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15. That there are Veniall ſinnes.
CHriſts Epiſtle to a Devout Soule, p. 57. Although in this conflict there are many veniall ſins wont to be committed. That paine which is endured by reſiſting of mortall ſinnes doth take away all that paine which the Veniall ſinnes doe deſerve.
Pag. 32. Veniall ſinnes doe not take from us the life of Grace.
Francis Sales in His Introduction to a Devout life, writes in this manner.
Pag. 110. That we muſt purifie our ſelves from affections to Veniall ſins. Thou ſhalt diſcover in thy ſelfe, that beſides mortall ſins, from which by the fore-mentioned exerciſes thou haſt beene purged, there remaine yet in thy ſoule diverſe inclinations and affections to Veniall ſinnes.
Pag. 111. Wee can never be free from Veniall ſinnes in this life: I ſay then that one muſt purge his ſoule from all the affections and inclinations that hee feeles to Veniall ſinnes.
Pag. 112. A Veniall ſinne be it never ſo little diſpleaſeth God, though not ſo hainouſly that he will damne us, or caſt us away for ever for the ſame.
Pag. 114. Veniall ſins kill not our ſoules, but yet mar the hony of our devotion.
It is no haynous ſinne (my Philotheus) to tell ſome little lie in paſtime, to exceed ſomewhat in needleſſe talke, in careleſſe lookes, &c.
Pag. 119. Certaine Inclinations are not properly ſinnes neither mortall nor Veniall, but only imperfections.
Pag. 214. Thinke it not enough to confeſſe thy Veniall ſinnes.
Pag. 227. To communicate every 8. dayes it is requiſite, neither to bee guilty of mortall ſinnes, not any affection to Veniall.
Shelfords five Treatiſes, p. 130. Laſtly, A… Chriſts Spirit and Grace gives power to goe beyond the precepts, ſo it is not incongruent that it ſhould ſo molifie ſinnes in his members, as to make them Veniall and not killing.
Sparrowes Sermon of Confeſſion. All our ſinnes therefore muſt bee confeſſed; Omnia Venialia, omnia mortalia, ſo ſay the Caſuiſts.
16: That Reliques of Saints are to be preſerved and reverenced,
BIſhop Mountague, Orig: Eccleſiaſt: Pars prior. Pag. 39. De qua re, quid nos Angle ſentiamus breviter exponemus. Nos Martyres, &c. qu memorias ipſorum anniverſartas in orbem redeuntes in Sancto Stephano, Proto-Martyre honoramus, eorum foreign exoſculamur foreign, &c. Reliquias ipſorum, lipſana, cimaelia, depoſita, ſi quae ſint, quaead noſtram notitiam pervenerint: Si quae nanciſci poterimus genuiua, non fucata, libenter ſuſcipimus, & veneratione ſua debita, congrua honeramus. Imprimis autem de Martyribus, ubi non conſtat veritas, diſquiſitionem cenſemus inſtituendam.
Pag. 40. Repraeſenta mihi faſe as illas Seruatoris; D…ce certiſſimo illas ipſas etiam, numextare, quibus Infans ſacratiſſimus involvebatur: Ego, quod ad me attin…t, libens merito cum ſumm… gandio, gratulatione, reverentia foreign accurram, ſuſcipiam, & ultra omnia, quae vocant Barbari Jocalia, Cimelia, lapides precioſos, aurum, aſtima…. And in his Antidiatr p. 17. Oſſa Sanctorum, Cineres, Reliquias vaſe aureo velamine precioſo convolvebant. Ego certè cum Conſtantino illas reliquias faſcijs involvam, auro includam circumge ſtandas, admovebo labijs, ac collo ſuspenſos manibus oculiſ que crebrò uſurpatat intuebor, vel in apothecas condam & recludam inter preciociſſima cemelia cenſendas.
17. That vowed Poverty, Virginity, a Monaſticall life, and Monaſteries, are lawfull, uſefull: Popiſh Votaries, Saints, Orders to be imitated, applauded.
CHriſts Epiſtle to a Devout ſoule, p. 86. 87. 88. 89. brings in Chriſt thus ſpeaking to Chriſtians: I Was driven into baniſhment, brought up by the labour of my mother, and fed by Almes at other Folkes coſt, having neither houſe nor lodging of mine owne: withered often in the mountaines: how was I ſpoiled of all my garments at the time of my paſſion? &c. Looke therefore upon my poverty and leave to be ſad, why art thou not grieved like a good Emulatreſſe if thou ſee any man poorer then thy ſelfe (as Saint Francis was;) if thou perceiveſt any man more agreeable to my life and poverty then thy ſelfe: this indeed ſhould bee a kinde of emulation. Embrace with mee the croſſe of Poverty, &c. Determine therefore now, and make a firme reſolution from the bottome of thy heart, to contemne all things for the love of mee, and be unwilling to poſſeſſe any thing but even ſuch as of neceſſity thou art inforced to uſe, delighting in all Poverty, contempt and penury, that thou maiſt be worthy to enjoy mee.
Francis Sales, His Introduction to a devout life, page 19. True it is that the Devotion altogether contemplative, Monaſticall, and Religious, cannot be exerciſed in theſe Vocations (of Artificers, &c.) yet are there many other degrees of devotions.
Page 200. The ſolitarines of Saint Paul the firſt Hermit, is imitated in ſome ſort by the ſpirituall retreates of which we have ſpoken, and the extreame poverty of St. Francis, may be imitated by thoſe practiſes and exerciſes of ſpirituall poverty which we will hereafter ſet downe.
Page 354 Charity only placeth us in the heigth of perfection, but Obedience, Chaſtity, and Poverty are excellent Inſtruments to attaine unto it. I will not ſay any thing of theſe three vertues, as they are vowed ſolemnly, for ſo they appertaine to Religious perſons.
Page 335. When they are vowed ſolemnely, they place a man in the way and ſtate of perfection.
Henry Stafford his Female Glory page 23. Let us then imagine that this holy Recluiſe confined her body to this ſacred ſolitude, &c.
Page 28. The bonds of her Matrimony were askt in heaven, and no impediment found why ſhee might not wed God himſelfe; yet at the earneſt ſolicitation of the Reverend Prieſts, ſaith Mantuan, ſhe was content to bee betrothed to Joſeph, not that he ſhould doe the Office of an Husband, but ſerve as a barre to the importuninity of other ſuitors, that ſo ſhe might the more freely enjoy the inconceivable pleaſure ſhe tooke in her Vowed Virginity.
Page 148. You who have vowed Virginity Mentall and Corporall, you ſhall not only have ingreſſe here, but welcome: Approach with comfort and kneele downe before the grand white Immaculate Abbeſſe of your ſnowey Nunneries.
Page 235. My Arithmeticke will not ſerve mee to number all thoſe who have regiſtred their names in the ſodality of the Roſary of this our bleſſed Lady, &c. All which are Canonized for Saints.
Biſhop Mount Orig. page 303. Quantum detrimenti Regijs acceſſerit vectigali. busper illam deſolationem Monaſterijs invectam per importunum Henrici Octavi rigorem & per Parliamentarias Impropriationes? &c.
Page 382. Ejuſmodi vitae genere Ioannem jeciſſe fundamenta Monaſticae vitae hoc eſt Anacoreticae, et Aſcetica, cum illuſtriſsimo Baronio non abnuerim, &c.
18. That there are written Traditions, which we muſt obſerve, and are of equall Authority with the word.
BIſhop Mountague in his Gagge page. 30. There are Traditions written and unwritten, you meane not here Traditions written I know it, no more doe wee.
Page 31. Traditions inſtituted by our Saviour even in points of beleife and Faith have divine Authority, as his written word hath. Traditions derived from the Apoſtles, have equall authority with their preachings and their writings, Traditions of the Church have ſuch authority, as the Church hath, all binde and oblige as they were intended, and as their extent is. For they muſt be conſidered not only from the Author, but from the end: ſome were intended to be permanent, others only to be tranſient for a time only, or elſe for ever: ſome Vniverſall, ſome onelyonly Partiall: for the Catholike or elſe a private Church: ſuch variety and difference is in Traditions.
We do grant it in every kinde that either there are or have beene Traditions of Chriſt, his Apoſtles, the Church privat men.
Pag. 37. Quae univerſa tenet Eccleſia, ab Apoſtolis praecepta benè traduntur, quanquam ſcripta non reperiantur, ſaid Saint Auguſtine, and I ſubſcribe unto it. Omni modo bind they unto Obedience ſo long, in ſuch ſort, ſo farre forth as the Authors did intend, till the ſame Authority diſavow them which gave unto them being at the firſt. In the 34. Articie to this purpoſe, we read of and concerning Eccleſiaſticall Traditions.
Loe Traditions not only avowed but maintained.
Page 41. No Proteſtant living in his right wit will deny this, that the Apoſtles ſpake much more then is written. Therefore the Traditions of the Apoſtles and of the Church is without all queſtion of good credit and eſteeme, and ſo much we profeſſe, Art. 34. I grant, it hath diſpleaſed ſome which is ſaid
It is Tradition which avoweth it, ſeeke no further. I ſee no reaſon why any ſhould be diſpleaſed therewith.
Doctor Pocklintons Altare Christianum, Page 48. None of all theſe Heretikes can derive their ſucceſſion from the Apoſtles, nor ſhew how their Doctrines were received by Tradition from them.
Page 49. According to Apoſtolicall Tradition.
Page 50. Thoſe that deprive us of the benefit of this Apoſtolicall Tradition.
Page 180. Traditions of holy Church, of abſolute Authority.
The Archbiſhop himſelfe in his Reply to Fiſher, determines thus page 44. Some Traditions I deny not true, and firme and of great both Authority and uſe in the Church as being Apoſtolicall.
Doctor Heylins Antid. Lincolnienſe page 86. Sect. 2. Many things came into our mind by a ſucceſſionall Tradition, for which we cannot find an expreſſe command, which yet we ought to entertaine, ex vi Catholicae conſuetudinis, of which Traditions there are many which ſtill retaine their force among us in England. This Church (the Lord bethanked for it) hath ſtood more firme for Apoſtolicall Traditions, then any other whatſoever of the Reformation.