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A09104	A little treatise concerning trial of spirits: taken for the most part our of the works of the R.F. Robert Parsons, of the Societie of Iesus. Whereunto is added a comparison of a true Roman Catholike with a Protestant, wherby may bee discouered the difference of their spirits. With an appendix taken out of a later writer	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.	1620 (1620)	STC 19410; ESTC S119802	23,165	70

Councell of Trent to all Protestants both of Germany and other places the tenor of which is as followeth Salvus conductus concessus Germanica Nationi In the generall Congregation the fourth day of March MDLXII Sacro sancta oecumenica generalic Tridentina Synodus c. THe most Sacred oecumenicall and generall Councell of Trent most lawfully gathered together in the holy Ghost the Legates of the holy Sea Apostolike president in the same doth make knowne vnto all men that it doth graunt vnto all and euery one Priests Electors Princes Dukes Marquesses Counts Barons Nobles Knights Commons and to all other whatsoeuer of whatsoeuer state and condition or qualitie they bee of the Prouince and Nation of Germany to all Cities and other places thereof and to all other Ecclesiastical and Secular persons especially those of the Confession of Augusta who shall come or any who together with them shall come or be sent or whosoeuer haue hitherto come vnto this Generall Councell of Tr●nt by what name soeuer they bee called or may be called by the tenour of these presents doth grant by publike promise a most full true security which is called A safe Conduct freely to come vnto the Citie of Trent and there to remaine stay abide propose speake treate examine together with the Councell and discourse of what businesse soeuer and freely to offer vp and publish whatsoeuer it shall please them and whatsoeuer Articles as well in writing as by word of mouth and to declare maintaine confirme and proue the same by the holy Scriptures and by the words and sentences of holy Fathers and by reasons and if need require euen to answere vnto the objections of the Generall Councel and to dispute with those who shall be appointed by the Councell or peaceably to conferre without any impediment all approbrious speeches reuilings and contumelies wholly laid aside and in particular that the matters in controuersie shall be handled in the foresaid Councell according to the holy Scriptures and traditions of the Apostles approued Councels the consent of the Catholike Church and the Authoritie of the holy Fathers adding this moreouer that it doth yeeld and absolutely grant that they shall not be punished vnder the pretext of Religion or of any offences committed or to be committed against the same so as by reason of their presence none shall in any case need to cease from performing the diuine seruice either in journey or in going abiding or returning from any place noe not in the Citie of Trent it selfe that these businesses being finished or not finished whensoeuer they shal please or by commādment consent of their Superiors they shal desire or any one of thē shal desire to returne to their owne dwellings presently without any let hinderance or delay their goods their honour likewise and persons preserued they may freely and securely returne at their pleasure as often as they will with the knowledge notwithstanding of such as shall bee appointed by the Councell to the end that prouision may bee made in due time for their securitie without fraud or deceit Moreouer the holy Councell will that in this publike promise and Safe-Conduct bee included and contained and to be held for included all clauses whatsoeuer which shall bee necessarie and conuenient for their full effectuall and sufficient securitie in their going staying and returning expressing this moreouer for their greater securitie and for the good of peace and agreement that if any of them either in jorney comming vnto Trent or whilest they abide there or in returning thēce should doe or commit which God forbid any enormous crime whereby the benefit of this publike fidelity and assecuration might bee annullated or made voide that it is the Councels will and it doth grant that such as are found to haue committed such offence be presently punished by those of the Confession of Augusta themselues only and not by any other with such condigne penaltie and sufficient satisfaction as may bee well liked of and approued by some part of the Councel the forme conditions and manner of their assecuration or securitie remaining still vnuiolated In like manner also the Councels pleasure is that if one or more of the Councell shall either in their jorney or abiding or returning doe or commit which God forbid any enormous crime whereby the benefite of this publike fidelity and assecuration might be violated or in any sort broken they who are taken in such offence are to bee punished by the Councell it selfe alone and not by any other with such condigne penaltie sufficient amendment as may rightly be well liked of by the Lords of Germany of the Confession of Augusta being at the same time heere present the forme conditions and manner of their assecuration or securitie remaining still vnuiolated It is moreouer the will of the Councell that it may be lawfull for the Embassadors all and euery one to goe abroad out of the Citie of Trent so often as they shall thinke fit or needfull to take the ayre and to returne into the same as also freely to appoint or send their messenger or messengers as also to receiue messengers or any messenger sent as often as they shall think expedient so that some one or more of such as are deputed and appointed by the Councell doe accompany them who may prouide for their securitie Which Safe-Conduct and securitie ought to stand and continue from the time and during the time that it shall happen they be receiued into the care of the protection of the Councel and Officers thereof and be brought vnto Trent and all the time of their abode there and againe when they shall haue had sufficient audience then after the space of twentie dayes when they shall require it or the Councell after such audience had shall giue order vnto them to depart they shall bee conducted from Trent vntill they be God willing restored vnto that secure place where euery one shal choose vnto himselfe and this without all fraud and deceit All which the Councell doth promise and with assured fidelitie doth professe shall bee inuiolately obserued and kept for and in the name of euery faithfull Christian all Princes whatsoeuer as well Ecclesiasticall as Temporall and all other Ecclesiasticall and Secular persons of what degree or condition soeuer they be of or by what name soeuer they be called Moreouer without all fraud and deceit it doth truely and faithfully promise that the Councel will neither openly nor couertly seek any occasion or in any sort vse or permit any to vse any authoritie power right ordinance or priuiledge of the Lawes or Canons or of any Councel whatsoeuer especially of Constance and Seenes in what forme of words soeuer expressed vnto any prejudice of this publike fidelitie and ful assecuration publike and free audience graunted vnto them by the Councell all which authority power c. it doth abrogate in this behalfe and for this time And if the Holy

A LITTLE TREATISE CONCERNING TRIAL OF SPIRITS TAKEN FOR THE MOST part out of the Works of the R. F. ROBERT PARSONS of the Societie of IESVS WHEREVNTO IS ADDED a Comparison of a true Roman Catholike with a Protestant wherby may bee discouered the difference of their Spirits With an Appendix taken out of a later Writer My dearest beleeue not euery Spirit but prooue the Spirits if they be of God because many false Prophets are gone out into the world 1. Ioh. 4. 1. ✚ IHS Permissa Superiorum 1620. A COMPARISON OF A TRVE ROMAN CATHOLIKE WITH A PROTESTANT whereby may be discouered the difference of their Spirits not only in things belonging to faith and beleefe but also concerning their liues conuersations and manners taken out of a more ample discourse of this subiect made by that worthy and reuerend Father F. Parsons is the 20. Chapter of his Examen of Fox his Calendar the last six Moneths FIRST the Roman Catholike whom Fox calleth Papist touching matters of Faith and beleefe composeth himselfe to that humilitie as whether he bee learned or vnlearned or what arguments soeuer hee hath on the one or other side yet presumeth hee to determine nothing of himselfe but remitteth that determination if any thing be doubtfull or vndetermined vnto the judgement and decree of the vniuersall Church and Gouernours thereof And hence proceedeth the agreements and vnitie of Faith which they haue held and conserued in so large a body for so many ages as haue passed since Christ and his Apostles Whereas Protestants in this behalfe following another Spirit of selfe-will and selfe judgement and loosing the raynes of libertie to the pregnancie of each mans wit doe hold and determine what their owne judgements for the time doe thinke to bee true or most probable and are subject to no authoritie in this behalfe but to their owne Spirit which is variable according to the varietie of arguments and probabilities that doe occurre And hereof doe ensue the great varietie of sects and opinions among them euen in this one age since they began as you may see by that which is set downe in the third and seuenteenth Chapters of the fourth part of the three Conuersions of England Next to this for so much as appertaineth to life and actions the Catholike man holdeth that wee can doe nothing at all of our selues no not so much as to thinke a good thought but we must be preuented and assisted by Gods holy grace as may bee shewed out of the Councell of Trent which teacheth with Saint Paul that our sufficiencie is of Christ yet is the force of this grace so tempered notwithstanding as it vseth no violence nor excludeth the free concurrance of mans wil preuented and stirred vp by the foresaid grace of our Sauiour and motion of the holy Ghost So as freely by this helpe we yeeld to the said good motions and doe beleeue in God and his promises and this act of Faith as you may learne out of the said Councel is the first foundation and root of all our justification but yet not sufficient of it selfe except Charitie and Hope two other Theologicall vertues doe accompany the same so as we doe both loue and hope in him in whom we beleeue And out of these and by direction of these doe flow againe other Christian vertues called morall for that they appertaine to the direction of life and manners which vertues doe consist principally in the inward habits and actes of the mind and from thence doe proceede to the externall actions and operations whereby wee exercise our selues in keeping Gods Commandements and exercising workes of pietie toward our neighbour as cloathing the naked feeding the hungry visiting the sicke and the like In workes of deuotion in like maner as singing and praying to God kneeling knocking our breasts mortifying our bodies by fasting watching and other such like All which exteriour actions are so farre forth commendable and meritorious as they proceed from the inward vertues and motions of Gods Spirit And albeit as Saint Thomas saith these exteriour actes doe adde nothing in substantiall goodnesse to the inward acts but haue their merit from thence yet for that man consisteth both of spirit and flesh it was reason that hee should bee bound to honor God with both that is to say both with inward acts of vertue proceeding from Gods grace and motion and with outward vertuous actes testifying the inward whereby wee see what an excellent Christian Common-wealth the Catholike Religion doth appoint if it were executed according to her doctrine to wit that all mens minds should be replenished with all sort of vertues towards both God our neighbor and that their actions should be full of all righteousnesse pietie and charitie in exteriour behauiour so as neither in thought word nor deede they should offend either of them both And thus much for the Catholike man concerning his actions life and manners But this Catholike Religion doth not stay heere nor teach onely in generall what actions a Christian man should haue and from what internall principles of grace and vertue they should flow but doth offer vs diuers particular means also how to procure and conserue and increase this grace which is the fountaine of al goodnesse for first it exhibiteth vnto vs besides all other meanes of prayer and particular indeauours of our part seuen generall meanes and instruments left vs to that purpose by the institution of Christ himselfe which are seuen Sacraments that being receiued with due disposition of the receiuer doe alwaies bring grace by the vertue and force of Christs merit and institution without dependance of the merit or demerit of the Minister that administreth them By vse of which Sacraments infinite grace is deriued daily by Christ our Sauiour vnto his Church and particular members thereof in euery state and degree of men Moreouer Catholike Religion not contented with these generalities doth come yet more in particular to frame direct and helpe a Christian man in the way of his saluation euen from the first houre of his birth in Christ vntill his soule departing from this world be rendered vp againe into his Creators hands For first he hauing all his sins forgiuen clearely and freely by the grace of Christ receiued in Baptisme hee is strengthened to the fight and course of a true Christian life by the Sacrament of Confirmation and imposition of hands his soule also is fed and nourished spiritually by the sacred food of our Sauiours bodie in the Eucharist two seuerall states of Christian life are peculiarly assisted with grace of two particular Sacraments Priests and Clergie-men by the Sacrament of Holy Orders and maried people by the Sacrament of Matrimony And for that in this large race and course of life as Saint Paul calleth it we often fall and offend God by reason of our infirmitie there is a most soueraigne Sacrament of Penance for