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A58886	Dr. Sherlock's preservative considered the first part, and its defence, proved to contain principles which destroy all right use of reason, fathers, councils, undermine divine faith, and abuse moral honesty : in the second part, forty malicious calumnies and forged untruths laid open, besides several fanatical principals which destroy all church discipline, and oppose Christs divine authority : in two letters of Lewis Sabran of the Society of Jesus.	Sabran, Lewis, 1652-1732.	1688 (1688)	Wing S217; ESTC R16398	73,086	90

Sectaries of forty years old can generally do who have seldom heard of any thing in the Concerns of Religion but Slanders and Misrepresentations of Catholic Doctrin It hath been my Lot to deal for some time with a Body of near two hundred Protestants on the score of Religion and I in truth Protest that I found not one in six that could give me any reasonable account of Christ being God and Man and dying for our Redemption We exact of each Christian that to the best of his abilities he improve his knowledge in the duties of Faith. 19. They teach a man need not know any thing but the Apostles Fol. 76. Creed therefore Heretics know and believe all things necessary to Salvation as long as they believe the Apostles Creed Did Christ teach any thing but what he would have known We teach that each Christian is bound to know all that he is bound to do and to understand all those necessary means left by Christ for his Reconciliation and Perfection though not expressed in the Creed we teach that each Man is not bound to know all that Christ hath taught but yet all that Christ has taught as necessary to him in his Station But this Calumniator confounds what is to be known necessitate Medii so that he who through no fault of his hath not learn'd it is however uncapable of Salvation which is all contained in the Creed with what must be known Necessitate Praecepti because God hath commanded all those who are in the occasion and in a capacity of being instructed in it to learn it 20. The Church of Rome teaches that the sins of those sinners Fol. 82 83. who do not repent of them nor amend their lives and consequently are not Expiated by the Death of Christ upon the Cross are Expiated by the Sacrifice of the Mass 21. That by the bare opus operatum by the offering this Sacrifice Fol. 83. of the Mass it self without any good motion in the Person for whom 't is offered his sins are Expiated 22. That when Christ was Sacrificed upon the Cross he Expiated Fol. 85. only for the Eternal Punishment due to sin and when Sacrificed in the Mass only for the Temporal Behold three loud Calumnies We teach that Christ on the Cross gave himself a full Redemption for all the Guilt and Debt of Sinners who apply to themselves that precious Blood by the means appointed by Christ That by the Sacrifice of the Mass as also by any good Christians Prayers for obdurat sinners such Graces may be obtained as shall work in them their Salvation but that no sin is remitted to an impenitent sinner And all we mean by opus operatum hath no reference to him who receives the Sacraments to the whole effect whereof a stubborn and unconverted sinner puts ever a full stop but in reference to those who Administer the Sacraments from whose Piety they take not their force Baptism given by a Priest in the state of sin having as much its whole effect as given by a Saint because it takes its value and force from Christ the chiefest Minister in the conferring of it so the Church did teach by St. Augustin heretofore against Parmenian the Heretic so She teaches to this day 23. Catholics think that the Intercession of the Virgin Mary Fol. 87. or the most Powerful Saints can prevail with our Saviour to do that which according to the Laws of his own Mediation they know he cannot and will not do How can any man be so stupid as to think this Yet so it is A bare-face Calumny For we teach that the blessed Saints only join their Prayers to ours to obtain of Christ for us what he in his mercy will have them to ask it being a most proper effect of Christ's Mediation to challenge Blessings for several Members of his Mystical Body on the account of the whole or moved by the love he bears to the holier Members thereof since he hath declared that many joining together to Petition in his Name will obtain Blessings which had not been granted to the single Prayers of some one 24 25 26. By the Doctrin of Purgatory they mightily abate Fol. 87 88. the terror of Hell considering how many easie ways there are for rich Men to get out of Purgatory who have Mony enough to buy Indulgences while they live or Masses for their Souls Here are three Calumnies that lie thick together The first that Catholics exempt sinners from Hell who in the Protestant Doctrin would be Condemned to it No unrepented Mortal sin is lodged in Purgatory or escapes Hell. Secondly That Indulgences may be bought for Mony or avail a Soul undisposed to receive the benefit of them through want of Contrition the guilt of sin not being before remitted The Third that Masses said for any Soul in Purgatory avail such as during life have not deserved and merited that mercy which untruth I have before defeated with the words of St. Augustin delivering our Faith in the 110. Chapter of his Enchiridion to Laurence 27 28 29. The Sacrament of the Lords Supper besides the Fol. 91. supernatural conveyance of Grace is a great Moral instrument to Holiness representing to us the love of our Crucified Lord the merit and desert of sin requiring the Exercises of a great many virtues c. But in the Church of Rome this Sacrament is turned into a dumb Shew which no body can be edified with or into a Sacrifice which Expiates sins and serves us instead of a holy life Behold three crying Calumnies The First that amongst us there is no other use of the Sacrament of our Lords Supper but for a Shew or a Sacrifice whereas that holy Sacrament is received by all pious Catholics at least once a Month and by an Infinity once or oftner each week by our Priest daily The Second that we require no practice of any Virtue whereas we interpret the words of St. Paul Let a man try himself of the Sacrament of Penance in which we exact a true sorrow for past sins a firm purpose to dye rather than to fall into any other again a full satisfaction to all the persons we have injured in their Reputations or Fortunes or any other way a perfect entire reconciliation with our Enemies a removal of all the occasions that lead us into our former sins or may likely prove a stumbling Block for the future a breaking and subduing of our Passions by penitential works Devotion towards the admirable Mystery of our Redemption humility in accusing our selves of our most secret sins a firm hope of Remission c. But these things are with Dr. Sherlock no Christian Virtues A Third that our exposing of the blessed Sacrament is a dumb shew and that so we assist at Holy Mass we hold no necessity of a Pious life whereas we feel that nothing speaks more the Mercies of God nothing moves us more to Christian Virtues than this great

not to be Punished is to declare they value not Gods Love and Grace like Children but meerly fear the Lash like Slaves and all Catholics look on such a Disposition excluding positively all regard to Gods Grace and Love as incapable of receiving forgiveness of Sins Christ hath made Atonement for our Sins but his Blood is to be applied by Baptism and in case of Relapse by perfect Contrition or Penitential Works during Life or Punishment after Death before all Pain due to Sin be remitted thus applied it frees us from the whole Curse of the Law. No Suffering or Punishment is the Death of the Soul as Dr. Sherlock supposes but only the privation of Gods Grace which is her Life and which is enjoyed through Christ as much in Purgatory as by penitent Saints on Earth in their penitential Sufferings and the mercy of our Lord appears as much in purging his Members from all Stains of the least sin by the Fire of Purgatory as here by the toilsom Labors of a penitential Life such as his dearest Servants were ever purified by St. Paul never taught that all things that are not seen or of another World are Eternal or else God would be Eternally Judging and so never Rewarding his Servants or Punishing his Enemies so that Dr. Sherlock's Demonstration hath not so much as the least appearance of a seeming Reason Having thus represented our Faith I conclude with S. Augustin Enchirid. c. 10. against Dr. Sherlock It cannot be denied but that the Souls of the Dead are relieved by the Piety and Devotion of their living Friends as often as the Sacrifice of our Mediator is offered or Alms-deeds are done in the Church for them but these things do bring profit only to those who in their Life-time did merit to receive profit by the like after Death For there is a certain State of Life neither so good that it needeth not these Helps after Death nor so evil but that it may be helped by the same I have already Answered in the first Section all those Calumnies which are repeated here concerning the Blessed Saints Intercessions for us Our Doctrin directly opposite to the slanderous Misrepresentations here offered is 1. We look on the Prayers of Saints as meerly humble Supplications for we hold that Christ only standeth our Mediator challenging he alone in Justice and by his own Merits to be heard in favor of us 2. We conceive Charity to be at least as proper to and inseparable from the Seraphical Souls of Saints as from any of Gods Servants on Earth and as much inclining them to Pray for their Fellow-Members of Christ's Mystical Body engaged here below in Miseries and Dangers 3. We never required the Prayers of Saints to render God good and merciful but only when joyned with our Prayers to render these a fitter Object of Gods Mercy and to reconcile the Effects thereof to his Wisdom and Justice 4. Whatever pity the Saints may have on us we look on it as on a small St●●l●e situ●●e Drop compared to the Ocean of Gods infinite Mercy of which that very Pity and the Intercession of Saints is a free Gift to us given with all other Blessings together with and as an Effect of his greatest Gift to wit his Eternal Son with whom in whom and by whom he hath given us all things This Faith of ours doth I conceive most evidently expose the shameless Calumnies which Dr. Sherlock hath disfigured her by Thirty Misrepresentations and Calumnies offered by Dr. Sherlock in his Third and Fourth Sections and some of his Phanatical Principles NEver did Man speak more without Book without Truth and without any respect to Shame or Conscience this Preservative deserving more the Fate of defamatory Libels than those two which he prises and recommends Fol. 78. No Provincial Letters Jesuite Morals burnt by the Hangman Narrative of the Minister Oats contains more Lies and Calumnies against the Persons of Catholics than the Minister Sherlock's Preservative against their Religion the latter is infinitely more Impudent because he accuses with an equally shameless Scurrility not single Persons but most Princes Bishops Universities Kingdoms of the Christian World and all the General Councils to boot I do own and will maintain it That no man ever Lyed in Print with more Confidence ever was so deafned by Passion to all the Reproaches of Conscience and Honor And had not a long Custom of saying any thing in the Pulpit tho' never so monstrously false that could render Catholic Religion odious or ridicule it by disfiguring it dictated to his peevish Distemper this Second Part of his Preservative it would not I conceive have been possible that all the Gall that can drop from a Christians Pen should in one Pamphlet have heaped so many and so defamatory Calumnies Take the following Instances 1. The Catholics by unwritten Traditions that make up a part Fol. 73 74 75. of their Rule of Faith mean such things as may be concealed from the knowledge of the World for 1500 Years never heard of before in the Church of God kept very privately and secretly for several Ages and totally unwritten By Tradition we mean a Revelation received from God by the Apostles conveighed by the continual teaching and preaching of Lawful Pastors strengthned by the visible practice of Christian Churches found in the Books of succeeding Fathers and Historians though not in Canonical Scripture which St. Paul recommended 1 Tim. 6. 2 Thes 2. de Sp. S. c. 27. Ipsam fidei praedicationem ad nudum nomen Contrahemus to Timothy faithfully to be kept as a depositum And commanded the Thessalonians to observe which if it be laid by says St. Basil We shall retain of the Preaching of the Faith but an empty Name and which is delivered to us as Preached by the Apostles by the same means and with the same security at least as the Letter of the Gospel is conveighed to us as written by them 2. They teach several External Observances to be much more Fol. 79. pleasing to God and therefore much better in themselves than true Gospel Obedience Moral or Evangelical virtues that they supply the want of true virtue Compensate for sin and make men great Saints We teach that Gods inherent Grace only Sanctifies us and that whatever External observance void of Evangelical virtue is a sinful Hypocrisie and only can make one a greater sinner 3. They teach that when a Priest Absolves men that forsake Fol. 81 82. not their sins God must confirm the Sentence of his Minister and therefore they are Absolved and need not fear whence they believe that God can be reconciled to sinners whilst they remain in their sins And therefore they must believe that God hath given power to his Priests to Absolve those whom he could not Absolve himself We teach that to receive Absolution without a real forsaking of our sins in lieu of forgivness of them adds a hainous Sacrilege 4.