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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96976	Meditations upon the marks of the true Church of Christ: or, Motives of credibility in behalf of the true religion: and, the easiest way to finde it out. / By H.W.	H. W.; Wilkinson, Henry, 1610-1675,	1655 (1655)	Wing W36A; Thomason E1666_1; ESTC R208388	95,687	283

thraldome so the reall Body and Blood of Christ is offered up when the priest by the power which Christ hath given him consecrateth it in Masse in remembrance and thanksgiving for the benefit of man's being redeemed by Christ from the more than Egyptian bondage of sin and therefore it is called Eucharist which signifies thanksgiving and it the sacrifice of Thanksgiving Is not this a better and more honourable remembrance of Christs passion than a bit of meer Bread and a sup of Wine The devout Ceremony of making the signe of the Crosse used and commended by the holy Fathers and all ancient Christians was plainly represented and commended to us all by that Thau in Ezekiel cap 9. and by the Angels signing the Servants of God in the Revelations cap. 7. v. 3. This as the rest is fulfilled perfectly only by the Church of Rome Gather hence that since the prophesies and types also the great promises contained in these prophesies are fulfilled in the Roman Church and in it only it follows evidently that it is Christs true Church The third Point Consider now the sad condition of Sectaries argued out of their having no share at all in this full table of sweet and comfortable promises foretold by the prophets for this evidently shews that they are not the Church of Christ nor members of it On the contrary they have just reason to fear that the heavy denounciations and threats of the prophets for in this kinde onely they are like to fulfill prophesies will fall upon them for as their novell opinions fond and prophane images of their own fancies made by their private spirit have some semblance of those Idols to which the Jews sometimes falling from the worship of the true God Sacrificed So let these modern imitatours of them take heed they be not delivered over to a reprobate sense and the like spirituall punishment with them And can you still persist in that perversnesse away with these fancies yeeld to truth and say with the repenting Jewes and in this they may by you be well imitated Signa nostra non videmus jam non est propheta Psal 73. v. 10. We acknowledge we have no signes nor miracles in behalf of our sects We grant there are no propheticall men amongst us We see not the marks of Christs Church upon our Sects We confesse the prophesies are not fulfilled by us And therefore from hence forth we will resolve and choose rather to be abject in the house of God his Church than to dwell in the Tabernacks of sinners of Sectaries any longer The eighteenth Meditation Of temporal blessings and felicities miraculously bestowed on the Defenders and Propagators of the Catholick Religion The first Point To understand how temporall felicity may be one mark amongst the rest which discovers the Church of Christ from all other Sects Consider first the difference betwixt the ordinary and extraordinary providence of God The first is that whose effects we see and feel in the production conservation and operation of creatures It appears also in the effects of mans morality industry or art and in the natural effects of all secondary causes The second appears to us chiefly in effects which are surpassing the forces of naturall causes the one confers riches honours victories kingdomes and the like after that manner which we have daily experience see or hear of By me Kings do raigne Prover 8. vers 15. sayes God and he cals them Ministers of his Kingdome Wisdome 6. vers 5. and Saint Paul sayes There is no power but from God Rom. 13. By the other he give principalities and victories miraculously when and to whom he pleases and without the cocourse of secondary causes any way proportionable to those prodigious effects Thus he gave the Jews Victories most miraculously as to Josu Gedeon Judas Machabeus and others which as they were extraordinary signes both of the Divine Protection over the Synagogue as also that it was then the true Religion so the same Argument holds in behalf of the Church of Christ that that people is it on which God bestows the like victories and benefits after a miraculous manner Consider secondly for the avoiding of errour in the weaker understandings that these temporall felicities are not to be supposed a mark of Christs Church in themselves but onely so far forth as they are conferred after a miraculous manner for certain it is that poverty is as conducing a means to eternal salvation as riches yea heaven is far casilier attainable by poverty if it be imbraced not only patiently but willingly than by riches yet they are in themselves both gifts originally arifing from the hand of God The Lord hath given the Lord hath taken away sayes Job chap. 1. The Lord maketh poore and enricheth he bringeth low and lifteth up 1 King 2. v. 7. Poverty and honesty are from God Eccles 11.24 He humbles this man and he exalteth that man Psal chap. 74. So that there is no doubt of this But we speak here of the manner of Gods dispensing out these temporals which when it is miraculous it argues which Religion is most favoured by Almighty God and consequently is his Hence infer that this mark is not any way repugnant to that other of persecution for different circumstances of time place and persons remove this difficulty the Jews though they were often miraculously protected by God yet at other times he permited them to be sore persecuted as by Antiochus and others The second Point Consider now by induction of examples how highly the Roman Church and its members have been favoured by Almighty God in a miraculous way Constantine the Emperour and honour of England his native country was a Roman Catholick well known by his great reverence to the Pope to the Saints and their Relicks and to the signe of the Crosse and his example methinks might move all England to reverence the same God gave him the Empire after a miraculous manner for as he were upon his march going out of England towards Italy with small forces against Maxentius the Tyrant who had in his Army a hundred and seventy foot with eighteen thousand horse espyed in the ayre about mid-day a faire Crosse with this inscription upon it In hoc vince overcome by means of this the next night our Saviour appeared to him and shewed him the same Crosse and gave him order to bear that signe in his Banner and so he should be victorious He did so overcame the Tyrant and then became Christian After which he was victorious in all his other Battails also by means of our Saviours promise made to him if he carried that figne of the Crosse which he did alwayes carry in his Standard called the Labarum causing it to be transferred alwayes to that quarter of the Army which was most weakned by the Enemy and the fight of it added new courage to the one by which the other were soon defeated Theodosius the elder a pious and