The dovvnefall of poperie proposed by way of a new challenge to all English Iesuits and Iesuited or Italianized papists: daring them all iointly, and euery one of them seuerally, to make answere thereunto if they can, or haue any truth on their side; knowing for a truth that otherwise all the world will crie with open mouths, fie vpon them, and their patched hotch-potch religion.
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The dovvnefall of poperie proposed by way of a new challenge to all English Iesuits and Iesuited or Italianized papists: daring them all iointly, and euery one of them seuerally, to make answere thereunto if they can, or haue any truth on their side; knowing for a truth that otherwise all the world will crie with open mouths, fie vpon them, and their patched hotch-potch religion.
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Bell, Thomas, fl. 1593-1610.
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London :: Printed by A[dam] Islip for Arthur Iohnson: and are to be sold at the signe of the White Horse, ouer against the great North doore of Paules,
1604.
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Catholic Church -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800.
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"The dovvnefall of poperie proposed by way of a new challenge to all English Iesuits and Iesuited or Italianized papists: daring them all iointly, and euery one of them seuerally, to make answere thereunto if they can, or haue any truth on their side; knowing for a truth that otherwise all the world will crie with open mouths, fie vpon them, and their patched hotch-potch religion." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A07802.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.
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The first place of Saint Austen.
SIcut caecitas cordis, quam solus remouet illuminator Deus, & pec∣catum
est quo in deum non creditur;& poena peccati, qua cor su∣perbum
digna animaduersione punitur: & causa peccati, cum mali
aliquid caeci cordis errore committitur; ita concupiscentia carnis, ad∣uersus
quam bonus concupiscit spiritus, & peccatum est, quia inest illi
inobedientia contra dominatum mentis: & poena peccati est, quia
reddita est meritis inobedientis; & causa peccatiest, defectione con∣sentientis,
vel contagione nascentis. Like as the blindnesse of
heart, which onely God the illuminatour doth remooue,
is sinne, through which man beleeueth not in God; and
the punishment of sinne, wherwith a proud heart is iustly
chastened; and the cause of sinne, when through the
blindnesse of heart any euill is committed; euen so con∣cupiscence
of the flesh, against which the good spirit co∣ueteth,
is sinne, because there is in it disobedience against
the gouernment of the mind: and also a punishment of
sinne, because it was rendred to the merits of the disobe∣dient:
and it is also the cause of sinne, by defection of him
that consenteth, or by contagion of the child that is
borne.
In these wordes, Saint Austen expresseth three things
precisely; first, that concupiscence in the regenerate, is
the punishment of sinne; secondly, that it is the cause of
sinne; thirdly, that it is sinne it selfe. VVhich three, S.
Austen doth not onely distinguish, but withall he yeeldeth
three seuerall reasons for the same: and that he speaketh
of the regenerate, it is euident in this; because he spea∣keth
of that concupiscence, against which the good spirit
striueth. Most impudent therefore are the papists, when
they auouch with open mouth, that Saint Austen onely
calleth it sinne, because it is the cause of sinne. And the
gentle reader may here also obserue, that S. Austen com∣pareth
concupiscence of the flesh, with that blindnesse of
heart which breedeth infidelity in man: which how great
a sinne it is, euery one can tell.