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A Reformed Catholic
A reformed Catholic: or, A declaration showing how near we may come to the present Church of Rome in sundry points of religion: and wherein we must for ever depart from them with an advertisement to all favourers of the Roman religion, showing that the said religion is against the Catholic principles and grounds of the catechism.A reformed Catholike: or, A declaration shewing how neere we may come to the present Church of Rome in sundrie points of religion: and vvherein we must for euer depart from them with an advertisment to all fauourers of the Romane religion, shewing that the said religion is against the Catholike principles and grounds of the catechisme.
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1598Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1598
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Reason II. Math. 3. II. I baptize you with water to repentance: but he that cometh after me is stronger then I,—he shall baptize you with the holy Ghost and with fire. Hence it is manifest, that grace in the sacrament proceeds not from any action in the sacrament: for John, though he do not disjoin himself and his action from Christ, and the action of his spirit: yet doth he distinguish them plainly in number, persons, and effect. To this purpose Paul, who had said of the Galatians, that he travelled of them & beget them by the Gospel, saith of himself that he is not 1any thing, not only as he was a man, but as he was a faithful Apostle: thereby excluding the whole Evangelical ministry whereof the sacrament is a part, from the least part of divine operation, or, efficacy in conferring of grace.
Reason II. Math. 3. II. I baptize you with water to repentance: but he that commeth after me is stronger then I,—he shall baptize you with the holy Ghost and with fire. Hence it is manifest, that grace in the sacrament proceedes not from any action in the sacrament: for Iohn, though he doe not disioyne himselfe and his action from Christ, and the action of his spirit: yet doth he distinguish them plainely in number, persons, and effect. To this purpose Paul, who had saide of the Galatians, that he traueled of them & beget them by the Gospel, saith of himselfe that he is not 1any thing, not onely as he was a man, but as he was a faithfull Apostle: thereby excluding the whole Euangelicall ministerie whereof the sacrament is a part, from the least part of diuine operation, or, efficacie in conferring of grace.