
of
true
Christians
,
and
to
be
stiled
of
the
right
Religion
,
their
only
way
is
to
level
at
perfection
,
that
takes
its
rise
from
an
absolute
resignation
of
their
wills
to
the
will
of
God
in
order
to
the
Church
,
which
is
to
become
spiritually
little
ones
.
Matth.
Experience
shews
that
this
unity
of
Religion
is
an
effect
of
acknowledging
the
Church
for
the
rule
of
belief
,
it
being
visible
to
the
eye
that
all
that
square
their
belief
to
the
Church
are
one
in
religion
;
whereas
they
that
take
to
themselves
other
rules
discent
and
jarre
&c.
p.
is
an
effect
of
acknowledgi●g
the
Church
for
the
rule
of
belief
.
squaring
mens
belief
to
the
Church
.
Of
which
no
other
reason
can
be
given
,
but
that
the
Church
is
alwaies
constant
and
certain
;
other
rules
subject
to
uncertainty
and
change
.
Answ.
a
more
sure
word
of
prophecy
to
which
we
do
well
that
we
take
he●d
True
it
is
that
Scripture
in
itsel
,
that
i●
,
as
it
is
the
Word
of
God
dictat●d
b●
the
Hol●-Ghost
is
certain
and
infallible
;
but
to
us
,
to
wi●
,
as
it
is
liable
to
this
and
to
others
priv●te
interpretation
it
is
as
uncertain
,
and
●allible
as
man
,
witnesse
the
many
contrary
interpr●tations
,
&c.
Answ.
We
have
also
a
more
sure
word
of
Prophecy
whereunto
ye
d
well
that
ye
take
heed
as
unto
a
light
,
&c.
All
the
words
of
my
mouth
are
plain
to
him
that
understandeth
:
they
are
The
testimony
of
the
Lord
is
SVRE
,
making
wise
the
simple
.
The
en
rance
●f
thy
Word
giveth
li●ht
:
it
giveth
und●rstanding
un●o
the
simple
.
Thou
h
particular
men
may
mak●
wr●ng
interpretations
of
some
plac●s
,
y●t
th●s
is
when
they
use
not
that
diligence
,
and
those
means
that
they
ought
to
use
,
i.
e.
To
know
and
disscern
who
they
be
,
the
only
way
is
to
see
their
warrant
,
and
examine
their
works
.
If
their
warrant
prove
that
of
miracles
,
and
their
works
good
,
doubtless
they
have
the
favour
of
Gods
Spirit
;
if
otherwise
,
they
are
at
the
best
but
pretence-makers
,
and
ush●rs
of
innovation
.
Answ.
Wherefore
tongues
are
for
a
sign
,
not
to
them
that
beleive
,
but
to
them
that
believe
not
hic
ostendit
,
&c.
Whereas
it
said
that
signs
were
given
in
the
behalf
of
infidels
,
its
manifest
that
faith
encreasing
,
they
cease
:
that
the
extraordinary
gift
of
Tongues
was
a
miraculous
sign
in
the
primitive
Church
,
Rhem.
on
to
be
used
especially
in
the
Nations
of
the
Heathen
for
their
conversion
.
What
,
shall
we
not
beli
ve
if
we
do
no
miracles
?
These
were
necessary
in
the
beginning
that
faith
might
be
cherished
with
miracles
,
but
now
faith
being
confirmed
they
are
not
necessary
,
it
sufficeth
that
Doctrine
be
confirmed
by
the
good
works
of
those
who
preach
and
publish
it
as
whence
it
is
plain
that
the
Spirit
of
Spiritists
is
a
false
imposture
,
a
meere
figment
and
delusion
.
Answ.
Inasmuch
as
its
destitute
of
miracles
.
Answ.
Chrysostom
Si
quis
dicat
,
sed
non
vid●●us
haec
signa
nunc
fieri
,
&c.
If
any
say
,
but
we
see
not
these
signs
to
be
done
now
:
It
may
be
answ●red
,
there
is
no
difference
whether
they
be
done
now
,
or
were
done
in
time
past
.
Recedite
fratre●
,
recedite
:
haec
nostra
non
sunt
&c.
Go
your
waies
brethren
,
go
your
waies
from
us
,
miracles
belong
not
to
us
,
b●t
to
the
holy
Ap
stles
:
why
do
y●u
lay
burdens
upon
us
which
we
cannot
bear
?
Quando
tibi
hoc
suggerit
inimicus
,
&c.
When
the
enemy
suggests
this
to
thee
:
what
a
man
art
thou
?
What
a
Christian
?
Hast
thou
wrought
so
much
as
one
miracle
?
Hast
th●u
by
thy
prayers
raised
up
the
dead
,
or
r
st●red
them
tha●
have
been
sick
of
f●a●ers
?
If
thou
wert
of
any
worth
,
th●u
wouldst
do
some
miracle
.
Answer
and
say
,
't
is
writ●●n
thou
sh●lt
not
tempt
the
Lord
thy
God
:
I
will
not
therefore
tempt
God
,
as
if
I
belonged
to
God
if
I
did
a
miracle
,
or
did
not
belong
to
him
if
I
did
it
not
.
The
Spirit
in
us
induceth
to
ill
,
it
perswading
a
disloyal
de●ection
from
the
Lords
prayer
,
the
Commandments
and
church
.
When
they
cannot
imitate
the
good
is
in
us
(
which
they
can
only
do
they
envie
us
,
&
in
this
think
themselves
verie
learned
that
they
can
detract
from
us
.
This
Spirit
in
us
prompteth
things
contrarie
and
inconsistent
each
with
other
.
Ans.
This
is
out
of
the
matter
in
hand
;
here
being
no
dispute
of
Gods
power
,
what
he
may
do
,
but
of
his
will
what
he
doth
.
Reply
Arg
▪
Answ.
their
other
ground
for
ins●iration
upon
the
assurance
of
Conscienc●
,
St.
and
St.
convinced
long
since
of
weaknesse
and
coufinage
.
Reply
,
th●t
we
dw●ll
in
him
and
he
in
us
,
because
he
hath
given
us
of
his
Sprit
,
Per
hoc
,
&c.
Hereby
we
prove
that
he
hath
given
us
of
his
holy
Spirit
,
because
we
see
,
that
is
through
the
Spirit
of
inspiration
by
faith
we
know
,
and
by
the
testifying
spirit
do
we
witness
,
&c.
may
be
considered
in
it self
,
or
in
r
spect
of
us
:
In
it self
,
its
Gods
reveal
d
truth
;
in
respect
of
us
,
it
s
the
same
truth
expressed
to
us
.
Thus
far
Catholiques
and
S●iritists
agree
:
their
difference
i●
about
the
expression
.
Their
difference
is
about
the
expr●ssion
;
These
holding
that
it
is
that
of
their
private
Spirit
,
joyned
to
to
that
of
Scipture
only
,
those
that
it
is
that
of
the
Ch●rch
,
Scripture
bearing
witness
to
her
truth
.
The
Spiritists
rule
of
Faith
Spiritists
hold
that
the
rule
of
Faith
is
Gods
reveal●d
truth
expressed
to
them
by
their
private
Spirit
joyned
to
the
expression
of
Scripture
only
.
Catholiques
teach
that
it
is
God
revealed
truth
expressed
by
the
Church
,
Scripture
bearing
wirness
to
her
truth
.
this
Spirit
is
false
and
spurious
.
Answ.
No
interpretation
of
Scripture
by
private
Spirit
.
To
bel●eve
the
Churc●
to
captivate
the
understanding
to
the
obedience
of
faith
.
to
the
Obedience
of
Christ
to
the
obedi-of
the
Church
None
can
serve
two
Masters
that
no
prophecy
of
Scripture
is
of
any
private
interpr●tation
,
Vnderstanding
this
first
,
that
no
prophesie
of
Scripture
is
Made
by
private
interpretati
n
:
All
understanding
that
the
Scripture
is
deficient
Scripture
attesteth
it
in
that
it
refers
to
the
Church
.
Answ.
reason
makes
it
good
,
because
it
declares
not
all
points
that
Christians
are
bound
to
believe
,
which
they
acknowledg
themselves
bound
to
beleeve
.
Answ.
&c.
How
can
the
soul
of
man
live
the
life
of
Righteousn●sse
and
Grace
,
unlesse
it
know
Gods
will
,
and
those
things
which
according
to
it
are
just
or
unjust
,
to
be
done
,
or
to
be
left
undone
,
to
be
loved
or
to
be
hated
,
to
be
fear'd
or
to
be
attempted
,
and
what
are
to
be
beleeved
,
and
w●at
to
be
hoped
for
,
with
what
ever
else
is
necessary
to
our
salvation
all
which
(
sola
docet
sacra
Scriptura
)
the
sacred
Scripture
alone
t●acheth
.
they
declare
not
that
those
books
of
Scripture
which
are
received
for
Canonical
are
so
indeed
;
that
some
are
Canonical
,
other
some
Apocriphal
;
that
they
are
determinately
these
or
others
.
The
Scripture
declare
not
that
the
Jews
Sabboth
●s
to
be
neglected
and
laid
aside
,
and
the
sunday
solemnized
.
An
w.
In
the
Apoc.
c.
There
is
plain
mention
of
the
Sunday
that
is
our
Lords
day
,
unto
which
the
Jewes
Sabboth
was
altered
.
The
Scriptures
declare
not
that
the
Creed
is
authentique
and
truly
the
Apostles
.
the
Scriptures
declare
not
that
its
lawfull
to
eat
strangled
meats
and
blood
.
Those
who
were
newly
converted
from
Judaisme
did
abhor
these
meats
,
and
ther●fore
although
it
was
meat
that
lawfully
might
be
eaten
yet
for
their
sakes
the
Gentiles
were
commanded
to
abstain
from
,
as
a
man
is
to
abstain
from
that
meat
which
is
hateful
to
his
companion
;
but
afterwards
the
cause
ceasing
,
through
the
clear
discovery
of
the
Gospel
,
the
effect
ceased
.
Were
Scripture
the
rule
of
their
belief
,
though
it
contain
divers
truths
,
yet
those
truths
meeting
and
becoming
one
in
revelation
,
they
wo
ld
all
perfectly
agree
,
not
only
Lutherans
amo
g
themselves
,
Zuinglians
among
themselves
,
Calvenists
among
themselves
,
but
likewise
Lutherans
with
Zuinlians
,
&c.
It
being
the
property
of
unitie
to
unite
and
make
one
all
that
conform
to
the
same
.
Paul
—
acknowledging
that
in
this
imperfection
of
mens
science
in
this
life
everie
one
cannot
be
free
from
all
error
,
or
think
the
same
that
another
thinketh
,
whereupon
may
arise
difference
of
understanding
,
opinion
and
Judgment
in
certa
n
hard
matters
which
God
hath
not
revealed
,
or
the
Church
determined
,
and
therefore
that
such
diversity
is
tollerable
and
agreeable
to
our
humane
condition
,
and
the
state
of
the
way
that
we
be
in
.
fuerunt
,
&c.
I
am
perswaded
if
had
lived
in
our
age
he
would
have
thought
otherwise
,
especially
perceiving
the
heretical
Calvinists
to
be
of
of
his
opinions
.
I
rather
approve
my
own
exposition
than
that
of
because
this
is
more
contradictory
to
the
Calvinists
.
Luther
,
Calvin
Luther
,
Calvin
Luther
,
Calvin
Lutherans
,
Zuinglians
,
Calvinists
That
this
Chapter
pretends
to
lay
open
the
many
shapes
Protestants
put
their
Church
into
,
to
make
her
passe
for
true
.
That
the
preaching
of
the
Gospel
is
a
very
clear
note
of
the
Catholique
Church
,
so
it
be
done
by
lawful
Ministers
.
PRotestants
are
a
company
of
Christians
under
the
government
of
Bishops
and
Pastors
,
that
have
power
and
authoritie
from
Christ
,
and
his
Apostles
to
administer
the
Sacrament
,
and
preach
the
Word
of
God
.
but
such
a
companie
is
the
true
Church
,
therefore
Protestants
are
the
true
Church
.
Neither
Christ
nor
the
Apostles
confer'd
any
power
or
authoritie
on
Protestant
Bishops
and
Pastors
,
they
were
dead
and
gone
long
before
these
had
any
being
:
to
give
power
and
authoritie
requires
presence
of
the
giver
,
&c.
Rep.
to
give
power
▪
and
authority
requires
presence
of
the
giver
.
Moses
,
Exod.
By
this
is
implyed
a
continuation
of
succession
in
the
Protestant
Bishops
and
Pastors
,
ever
since
Christ
and
the
Apostles
;
it
is
not
conceiveable
any
other
way
how
power
could
be
transmitted
from
one
hand
to
another
,
as
is
averred
,
They
must
then
be
visible
,
for
as
much
as
it
was
their
parts
to
preach
the
Word
of
God
,
and
administer
the
Sacraments
.
If
visible
they
may
be
produced
,
they
ought
to
be
produced
:
they
may
,
because
that
power
is
vain
and
fictitious
that
is
not
reducible
to
act
,
They
ought
,
because
Bishops
and
Pastors
in
case
of
controversie
are
to
give
an
account
of
their
calling
,
Luke
as
well
to
settle
the
wavering
,
as
to
bend
and
make
supple
the
stifnesse
of
stubborn
misbeleevers
,
i.
e.
They
may
,
because
that
power
is
vain
and
fictitious
that
is
not
reducible
to
act
.
Math.
That
those
Churches
which
are
able
to
produce
none
of
the
Apostles
or
Apostolical
men
for
their
first
planters
are
notwithstanding
Apostolical
for
consent
of
faith
,
and
consanguinity
of
doctrine
.
Bishops
and
Pastors
in
case
of
controversie
are
to
give
an
account
of
their
calling
.
Go
tell
John
what
ye
have
seen
and
heard
.
Bidding
the
Sectaries
of
his
time
let
him
see
the
beginning
of
their
Church
,
and
unfold
the
order
of
their
Bishops
and
Pastors
.
Likewise
Optatus
,
lib.
Contr.
Parmen.
The
Origin
of
your
chair
shew
ye
that
needs
will
challenge
to
your selves
the
Holy
Church
.
St.
Augustine
(
de
vit.
credend
.
ep.
contr.
Faust
.
manich
)
came
not
behind
these
in
pressing
the
necessity
of
succession
and
derivation
,
where
he
ingeniously
acknowledgeth
them
to
be
of
force
to
hold
and
keep
him
in
the
bosome
of
the
Church
.
There
keepeth
me
said
that
great
Saint
in
the
Church
,
the
succession
of
Priests
from
the
very
sitting
of
St.
Peter
,
to
whom
our
Lord
after
his
resurrection
committed
the
feeding
of
his
sheep
even
oo
this
present
Bishop
.
21.
9.
4.
Gregory
Nazianzen
that
the
succession
of
faith
is
the
true
succession
:
for
those
that
professe
the
same
Doctrine
of
faith
,
are
partakers
of
the
same
Throne
.
the
beginning
of
their
Churh
the
Origin
of
their
Chair
Augustine
,
Optatus
,
Tertullian
Derivation
of
succession
is
so
proper
to
the
true
Church
that
it
can
not
agree
to
any
false
,
as
in
Micam
observeth
,
assuring
heretiques
to
have
no
such
riches
as
come
to
men
by
plain
inheritance
from
their
Fathers
.
Indeed
succession
of
Bishops
in
pla●e
is
no
good
argument
,
unlesse
it
be
joyned
with
succession
of
Doctrine
.
ex
.
gr
i.
e.
Its
evident
in
it self
;
by
reason
the
true
Church
was
planted
and
established
before
any
false
began
—
therefore
must
need
be
a
a
stop
and
bar
betwixt
whatsoever
counterfeit
Church
and
Christ
to
keep
off
the
like
continuation
of
succession
.
There
must
be
a
stop
and
bar
betwixt
whatsoever
counterfeit
Church
and
Christ
,
&c.
There
have
been
named
in
several
ages
the
Albigenses
,
the
Apostolici
,
Wickliff
,
Hus.
None
of
these
were
Protestants
,
&c.
Who
in
spite
of
all
the
Potentates
in
Christendom
sowed
about
the
year
and
even
since
their
Doctrine
smally
differing
from
the
Protestants
at
this
day
It
contained
the
Articles
of
God
the
Father
,
Creator
of
all
things
:
of
the
Son
adv●cate
and
Intercessor
for
mankind
;
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
Comforter
and
Teacher
of
the
Truth
of
the
Church
,
which
they
said
to
be
assembled
of
all
the
chosen
,
having
J●sus
Christ
for
Head
;
of
Ministers
,
of
the
Ma●istrate
whom
they
confessed
ordained
of
God
to
punish
Malefactors
and
defend
the
good
,
to
whom
it
sufficeth
not
only
to
carry
honor
,
but
also
to
pay
Taxes
and
Imposts
without
acception
of
state
whatsoever
;
and
that
at
the
example
of
Christ
who
did
likewise
practice
it
:
Of
Baptism
,
which
they
maintained
to
be
a
visible
and
extenor
sign
,
represe●ting
unto
us
the
Regenerati
n
of
the
Spirit
and
Mortification
of
the
Members
:
Of
the
Lords
Supper
,
which
they
hold
for
a
thanksgiving
and
commemora
ion
of
the
benefit
received
by
Christ
:
Of
Marriage
,
which
they
say
was
not
forbidden
to
any
;
by
how
much
it
was
Holy
,
and
ordained
o●
God
:
Of
good
work
,
wher●in
they
ought
to
imploy
themselves
continually
:
●f
Mans
tradition
,
which
they
ought
to
shun
,
protesting
in
Sums
,
that
the
Rule
of
their
Faith
was
the
Old
and
New
Testament
,
and
that
they
believed
all
which
was
contained
in
the
Apostles
Creed
.
Aeneas
Silvius
Calverii
Epitom
They
hold
not
in
all
points
with
them
.
Guido
Carmelita
Aeneas
Silvius
Aeneas
Sylvius
,
Antonius
Rome
,
Corinth
,
Galatia
,
&c.
that
they
hold
not
in
all
points
with
themselves
.
Protestants
hold
in
all
points
with
themselves
.
There
was
a
great
distance
between
them
and
the
Apostles
,
in
which
they
could
not
be
mentioned
;
forasmuch
as
they
were
not
begun
,
or
were
quite
extinct
.
quite
extinct
descended
from
Catholiques
,
Catholiques
from
the
Apostles
,
therefore
Protestants
had
their
Original
from
the
Apostles
;
they
deriving
themselves
uninterruptedly
from
Protestants
derivation
from
is
frivolous
and
of
no
weight
wanting
Episcopal
authority
,
without
which
all
ordinations
are
null
and
frustrate
by
the
confessions
of
the
cheif
Protestants
themselves
:
See
and
others
Neither
is
it
material
that
the
first
Preachers
of
the
Gospel
in
these
Countries
were
not
Bishops
,
and
so
called
as
it
was
in
for
suppose
no
Bishop
would
have
renounced
the
heresies
of
Popery
,
nor
have
taught
sincerely
:
should
not
inferior
Ministers
teach
truth
,
and
other
Teachers
after
them
?
Furthermore
they
wanted
nothing
of
true
Bishops
but
the
Name
and
Title
.
Finally
the
right
and
imposition
of
hands
by
such
as
are
called
Bishops
,
is
not
so
necessary
but
that
in
a
defection
of
Bishops
of
a
Nation
,
and
in
case
of
other
extream
necessity
Ministers
may
lawfully
be
ordained
by
other
Ministers
.
Luther
received
Episcopal
power
immediatly
from
God
.
Such
a
power
being
extraordinary
is
always
accompanied
with
that
of
Miracles
,
as
appeared
in
Moses
,
Exod.
And
the
Apostles
Act.
never
wrought
Miracle
Cyrene
,
Act.
drawing
so
many
after
him
maugre
the
Pope
,
Emperor
,
and
other
Potentates
,
shews
only
a
strange
itching
in
men
after
novelties
.
and
pronenesse
to
libertinage
.
in
a
shorter
space
led
away
far
more
.
being
acceptable
and
pleasing
to
the
depravednesse
of
Nature
,
itching
after
novelties
,
and
pronnesse
to
libertinage
,
Neither
did
Luther
in
this
age
come
forth
alone
,
but
accompanied
with
a
great
troop
,
as
with
a
guard
waiting
for
him
as
for
their
Captain
and
Leader
who
seemed
to
have
expected
him
before
he
came
,
and
upon
his
coming
did
cleave
unto
him
.
PRotestants
received
their
mission
from
Catholique
Bishops
in
Queen
Elizabeths
daies
and
since
.
If
some
did
which
is
to
be
proved
,
nay
the
contrary
seems
to
be
proved
by
Doctor
Champney
it
is
evident
the
greater
part
did
not
,
and
what
a
Church
must
that
companie
make
of
which
most
are
judged
fit
to
preach
the
Word
of
God
and
administer
the
Sacraments
without
Authoritie
.
Admit
the
calling
of
Protestant
Bishops
and
Pastors
were
right
in
all
of
them
,
it
would
not
follow
that
the
Protestant
Church
is
true
,
so
long
as
she
advanceth
Protestantism
contrary
to
the
meaning
of
the
Catholique
Bishops
,
who
never
impow●red
any
;
but
in
relation
to
the
setting
up
and
upholding
of
Catholique
Religion
.
inasmuch
as
derivati
n
of
succession
is
so
proper
to
the
true
Church
that
it
cannot
agree
to
any
false
as
St.
Hierom
in
Nucam
.
oportet
mendacem
esse
memorem
Communion
with
the
true
Church
being
as
necessary
a
requisite
to
the
makeing
up
of
a
true
Church
,
as
union
of
parts
to
the
compleating
of
a
natural
body
;
what
colour
for
truth
in
the
Protestant
Church
that
is
at
variance
with
the
Catholique
of
whom
she
glorieth
to
have
her
power
,
and
which
she
confesseth
to
be
a
true
Church
.
Smyrna
,
Alexandria
,
Carthage
&c.
Apoc.
That
we
glory
to
have
our
p
wer
from
the
Popi●h
Church
:
that
we
confesse
you
to
be
a
true
Church
.
Bethaven
.
Rome
Mistery
Babylon
the
great
,
the
mother
of
harlots
and
abominations
of
the
earth
.
Pro
estants
derivation
from
Catholiques
is
not
proo●
for
a
personal
succession
of
Bishops
and
Pastors
agreeing
in
all
points
with
Prot●stants
,
which
ought
to
be
the
scope
and
aim
of
that
derivation
,
i●
being
not
required
of
Protestants
to
deduce
a
succession
from
Christ
and
h
s
Apostle●
of
men
meerely
sent
,
but
withal
professing
the
Doctrine
maintained
in
the
Church
of
England
.
Protestants
could
not
be
mingled
amongst
Catholiques
inasmuch
as
there
is
no
agreement
betwixt
the
Temple
of
God
and
Idols
,
no
concord
with
Christ
and
Belial
.
The
Ark
of
God
and
Dagon
may
not
stand
together
Baal
.
Rom.
come
out
of
her
my
people
,
Apoc.
Babilon
.
Zech.
It
were
a
strange
example
if
the
Church
should
receive
into
her
company
lyers
and
innovators
,
this
would
leave
a
stain
upon
her
reputation
,
make
her
sinceritie
be
suspected
,
h●r
Doctrine
contemned
and
despised
,
but
she
who
is
all
fair
,
without
spot
or
wrinkle
is
free
from
any
such
guilt
.
Rome
,
Corinth
,
Galatia
,
Philippi
,
Asia
.
Rev.
expurgatory
judices
all
faire
who
generally
maintained
&
professed
that
their
commission
and
power
was
to
preach
and
inculcate
,
that
the
Church
of
God
militant
was
not
without
mixture
of
bad
.
p.
Protestants
,
Bishops
and
Pastors
,
if
mingled
with
Catholiques
,
did
neither
beleeve
nor
profess
their
Doctrine
;
but
only
concealed
and
covered
their
own
,
for
fear
of
the
formidable
rigour
of
Catholiques
;
and
such
could
neither
be
true
nor
make
a
saving
Church
▪
Not
true
because
the
mission
of
true
Bishops
and
Pastors
,
being
founded
upon
persecution
and
suffering
,
Mat.
it
is
proper
to
them
to
fear
no
Colours
,
nor
make
up
a
saving
Church
,
by
reason
profession
of
faith
is
necessary
to
Salvation
,
Rom.
Laurentius
valla
&c.
Berengerius
the
Mission
of
true
Bishops
is
founded
upon
persecutions
and
sufferingse
.
Clemens
Alexandrinus
Swadet
fugere
,
&c.
He
perswades
us
to
flee
,
not
as
if
it
were
evil
to
suffer
persecution
,
nor
that
we
should
fear
death
;
but
he
would
not
have
us
authors
,
or
abettors
of
evil
,
either
to
our selves
,
or
him
that
persecutes
,
or
him
that
kills
us
;
for
he
warns
us
that
we
be
cautelous
:
but
he
that
obeys
not
,
is
audacious
and
rash
,
and
unadvisedly
casts
himself
,
upon
manifest
dangers
;
now
if
he
that
slays
a
Man
of
God
,
sins
against
God
,
he
also
is
guilty
of
this
murder
who
doth
not
avoid
persecution
,
but
through
audacity
offers
himself
to
be
apprehended
;
for
in
as
much
as
in
him
lies
,
he
helps
on
the
wickedness
of
the
persecutor
:
L.
B.
The
comparisons
are
ment
of
private
men
for
matter
of
manners
,
and
not
of
any
mixture
of
true
and
false
doctrine
,
Orthodoxal
and
Heretical
Bishops
and
Pastors
t●gether
.
It
follows
not
that
every
Heretique
,
or
Schismatique
be
corporally
separated
from
the
Church
,
for
the
Church
carries
many
in
her
,
&c.
In
all
ages
since
Christ
and
is
Apostles
,
there
have
been
Protestant
Bishops
and
Pastors
;
but
through
the
negligence
of
men
,
and
hard
fate
of
times
,
their
names
have
miscaryed
and
perished
:
And
as
it
is
no
Argument
,
many
famous
Romans
and
Grecians
are
not
named
,
therefore
never
were
any
such
men
;
so
it
is
no
less
false
a
Sequel
,
Protestant
Bishops
and
Pastors
are
not
mentioned
all
the
way
from
Christ
and
the
Apostles
,
therefore
they
were
sometime
wanting
:
It
s
not
the
same
of
private
men
,
and
of
Bishops
and
Pastors
;
these
have
Christ●
warrant
and
assurance
of
visibility
,
so
have
not
those
Bishops
and
Pastors
are
as
Aqueducts
,
and
Limbecks
,
through
which
the
verifying
Waters
of
Christs
holy
Doctrines
are
derived
into
our
ears
,
and
distiled
into
our
Souls
;
So
are
not
private
men
:
should
they
be
at
any
time
clouded
and
obscured
,
Christ
would
be
worse
then
his
word
,
his
Doctrine
fall
short
,
and
not
come
home
to
us
.
They
have
Christs
warrant
and
assureance
for
a
continuance
of
visibility
,
so
have
not
those
,
Mat.
Bishops
and
Pastors
are
Aqueducts
and
Limbecks
,
if
these
should
be
at
any
time
clouded
and
in
obscurity
,
Christ
would
be
worse
then
his
word
,
his
doctrine
fall
short
,
and
not
come
home
to
us
.
Visibility
is
not
peculiar
to
Bishops
and
Pastors
,
but
necessity
of
visibility
is
Private
men
in
this
way
of
visibility
being
contingently
visible
.
Bishops
and
Pastors
are
necessarily
visible
either
determinately
or
indeterminately
.
Indeterminately
all
,
for
some
are
necessary
to
make
a
visible
Church
;
determinately
so
many
,
without
which
there
could
not
be
a
suff●cient
number
to
make
a
true
visible
Church
.
That
its
necessary
that
Bishops
and
Pastors
should
be
visible
after
they
are
dead
,
for
a
visibility
of
them
whilst
they
live
would
be
to
no
purpose
,
it
not
providing
the
the
Church
of
means
to
defend
a●d
make
good
her
right
in
case
of
opposition
.
&c.
It
not
providing
the
Church
of
means
to
defend
and
make
good
her
right
in
case
of
opposition
—
the
question
of
the
Churches
right
is
to
be
decided
not
unlike
that
of
two
great
men
laying
claim
to
a
principality
by
vertue
of
some
pretended
descent
from
a
certain
Prince
.
Or
to
a
river
,
whether
it
hath
its
off-spring
from
such
an
hill
or
mountain
,
the
surest
way
is
to
trace
the
river
up
to
the
head
.
The
truth
of
Doctrine
is
discernable
much
after
the
same
manner
,
if
it
be
found
to
have
no
way
varied
,
but
to
have
kept
its
own
from
Christ
and
the
Apostles
,
doubtless
its
Orthodox
,
if
not
,
most
certainly
its
new
and
false
.
That
Church
is
true
and
Catholique
which
professeth
the
Apostles
Doctrine
clearly
delivered
in
Scripture
,
but
the
Protestant
Church
doth
so
,
therefore
,
&c.
True
Doctrine
is
no
mark
of
a
true
Church
,
it
being
often
to
be
seen
among
schismaticks
who
for
want
of
communion
cannot
make
a
true
Church
.
Churches
inseperable
mate
.
p.
Christ
hath
entrusted
his
Church
with
trueth
,
and
ordained
her
keeper
and
preserver
of
it
,
and
what
comes
upon
any
other
score
,
than
upon
the
Churches
account
and
credit
is
to
be
reputed
Apocryphal
and
no
way
appertaining
to
the
obligation
of
belief
.
Her
(
the
Churches
)
Doctrine
,
There
is
no
agreement
betwixt
the
Temple
of
God
and
idols
,
no
concord
with
Christ
and
Belial
.
Doctrine
being
in
nature
much
like
unto
number
the
least
addition
or
diminution
altereth
its
kind
and
groundeth
a
new
denomination
Doctrine
is
as
divers
as
there
are
divers
seeming
Churches
:
and
so
not
affording
any
determinate
notion
draweth
in
opposition
of
a
mark
of
truth
.
Doctrine
supposeth
Bishops
and
Pastors
,
as
the
means
whereby
it
is
conveyed
to
us
,
—
therefore
it
importeth
as
much
to
name
Bishops
and
Pastors
before
,
may
be
given
to
mention
Doctrine
as
it
is
necessary
,
passing
from
one
extreem
to
another
to
touch
first
the
middle
.
It
is
no
less
untrue
that
Protestants
maintain
the
Apostles
Doctrine
delivered
in
Scriptures
,
they
professing
a
Doctrine
clean
contrarie
and
opposite
to
that
which
in
them
is
in
plain
and
formall
tearms
expressed
.
Hold
the
traditions
,
whether
it
be
by
word
or
Epistle
.
gathered
together
by
and
the
Disciples
of
the
Apostles
,
the
Latine
Church
scarce
observeth
Reall
presence
His
most
excellent
Majestie
,
and
all
his
orthodoxall
people
believe
reall
presence
.
i.
e.
When
the
thing
signified
and
presented
,
is
according
to
the
naturall
substance
thereof
contained
under
the
shapes
of
outward
signes
,
and
together
with
them
conveyed
into
the
mouth
,
stomack
and
bodily
parts
a
true
and
effectuall
presence
of
the
body
and
blood
of
Christ
;
so
as
man
receiving
the
externall
signes
by
his
naturall
parts
,
receiveth
also
the
thing
signified
and
presented
by
the
action
of
his
spirituall
facultie
,
to
wit
,
by
an
operative
faith
Sacrifice
from
the
rising
of
the
Sun
,
to
the
going
down
,
great
is
my
name
among
the
Gentiles
,
and
in
every
place
there
is
sacrificing
,
and
there
is
offered
to
my
Name
a
clean
oblation
,
sacrificing
;
Vatablus
Arias
Montanus
Paulus
,
Burgensis
,
Orationes
The
Prayers
of
innocent
and
holy
persons
are
acceptable
to
me
in
every
place
.
&c.
Therefore
we
sacrifice
and
offer
incense
celebrating
the
memory
of
that
great
sacrifice
according
to
the
mysteries
delivered
to
us
,
giving
thanks
unto
God
for
our
Redemption
,
and
offering
to
him
Religious
Hymnes
,
and
holie
Prayers
;
we
Sacrifice
therefore
to
the
most
high
God
the
Sacrifice
of
Praise
,
&c.
Non
hic
novum
Sacrificium
,
&c.
Here
is
no
new
Sacrifice
,
but
the
same
which
was
offered
on
the
Cross
,
and
a
mystical
commemoration
of
that
Sacrifice
which
was
performed
on
the
Cross
,
and
a
representation
of
Christs
Priesthood
and
Sacrifice
continued
in
heaven
,
whereby
here
is
not
wrought
any
new
expiation
,
or
remission
of
sins
,
but
we
desire
that
Sacrifice
which
was
oce
offered
on
the
Cross
,
may
become
effectual
unto
us
.
In
Christo
semel
,
&c.
They
once
offered
up
a
Sacrifice
,
Christ
sufficient
for
our
salvation
;
Why
then
do
we
everie
day
offer
?
Although
we
dailie
offer
,
it
s
onlie
in
remembrance
of
Christs
Death
.
Christ
gave
counsel
to
his
Disciples
to
offer
up
to
God
the
first
fruits
of
his
creatures
.
The
Church
in
the
whole
world
doth
offer
unto
God
,
who
gives
us
food
,
the
first
fruits
of
his
gifts
.
It
behoves
us
to
offer
unto
God
the
first
fruits
of
his
creatures
,
as
saith
,
thou
shalt
not
appear
before
the
Lord
emptie
in
regard
whereof
the
Jewes
had
their
Tythe
consecrated
to
God
,
and
we
that
have
obtained
greater
libertie
then
they
,
ought
freely
to
devote
what
we
have
to
the
Lords
use
,
as
the
poor
Widdow
gave
her
Mite
into
the
Treasures
.
we
ought
to
be
thankful
to
our
Maker
,
offering
unto
him
of
the
first
fruits
of
his
creatures
,
and
this
Oblation
the
Church
onlie
offers
to
God
in
a
pure
manner
,
offering
unto
him
of
his
creatures
with
thanksgiving
.
Now
the
Jewes
they
offer
not
,
because
their
hands
are
full
of
blood
,
and
they
receive
not
the
word
by
whom
we
offer
unto
God
.
When
therefore
the
Wine
and
Bread
receive
the
Word
of
God
,
they
become
the
Eucharist
of
the
body
and
blood
of
Christ
,
of
which
our
bodily
substance
is
made
and
increased
,
Altars
:
We
have
an
Altar
whereof
they
have
no
power
to
eat
,
who
serve
the
tabernacle
.
Hebr.
Theodoret
[
apud
Lyran
Gregory
Nissen
Power
in
Priests
to
forgive
sins
;
whose
sins
ye
shall
forgive
they
are
forgiven
them
and
whole
sins
ye
shall
retain
they
are
retained
.
John
Confesse
your
sins
one
to
another
.
Jam.
And
many
of
them
that
believed
came
confessing
their
Sins
.
Act.
i.
e.
Justification
by
works
.
Do
you
see
that
a
man
is
justified
by
works
,
and
not
by
faith
only
.
Jam
Paul
,
Rom.
Therefore
we
conclude
that
a
man
is
justified
by
faith
without
the
deeds
of
the
Law
.
in
c.
ad
Gal.
Prayer
to
Saints
.
The
Angel
that
delivered
from
all
evils
blessed
the
Children
Gen.
Prayer
for
the
dead
,
It
is
an
holy
and
wholsome
cogitation
to
pray
for
the
dead
,
Extream
unction
.
Is
any
body
sick
amongst
you
,
let
him
bring
in
the
Priests
of
the
Church
,
and
pray
over
him
anoynting
him
with
oyl
in
the
name
of
our
Lord
.
Jam.
Abusus
vocbuli
est
,
quod
dicitur
extrema
unctio
,
&c.
It
s
an
abuse
of
the
word
to
call
it
extream
unction
For
it
s
not
a
Sacrament
of
dying
men
,
but
of
those
who
are
sick
,
not
relateing
to
their
burial
,
but
conducing
to
their
recovery
.
Whence
it
was
that
in
the
primitive
Church
,
many
when
they
were
anointed
did
recover
health
.
And
even
at
this
day
many
w●uld
be
healed
,
if
this
Sacrament
were
rightly
used
.
James
,
[
Cajet.
in
cap.
not
if
any
man
be
sick
unto
death
,
but
absolutely
if
any
man
be
sick
.
James
unction
is
recovery
of
health
;
If
he
speaks
of
remission
of
sins
onely
conditionally
,
whereas
extream
unction
is
not
given
but
at
the
point
of
death
,
and
directly
tends
as
its
form
stands
,
to
the
remission
of
sins
;
besides
James
requires
that
many
Elders
be
called
to
one
sick
person
,
both
to
pray
with
him
,
and
to
anoint
him
which
is
far
from
the
ceremony
of
extream
unction
:
Rabanus
Maurus
The
Bishop
of
supremacie
in
spirituall
matters
.
Thou
art
and
upon
this
rock
will
I
build
my
Church
,
Feed
my
sheep
.
To
thee
will
I
give
the
keyes
of
the
kingdome
of
Heaven
,
and
whatsoever
thou
shalt
loose
on
earth
shall
be
loosed
in
Heaven
;
whatsoever
thou
shalt
tie
on
earth
shall
be
tied
in
Heaven
,
It
is
evident
they
were
there
being
the
same
ground
to
assure
us
thereof
,
as
of
Scripture
;
or
any
other
point
they
believed
;
and
that
without
which
(
under
a
miracle
)
there
would
not
be
the
least
knowledg
of
the
Apostles
belief
,
to
wit
,
the
Churches
constant
tradition
.
Syrmium
,
Constantinople
Tolet.
Ephesus
i.
e.
As
Scripture
,
so
what
it
contains
would
be
as
to
belief
hid
and
unknown
,
but
for
the
Churches
information
.
Answ.
The
knowledge
faith
requires
,
must
be
supernaturally
certain
,
and
consequently
an
effect
of
the
Holy
Ghosts
p●culiar
assistance
,
which
is
onely
warranted
to
the
Church
,
and
not
to
every
private
reading
and
reasoning
.
Not
to
provide
persons
not
to
every
private
reading
or
reasoning
If
any
man
want
wisedom
,
Spiritum
illuminatorem
Let
him
ask
it
of
God
,
Let
men
esteem
us
as
the
Ministers
of
Christ
,
and
dispensers
of
Gods
mysteries
,
Experience
confirms
no
less
in
Seperatists
,
who
laying
aside
the
Church
,
and
presuming
upon
their
own
readings
and
reasonings
,
have
vented
as
many
absurd
,
and
extravagant
impieties
,
as
they
had
base
and
exorbitant
passions
,
p.
Maldon
.
in
Joan.
Bellarm.
l.
de
extr.
Vnct.
c.
The
Apostles
did
set
Pen
to
Paper
for
a
greater
confirmation
of
the
truth
,
to
bear
witness
to
the
sincerity
and
candor
of
the
Churches
teaching
and
preaching
,
and
not
for
every
one
to
be
his
own
carver
and
interpreter
.
For
every
one
to
be
his
own
Carver
and
interpreter
.
simple
persons
It
was
ever
held
an
effect
of
great
improvidence
,
and
occasion
of
intollerable
confusion
for
the
people
in
any
Common-wealth
,
to
have
the
freedom
of
construing
the
Law
;
therefore
wise
Lawmakers
,
to
shew
their
care
and
foresight
for
the
good
and
weal-publick
,
as
they
caused
their
Laws
to
be
written
so
they
appointed
certain
select
persons
of
integritie
and
abilitie
to
dispence
the
same
:
If
this
be
true
as
it
is
,
It
was
ever
held
an
effect
of
great
improvidence
Sup.
cap.
it
s
an
occasion
of
intellerable
confusion
,
If
this
be
true
as
it
is
,
what
an
undervaluing
must
it
be
of
Gods
wisdome
and
providence
to
think
in
a
Commonwealth
of
his
own
immediate
establishing
,
as
the
Church
is
,
he
hath
left
indifferently
to
all
a
liberty
to
make
what
sence
they
will
of
his
Law
.
to
bring
the
peace
and
safety
of
the
Church
into
danger
of
shipwrack
,
nor
to
be
the
source
of
jars
and
garboils
of
Seperatists
,
clear
,
because
all
men
are
not
apt
to
understand
alike
;
for
being
for
the
most
part
of
different
tempers
and
composures
,
they
have
various
fancies
which
of
necessity
will
beget
a
diversity
of
understanding
Answ.
Luther
,
Zuinglius
,
Calvin
Luther
,
Zuinglius
,
Calvin
they
made
no
lesse
then
three
contrary
and
repugnant
senses
of
those
plain
words
,
this
is
my
body
,
this
is
my
blood
.
p.
Zuinglius
,
Bellarmine
saith
,
the
opinion
of
Haeresis
erat
,
&c.
It
was
the
Heresie
of
some
,
that
the
Eucharist
was
onely
a
figure
of
Christs
body
,
this
Heresie
doth
Luther
,
Zuinglius
Those
selected
Persons
intrusted
with
the
administring
and
dispensing
of
the
Lawes
,
utter
by
mouth
what
they
understand
;
and
they
understand
no
more
,
then
what
their
private
reading
and
reasoning
are
able
to
inform
them
;
so
that
even
this
way
men
would
be
to
seek
.
Judges
have
not
onely
their
reading
and
reasoning
to
inform
and
direct
them
,
but
likewise
the
practice
of
former
Courts
from
the
very
promulgation
of
the
Law
,
at
which
time
the
sence
and
meaning
of
the
same
was
declared
by
the
Law-makers
themselves
.
The
Church
besides
the
Letter
of
Scripture
(
which
she
reads
assiduously
with
watching
,
fasting
and
prayer
for
a
right
and
happie
understanding
thereof
)
and
her
own
reasoning
,
hath
the
help
of
a
better
and
sure
tradition
,
and
the
assistance
of
the
Holy
Ghost
.
BY
the
word
ROMAN
are
not
only
comprised
the
inhabitants
of
that
particular
territory
of
Rome
,
but
likewise
all
Christians
in
the
World
that
acknowledg
the
Bishop
of
Rome
for
their
chief
Pastor
appointed
by
Christ
to
govern
his
flock
.
Answ.
de
facto
de
jure
Constantinople
,
Alexandria
,
Antioch
Constantinople
(
Can
Inter
Patriarchas
,
&c.
Amongst
the
Patriarchs
the
Pope
of
Rome
was
chief
,
to
whom
as
Patriarch
,
the
Western
Provinces
and
many
Ilands
in
the
mediterranian
sea
towards
the
West
,
were
subject
.
A
proper
predicate
This
company
(
say
you
)
together
with
the
said
Bishop
compose
and
make
up
the
true
Catholique
Church
.
That
company
of
Christians
,
compose
and
make
up
the
true
Catholique
Church
,
to
which
the
definition
of
the
true
Catholique
Church
doth
agree
;
but
the
definition
of
the
true
Catholique
Church
doth
agree
to
the
above
mentioned
company
,
therefore
they
compose
and
make
up
the
true
Catholique
Church
,
The
true
Catholick
Church
is
a
society
of
men
linked
together
in
the
profession
of
one
Faith
,
in
the
use
o●
the
same
Sacrament
,
and
under
the
government
of
Bishops
and
Pastors
lawfully
sent
,
that
are
able
to
shew
their
personall
and
doctrinall
succession
from
Christ
and
his
Apostles
,
without
the
least
interruption
.
A
societie
of
men
;
and
he
gave
some
Apostles
,
and
some
Prophets
,
and
some
Evangelists
,
others
Pastors
and
Doctors
.
Linked
together
under
the
government
of
Bishops
and
Pastors
lawfully
sent
,
this
we
grant
That
are
able
to
shew
The
mountain
of
the
house
of
the
Lord
shall
be
established
in
the
top
of
mountains
,
and
all
Nations
shall
flow
unto
it
.
He
hath
placed
his
Tabernacle
in
the
Sun
,
He
hath
placed
his
tabernacle
in
the
Sun
,
Soli
posuit
tabernaculum
in
ipsis
,
He
hath
placed
a
tabernacle
in
them
,
for
the
Sun
He
hath
made
an
house
for
it
in
the
Heavens
,
that
there
as
in
an
high
Theatre
is
might
be
better
seen
.
In
Hebraeo
In
the
Hebrew
,
and
in
Hieroms
translation
according
to
the
Hebrew
it
is
thus
:
He
hath
placed
for
them
a
tabernacle
for
the
Sun
.
Vatablus
,
Lyr●
,
Hierom
Their
Personall
and
Doctrinall
succession
;
He
gave
some
Doctors
and
Pastors
,
&c.
untill
we
all
meet
in
the
unitie
of
Faith
,
i.
e.
Sensus
unitatis
ecclesiae
est
The
sence
of
the
article
of
one
Church
,
is
to
believe
that
all
the
Congregations
of
the
faithful
are
one
Churche
,
and
that
is
the
Spouse
of
Christ
and
Mother
of
all
Christians
.
Non
tamen
ejus
sedis
,
&c.
Yet
let
not
the
governors
of
the
Roman
Church
extoll
themselves
,
as
if
that
Church
only
&
(
as
they
speak
)
exclusively
were
the
Catholick
Church
,
and
that
it
behoved
us
presently
without
triall
of
it
to
approve
of
whatsoever
comes
from
that
See
:
and
that
for
all
Doctrines
and
pontificall
constitutions
nothing
should
be
brought
but
an
If
we
attribute
this
to
that
See
,
we
shall
expose
the
Catholick
Church
to
all
errours
.
And
the
Church
of
Rome
cannot
have
any
more
pestilent
enemies
,
than
those
flatterers
,
who
do
make
her
not
onely
the
chief
,
but
the
onely
Church
,
and
extolling
her
above
the
Word
and
Catholick
sence
of
Scripture
,
above
all
the
Catholick
Fathers
,
yea
above
the
Church
triumphant
,
and
consequently
above
the
spirit
of
God
,
do
make
of
her
I
know
not
what
Idoll
.
This
root
of
Parasites
are
overthrown
by
that
of
The
world
is
greater
then
a
citie
.
Its
a
societie
of
men
,
this
agreeth
to
the
said
companie
,
for
in
that
companie
is
to
be
seen
Jerusalem
descended
from
above
,
A
goodly
Hierarchie
,
or
heavenly
order
and
subordination
of
sub-Deacon
to
Deacon
,
of
Deacon
to
Priest
,
of
Priest
to
Bishop
,
of
Bishop
to
chief
Bishop
or
Pope
,
and
of
the
Laitie
to
all
.
these
degrees
are
so
masterlike
set
,
that
they
do
not
hinder
and
trouble
,
but
as
great
and
less
strings
musically
tuned
,
make
and
preserve
the
melodious
harmonie
of
peace
and
concord
:
Ergo
Linked
together
.
This
agreeth
to
the
said
company
,
for
in
that
company
there
is
no
diversitie
of
belief
,
but
one
as
Monarch
swayeth
in
where
one
and
the
same
belief
is
imbraced
for
one
and
the
same
motive
,
Gods
revelation
proposed
by
the
Church
.
to
be
linked
together
lawfully
sent
.
This
agrees
to
the
said
company
,
for
in
that
companie
no
man
clarifieth
himself
,
but
one
receiveth
power
from
another
,
the
sub-Deacon
,
Deacon
and
Priest
from
the
Bishop
,
the
Bishop
from
the
chief
Bishop
or
Pope
.
under
the
government
of
Bishops
and
Pastors
,
p.
is
able
to
shew
,
&c.
This
agreeth
to
the
said
company
;
for
in
that
company
an
exact
succession
of
power
and
doctrine
is
faithfully
and
with
clearness
deduced
,
Writers
of
severall
ages
and
nations
having
put
forth
and
published
to
the
view
of
the
w●rld
authentick
Schemes
and
Catalogues
of
Popes
,
Bishops
and
Pastors
,
succeeding
each
other
from
Christ
and
the
Apostles
,
and
from
time
to
time
laid
open
their
doctrine
.
Spain
,
France
Smyrna
,
Ephesus
Platina
,
viz.
John
without
the
least
interruption
,
&c.
That
company
composeth
,
and
maketh
up
the
truh
Catholique
Church
,
which
doth
acknowledge
and
imbrace
a
power
generally
claimed
,
and
a
Doctrine
generally
professed
by
the
Apostles
and
Christians
ever
since
;
when
any
opposition
was
first
made
;
but
the
said
Company
acknowledgeth
and
embraceth
a
power
generally
claimed
,
and
a
Doctrine
generally
professed
by
the
Apostles
and
Christians
ever
since
,
when
any
opposition
was
first
made
;
therefore
that
Company
composeth
and
maketh
up
the
true
Cath●lique
Church
.
Apostolical
power
Apostolicall
power
and
doctrine
[
where
Communion
is
not
wanting
]
Constantinople
,
Athanasus
Alexandria
;
Cyril
The
second
Proposition
(
say
you
)
I
clear
by
instances
in
and
from
the
Apostles
down
to
and
those
of
such
points
as
Catholicks
and
Protestants
mainly
differ
in
.
Parturiunt
montes
,
such
points
wherein
Catholicks
and
Protestants
mainly
differ
.
of
such
points
S.
Magus
Tertullian
,
Origen
Simon
Magus
took
upon
him
to
open
Heaven
,
to
Faith
unaccompanied
with
good
works
.
Ans.
Yet
we
say
not
that
men
may
live
dissolutely
,
as
if
it
were
sufficient
for
a
Christian
on●ly
to
be
dipt
and
to
believe
,
and
nothing
else
expected
from
him
;
true
Faith
is
living
and
cannot
be
idle
:
Albeit
that
good
works
which
are
the
fruits
of
Faith
and
follow
after
Justification
cannot
put
away
our
sins
,
and
endure
the
severitie
of
Gods
judgement
,
yet
are
they
pleasing
and
acceptable
to
God
in
Christ
,
and
do
spring
out
necessarily
of
a
true
and
lively
Faith
,
They
which
are
predestinated
—
they
walk
religiously
in
good
works
,
Good
works
are
the
fruit
and
evidences
of
a
true
and
lively
Faith
—
that
believers
are
created
thereto
,
that
having
their
fruit
in
holiness
they
may
have
the
end
,
eternall
life
Simon
Magus
Eunomius
attributed
to
a
simple
act
of
faith
,
virtue
and
efficacie
to
cleanse
and
wash
a-away
whatsoever
ordure
and
spots
of
sins
.
Note
that
faith
hath
not
of
it self
any
efficacy
as
it
is
an
act
of
ours
for
remission
and
reconciliation
,
but
all
its
vertue
doth
proceed
from
its
object
Christ
,
whose
vertue
and
merit
God
hath
ordained
to
apply
to
the
sinner
for
his
Justification
through
faith
in
him
.
Faith
(
say
they
)
justifies
a
sinner
in
the
sight
of
God
,
not
because
of
these
other
graces
which
do
alwayes
accompany
it
,
or
of
good
works
that
are
the
fruit
of
it
;
nor
as
if
the
grace
of
Faith
or
[
any
Act
thereof
]
were
imputed
to
him
for
his
Justification
,
but
onely
as
it
is
an
instrument
by
which
he
applieth
and
receiveth
Christ
and
his
righteousness
.
Simon
Magus
Aug.
de
haeres
.
c.
Florinus
blasphemed
God
to
be
the
Author
of
sin
.
Answ.
The
Prouidence
of
God
extendeth
it self
,
even
to
the
first
fall
,
and
all
other
sins
—
yet
so
as
the
sinfulness
thereof
proceedeth
onely
fr●m
the
creature
,
and
not
from
God
,
who
being
most
holy
and
righteous
,
neither
is
nor
can
be
the
Author
or
approver
of
sin
.
robd
and
spoyled
in
his
fall
,
and
in
him
all
his
posteritie
of
that
precious
Gem
the
naturall
Image
of
God
,
Freewill
.
i.
e.
left
the
regenerate
all
foul
and
conspurcate
with
sin
.
Answ.
such
were
some
of
you
,
but
ye
are
washed
,
but
ye
are
Sanctified
;
but
ye
are
justified
.
Paul
(
Rom.
Novatus
constituted
a
Church
of
meer
just
.
that
the
purest
Churches
under
Heaven
,
are
subject
both
to
mixture
,
and
error
,
Jovinianus
levelled
sins
by
making
them
all
equally
grievous
.
All
Transgressions
of
the
Law
of
God
are
not
equally
heinous
;
but
some
sins
in
themselves
,
and
by
reason
of
several
aggravatiens
are
more
heinous
in
the
sight
of
God
then
others
.
Pelagius
Jovinianus
Pelagius
did
endeavour
to
stop
the
course
of
Original
sin
in
Infants
.
and
thereupon
bereaved
Baptism
of
its
due
necessity
.
Berengarius
grew
to
that
height
of
,
wickedness
as
to
out
Christ
of
the
Sacrament
.
Zenaius
despised
Images
as
worthless
It
s
most
certain
that
in
the
beginning
of
the
Gospel
times
,
for
a
good
while
Leven
in
the
time
of
Agustin
,
a
little
after
)
there
was
no
use
of
Images
amongst
Christians
,
especially
in
Churches
as
appears
by
Clemens
and
Arnobius
;
but
afterwards
they
were
admitted
into
the
Church
as
Historical
expressions
of
things
done
;
or
as
lively
Images
of
Holymen
.
Calvin
drew
compulsion
upon
humane
actions
.
Eusebius
,
Origen
Tertullian
,
Origen
Rex
Christianissimus
Austine
de
Grat.
&
lib.
Arbitr
.
c.
an
absolute
necessity
of
good
works
,
such
as
do
no
good
works
,
if
they
have
age
and
time
to
do
them
are
not
found
in
the
Book
of
Life
.
Hierom.
in
chap.
August
.
lib.
Confes
.
c.
Concil.
Laodic
.
Can.
Synod
,
Francoford
Irenaeus
lib.
adv.
haeres
.
c.
S.
Aug.
l.
Confess
.
lib.
Aug.
lib.
Confess
.
c.
Cyprian
,
lib.
Quaerat
lector
Concil.
Roman
Lugdun
.
Concil
ep.
lib.
Simon
Magus
Cyprian
,
Irenaeus
,
Justin
Martyr
,
Augustine
,
Hierom
,
Gregory
Nyssen
,
Cyril
Alex.
Cyril
Hierus
.
Concil.
Nicen.
&
Omnia
Concilia
vetera
,
i.
e.
Ignatius
,
Dionysius
At
Ephesus
many
of
the
Bishops
of
Asia
met
,
touching
the
deliberation
of
the
Feast
of
Easter
:
where
Polycrates
Bishop
of
Ephesus
was
chief-In
the
foresaid
six
Synods
,
(
v●
of
held
,
An.
the
Bishop
of
Rome
had
no
more
authority
then
the
other
Bishops
:
He
,
in
his
City
,
and
they
in
theirs
were
cheief
.
The
Catholick
Appeal
This
proo●
(
saith
he
)
will
gather
strength
by
observing
that
the
above
named
Luther
,
Zuinglius
,
Calvin
,
&c.
But
few
days
or
months
before
their
opposition
,
held
as
the
rest
of
Christians
did
,
in
al●
points
with
the
said
Company
;
and
that
neither
they
,
nor
any
of
them
have
left
to
posterity
the
least
mention
of
any
number
of
men
in
being
before
their
opposition
,
with
whom
to
joyn
and
side
to
make
good
the
same
,
&c.
Paul
,
&c.
Luther
,
Zuinglius
Alphonsus
à
Castro
there
is
not
left
the
least
mention
of
any
number
of
men
in
being
,
before
their
opposition
,
with
whom
to
joyn
and
side
.
That
Company
composeth
and
maketh
up
the
Catholick
Church
,
which
is
acknowledged
even
by
their
adversaries
,
to
be
Apostolical
;
but
the
above
mentioned
Company
is
acknowledged
even
by
their
adversaries
,
to
be
Apostolical
:
therefore
that
Company
composeth
and
maketh
up
the
Catholick
Church
.
The
first
Proposition
(
say
you
)
is
evident
,
forasmuch
as
Apostolical
in
a
right
and
genuine
sence
,
signifieth
to
believe
,
as
the
Apostles
believed
,
which
is
to
be
Catholick
.
That
true
Doctrine
is
no
mark
of
a
true
Church
,
it
being
often
found
among
Schismaticks
,
who
for
want
of
Communion
cannot
make
a
true
Church
,
pag.
It
appears
no
less
clear
in
several
Protestant
Writers
,
who
expresly
account
that
the
Apostles
first
planted
the
Christian
Faith
in
England
;
that
the
same
was
retained
by
Bishops
and
Pastors
,
from
the
first
Plantati
n
to
S.
Austine
;
that
in
substance
it
differed
not
from
that
which
S.
Austine
brought
in
;
that
S.
Austine
was
sent
by
Gregory
the
Great
,
Bishop
of
Rome
to
convert
the
Saxons
in
England
to
the
Roman
Faith
;
that
the
Roman
Church
in
Gregory
t●e
Greats
time
,
was
the
same
it
is
at
this
present
,
&c.
S.
Austins
Church
and
Doctrine
were
Apostolical
;
S.
Austins
Church
&
Doctrine
were
the
same
with
the
now
Roman
:
therefore
the
Roman
Church
and
Doctrine
are
Apostolical
.
The
Roman
Church
in
Gregory
the
Great
's
●ime
,
was
the
same
it
is
at
this
present
.
Major
,
[
That
the
Doctrine
of
the
Church
of
Rome
in
the
time
of
Austin
and
Gregory
,
was
the
same
with
the
Doctrine
of
the
Apostles
.
]
The
Great
Trojan
.
Carion
511
,
512
Hierom
Porter
minor
,
Saint
Austines
Church
and
doctrine
were
the
same
with
the
now
Roman
the
Roman
Church
in
the
Great
's
time
,
was
the
same
it
is
at
thi●
present
.
I
answer
hic
labor
h●c
opus
est
They
hold
justification
by
works
of
grace
;
they
maintain
a
daily
sacrifice
of
the
b
dy
of
Christ
in
the
Mass
,
for
the
sins
of
quick
and
dead
;
they
worship
images
,
&c.
Thus
then
it
appears
that
the
old
Church
of
Rome
is
changed
,
and
is
now
at
this
day
of
a
Sp●use
of
Christ
become
an
Harlot
,
and
therefore
no
more
a
Church
of
Christ
indeed
,
than
the
carkass
of
a
dead
man
that
wears
a
living
mans
garment
,
is
a
living
man
,
though
he
look
never
so
like
him
.
The
enemies
of
the
Roman
Church
have
not
shewn
more
pride
in
contemning
her
power
,
then
malice
in
raising
false
and
slanderous
reports
against
her
good
name
—
therefore
I
will
endeauour
in
this
Chapter
to
clear
her
fame
mainly
clouded
and
shot
at
by
the
ensuing
objections
.
Answ.
The
Church
of
teacheth
Christs
body
to
be
present
in
many
places
at
once
,
which
implyeth
contradiction
.
The
measure
of
Gods
power
is
his
will
,
and
his
will
is
above
the
reach
of
our
capacitie
:
therefore
no
wonder
if
God
oftentimes
doth
that
we
cannot
dive
into
the
understanding
of
.
I
reply
God
is
able
of
these
stones
to
raise
up
children
unto
Gods
Will
is
above
our
capacity
,
&c.
[
Rom.
Vnum
corpus
,
&c.
One
body
cannot
be
at
once
locally
in
two
places
,
no
not
by
a
miracle
because
to
be
in
many
places
at
once
is
repugnant
to
the
very
nature
of
an
which
is
to
be
divided
in
it self
:
for
it
would
follow
,
that
it
should
be
in
a
distinct
posture
:
whence
it
follows
,
that
for
the
same
body
to
be
locally
at
once
in
divers
places
includes
contradictiion
,
as
for
a
man
to
want
reason
,
&
to
have
reason
.
As
for
the
implicancy
,
some
labour
to
convi●ce
this
mystery
of
,
there
is
none
at
all
;
for
though
a
body
cannot
be
locally
in
two
places
at
once
,
by
reason
of
local
extension
which
confines
it
to
one
:
yet
this
extension
being
removed
as
is
possible
to
the
Omnipotent
Power
,
it
is
as
easie
for
a
body
to
be
in
several
places
at
once
,
as
for
the
Deity
to
be
in
three
Persons
at
once
;
or
for
the
soul
to
be
in
the
head
,
the
middle
,
the
feet
at
once
.
If
it
be
true
teacheth
,
that
a
consequence
from
being
to
may
be
is
valid
and
good
,
Experience
demonstrates
that
God
hath
power
to
make
Christs
body
really
present
in
se●erall
places
at
once
:
forasmuch
as
at
the
self
same
time
he
was
so
present
with
his
Father
in
Heaven
,
he
appeared
and
discoursed
with
Saint
on
earth
Peter
,
Acts
I
am
Jesus
I
am
God
speaking
from
Heaven
,
whom
thou
thoughtest
to
be
dead
That
he
thought
not
Jesus
to
be
in
Heaven
,
Even
in
nature
there
is
a
resemblance
and
light
of
this
mystery
,
one
and
the
same
water
is
in
the
fountain
river
and
lake
at
once
:
one
and
the
same
voice
in
thousands
of
ears
at
once
:
one
and
the
same
face
in
sundery
looking
glasses
at
once
.
hic
&
nunc
Should
we
believe
onely
that
which
we
understand
,
there
would
not
be
any
belief
in
us
of
mysteries
of
faith
;
they
being
all
above
the
reach
of
humane
capacity
.
the
strange
irreverencies
and
absurdities
which
would
ensue
thereof
,
as
to
be
subject
to
the
eating
and
tearing
in
piecs
of
d●gs
,
cats
,
mice
,
and
to
the
abuse
of
wicked
me
and
miscreants
:
He
that
is
of
power
to
render
a
body
really
present
in
severall
places
at
once
,
wit●out
doubt
is
able
to
defend
and
keep
the
same
from
all
outrages
,
as
God
is
pleased
to
do
in
this
mystery
by
removing
locall
extension
,
and
by
consequen●e
possibility
,
by
means
whereof
dogs
,
cats
and
mice
can
onely
tear
and
destroy
the
accidents
of
bread
and
wine
.
Si
Hostia
Consecrata
,
&c.
Ib.
c.
Wicked
men
and
miscreants
offer
violence
to
the
same
,
but
not
hurt
or
anoy
the
Body
of
Christ
,
no
more
then
he
were
of
force
to
wrong
the
Godhead
that
surprised
with
a
raging
fit
,
should
strike
at
the
aire
with
an
intention
to
do
him
mischief
.
Admit
these
pretended
inconveniences
should
follow
I
do
not
conceive
there
could
be
inferr'd
any
other
then
a
continuation
of
that
ardent
love
of
Christ
which
he
shewed
to
man
,
when
he
estranged
himself
from
his
Eternal
Father
,
to
bear
with
patience
,
and
mildness
,
hunger
,
cold
,
whippings
,
spittings
,
thorns
,
and
last
of
all
the
bitter
and
disgraceful
death
of
the
Cross
.
The
Love
of
God
is
shed
abroad
in
our
hearts
,
for
when
we
were
yet
without
strengh
in
due
time
Christ
dyed
for
the
ungodly
—
God
commendeth
his
love
to
us
in
that
when
we
were
yet
sinners
Christ
dyed
for
us
—
Christ
hath
redeemed
us
from
the
Curse
of
the
Law
,
being
made
a
curse
for
us
that
the
blessing
of
Abraham
might
come
on
the
Gentiles
.
Surely
he
hath
born
our
griefs
,
&
carried
our
sorrows
—
He
was
wounded
for
our
transgressions
,
he
was
bruised
for
our
iniquities
;
the
chastisement
of
our
peace
was
upon
him
,
and
with
his
stripes
we
are
healed
.
L.
B.
He
is
entred
into
Heaven
it
●elf
,
now
to
appear
in
the
presence
of
God
for
us
:
I
come
forth
from
the
Father
,
and
am
come
into
the
world
:
again
I
leave
the
world
,
and
go
to
the
Father
.
A
little
while
,
and
ye
shall
not
see
me
If
he
were
on
earth
,
he
should
not
be
a
Priest
,
He
is
not
here
,
for
he
is
risen
,
The
Word
of
God
is
plain
and
express
for
the
presence
of
Christs
body
in
the
Sacrament
,
and
consequently
in
many
places
at
once
.
This
is
my
body
1.
2.
Tertullian
,
Theodoret
That
there
is
not
any
place
of
Scripture
so
express
that
without
the
Churches
Declaration
it
can
evidently
compell
us
to
admit
Transubstantiation
:
is
not
altogether
improbable
That
the
truth
of
these
words
of
Consecration
may
be
retained
,
although
the
substance
of
bread
and
wine
should
remain
in
the
Eucharist
:
de
Alliaio
that
this
way
is
possible
,
and
neither
contrary
to
reason
nor
the
authority
of
Scriptures
its
easier
to
be
understood
,
and
more
rationall
than
any
other
,
of
this
judgement
is
also
Take
eat
,
This
is
my
body
.
The
Sacramentall
Cup
New
Testament
in
Christs
blood
Aliud
erat
,
aliud
videbatur
Nihil
falsum
putandum
in
Sacramento
veritatis
&c.
Gerrhard
.
Lorich
.
Instit.
Cathol.
de
sacr.
Eucharist
.
pag.
Cum
naturale
sit
homini
,
&c.
[
This
is
my
Body
Except
ye
eat
the
flesh
,
&c.
The
words
that
I
speak
are
Spirit
,
these
words
do
not
run
counter
to
your
said
truth
,
in
as
much
as
these
words
were
uttered
to
the
Capernaits
in
answer
to
their
question
of
Christs
Power
,
and
not
of
the
signification
of
his
words
.
They
imagined
that
he
would
kill
himself
,
and
cut
and
mangle
his
flesh
into
parts
,
and
so
give
it
them
raw
or
rost
to
be
eaten
among
them
,
which
could
not
be
meant
saith
Augustine
,
for
that
had
contained
an
hainous
and
barbarous
fact
,
&c.
Spiritus
,
&c.
The
question
was
not
,
what
says
he
,
that
they
knew
would
be
trifling
and
ridiculous
,
Christ
having
immediately
before
confirmed
the
signification
of
his
first
words
,
By
other
latter
,
Vnless
ye
eat
the
flesh
of
the
Son
of
man
,
and
drink
his
blood
,
you
shall
have
no
life
in
you
;
and
they
both
heard
and
understood
the
language
he
spake
in
.
This
is
my
Body
Their
gross
and
carnal
conceiving
of
his
words
of
his
flesh
,
and
the
manner
of
eating
the
same
was
unprofitable
,
which
is
plain
by
the
sentence
following
,
where
he
warneth
t●em
that
his
words
be
spiri
&
life
,
of
high
mystical
meaning
,
and
not
vulgarly
and
grosly
to
be
taken
,
as
they
took
them
.
Therefore
except
you
will
say
,
that
Christ
answered
not
to
the
purpose
,
his
scope
and
aime
must
be
to
declare
his
power
;
to
the
●nd
to
convince
the
Capernaits
that
he
was
full
able
to
perform
what
he
said
.
He
doth
it
effectually
and
home
,
by
saying
my
words
are
spirit
,
A
Spirit
having
strength
and
vertue
to
do
more
then
all
bodyes
put
together
can
either
do
or
conceive
.
The
Roman
Church
committeth
idolatry
in
her
ad●ration
at
Mass
,
bowing
to
the
Name
of
Jesus
,
Altars
,
Images
,
and
Relicks
.
By
the
Commandment
,
Thou
shalt
not
make
to
thy selfe
any
graven
thing
,
nor
adore
it
,
is
neither
forbid
the
Art
of
Engraving
,
Carving
,
Printing
,
Painting
,
Casting
,
Sowing
,
Embroydering
;
nor
yet
all
manner
of
religious
honour
to
be
given
to
creatures
.
Jews
,
Ye
heard
the
voice
of
the
words
,
but
saw
no
similitude
,
only
ye
heard
a
voyce
,
—
Take
ye
therefore
good
heed
unto
your
selves
(
for
ye
saw
no
manner
of
similitude
on
the
day
that
the
Lord
spake
unto
you
in
Horeb
out
of
the
midst
of
the
fire
)
lest
ye
corrupt
your selves
,
and
make
you
a
graven
image
,
the
similitude
of
any
figure
,
the
likenes●
of
male
and
female
&c.
It
is
not
any
marvel
at
all
that
they
which
of
the
Gentiles
were
cured
by
our
Saviour
made
and
set
up
such
things
,
—
for
the
men
of
old
of
an
Heathenish
custome
were
wont
to
honour
after
this
manner
such
as
they
counted
Saviours
:
Lorichius
Est
praeterea
abusus
imaginum
,
&c.
Ye
shall
make
you
no
idol
,
nor
graven
image
—
to
bow
down
unto
it
.
In
the
Old
Testament
where
this
Commandement
is
enjoyned
the
use
of
those
severall
acts
was
held
lawfull
and
religious
honour
exhibited
,
&c.
Religious
honour
was
exhibited
to
the
fiery
bush
by
He
looked
said
I
will
now
turn
aside
to
see
this
great
sight
,
He
said
to
God
He
is
bid
to
put
off
his
shooes
,
He
hid
his
face
Erat
populus
Israel
ad
Idolatriam
pronus
,
&c.
[
Lyran.
in
loc.
]
To
the
Oracle
of
the
high
Priests
,
To
the
Ark
of
We
will
go
into
his
Tabernacles
,
we
will
worship
at
his
footstool
:
Adoremus
scabellum
pedum
ejus
L.
B.
Lord
,
I
have
loved
the
habitation
of
thine
house
,
and
the
place
where
thine
honour
dwells
In
these
words
is
foretold
how
the
Temple
should
again
be
erected
,
and
how
they
should
goe
into
it
,
and
there
worship
God
as
before
.
[
Euthym.
apud
Lyran.
]
God
himself
justified
them
therein
,
by
striking
with
Leprosie
,
and
with
death
,
for
not
forbearing
to
meddle
with
holy
and
sacred
things
without
authority
,
He
burnt
incense
upon
the
Altar
of
incense
,
and
so
usurped
the
Priests
Office
,
Joseph
.
lib.
An
iq
.
cap.
Alterius
delictum
huc
poenas
,
&c.
in
humeris
ne
percuerent
sicut
so
that
all
this
Commandement
forbids
,
is
to
make
graven
things
to
the
end
to
honour
them
with
divine
honour
,
to
make
gods
of
them
as
the
Pagans
did
.
Azor.
Instat
.
Moral
.
part
.
l.
c
is
that
which
is
contained
in
the
pious
worship
of
the
Gods
:
Augustine
Aquinas
,
)
is
a
vertue
whereby
men
give
due
worship
and
reverence
to
God
:
by
it
speciall
honour
is
given
to
God
.
Who
devote
their
whole
lives
to
Gods
worship
:
Prayers
which
cannot
be
used
,
unless
foolishly
,
but
to
intelligent
natures
:
Prime
Principle
first
Originall
Augustine
;
Haec
est
religio
Christiana
,
&c.
Dionysius
Carthusiensis
Quidam
Gentilium
,
&c.
[
Dionys.
Comment.
in
Rom.
Her
adoration
at
Mass
being
not
meant
nor
directed
to
the
accidents
of
bread
and
wine
,
nor
to
the
figures
of
Host
and
Chalice
next
to
sight
(
for
in
these
she
doth
not
acknowledge
to
be
the
perfections
of
Exellencies
belonging
to
God
)
but
to
the
Person
of
Christ
,
hid
and
covered
under
the
said
accidents
and
figures
.
it
s
not
directed
to
the
accidents
of
bread
and
and
wine
,
&c.
but
to
the
Person
of
Christ
,
&c.
That
Christ
per
se
&
proprie
,
is
to
be
worshipped
with
the
adoration
of
and
that
this
adoration
belongeth
to
the
signes
or
symbols
of
bread
and
wine
in
as
much
as
they
are
apprehended
as
one
with
Christ
,
whom
they
contain
.
Ther
remains
no
doubt
but
that
all
Christs
faithful
people
give
the
Worship
of
which
is
due
to
the
true
God
,
to
the
Sacrament
in
their
adoration
,
because
they
believe
God
is
present
in
it
.
Christs
Person
his
Body
Gabriel
,
Biel
,
Thomas
,
Bonaventure
,
Alexander
,
Albertus
,
Richardus
She
alloweth
indeed
of
religious
honour
to
the
Name
of
Jesus
,
to
Altars
,
Pictures
,
Reliques
,
relating
to
God
,
Christ
,
and
his
Saints
.
513.
1
Justin
.
Martyr
Simon
Magus
That
we
can
never
forsake
Christ
which
dyed
for
the
Salvation
of
the
whole
world
,
and
that
we
can
worship
none
other
:
for
we
worship
Christ
as
the
Son
of
God
,
the
Martyrs
we
love
at
Disciples
and
followers
of
the
Lord
,
and
that
worthily
for
the
invincible
good
will
they
bear
to
their
King
and
Master
whose
Companions
and
Disciples
we
desire
to
be
.
We
gathered
his
bones
more
precious
then
pearls
,
and
better
then
tryed
gold
,
and
buried
them
in
the
place
that
was
fit
for
the
purpose
.
To
find
fault
with
this
were
to
blame
Justice
for
giving
to
every
thing
its
due
in
acknowledging
the
truth
:
It
being
most
true
and
undoubted
,
that
the
Name
of
Jesus
,
Altars
,
Pictures
,
and
Reliques
,
bear
relation
to
God
,
Christ
,
and
his
Saints
,
as
Persons
in
Dignities
and
Preheminencies
to
the
same
.
There
are
many
that
make
merchandise
of
reliques
whether
true
or
false
:
so
that
they
are
carried
about
by
Juglers
and
the
vilest
fellows
,
like
the
heathenish
mysteries
of
and
they
are
commended
to
the
vulgar
with
many
lies
,
What
saith
he
,
would
have
said
in
these
days
to
see
every
where
set
forth
in
oftentation
the
Virgin
milk
,
and
so
many
pieces
of
the
Cross
of
Christ
,
which
if
they
should
be
gathered
together
,
would
overload
a
ship
:
Here
they
shew
S.
his
Coale
,
there
the
Virgine's
Petticoat
;
One
where
S.
Comb
,
in
another
place
Breeches
;
and
(
which
is
a
thing
uncertain
)
the
foreskin
of
Christ
which
they
adore
more
religiously
then
Christ
himself
,
Cassander
,
Whereas
there
are
but
very
few
true
reliques
in
these
parts
,
and
many
of
thos●
that
are
shewed
may
be
suspected
;
and
their
frequenting
and
worshipping
doth
cond●ce
little
to
p●ety
,
but
much
either
to
superstition
,
or
gain
:
It
were
a
much
wiser
course
that
there
were
no
Ost●ntation
of
reliques
,
but
that
the
people
might
be
provoked
to
worship
the
true
reliques
of
the
Saints
,
that
is
to
imitate
those
examples
of
piety
and
vertue
which
are
extant
in
theirs
or
others
writings
of
them
.
To
urge
against
the
lawfulness
of
adoration
at
Mass
from
the
interposition
of
creatures
would
prove
too
much
That
Christ
were
not
adorable
in
Churches
,
in
the
fields
,
nay
at
all
,
by
reason
of
an
interposition
of
walls
,
the
Heavens
or
Christs
Body
betwixt
the
adorers
and
his
sacred
Person
:
Thou
shalt
have
no
other
Gods
before
my
face
:
It
will
be
opposed
Christ
is
not
capable
of
adoration
in
the
Sacrament
,
he
not
appearing
there
like
himself
with
Glory
and
Majesty
.
Christ
is
adorable
where
and
howsoever
he
is
pleased
to
be
;
else
the
three
Kings
and
and
the
Apostles
were
reprovable
for
doing
him
homage
,
not
in
a●sumptuous
Palace
,
and
enthroned
under
a
rich
Cloth
of
State
,
but
in
a
poor
stable
,
a
dusty
manger
,
having
for
a
Canopy
,
a
rack
of
hay
,
not
gloriously
attired
,
and
accompanied
with
Nobles
,
but
in
swadling
clothes
,
betwixt
an
Ox
and
an
Asse
;
not
like
a
Prince
,
but
a
mechanick
,
Gardiner
,
a
Carpenter
,
Rep.
de
Euch.
cap.
The
three
Kings
did
him
homage
.
Where
is
he
that
is
born
King
of
the
Jews
?
All
Jerusalem
Tres
Magi
,
&c.
The
three
wise
men
Augustine
)
in
one
journey
come
to
worship
God
,
in
one
Christ
,
(
who
is
the
way
)
the
undivided
Trinity
was
by
them
adorable
:
They
worshipped
him
so
acknowledging
God
,
whom
they
understood
to
be
made
man
.
unless
they
had
known
him
to
be
more
then
man
.
Mary
Magdalen
,
and
the
Apostles
did
homage
to
Christ
in
a
poor
stable
,
as
a
Mechanick
,
a
Gardener
,
a
Carpenter
.
Mary
Magdalen
The
poorness
and
meanness
of
the
manner
Christ
appears
in
—
renders
him
much
more
adorable
;
for
Exaltation
is
humilities
reward
,
&c.
2.9
.
&
The
Roman-Church
challengeth
power
to
forgive
sins
,
which
belongeth
onely
to
God
.
All
power
is
naturally
and
originally
in
God
,
as
Lord
paramount
of
all
creatures
,
but
not
incommunicable
:
for
as
he
hath
bestowed
the
power
of
governing
Kingdomes
and
Common-wealths
on
Kings
and
Magistrates
,
So
the
power
of
remitting
sins
on
the
Apostles
and
their
successours
:
yet
men
having
these
powers
by
way
of
gift
and
participation
may
not
be
said
to
govern
or
to
forgive
sins
,
but
as
Gods
substitutes
and
delegates
,
suitably
to
the
condition
of
their
inferiority
and
subjection
.
Who
can
forgive
sins
but
God
only
,
Solus
D●us
remittit
peccata
,
&c.
[
Bed
,
apud
Lyran
ib
]
Ita
operatur
sacerdos
Evangelicus
,
&c.
[
Lomb.
lib.
jus
,
potestatis
Concil.
Trid
,
sess.
&
Can.
ap.
Binnium
The
successours
of
the
Apostles
have
power
to
forgive
sins
,
as
Gods
substitutes
and
delegates
,
suitably
to
the
condition
of
their
inferioritie
and
subjection
.
The
Roman
Church
derogateth
from
Christs
Mediatorship
,
making
it
common
to
Saints
and
Angels
.
Things
that
are
like
have
eftsoons
the
same
denomination
;
so
Kings
and
Judges
are
called
Gods
for
some
resemblance
betwixt
Gods
power
and
theirs
.
The
Roman
Church
then
observing
in
the
intercession
of
Saints
and
Angels
,
a
certain
likeness
to
the
mediation
of
Christ
;
they
being
both
expressions
of
charitable
and
good
desires
for
others
,
may
not
unfitly
call
them
alike
by
the
name
of
mediation
.
Moses
is
said
to
be
a
God
to
Pharaoh
,
I
have
said
ye
are
Gods
,
and
all
of
you
the
children
of
the
most
High
,
&c.
Touch
not
my
Christs
There
is
one
God
,
and
one
Mediator
between
God
and
men
,
the
Man
Christ
Jesus
,
Mediator
Dei
,
&
hominum
,
&c.
Catholicks
do
not
transfer
the
office
of
Mediator
now
explained
and
proper
onely
to
Christ
to
any
others
,
but
onely
doth
acknowledge
some
others
to
be
mediators
in
an
imperfect
manner
,
our
intercessors
to
God
,
such
as
all
those
are
who
commend
our
salvation
to
God
by
their
prayers
.
[
ibid.
]
But
she
is
so
far
hereby
from
intending
the
least
prejudice
to
Christs
mediation
,
either
in
confounding
or
equalling
the
same
with
that
of
Saints
and
Angels
,
that
she
puts
as
wide
a
difference
betwixt
them
as
can
be
betwixt
two
things
of
different
appellations
:
acknowledging
in
Christs
Mediation
a
worth
or
right
whereto
the
thing
desired
is
of
Justice
due
;
in
the
Mediation
of
Saints
&
Angels
only
a
vertue
of
moving
Gods
goodness
and
mercy
to
grant
their
desires
.
as
can
be
betwixt
two
things
of
different
appellations
,
She
acknowledgeth
in
Christ's
Mediation
a
worth
or
right
whereunto
the
thing
desired
is
of
justice
due
,
in
the
Mediatiō
of
Saint
&
Ang●ls
,
only
avertue
of
moving
Gods
goodness
&
mercy
to
grant
their
desires
.
You
invocate
Saints
as
Mediators
for
whose
merits
God
bestows
those
benefits
on
us
which
we
are
not
worthy
our selves
to
receive
.
We
ought
to
fly
to
them
,
and
reverently
to
intreat
them
,
that
we
may
be
saved
by
their
merits
and
prayers
.
Bellarmine
That
as
to
the
words
,
its
lawful
for
us
to
pray
.
Peter
give
me
this
,
or
t'other
,
whilest
we
understand
it
,
give
it
us
by
thy
prayers
and
merits
.
who
choose
the
Saints
to
be
their
Guardians
,
and
trust
more
to
their
merits
and
intercession
,
then
to
the
merits
of
Christ
.
The
Saints
move
Gods
goodness
,
but
Christ
looks
to
Gods
justice
.
How
long
wilt
thou
not
have
mercy
on
Jerusalem
,
&c.
Which
sith
it
is
not
held
injurious
to
Christ's
Mediation
to
allow
of
as
good
in
the
prayers
of
sinners
,
hated
and
abominated
by
God
for
their
crimes
and
iniquities
,
much
less
ought
it
to
be
esteemed
a
wrong
to
attribute
it
to
the
intercession
and
prayers
of
Saints
and
Angels
,
whose
purity
and
sanctity
renders
them
gracious
and
pleasing
in
the
sight
of
God
.
God
heareth
not
sinners
;
but
if
any
man
be
a
worshi●per
of
God
,
and
doth
his
will
him
heareth
he
,
The
sacrifices
of
the
wick●d
are
an
abomination
to
the
Lord
;
but
the
prayer
of
the
upright
is
his
delight
,
It
will
be
opposed
(
say
you
)
in
the
vast
distance
that
is
betwixt
Heaven
and
Earth
,
Saints
and
Angels
,
cannot
hear
.
Blessed
souls
in
their
state
of
Separation
have
,
as
Angels
an
hearing
quite
other
from
that
of
souls
immersed
and
plunged
in
flesh
and
blood
:
These
hear
by
means
of
corporal
Organs
,
which
limited
within
a
certaine
distance
,
cannot
receive
impression
out
of
the
same
:
Those
hear
with
their
understandings
,
which
are
by
so
much
the
more
open
and
quick
of
apprehension
,
by
how
much
the
less
their
dependance
is
on
matter
:
The
Saints
then
being
freed
of
all
corporal
clogs
may
hear
at
any
distanc
.
Aquin.
part
Aquinas
,
Ibid.
Art
.
viz.
Isai
Ibid.
q.
Object
.
You
say
it
will
be
opposed
;
Be
it
Saints
can
hear
at
what
distance
soever
;
yet
this
not
possible
,
unless
Objects
be
proposed
:
and
what
capacity
in
Prayers
sent
so
farre
off
as
to
reach
to
Heaven
.
Catholicks
boast
not
of
any
such
vertue
in
their
prayers
,
but
they
believe
(
as
is
confessed
by
all
)
that
God
is
every
where
—
and
that
he
is
the
chief
and
principall
Cause
of
all
effects
,
and
so
of
mans
prayers
.
Now
it
being
the
propertie
of
every
cause
to
relate
to
its
effects
,
and
so
to
represent
the
same
,
as
looking
glasses
do
faces
and
other
opposed
objects
:
The
Saints
(
whose
happiness
consists
in
a
clear
vision
of
God
)
must
needs
see
and
behold
(
amongst
other
effects
of
his
goodness
and
mercy
)
the
Petitions
of
those
who
become
humble
suitors
to
them
.
its
the
property
of
every
Cause
to
relate
to
its
effects
,
and
so
to
represent
the
same
,
as
Looking-glasses
do
faces
and
other
opposed
objects
.
&c.
Whose
face
the
Angels
do
perpetually
see
in
heaven
;
but
they
see
every
one
according
to
the
measure
of
his
own
degree
,
but
the
sublime
splendor
of
the
fatherly
vision
,
its
lawfull
onely
for
the
Son
and
the
Holy
Ghost
to
behold
.
Object
.
You
say
it
will
be
opposed
,
If
Saints
and
Angels
have
not
mens
prayers
before
God
proposeth
them
he
knoweth
them
beforehand
:
whence
may
be
inferd
that
their
intercession
is
needless
.
Gods
foresight
of
mens
prayers
maks
not
the
intercession
of
Saints
and
Angels
any
way
unprofitable
and
fruitless
;
inasmuch
as
the
effect
intended
thereby
is
not
to
better
Gods
understanding
,
but
to
obtain
from
his
blessed
Will
,
mercy
and
compassion
,
&c.
Princes
have
often
notice
of
subjects
imprisonment
and
condemnation
,
yet
seldom
give
reprives
of
inlargements
,
but
at
the
intreaty
of
some
friend
or
favorite
.
Men
are
wished
,
yea
warranted
to
pray
for
one
another
,
notwithstanding
,
God
hath
the
foresight
of
their
wants
and
necessities
.
Davids
adulterie
and
guilt
of
blood
were
in
the
sight
of
God
unpardoned
,
till
after
a
low
humiliation
,
and
an
hearty
acknowledgement
of
his
fault
Church
entertaineth
divisions
and
contrariety
in
Religion
:
The
maintaining
a
Physicall
predetermination
,
the
Jesuits
a
Morall
:
those
that
the
Virgin
was
conceived
in
Originall
sin
;
these
that
she
was
prevented
by
Grace
and
conceived
in
the
same
.
And
if
this
be
not
enough
to
infer
contrarietie
in
Religion
,
several
Councells
have
contradicted
each
other
.
Not
every
difference
,
but
a
difference
in
point
of
Faith
makes
division
and
contrariety
in
Religion
:
The
onely
quarrell
about
Opinions
;
it
being
not
matter
of
belief
that
Gods
Predestination
is
Physicall
or
Morall
,
or
that
the
blessed
Virgin
was
conceived
in
Originall
sin
or
grace
:
These
are
meer
School
nicities
,
and
not
at
all
destructive
to
that
Vnity
which
Catholicks
so
much
reverence
in
Religion
.
with
you
dog
wagged
his
tail
All
points
of
Faith
being
equally
founded
on
Gods
Revelation
are
fundamentall
and
substantiall
A
pious
Doctrine
and
agreable
to
Ecclesiasticall
worship
,
the
Catholick
Faith
,
right
reason
,
and
the
Holy
Scriptures
,
and
that
it
shall
not
be
lawfull
for
any
one
to
preach
or
teach
any
thing
contrary
to
it
,
They
have
talked
and
discoursed
contrary
,
They
hav●
freedome
to
debate
matters
of
Religion
,
they
do
not
contradict
one
another
in
matters
of
Faith
.
That
the
Church
doth
propound
divers
,
and
sometimes
contrary
decrees
That
often
the
precedent
general
Councels
are
mended
by
the
following
.
They
have
altered
and
changed
Laws
and
constitutions
of
Governments
made
and
established
by
former
:
Councels
admit
a
liberty
to
debate
matters
of
religion
,
and
that
what
was
once
go●d
and
convenient
may
prove
afterwards
circumstances
varying
,
bad
and
inconvenient
.
Calvin
,
That
Christians
generally
maintained
and
professed
that
the
Government
of
the
Church
was
unalterable
by
any
mortal
.
Concil.
Carthag
Concil.
Nic.
Concil.
Constantin
&
Concil.
Basil
.
Sess.
Communion
in
both
kinds
was
by
our
Lords
institution
Apostolical
tradition
,
publick
and
perpetual
custome
of
all
times
,
and
further
was
confirmed
by
the
Decrees
of
Popes
and
Councels
.
Eliberis
,
Can.
The
Roman
Church
is
injurious
to
Christs
merits
approving
of
humane
merits
.
Reason
and
experience
shew
a
diversity
of
Agents
;
that
as
some
are
necessitated
,
as
beasts
,
other-some
are
free
,
as
men
,
and
therefore
capable
of
merit
and
demerit
,
whereby
they
are
differenced
from
beasts
,
which
are
uncapable
of
either
;
the
assertion
of
humane
merits
is
no
other
wrong
to
Christ
,
then
the
affirming
of
a
plaine
and
clear
truth
can
be
wrong
to
him
.
the
service
of
cruel
Elephants
is
merited
by
their
meat
.
It
will
(
say
you
)
be
opposed
,
men
are
capable
of
merit
and
demerit
in
order
to
temporal
,
but
not
to
Eternal
rewards
.
As
God
hath
enabled
men
to
deserve
temporal
,
so
eternal
rewards
.
It
is
apparent
in
Scripture
learning
,
Heaven
a
Crown
of
Justice
,
a
Reward
,
a
Goal
,
which
necessarily
impose
merits
,
as
their
Correlatives
,
bare
actions
void
of
desert
,
being
looked
on
only
as
by
way
of
gifts
.
Timothy
,
Si
fides
gratia
est
,
&c.
Causa
sine
qua
non
262
,
263
That
those
things
which
we
call
merits
are
the
way
to
the
Kingdom
,
but
not
the
cause
of
Raigning
.
That
mens
merits
are
not
such
as
that
life
eternal
is
of
justice
due
unto
them
,
or
that
God
should
wrong
men
if
he
gave
it
not
.
God
is
not
our
debtor
nor
obliged
of
justice
to
us
,
because
of
our
good
habits
or
acts
which
he
hath
given
us
;
and
that
to
thinks
or
say
the
contrary
,
is
rashness
and
blasphemy
.
It
is
most
clear
to
all
not
blinded
with
pride
and
contention
that
good
works
be
meritorious
,
and
the
very
cause
of
Salvation
,
so
far
that
God
should
be
unjust
if
he
rendred
not
Heaven
for
the
same
,
Rhem.
on
Heb.
bare
Actions
void
of
desert
be
looked
onely
as
by
way
of
gifts
:
It
were
indeed
no
less
then
blasphemy
to
go
about
to
equal
in
worth
other
merits
with
Christ
;
but
the
Roman
Church
offereth
not
any
such
thing
,
whilest
she
believeth
Christs
merits
to
be
of
infinite
value
,
others
onely
of
finite
:
Christs
merits
to
have
their
desert
and
worth
from
no
other
;
others
to
hold
dependance
f●r
b
th
of
them
.
Simon
Magus
If
by
grace
,
then
it
is
no
more
of
works
;
otherwise
grace
is
no
more
grace
,
&c.
Rom.
This
place
convinceth
for
the
Catholicks
,
that
all
good
works
done
by
Gods
grace
after
the
first
justification
be
truely
and
properly
meritorious
,
and
fully
worthy
of
everlasting
life
:
and
that
thereupon
heaven
is
the
due
and
just
stipend
,
crown
or
recompence
,
which
God
by
his
Justice
oweth
to
the
persons
so
working
by
his
grace
:
for
he
rendreth
and
repayeth
Heaven
as
a
just
Judge
,
and
not
onely
as
a
mercifull
giver
,
and
the
Crown
which
he
payeth
is
not
onely
of
mercy
,
or
favour
or
grace
,
but
also
of
Justice
.
truely
and
properly
meritorious
,
and
fully
worthy
of
everlasting
life
.
22
ae
A
work
is
rendered
vertuous
,
laudable
and
meritorious
,
especially
,
because
it
proceeds
from
the
will
,
and
therefore
although
obedience
be
a
debt
,
yet
proceeding
from
a
ready
will
t
is
meritorious
.
Rather
the
Church
by
asserting
other
merits
,
and
withall
acknowledging
their
desert
and
worth
to
flow
from
Christs
merits
,
attributed
more
to
Christs
merits
than
they
do
who
deny
other
merits
:
for
hereby
are
yielded
to
Christs
actions
a
capacitie
of
meriting
themselves
,
and
a
communicability
of
the
same
to
to
other
actions
,
which
are
two
perfections
;
and
to
acknowledge
two
perfections
in
a
thing
is
undoubtedly
to
give
more
to
that
thing
,
than
to
acknowledge
onely
one
.
I
have
troden
the
wine-pr●ss
and
of
the
people
there
was
none
with
me
;
—
Mine
own
arms
brought
salvation
!
&c.
Samson
Jerom
.
apud
Lyr.
two
perfections
in
Christ
Rivet
.
sum
contra
.
tract
.
It
will
be
opposed
,
all
Actions
besides
Christs
are
duties
,
and
duties
are
inconsistent
with
merit
.
They
are
so
without
Covenant
and
acceptance
;
so
is
obedience
in
a
childe
,
a
servant
,
a
subject
due
to
his
Father
,
his
Master
,
his
Prince
:
Nevertheless
,
as
a
Father
,
a
Master
,
a
Prince
,
making
a
compact
to
gratifie
some
particular
act
of
his
Childe
,
his
Servant
,
his
Subject
innobles
the
same
,
and
intitles
it
to
what
was
promised
;
even
so
by
the
means
of
Gods
Covenant
,
That
he
will
reward
certain
actions
of
men
(
though
otherwise
due
)
and
accept
the
same
as
worthy
,
they
become
meritorious
,
and
their
reward
due
upon
this
account
.
Dionysius
,
Carthusiensis
Facietque
tandem
omnis
misericordia
,
&c.
&c.
Tit.
We
lov●
him
because
he
loved
us
first
,
I
am
the
Lord
thy
God
that
brought
thee
out
of
the
Land
of
Egypt
,
therefore
thou
shalt
have
none
other
gods
before
me
.
Abraham
,
I
am
the
Almighty
God
,
walk
before
me
and
be
thou
perfect
.
Not
for
thy
righteousness
,
or
for
the
uprightness
of
thine
heart
dost
thou
go
to
possess
their
land
:
but
for
the
wickedness
of
these
Nations
,
the
Lord
thy
God
doth
drive
them
out
before
thee
,
and
that
he
may
perform
the
word
which
the
Lord
sware
unto
thy
Fathers
,
&c.
Fully
worthi●
of
everlasting
life
deemed
it
no
presumption
,
to
challenge
at
the
hands
of
God
a
Crown
of
Justice
for
his
good
fighting
,
well
runing
,
and
constant
keeping
of
the
Faith
,
The
Roman
Church
giveth
the
Communion
under
one
kinde
contrary
to
Christs
institution
.
Answ.
There
is
a
great
deal
of
difference
betwixt
Christs
Institutions
and
his
Commandements
;
●hese
requiring
both
belief
and
observance
,
those
onely
belief
.
Si
qu●s
de
Antecessoribus
nostris
,
&c.
that
which
hath
been
inviolably
observed
from
the
beginning
of
the
Church
,
must
be
supposed
to
be
a
divine
precept
.
Although
Christs
actions
be
good
examples
for
us
to
imitate
,
yet
as
such
,
they
impose
not
obligation
upon
imitation
.
Christ
fasted
forty
days
and
as
many
nights
,
went
into
the
desert
to
be
tempted
,
forbare
marriage
,
&c.
are
all
bound
to
doe
the
like
?
none
will
say
it
.
Finally
Brethren
,
whatsoever
things
are
true
,
whatsoever
things
are
honest
,
whatsoever
things
are
just
,
whatsoever
things
are
pure
,
whatsoever
things
are
lovely
,
whatsoever
things
are
of
good
report
,
i●
there
be
any
ver●ue
,
and
if
there
be
any
rayse
,
think
on
these
things
.
Those
things
which
ye
have
both
learned
,
and
received
,
and
heard
,
and
seen
in
me
do
,
&c.
Jesuit
Fishers
That
the
end
of
the
institution
be
necessary
,
and
that
it
be
necessary
for
every
particular
person
to
endeavour
the
attaining
thereof
.
That
if
every
particular
person
be
bound
to
endeavour
to
attain
the
end
of
an
institution
,
that
also
the
w●ole
thing
instituted
be
necessary
for
the
attaining
of
that
end
.
this
and
is
necessary
It
s
necessary
for
every
particular
Christian
to
endeavor
the
attaining
hereof
.
Let
a
man
examine
himself
,
and
so
let
him
eat
of
that
bread
;
and
drink
of
that
cup
,
That
as
oft
as
they
did
so
,
they
did
shew
forth
the
Lords
death
:
The
whole
or
both
kinds
are
necessary
for
the
obtaining
of
that
end
Ex
vi
Sacramenti
,
&c.
i.
e.
Petrus
de
Palude
There
ought
to
be
a
two-fold
matter
of
this
Sacrament
,
the
matter
of
meat
and
drink
,
because
the
effect
of
the
Sacrament
ought
to
be
representd
perfectly
and
in
a
manner
agreeable
to
nature
;
because
Sacraments
work
that
which
they
figure
:
but
the
effect
of
this
Sacrament
is
the
perfect
nourishment
of
the
soul
,
therefore
the
matter
representing
ought
to
be
by
perfect
refection
of
the
body
,
which
is
not
but
by
meat
and
drink
.
Cassand
.
de
Sacr.
Com.
sulutraque
specie
,
p.
1019
,
1020
,
1021.
Wher●fore
th●
Romane
Church
believing
Christs
institution
of
the
Sacram●nt
to
have
been
under
both
kinds
,
giveth
to
it
its
full
due
.
Turks
,
Pagans
,
Jews
For
the
Communion
under
one
kind
,
there
being
no
Commandement
forbidding
the
same
,
it
is
rashness
in
an
high
degree
,
and
want
of
charity
to
condemn
her
as
sacriledgious
for
so
doing
.
Let
a
man
examine
himselfelf
,
and
so
let
him
eat
of
this
bread
,
and
drink
of
this
cup
,
Dionysius
Carthusiensis
This
do
ye
as
often
as
ye
drink
it
in
remembrance
of
me
:
He
took
the
Cup
,
and
gave
thankes
,
and
gave
it
to
them
,
saying
,
Drink
ye
all
of
it
—
And
they
all
drank
of
it
.
These
words
indeed
,
Doe
th●s
in
commemoration
of
me
,
Drink
ye
all
of
this
,
imply
a
Commandement
,
but
concerning
on●ly
Priests
,
to
whom
as
the
p●wer
of
making
,
so
the
Obligation
of
taking
under
both
kinds
is
peculiar
and
proper
—
The
Reason
is
,
because
hereby
(
as
the
words
clearly
bear
)
he
chiefly
a●mes
at
a
remembrance
of
his
death
and
passion
,
which
including
a
separation
of
his
soul
from
his
body
,
and
of
his
blood
from
his
flesh
,
cannot
be
so
lively
and
so
fully
represented
under
one
kind
.
Drink
ye
all
of
this
:
for
this
is
my
blood
of
the
new
Testament
which
is
shed
for
many
for
the
remission
of
sin
.
[
Supr.
]
viz.
Paschasius
,
Rathertus
,
Chrysostome
,
Theophylactus
,
Cyprian
,
Origen
Augustine
,
[
Cass
.
de
sacr.
Com.
sub
utraque
spec.
p.
an
incruent
sacrifice
Make
this
oppose
the
Heretical
Calvinisti
Do
this
Take
,
eat
,
This
is
my
body
,
drink
you
all
of
it
—
He
gave
it
to
them
,
and
they
all
drank
of
it
.
Do
this
drinking
of
it
Take
,
Eat
,
—
This
do
in
remembrance
of
me
.
do
this
Dyonisius
,
Carthusiensis
Do
this
John
[
Vnless
ye
eat
the
flesh
of
the
Son
of
man
,
and
drink
his
blood
,
&c.
]
[
Cass
.
supr.
For
Confirmation
look
up
into
the
Primitive
times
,
even
of
the
Apostles
and
Christ
,
and
you
will
find
by
their
promiscuous
Communion
,
sometimes
under
one
kinde
,
sometimes
under
another
,
and
sometimes
under
both
,
that
they
never
understood
of
any
Commandement
of
Communicating
und●r
both
kindes
.
Breaking
of
Bread
Omnis
cibus
,
&c.
All
kinde
of
meat
in
Scripture
languge
is
called
Bread
.
Lords
Supper
It
behoves
you
to
effect
it
with
speed
;
and
not
stand
reasoning
h●w
this
?
why
the
other
,
replies
beget
delayes
,
and
delayes
are
seldome
out
of
the
ill
company
of
danger
.
That
Christianitie
is
not
against
reason
,
and
he
is
to
be
reputed
silly
and
light
that
hastneth
upon
a
truth
,
however
propo●ed
without
examination
of
its
credibilitie
and
consistence
with
nature
which
must
be
the
work
of
reason
,
nay
more
,
that
belief
is
beholding
to
reason
,
even
for
discerning
and
finding
out
her
guide
the
true
Church
:
prove
all
things
,
and
hold
fast
that
which
is
good
.
though
not
in
expectation
of
the
reparation
of
their
ruines
,
Seek
the
way
to
Sion
,
peace
is
within
her
walls
,
and
prosperity
within
her
palaces
.
r.
Christianis
,
p.
r.
Cuivis
,
p.
r.
Gospels
,
p.
r.
you
,
p.
r.
praelati
,
p.
for
Church
r.
Pope
.
p.
r.
not
.
p.
for
men
r.
Pen
,
p.
r.
Successors
,
p.
r.
by
,
p.
r.
Dowaists
,
p.
r.
as
if
,
p.
r.
mendata
,
&
r.
us
,
p.
for
hope
,
r.
Pope
,
p.
r.
are
,
p.
r.
be
,
p.
r.
its
l
testimony
,
p.
r.
i.
e.
p.
trow
,
p.
r.
mediation
,
p.
r.
mediation
r.
valid
,
p.
r.
leaning
,
p.
r.
exorcise
,
p.
r.
naming
r.
way
,
p.
r.
gross
carnal
presence
,
p.
r.
private
r.
Rom.
are
,
p.
r.
omit
,
p.
r.
in
them
,
p.
r.
to
your selves
,
p.
r.
unaccompanied
,
p.
r.
seven
,
p.
r.
individed
,
p.
r.
he
hath
,
p.
r.
should
not
,
p.
r.
taste
,
p.
r.
not
without
,
p.
r.
again
,
p.
dele
,
he
,
p.
r.
meanness
,
p.
r.
she
,
p.
r.
bring
,
p.
for
three
,
r.
thirdly
,
p.
r.
tearming
,
l.
r.
suppose