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authority_n	apostle_n	scripture_n	tradition_n	2,272	5	9.2110	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16612	A briefe censure vpon the Puritane pamphlet entituled, (humble motyves, for association to maintayne religion established.) Reprooving of it so many vntruthes, as there be leaues in the same.		1603 (1603)	STC 3519; ESTC S116908	31,775	92

A BRIEFE CENSVRE VPON THE PVRITANE PAMPHLET * ⁎ * ENTITVLED HVMBLE MOTYVES for association to maintayne Religion established REPROOVING IT OF SO MAny Vntruthes as there be leaues in the same PRINTED M. DI.III A BRIEFE CENSVRE VPON THE PVRITANE PAMPHLET ENTITVled Humble Motyues for Association to maintaine Religion established REPROOVING IT OF SO MANY Vntruthes as there be leaues in the same THE I. VNTRVTH THAT my first entrance of account may giue to all equal and indifferent Readers some proportion to make coniecture how large and great a number of wicked and malitious Vntruthes are contayned in so little and shorte a treatise As I will beginne my reckoning at the Title and beginning it selfe of this Association So for euery worde which it conteyneth being only six besides the particles adiections of our language I will assigne a seuerall falsehood And the first six Vntruthes for the first six wordes For although the common decree of Philosophers teacheth vs that Verety and falsity truth and falschoode consist not in particular dictions and first apprehension but in Composition or Diuision and in Iudgment Yet because that first Title is so copious that it may easely bee resolued into sixe seuerall Compositions Propositions and Iudgments which it vertually conceyneth that is that they be Motyues that the Motyues be Humble that they be for Association that the association is to maintayne Religion that the purpose of the Pamphletor is Religion that their Religion is establshed All which assertions as they be plainly intended in that glorious Position and six in number I challenge them to bee so many slanderous and impious Vntruthes and forgeries And concerning the greate humilitie either of Puritanes in generall or of this Associator in particuler affirmed in the first worde Humble I appeale for sentence to the Iudicials of al trials Popes Councels generall prouinciall confirmed not confirmed all holy Fathers and Doctors of the Church of God all Arguments diuine and humane naturall and miraculous which their proud and arrogant spirit in the basest Puritane hath condemned I craue censure of all Emperours Kings Princes their lawes decrees and Parlaments which euery of them as repugnant to their holy Ghost haue censured and reiected whether this is humility the foundation of piety because hee pleadeth it in this first place or pride and arrogancie the mother of all Irreligion rebellion to God and man and other monstrous offences which they haue brought into the worlde by that most ambitious presumptuous and blasphemous doctrine that euery Puritane is directed and infallibly assisted of the spirit and may controle at their pleasure all Popes Princes Councels Parlaments and Consistories of al times and places Which hath caused the Puritanes of England so often by their Admonitions Challenges Pamphlets Inuectiues Iabels and rayling slaunders to reprehend Queene Councell Parlament Clergy and whatsoeuer is of estimation in this kingdome And is the motyue which at this present mooueth this humble Associator to direct them all and presume that his only deuises are worthy to sway the Scepter THE II. VNTRVTH CONCERning the second worde Motyues MOtyues are so tearmed a mouendo of moouing and motyues of the mind take their denominatiō because they mooue and perswade the vnderstanding and will of man to yeeld consent vnto and assect such thinges as they convince the one to allowe and the other to embrace for as in naturall and corporall motion from whence this tearme is deriued the leuity grauity of bodies are the cause which mooue them the first to ascend and the second to a lower Center So in the motions of the reasonable powers of mans soule that reason and argumēt which conquereth humane vnderstanding to giue consent to that sentence which it conuinceth and that approoued bonity and goodnesse which winneth the will to affect the good which is proposed are iustely named the motyues which mooue those reasonable faculties And as in ordinary and naturall affaires ordinary and naturall reasons are sufficient and allowed for motyues So in supernaturall and diuine thinges exceeding the naturall wit and capacity of humane Iudgement supernaturall and miraculous Arguments are produced For which cause Catholickes the knowne patrons and desendors of christianity against all both externall and internall aduersaries produce not only the authorities of so many and muincible testimonies of holy Scriptures traditions from Christ and his Apostles decrees of Popes sentences of so many generall and generally approoued Councels and assemblies of the best learned Doctors and Professors of the worlde togither with the absurdities of all other Professions But to confirme diuine busines with the infallible reasons of God and to mooue men to embrace that to which by naturall reason they can neyther ascend or assent They produce so many and manifest miraculous operations works and wonders so many propheticall predictions and fore-tellinges of future contingent euents to establish those misteries wrought of God to that purpose which no created power of it selse to any end or by the power and assistance God can bring to effect to ratifie any errour or superstitious falsehoode Nowe let vs examine the Motyues of this Moouer by these proportions and trie whether they bee worthy to bee the first mooueable or no. If we consider what it is which he laboureth to remooue it is that Catholicke and vniuersall Religion of Christ which hath mooued the whole worlde to approoue it by such irresistable motyues as haue conuerted it They which should be mooued to this and to bee drawne onely by his motion are our prudent and gratious Princesse her wise and Honourable Councell the reste of the Nobility the Protestant Clergy whatsoeuer is reputed great and of the highest iudgment in our Nation Hee which would mooue them is endued with that Puritane spirit which is in continuall moouing and neuer findeth his place of rest and vvho for his dissolute and deformed motion shrowdeth himselfe vnder the title of an erring Planet not daring to diselose his name He citeth not one example or authority for his purpose Those which he alleasdgeth for Motyues be none at all as her Maiestie her selfe Councell Nobles Burgesses Bishoppes and the whole consent of Commons which are to be mooued by his Instince had giuen sentence in open Parlament immediatly before And the meanes which he prescribeth either in the same or more forcible manner had bene practised many yeares togither as will be euident hereafter and no man but such a spirituall fellowe can beignorant And yet they coulde not preuaile to that motion Therefore no Motyues THE III. VNTRVTH ABOVT THE third worde for Association THE name Association is deduced frō Socius a fellowe or Companion and being a noune of Action and doing must needes fignifie to make fellowes and companions In which and al such combinations there must of necessity bee as well a kinde of equality otherwise no fellowship but a subordination as also similitude likenesse and agreement as is euident in all coniunctious