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smelt out your drift and banished your Iesuites to requite some part of your hospitalitie to strangers in that for the space of a whole yeere and better you restrayned their Embassadour at Lisbone from entring into your Hypocriticall Church And as he wrot to Damianus a Goes such was your insolencie that by no meanes you would admit them to communicate nor keepe companie with you as if they were the arrantest Heretickes of the world The Romish Church much agrieued that the Patriarke of Alexandria had preuented her in a Suit which shee had cunningly canuased and almost brought to perfection pleaded that all the world ought to be vnder her Gouernment For our Sauiour Christ after his Passion said that all Power was giuen vnto him in Heauen and Earth And this Power with the keyes did Hee before his Ascension into Heauen commit vnto Peter Which Soueraigne Authoritie after Peters death rested like the Spirit of Elias on Eliza the Prophet vpon the Successors of Peter For proofe of which Princely preheminence shee alledged the testimonie of Pope Gregorie the ninth who flourished in the yeare 1225. how God made two great Lights in the firmament of Heauen that is to say of the Catholicke Church the which two Lights are the Pontificall Authoritie and the Regall Power whereby men might know that there is as much difference betwixt Popes and Kings as betwixt the Sunne and the Moone At these words the Patriarke reioynd and said these arrogant words of yours pronounced now in your drooping and declining Age doe decipher you to be like an old Bawd and gracelesse Strumpet Was not the cure of Soules sufficient for you but you must also domineere ouer their bodies and more ouer their Purses This last is the cause of your discontent How doth the Spirit of Saint Peter rest on you more then the Spirit of Saint Matthew or Saint Philip rest on mee or my Aethiopian Clergie By that similitude Caiphas might vaunt that he had the spirit of Aaron But their Glorie ought not to countenance our Infirmities Neither as Saint Chrysostome said is the Place able to sanctifie the Successor nor can the Chaire make a Priest Saint Peter was of a higher Function then a Pope an Apostle to trauell from one place to the other hauing the charge of the Circumcision as Saint Paul of the Gentiles Hee was not tied to any one peculiar City O I would that both of vs were able to follow his godly steps and to labour vp and downe the world in conuerting of Idolaters and to preach nothing but Christ crucified without collaterall Mediators and worldly respects of Dignities Pompes or in hunting for Superioritie Gaine and fat Benefices Saint Peter had no Gold nor Siluer to giue as himselfe told the Creeple in Salomons Porch Hee wore no Triple Crowne but reioyced in the Crowne in his Masters thornie Crowne the Crowne of Martyrdome Hee wore no filuer Crucifixe but in his heart hee bore the contemplation of the bloudie Crosse which day and night hee earnestly beheld He taught his conuerted Flock to bee subiect vnto Kings The Pope exalts himselfe aboue all Kings aboue the Generall Councels Saint Peter would not suffer Cornelius to kneele vnto him The Pope expecteth that euen the mightiest Monarchs should kisse his Feet Et mihi Petro. Saint Peter willingly endured reproofe at the hands of Paul But who dares rebuke the Pope and tell him of his faults Saint Peter acknowledged the rest of the Apostles for his Brethren and Fellowes The Pope allowes of no Patriarch nor Bishop to be his equall nor of any Clergie man to be made but by his Authoritie Saint Peter and Saint Paul preached that Christ was the Head of the Church as the Husband of the Wife and for that end hee sent the Holy Ghost as his Vicar generall to direct the Soules of the Elect in spirituall mysteries during his residence in Heauen without apointing any Earthly Potentate or visible Head to execute that high Office and left their bodies to the Gods of the Earth to bee tried as Gold in the fornace It is the Soule the noblest part of man which hee takes most care of Why should He then ordaine a visible Head an ambitious Pope to domineere nay to tyrannize ouer that I●uisible Part What neede any other Head as ministeriall ouer our Consciences He that ouerlookt the seuen Golden Candlestickes that is the seuen Churches in the Reuelation and further promised the presence of his God-head I am with you to the Worlds end no doubt but hee will supply the place of a spirituall Head and infuse both spirituall nourishment into our Soules as also afford food and necessaries to our bodies though not according to the vaine desires of flesh and bloud which gape after superfluities yet enough to content nature O miserable state of Rome In what danger lyes thy Soule Saint Bernard long agoe reprehended this aspiring humour of the Romish Clergie And yet such is the force of tempting Gaine dolosinummi that if Moses himselfe and the Prophets arose from the dead they would not heare them as long as they spake against their worldly profit At first you beganne saith he to vsurpe as Lords ouer the Clergie contrary to Saint Peters admonition and within awhile after against Saint Pauls counsell who was Peters fellow Apostle yee got the rule ouer the Faith of men Nor yet doe yee stay heere but yee haue gone further and obtained a peremptorie dominion ouer Religion it selfe What remaines now but that yee climbe on high to bring into subiection the very Angels of Heauen Apollo very well approued the Catriarkes reproofe of the Romish Church and fell into such detestation of her intolerable ambition that he made this speech against her Three things haue wrought this absurditie in the Religion of the Westerne Christians the one hapned by the Opinion of the Popes extraordinarie Power imprinted in mens minds by their Ghostly Fathers that his Holinesse as Saint Peters Successour cannot erre in matters of Faith The second and most craftie that all men whatsoeuer who beleeue not in the Catholick Church which you must perswade your selfe to bee onely the Romish are vndoubtedly in the state of Damnation The third are the lyes of Purgatorie the which being at his dispose as Iudge Iayler made euery man specially the melancholick to take heed of angring him or any of his tribe as on the contrarie to appease his humour with Gifts and the buying of his idle Pardons But now my Beloued of Par nassus the vaile is taken from his painted face and you shall see and read in his eyes the affections of his heart And least some of you bee not so quicke sighted as others I will briefely runne ouer the two first causes of his Greatnesse After our Sauiours death for the space welnigh of three hundred yeeres the Christian Religion was so persecuted by the Romane Emperours specially at Rome it selfe

choice of Thomas Aquinas the famous Schooleman for their Aduocate and him they sent to patronize their Cause before his Maiestie vpon the first of Aprill last according to the ancient stile 1626. this Doctor appeared in the Delphick Hall before Apollo and said that he came thither on the behalfe of the Latine Church to maintaine the lawfulnesse of Images in their Church Apollo bad him proceed and shew what hee could in their Defence Aquinas then began in this manner Most sacred Prince farre be it from vs to adore any grauen Images Wee that are learned know it is damnable But when your Maiestie shall vnderstand the reasons why wee tolerate them in our Churches we shall not be found much in fault For herein wee follow the counsell of the famous Gregory the Great Bishop of Rome This learned Father hearing that Serenus his fellow Bishop had defaced and broken all the Images in his Church he commended his Zeale therein But afterwards wished him to permit them in Churches to the intent that the vnlettered might bee edified by their view on the wals seeing they could not reade them in Bookes Yet with a prouiso that those ignorant people should bee admonished not to worship them The like aduice doe wee giue to our vnlearned people that they adore not Idols but onely that they inuocate and honour the Saints which those Idols doe represent We worship not the Images of Christ or of the Virgin Mary because it is Idolatry so to doe But we worship Christ and his Mother before their Images because their Images doe allure vs to loue them For mine owne part I confesse it were good to abolish them but we are constrained to tolerate them to the end the simple sort of people might be won by the sight of them to giue the more reuerence to holy mysteries Apollo hauing heard this glozing Apologie answered By your subtill speech you would make the Learned belieue that you worship not these Images at all but onely that you offer your seruice vnto them like a Courtier Yet neuerthelesse you bow your bodies and kneele vnto them you begge for their fauours to be intercessors for you Saint Anthony must helpe you for the Poxe Saint Margaret must come from Heauen to assist women in Child-bed Saint Vitus must learne you to dance Saint Iames must defend you in your Pilgrimage The Pagan Poets neuer had so many houshold Gods Lares D●●s Tutelares as your Superstitious Religion allowes you to haue O foolish men will ye still repaire to muddie pooles neglecting the Fountaine of liuing waters God is a spirit and they which worship him must worship him in Spirit and Truth He is inuisible to mortall eyes so that no man should presume to mould his likenesse into Gold or Siluer Plates His Saints are at rest and must not bee raised vp like Samuel by any Endor Witches The Virgin Mary liues in eternall ioyes not to bee disturbed with the clamorous inuocations of worldly Creatures This was the Heresie of the Collyridians as our vertuous Epiphanius who flourished within foure hundred yeares after Christ quotes downe to the memoriall of all Posterities Whose Arguments with the Cause I will not repeat vnto you because all yee which goe vnder the naked name of Catholickes may leaue off to tender your seruice to the Creatures iniuring your Creator who will not communicate his glory to any whatsoeuer Saint Angell or Principality according to our Sauiours speech Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him onely shalt thou serue In Arabia certaine women vsed vpon some Holy-dayes in the yeare to beare about a foure squared Table with a cloth spred and Bread thereon laid which they offered to the name of the Virgin Marie Epiphanius confutes this Heresie saying that this was meere madnes a Sicknes of Eue now againe deceiued nay of the Serpent which abused Eue. His Arguments are these First No women euer sacrificed in the Old Testament Secondly If any women it had beene a regular Custome in the Church that Mary her selfe did sacrifice in the New Testament which wee neuer read of Thirdly Nor was the Sacrament of Baptisme euer committed to Mary Or else her Sonne would haue made choise of her and not of Iohn The Gospell was committed to the care of the Apostles and not to any woman Fourthly The Daughters of Philip did prophecie but neuer medled with those mysteries which belong to men who onely executed the Priestly office Fistly Women were forbidden to speake in the Church Out of these Propositions he proues that the Virgin Mary is not to be worshipped First Because he is a Deuill which making a God of a mortall nature in the eyes of men doth expresse by the varieties of Art any carued Images which represent the shape of man Secondly Because the minde commits adulterie which falls from the euer-liuing God to honour the Images of the Dead like to a Whore which forgoes the lawfull vse of a Husband to lye with others Thirdly Because Mary was not giuen vs to be worshipped but that her selfe should worship her Sonne Fourthly For that these words in the Gospel doth warne vs to take heed Woman what haue I to doe with thee That by these words wee might note in calling her Woman that others might not admire her as a Virgin too holy and sacred Fiftly Because in the Scriptures wee doe not find that any of the Prophets euer commanded vs to worship any man much lesse a woman Sixtly God allowes vs not to worship Angels Therefore hee will not haue vs to worship Mary Shee may bee mentioned with honour But Worship and Adoration is a mysterie due onely vnto God The greatest Angels receiue not that Glorification These bee the reasons which Epiphanius exhibited against the Collyridians There was a Sect called Caianes which Epiphanius noted likewise to call vpon the Angels The which also Saint Augustine ascribed to those Heretickes which were termed Angelici The same Augustine mentioneth another sort of Heretickes called the Carpocratians which worshipped the Images of Iesus and Saint Paul Saint Ambrose auerreth it an Heathenish I dolatrie for any man to worship the Crosse whereon Christ suffered The Prophet also denounceth him accursed which reposeth hope in man saying Cursed is the man which putteth his trust in man Singular is that Example of Epiphanius who on a time beholding a vaile in a Church painted with the Image of Christ thereon hanging on the doores contrarie to the Authoritie of the Scriptures hee tore it downe and deliuered it so defaced to the Wardens bidding them to bestow it for a shrowd on the next poore body that died And when the Churchwardens murmured saying that seeing he had tore it he ought to haue bought a new one or not to haue rent it so much as he did Epiphanius promised to send them another vaile to bee hanged vp in lieu thereof which afterwards he performed in a letter

what they list and at the last obtaine for a little money full remission of all their Sinnes mortall as veniall But now that the Spirit of life is entred into their Carcasses and they stand vpon their feet according to Saint Iohns Prophecie Feare seizeth on them they waxe amazed shunning their glorious Light They reele to and fro and stagger like drunken men Apollo liked exceeding well of Z●ing lius his zealous speech And further adioyned this Admonition to Gratian and the rest of the Popes Fauorites Not without a profound mysterie did Saint Iohn in the Reuelation compare the Romishh Curch to Spirituall Aegypt For euen as the Children of Israell were for many yeares kept in Bondage vnder the yoke of Pharaoh so the Soules of Christians in the times of the generall Apostasie and departure from the true Faith were miserably subiected vnder the Popes Tyrannicall Command insomuch that they were prohibited to haue Seruice in any other language saue in the Romane whose chiefe Citie the Tyrant himselfe vsurped and in subtile policie would admit of no other Tongue then of his own Latine which some hold to comprehend the mysticall name of the Beast who possesseth that seuen hilled Citie We doe therefore ordaine that it shall bee lawfull for euer hereafter to euery Kingdome and Prouince to celebrate Diuine Seruice and to read the Scripture in the Mother tongue following the examples of the Primitiue Church And euen as the Greeke Church the Georgians in Armenia the Abis●ines in Aethiopia vnder Precious Iohn and other Christians in the East haue from the first time of their Conuersions vsed their Godly sacrifices prayers and thanksgiuing euery Nation in their owne language so now wee doe here allow ratifie and decree that the Waldenses and Albigienses shall honour and glorifie their Creator in Vnitie and Trinitie after the same manner in their owne knowne Tongue as they haue accustomed for these fiue hundred yeres last past And if any person be so hardie as to bring in a Bull of Excommunication from the Pope against them for so doing we doe by these Presents pronounce the same to bee void siustrate and of no effect and that the Publishers of that thundring Libell bee laesa Maiestatis reus guiltie for wounding our Royall Maiestie and to suff●● the Punishment due for Capitall Treason CHAP. XII Berengarius reneweth his opinion of the Lords supper and proues both by the Scriptures and by the Authoritie of the most antient Fathers of the Primitiue Church that the same is to bee taken after a spirituall manner and in commemoration of the Lords death VVIcklisse vnderstanding that his old Master Berengarius had for feare of Death recanted his notable Demonstration of the vse of the Lords Supper which in his flourishing yeares hee had maintayned against the Pope and all the Romish Clergie caused him to bee cited into his Maiesties Court at Parnassus to shew the reasons of his Recantation and whether hee did the same in good earnest or else out of the frailtie of flesh and bloud Berengarius appeared and being asked of Apollo wherefore hee made that attestation contrary to his Conscience Berengarius trembling with teares confessed that the Pope extorted that Recantation from him with menaces and threats but that like to Hippolitus in Euripides hee kept a mind vnsworne and that hee still perseuered in the truth of the Doctrine which he formerly had taught that the Body and bloud of Christ ought to be taken spiritually and not really Apollo obseruing his contrition and inward sorrow freely forgaue him vpon condition that hee would yeeld sound proofes out of the Scriptures and the ancient Fathers of the Primitiue Church to conuince the Papists wherby they might be thenceforth toungtied and fully satisfied touching that materiall point of Faith Berengarius glad of his Maiesties pardon promised to declare his full knowledge and out of hand drew out of his pocket this schedule which Apollo presently caused Saint Bernard to read before all his learned Courtiers Saint Bernard obeyed his Soueraignes command and publikely read the Contents as follow Euen as by the Law of Moses there were two Sacraments ordayned to bee kept vntill the comming of Christ that great Prophet whom God promised to raise vp like vnto Moses viz. Circumcision and the Passeouer or the sacrifice of the Lamb at Easter the one seruing to bridle their carnall affections the other to prefigure the eternall Lamb which was to be crucified so in the New Testament two Sacraments were instituted to Christians in their stead Baptisme and the Lords Supper the one supplying the vse of Circumcision the other of the Lamb at Easter both to testifie our admittance and incorporation into the Christian Church as ou●ward visible markes signes or badges of our Faith onely in Christ. To these the Pope added fine Sacraments more in worldly policie to gaine money Confirmation Penance Orders Extreme vnction and Marriage which last his Holinesse debarres his Clergie of because Gods Elect might suspect the rest as humane Traditions These fiue sometimes may bee necessarie as other Diuine vertues Loue Humilitie Sobrietie and such like but not properly to be called Sacraments Which Saint Augustine very plainely affirmeth in these words Christ and his Disciples deliuered vnto vs a few Sacraments instead of many Baptisme and the Lords Supper Neither was the Pope content onely so to adde more yokes of bondage to the free Church of Christ but likewise for his further condemnation hee peruerted with those old Heretickes the Capernaites the true sense of those words This is my Body saying they must be taken literally and really which a sober minded Christian lothes to heare asmuch as Auerroes the Moore who detested Christian Religion for nothing more then for that they did eate their God with their teeth and sought to hale their Sauiour from the Right hand of God where his Father had placed him vntill the Day of Iudgement After the Consecration of the Bread and Wine we confesse that there is an alteration in respect of the End and vse of this mysticall Sacrament to put vs in minde of the Lords death vntill hee comes to iudge the world but we vtterly deny that there is any alteration at all in the substance of the Bread and Wine which remaines as it did before and enters into our Bodies to be digested and concocted like vnto other naturall and corruptible Food Yet most significantly they may bee called Sacramentall Bread and Sacramentall Wine representing the Body and Bloud of Christ if they bee taken with a spirituall mouth and a deuout mind that is by Faith and not receaued with a carnall mouth and bodily appetite For as Saint Paul wrot haue not wee houses for that purpose As a bodily mouth requires bodily meat so a spirituall mouth must haue spirituall Food to refresh and nourish the Soule And this manner of Eating Christs Body did himselfe expound when some grew displeased saying that it

your ouer feruent humours and ●amed your winching tricks Saint Paul became a Iew among the Iewes a Gentile among the Gentiles in his outward and ceremonious habits The like the subtile Iesuites who take vpon them to bee Puritane Papists haue lately imitated him like Apes in disguizing themselues not like ruffians as sometimes they doe in England but in the Priestly attires of the Chinensian Bunzies because they might either conuert soules in China or in default of such meritorious workes search into the nature of their State affaires because they would not bee said to come home emptie But you striue not altogether for apparell you would haue an equalitie as in Sir Thomas Moore Eutopia of Degrees and Liuings vnder pretext of the Apostles paritie that none of them should be greater then the other euery one would be a Pope in his Parish But I must put you in mind that this paritie and good order ceased at the Apostles death They were endued with equall authoritie to worke Miracles to conuert vnbeleeuers to lay the foundation of the Churches After their death Miracles ceased which were but to confirme the Euangelicall Doctrine to be heauenly and not humane And then men hauing no such extraordinarie callings apparant Gifts of discerning Spirits no visible and suddaine illumination of the Holy Ghost they returned in worldly businesses to their old bl●s and left off their rare and Angelicall Communion in hauing goods in common in liuing by their handie workes and in their mutuall Charitie Yet not withstanding euen in the Apostles time Bishops Deacons and Elders began to beare sway aboue others being appointed to those offices by impositions of hands and benedictions of their Elders as also by the suffrages of the Parochians themselues Their charge was to keepe good order to represse the proud young people to rebuke sinne and to suppresse the fierie comm●tions of vnexperienced persons who breaking the bonds of Vnitie might broach innouations Therefore obey your Elders wherin your mother Church hath ordayned Tutors ouer you seeke not to crucifie your Sauiour againe by seperating your selues from the Communion of your fellow members for in so doing you diuide his bodie into parcels who ought to bee respected entirely one and identified in your soules without the least rent or scandall Submit your bodies in ciuill policie and in matters indifferent Apocryphall or Temporall to the Gods of the Earth Offer vp your Soules vnto God by Faith as an holy Priesthood and a spirituall sacrifice in Christ Iesus And for your Puritie seeing that Peter confessed himselfe for all his Apostleship to be chiefe among Sinners vsurpe not the name of a Puritane For the Angels are faine to become vailed before the Maiestie of God who alone is p●re and vndefiled Let the worme of Conscience satisfie your ouer-weening imaginations that all your 〈◊〉 consiste rather in the 〈◊〉 of your Sinnes by the spirituall apprehension of Christ crucified then in the Puritie of any vertue● whatsoeuer CHAP. XVIII The memorable Synod of Dort accuseth Arminius before Apollo for broaching out of new Opinions in the Church to trouble the braines of the weaker Apollo confutes Arminius and sheweth what a sober minded Christian ought to conceiue of deepe Mysteries Arminius is commanded to recant ABout a moneth after that Apollo had established concord and vnitie in the hearts of sober-minded Christians when all the members of the Church Militant thought that they were restored againe to the earthly paradise and there should sit ouery man vnder his vine and Fig-trees as in the Golden Age of Peace vpon wednesday in the Easter weeke 1626. the famous Synod of Dort exhibited the names of sundry persons who relying on Arminius his idolized Patronage for some new paradoxes in Diuinitie had refused vpon Easter day to communicate with them and others their fellow Christians Apollo asked Arminius what moued him to breed and hatch new conceits and those to scatter abroad for the offending of tender consciences Arminius answered that the Opinion which hee maintayned was not new but grounded on the Scriptures And hee hoped that all Positions which did not diameter wise and flatly oppugne the Word of God might still be held and questioned if for no other end then for the triall and exercising of one anothers wits which might like Iron waxe rustie without some vse or furbushing And what might your quaint Question bee replyed Apollo which tends now at this sacred time to refine wits when men should ioyne together in commemoration of the Lords last Supper to sanctifie and purifie their humane wills Most dread Soueraigne said Arminius It is not vnknowne vnto your blessed Maiestie how many Communicants doe yeerely resort vnto the Lords Table more fit to bee whipt at a Carts tayle or to be thrust into the Spanish inquisition then to keepe companie with regenerated persons at the celebration of the holy Sacrifice which whosoeuer presumes to touch vnworthily being vnprepared eates his owne Damnation or in the mildest censure he deserues to be made an vgly Leper with King Vzziah The zealous consideration of this imminent danger which might ensue to my sicke Brethren moued mee to take care for their Soules health and to require them to try their Spirits whether they were in the state of Grace or back-sliders whether they feit an alternate motion not often subiect to alteration in the bottome of their hearts pricking them forwards to doe good workes If they did I told them that the Spirit of God cooperating with those sweet motions of theirs would frame an harmonious symphonie in their Soules which so contuned and continued would likewise sympathize with Heauenly Mysteries But if they found their wills depraued led with the least concupiscence they should not aduenture like Iudas to come neere their Sauiour or partake in the Eucharist at this Feast of Easter Now because I catechized them in this manner adding further for their greater terrour from sinne and that they might repent in time that though they were elected and iustified by Grace according to the purpose of God yet they might totally and finally fall vnlesse their owne free will did worke with the will and Grace of the fierie Comforter Apollo hearing this protestation of Arminius told him that hee was like a skittish Cow which giues a good pailefull of milke and afterwards flings it downe with her foot And moreouer adioyned this paraneticall counsell I liked very well of your whole narration vntill you arriued at the period of your Apologie If you did it in terrorem tantúm to scare them from sinne and to prepare their minds to Repentance you shewed your selfe a cunning Merchant in the spirituall Trade or rather a politicke Statesman both which agree not with Christs candour with the Holy Spirits ingenuitie Plaine dealing is euer best in matters of Conscience For whatsoeuer proceedes not from Faith is Sinne. You did very ill thus to offend the weake constitution of their braines who without such terrors