The peace of Rome Proclaimed to all the world, by her famous Cardinall Bellarmine, and the no lesse famous casuist Nauarre. Whereof the one acknowledgeth, and numbers vp aboue three hundred differences of opinion, maintained in the popish church. The other confesses neere threescore differences amongst their owne doctors in one onely point of their religion. Gathered faithfully out of their writings in their own words, and diuided into foure bookes, and those into seuerall decads. Whereto is prefixed a serious disswasiue from poperie. By I.H.

Eightly, Scotists against Thomas, Bonauenture, and others: Vega, Ferrariensis, &c.

THe Scotists obiect,* 1.1 that absolution alone is the cause of grace, for that al the power of the Sacra∣ment rests in the keyes; which are the Priests, not the penitents: I answer first, by denying the consequent: the sacrament may consist of two parts, & yet worke only by one: as a man consists of body & soule, & yet vnderstands onely by his soule: and this answere is followed by them, who place the vertue of the Sacra∣ment in absolution alone, which was once the opini∣on of S^t. Thomas, and Saint Bonauenture, and other an∣cients vpon 4. dist. Sent. dist. 18. and of the later, An∣dreas Vega, Francis of Ferrara, &c. Farther, it may be answered, that absolution is indeede the princi∣pall

cause of iustification, not the onely cause; but that is partly in the keyes of the Absoluer, partly in the act of the penitent: So holds Saint Thomas (who recanted his former opinion) 3 part q. 86. art. 6. Bellar∣mine ibid. c. 16. p. 103.

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  Obijciunt tertio &c.