Sainct Austines religion collected from his owne writinges & from the confessio[n]s of the learned Protestants, whereby is sufficiently proued and made knowen the like answearable doctrine of the other more auncient fathers of the primitiue church / written by Iohn Brereley.
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Sainct Austines religion collected from his owne writinges & from the confessio[n]s of the learned Protestants, whereby is sufficiently proued and made knowen the like answearable doctrine of the other more auncient fathers of the primitiue church / written by Iohn Brereley.
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Augustine, -- Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Catholic Church -- Doctrines.
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"Sainct Austines religion collected from his owne writinges & from the confessio[n]s of the learned Protestants, whereby is sufficiently proued and made knowen the like answearable doctrine of the other more auncient fathers of the primitiue church / written by Iohn Brereley." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16708.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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S. Austin teacheth that the Sacra∣ments do not only signify, but truly confer grace to the worthy re∣ceiuer. SECTION. 1.
THough(k) 1.1Protestants vsually teach, that Sacraments do signi∣fy grace, but not confer it: yet S. Au∣stin with vs Catholickes teacheth the contrary saying,(l) 1.2 from whence is that so great vertue of the water, that touching the body it washeth the heart, but the word working it? &c. Clensing therefore would not be attributed to the liquid and slippery element, if it were not added in the word. And he pro∣ueth by example of Circumcision, the force of Baptisme to children though they want faith, saying,(m) 1.3 The Sacrament of it selfe was of great force.
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But this doctrine is so clearly S. Austines, that Luther answeareth to Cochlaeus his obiecting of S. Austin in this manner,(n) 1.4 But if there be any of the Fathers who haue thought the Sa∣craments to iustify by their owne vertue, though it be Austin as Cochlaeus con∣tendeth, I nothing care, they are the say∣inges of men. Agreeably to which also writeth Caluin,(o) 1.5 peraduen∣ture those immoderate commendations of the Sacraments which are read in the auncient writers, as that of Austin &c. haith deceiued those miserable Sophi∣sters.
And whearas(p) 1.6Protestants do further teach that the Sacraments of the old law are equal in force to ours, S. Austin with vs to the con∣trary auoucheth that(q) 1.7 There are some sacraments geuing saluation, others promising the Sauiour; the Sacraments of the new Testament geue saluation, the Sacraments of the old Testament promise the Sauiour. A saying so preg∣nant against Protestants that if we beleeue(r) 1.8 Musculus it was spoken in∣consideratly
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by Austin. Yea saith Cal∣uin,(s) 1.9 Let it trouble no man, that the auncient Fathers striue to make a diffe∣rence betweene the one and the other, their authority ought not to be such as to shake the infallibility of Scripture &c. Neither is that quircke of Austin to be approued, that by the Baptisme of Iohn sinnes are forgeuen in hope, but by the Baptisme of Christ sinnes are forgeuen indeede.
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Fulke against Purgat. p. 35. Willet in his Sinopsis p. 415. Perkins in his reformed Ca∣tholicke. p. 294. 298. Ie∣wel in his de∣fence. p. 201.