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A discourse touching choyce of religion By Sr. Richard Tempest Baronet.
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Tempest, Richard, Sir, 1619 or 20-1662.
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part the Parabolicall the Figurative expressions the Naturall the Originals of the Old and New Testaments the Hebrew and the Greeke with the Antient Greeke and Latin Glosses If Hystory may prevaile Eusebius shall bring testimony Palladius Sezemen Socrates Ruffin shall be witnesses St. Bede St. Jerom shall tell what was the practises in the first times of Christianity If the pious Decrees of those Popes which themselves beleeve to be Saints in Heaven shall be heard Catholique Doctors have viewed all their Decrees both before the Councell of Nice and after If conquest by the Arts of Disputation be pretended to they have enterd into the nicest differences and have been cutters of a Commin Seed and are throughly acquainted with all the most retired advantages of Wit and Learning There have been many and great challenges to the foure first Generall Councels Nice Constantinople Ephesus and Calcedon but many Catholiques have not onely read from the first of Nice to the last of Trent but also all other approved Provinciall Councels If the Fathers Doctors and men famous in all Ages be consulted with they will appeare to be all of the same holy Catholique Church St. Basill St. Athanasius Gregory Nazianzen St. Gregory Nessen St. Gregory the great Iraeneus Cyprian Fulgentius Pamphilus the Martyr Palladius Theodoret Ruffinus Lactantius Vincentius Lyrenensis Dionisius the Areopagite Schollar to Saint Paul St. Ignatius St. Polycarpus St. Clement St. Augustine Hierome St. Ambrose Papias Schollar of St. John the Evangelist c. Who will not then put their foot into the same Barke with so excellent company to sayle to happinesse in but remaine in the Cock-Boars of their owne private opinions to be tost with every wave of Doctrine and to suffer Shipwracke The Hebrew and Greek Scriptures are preserved by the Roman Church defendors of the Catholique cause Its Doctrines whether writ or delivered by mouth Historians deliver the same to be with what Popes have maintained Decrees confirmed Expositions cleared Councels declared Schooles taught and Fathers delivered And their practice is demonstrated by all Ancient Laws of England Imperiall Nationall of Forraigne Countries and former times by confession of Enemies Mahumetans Jews Pagans and all those Scismatickes who confesse Antiquity is not for them I shall for those opinions that are pretended to be cause of their departure and the hinderance of their not returning againe to the Church of Rome give you a taste of the Fathers in severall Centuries and withall shew what fruits of piety charity and comfort they have contain'd in them Of the Eucharist Altars Sacrifice The word Transubstantiation must not be indured they say it is but a late word The verity of its Doctrine since the Councell of Laterane onely used hence they impute novelty to the Artikles of the Church they acknowledge the Church hath a power given it to decide controversies and the truth of the reall presence being called in question with subtile interpretation of words the Church must use some words of art to oppose them and secure the truth against their nimble turning of the sence of words so that to quarrell at the word is indeed to quarrell at the exercise of the Churches power moderne rebellions against the Tenents of holy Church forceth it to use some words to hinder the evasions of its enemies which they professe to signifie no more by then what was taught by This is my body The word Trinity was not used till Councels found it necessary to oppose certain Heresies of those times by framing that word But what a sinister laying hold of all occasions is there by those who once undertake to defend a party Ingenuity is fled passion is the Pilot whilst they are tost upon those faithles Seas of error Transelementation is as hard a word and M. Mountague allowes that The Greeks use a word to of the same signification yet no offence taken at it Heare the Fathers severall expressions as well as late Councels St. Ambrose in the fourth Age after Christ by the benediction nature it selfe is changed the change is not made by Faith alone but really saith St. Chrysostome Not every bread but that which receives the benediction is made the body of Christ Saint Augustine in the fifth Age. In answer to Melateiâ— The Bishop of Derry doth ingenuously confesse That Antiquity hath used the expressions of seeing Christ touching Christ in the Sacrament of fastning our teeth in his flesh c. What satisfaction can prevaile with a moderate ingenuity which one shall not meet with in later Schoole-men and Councels Clypeus Tridentinus saith Beleeve Transubstantiation but the manner of Transubstantiating you need not Schoole termes oblidge not whether by adduction or assumption or any other words of Art they may argue but not disturb the Faith of the Church How Christ is present in the Sacrament can neither be perceived by sense nor imagination St. Thomas of Aquin. Jeremias Patriarcha in Greece saith By the power of the omnipotent spirit the bread is changed into the very body of Christ wine into the very blood The Councell of Trent declares that in this Sacrament Jesus Christ true God and true Man is truely really and substantially contained under the species of those sensible things yet nor according to a naturall manner of existing but Sacramentally He was the Word that spake it And what that word did make it I doe beleeve and take it All the Ancients use constantly without flashes of Rhetoricke or translation of words the word sacrifice and not onely to note giving of thanks but propitiation oblation and offering likewise are used by the Fathers of the Councell of Nice Dialog 4.58 This sacrifice singularly saves the soule from Eternall destruction which doth repaire unto us by mistery the death of the onely begotten who although rising from the dead dyes not and death shall have no further power over him notwithstanding in himselfe immortally and incorruptibly living is againe sacrificed for us in the mistery of this holy oblation Fathers in all Ages have spoke and held this Cardinal Perron calls it a sacrifice applicative of a sacrifice Thus doe the enemies of Catholique Doctrines and words by their opposition of them make that which should be the band of Unity the flag of dissention And for the name of Altars St. Ambrose saith He is upon the Altar who suffered for all those under the Altar the bodies of Martyrs who are Redeemed by his Passion St. Augustine saith the sacrifice it selfe is the body of Christ which is not offered to the Martyrs because they themselves are that also The piety and fruits is brings The word Transubstantiaon truely understood affords us the comfort of asserting the truth of Gods promises For the severall modes and manners which those out of the Church fancy to themselves touching the presence of Christ if there were words of Art to expresse how detractive would they be found from the verity certainty and
reality of that comfort which our Saviour intended us in the blessed Sacraments But Catholiques doe adore the Lord Jesus here truely present onely him doe they adore who although till the world be dissolved after a naturall manner he is above yet here with us is the truth of the Lord That as often as we receive we eate his Flesh and drinke his Blood without which there is no life in us by which Union how doe our soules receive a torrent of joyes and graces which flow from a Celestiall source into all the faculties and powers of our minde sanctifying them to him who is our head being incorporated into him Invocation of Saints Whilst we live in the earthly Tabernacles of our Bodies we are subject to the sumes of flesh and blood to the Impressions of diverse affections and the clouds of the world whence we are put to execute a warfare and act a vigilent part against the depths of Satan and to that end we desire one anothers Prayers And shall theirs be lesse effectuall whose blessed soules are unbodied out of a possibility of falling and enjoying the blessed presence of God inflaming with charity and good will towards us They rejoyce at our conversions they understand our conditions holy Church hath ever practised to make them friends in the Court of Heaven To obtain their requests of their King and ours the effects of Christs mediation and merits may be more hopefully purchased by Angelical Petitions then mans disturbed and cold devotions Chrysost Hom de Martyr Egyp Let us aske the Fathers and they will tell us By the Prayers of the Martyrs we may after our departure hence see and imbrace them saith saint Chrysostom And elsewhere Mary praies for us stronger then Deborah more powerfull then Jael De Cog. nit verae vitae St. Augustine saith When you call upon the saints in Prayer it behoves you thus to thinke of them as placed in the glory of the Eternall beauty most glorious lights farre out-shining the Sonne who have fully all that is good in the Vision of God and who forcibly assist all that call upon them St. Hierom to Heliodore After death saith he you shall pray for me who have incited you that you might overcome In the Liturgy of Basil Now Martyrs earnestly pray that God may grant us remission of our sinnes De vidu◠Saint Ambrose saith The Angels are to be called upon in our behalfe who are assigned to us for our defence And againe let us not be ashamed to have them the Intercessors of our infirmity of the Intercession of the blessed Virgin Doctor Don saith prettily Her Wombe was a strange Heaven for there God cloath'd himselfe and grew our zealous thanks we poure as her deeds were our helps so are her Prayers nor can she sue in vaine who hath such titles unto you The piety and fruits of 〈◊〉 Whilst men make themselves such strangers to the Inhabitants above they break the communion of saints if mens joyes were all above if men did thirst after those glorious fruitions they would accept of all the helps that might leade them to it In invocating and worshipping the saints we worship him whose saints they are Saith a Father in often contemplating their crownes and begging their patronage how are our hearts inflamed through their helps it erects our thoughts on high and gives us courage in our journey below to have seen all the dangers of it conquered by those who as they were our example so now are our Patrons 〈…〉 It inlarges and mends our prospect when we view those Celestiall Inhabitants shining all as stars of severall magnitudes one glorious in the ruddy beams of Martyrdom another shining with the snow white purity of Chastity others now the higher by having been low in their own esteeme they provoke us by viewing their glories to the care of acquiring their vertues neither let any pretend and say God hath commanded us to call on him therefore its needlesse to goe to any other for he hath told us He heares not every one that cryes Lord Lord but him who doth the will of his Father and his will is that we should be obedient and hearken to his Church and not in stead of observing its commands revile it and rent and teare it by contempt of its Doctrines Confession Absolution Satisfaction This is and ever hath been so universally generally deliver'd Preached urged practised in the Catholique Church that none can deny it but those whose stiffe-neckednes will not give thē leave to look back into any Antiquity or Fathers these words are plainely frequently made use of to expresse this part of the Discipline of the Church which the Father 's called The vigor of the Gospel as if without it all mens manners and courses towards Heaven would languish Sermons of Confessions Bishop Andrews from the Text Whose Sins yee remit they are remitted acknowledges a perticular personall Confession to be ment by reason he saith it is exprest whose Sins not what Sins soever Epist 55. Let us heare Saint Cyprian expresse himselfe against those that opposed it It is indevoured saith he that sins may not be redeemed by satisfactions and just lamentations that mens wounds may not be washed away with tears true peace is taken away by the lye of a false one and the healthfull bosome of a Mother a step-mother interceding is shut up weeping and mourning should be heard from a sinner and the face of those who have falne August Hom. 5. Let him come to the Priests those by whom the Keyes are disposed of in the Church and let him from those who are set over those holy rites receive the measure of his satisfaction Tertullian de poenitentia Confessio satisfactionis consilium It is objected that its an all-daring presumption to pretend to be able to satisfie in the most pure eyes of Almighty God and so plausibly run on in an ill applide humility when a man doth what anothers demand is it s said he hath satisfied his desires nay if the Creditor doe for some reasons forgive the Debt he is said to be satisfied and it s spoken by reason of the Evangelicall compact when God by promising makes himselfe a debtor saith the Father and we doing what is required that is bringing forth fruits worthy of Pennance and performing such expressions of sorrow and those penitentiall injunctions as the Church wil be satisfied in for the demonstrating our hearty repentance it is cal'd satisfaction but whom the expressions of the Councel of Trent will not satisfie touching it he is sicke of siding and parties nor is any desire of peace with the Church prevalent with him Sessio 14 cap. 8. It s agreeable to the divine clemency lest sins be pardoned us without any satisfaction occasion being taken that we lightlier esteeming of sins fall into more grievous ones injurious and contumelious to the holy spirit of God treasuring up wrath for us