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A14354	A treatise of the cohabitacyon of the faithfull with the vnfaithfull Whereunto is added. A sermon made of the confessing of Christe and his gospell, and of the denyinge of the same.	Vermigli, Pietro Martire, 1499-1562.; Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575. aut; Becon, Thomas, 1512-1567, attributed name.	1555 (1555)	STC 24673.5; ESTC S118516	95,107	174

in greate fault Vnto Turcks this ought not to be graunted that they shuld gather them selues together in congregations to do their Godd seruice bicause that in the same they reade neither the old Testament nor the newe but only their own blasphemus and filthie Alcorane Morouer the Iues shuld be forbidden the practise of their exchaūges and their vsuries For not without mutch dishonesti and shame do they afflicte many poore Christians therwith But Christian Princes and Rulars do take tributes and gret taxes for these gaynes of vsurie and shamefull couetusnes of the Iues so farr ar they from forbidding them these wicked practises Agayne Christian princes do not prouide to haue the Iues which do dwell vnder their dominions taught in Goddes truithe which indeede is an euill negligēce in them for truly they ought to compell the Iues to comme vnto the godly sermons of the Christians and that often tymes Els if they be left in this point neglected they do wa●…e dayly wors and wors and lytill yea no hope at all is ther to be hadd of their conuercion Theise princes are likewise bownd to take heade that the Iues do not corrupt the Christiās which ar vnder their Rule that they do not seduce them and bringe them into Iuishnes Neither shuld the weaker sort of Christians haue ony familiaritie with them but only such Christians as be learned and constant in the truithe And that for such causes as I haue alledged before Last of all it is meete and conueniēt that they shuld be known from the Christians by their araye or som suche outwarde signe les ony man at vnwares shuld be conuersaunt with them as though they wer Christians And thus mutch of the Iues shall suffice Now will I entreate of Heretikes This worde Haeresis is deriued of the Greke worde 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth to chose to pick or to cull out For heretikes do chose out vnto thēselues sum doctrine which is contrarye to the holy scriptures and do obstinatly defend the same Vnto this euell they are brought either bicause they do not know the holy scriptures either bicause that though they do knowe them yet they do contemne and despise them either els bicause they do applye thēselues to get sum honor or riches by this meane Wherfor Augustine saith He is an heretike which either enuentith or folowith fals and new opinions for ony worldly commoditie and cheifly to gett himself glorie ād autorite But of Heresie I will make this definicion Heresie is a choise and obstinate defence of certeyn doctrynes which are contrary vntto Godds worde springinge either of the ignoraunce or of the contempt of the holy scriptures to gett therby aduaūtag or honors Ther are foure kyndes of causes in this definicion The formall cause is chosinge and defending of picked doctrynes The materiall parte or cause is picked doctryns contrary to Godds worde For he that beleauith no doctryne at all is godles and not an Heretike The cause efficient by which they are moued to Heresie is ignoraunce and contempt of the holy scripture and lust or couetus desire The end whi men fall to Heresie is to obtayne honors ād riches For they do abhorre the Crosse which folowith the preachinge of the gospell ād as Paule saith Theyr belly is their god Augustine hath also this diuisiō Euell catholiques are they which do lyue otherwise thē they saie that they do beleaue Schismatiques are they which for diuersitie in opiniō do diuide ād separat the church for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is to deuide Heretikes are they which perseuere and cōtinue in that schisme But in an other place he saith That Heresie doth differ frō schisme For a Schisme is a stryfe which risith vppon diuersitie of sentēces Neither can a dyuiding or a schisme be onles they which do make it do thinke and holde cōtrarie thinges But Heresie is an inueterat schisme Saint Paule obseruith no such diuersitie for he vsith theise too wordes for one thinge Nowe that ye se what Heresie is consider well wether that the papistes be heretikes or no They themselues do stoutly saye that they be none Yea ād sum other ther are which dare affirme that the papistes do differ from vs only in certayn abuses of ceremonies and not in the doctrine of faithe But how farr theise mē do err from the truithe it shall forthwithe appeare For I will playnly proue that the papists are Heretikes and do mayntayne Heresie againste certayn principall doctrines of our faithe Furst in the Article of Iustification the papistes do picke out vnto themselues this doctrine That a man is not iustified by faithe only but by goode worcks also Which doctrine is contrary to the holy scriptures Paule teachith thus We holde that a mā is Iustified by faithe without the deedes of the Lawe Agayn he saith We do knowe that a man is not Iustified by the deedes of the lawe but by the faithe of Iesu Christe And Peter whom Paule did thē withstōd did not speake agaynst this doctrine Of the Iues also he writith thus For being ignorant of Gods righteousnes and goinge about to establishe their own righteousnes they were not obediēt to the righteousnes of God In which place he settith theise two righteousnesses the one against the other the righteousnes of faith against the righteousnes of worckes so that the one excludith the other The same thinge he doth where speaking of Iustificatiō he saith If it be of grace thē is it not of worcks if it be of worcks thē is it no more grace To the Philippians he playnly saith that the worcks which are wrought before Regeneracion can not iustifie for he doth counte them to be but losse and dunge which truly he wold not haue done if they hadd such poure and vertue that they could iustifie This is most playne that men before regeneraciō are euell and then must this sentēce of Christes stōde true An euell tree cā not bringe forth goode fruite For how can it be that they wich are deade as cōcerning righteousnes can of thē selues go ony thinge forward vnto their new birthe And we all wer such euē deade throughe synne and the children of wrathe The Epistle writon to the Hebrues doth witnes That without faith it is impossible to please God And to the Romayns Paule saith That what soeuer is not of faithe is Synne This is the doctrine of the scripture cōcerning this matier The papistes as I sayde do teache cleane contrarie doctrine ānd do obstinatly defēd it notwithstōding that they be admonished of their error by the holy scriptures by the aunciente fathers as Hierom Augustin and others by the godly Coūcels as Africanum Mileuitanum Arausicanum And now also being admonished therof by vs yet will they not leaue their errour Wherfor by the former definitiō of Heresie they are proued heretikes An other doctryne also they do hold

in the quarel●… without making ony such blinde excuses These men do saye further that the Masse is not to be lickened iustly vnto the Idolatrie of the heathen for that was directly forbidden of godd so is not the Masse saye they for thoughe it hathe sumwhat swarued aside yeat is it the Instituciō of christe But to the contrarie I do saye that the Masse is so farr swarued from the ordinaunce of christe that it hathe nothing agreing withe christis Institucion yea and that it is most directly repugnāt ūto it A very Idoll wherin massemūgers do committe very vile Idolatrie And this will I proue by diuers reasons ffurst of all The Supper of the Lorde as it was delyuered of christe shold be a publique and a common worcke and action for Christe our Sauiour made it with his Apostles But nowe in the Masse ther commithe forthe one sacrificing preste disguised with straunge araye and he doth all thinges alone the rest stonde still loking heeringe and holding their peace If paule did worthely and Iustly saye when the Corinthians did not tarie and loke one for an other that they did not then eate the Lordes supper then ther is not the Lordes supper eaten wher one tarieth not for an other so that they maye eate all together And how shall we then saye that the Masse is the Lordes supper wher one only sacryficing prest doth eate and drincke vpp all alone surly it can not be so called for to be and not to be the Lords supper ar contrarie Paule saith it is not the Lords supper wherfor call your Masse by what name ye will the Lords supper it is not for paule is to be beleaued be fore all massinge marchauntes They saye morouer that in their Masse they do offer vpp the sonne of godd vnto the eternall father for the synnes of the quicke and the deade And this they do call the principall point of their masse But in the Laste Supper of the Lorde that Sacrifice and oblaciō was not made but vppō the crosse as the scripture witnessith And as for this their offer●…ge ffurst paul doth denie it in most playn words in the epistle to the hebrues wher he sayeth that all oblacions for synne wer consummate and finished and all thinges made perfect by that one only oblacion which christe Iesus our Sauiour in his own parson made of hymself vppon the crosse The worde of godd teachithe that christe was but ons only to be sacrificed and offered And that Sacrifice no more to be made for if it wer often to be made then the furst was not perfect But the furst was perfect Therfor ther must be no repeating of it The papistes do saye that they dayly offer christe for to take awaye synne and that this Sacrifice must be dayly repeted of them The scripture denieth this playnly And thus ye do se that heere is a playne contradiction Again The supper of the Lorde was not instituted to the end that such a sacrifice for synne as they fayne shuld be made of it but that in the vse of it the communicantes shuld be put in mynde and made partakers of that only propiciatorie sacrifice which christe offered ons only for all euer vppon the crosse And therfor ther Masse in which they wold worcke such marueyles and the Lordes supper ar vtterly vnlyke But here they will reply and saye The fathers do speake thus of this Sacrifice We graunte indeede that the fathers do often tymes speake so as thoughe that the lorde wer offered in this administracion of the Sacrament or sacrificed But they vsed this worde Sacrifice improperly for by that kinde of speaking they did vnderstonde the offringes of praise and sacrifices of thanckes made and gyuen for christes sacrifice done vppon the crosse This they called to sacrifice Our sacrificing prests ar not content with this for they will haue their own worcke to be an vnwonted worcke belonging to them alone which neither the scriptures nor the fathers do teache ffor to offer this Sacrifice of which the fathers do speake partayneth not to the preist alone but to the whole poeple that stōdith by and doth cōmunicate And so it is a common oblacion and sacrifice of all not of the preiste more then of the poeple but this only that the preist both in wordes and action doth go be fore thepoeple Augustine doth saye that the churche is offered in that offeringe which it doth offer ffor all which do communicate they do offer them selues vnto godd and do testifie that their will is to abide in christe The papistes do holde also that the breade is turned into the substaunce of christes bodie and that ther remaynith nothing but the qualitie and accidē ce of breade as whitenes rc for the substaūce saye they is christes bodie But the scripture saith that christe in his laste supper did gyue breade vnto his disciples and paule callith it breade also yeat in the Masse the papistes saye that it is otherwise The vse of the breade and wyne by christis instituciō is only that the congregacion shuld eate and drin cke therof in the remembrance of christe But the pa pistes in their Masse do most shamefully abuse them both ffor wheare as the worde of godd saythe Thow shalt worshipp the Lorde thy godd and hym only shalt thow serue They in ther masse do lyfte upp the breade and wyne and euen in the rowme of godd they sett them furthe to be adored and worshipped of the poeple now how farr this differrith from the vse of christes supper eich man may se. Yea what can be more vile and filthie Idola trie then to adore and worshipp a peace of brede ād cupp of wyne as godd Be not offended that I do vse theise bare names I do confes that whosoeuer acording to the Lordes Instituciō doth cōmunica te with the cōgregaciō and dothe eate the breade ād drinke of the cupp of the Lorde beholding the deathe of christe with Lyuely faithe the same man is in spre te ād after his manier made partaker of the body ād bludd of the lorde Contrari wise if thow do not vse the breade and wyne acordinge to the ordinaunce of christe but gase vppon them then ar they nothin ge els to the but breade ād wyne But if in a popishe Masse or in the popishe hāging heauing carying or handelinge of them thow do worshipp them thē ar they vnto the a false Idoll ād thow indeede a filthie Idolatror If therfor thow wilt be partaker of the body and bludd of christe in the holy supper then eate the breade and drincke the cupp as the lorde hathe instituted Godd wold haue the poeple in the vse of the holy Supper to ascend vppwarde into heauen in mynde and affectiō that they might ther cleaue fast vnto christe And therfor the true ministers of the churche do labour to ●…he vttermost of their poure thus to lifte vpp the poeples

be not of the churche of Christe how shall or can this papist depryue them of the holy commu nion Especially seinge it is playnly taught that in Christe there is neyther man nor woman neyther bonde nor fre but all are one in Christe But to returne to their sacriledge in which thei do take away one parte of the sacrament Of this thefte the institution of the Lorde the Epistle of Paule the custome ād manier of the primatiue churche which was to mynister this holy supper in both kindes dothe accuse them which dyd continue euen vntill the tyme of Thomas Aquinas and vnto this daye it continueth in all the Easte church wherfore seing that in this thinge also they are so obstinate they can be none otherwyse estemed but as heretykes They haue also another most pernicious and hurtefull doctryne of the calling vpon the deade sainctes and worshippe and adoration to be gyuen to theyr Images The holy scripture sayth Thou shalt worshipp the Lorde thy God and hym onlye shalte thou serue But they denye that they do worshippe the Images They maye denye it in wordes but in theyr dedes they do testifie cleane contrarye They fall downe before them they praye to them thei crie and call on them they cense them they light vp cādels before them what do they more to God hym selfe They leaue no peculiar thinge vnto Christe to aske of him which they do not aske of some saincte They do gyue titles and names vnto the sainctes especiallie to the blessed virgin Marie which do belonge vnto Christe alone Thou quene saye they of mercie our aduocate our lyfe our sweetnes ād our hope Certaynlie these thinges do belonge to Christe onlye vnto him therfore alone shoulde thei leaue these thinges vntouched and withowt diminutiō I speake not this as though I dyd not thinke that the moste holie virgin were worthy of singuler praises but euen she her selfe will not be made equall with Christe They do furthermore crie owt of all corners at all their altars vnto their sainctes as thoughe they were present euerie where But this presence belongithe to god onlie neither is it communicated to any creature Again it is writē in the holye scripture That ther is none other name vnder heauen but the name of Christe onlye wherin we muste be saued And Iohn doth saie If we synne we haue an aduocate wyth the father Iesus Christe the rightuous and he is the propiciation for our synnes But theis heretikes make many aduocates Esaie confessith and saieth Abraham hathe not knowen vs And Israel hathe forgotten vs. And therfore saith he these are not to be called vpon we must not truste in them but in God onlye and that vnto him wee muste flye We are commaūded also in moste plain wordes that what so euer we aske we sholde aske it in the name of Iesus Christe and not in the name of other sainctes as theise men do But contrary to this true doctryne they do stifflie maynteyne their wicked error therfor are they verylye heretikes Here I do let passe their masse in whi●… they make their mishapen Godd of breade throughe their art of transubstantiation They sett vpp their sacrifice for the quicke and deade the verie abhomination and God Maozim which thinges they do defēde wyth moste peruerse obstinacie But howe contrarie they are to the worde of Godd is not nowe again to be repeted seinge that a lytell before in this matter I haue sayde sufficiētlie But if I wolde spēde more tyme here I mighte reherce many other doctrines of the papistes in which they do shāfully swarue frō the truithe of Godds worde And of their errours they will not chaūg any thing at all which prouith them to be obstinate heretikes But this that I haue writō is inough and inough againe to proue that thei are heritikes Now let thē saie that we dissent but in ceremonies But I saie that we dissēt in doctrines Let the papistes saie that we shold not haue departed frō thē but I saie they shoulde not then haue departed frō the truithe Augustine wolde not graūte vnto Cresconius that the controuersie betwene the Catholikes and the donatistes was a lighte and small contention and schisme But he saieth that they defended an heresie and that moste horrible euen this that they did rebaptize And yet baptisme reiterated dothe nomore differ from the worde of God then these errours of the pa pistes which I haue repeted Wherfore Christian princes whilest they do suffer them in their dominions they owghte no otherwise to suffer them then vpon suche condicyons as are aboue rehersed That is that they do compell no man to partake their wicked Idolatries That they do not permitt them to haue their rites and supersticious ceremonies That they take hede that they do not corrupte others which do beleaue truly and be of good iudgemēte And last of al after that they haue bene cōpetentlie taughte to enforce them outwardly to embrace sownde and holye rites and ceremonies agreinge with Godds worde Thou wilte saie happelie if it shoulde be so their condition sholde be more miserable then the condicion of the Iewes and Turckes whom we do not compell to receyue our Religiō I graunte but yet this sholde be iustlie done And that for theis causes Firste bycause the Iewes are not Citizens in our common welthes but receyued vnder this condicion that it is lawfull for them to vse their owne lawes so lōge as they will wherfore if they do not behaue thēselues well or they do not please vs they be turned awaie and caste owte as oftē tymes they haue beene handeled And not without iuste cause when their conuersation hathe beene hurtfull But these papistes are our citizēs therfore they must be otherwise handeled and seinge they do confesse Christe they are to be enforced to his pure and true religiō Again the Iues can not do so moche hurte as these Iebuzites maie for all men for themoste parte do shonne and deteste the Iue but these are subtile sorcerers which vnder the cloke of the name of Christ and ciuile familiaritie maye deceyue many furthermore there is a promise of the saluatiō of the Iues to be shewed ī the latter age The lyke peculiar promise of papistes ther is not And yet I do not speake this as though I dyd condemne the counsell of many good prīces which haue caste the Iues owt of their countrye for good iuste and laufull causes Their acte I do allowe But to returne vnto theise heretiques the papistes we are bounde to praie for them and seinge they do dwell amonge vs we mu ste obserue the aforenamed rules In vsinge or not vsinge familiaritie and beinge conuersaunte with thē which I dyd giue of being conuersaunt with the vnfaithfull and wicked in which sorte I do place them And if any of them do returne to the truith and will embrace the true Religion of Christ they are not to rebaptized For though

wherin we must be saued After which manier likewise saīt Paul doth proue that faith in Christ through grace doth iustifie neither doth he saye this only but he doth also remoue all that which might seeme to gyue iustice vnto men the lawe I meane and worckes sayinge We knowe that a man is not iustified by the dedes of the lawe but by the faith of Iesus Christe And we haue beleued on Iesus Christ that we might be iustified by the faythe of Christe and not by the dedes of the lawe bicause that by the dedes of the lawe no fleshe shalbe iustified And in an other place the same Paule Behold saith he I Paul saye vnto yowe that if ye be circūcised Christe shall profite yow nothing at all I testifie agayn to euery man which is circumcised that he is bownd to keape the whole lawe Christe is become but in vayn to yowe as many of yow as are iustified by the lawe are fallen from grace we loke for and hope in the spirite to be iustified thorow faithe Theis cleare examples of Christ and the apostles and doctrine of the sincere and sounde confession of Christe do suffice to yow reuerend and godly hearers Out of which we do gather that their cōfessions are neither full nor sincere which do confes that indeede Christe is their saluaciō and rightuisnes their preist and sacrifice their aduocate and mediator yet so that it notwithstōding they do gyue the very same and cōmunicate them to synneful men to thinges also and meanes which are in no place instituted nor approued of Godd And no les corrupt is their confession also which do confes wyth the mouthe that Godd alone is to be adored and worshipped that Christe is the only preiste and true aduocate with the father but yet in their deedes they do denye that same confession of their mouthe bowinge their knees to Images worshippinge creatures callinge vppon their patrons and fayned saynts of heauen But the Apostles did not only confes Christe himself but also all Christes doctrine all Christes wordes the whole gospell I saye of saluacion of which Christe is the only Marcke And therfor when the preistes and senators of Hierusalem did forbidd the apostles that they shuld no more preache the gospell they ●…ered hartily and playnly whether it be right in the sight of Godd to herken vnto yow more thē vnto Godd iudgeye For we can not but speke that which we haue seene and herde And when they were shutt vp in prison for free preching of the gospell and werin dan̄ger of their lyues they are delyuered of the angell of whō by the cōmaundement of Godd they do heare Go and stande and speake in the temple to the poeple all the wordes of this lyfe Therfor all thos thinges which are cōtayned in the holy gospell and holy scriptures must be confessed of them which are faithfull indeede for all thos are the wordds of Godd and the wordds of saluacion And all thos do sauer of Christe and do bringe vnto Christe In whom only it hath pleased God the father that all fulnes shuld dwell in whō as Paule doth witnes we are made perfite so that we want nothinge as agayn the lorde himself doth testifie he that eateth or drincketh me shall not be hungry or thrustie for euer but he shall haue in hym self the healthefull waters of euerlastinge lyfe Yf we do knowe beleaue and vnderstonde theise thinges let vs gyue glorie to our only Sauiour Christe and not gyue it awaye vnto other But let vs frely confes hym only and alone in mouth and deedes to be our saluacion iustice sanctificacion absolution or rather perfectiō the peace of our soules and lyfe euerlasting But the lord doth sett denying against confessinge Ther are diuers kinds of denyinge which beinge but lightly rehersed it shall again appeare what is the sowndnes and simplicitie of confessinge Furst Christe and Godds worde is denyed when our redeamer Christe and the worde of lyfe is opēly blasphemed in playne wordes whē he is not acknowledged to be the only Sauiour ād when the due dignitie and auctoritie of the scriptures is not adscribed vnto them Then by silence also is Christe and Christes worde denyed namely whē vppō occasion offered we do not deffende the glorie of the name of Godd and of the truythe known againste the ennemis of Godd and sclaunderers of the worde of Godd For in this case it is lawfull for no man to be a neuter as they call it In the most auncient lawes of Solon which were at Athens grauen in postes of woode the which also ons made by hym the Athenienses ordeygned vnder great religiō and punishmēt that they shuld contynue for euer one lawe Aristotle doth report to be writon in this sence That if throughe discorde the poeple shuld be deuided into too partes and eich partie shuld take armour then he which did not ioyne himself to the one partie but slipp asyde separated from the common euell of the cytie he shall lose howse countrithe and goodes and be an exile and a banished mā Mutch les is it lawfull for them which haue professed the name of Christe and are signed with holy baptisme in that fierce fight betwene Christe and Antichriste to slippe a syde and to ioyne himself vnto neither partye That same newtralitie doth seame truly to be wisoō to many childrē of this worlde but indeede it is folyshnes yea it is a very denying of Christ by which they do exclude thēselues out of that heauenly coun trithe they spoile themselues of all spirituall riches and make themselues exiles and banished men For Christe and his truithe is denyed either by dissemblinge as when Peter was charged by the mayde that he was one of the nūber of the disciples ād he answered I wote not what thow sayest He knew verily what she sayed but being bewitched with a certayne feare he fayned that he knewe not the thīg which he did know very well Euen so truly at this daye many do saye that they are more simple then that they can vnderstond the dissension in religion and gyue answer of all controuersies But they do vnderstond so mutch as sufficith yet for the ieoperdies which be at hand or for sum vayne feare they do fayne that they do not vnderstonde Neither wer it necessarie for euery one to answer to all darcke or hard thīges which thing they which are well exercised can not do it sufficith to confesse thos thinges which be opē and playne Ther is also a coloured denyinge whē we playyng the foxes with foxes do cofes verely sumwhat of our religion yetwe do so enwrapp it with such darcke wordes and doutfull sentēces that vnto thē which are most subtill and conning in quidities it shall not playnly appeare what we do thincke But the cōfessiō shuld be simple and playne In making of it Godd and not Man were to be considered