Credo ecclesiam sanctam Catholicam I beleeue the holy Catholike Church : the authoritie, vniuersalitie, and visibilitie of the church handled and discussed / by Edward Chaloner ...
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Credo ecclesiam sanctam Catholicam I beleeue the holy Catholike Church : the authoritie, vniuersalitie, and visibilitie of the church handled and discussed / by Edward Chaloner ...
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Chaloner, Edward, 1590 or 91-1625.
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London :: Printed by I.L. for William Sheffard, and are to be sold at his shop, at the entring in of Popes head Allie out Lumbard-streete,
1623.
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Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- Controversial literature.
Church -- Catholicity -- Early works to 1800.
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"Credo ecclesiam sanctam Catholicam I beleeue the holy Catholike Church : the authoritie, vniuersalitie, and visibilitie of the church handled and discussed / by Edward Chaloner ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A18354.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.
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SECT. I. The Preface and partition of the ensu∣ing subject.
THis parcell of the Creed, how compendious soeuer it seems in wordes, yet is it in signifi∣cation so ample, that if the Iesuites Comment exceedes not the Text, this, alone, is an abridgement of Diuinitie, this, a Catechisme sufficient to engrosse the Lay∣ties whole studie and beliefe. It is not a matter of small consequence to them which oppose names to things, and triumph in the naked sounds of Church and Catholike, whether you apparell the
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sense in any other furniture of Language then this: they cannot reply as aDemosthenes did to Aeschines, whē being vpbrayded with the impro∣per vse of a word, hee answered, that the fortunes of Greece consisted not therein; No, in hoc sit a sum fortunae Romae, in these Sillables the fortunes of Rome are entrench'd; not the seuen Hils whereon shee is seated, not her extended Wals whose aun∣cient Tracts are almost en••omb'd with Age, not her Castle of Saint Angelo are halfe so relied vp∣on by her, as this single Article; For why? Shee hopes, the Church will serue her for a Cittadle or Towre of defence, Holynesse will colour her title, and Catholicke will from all quarters furnish her with a voluminous Armie of ancient and experi∣enced souldiers. Howsoeuer therefore I am not able to vndertake this subiect, either with that power or skill, as those which haue preceded me in the same, yet because, as Rome was not built in a day, so neither can shee bee surueied in an houre, or as shee is b the Beast with seuen heads and ten hornes, resembling Hydra, which as soone as Hercules had smitten off one head, maintained the fight with another; so there may remaine af∣ter those greater labours of others, something for vs of succeeding times and ages to meete withall; Be it as it will, I shall not thinke my paines mis∣pent, if whilest others haue pared off an head, my weaker strookes force her but so far as to shrinke in a horne.
But to leaue Prefaces, and come to the hand∣ling of the point. The words now read vnto you,
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containing in them a matter of Faith and Beliefe, doe present two thinges to our consideration; Viz.
1. First the act of Faith, in these words, (tacitely implied) I beleeue.
2. Secondly the obiect of this Faith, the Church, pourtraited and descri∣bed by two properties. Viz.
1. Sanctitie in that it is called, Holy.
2. Vnjuersalitie, in that it is stiled Catholicke.