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A25460	Fides Catholica, or, The doctrine of the Catholick Church in eighteen grand ordinances referring to the Word, sacraments and prayer, in purity, number and nature, catholically maintained, and publickly taught against hereticks of all sorts : with the solutions of many proper and profitable questions sutable to to [sic] the nature of each ordinance treated of / by Wil. Annand ...	Annand, William, 1633-1689.	1661 (1661)	Wing A3218; ESTC R36639	391,570	601

lying one 6. He challenges Disputes in which they falsify the Scriptures and learned Authors pretending they are on their side In this last Rome hath an excellent faculty and in the first our Hereticks hath a strange confidence Vaine glory is the stirrup by which he mounts and popular applause the breath by which he lives which he hopes to receive by challenging and indeed he may be very Impudent I should have said confident in his disputes that resolves before hand never to be convinced which is his property 7 His followers betray him They are either the ho●low Hypocrites who generally favour the Heritick in his tenents or the Idle person he that lives without a calling shelters himselfe under the garment of an Heretick that it may be thought its religion makes him leave the world in a word young curious boys weak b●ains silly women generally makes up his congregation 8 He is most bitter against them that op●se him This makes the ordained ministers to be the Butt he most malitiously shoots at he is the greatest eye so●e in the world to the seducer because he is to discover him point him out unto his people that they may shun him wherefore he hates him and yet let me assure him he shall as soon keep the sun from shining upon the world as get ordination out of the world 9 He ever makes a gain of those w●om he seduceth he calls his preaching either free or if he do get it is only the peoples free gift and not certain to him however generally a collection is made at the close of his speech and like Idolaters who can give their Jewels and their ear-rin●s to make a golden c●lfe yea give their sonnes and dau●hters unto Devils they give him sometimes a large contribution some have refused this publick way yet have under ground sayd such pipes as have brought in a large quantity of creature comforts It is a great blessing in their account if any be seduced that hath large portions of this life for by some secret deeds of conveyance they are all sonnes and daughters adopted and sharers of his goods and like greedy horse leetches never leave sucking untill he be as poor and empty as ever he was full But I long to make an end of him 10 He comes to disgrace in the end denyes what he affirmed before or else casts it into a new mould and mince it and alter it and tells he was not rightly understood Were heresie a standing dish in time it might be swallowed down by many otherwise adverting enough but it never continues in one stay It cannot be licked unto one form he denyes this tenet this day He must strengthen it by denying another tomorrow his hearers may be are in love with a new religion he must set up shop again and that he may have trading he must varnish over his old stuffes with some new glosse and to his new Proslytes teacheth for doctrine some new fancy and like a man in danger of drowning catches at any opinion though never so false before he clearly be shut out as a deceiver which oftentimes by good laws or Church censures falls to his lot Quest. 3. Whether a Preacher once setled in a place may leave that place There are some that touching this Question are one the extreams of both sides by on party it is affirmed he ought not at all by anotheir partly it is held that he may doe it when he will we shall not at this time fall out with either party yet there are some ground that salva conscientia a Minister may remove from that place wh●rein the law hath set him As 1 When the activity and excellency of parts deserve it unto whom God hath given eminent gifts it is lawfull to manage that place that is sutable for those gifts if it were not so the places of most concernment in the Church might be worse supplied and he whose parts the Church stood in most need of might be buried in a corner he than that conceives his parts might be sayd out for the good of the Church in a more powerfull manner in such a place unto which I suppose him lawfully called then in that wherein he now is he may remove himself and that from the nature and end of his office which is the perfecting of the Saints One of lesse and of inferiour parts may in that place wherein he is now accomplish the same end as well as he and his parts can help it more forward in that place unto which he is now removing 2 When inability of body and weaknesse of parts call for it A man may not be able through severall infirmities to undergo the duties of one place and yet the same man be sufficient to execute all the parts of his office in another In this case he may remove by the Law of Charity for God will have mercy and not sacrifice 3 When the affections crossenesse of people seem to compell it people as the Galathians may stay in their affections and their hearts for some cause or other be alienated from him they formerly loved In this case a Minister may remove by the Law of reason for where there is not love to the person there will hardly edification be got by the doctrine he may go where he is better beloved and the people may receive or choose another in whom they more delight and in my judgement both changes for the better this relinguishing is justifiable from the end of preaching which is the edification of the Church 4 When the Covetousnesse of the people or smallnesse of the meanes force it As was sayd before a Minister is at certain charges common with other men he may have a familie which ought to be provided for he may be sick and must then have attendance or perish Now not to have wherewithall to answer his necessity or supply him in his need he may remove by the Law of nature which binds him to educate his Children to provide for his family if this place wherein he is will not do he may leave it and his relinqiushment is Justifiable both before God and man God will keep no man in his vineyard nor bid any go in but upon good termes and competent allowance and men will allow every Tradsman Shopkeeper to live by his calling and profession why therefore ought not a minister to live by his function and office Indeed if men make a custome of removing from one place to another without some emergent cause it is both sinfull to themselves and dangerous to the Church As Warre therefore is to be made with good advice so a choice is to be made with mature deliberation Quest. 4. Whether it be expedient to permit one to Preach constantly or weekly in a place that hath neither Order from the Church nor Charge of the people This Question hath no eye to them that so preach in a Church not setled or in a nation not

disagreement we must and ought to agree with the Word in all Circumstances as wel when it frowns as when it smiles It wil never chide without a cause nor reprove but for the souls good reason wil have us neither rage nor murmur Quid ergo non altquando castigatio necessaria Quid ni hoc sincer● cum ratione non enim nocendi c. piety will not suffer us to turn it out of doors When once Ierusalem began to fall out with the Word the day of peace was hid from her eyes and destruction comes like an Armed man If the Word cannot live in peace it wil not live at all it will not always strive with man Bear with its sharpest reproofs therefore take its most plain instructions and contemn not it's frequent admonitions and in the end it shall be health to thy Navel and marrow to thy bones Prov. 3.8 Say ever with Hezekiah 2 Kin. 20.29 Good is the Word of the Lord and peace and truth shall be towards thee all the days of thy life Whate contention is there is pride where pride is there Sathan is and where Sathan is an Inmate Christ nor his Word will not dwell SECTION III. LEt the Word of Christ dwell in you c. This is the third particular above proposed wherein we have the persons in whom our Apostle would have this Word of Christ to dwell which because we shall have occasion to speak largely of it in another place we shall be the briefer here In you that is in you Archippus Chap. 4.17 and Evagras Chap. 1.7 i.e. in you Ministers of the Gospel they being Ministers of Colos. that you may be faithfull Stewards and Ministers of Christ that you may know how to comfort the dejected and strengthen the feeble stock In you Parents that you may bring up your children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. In you Masters that ye may know how to command in the Lord and that you may know how to obey as to the Lord. In you young men that you may cleanse your way In you old men that you may be as Guides In you Husbands that you may love your Wives In you Wives that you may reverence your Husbands In you that is in all you that professe the truth and have been baptized in tye Name of Christ that you may work out your salvation with fear and trembling That you may do all things without murmurings and disputings That ye may be blamelesse and harmlesse the Sons of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse Nation Phil. 2.14.15 Looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Iesus Christ Tit. 2.13 SECTION IV. LEt the Word of Christ dwell richly in you c. O 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 copiose abundanter have good store of it let it overflow your souls as Iordan overflowed it's banks in time of Harvest Ios. 3.15 This Word richly imports 1. A diligent care and study after the Scriptures men will take much pains to have their houses richly furnished Nunquam tam mane egredior neque tam vespers domum revert●r quin semper te in fund● conspicer sodere aut errare aut aliquid serre And they will labour hard to increase their substance so men must labour for to obtain the sacred knowledge of the holy Scriptures they must dig for it as for hidden Treasures denoting the labour about it and love they bear unto it Nil tamen difficile c. It may be hard to flesh and blood but remember if any of you lack Wisedome let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally and it shall be given him Jam. 1.5 and it is true wisedom to know God and him whom he hath sent who is to be found only in in the swaddling cloaths of the Scripture and unto whom we are guided by the light of those Prophesies that went before us of him and he that would take him in his Arms but must take the pains to go into the Temple 2. It holds out abundance of it he is not said to be rich that hath but smal store nor wealthy that hath but wherewithal to supply necessity we must have enough for our selves and our Lanthorn full of light that others may walk holily uprightly and cleanly by our guidance counsell and direction this is not to eat our Morsell alone this makes the mouth of a Righteous Well of Life Prov. 10.11 Where any any that wants refreshment shal not misse of it and none shall go thirste away 3. It holds out some choise portion this is not spoken absolutely but chiefly there is something in it that must be chiefly studied retained he is not said to be rich that hath store of ordinary goods but of some choce Commodity as Plate Mony Jewels which though he look to preserve other things yet chiefly his care is for them there are truths of grand concernment there are foundation stones necessary graces that must be wel laid in the soul that his faith fail not There are some things that Titus must constantly affirm Tit. 3.8 There are weightier matters of the Law these must cheifly be done Mat. 23.23 There are some points that all the Law and Prophets hang upon Mat. 22.40 Temperance Righteousnesse and Judgement to come would be well studied Act. 24.25 when we have studied the Almightinesse of the Father we shall the sooner see how the Son was born of a Virgin I am to study better the cause merit benefit of Christs death then of Stephens The nature of that Covenant that God made to save poor sinners is of greater concernment to me then that that David made with Ionathan concerning his Posterity Now to study well and ponder upon the holynesse graciousnesse and largeness of the nature Covenants and of the mercy of God the Offices sweetnesse of the Lord Christ to know the cause and effect of his first and second coming is of gre●t concernment and he is rich that is wel stored with those great matters yet despiseth not the least 4. A care to preserve and keep it Riches that have been gotten by hard labour are preserved with care and diligence What made men sweat for in the getting they usually observe the profit of it in the spending a bloody Conquest is watchfully looked after whilest an easie victory is secured without noise Where this Word of Christ dwels richly there must be a holy care t● keep it there be thieves that wil endeavour to break through and steal Sathan hath a Picklock to enter the House of the soul of man This made God cause his people to write his Law upon the posts of their house and upon their gates Deut. 6.9 that being constantly in their eye they might not through carelessenesse be debarred the heart The Law is a Tree of life to them that lay hold upon it and by this Word of Christ even with a scriptum est we

God himself calls a Sabbath wherever therefore one day in seven is kept Holy it may from the morality of the Law be named a Sabbath providing it to be the Sabbath of the Lord God that is a day set apar● by him for his own service by which we conclude that the seventh day kept by the Iew or the seventh day kept by the Turk though they work not are not morally Sabbaths the Lord never chusing the one and rejecting the other constituting the first day of the week to be since Christs Resurrection a perpetual Sabbath to himself B●t what is all this to Sunday this being a prophane name drawn from the Heathens It is to be wondred at to see what canting language is in the mouthes of men and how mystically they will speak to avoid ordinary expressions in time our dip pers may new dip doublets gloves and give them new names and by consequence set us all to schoole again that we may learn to forget our selves to be men and with authority pronounce all our Ancestors fools being they could not tell how to speak The Heathens it is true named the days of the week according to some feigned Gods real planets one among the rest was called Dies Solis the day of the Sun the self same day that is our Christian Sabbath naming or dedicating that day to that planet if the day had been dipped in the fountain of the Sun all had been well enough tamen non ●bstante we may call the first day of the week Sunday any thing in this argument to the contrary notwithstanding 1. From the practice of an Holy Evangelist he that was in labours more abundantly for the Gospel then any now can pretend to be that is not past shame was not so scrupulous as these men would seem to be for it is but a seeming be in his History of the Acts Acts 28. giving us an account of Pauls dangerous voyage to Rome shews us vers 11. That they viz. Paul and his company whereof Luke who wrot this History was one after three moneths departed in a Ship of Alexandria which had wintered in the Isle whose sign was CASTOR and POLLUX the Spirit of God made no scruple at these heathenish names but writ them and they stand in the Scripture and no reproof is given to the users of them and yet in their own natures they are to be more stumbled at then D●s Solis or Sunday either We shall interpret and open this story that these mens folly may appear you must know that the great Heathen God who ruled all was called Iupiter he was born at Crete and when he came to be of age he threw his Father Saturn out of his kingdom having three Brothers he gave the government of Hell to Pluto the government of the Sea to Neptune and kept the government of Heaven and Earth to himself This Iupiter according to Heathen Poets and Fables would come oftentimes out of Heaven and play pretty pranks upon Earth one of which was this One Tyndarus had a handsome wife called L●da she being with childe to her own husband Iupiter in a merry pin turned her into a milk white Swan and in that shape he being a God a pretty one got her with childe likewise she grew mighty big her hour of travel comes she is delivered of two Sons well shaped boyes they were One of them is named CASTOR the other POLLVX the lads grew and when they came to be of age their coasts being pestred with Pirats they got Ships and destroyed the Pirats in a short time they rid the Sea of them for this they are worshipped as Gods of the Sea and where they are together it is a sign of a fortunate voyage this is the reason that that Ship wherein Luke and Paul was had the sign of Castor and Pollux upon Their stern as some English Ships have Saint George this Ship therefore being at her outrigging named by Castor and Pollux foolish and heathenish Gods which had such a filthyoriginals this name being used by the Spirit of God and that without a check we may use the name Sunday though used by the Heathens by a more ra●ional cause then the other and not to be reproved by any whimsical sawcy or Hypocritical rebel whatsoever whose conscences in matter of sin we have no cause to suppose tender 2. From the innocency and harmlesness that is in the using of it there are some customes originally heathenish used too often that are attended with sin and whose being ought to be removed because of transgression as may-games particularly which always is accompanied with sinful and by relation shameful Acts and once in seven year a great occasion of the polluting of that day of which we are now speaking But this word Sunday hath nothing in it that savours of evil or that can be said to border upon that which is not right 3. From the happy event that God hath been pleased to give this name The Heathens gave one day to Mercury another to Venus one thought a thief and the other a whore the first day of the week to Apollo or the Sun Apollo they thought a God well skilled in Physick Excellent in Musick good to open Prophesies always young to such a one was this day dedicated and after him named he carrying about the Sun it was called Sunday now this hath fallen out so well as it deserves to be remembred Christ is Sol Iustisiae the Sun of Righteousness Mal. 4.2 this day did the Sun of our souls break through the clouds of his winding sheet and triumphed over darkness this day did he come out of the Chamber of his sepulchre and rejoyced as a bridegroom to run his race he came with healing under his wings to cure our souls he brought the sweet Musick of the Gospel of reconciliation I ascend said he Iohn 20.27 Vnto my Father and your Father to my God and your God he is the true explainer of the Prophets by this Sun● rising we see what was meant by Ienas lying in the Whales belly he comes out of his grave like a R●e or a young heart Cant. 8.14 In a word he is the light that inlightens every one that comes into the world our Sun the Son of God is risen by him we see Heaven by him we receive the fruits of the Earth this is his day dedicated to him by the Spirit set apart by himself never be bafled therefore but if thou so please call it Sunday it hath fallen out well that this day was by them that knew not God dedicated to the Sun and not to any other since in many points it can quadrate with our Sun of righteousness which with others it could not so well have done Quest. 10. Why is the Sabbath called Holy We shall have occasion to speak to this more at large hereafter for the present the Sabbath may be called Holy 1. In regard of the author of it