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A35885 The salvation of Protestants asserted and defended in opposition to the rash and uncharitable sentence of their eternal damnation pronounc'd against them by the Romish Church / by J.H. Dalhusius ... ; newly done into English. Dalhusius, Johannes H. (Johannes Hermanus) 1689 (1689) Wing D132; ESTC R1473 51,117 84

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of Ethnics Mahometans and Jews no not in the Society of those who retaining the Name of Christ nevertheless subvert the Foundation of Salvation such as formerly were the Ebionites Borborites Manichaeans Arrians and at this day the Socinians or if there be or were any other such like Monsters in Religion But in our Religion what is there to be discover'd that subverts the Fundamental Articles of Christianity but rather on the other side what serves in a high degree to support them Does it not admit the Scriptures of the old and New Testament to be of Divine Inspiration and the Three more solemn Creeds the Apostolic Athanasian and Nicene together with the Four Oeconomic Councils of Nicaea Chalcedon Ephesus and Constantinople Does it not adore in truth One God Three in One the Father Son and Holy Ghost Does it not acknowledg one Christ God and Man for the Mediator between God and Men the Redeemer of Souls a Prophet Priest and King of the Church Does it teach any thing concerning God which is repugnant to his Majesty his Glory and his Power Can it be accused of any Opinion that subverts good Manners or that sins against the Law of God or public Honesty The aim of Religion is to inform Men how to live well and bear Death with confidence to the end that after they have lived in the fear of God they may die in his favour And this is that which a Christian may easily attain in our Religion for it most powerfully excites a faithful Man to fear God and love his Neighbor It propounds no Article of Faith from whence various Corollaries may not be deduc'd for performance of our Duties and Reformation of our Lives and administers most sweet and those most effectnal Consolations to a Christian against the assaults of all Temptations and Death particularly advancing the Certainty of Redemption through Christ into the number of the Sons of God by his Merit and Favour so that they themselves who deal so rigorously by us so often as any one is to be prepar'd for Death insensibly come over to our side and tacitly renounce their own Opinions as is to be seen in Conson Agoniz written by Viguerrus For then they do not comsort the dying Person with heaps of his own proper Merits but exhort him to put all his hope and confidence in the Mercy of God and the Satisfaction of Christ Nor do they scare their doubtful Consciences with the Terror of Purgatory but comfort it with the hopes of soon obtaining Everlasting Rest and admonish the sick Person often to repeat the words of David Into thy hands I commend my Spirit The Bishop of Toledo is reported to have written to the Pope that the Emperor Charles V declar'd upon his Death-bed that he plac'd all the Hopes of his Salvation in one Redeemer and Saviour Jesus Christ and in his Merits adding withal that he look'd upon Luther's Opinion concerning Justification to be very true To which as the Famous John Crocius my Tutor formerly at Marpurgh reports in his Anti-Wigelius p. 451. they make the Pope to return this Answer That he would not celebrate his Funeral Obsequies because he held with Luther in such a Principal Point of Religion Maximilian II when the Bishop of Naples D. Lambert Gruterus came to him then lying under the Pangs of Death would not suffer him to be admitted but upon promise first That he would talk of nothing else but of the Merits of Christ his Blood and S●eat The Bishop was as good as his word and made a long Oration concerning the Merits of Christ full of Consolation and when the Emperor was ask'd Whether he intended to die in that Faith He made Answer I shall do no otherwise As Crato relates in his Funeral-Oration and Chytraeus Chron. Sax. The Head and Summ of Christian Religion is Christ Crucify'd 1 Cor. 2. 2. Other Foundation can no Man lay then that which is laid which is Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 3. 11. So that for the obtaining of Salvation there is no other Rule of Faith to be acknowledg'd then the Word of Christ resounding in Scriptures nor any other Merit to be pleaded before God but his Death nor any other Purgatory but his Blood nor any other Propitiatory Sacrifice for our Sins but that which he offer'd once upon the Cross nor any other Head of the Church nor any other Mediator with God but Himself Behold the Foundations of our Faith Why should you deny us Eternal Salvation Moreover it would be very cruel and altogether repugnant to Christians to condemn to the Torments of Hell so many Myriads of Christians living in the East under the Patriarchs of Antioch Alexandria Jerusalem and Constantinople The Georgians Armenians Abissines Egyptians Greeks whose Churches the Apostles founded Martyrs water'd with their Blood the most Learned of the Fathers cultivated with their Instructions so many Councils honour'd with their Decisions and which are able to vye their Titles of Antiquity and Succession with Rome it self Now if the way to Salvation is not to be deny'd to these Christians dispers'd over the East and retaining the Foundations of Christianity tho' believing nothing of the Fire of Purgatory the Pomp of Papal Dignity Transubstantiation of the Bread into the Body of Christ Communion under One Kind the Use of Latin or a Foreign Tongue in Publick Worship the necessary Celibacy of the Ministry Auricular Confession and the like why may not Salvation be obtain'd in the Society of the Reformed Churches which are gather'd to Christ in the West tho as to those Points they have renounc'd the Roman Communion Then there is another thing which you Romanists confess of your own accords that our Church Reform'd according to the Word of God leads all the Members of its Communion directly to Christ that they may obtain Salvation in him and by him that they feed the starving Consciences with the Spiritual Bread of the Divine Word and Sacramental Eucharist call Sinners to Repentance and recommend to every one Piety towards God and Charity towards our Neighbor There is also another thing which they acknowledge that our Reformed Church both has and administers the true Baptism of Christ and by means of that Spiritually begets Sinners which are to be Heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven seeing that by their own Confession our Children dying after Baptism receiv'd in our Churches ascend to Joys Celestial as may be collected from Bellarmin lib. 1. de Bapt. cap. 11. In the mean time I beseech you Venerable Sir can you tell me what Motives they were that lead you headlong into so absurd a Precipice Or what I beseech you were the Impulsive Causes and Pregnant Reasons of so preposterous and unseasonable a Damning of our Souls If you are Ignorant as I shrewdly conjecture you are I will tell you what they are from your own Doctors who have written variously concerning this Question that is to say That we are therefore to be Damn'd and are