The ancient doctrine of the Church of England maintained in its primitive purity. Containing a justification of the XXXIX. articles of the Church of England, against papists and schismaticks: The similitude and harmony betwixt the Romane Catholick, and the heretick, with a discovery of their abuses of the fathers, in the first XVI ages, and the many heresies introduced by the Roman Church. Together with a vindication of the antiquity and universality of the ancient Protestant faith. Written long since by that eminent and learned divine Daniel Featly D.D. Seasonable for these times.

Title: The ancient doctrine of the Church of England maintained in its primitive purity. Containing a justification of the XXXIX. articles of the Church of England, against papists and schismaticks: The similitude and harmony betwixt the Romane Catholick, and the heretick, with a discovery of their abuses of the fathers, in the first XVI ages, and the many heresies introduced by the Roman Church. Together with a vindication of the antiquity and universality of the ancient Protestant faith. Written long since by that eminent and learned divine Daniel Featly D.D. Seasonable for these times.

Author: Lynde, Humphrey, Sir.

Collection: Early English Books Online 2

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but of an inferiour ranke, and not so agreeable to the high estate of Priest-hood.That S. Ambrose,Austine, Chrysostome, and BedeAug. in Iohan. tract. 15 de la∣tere in cruce pendentis lan∣ceâ percusso, sacramenta ec∣clesiae proflux∣erunt. teaching, that out of Christs side came the Sa∣craments of the Church prove no more two then se∣ven Sacraments. For they say not that they were then instituted, or that there were no more Sacra∣ments instituted, or that other Sacraments did not issue from thence.Saint Ambrose maketh expresse mention of the Sacrament of confirmation,L. 2. de sacram. c. 24. and of penance, as Bel∣larmine sheweth: who also yeeldeth a reason why S. Ambrose in his bookes de Sacramentis mentio∣neth no more but three Sacraments, because his in∣tent in that worke is only to instruct the catechu∣menie in those things which are to bee done at the time of Baptisme. For hee neither writeth to the be∣leevers of his age, but only to some beginners, as is manifest by the title of one of his bookes: neither doth he there speake of the Sacraments which the Church hath taught and declared, but of the Sacra∣ments which those beginners that hee spake to, had newly received.S. Austine in those places where hee speaketh of two Sacraments restraineth not the number to two only.Respice ad mu∣nera ecclesiae, munus sacra∣mentorum in baptismo in Eucharisliâ, et caeteris sanctis sacramentis. For in his first Sermon upon the 103. psalme, hee saith, cast thine eyes upon the gifts, or offices of the Church in Baptisme, the Eucharist, and the rest of the holy Sacraments: and in his Epistle 118. having brought in the two Sacraments, Baptisme, and the Lords Supper, he addeth this generall clause, 0