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 eng Protestantism -- Controversial literature. Donatists. eebo Lucilla and Elizabeth, or, Donatist and Protestant schism parallel'd n/a 1686 6 726 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2014-04 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-06 Sampled and proofread 2014-06 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Lucilla and Elizabeth , OR , Donatist and Protestant SCHISM PARALLEL'D .

Donatism . Protestancy . 1. Ordain'd Anti-Bishops . 1. Ordain'd Anti-Bishops . 2. Erected Anti-Altars . 2. Erected Anti-Tables . 3. Impeach'd all other Churches of Apostacy . 3. Impeach'd the whole Church of Superstition , Idolatry , and Antichristianism . 4. Communicated with no other Church in Religious Offices . 4. Communicates , in Sacred Duties , with no Christian Society .

5. Appeal'd from the Churches Sentence in a Spiritual Cause to a Lay-Prince .

Yet continued the Catholick Creed , Sacraments , Liturgies , Regiment and Solemnities , as they were before the Schism .

5. Appeal'd from the Churches Decrees to the Princes Supremacy , advancing it in all Spiritual Cases , above any Authority , Ecclesiastical , whatsoever .

Continues Baptism and the Creed ( in most Articles ) but errs concerning the Eucharist and other our Lord's Sacraments , abrogating the Liturgies , Rites , Canons , Fasts and Festivals , as also the Spiritual Jurisdiction of the Church , and Canonical Obedience to the Western Patriarch .

St. Augustin's Censure against the Donatists involving Protestants also .

Epist. 48. YOU [ Donatists ] are with us [ Catholics ] in Baptism , in the Creed , and in the rest of our Lord's Sacraments ; but in the Spirit of Unity , in the Bond of Peace , lastly , in the Catholic Church it self , you are not with us .

Epist. 153. The Sacraments of Christ , which in the Sacrilege of Schism you [ Donatists ] have to Judgment , will be profitable and wholsom to you , when you shall have the Head , Christ , in Catholic Peace , where Charity will cover a multitude of Sins .

De Unitate Ecclesiae , c . 4. Whosoever believe Christ Jesus to be come in the Flesh , &c. but yet so dissent from his Body which is his Church , as that their Communion is not with the whole , whereever diffused , but is found Separated in some part , 't is manifest they are not in the Catholic Church .

Cap. 2. This Church is the Body of Christ , as the Apostle saith , Col. 1.24 . For his Body , which is the Church . Whence surely 't is manifest , That He who is no Member of Christ , cannot have Christian Salvation . But the Members of Christ are joyn'd to each other by the Charity of Unity , and by the same [ Charity ] do they cohere to their Head , Christ Jesus .

Epist. 153. Whosoever therefore is Separated from the Catholic Church , how laudably soever he thinks himself to live , for this only Crime , that he is disjoyn'd from the Unity of Christ , he shall not have life , but the wrath of God abideth on him .

Now St. Augustin places the Donatists Schism in their not joyning with Catholics in Religious Offices , In forsaking all Christian Assemblies , In not partaking with them of the Eucharist , In Prayers , &c. Whence he concludes them not to belong to the Catholic Church , Not to be Members of Christ's Mystical Body , Not to have Charity , Not Sacraments to Benefit , Not Piety with hope , nor Salvation . Have Prelatical Protestants of Great Britain and Ireland and visible Communion , in the Eucharist or other Divine Service , with any Christian Church on Earth ? If they have not , as is undeniable , then according to St. Augustin , they are not in the Catholic Church , are not Members of Christ , are without Charity , beneficial Sacraments , hopeful Holiness , and eternal Salvation . And this Censure by so much more justly belongs to them , as their Schism is more contumacious , their Calumnies against the Catholic Church more horrid , and their Defection by Heresie as well as Schism , wider than was the Donatists .

Publish'd with Allowance .

LONDON , Printed by Henry Hills , Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty for His Houshold and Chappel . 1686.