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A76262	A Legacie left to Protestants, containing eighteen controversies, viz. 1. Of the Holy Scriptures. 2. Of Christs Catholick Church, &c. 3. Of the Bishop and Church of Rome, 4. Of traditions needfull, &c.	Bayly, Thomas, d. 1657?,; T. B.	1654 (1654)	Wing B1512; Thomason E1667_2; ESTC R208395	72,275	206

Prelates and Penitens together anciently introduced which might and hath been taken away not onely by Nectarius in his City but by S. Leo and other Bishops because as the fervour of Christians became cooled sundry inconveniences happened by occasion of it which are not wanting in all Calvinian Consistories making their stool of Penance ridiculous and of little benefit to such as are brought unto it The twelfth Controversie Concerning the number and effect of Sacraments CAlvin seemeth in words to extoll In Antideto Sess 7. c. 5 6. the Sacraments of the new Law as fountains of our Saviour ordained to cleanse and sanctifie souls yet when he cometh more clearly to expresse his Doctrine he affirmeth them with the rest of his fellows to be no other than bare Signes of faith and Seals as it were of Christs gratious and liberall promises made in the Gospel unto us And therefore in the holy Councell of Trent they were justly condemned declaring them as the Generall Councel of Florence had done before not onely to be Signs but true causes of such graces as are signified by them as fountains flowing from Christs wounds and graciously ordained by him to apply easily and efficaciously for the sanctification of our souls such graces as by his life and death he merited for us Wherefore S. Augustine against Faustus ●ib 19. c. 10 his Mainchean Adversary affirmeth them to work after an unspeakable manner their effect of heavenly graces in us And elsewhere he asketh Tract 80. in John how water in Baptisme cometh to have that force by touching the body to cleanse and sanctifi● the soul but by being raised above its own force made the water of a Sacrament ordained by Christ for that purpose In Orat. de S. Baptis which sense also S. Gregory Nissen comparing the seed of man and the water of Baptisme together saith that as the naturall body of a man is framed by the one so is the soul and supernaturall man framed by vertue of the other causing graces in him And S. Lib. 2. in Jo. c. 42. Cyrill teacheth that as water made hot by fire scaldeth and warmeth as fire it self doth so the water of Baptisme is by the Holy Ghost as a heavenly fire raised to have a divine vertue in it of sanctifying souis washed with it called therefore by Saint Paul the Laver of Regeneration and Renovation because we are renewed in our souls and supernaturally regenerated by it And the same in a proportionable manner may be said of other Sacraments seven in their whole number because the Son of God ordained seven Ceremonies to be used by us with promises of Graces annexed unto them if we preparedly and worthily Ad Eph. 5. receive them Baptisme for example is said to be the Laver of life cleansing souls Confirmation is spiritually Acts 8. to strengthen us given with imposition of hands by the Apostles first and since by Bishops not without the Holy Ghost visibly heretofore and now invisibly no doubt given by it The holy Eucharist is as a heavenly food and ordained to nourish John 6. our souls declared by Christ himself in the gracious effects thereof Penn●nce is also a wholesome medicine to cleanse and cure the wounds and diseases of mens souls by remission of sinnes promised to such as worthily receive it Order conferreth Graces to dispose and make men fie for Ecclesiasticall Functions for which Reasons S. Paul will●d Tim●thy made Bishop by him to resuscitate and make use of that Grace which by imposition of his hands had been given unto him Matrimony is called by the same Apostle a great Sacrament representing the union which is between Christ and his Church not perfectly signified without Grace given that the beginning of man● life might saith S. Cyrill become sanctified by it Extreme Vnction is mentioned by S. James and remission of sinnes declared to be the effect thereof The councell of Florence gathered this numher of seven Sacraments from seven conveniences in our spiritual corporal life equally required a generation to wit in the on● and a regeneration in the other growth and increase of strength medicines to cure diseases Superiours to govern Subjects means of procreation and a comfortable departure out of thi● world c. That these Sacrament● give grace of themselves beyond the disposition of such as receive them i● proved by S. Augustine from the effect of Baptisme in little children which proceedeth neither from the sanctity of him that baptiseth nor from any disposition in the children themselves but meerely from the vertue of the Sacrament ex opere operato as Divines expresse it And whereas our Adversaries term this expression barbarous In Psal 138. I will answer them with S. Augustine melius ●st ut nos reprehendant Grammatici quam ut non intelligant Populi it is better that Grammarians should reprehend us than that the people should not understand us And in this ●fficacity of Sacraments a chief dignity of our Christian Religion properly consisteth for that never any other exteriour Sacraments had power in themselves to sanctifie souls For which cause S. Paul comparing the Sacraments of the old Law with ours calleth them egena infirma elementa barren and infirm Elements Neither do our Adversaries duly consider as they ought that in the denying the number and efficacity of Sacraments they detract from the merit of our Saviours death and power which it had to sanctifie souls in severall manners and to communicate by Sacraments heavenly Graces unto us according to our Adversaries Doctrine Lib de captivitat Babilonica titulo de Baptismo to little or no effect at all ordained by him Luther having written thus of them the signs justifie not and as S. Paul said Circumcision availeth nothing so I say of Baptisme it is nothing nor is the Participation of our Lords Table any thing they In locis commun tit de signis part 8. are testimonies onely and Seals of Gods love towards us Melanctthon taught the same Doctrine and albeit many Lutherane Divines do now depart In Antid l. 4. in stitutionum from it yet Calvin and his Adherents constantly still maintain it Infants saith he are holy from their Mothers womb for Gods promise made to Abraham I will be thy God and the God of thy seed after thee Beza likewise maintaineth the same Doctrine In 2. Des●nsione de Sacram. and other chief Authors amongst them So as Baptisme with them saith John Skutts a great Lutherane Divine is as Radling to Lib. 50. causarum c. 17. mark sheep with that their owners may know them And this Doctine hath been by the Devil himself I doubt not purposely suggested unto these men for the d●mnation of innocent children dying without Baptisme by occasion thereof as not held necessary for their salvation expressely against the words of our Saviour Joh. 3. Vnlesse a man be born again of water and