No Peace with Rome. A And that of Aug•jli11e, Yeeld God able todoefomerhing which chou arc not able to under!tand: It is reported, thatArijlotle mif-ledAitiw theHererike, into that filthy error of ArriHJ; and TertuDi•". bath taught us, that all Herefies are fuborned by Philofophy. What hath Athen1 to doe with Himtfokm; theAcademy with theChurch? Away with Arguments where Faith is inque!tion, as Thomo< ingcnuouOy faies our of Amhrofe: But whatis all this to us? Iris well yet, and I doe heartily congraculaceit ro our men, that the idle tale of Swriu1, concerning M<l•ntJon and CarolojladiHJ, and otherProte!tants,abandoning ofall Philofophy (wherewith yet Binilu pleafed himfel!e oflate) is thus hiffed out ofcountenance, and vanilhed; Belike now, the refOrmed DoCtors are Philofophers, buttoomuch: For us,we doe eaGiy grant, that many 8 things are done, which we cannot under!tand; but thefe things we grant not, becaufeweunder!tandtheycannor bedone: God bath abfolurepower (asThomo< fpeaks truly)overthewhole nature_ofthe crearu~e; bu_r ~ot fo,asthat he lhould caufe it ~o be, and not robe, at once; Th!S(as sodutf:neswltnly) DeNI potcnter nonpotejl: The objeCt ofGods power (as the ]ef~titu Schoole willingly confeff") is,whatloever implies not a contradiction in it felfe: Now, that the felfe fame body lhould ficdowo and yet not fit down; lhould bevifible and invifible; divifible and cominued,and yet difcontinued and indivifible; Tobe all here, to beall elfewhere; to be hercgreater, there leffe; robeone, and mony; the fame, anddivers; to deparr, and not to depart; to becontained in Heaven,and not to be contained ; to be aquamirywirhcuc fpace; to bemeafured by, and fitted to aplace, and not to t ake upany place; to beaccidents, and yet not eo be inherent; to be formerly, yettobemade; to beotherwife in places than in a place; to be auue body, and yet to be fpiritually; ThatBoy were well wor- e chy ofwhipping, that cannot difcern and confeffemanife!t contradiCtions. But what doe I fpendtirneinthis thorny Difcourfe? Thisonewordlhall!hutandfummeup all· That this wicked paire ofopiQions off<rs plaine violence to the true humanity of Chri!t; neither can ever, 84lv4fide, be reconciled with the EvangelicallTruth. S~tcr. XIX. CO!Jctrning thefacrifice ofthe M•ffi· THE Prie!tlyOffice of Chri!t is not a little impeached by the daily Oblation ofthe Miffall Sacrifice, and number ofmediators. For the firfl; That in this Sacred SupperrheJe is aSacrifice (in chat fenfe wherein the Farhersfpake) D noneofus ever doubted: but char is then, either Lacreuticall (as BeUormine di!tinguilbes it not ill)or Euchari!ticall: That is here (as Chr.Jfoftome fpeakes J a remembrance ofaSacrifice, that is, as ANgNJirne interprets it, a ~emoriall ofChri!ts Pailion,cele· braced in rheChurch;and from this fweet commemoration ofoarRedemption there arifes another Sacrifice, theSacrificeofpraife; and from thencea true Peace-offering ofthe Chri!tian fou1e: Thefe three Sacrificesofferthemfelves to us here; bur,for any propitiatory Sacrifice, unleffeit be (as rheGiolfe interprets it) reprefentively, I fintle none, noneEffemiall; none (as theTridentinet labour to perfwade) true and proper; neither indeed can ehere be. For, what? Doth the Prie!t offer the fame chat Chri!t hach offered, or another? Ifanother, then not propitiatory ; for onely Chri!t is our E Propitiation: Ifthefame,rhen not anunbloody Sacrifice;forChri!ts Sacrifice was a bloody one; Then, the narurall BeingofChrifllhould againe be deflroyed; Then, theblood oftheMediator (which I abhorre eo ima~ine) mufl be of a finite value and power: yea,Chri!thimfelfe did notfacrificeon the Table, buton the Crotle;For, if the Sacrificewhich he offered in his Supper,were perfeCt and fully propitiatory,what needed he to die afterward?wherefore was his blood !bed upon theCroffe,which by his Tranfub!tanriaredblood (not yet lhed)had formerly redeemed theWorld? Bm ifit be unbloody,then it is nor propiriatory:for without !beddingofblood(faith the Apo!tle) is noremi!lion. Orwhatoppofition isrhere betwixt the order of Mekhifodecand Aar.n, betwixtChri!tandthePrie!ts oftheold Law, ifthisOffice do equally paffe anddefcend in along Pedigree of mortall Succeffors? Orwhywere the legall facrificesofthe J ewilhSynagogue fo oft repeated,butbecaufethey were not perfeCt? . Hhh md ' S«rru./.2..38. TmJ.Jtpr~f. Bmir11inviu. Adrim.6. Pm.Mntdi12l. dtOm!U·pr6f. "''tt!p,;~u Ti'f 5'tl7j~. Trid.com. 5tff.2.l•
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