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A reflection of certaine authors that are pretended to disauow the churches infallibilitie in her generall decrees of faith. By F.E.
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Lechmere, Edmund, d. 1640?
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STC 15351; ESTC S106826
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admitted in some others ât in a scholler that pretends to haâ reade the Question in him and ââth vrge his authoritie against the âhurch of God such a pretence âth no place §. III. Waldensis yeilding to the Scripture a preminence in Authoritie will haue vs depend âon the Church for the sence of it 2. She is âo to declare which bookes are Canonicall âripture A speach of Canus touching Walâsis his Opinion examined 3. When he saith ãâã Fathers testimonie hath abolished all Heââes he doth not exclude the Authoritie of ãâã Church symbolicall or representatiue 4 âe symbolicall Church he saith against Wiâef is not the Predestinated people only but ãâã Vniuersitie of right beleeuers spred ouer the whole world 5. He held that the Church of Rome cannot faile 6. and that perfect oecumenicall Councels be infallible in their decree HAecipsa fides authoritas Ecclesiae quantum homiââ supergreditur rationem tantùm fateor diuina legis ââthoritati succumbit Baro p. 365. ex Waldensi Media est ãâã inter supremam authoritatem Scripturae infimam ratioâ fides Ecclesiae Scripturas venerabiliter attollens exhibeus rationem vagam hominis ad hanc geminam authoritaâ alligans zona Pauli Idem ex eodem 1. WALDENSIS saith the authoââtie of the Church is inferiour the authoritie of Scripture What this will you inferre that wee thârefore neede not obaie the decrââ of Councells or that the Chââches authoritie is fallible Infallibââtie may be in others besides Scââpture The Apostles were not Scââpture yet were they infallible ânesses of the trueth The Churcâ the pillar and ground of trueth thoâ the Church be not Scripture 1. Timoth. 3. Thâ may be diuers Authorities infallâ and one of them Subordinate to ãâã other And so are these two accââding to this Author as you may âby the places represented in the a Quamuis fides vniuersalis Ecclesiae inuenitur per Scripturas expressa ficut est paenè tota non tamen est eiân authoritate par sed subijcitur Waldensis de principijs fidei Doctr tomo 1. li. 2. c. 21. Fides vt est Ecclesiae Catholicae in hoc accedit fidei Scripturarum quod non licet de ipsa dubitare eo quod testimoniuÌ Ecclesiae Catholicae est obiectuÌ fidei Christianae legis latio scripturae canonicae Subijcitur tamen ipsi sicut testis iudici testimonium veritati sicut praeconâzatio definitioni sicut praeco regi Ibâdem Quod aliquis pater vnus singulariter per se sensit potes aliquo saltem colore tuo decredere quod autem poenè omnes quasi vnus homo loquuntur fidei robur habet quia vnitas ipsa in Ecclesia hoc loquitur omnium gentium linguis Idem c. 25. margine One onely I will putt here because it serues also for that which followes In the 18. Chapter of his 2. Booke Doct. Fid. he declares how the sinceritie of the Churches testimonie in matters of faith is beleeued in the Creed there where we professe to beleeue the holie Catholike Church and amongst other things to this purpose hath these words Before the written Gospell this in the heart of the Church was the Gospell which Iesus Christ wrote and which the Apostles wrote in the harts of men and to whose testimonie euerie one must stand in the controuersies whether the text of the written Gospell be vnderstood or taken by the faithfull or subuerted by the Heretick whereof the Apostle speaks to the Corinthians saying âow are our Epistle written in your hearts which is knowne and read of all men declared that you are the Epistle of Christ manifested by vs and written not with inke but by the spicit of the liuing God not in tables of stone but in fleshlie tables of the heart And a litle after Though the law of nature which men beare written in their hearts be most certaine yet much more hath the law of Christ certissimum interpretamentum a most certaine interpretation in the hearts of the faithfull succeeding one another from the beginning of the rising Church and the Apostles times foreuer according to that of the Prophet this is the testament which I will make to them giuing my lawes in their hearts and in their sense or minde I will write them I must not omitt to putt you further in minde that in the place by you cited he saith b Haec ipsa fides Ecclesiae eius authoritas quantum hominum supergreditur rationem tantum fateor diuinâ legis authoritati succumbit sed tamen quaâ minoris esse authoritatis fidelibus si eam Ecclesia non praeferret Waâd to 3. de Sacramentalibus tit 7. c. 63. Si verum sem per sit testimonium Ecclesiae semper credenda est si quandoqââ fallere consueta in omnibus est suspecta Ibidem the diuine law were vnto the faithfull * Non licet de ipsa dubitare c. vide in Addit of lesse authoritie if the Church did not preferre it And c Hoc est quod superius dixi quantumlibet eminent Scriptura diuina sanctioni Ecclesiae ipsa tamen taxabeâ se sum eius quo aliter sentire non possis cuius interpraetationi resistere capitalis est culpa dicit Origenes Ibidââ howmuch soeuer the diuinâ scripture is higher then the decree of âhe Church ipsa tamen sensum eius âaxabit she notwithstanding shall deâne the sense wherein thou maiest not âold otherwise and whose interpretaââon to resist is as Origen speakes a âapitall offence So he AD Concilium vniuersale praecipué pertinet definire qui liber sit canonicus Quam quidem propositionem aequo aniâo paterer ab haereticis non admitti sed illud tamen doleo veheâenter quod eam nonnulli fideles inficiantur in quibus Thoâas Waldensis esse videtur li. 2. doc fid c. 19. Baro. p. 365. ex âno Addit Baro c. 20. 21. SEcondlie it is obiected that he denies to the Church now ââesent power to determine which ââe bookes of scripture And for this ââe cited three Chapters of his 2. ââoke Doct. Fid. the 19. 20. and 21. âut there I finde it not He doth inâed hold that the Catholick Churh ââd no other is able to d Et hoc est secundum dictuÌ gloriosum de Ecclesia quod sc ipsa sola est cuius testimoniuÌ est tantae authoritatis praeconij vt ipsos libros diuinarum scripturaruÌ taxare decoruÌ authoribus certificare possit fideles nec fas erit tanto testimonio contraire wald li. 2. doct fid c. 20. Incertum ergo esse non potest cos esse libros canonicos habere pondus authoritatissuae quibus Ecclesia declarata per omnes gentes ab Apostolis propagata testimoniuÌ certum reddit Ibidem Dico quod Ecclesia eam doctrinam docet esse credeÌdam sub poena contumaciae Ea dico quae praesens est quae iudicia directa
And the iudge of controuersies the holie Ghost being put âo silence errour in all other matters of that kinde is remedilesse For example if a man denies the Sacrament of Baptisme this errour were pernicions to the Church and âhould it preuaile in all as it might âf the holie Ghost taught nothing but what is expressed in the Apostles Creed both infants and others inmumerable would be ruined thereby for vnles a man be borne againe of water and the holie Ghost Ioh. 3. he shall âot enter into the kingdome of heauen The Eucharist is not expressed in the Apostles Creed yet you saie that it is necessarie to receaue it and by the diuine commaund in both kinds The commandements and the interpretation which our Sauiour gaue of them be not expressed there yet the Church hath them and the whole Christian lawe written in her heart by the spirit of the liuing God Our obligations towards superiours of all sorts in conscience and by diuine precept to be performed and the rules of Christian conuersation be not expressed there though the Church may not be ignoraÌt of them Pastors and Bishops are necessarie and by God ordained for her direction and the Prophecies be necessarie for confirmation of her faith and therefore she is to knowe both the one and the other though they be not expreslie in the Apostles Creed I speake of that Creed because you name it as also because the certaintie of other Creeds set out in Councells or of the explication made and proposed by the Church is the thing here disputed I acknowledge it as proceeding from the assistance of the holie Ghost to the Church in more then is expressed in the Apostles Creed Hence it is that I beleeue the Nicene or that of S. Aâhanasius if you beleeue it too then âecall your answer for whilst it stands there is no remedie for errours in these matters and many more nor way of assuraÌce for many things which it is necessarie for the Church to knowe Moreouer it is certaine by the Gospells that our blessed Sauiour âaught many things to the Church âoth before his passion and after his âesurrection which are not expresâed in the Apostles Creede whereunâo you think only assistance is exâended Reade the Gospell of S. âohn all ouer or of S. Luke or S. Maâhewe and you shall finde this to be âue And these things also the Spiâit according to promise doth suggest I haue yet many things to saie vnâo you which you cannot beare nowe âut when he the Spirit of truth comes âe shall teach you all truth for he shall âot speake of himselfe Ioh. 16. but what things soeuer be shall heare he shall speake This before his passion and after it for fortie daies he appeared to them speaking of the kingdome of God Act. Apost c. 1. Now that all this whether written or not written otherwise then by the holie Ghost in the minde and heart of the Church is included within the obiect of the promised assistance I proue by no lesse authoritie then of our Sauiour Iesus Christ vpon whose promises all that acknowledge him to be true God Ioh. 14. should relie beleeuing them and him as most faithfull He the Spirit of truth shall teach you all things and suggest vnto you all whatsoeuer I shall haue said vnto you It is also necessarie for the Church to knowe the Scripture and the seÌââ which without assistaÌce of the holie Ghost caÌnot be done as I could easilie shew were I to treate of that matter Vide Disputat li. 3. c. 4. 5. but forbearing that discourse ãâã demaund Whether it be necessarie for the Church to knowe that oââ Sauiour did ordaine Baptisme and Eucharist and Order if perchancâ you thinke the institution of Bishop to be * Acts 20. deuine and how a man may knowe the meaning of those passages of Scripture which doe mention these things or that the texts indeed be Scripture if the holie Ghost doth by promise teach the Church no more then what is expressed in the Apostles Creed I demaund also how you come to be certaine that he doth teach that which in the Creed is expressed or that he doth teach any at all if by the Scripture theÌ he teacheth more then is expressed in the Apostles Creede for the Scripture is not expreslie there And my demaund returnes againe with a greater difficultie then before If he teach none but what is expressed in the Apostles Creed how be you certaine that the Gospells be diuine Scripture who taught you that The same Question I will aske and you must answer mark well of euerie Chaâter and of the meaning of euerie verse which you pretend to be against any part of our whole doctrine or to make for any peece of your Religion Thirdlie some perchance will obiect that though he teach the Church all the dogmaticall points or heauenlie doctrine which our Sauiour taught and commended yet this is not verified of the Bishops and Pastors but onlie of the symbolicall or vniuersall Church which may retaine it though the Bishops and Pastors all should erre You knowe out of the begining of this Relection where this euasion is insinuated and being beaten from your owne hereticall tenet of the whole Church erring you seeme to make an offer in the end to repose heere But none that beleeues the Scripture can rest in it First because our Sauiours words are directed to the Apostles and their Successors who were to teach and needed assistance in it Ioann 14. he shall teach you And so they did vnderstand it as appeares by their decree whereof I am to speake afterwards Secondlie the symbolicall or vniuersall Church doth include Pastors and people and the people are to learne of the Pastors whose office is to teach how shall they beleeue vnles they heare and how shall they heare with out a preacher Rom. 10. Teach all Nations was said Matth. vlt. not to the people but to the Pastors Ioann vlt. and S. Peter and his successors in him were bid to feede the flock of Christ wherefore it was requisite the Pastors on whom the people and among them the predestinate depend for instruction should be assisted in their teaching especiallie then when they speake all the same Thirdlie our Sauiour ordained Pastors and Doctors in the Church Ephes 4. to the end that wee be not wauering and borne about with euerie winde of doctrine in the circumuention of errour and if this meanes which is established till the worlds end be fit for this purpose as no Christian can thinke otherwise of our Sauiours prouidence whom he beleeues to be God it is assisted so that it neuer errs in the doctrine of the faith which it deliuers to the world with obligation to beleeue it Fourthlie if euer wee are to beleeue that Christ speaketh and resolueth doubts by the Pastors of the Church according to that He which heareth you heareth me Luc. 10.