A09453:486
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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2. In this Creed, to believe in God, and to believe the church, are distinguished. To be leeve in, is pertaining to the Creator: to believe, to the creature: as Ruffinus hath noted,1 when he saith, that by this proposition in, the Creator is distinguished from the creature, and things pertaining to God from things pertaining to men. And Augustine ⟨p. 357⟩saith, It must be known that we must believe 2the Church, & NOT BELIEVE IN THE CHURCH: because the church is not God, but the house of God Hence it follows, that we must not believe in the Saints, nor put our confidence3 in our works, as the learned Papists teach. Therefore Eusebius saith, We ought of right to believe Peter and Paul, but to believe in Peter & Paul, that is, to give to the servants the honour of the Lord, we ought not. And Cyprian saith, He doth not believe in God which doth not place in him alone the trust of his whole felicity.
2. In this Creede, to beleeue in God, and to beleeue the church, are distinguished. To be leeue in, is pertaining to the Creatour: to beleeue, to the creature: as Ruffinus hath noted,1 when he saith, that by this proposition in, the Creatour is distinguished from the creature, and things pertaining to God from things pertaining to men. And Augustine ⟨p. 357⟩saith, It must be knowne that we must beleeue 2the Church, & NOT BELEEVE IN THE CHVRCH: because the church is not God, but the house of God Hence it followes, that we must not beleeue in the Saints, nor put our confidence3 in our workes, as the learned Papists teach. Therefore Eusebius saith, We ought of right to beleeue Peter and Paul, but to beleeue in Peter & Paul, that is, to giue to the seruants the houour of the Lord, we ought not. And Cyprian saith, He doth not beleeue in God which doth not place in him alone the trust of his whole felicitie.