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A discourse touching choyce of religion By Sr. Richard Tempest Baronet.
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Tempest, Richard, Sir, 1619 or 20-1662.
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reality of that comfort which our Saviour intended us in the blessed Sacraments But Catholiques doe adore the Lord Jesus here truely present onely him doe they adore who although till the world be dissolved after a naturall manner he is above yet here with us is the truth of the Lord That as often as we receive we eate his Flesh and drinke his Blood without which there is no life in us by which Union how doe our soules receive a torrent of joyes and graces which flow from a Celestiall source into all the faculties and powers of our minde sanctifying them to him who is our head being incorporated into him Invocation of Saints Whilst we live in the earthly Tabernacles of our Bodies we are subject to the sumes of flesh and blood to the Impressions of diverse affections and the clouds of the world whence we are put to execute a warfare and act a vigilent part against the depths of Satan and to that end we desire one anothers Prayers And shall theirs be lesse effectuall whose blessed soules are unbodied out of a possibility of falling and enjoying the blessed presence of God inflaming with charity and good will towards us They rejoyce at our conversions they understand our conditions holy Church hath ever practised to make them friends in the Court of Heaven To obtain their requests of their King and ours the effects of Christs mediation and merits may be more hopefully purchased by Angelical Petitions then mans disturbed and cold devotions Chrysost Hom de Martyr Egyp Let us aske the Fathers and they will tell us By the Prayers of the Martyrs we may after our departure hence see and imbrace them saith saint Chrysostom And elsewhere Mary praies for us stronger then Deborah more powerfull then Jael De Cog. nit verae vitae St. Augustine saith When you call upon the saints in Prayer it behoves you thus to thinke of them as placed in the glory of the Eternall beauty most glorious lights farre out-shining the Sonne who have fully all that is good in the Vision of God and who forcibly assist all that call upon them St. Hierom to Heliodore After death saith he you shall pray for me who have incited you that you might overcome In the Liturgy of Basil Now Martyrs earnestly pray that God may grant us remission of our sinnes De vidu◠Saint Ambrose saith The Angels are to be called upon in our behalfe who are assigned to us for our defence And againe let us not be ashamed to have them the Intercessors of our infirmity of the Intercession of the blessed Virgin Doctor Don saith prettily Her Wombe was a strange Heaven for there God cloath'd himselfe and grew our zealous thanks we poure as her deeds were our helps so are her Prayers nor can she sue in vaine who hath such titles unto you The piety and fruits of 〈◊〉 Whilst men make themselves such strangers to the Inhabitants above they break the communion of saints if mens joyes were all above if men did thirst after those glorious fruitions they would accept of all the helps that might leade them to it In invocating and worshipping the saints we worship him whose saints they are Saith a Father in often contemplating their crownes and begging their patronage how are our hearts inflamed through their helps it erects our thoughts on high and gives us courage in our journey below to have seen all the dangers of it conquered by those who as they were our example so now are our Patrons 〈…〉 It inlarges and mends our prospect when we view those Celestiall Inhabitants shining all as stars of severall magnitudes one glorious in the ruddy beams of Martyrdom another shining with the snow white purity of Chastity others now the higher by having been low in their own esteeme they provoke us by viewing their glories to the care of acquiring their vertues neither let any pretend and say God hath commanded us to call on him therefore its needlesse to goe to any other for he hath told us He heares not every one that cryes Lord Lord but him who doth the will of his Father and his will is that we should be obedient and hearken to his Church and not in stead of observing its commands revile it and rent and teare it by contempt of its Doctrines Confession Absolution Satisfaction This is and ever hath been so universally generally deliver'd Preached urged practised in the Catholique Church that none can deny it but those whose stiffe-neckednes will not give thē leave to look back into any Antiquity or Fathers these words are plainely frequently made use of to expresse this part of the Discipline of the Church which the Father 's called The vigor of the Gospel as if without it all mens manners and courses towards Heaven would languish Sermons of Confessions Bishop Andrews from the Text Whose Sins yee remit they are remitted acknowledges a perticular personall Confession to be ment by reason he saith it is exprest whose Sins not what Sins soever Epist 55. Let us heare Saint Cyprian expresse himselfe against those that opposed it It is indevoured saith he that sins may not be redeemed by satisfactions and just lamentations that mens wounds may not be washed away with tears true peace is taken away by the lye of a false one and the healthfull bosome of a Mother a step-mother interceding is shut up weeping and mourning should be heard from a sinner and the face of those who have falne August Hom. 5. Let him come to the Priests those by whom the Keyes are disposed of in the Church and let him from those who are set over those holy rites receive the measure of his satisfaction Tertullian de poenitentia Confessio satisfactionis consilium It is objected that its an all-daring presumption to pretend to be able to satisfie in the most pure eyes of Almighty God and so plausibly run on in an ill applide humility when a man doth what anothers demand is it s said he hath satisfied his desires nay if the Creditor doe for some reasons forgive the Debt he is said to be satisfied and it s spoken by reason of the Evangelicall compact when God by promising makes himselfe a debtor saith the Father and we doing what is required that is bringing forth fruits worthy of Pennance and performing such expressions of sorrow and those penitentiall injunctions as the Church wil be satisfied in for the demonstrating our hearty repentance it is cal'd satisfaction but whom the expressions of the Councel of Trent will not satisfie touching it he is sicke of siding and parties nor is any desire of peace with the Church prevalent with him Sessio 14 cap. 8. It s agreeable to the divine clemency lest sins be pardoned us without any satisfaction occasion being taken that we lightlier esteeming of sins fall into more grievous ones injurious and contumelious to the holy spirit of God treasuring up wrath for us