pretende. Nowe whereas ye acknowledge there be but twoo Sacramentes, why should any man be∣leeue
you, rather then the Germaines your firste Scholemaisters, who in their Confession exhibited
to Charles the fifthe then Emperour at Augspurge in the name of al the Protestantes, Anno. 1530.
appointe three Sacramentes, Baptisme, the Euchariste, and Penance? The nexte yere after, Philip
Melanchthon in his Apologie auouched those three Sacramentes: but afterwarde in the yere. 1552.
he founde out an other, and made vp the number of foure, by addinge the Sacramente of Order
to the foresaide three. In Lipsia they receiue three: In VVittenberg, whiche Citie is not thence far
of, they haue foure. At Magdeburg thereby also Flacius Illyricus, and so many as folowe him, will
haue but two: and the Zwenckfeldians, that spring out of the same stocke, care for none at al.
Forasmuche as ye alleage the names of the Olde Fathers for you, specially S. Ambrose, and S.
Augustine, that there be but twoo Sacramentes, let vs see howe muche they make for maintenance of
yo•••• Doctrine, and wheather they teache vs not, that there be moe S. Augustine in his seconde Bookes
••••ira literas Petiliani, speakinge of the place of the Psalme, Sicut vnguentum in capite, whiche
the Heretike had alleaged, saithe thus: In hoc vnguento, &c. In this oinctement his will is to
interpret the Sacramente of Chrisme (he meaneth the Sacramente of Confirmation) whiche in the
kinde of visible signes is Holy, as Baptisme is. Lo, S. Augustine calleth cofirmation a Sacramente.
S. Eusebius Pope namethe it a Sacramente in his third epistle written to al the Bis••hoppes of Tuscia
and Campania: Manus impositionis Sacramentum, &c. The Sacramente of imposition of
Handes (saithe he) is to be kepte with greate reuerence, whiche cannot be performed but by the
high Priestes, (he vnderstandeth Bishoppes). Melchiades nexte to Syluester before the Nicene Coun∣cel
speakinge muche of Confirmation, amonge other thinges saithe thus. Duo haec Sacramenta,
Baptismi, & confirmationis, separanda non sunt: These twoo Sacramentes of Baptisme, and
Confirmation, maye not be sundered. Though these twoo Bishoppes were Popes, yet they deserue credit,
forasmuche as they liued before that corruption crept into the Churche, after your accoumpte, and
died Holy Martyrs.
That Penaunce is a Sacramente, and so accoumpted amonge the Fathers, it is so euident, that
who doubteth of it, maie seeme not to haue perused their writinges. S. Augustine in enchiridio ad
Laurentium speakinge of Baptisme and Penaunce, calleth bothe, Salutaria Sacramenta, healthful
Sacramentes. S. Ambrose signifieth him selfe to be of the same minde, in his firste Booke de Poentientia,
Cap. 6. &. 7. and in the second Booke, Cap. 2. though without puttinge thexpresse name of Sacra∣mente.
But in the third Chapter of that Booke he putteth the name of Sacramente expressely.
Touchinge Order, that is a Sacramente, also by verdite of S. Augustine, whom ye alleage for
you. Let vs heare what he saithe. In his seconde Booke contra epist. Parmentani Cap. 13. these be his
wordes, where he speaketh of Baptisme, and of the Power to Baptize, whiche is geuen in the Sacra∣mente
of Order: Vtrunque euim Sacramentum est, & quadam consecratione vtiunque ho∣mini
datur, illud cum Baptizatur, istud cum ordinatur. Ideo in Catholica non licet v∣trunque
iterari: Either of them is a Sacramente, and with a certaine Consecration either is geuen
to man: the one when he is Baptized, the other when he taketh Orders. Therefore in the Ca∣tholike
Churche it is not lawful either of them to be taken twise.
For the Sacramente of wedlocke, besides other good and sufficient proufes, that it is a Sacra∣mente,
wee haue sundrie testimonies out of S. Augustine, and other Doctours. In the Churche (saithe
S. Augustine) not onely the bande of mariage, but also the Sacramente is so commended, that it is
not lauful for the husbande to deliuer his VVife to another. He calleth wedlocke a Sacramente in
many places of his workes. De bono coniugali. Cap. 7. 18. and in the. 24. Chapter of that Booke hee
saithe: Haec omnia bona sunt, propter quae nuptiae bonae sunt, Proles, Fides, Sacramentū:
All these thinges be good, for whiche mariage is good, issue, Faithe, the Sacramente.
Of extreme Vnction, who doubteth whether it be a Sacramente, let him reade the Epistle of
Innocentrus the Firste ad Decentium Eugubinum Episcopum, Cap. 8. where moste planely trea∣tinge
of it, he nameth it a Sacramente. Chrysostome interpreteth the place of S. Iames epistle for this
Sacramente. And so dothe Bede, alleaging the place of S. Iames, the sixth of Marke, the Auctoritie of
Innocentius, and the custome of the Churche. Seinge then we haue founde the seuen sacramentes