Of the institution of the sacrament of the blessed bodie and blood of Christ, (by some called) the masse of Christ eight bookes; discovering the superstitious, sacrilegious, and idolatrous abominations of the Romish masse. Together with the consequent obstinacies, overtures of perjuries, and the heresies discernable in the defenders thereof. By the R. Father in God Thomas L. Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.

IV. That the Romish Worship is proved to be a Formall Ido∣latry, by the Consequence used from the Conse∣cration of your Popes.

SECT. IV.

SAlmeron, a Iesuite of prime note in your Church, endevou∣reth to c prove that all men are bound to beleeve the new Pope, whensoever he is consecrated, to be the true Pope, not only with a Morall or Humane Assurance, but with a Divine and in∣fallible faith; as were the Iewes bound to beleeve Christ Iesus, at his comming, to be the true Messias: that is (saith he) with a faith that cannot possibly be deceived. We have nothing to doe with your Iesuits Position in this place, concerning the Infallibity of Beleefe of the Consecration, and Election of your Popes, which we have else where proved to be a Grosse Imposture. But we are to argue from his Supposition, as for Example.

CHALLENGE.

YOur Iesuite d grounded his Assertion of an Infallible faith due to be had, touching the Consecration of your Popes, up∣on a Supposition; and his Conclusion upon the like infallible Be∣liefe, which men ought to have concerning the Consecration of the Eucharist, wherein (saith he) if there should be any Vncer∣tainty, so that our faith should depend upon the Intention of the Priest, in like manner might every one doubt, whether he may adore the Sa∣crament, as being not truly consecrated; as also make doubt of the Priest himselfe, as being not rightly ordained. So he; who therefore in all these requireth a faith infallible. All these forecited Confes∣sions of your owne Divines, as first concerning your Definition of Idolatry, next in the point of Coadoration of the Creature, toge∣ther with the Creator. Thirdly, in your Beleefe of the ••anonization of Saints; and lastly, in the Consecration of the Pope, which are but humane Institutions, doe enforce much more a necessity of Infallibility, in every Adoration instituted by God.

Now among all the Schismes of Anti-Popes, sometimes of two, sometimes of three at once, and that for forty or fifty yeares space together, if any one of those Popes, in his time, had heard any Papist saying to him: you may not be offended, although I hold your Adversary (as for example Vrbane) to be the true Pope, and yeeld to him all Fealtie and Obedience, for I doe this to a Good Intent, in a Morall Certainty, that he is truly elected Pope; and in an habituall Condition, not to acknowledge him, if I knew him not to be Pope, wherein if I erre, it is but a Materiall Dis∣loyalty; would not the Pope, notwithstanding all these Preten∣ses, judge this man to be formally an Anti-Papist, and pierce him with his Thunder-bolt of Anathema, as Popes have often dealt with Cardinals, Princes, and Emperours in like Case? yet what is this Glo-wormes slimy shine to the glory of Divine Majesty?

Notes

• c

  Fides divina est, quâ credimus Iesum, cadem credimus hun•• esse Paulum Quar∣tum Pontificem, &c.—Non tantum hu∣man â fide, cui subesse possit falsum. Salme∣ron. Ies. in Epist. Pauli part. 3. Disp. 2. pag. 183, 184. Al••oqui eam a∣dorare formidarem. pag. 185.
• See the Grand Ro∣mish Imposture, &c.
• d

  Si enim fides no∣stra p••nderet ex ex∣terna intentione Mi∣nistri, commodū no∣bis esset repete••e Baptismum in ea for∣ma, quam instituit Alex. 3. Papa, [Si bap∣tizatus es, ego non baptizo te, &c.] cum∣que non magis con∣stet nobis de secundo hoc Baptismo, quam de priori, esset tertiò, quartò, & quintò Baptismus repeten∣dus. Salmeron ibid. pag. 188. Et proinde libe∣rum erit, an ista con∣secrata sit hostia, & debito adorationis cultu adoretur, & ad salutem percipiant, & an verè sint Ministri Christi. Ibid. pag. 187. Signanter dixi, sub fi∣dem divinam. pa. 184. §. Vtergò.