f g souldier of Christ doth ofte encourage others to true and Christian fortitude My beloued (g) 1. Cor. 15 g 16. c 9 d Ro. 11. c Gal. 6. c 2. Thess 3. c Teb 2. c Eccles 10. a Eccli 4. d 5 c 11. c 2. Par. 15 b Iac. 5. b Heb. 10. f Mat. 10. c 24. b Bern. epist 129. ad Ianuenses brethren saith he be stable vnmoueable abounding in the work of our Lord all waies knowing that your labour is not vaine in our Lorde And againe Brethren be (h) Ephes 6. b Esa 40. g Pro. 14. c 2. Paral. 16. c lac 4. b 1. Pet. 5. c Vide Prosp l 3. de vira contempl c. 20. Amb. l. 1. offic c. 35. seq strengthned in our Lord and in the might of his power Put you on the armour of God that you may stand against the deceiptes of the Deuill and resiste in the euill day and stand in all thinges perfite Of a man that hath Fortitude these are the proper speeches I haue (i) Ps 55. a c trusted in God I will not feare what fleshe can doe vnto me Our (k) Ps 26. a Lorde is the protectour of my life of whom shall I tremble If whole armies stand against me my heart shall not be affraide If I (l) Ps 22. a shal walke in the midst of the shaddowe of death I wil not fear euils bicause thou art with me Who (m) Ro. 8. g shall separate vs frō the charity of Christ (n) Phil. 4. c I cā al things in him that strengthneth me This is that which the most couragious King DAVID (o) 1. Reg. 17. d 2. Reg. 14. d 16. b c 17. b 23. a Psal 17. c as it were soundinge the allarume to al the sonnes of god his fellowe souldiers doth say Doe (p) Psa 30. d manfully and let your hart be comforted all you that trust in our Lorde In god (q) Ps 107. d Heb. 11. f g Dan. 3. b 1. Mach. 2. b f g 2 Mac. 7. a f Act. 4. c 5. f g Apo. 2. b c g 3. a c d we will doe vertue and he will bring to nothing those that trouble vs. But that certes is a life worthie of a Christian man wherein we do liue wisely iustly temperately and with fortitude Hence is it that golden (r) Bern. lib. 2. de consid cap. 10. mediocritie that we do nothing too much nor too little This is that which the Scripture meaneth when it saith Doe thou (s) Pro. 4. b not decline either on the right hand or on the lefte OF THE GIFTES AND FRVITES OF THE HOLY GHOST 1 How many giftes of the holy Ghost be there THey are found in ESAIE the Prophet (a) Esa 11 a ibid. Hieron Amb. lib. 1. de spiritu sancto c. 20. Aug. ser 209. de temp c. 4. 17. de sanct c. 2. Item l. 1. de ser Do in monte c. 3. 4. l 2 de doctrina Christ c. 7. Greg. ho. 19 in Ezech. lib. 1. moral cap. 28. lib 35 cap. 7 Bern. in ser de donis Spir. Sanct. and the Fathers of the Church to be seauen The Spirite of wisdome of Vnderstanding of Councell of Fortitude of Science of Pietie finally the spirite of the feare of our Lorde Which giftes certes or spirites are found to be after a more perfite (b) Orig. ho. 3. in Esa ho. 6. in Nū manner in CHRIST IESVS our Lorde than in any other For he is full of grace (c) Io. 1. b and truth In him doth inhabite all the fulnes of the Diuinitie (d) Col. 2. b corporally Of his (e) Io. 1 b fulnes we all haue receiued who hath also giuen (f) 1. Io. 4. c vnto vs of his holy spirite And if (g) Ro. 8 b any man haue not the spirite of Christ he is not his if we beleeue the Apostle 2 How many are the fruites of the holy Ghost THey are of the same Apostle S. PAVL (a) Gal. 5 d vide ib. Hier. Theop. c. numbred Twelue The first is (b) Col. 3 c 1. Ioan. 4 c Aug. tra 87. in Euang. Io. Hier. in c. 5. ad Gal. CHARITY the most excelent kinde of fruit the roote also of all good thinges Without the which (c) 1. Cor. 13. a Aug. in ep Io. tra 5. all other good things cannot profite which cannot herselfe be had without all other good thinges whereby a man is made good as saith (d In Euāg Io. tract 87. S. AVGVSTINE An other fruite is (e) Phil. 4 a IOY excelling in this that a spiritual man doe serue God cheerefully with alacritie The third is PEACE (f) Luc 2 b Phil. 4 b Psal 118 ◠which seruethe to this ende that in the stormes of this worlde the tranquilitie of the minde be kepte The fourth is (g) Luc. 21 d Iac. 1 a PATIENCE which consisteth in suffering aduersitie The fifth is LONGANIMITY (h) Aba 2. a 2. Cor. 6. b Mat. 10 c which doth declare the greatnes of the minde in expecting good thinges to come The sixt is GOODNES which (i) Eph. 5 b hurteth no man wisheth well to all The seauenth is BENIGNITY (k) Col. 3 b inuiting to familiaritie sweet in speach temperate in manners The eigthe is MILDNES (l) Mat. 5 a 11. d Pro. 31 d which doth qualifie and mitigate al the motions of anger The ninthe is FAITH or FIDELITY (m) 1. Tim. 3 c Pro. 12 d towards our neighbour that we be faithfull and obseruers of all couenantes and promises The tenth is MODESTY (n) Phil. 4 a which excludethe all suspition of haughtines and arrogancie The eleuenth is CONTINENCY (o) Eccli 37 d Tob. 1 b 1. Thess 5 d whereby we doe not only abstaine from meate but from all manner of wickednes The twelueth is CHASTITY (p) Sap. 4 a 1. Cor. 7 f which keepeth a chast minde in a chaste bodie 3 How may we rightly vse the doctrine concerning the giftes and fruites of the holy-Ghost BY this means surely if with gratful mindes we acknowledge frō whence they come vnto vs and feele the effectuall vertue and vse of them in ourselues and shew forth and preserue the same They proceede certes from the fountaine of all grace that Father (a) Iac. 1 ◠of lightes who in the same commendeth vnto vs his infinite goodnes and charitie whilest through Christ he doth so (b) Tit. 3 b aboundātly powre his spirit vpō vs For (c) Ro. 5 ◠the charitie of God as witnesseth the Apostle is powred forth in our hartes by the holy Ghost which is giuen vs to witte according to this seauen folde grace Christ so deseruing in our behalfe He that (d) Io. 7 f beleeueth in me saith he as the scripture saith out of his bellie shall flowe riuers of liuing water And this hee saide of the Spirit that
vnto theÌ„ so much of Ecclesiastical helpe as may sufficiently recompence for theÌ„ But euen in these Pardon 's also is required a iust conuenient cause without the which they shall haue either none or not so greate force as the wordes doe soundâ— is we saide before The like also is to be iudged of the estate of grace of him which obtaineth the Indulgence for the deade Grace is not alwaies required in him which â—â—â—teth an Indulgence for the dead yet with some difference betweene these Indulgences and those which are graunted to them which liue in this worlde For two manner of workes may the POPE require in Pardon for the Dead The first are workes which haue no other goodnesse in them than that which they haue of sâ—eâ—dâ—eâ— as if the Pardon should runne thus Whososoeuer visiteth this Church or saieth such a Praier c. shall deliuer a soule out of Purgatory And such things being doone out of Gods grace because without his 〈◊〉 the worke hath â—o goodnesse in it there cannot be a sufficient cause of Pardon and therefore the Pardon auaileth nothing Other workes may haue some goodnesse in themselues or in some extrinsecal thing although they haue â—â—ne by the doer As if this should be the forme of the Indulgence Who saith MASSE or causeth to be said MASSE for such a cause or giueth Almes for the maintenance of such a place shal deliuer a soule out of Purgatory For certaine it is that MASSE ALMES doe good vnto the Church although they wh ch saide it or made them to bee giuen bee not in Grace And in such workes Nauarre Sotus if by some circumstance the minde of the POPE be not gathered to the contrary that is that he require that they be deuoutly and with grace perfourmed then may the Pardon be obtained for the dead by one which is not in grace For heere the POPE graunteth the Pardon for a iust cause which is Gods glory and honour by those charitable workes and the other doth nothing concurre vnto it but by determining the person to whome the POPE may apply it Euen so is it in the Dirige of a naughty Priest offered for one that is dead as for the MASSE it is certaine that it hath effecte of it selfe without any respect to him which saith it euen for those for whoÌ„ a naughty Priest doth offer it Who if he say this Dirige of his own deuotion priuately it is nothing auaileable But if he doe it to fulfill the bond of the Church whose Minister he is or in the Quire than doth it very much profite the Deade for in this he beareth the person of the wholle Church So also is it if my man being in sinne giue out of my Purse by my consent or generall leaue Almes to the poore For in these examples the workes are more â—f 〈◊〉 â—ersons than of those which doe execute thâ—◠〈…〉 it in the Suffrages and Indulgenâ—◠〈…〉 when the POPE respecteth the wâ—◠〈…〉 the goodnesse thereof in the effecte 〈…〉 recite from a naughty roote from wâ—◠〈…〉 no goodnes at al. For in such a case aâ—◠〈…〉 â—arâ—â—â—cantable of Pardon himselfe yet 〈…〉 a worke aâ— mothers appointment wherunto is annexed a Pardons for the Deade although perhaps the worke doth nothing profite the Deade but only in as much as it doth determine the POPES application of Pardon to this Particular party deceased No condition necessary in this life for Pardon in Purgatory or for participation of the suffrages of the Church Neither is that necessary which some doe require that a man for to be holpen by Indulgences after his death haue had whilest he heere liued a special deuotion to the autority of the Church and a diligent care to helpe the soules departed or a particular resolution to satisfie vnto God in this life although this last be singularly profitable to make at the least in the houre of death For it is sufficient that one be in Purgatory for then he is also in Grace And the want of those affections in life time in a higher degree than euery Christian is bounde vnto vnder paine of Mortall sinne although perhappes it hath increased the debte in Purgatory yet can it not hinder the common influence of Christes Passion and the participation of the Churches Suffrages or of the Treasure of Indulgence 12 The conclusion of this Treatise of the fruit of Indulgences THus much haue we saide according to the most sounde opinions of Learned Diuines of this 〈…〉 â—â—dulgences Which for that it was 〈…〉 â—â—IONIS ET PETRA SCANâ—◠〈…〉 offence and a rocke of scandall to 〈…〉 stumbling made Israell to sinne 〈…〉 which followe his Doctrine a comâ—â—◠〈…〉 blasphemy against the CHVRCH 〈…〉 it my part to handle more largely than the purpose of this BOOKE did require If nothing will suffice them no reason content them no autority conuince them then let them knowe that they beeing out of the number of GODS Children can neuer be troubled with Purgatory nor with Pardons which haue relation vnto Purgatory The one being a place of correction for children the other a mercifull fauour exhibited vnto the same children But of them which despise this Rodde of Discipline of our Almighty Father and contemne his Indulgence and Mildenesse is saide of the Apostle Heb. 12 8. If you be without Discipline whereof all be made partakers than are you Bastards and not children And that of the Prophet Esa 11 4 He shall strike the earth with the Rodde of his mouth with the breath of his lippes he shall kill the wicked But we whom God of his infinite mercy hath vnited vnto his misticall body of the holy Church as we must of necessity if we will remaine in the same vnity acknowledge and reuerence the sacred autority and power of giuing Indulgences so in seeking with diligence to obtaine them we shall reape three singular benefittes Three singâ—lar profits oâ— Indulgences First wee shall receiue encrease of meritte and consequently of grace in this life and glory in the other whilest wee deuoutely performe those good workes vnto which alwaies we are inuited by Indulgences Secondly we shall obtaine the release of the paines of Purgatory by diminishing in our mortall life the debte thereof which by those which feare the corrections of God and consider how farre as S. AVGVSTINE saieth In Psal â— those paines exceede whatsoeuer can be suffered in this life will be iudged a great felicitie Thirdly we shall shorten the time of our absence from God after our departure from hence and hasten that happy vision which God promised to MOISES when he saide I will shew thee all good Ex. 33 1. Which acceleration of so great a good how pretiouse it is wel vnderstoode S. PAVL Phil. 1 23. who so earnestly desired to be dissolued and to be with Christ And that other deuoute soule which complaining of the length of her Pilgrimage and dwelling amongst the inhabitants of darke and sorowfull CEDAR Ps 119 5. did wast consume with the desire of entering into the heauenly Courtes Ps 83 3. In which if according to the infallible veritie of Gods word one day be farre better than thousands of worldly treasures Ps 83 11. then surely that which not onely deliuereth from miserie but hasteneth and anticipateth so many yeeres and daies of so greate a blisse giuing also such helpe and occasion of a higher mansion in so rich a house Io. 14 2. cannot be valued with the treasures of wholle Kingdomes Psal 62 2. Come therefore O you who wander abroade in the deserte desolate and withered lande of Heresie and Schisme Come vnto the waters and you which haue not siluer make haste and buy Esa 55 1. and eate Come buy without amy exchange Wine and Milke Why doe your spend your money and not in bread why doe you bestow your labour and not in satiety Come vnto these liuely waters which proceeding from the fountaine of life will purge you from the mudde of your broken cisterns and quicken you with the spirite of God Hier. 2 12. â—o 4 14. â—o 9 2. and spring vp into life euerlasting Come drinke of that wine which the holy wisdome of God hath mingled vnto you And least you be terrified with the expectation of your fathers seuerity and discipline beholde your mother with her naked breasts cometh to meete you ready to embrace you and as new borne Infants to nourish you with the milke of her clemency and kindnes â—â— 15 22. Shee bringeth with her your very first stole which you once receiued of her in Baptisme now again again haue defiled And although that pure robe of innocency with which then she adorned you cannot bee recouered yet shall you no doubte by her diligent care and motherly piety be cloathed with an vnspotted garment of your recouered grace and if you haue hurte your soueraigne Lorde and Father in any thing or be in his debte you being once restored to his fauour shee hath wroten it with her owne hand shee will repay it Whose voice if you will heare Philem. vers 18. whose petition if you will graunt whose teares if you will respecte then shall you in steede of wasting your substance riotously by labouring vnto destruction Mat. 13 44. and euerlasting fire conuert most holsomely and profitablely your care and labours to the buying of that hidden treasure which shall fully recompence the sale of all worldly riches Laus Deo ac Beatissimae semper Virgini Matri DEI-PARAE MARIAE atque omnibus Sanctis 1. Cor. 11 16. If any man seeme to be coÌ„tentious we haue no such custome nor the Church of God S. Cyp. l. de simp Praelat Aug. l. 4. de simb ad cat c. 13. He shall not haue God to his Father Who will not haue the Church to his Mother FINIS
cō Donat. c. 4. hath prescribed vs this rule Sacramentes saith he are not therfore more true and more holy because they are ministred by a better man for they of themselues are true and holy by meanes of the true and holy God whose Sacraments they are And againe Remember (f) Con. lit Petill. l. 2. c. 47. et tract 5 in Euang. Ioan. that the manners of euill men doe nothing hinder the Sacramentes of God to make them either nothing at all or euer the lesse holy To which accordeth that sentence of (g) de iis qui mysteriis initiantur c. 5. S. AMBROSE doe thou not regard the merits of the persons but the offices of the Priestes I meane in the administration of the Sacramentes For euen by the (h) Io. 11 50 Mat. 23 2. vnworthie God accustometh to woorke and by the life of the Priest there can be no preiudice to the grace of the Sacrament as witnesseth (i) ho. 8. in 1. Corinth S. CHRYSOSTOME 8 What conceipte ought we to haue of Ceremonies those espeacially that are ordinarily and solempnly vsed in the Sacramentes CEremonies approued by the Church are certaine externall (a) Io. 9 6. et 11 33.43 20 22. Luc. vlt. 50. Mar. 7 33. et 8 23. et 10 16. Mat. 8 3. et 14 19. rites religiously and decently instituted first that they may be signes testimonies and exercises of the interiour worshipe which (b) Io. 4 23. Mat. 15 8. Esa 1 14. God principally requireth at our handes Then that there may be some liuely forcible prouocations vnto Religion wherby the frailty of man may be fortified and vnderpropped as it were trained with the hand both to receiue and also to retaine holy mysteries Lastly that those thinges which doe appertaine to the aduancemēt of Gods seruice and to the preseruation of publike discipline and (c) Leo. ep 81. ad Dios Innoc. ad Decent ep 1. Conc. 4. Tol. can 2. concorde may be prosecuted in the Church after an honest comely decent (d) 1. Cor. 14 40. Phil. 4 5.8 order as the Apostle willeth But those ceremonies speacially which are vsed in the administration of the Sacramentes and which we haue receiued (e) Hier. 6 16. Pro. 22 28. of the Fathers (f) Bas de Spir. Sanct. c 27. Triden Conc. can 13. de Sacr. deliuered and commended vnto vs as it were by hande oughte with great diligence to be kept and obserued For besids that they bring a decency vnto the Sacramentes ingender a certaine reuerence they are also venerable vnto vs by a singular commendation of (g) Tert. de Cor. mil. c. 3 Dionis de Eccle. hierar per totum antiquitie Then besides theire institution most auncient Apostolicall they haue plentie of mysteries full of grauitie and dignitie as most holy and learned (h) Amb. de initiand myst August alii passim vide Isid de off Eccle. Fathers haue noted Finally concerning these things and others of the like tenour it is an excellent saying of (i) in ser de defunctis DAMASCEN Those things which Christian Religion most free from all errour doth admit and embrace and for so many ages together keepe vntouched are not vaine but profitable pleasing to God much auailable to our saluation True it is that the Sectaries laugh at the ceremonies vsed in the Sacramentes but themselues are indeed more to be laughed at or rather bewailed in that trusting vnto their blinde iudgement and mortall hatred two pernitious Counsailours they doe wage battaile against the most cleare and euident truth Surely of the ceremonies of Baptisme euen the most auncient Diuines do witnesse vnto vs (k) Dion c. 2 Eccle. hier S. DENIS S. CLEMENT (l) Clemen ep 3. TERTVLLIAN (m) Tert. de cor mil. c. 3. ORIGEN (n) Origen ho. 12. in Num. S. CIPRIAN (o) Cypriā ep 70. S. BASIL (p) Basil de spir Sanct. c. 27. Saint CHRYSOSTOME (q) Chrysos ho. de Adam et Eua. S. CYRILL (r) Cyril Hiero. Catech. myst 1. 2. 3. 4. Let the wicked scoffe blaspheme neuer so much those Fathers certainely with one consent doe commend Abrenuntiatiō Exorcismes holy Water holy Chrisme and the signe of the Crosse Almost twelve hundred yeeres agone wrote Saint BASILL (s) Bas ibid. vid. Rabanū de inst cler li. 1. c. 27 28. et Isid l. 2. de off cap. 20. Amb. l. 1. 2. 3. de Sa ra de iis qui mysti initiantur Aug. l. 1. de nupt c. 20. l. 2. c. 18. 29. l. 4 de symb ad catech c. 1 in this manner We do consecrate the water of Baptisme and the oyle of vnction and him also that receiueth Baptisme But to giue particular admonition of the ceremonies that are annexed vnto all the Sacramentes as it woulde be very long so is it also very difficulte and to this our purpose not needefull Yea ORIGEN doth plainly cōfesse that in such ecclesiasticall (t) Hom. 5. in Num. Dion c. 1. et vlt. de hier Eccle. Aug. lib de doct Christ ca. 9. obseruances there are many things which of necessitye all must doe but the reason of thē why they are so done is not yet sufficiētly known OF THE SACRAMENT OF BAPTISME 1 What is Baptisme and is it necessary to all THis is the first Act 2 38. Mar. 16 16. Io 3.22 4.1 Tit 3 5. Mat. 28 19. Eph 5 26. 1. Pet. 3 21. and most necessary Sacrament of the new law consisting in the outward washing of the body and the due pronuntiation of the words according vnto the institution of Christ A necessary Sacrament I say not only for those (a) Trid. sess 6. c 4. sess 7. can 5. de Baptismo Aug. tract 13. in Ioan. Amb. de mister initi c. 4 Clem. ep 4. ad Iulium that are of yeeres of discretion but (b) Concil Later can 1 Mil. can 2. Dionys Eccle. hierar cap. 7. Cyp. l 3. ep 8. Chrys ho. de Adam Eua. for Infantes also and withall effectuall for them to life euerlasting All are borne the sonnes of (c Eph. 2 3. Trid. sess 5. wrathe and therefore euen Infantes also haue neede to be purged from sinne neither can they bee cleansed regenerated into the children of God without this (d) Aug. ep 28. l. 3. de anima eius orig c. 9 Item l. 1. de pec mer. c. 23. Sacrament For generally hath the Lawmaker proclaimed that (e) Io. 3 5. Aug. lib. 3 de pec mer. c 4 12 Vnlesse a man be borne againe of water and the spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdome of God And in an other place It is (f) Math. 13 14. Ber. ser 66. in cantic epi. 140. ad Hil. de fons not the will of your Father which is in heauen that one perish of those litle ones But Infants (g) Aug.
the simpler sort All which thinges we will close vp with one worde of Ecclesiastes as with a notable seale of the whole life of man making this conclusion Eccles 12 d Feare God and keepe his Commaundementes For this is all a man Psalm 67. Confirme this O GOD which thou hast wrought in vs. AN APPENDIX OR ADDITION OF THE FALL OF MAN AND IVSTIFIcation according to the sentence and doctrine of the Councell of Trent 1 Of the state fall of the first Man VVHen the first man Gen. 2 c 3 â— Aug. lib. 14. de ciuit Dei cap. 17. lib. 6 de Gen. ad lit cap. 26 27 in coÌ„cione ad Catech cont Iudae c. cap. 2. Fulg. de incarn grat Christ cap. 12. 13. Bern. ser 1. de Annun Prosp cont Collat. c. 21. ADAM hadde transegressed the Commandement of God in Paradise be presentlie loâ—t the holinesse and iustice in which he was created and further by the offence of that transgression incurred the anger and indignation of God and so consequently Gen. 2 c 3 d. Rom. 5 c. Conc. Mileuit can 1. Aug lib. 1. de ciuitat Dei cap. 12. lib. 1. de poâ— mer. cap. 2. 4. 6. Tertul de anima cap. 52. Fulgent de incarnat cap. 12. Chrys hom 17. in Gen. Ber. ad milit templi cap. 11. death which Almighty God had threatned vnto him before And with this same death he fell into the bondage and thraldome of the Aug. lib. 13. de Trin. cap. 12. lib. 3. Hypog cap. 2. Bern. ep 190. Diuell who from thence-forth had the Empire of Heb. 2 d death and finallie whole ADAM Concil ArausicanuÌ„ can 1. lib. de Eccles dogmat cap. 38. Aug. lib. 13. de Trin. cap. 12. lib. 14. de ciu Dei c. 15 by that same offence of preuarication was both in bodie and soule changed into worse 2 Of the sin of Adam transfused into al men NEither did ADAMS preuarication hurte himselfe alone but also his whole linage Ro. 5 c d 1. Cor. 15 c Eccli 25 d Conc. 2. A. raus can 2. Aug. in Enchir cap. 26. l. 2. Hypog cap 1. sequent l. 13. de ciuit Dei cap 3 14. lib 14. cap. 1. Prosp lib. 1. de vocat gent. c. 7. ad capitula Gallor c. 8. and posterity as who did loose both to himselfe Prosp cont Collat cap. 19 ad tria prima dub Genuen 9. Fulg. de incar gra Christi c. 13. and to vs the holinesse and iustice receiued from God and beeing polluted by the sinne of disobedience did transfuse into all mankinde not death only and the paines of the Gennad de Eccles dogmat c. 39. Aug. in Ench. c. 26. lib. 15. de ciuitate Dei cap. 1. de Predest gra c. 3. lib. 6. cont Iulian. cap. 12. 20. 24. 26. Fulgent de incar gratia Christi c. 14. 15. de fide ad Pet. cap. 25. Prosp lib 2. de vita contemplatiua c. 20. cont Collat. cap. 20. lib. de ingrat cap. 40. 27. Petrus Diaconus de incarnat gratia Christi cap. 6. bodie but also sinne which is the death of the soule Which the Apostle confirming hath said By one man Rom. 5 b sinne entred into the world and by sinne death And so vnto al men death did passe in which all sinned For which cause the sinne of ADAM which originally is one being by propagation Aug. l. 2. cont Pelag. Coelest c 15 16. lib. 1. de pec mer. cap. 9. 10. 11 12. 13. l. 2 Hypog c. 4. ep 86. 〈◊〉 lib. 6. cont Iul. cap. 2. serm 14. â—e verb. Apâ—â—â— cap. 14. â— sequent not by imitation transfused to all is in euery particular man his own Item lib. 3. de peccat mer. cap. 8. lib. 6. cont Iulian. cap. 10. must needs be purged by some remedie for the getting of life euerlasting For by it all men are made vncleane and as the Apostle Ephes 2 a Fulgent de â—ide ad Pet. cap. 26. saith by nature the Sonnes of wrathe and the slaues of sinne of the diuell of death excepting â—eere the immaculate Virgin Aug de nat gratia cap 36. vide extrauag comm lib. 3. de reliq veneratione Banct Conc. Trid. sess 3. in fine decret de peccato Origin MARY the mother of God whom in this place where we speake of Originall sinne we doe not comprehend 3 Of the remedy of Originall sinne THis Originall sinne which is in euerie man his owne as we haue saide is not taken away by the Aug. ep 28. Enchâ—c 48. Fulgent de incarn et gratia Christi cap. 16. forces of humane nature nor by any other remedie than by the merit of one Mediatour 1. Tim. 2 b our Lord Iesus Christ who hath reconciled vs Ro. 5 b Petrus Diaconus de incarn gratia Christi cap. 16. Bern. epist 190. vnto God in his bloude being made vnto vs 1. Cor. 1 d Bern ser â— de Purif Iustice Sanctification and Redemption And his merit Tit. â— b is applied as wel to those of discretion as to Infants by the Sacrament of Baptisme orderly ministred in such forme as the Church doth vse because there is no other name Act. 4 b vnder heaueÌ„ giuen vnto meÌ„ in which we must be saued And heÌ„ce is that speech Io 1 d Behold the Lambe of God beholde him that taketh away the sinne of the world And this also Gal. 3 d Aug. lib. 6. cont Iul. c. 4 As many of you as are Baptised in Christ haue put on Christ They therefore doe pernitiously erre who denie that Infants Concil Mileuit c. 2. Aphr. can 77. newely borne ought to be Baptised although they bee borne of Baptised Parents For these also are Baptised into remission of sinnes as hauing receiued Originall sinne from ADAM which must of necessitie bee purged by the Aug. lib. 1. de peccat mer. cap. 16. lib. 4. cont 2. ep Pelag. c. 4 Lauer of regeneration for the getting of life euerlasting because no otherwise is this to be vnderstood Ro. 5 b Aug. lib. 4. cont 2. ep Pelag. cap. 4. lib. 2. cont Pelagium Coelest cap. 40. By one man sinne entered into the world and by sinne death and so vnto all men death did passe in which all sinned But as the Catholicke Church all the worlde ouer hath allwaies vnderstood it For because of this rule of faith according to the Tradition of the Apostles euen Infants who coulde not as yet coÌ„mit any sinne in their owne persons are therefore truely baptised into remission of sinnes that in them by regeneration that may bee clensed which they haue coÌ„tracted by generatioÌ„ For Io. 3 â— vnlesse a maÌ„ be borne again of water and the spirite he cannot enter into the kingdome of God 4 Of the relikes of originall sinne in the Baptised MOreouer we ought to acknowledge that the guilt of originall sinne is remitted by the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ which is giuen in baptisme
and that in the baptized Aug. lib. 1. cont 2. ep Pelag c. 13. 14. l. 6. cont Iulia. cap. 13 seq lib. 2. cont Pelag. Coelest c. 39. 40. See the 3. question of Baptisme page 151 all that which hath in it the true and proper nature of sinne is quite taken away and not rased only or not imputed For in the regenerate God hateth nothing bccause there Ro. 8 a is no damnation vnto them that are truely Ibid. 6 a buried with Christ by baptisme vnto death That walke not according to the flesh but putting Eph. 4 c Col. 3 b off the olde man and putting on the new which is created according to God are made innocent immaculate pure voide of sinne and deare vnto Almightie God Ro. 8 c Heires certes of God and coheires of CHRIST so that nothing at all may staye them from entering into heauen And yet notwithstanding must we confesse that ther remaineth in the baptised Aug. lib. 2. de peccat mer. cap. 28. concupiscence which beeing lefte Idem lib. 2. cont Iul. cap. 9. 10. lib. 1. de pec mer. c. vlt. to striue withall cannot possibly hurte them that doe not consent and that doe Idem l. 1. ciu c. 25. lib. 5. con Iul. cap. 3. by the grace of Christ couragiously resist yea rather 2. Tim. 2 a hee that shall striue lawfully shall be crowned This Concupiscence which the Apostle sometime Ro. 7 b calleth sinne the Catholike Church neuer vnderstoode therefore to be called sinne because it is truely properly sinne in the regenerate but because it Aug. lib. 6. con Iul. c. 25. ser 6. de verb. Apost cap. 1. proceedeth of sinne and inclineth to sinne 5 Of the imbecillitie of nature and the lawe to Iustifie Men. TO come nowe somewhat nearer to the right and plaine vndestanding of the Doctrine of Iustification euerie man must acknowledge confesse thus much that when all men by ADAMS transgression had lost Innocencie Coelest primus ep 1. cap. 4. 1. Cor 15. c Ro. 5 c d being made vncleane and as the Apostle saith Eph. 2 a by nature the Sonnes of wrath as hath beene saide so far were they the slaues Ro. 6 c of sinne and in the power of death of the diuell that not only the Gentiles by the force Prosp cōtra Collat. cap. 22. Aug. ep 95. of nature but neither the Iewes by the very letter of the Law Fulgent de incar gratia Christi cap. 16. of MOYSES could be deliuered or rise from the same although in them free-will Aug. lib. 1. cont 2. ep Pelag. cap. 2. lib. 2. c. 5. cont Fortun. Manich. disput 2. lib. 3. de lib. arbit cap. 1. 3. lib. 3. de gra lib. arbit cap. 2. lib. 5. de ciu cap. 10. in expos cap. 5. ad Gal. qu. 24. ex 83. lib. 3. Hypog cap. 10. Orig. Philocal cap. 21. ho. 2. ex diuers in c. 13. Mat. Chry. ho. 30. in Mat. ho. 9. 11. in Ioan. Cyr. Hieros catech 4. illum Hier. in proaem lib. cont Pelag. lib. 2. cont Iouin cap. 2. was not extinguished howesoeuer Conc. 2. Araus cap. 13. 25. Aug. ep 95. Prosp lib. 1. de vocatione gentium cap. 8. it were weakened and decaied 6 Of the dispensation mystery of the comming of Christ VVHereby it came to passe that the Heauenly Father the Father of 2. Cor. 1 a mercies and God of all consolation when that happy Gal. 4 a fulnesse of time was come did sende vnto men CHRIST IESVS his Sonne declared and promised both before the Lawe and in the time of the Lawe to many holy Fathers Both that he might redeeme the Iewes who were vnder the Lawe that the Gentiles which did Ro. 9 g not followe Iustice might apprehend Iustice and all might receiue the adoption of sinnes Gal. 4 a Him hath God Ro. 3 d 5 b 1. Tim. 2 b proposed as a propitiatour by faith in his bloud for our sinnes and not only 1. Io. 2 a for ours but for the sinnes of the whole worlde 7 Who are iustified by Christ BVt although he died for 2. Cor. 5 a Prosp cap 9. ad obiect Gallor all yet not all doe receiue the benefite of his death but those onely vnto whom the merite of his Passion is communicated For as men indeede except they were borne as springing from the seede of ADAM Aug. ep 89. quaest 3. lib. 1. de pec mer. cap. 28. de natura et gratia cap. 41. l. 6. cont-Iulia c. 4. 24. should not be borne vniust whereas by that propagation through him they contracte whilest they are conceiued their owne proper iniustice so except they were borne againe in Christ they shoulde neuer be iustified whereas by that regeneration through the merit of his Passion grace is giuen them wherby they are made iust For this benefite the Col. 3 b Apostle exhorteth vs alwaies to giue thankes to the Father who hath made vs worthie vnto the part of the lot of the Saintes in the light and hath deliuered vs from the power of darckenesse and hath translated vs into the kingdome of the Sonne of his loue In whom we haue redemption the remission of sinnes 8 A description of the Iustification of a wicked mā the manner thereof in the state of grace IN which wordes is insinuated the description of a wicked mans iustification so that it is a translation from that state in the which man is borne the Sonne of the first Gal. 4 a Tit. 3 b ADAM into the state of grace adoption of the Sonnes of God by the second ADAM IESVS CHRIST our Sauiour Which translation certes after the Gospell once published cannot be made without the lauer of regeneration or the desire thereof as it is written Io. 3 a Vnlesse a man bee borne againe of water and the spirite he cannot enter into the kingdome of God 9 Of the necessity of preparation to Iustification in those of full age whereof it riseth FVrthermore the beginning of Iustification it selfe in those of full age is to be taken as from the Grace Aug. lib. cont 2. epist Pelag. cap. 9 10. de Praed Sanct c. 2. Gennad lib. de Eccles dogm c. 44. Fulg. de incarn gra Christ c. 18. preuenting of Almighty God by IESVS CHRIST that is to say by his vocation whereby they are called without al merite or desert on their part that they which were auerted from God by sinne may by his exciting and helping-grace be disposed to conuert themselues to their owne Iustification freely consenting and cooperating 1. Cor. 3. b 15 b 2. Cor. 6 a 7 a 2. Tim. 2 d Heb. 12 d Hier. 7 a Ezech. 18 e f Pro. 16 a Eccli 2 d Sap. 9 b Psal 26 c Ibid. Aug. enarr 2. serm 13. de verb. Apost cap. 9. sequent lib. 1. retract cap. 22. Leo. ser 5. de quadrag Fulgent de incarn gratia Christi cap. 20. to the same grace so that
doth the deuoute people take occasion not without the inducement of God himselfe in like miseries to haue recourse to the same Sainte for conuenient remedie Of this wee haue in the Scripture it selfe some figure and example DAVID mighte haue offered in diuerse places Sacrifice for the appeasing of Gods wrath but 1. Par. 21 27. only in the Courte of Ornan he deserued to see the Angel put vp his sworde Iobs friends by Iobs Iob. 42 9. Sacrifice only founde mercie If wee seeke reason hereof it was onely Gods pleasure What shall wee say of diuerse Leuit. 4. Sacrifices ordained by God for diuerse sinnes And yet one Sacrifice might haue sufficed if so it had pleased the Author thereof Some diuells are cast out by the Disciples others by Christ Mat. 17 16. alone Yea we reade of S. Anthony In Vita that when he could not cast out a Diuell hee sent the possessed party to his Disciple Saint Paul called the simple by whom he was deliuered The cause of which thing if we should impute to the greater holinesse in the one than in the other wee shoulde presumptuosly behaue our selues towardes both The only cause therefore is to bee referred to the will of God who beeing the Lord of all riuers yet sheweth himselfe more mighty in Iordan than in 4. Reg. 5 12. Abana and Pharphar riuers of Damascus We haue also a custome in the Exorcismes of the Church to charge the Diuell to disclose by whom he may be cast out for no other cause doubtles than because God according to his diuine Councell purpose giueth a limited strength vnto those infernall spirites which maie so farre preuaile as he permitteth no farther Of this we haue a proofe in S. Hilarions life Who beeing secretly gone into Sicily was disclosed by a possessed person in Rome whom the Saint deliuered But there is a manifest example recorded by an Autenticall Paulus Diac. lib. 6. de gestis longob c. 2. writer Of a great pestilence a thowsande yeeres since in Constantinople other places Of which one being warned be reuelation that it shoulde not cease vntill that in the Church of Saint Peter in Vinculis at Rome an AVLTAR were erected to S. Sebastian his Relickes being brought thither an AVLTAR dedicated the pestilence ceassed Which AVLTAR is as yet there remaining and with great deuotion frequented espeacially in time of pestilence Theodoret In Philotheo c. 26. also witnesseth of the generall deuotion of the Artificers of Rome to S. Simeon Whose Image he beeing yet aliue they vsed to set at the dores of their shoppes because of a generall opinion that the Sainte woulde protect their shoppes wares from robbing Of which we may reade a strange miracle in that Saintes life The like custome may we reade in S. Damascen Who also reporteth the seuere iudgement of God shewed vpon three persons one after another miserably slaine Lib. 3. de Imag. for attempting to violate the Saintes Image reuerently erected at a deuoute Christians shoppe A third reason may be alleadged the kinde of Passion of euery Saint which wee somewhat touched before For as they which sinne in those things in which they sinne are ordinarily punished so Almightie God doth speacially blesse the torments of his Saints maketh their paines occasion of their glory What did not saith Serm. de S. Laurent Saint Leo to the tormentour of Saint Laurence thy witte deuise for the glory of the conquerour when the very instrumentes of his torments were changed into the honour of his triumph And of Sainte Paules Chaines what S. Chrysostome saith Hom. 3. in epist ad Rom. ser 5. de Iob. all the worlde knoweth Howe meete is it then that in thinges proportionable to the MARTYRS tormentes or glorious confession of CHRIST although he were not a Martyr we shoulde runne to craue his aide and souccour And so truely it is founde in Tho. Fazel decad 1. lib. 1. cap. 1. S. Paul Whereas the stones of the place where the Viper inuaded his handes cure all the venemous bitings of Scorpions And in our owne Countrey the Mosse of S. WENEFRIDS-Well a deuoute memory of her glorious Martyrdome besides the straunge sweetenesse which alwaies is in it is founde a singuler remedy against fire The like of Sainte Agathaes Veile in Sicily which is knowen to preserue the Citty of Catana from the furious flames of Aetna Howe iust is it that the memories of so glorious Virgins shoulde haue special vertue against fire wheras they ouercomming their weake sexe did burne with the fyre of the holy-Holy-Ghost which many waters coulde not quench the fire of carnall concupiscence being vtterly extinct in their sacred breastes As therefore in the relickes and instrumentes of the passions of Saints we see certain particular and determinate thinges brought to passe so also may wee deuoutely expecte the same particular effectes when vpon the sure groundes of the practise of the Church some similitude of that which they haue suffred for Christ we inuocate them to our particular assistance in some speaciall causes And as in the most holy Trinitie by the essentiall attributes of power wisdome and goodnesse appropriated more to one person than to another See page 313. we doe not deny as much to be in one as in another so by speciall deuotions to Saintes for particular matters we doe not attribute lesse to the one then to the other but rather stirre vp our owne frailty weakenesse to the more speaciall remēbrance of Gods graces in thē The like is in the Angells Dan. 10 13.21 who are allotted vnto their seuerall Coūtreis to protect and Apoc. 8. 9. in punishments are ministers of seueral woes Hence is that custome sprong that deuoute people pray to S. Apollonia for the tooth-ake because her teeth were in her Martyrdome stroke out of her head and therefore shee is a fit Patronesse either to obtaine deliuery or if it please God that we bee not deliuered a patient sufferance according to her example The like may we say of praying to S. Agatha for sore breastes because her breast was cut off To S. Roche against the plague and to diuerse Saintes for diuerse thinges wherein their vertuouse disposition did most shew it selfe And to conclude all this with an inuincible argument let our Heretickes yeeld me a reason wherefore to the Princes Pollyd l. 8. histor of our countrey as an hereditary power from S. Edward hath bin graunted this gifte of curing one particuler disease more than another which if they cannot then let them not so curiously and blasphemously deale in the like manner with Saintes If I haue spoken saith our Sauiour Io. 3 12. vnto you earthly thinges you beleeue not how if I shall speake to you heauenly thinges will you beleeue Thus much therefore be spoken in defense of the generall practises of Christian Countreies allowed by Pastours and confirmed by long continuance not to defend euery particular practise of olde and simple women