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THe sense and meaninge of holy Scriptures giuen or aproued by the holy Catholique church, is vnfallibly true, as are also the definitiones and declara∣tiones of faithe, deliuered by the same, and euery one is bounde vpon his damnatiō not to reiect the iudgment therof.
My spirit that is in thee, and my* 1.1 wordes that I haue put in thy mouthe, shall not departe out of thy mouthe and out of the mouthe of thy seede and out of the mouthe of thy seedes seede, sayth our lord for this present and for euer. A manifest promise of the spirit of god to continue for euer in the church.
All power is giuen to me in hea∣uen* 1.2 and in earthe: Goinge therfore tea∣che yee all nations teachinge them to ob∣serue all thinges what soeuer I haue cōmaunded you. Loe here commis∣sion to teache giuen to the A∣postles and in them to all pa∣stores.
He that heareth you heareth me:* 1.3 and he that dispiseth you dispiseth me: Loe here obligation for o∣thers, to heare, and obaye that which they, who haue the for∣mer commission shall teache.
Behould I am with you all daies euen to the consūmation of the worlde; Loe, here the assurance of Christs asistance to his church, and the lawfull pastores therof, till the ende of the worlde. who can now doubt of the infallibili∣tie of the doctrine of godes* 1.5 church?
I will aske the father, and he will giue you another Paraclet, [that is an aduocate or comforther] that he may abyde with you for euer. The spi∣rit of truthe: loe here the spirite of truthe promised to abide with the church for euer. By warrant of which promised the first gene∣rall coūcell that euer was houl∣den (which was at Hierusalem) sayth thus. Yt▪ hath seemed good to the holy ghost and to vs, to laye no further burthen vpon you then these necessa∣rye thinges.
In respect of the singuler pri∣uiledges
of the church and spe∣tiallye of the infallibilitie it hath in doctrine, sainct Paule callethe it: the howse of god, the church os the liuinge god, the piller and grounde of truthe.
He that will not heare the church* 1.6 let him be to thee as the Heathen and the publican.
Touchinge which pointe of* 1.7 the infallibilitie of the church sainct Augustine hath this ex∣cellent doctrine: Althoughe (Saith he) no example is brought out of cano∣nicall Scripture of this thinge. (Spea∣kinge sf the validitie os Baptis∣me ministred by heretiques) yet doe we followe the truth of the same Scriptures in this pointe whilst we do that which pleaseth the whole church which the auctoritie of the Scriptures doth cōmēd: And because the holy Scri∣pture cannot deceaue, whosoeuer fea∣reth to be deceaued by the obseurite
of these questiones let him consult ther vpō with the church, which without all doubt the Scripture doth shewe.
The sense and meaninge of the holy Scriptures giuen, or approued by the Catholique churche, is not alwaies true: nether are the definitiones and declarationes of faythe deliured by the same vnfallible truthes. Here the reader may marke à strāge peruersitie or blindness in the Protestantes who graunt the gift of interpretinge the Scriptures to priuate belee∣uers and yet deny it to the who∣le chuche;
••••ay cap. 59. ••s. 22.
Mathe. 28. vs. 18. 19.
Luc. cap. 10. v. 16. 20
Mat. vs. 28. cap 20.
Io. cap. 14. vs. 16. 17. Act. 15 vs. 28
Math 18. vs. 17.
Agaynst Cr••sco∣nius. lib. 1. cap. 3.