A09453:94
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
Doctrine 3 › Our reasons to the contrary.Doctrine 3 › Our reasons to the contrarie.
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II. Exception. Howsoever a man may be assured of his present estate, yet no man is certain of his perseverance unto the end. Ans. It is otherwise: for in the sixth petition, lead us not into temptation, we pray that God would not suffer us to be wholly overcome of the devil in any temptation: and to this petition we have a promise answerable, 1. Cor. 10. That God with the temptation will give an issue: and therefore howsoever the devil may buffet, molest, and wound the servants of God, yet shall he never be able to overcome them. Again he that is once a member of Christ, can never be wholly cut off. And if any by sin were wholly severed from Christ for a time, in his recovery he is to be baptised the second time: for baptism is the sacrament of initiation or ingrafting into Christ. By this reason we should as often be baptised as we fall into any sin, which is absurd. Again S. John saith, 1. Joh. 2. 19. ⟨p. 56⟩They went out from us, but they were not of us: for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. Where he taketh it for granted, that such as be once in Christ, shall never wholly be severed or fall from him. Though our communion with Christ may be lessened, yet the union & the bond of conjunction is never dissolved.
II. Exception. Howesoeuer a man may be assured of his present estate, yet no man is certē of his perseuerance vnto the end. Ans. It is otherwise: for in the sixt petition, lead vs not into temptation, we praie that God would not suffer vs to be wholly ouercome of the deuill in any temptation: and to this petition we haue a promise answerable, 1. Cor. 10. That God with the temptation will giue an issue: and therefore howsoeuer the deuill may buffit, molest, and wound the seruants of God, yet shall he neuer be able to ouercome them. Againe he that is once a member of Christ, can neuer be wholly cut off. And if any by sinne were wholly seuered from Christ for a time, in his recouery he is to be baptised the second time: for baptisme is the sacrament of initiation or ingrafting into Christ. By this reason we should as often be baptised as we fall into any sinn, which is absurd. Againe S. Iohn saith,