A censure upon certain passages contained in the History of the Royal Society [by Thomas Sprat] as being destructive to the established religion and Church of England / [Henry Stubbe].

  • Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.
Date:
1671
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Credit: A censure upon certain passages contained in the History of the Royal Society [by Thomas Sprat] as being destructive to the established religion and Church of England / [Henry Stubbe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    *any : yea the Gailican Churches reckoned tkii among their cbiefeft c yfiviledges and liberties , that they were not obliged to the deci¬ sions of a genet all Council, till the whole body of the Gailican c Clergy had by a (peciall agreement confented to them , and fopro- c pofed them to the fever all Churches there. And to this laft opi- cmon doth S. C. incline *, and his book was approved at Paris as cconformant to the Catholique faith : He guides htmfelfe by the Autho-' ct / v of received Councils ; he acknowledges .that to be onely nccef c fanl) accounted an Article of Catholique faith , which isJactually c acknowledged and received by Catholiques; and fince contradidions 4cannot be adually affented unto , it will follow that whatfbever cdeciliors of Councils may feem to oppofe fuch Articles , are not c neeeffarily to be accounted Catholique Doflnnes and by confe- x quence, not obligatory. -- He denies that Generali Councils can make new articles of faith : they are witneffes of what ba'-h been de- livered, not Sovereigns to determine of new truths, either by way of addition to the former , or in oppofit.ion thereunto. Their Infalli¬ bility is limited to Tradition, and fpiritually atfifted in the faithfull reporting of what hath been delivered: what ever reports,or decrees they make of another nature, they are to be received with a diffe¬ rent ajfent from what is Catholique faith. ‘ There is a double obli-' ( gation from decifions of Genet all Councils : the firft an obligation of c ChriJ. ian beliefe in refped of dodrines delivered by Genet all Coun- c cits as of uravafall Tradition : the fecond onely of Canonicall c obedience to orders and confutations for p raft ice , by which men *are not bound to believe thofe are inforced as from Divine autho- €rity , but onely to fubmit unto them as ads of a lawful] Ecclefa- c fiicall power; however not to cenfure them as unjufl, much leffe to oppofe and contradid them. Much more doth the fameAuthour add which give little countenance to that fiate of the controller fie which our Authour forms unto us : No Saveraigne dominion over our faith is by him afcribed to the Bifhop of Rome , or National, or Genet all Councills : and as to Infallibility , which Mr Chillingmrtb had impugned , he thus acquits himfelfe. ‘ I may in general! fay of Ibid. c. S9* c all his Objedions, that fmce they proceed only againft the word cInfallibility , aud that word extended to the utmoft heighth and c latitude that it poffibly can beare, Catholiques, as fuch , are not at c all concerned in them, feeing neither is that expre.fi on to be found c in any received Council, nor did ever the Church enlarge her au¬ thority to fo vafta wideneffe as Mr Chillingmrtb either conceived, cor at lead , for his particular advantage againft his adverfary, c thought good to make Ihow as if he conceived fo.- As to the fubjeft wherein Infallibility or Authority is to be placed *, fince Catholiques vary as to that point , he fayes ’tis evident thereby that they are not obliged to any one part of the Queftion : only they are to agree in this Tt identine dectf on , Ecdefra efi judicare de vet o fenfu Sacra Scriptura. It belongs to the Church to judge of the true fenfe of holy Scripture. Dr Holdens booke is Licenfed and highly commended by the French