Heart, than of Auricular Confession; after David the Prophet's saying and teaching, when he said, Tibi soli peccavi, that was not to a Priest. By the Text also which you alledg, begining, circa personas vero Ministrorum, &c. you do openly confess that the Church hath not accepted Auricular Confession to be by God's Commandment; or else by your saying and Allegation, they have long erred; for you confess that the Church hath divers times changed, both to whom Confession should be made, and times when; and that also they have changed divers Ways for divers Regions; if it were by God's Commandment they might not do thus: Wherefore, my Lord, since I hear no other Allegations, I pray you blame not me tho I be not of your Opinion; and of the both, I think that I have more cause to think you obstinate, than you me, seeing your Authors and Allegations make so little to your purpose. And thus far you well. XII.. A Definition of the Church, corrected in the margin by King De Ecclesia. Christi ECCLESIA præter alias acceptiones in Scripturis duas habet Cott. Libr. Cleop. E. 5. præcipuas: Unam, qua Ecclesia accipitur pro Congregatione Fol. 1. Sanctorum et vere fidelium qui Christo capiti vere credunt, et Sanctificantur Spiritu ejus hæc autem una est, et vere Sanctum Corpus Christi sed soli Deo * cognitum, qui hominum corda Sponsa solus intuetur. Altera acceptio est, qua Ecclesia accipitur pro cognita. Congregatione omnium Hominum qui baptizati sunt in Christo, et non palam abnegarint Christum, nec sunt † excommunicati‡: + Juste. Aut obQuæ Ecclesiæ acceptio congruit ejus Statui in hac vita dun-stinati. taxat, ubi habet malos bonis simul admixtos §, et debet esse § Et cognitio hujus cognita per Verbum et Legitimum usum Sacramentorum ut Ecclesiæ -possit audiri; sicut docet Christus, Qui Ecclesiam non faudie- pervenit f audiret per usum Verbi et rit. Porro ad veram unitatem Ecclesiæ, requiritur ut sit conSacramen- sensus in recta Doctrina Fidei et administratione Sacramento torum, ac ceptione, perfecta unitate, ac unanimi consensu semper ob rum. Traditiones vero et Ritus atq; Cæremoniæ quæ vel ad 8 Decorem, vel Ordinem, vel Disciplinam Ecclesiæ ab hominibus sunt acceptata. institutæ, non omnino necesse est, ut eadem sint ubiq; aut prorsus similes: Hæ enim et variæ fuere et variari possunt || pro || Modo rectoribus regionum atq; morum diversitate et commodo *, sic tamen ut placeant quibus sint consentientes Verbo Dei: et quamvis in Ecclesia secundum temperan posteriorem acceptionem mali sint bonis admixti, atq; etiam dum est, Ministeriis Verbi et Sacramentorum nonnunquam præsint, tamen cum ministrent non suo sed Christi nomine, mandato et jussio atq; Lex Verbo authoritate, licet eorum Ministerio uti tam in verbo audiendo Dei non adversetur. quam recipiendis Sacramentis, juxta illud, Qui vos audit me auIsta est dit; nec per eorum malitiam imminuitur effectus aut gratia nostra Ca. donorum Christi rite accipientibus, sunt enim efficacia propter promissionem et ordinationem Christi etiamsi per malos exhibeantur. Sic tamen ut eorum Ecclesia tholica et Apostolica, cum qua nec Pon tifex Romanus, nec quivis aliquis Prælatus aut Pontifex, habet quicquid agere præterquam in suas Dioceses. * Decorum, A TABLE OF THE RECORDS AND PAPERS THAT ARE IN THE COLLECTION, With which the places in the History to which they relate are 1. THE Record of Cardinal Adrian's Oath of Fidelity to King Henry the VIIth, for the Bishoprick of Bath 2. Pope Julius's Letter to Archbishop Warham for giving BOOK II. 4. Two Letters of Secretary Knight's to the Cardinal and 550 A TABLE OF THE RECORDS. the King, giving an Account of his Conferences with 6. Gregory Cassali's Letter concerning the Method in 7. The King's Letter to the College of Cardinals; from which it appears how much they favoured his Cause 45. 46. 94. 10. The Decretal Bull that was desired in the King's 9. Cardinal Wolsey's Letter to Cassali, directing him to 16. A Part of the Cardinal's Letter to G. Cassali, desir- ing leave to shew the Decretal Bull to some of the 17. John Cassali's Letter concerning the Conference he 18. The Pope's Letter to the Cardinal, giving credence to 27. The King's Letter to the Ambassadors, to hinder an C. H. 35. The Judgment of the Lutheran Divines about it 36. An Abstract of the Grounds of the Divorce 39. A Letter to the Parliament upon the same Occasion 155. ibid. |