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Roman tradition examined, as it is urged as infallible against all mens senses, reason,…
Roman tradition examined, as it is urged as infallible against all mens senses, reason, the Holy Scripture, the tradition and present judgment of the far greatest part of the Universal Church; in the point of transubstantiation; in answer to a book called A rational discourse of transubstantiation.Roman tradition examined, as it is urged as infallible against all mens senses, reason, the Holy Scripture, the tradition and present judgment of the far greatst part of the Universal Church; in the point of transubstantiation; in answer to a book called A rational discourse of transubstantiation.
S.l. : s.n., 1676
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But suppose that the person be so learned, as to be versed in the Councils, How shall he know by them what the former Ages held? 1. What Councils be they that he must believe, and how shall he be sure of it? Is it the Councils aforesaid of Ephes. 2. Basil, Constance, and such other? These you reject, and many more. 2. Do any Councils tell him by Decrees, which former Councils ⟨p. 37⟩were currant, and which not? Sure they do not; no, not the last at Trent: So that it is not, de fide, with your selves, which are the true Councils, and which not. 3. How doth a later Council know which former Councils were true? Not because they find so themselves; for then all would be true: If it be by any Characters, what be they, and why may we not know them? 4. How do Councils know which way most Writers went, or what they wrote? As it cannot be expected that the Bishops that met at Trent should remember by Tradition what all the Christians in the world said or thought in every Age; so neither were all Writers words known to them without Book, by verbal Tradition. I pray you tell me truly, whether ever any General Council took that way to prove what Justin, Tertullian, Cyprian, Basil, Gregories, Hierom, Augustine, Chrysostom, &c. said and held, by showing that they had it by Tradition from other Councils Decrees, or their Fathers telling them so, rather than by looking into the Writings of the Authors themselves? And your own Doctors commonly tell us what the Fathers held, by citing the Fathers words, and not by telling us, that either Councils, or their Fathers, or Mothers, or Nurses told them what they said or held, [except in the common Essentials of Christianity, the Sacramental Covenant, Creed, Lords-Prayer, Decalogue, and that the Scripture is Gods Word] which all Christians acknowledge are delivered to us, as by two hands, viz. by verbal and practical Tradition, and by the Scripture it self.
But suppose that the person be so learned, as to be versed in the Councils, How shall he know by them what the former Ages held? 1. What Councils be they that he must believe, and how shall he be sure of it? Is it the Councils aforesaid of Ephes. 2. Basil, Constance, and such other? These you reject, and many more. 2. Do any Councils tell him by Decrees, which former Councils ⟨p. 37⟩