446 bur>rh.Hfflory of `Bifaop. hath an Orationfa Treadle) agaiaEt the'Sacraraent in both kinds. IL Agielius Carberius Decanter Canzeracenfis hatha Treatise:(#' ®ur days- O-ration) againti : their requeft , for corre$ing heynour pubiicl¿, fins ; where much learningand reading is poured out, to five fin : And in particular it is maintained, t1 at the Clergy may not bepunithed by thetaity (fame few cafes excepted) not being therein their Subjects. -(It Teems theBohemz'u am would have had wicked, Melts punifhcd) And it is specially pleaded, that nowickednefs of Clergyor Laity will warrantany Nation to feparate from ,their Unity (that is, .Roman Government ; ) and to that end, the badnefs of the Church Militant to be endured isdefcribed. When he.cometh to the Popes pardons, he denied) that ,Pardons à culprit & pans areufually the Popes fide ; whereas I have before cited their ex- press words fo fpeaking often : And he lïoneftiy maintaireth out of the Bin - P g. School.xnen, that Qod only can give pardon -à eulpâ, fave as any .Prieft as inftroewentuinanimatummayvi claviumdifpofe the receiver, and declare Gods pardon, and remit part of the temporal punifbment ; .but fometimes the Pope re- enittethpart of the Church penances, and fa it is that Priefts arePaid -toforgive fins. (Mark this, againft our prefent Papifis, that reproach the Protefláms for thisDoátrine.) III. Next isHenr. Kalteifin, a Dominican Inquifitors Oration againut the freepreaching of Gods Word by Mini(ler:: (for this would have undone thé Pope and his Clergy :) The Bohemians, whomhe confuteth, maintained: seetheold ` I. ThatGods Word is fo pert-ea, that nothing (bould be added or dimi- Reformers ' nifhed. 2.That the wwickednefs of Priers is the great caute of the peo- Polhrne. ' ples ruine. 3.Againl Venial fin as againfl Gods Counfels differing from ` Laws. 4. That every Prieft and Deacon is bound topreach Gods Word ` freely, or else fins mortally ; and after Ordination he - should not ceafe (that i<, wlicn he was forbidden by flencing Bithops, or others) no not ` when excommunicated, becaufe he mutt obey God rather than man; and ` that Bishopsare bound to preach as well as Presbyters. The Anfwer first noteth, that Papa non eft nomenOrdinirfed Jurifdilllionis; that Gods word is Incarnate, infpired, written ; that it is expounded by the fame Spirit that infpired it : (But hath thePope the fame giftsof that Spi grit.) That thelnfpired Word is publick or private; that the Bifhops'De- crees in Councilsare Godspreblick infpired Word: (fee here the Enthufiaftical pretence of Epifcopal Infpiration, is the ground of all theRoman Ufurpa- tionsand tyrannies, and depofition of Princes) to them he applieth, He Shatheareth you,heareth me ; whence he gathereth the danger of ditobeying that Council (and fo the Popes Heretic.) The relt is worth the reading, but too long for me to repeat : Muchof it is to thew, that Reading and Mailing is more needful than Preaching, and that every Priell that Maffeth is not bound to Preach; there needeth many Mafs:Prielis, and not (ce many Preachers; and that filenced excommunicated Priefts are bound to ceafe preaching, and obey the Prelates : But he had the wit to add (iffilenced for a reafonable cause) and toconfess that Sententia injufte lata it fits jodicefi er- rorem
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