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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51590	The Catholike scriptvrist, or, The plea of the Roman Catholikes shewing the Scriptures to hold forth the Roman faith in above forty of the chiefe controversies now under debate ... / by I.M.	Mumford, J. (James), 1606-1666.	1662 (1662)	Wing M3063; ESTC R32100	169,010	338

of these things agree to the Pope and yet they all agree to Antichrist 7. Seaventhly the beast which shall sett up the power of Antichrist shall make fyre come downe from heaven to earth in the sight of men Apoc. 13.13 Tell me what setter up of the Popes power did ever doe this 8. Eightly there allso v. 17. it is sayd that he also shall effect that no maÌ„ shall buy or sell but he that hath the Character or name of the beast or number of his name In what Popes dayes was this verified 9. Ninthly and lastly 2. Thess 2.4 That one speciall man who is called that man of sin is extolled above all that is called God or all that is worchiped Now whosever is extolled above all that is God is not only extolled above judges and Kings sometimes called Gods as all just men are but to be extolled above all that is called God he must be extolled above God himselfe who in the very first place is called God So he that is extolled above all that is worshiped must be extolled not only above Princes and Kings but above saints and Angels and God himselfe Now neither doth the Pope extoll himselfe or is extolled by any of his adherents above the Apostles or Angels and much lesse above God himselfe shewing himselfe That he is God as there sayd Antichrist shall do THE NINTH POINT Of the Sacraments of the Church and of the Ceremonies which the Church useth in administrating these Sacraments as allso in other occasions 1. HAving treated of the Church and her chiefe Pastor it followeth to treate of the Sacraments of this Church And because our Church useth severall ceremonies in the administration of these Sacraments and especially in sacrifice of the Masse as allso in other severall occasioÌ„s a thing much scoffed at by our adversaries We will here allso treate of these Ceremonies 2. First then concerning Sacraments in generall before we come to treate of every particular Sacrament to prevent mistakes I define a Sacrament to be An outward signe instituted by Christ signifying the inward grace which it confers when duly receaved And here it must be exactly noted that every such outward signe or holy ceremony by the applying of which inward grace is infallibly conferred when it is duly receaved must needs be a signe or ceremonie instituted by Christ For no body but Christ could annex the infallible guift of inward grace to the applying of such an outward signe 3. Now if any one will stand contending to prove that a Sacrament is some thing else and ought to be defined otherwise all that I neede to say in confutation of him is that I will finde in Scripture seven such holy signes or ceremonies to the due application of which the guift of inward grace is infallibly annexed And for this reason I say that these be either seuen true Sacraments or else seven things much better then those which your definition will allow to be Sacraments For by these seven that divine quality of heavenly grace is conferred by yours it is not But before I come to shew our seven Sacraments in particular to be such holy signes or Ceremonies instituted by Christ from whome all grace is derived I will in the second place treate of the Ceremonies of the Church which Protestants are pleased to account foolish Childish Apish Comicall c. 4. I say then that the light of reason teacheth us in all actions which we desire to rayse above the Rank of vulgar Actions to devise some Ceremonies to sett that action forth in such a manner that all shall by the very sight of it be stirred up to apprehend such an action to be farr surpassing ordinary things So in the solemne inauguration of great Princes in the coronatioÌ„ of Kings in they re going to sitt in Parlaments yea in they re carrying to they re graves and interment great choyse is made of exquisite ceremonies to sett forth these actions so that they may be raysed much above the strayne of vulgar actions wherefore seeing no actions deserve more esteeme or to be raysed to a higher degree of reverence and veneration amongst the Christian people then the chiefe actions of our Religion it was wholy convenient that the administration of the SacrameÌ„ts beeing the chiefest of these actions should chiefly of all other actions be graced and sett forth with some kinde of ceremonies such as the Church should think fittest that so all the vulgar by the very sight of those actions may be excited to conceave a sacred esteeme of those actions sett forth so mystically in a manner quite different from ordinary and vulgar actions By this argument and not by any Text of Scripture you must justifie your Ministers surplice The law of nature which was before the Ceremoniall law did teach the holyest men of that law thus to rayse the most pious actions they solemnly performed by addition of certaine ceremonies So Holy Iacob Gen. 28.18 Arrising in the morning tooke the stone that he had layd under his head and erected it for a title or monument and poured out oyle upon the toppe of it A ceremony so farre from beeing superstitious that Gen. 31.13 God approves this fact appearing to Iacob and saying I am the God of Bethel where thou didst anoynt the stone and didst vow thy vow to me 5. And because our adversaries scoff at ceremonies as if they were ridiculous things we desire them to reflect whether a heathen may not as well scoff at the Iewish Ceremonies appointed by God himself as indeed the Iewes both by the Greeks and the old Romans were held for the most superstitious people of the world upon that account And though the Iewish Ceremonies appointed by God do now cease yet it is now blasphemy to say any one of them were foolish Apish comicall gestures Yet looked upon with carnall eyes they may to the full as much appeare to have bin so as the Ceremonies of the Church appeare to you For example what a mimicall action would you account it in us if we should in the Consecration of the Pope appoint that the tippe of his right eare ande the thumb and great toe of his right hand and right foot should be the parts particularly annointed and yet God himself commanded Exod. 29. v. 20. That in the Consecration of Aaron and his sonnes Thou shalt take of the blood of a RaÌ„ and put it upon the tippe of the right eare of Aaron and of his sonns and upon the thumbs and great toes of theyr right hand and foot A number of as strange Ceremonies as these are both in this book of Exodus and particularly in Leviticus and yet all set down by Gods own appointment And it is now blasphemy to say they were ridiculous 6. But lett us passe to the new law though in this all Iewish Ceremonies be abolished yet is it no where sayd that we should serve God without all Ceremonies which no nation under

a number that for three dayes they could not take away the spoiles for the greatnes of the prey v. 25. And v. 28. The fourth day they entred into Ierusalem with Psalteries and Harpes and Trumpets into the house of our Lord. Thus by a Pilgrimage and Procession returning thanks for so great a victory got purely by a Pilgrimage and Procession accompanied with fasting and prayer as we usually accompanie our Pilgrimages and Processions How often do Protestants read these places and for want of practise in these devotions never understand them or note them 7. Againe what shall or can they say to that pious fact of Naaman generall Captaine of Syria cleansed from his Leprosie by washing seaven times in the river Iordan God prescribed the waters of the Holy Land for his cure though he had better in his Country as he sayd 2. Kings 5.12 But it is for a farr other reason why I speak of Naaman It is because beeing hartely converted by this miracle and resolved to serve only the God of IsraÃ«l he sayd to Elizeus v. 17. Shall not then I pray thee to thy servant be given two mules burthen of earth For thy servaÌ„t hence forth will offer neither Burnt offering nor Sacrifice but unto the Lord. Where I observe that he apprehending how hard it was for one of his quality to come in Pilgrimage to Ierusalem and Sacrifice there and knowing himself because he was a stranger to be licensed to Sacrifice else where would notwithstanding carry the earth of that Holy Land a Land chosen by God for his service that upon the Holy earth he might raise an Altar and so do his devotions in a Holy place as well as circumstances permitted Yet how do our Adversaries scoss at us if we bring a little earth from about our Lords sepulcher or Mount Calvary upon which he shedde his blood more sanctifying that earth then ever earth was Sanctifyed When Daniel was captive and could not go to the temple to pray yet His windowes beeing open in his chamber towards Ierusalem he kneeled upon his knees thrice a day and prayed and gave thankes to his God as he did afore time Dan 6.10 Behould this was his usual devotion to turne towards a Holy place and pray when in body he cold not go thither 8. In the new Testament you have Matth. 2. the three sages or Kings coming an exceeding long Pilgrimage to adore in personall presence our new borne Saviour allthough they knew fullwell that he did as well see and heare all the respect and devout prayers performed to him by them in theyr own Countries as farr of as they were Yet they personally would shew theyr respect by waiting on him in person So we Catholikes personally will honour S Peter in presence of his body at Rome by going to that end so long a Pilgrimage allthough we full well know he could hear our prayers made at our own houses yet we know those prayers to be more acceptable to him as hath formerly been shewed concerning prayers made in Holy places expecially when those prayers receive so great force from so painfull and devout a Pilgrimage Again in the new Testament you have allso Io. 12. v. 20. That there were certaine Greeks who came up to worship at the feasts These Greeks were not obliged to the Iewish Law But theyr devotion exhorted them to this long Pilgrimage And though they were by birth descending from the Gentils yet theyr coming to worship makes it evident that they were true believers Now that this theyr Pilgrimage was gratfull to our Saviour it appeares by his divine providenc ordering things so that they should be introduced in to see him at such a time as a voyce came from heaven saying I have glorifyed it thy name and again I will glorify it v. 28. Likewise Philip by Gods speciall providence was sent to instruct convert and baptise that noble Eunuch of Candace Queen of Aethiopia who was come to Ierusalem to adore though he lived as farre of as Aethiopia A grattfull Pilgrimage to God though not commanded him by God See Acts 8. v. 26. evident therefore it is that some places are to be held more Holy then others and upon that account we do laudably go in Pilgrimages to them that is we go to them for devotion sake to do our best duty to God in those places Again because our Saviour was transfigured on Mount Thabor S. Peter calls that Mount a Holy Mount 2. Pet. 1.18 When we were with him in the Holy Mount So say I because our Saviour was so disfigured at Mount Calvary and all besprinkled that place with his sacred bloud that is allso a Holy Mount And farre more grattfull to God be all the devotions which are made in that Holy place 9. There is a memorable passage of Iohn e. 5.2 to confirme all that hath been sayd or that is believed or practized among us in this Point For there is in Ierusalem by the sheepmarket a Poole having five Porches in these lay a great multitude of persons blind lame withered expecting the stirring of the water And an Angel of our Lord descended at a certaine time into the Pond and the water was stirred and he that had gone down first into the Pond after the stirring of the water was made whole of what infirmity soever Interpreters affirme this great and constant miracle which was true though the former Scriptures never did sett it downe to have therefore been given to the water of this Pond which made so great recourse of Pilgrims to that Place because the Carcasses of the sheep Sacrificed in the Temple were washed in this Pond or else because the blood of them did runne into it Shall not the bloud of Martyrs Sacrificed for Christ more Sanctify any place where it was shedde theÌ„ the bloud of sheep Sacrificed in his honour Scarce any Relique hath lesse relation to the person whose Relique it is then this miraculous Pond had to that great Lord to whose honour these beastes were sacrificed Yet this Pond had an Angel of God deputed to look after it The miracle was constant and infallible And so no wonder a great multitude of persons came from remote places in pilgrimage to this place so allso many came or were brought even to S. Peters shadow as we noted in the former Point n. 5. His bones and other Reliques have a farre stricter relation to him then his shadow 10. Lett no man think that miracles now cease All England knowes that our Kings by touching with certaine Ceremonies cured and still cure the Kings Evell and all France knows theyr Kings do so to this day The first for S. Edwards sake the other for S. Lewis Our Saviour speaks home when he sayth and he sayth it without limiting any time He that believeth in me the workes that I do he allso shall do and greater then these shall he do Io. 14.12 Believe to find no true belief where there be no

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