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A67549	The chiefest divine vertues epitomized, or, A compendious treatise of the three theological graces, faith, hope, and charity by Richard Ward ...	Ward, Richard, 1601 or 2-1684.	1655 (1655)	Wing W802; ESTC R12309	115,178	272

them he will reject upon the authority of the Scripture whereto he will lean Turrecremata saith In. c. Sanct. Rom. d. 15. n. 12. The writings of the Fathers bind us not to believe them in all their opinions but we may lawfully contradict them where they speak against the Scripture or the truth And Possevine saith Bibl. select lib. 12. cap. 23. Some things in the Fathers wherein they dissented from the Church are judged and rejected II. They reject the Fathers one by one ordinarily when they cross Romes Doctrine many examples the Reader may see hereof in our forenamed White pag. 330. sect 13. III. The Papists basely slight the Fathers although many of them agree in one and the same thing e. g. In the question touching the cause of Predestination one saith That Chrysostom Origen Ambrose Hierom Augustine Theodoret Gedulius Theophilact Oecumenius and Theodulus held that the prescience of Merits was not the cause of Predestination as Pelagius maintained and yet he prefers the opinion of him before them Sixt. Se●ens bibl lib. 6. annot 241. thus bravely rejecting ten Worthies at once Another saith Mich. Medin orig sacr hom li. 1. cap. 5. that Hierom Augustine Ambrose Sedulius Primasius Chrysostom Theodoret Oecumenius and Theophilact which are the chiefest of the Fathers in the question concerning the difference between a Priest and a Bishop held the same opinion which Aerius the Waldenses and Wickliffe did whom he counteth for Hereticks and chargeth the Fathers with the same heresie In the matter touching the Baptism of Constantine the great they Baron an 324. n. 43. 50 ●nde reject Eusebius Ambrose Hierom Theodoret Socrates Sozomen and the whole Council of Ariminum saying They deserve no credit because not they that is the Fathers have written the truth but themselves that is the Papists have truly related that he was baptized by Eusebius the Bishop of Nicomedia Thus we see how the Papists esteem of the Fathers and their Writings when they sute not with their own Tenents Fourthly The Works and Writings of the Fathers are purged I should rather say polluted by the Papists and adulterated corrupted gelded and changed by them and therefore we are not now by any means to build our Faith upon them I desire my studious Reader to peruse Perkinsi Problema pag. 2. c. ad 44. And Censura quorundam Scriptorum Auctore Roberto Coco where he shall find this answer abundantly confirmed Fifthly The Fathers in many things dissented among themselves and therefore we cannot build our Faith upon them because the foundation of Faith ought to be firm and infallible truth being but one Theophilus calleth Epiphanius Haeresiarcham the grand Captain and Father of Hereticks Gennadius saith that Augustine was not far off from being an Heretick Hierom writing to Augustine saith In Epistola tua quaedam haeretica esse judicavi I conceive there are some heretical opinions in your Epistle And Augustine wisheth Hierom to acknowledge his errour and recant Jewel def of the Apol. f. 378. Sixthly The Fathers have erred in many things and therefore are neither firm nor fitting pillars to build our faith upon This a learned Papist Canus loc theol l. 7. c. 3. concl 2. doth acknowledge in these words The Canonical Authors as being directed from above do alwayes hold a perpetual and stable constancy in their Writings but the Fathers being inferiour unto them fail sometimes now and then contrary to the course of nature bringing forth a monster And another of them Anselm comment in 2 Cor. saith that in the r Books which the Church readeth many times are found things corrupt and heretical Thus Hillary denyed that Christ in his sufferings had any sorrow Refert Bellarm. de charit l. 4. c. 8. Clemens Alexandrinus saith that Christ did not eat and drink out of any necessity but only to shew that he had a true body and that both he and his Apostles after their death preached to the damned in hell and converted many Strom. l. 6. l. 3. Cyprian held rebaptization and Athenagoras condemned marriage Seventhly We Protestants do not deny the Fathers but receive them with all reverence studying their writings and accounting their Books as most excellent monuments of Antiquity but we dare not make them rules of Faith in themselves by which Doctrines of truth are established but we allow and affirm the Scriptures only to be judge whereby we trie both the Fathers and our selves Faith comes from the word of God not from the writings of men Rom. 10.14 and therefore the VVord not the Fathers must be the rule of our Faith and by the proportion and analogy of Faith and truth therein contained all opinions are to be proved I conclude this Quaere VVhether or no we may build our faith upon the antient Fathers thus I. That the Fathers may err II. That many of them may err together III. That the learned of this present age in many things have more understanding then the Fathers had we being as Dominicus Bannes a Doctor of the Church of Rome said pag. 58 59. like children standing on the shoulders of Gyants who being lift up by the taleness of the Gyants see further then they themselves IV. Lastly That therefore with reverence they may in some things be refused Thus we see that neither our works nor the Fathers writings are the Foundation of our Faith Answ 3. The VVord of God is said to be the foundation of our Faith Oportet discentem credere Aristot The Schollar must believe and be directed by his Teacher especially in Divinity Credendum ut intelligas non intelligendum ut credas August We must believe the word that we may understand it not understand the word that we may believe it we must receive the word with meekness Jam. 1.21 not presuming to understand above that which is meet Rom. 12.3 we must not turn from the word either to the right hand or to the left because if there be any truth it is there Deut. 5.32 Rabby Joseph Albu saith That the Jewish faith is founded upon three foundations viz. Upon the Unity of the Divine Essence upon the Law of Moses and upon the eternal reward of good works and punishment of evil Now all these are learnt from and laid down in the word of God Answ 4. Christ only is that foundation upon which the spiritual building of the Church is raised and upon which our faith is founded Matth. 7.24 But of this amply and fully God willing when in the Large work promised I come to speak of the Son of God what he is in Himself and what he is unto or in regard of us Qu. 27. VVhat necessity is there of Faith Answ 1. As nothing is delectable unto men without light so nothing is acceptable unto God without faith Heb. 11.6 VVithout faith it is impossible to please God 2. An historical knowledge of Christ without Faith profits us nothing Mark 1.24 Mat. 7.22 For I. Only Faith truly