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A10046	The defence of truth against a booke falsely called The triumph of truth sent over from Arras A.D. 1609. By Humfrey Leech late minister Which booke in all particulars is answered, and the adioining motiues of his revolt confuted: by Daniell Price, of Exeter Colledge in Oxford, chaplaine in ordinary to the most high and mighty, the Prince of Wales.	Price, Daniel, 1581-1631.; Leech, Humphrey, 1571-1629. Triumph of truth.	1610 (1610)	STC 20292; ESTC S115193	202,996	384

Thyest quod nulla posteritas taceat sed nulla probet exceeding any particular Scythian Scillian Marian Tartarian Barbarian Iewish Turkish villany yet it was plotted by Catholiques Anticoton conspired by Catholiques acted Ioh. Mariana and to be acted by Catholiques and maintained as a lawfull doctrinall position by Catholiques Heretofore it was a Catholique doctrine held tyrannous in a king to kill a Priest but now it is thought a meritorious point in a Priest to kill a king and you must iustifie it If you iustifie not it they will not iustifie you Mr LEECH And if this blowe haue not hit home to the finall deciding of this quarrel depriving his heresie of al breathing let him or any or all his complices and especially those six well selected doctours who haue so farre engaged their credits by interessing themselues so deepely in the quarrell warde and answere the blow which they haue publikely received Doctor Benefield for all of them put togither haue not yet diverted the stroke Or if the cause which the principall Actor vndertooke will abide so much as the least touchstone of tryal let him vpon what grounds and confidence soever he stādeth as I dare boldly chardge challeng him he standeth vpon none but hereticall divulge his lecture vnto the cēsure of the world ANSVVER Your challēdge is received But why were not those many challēages answered by you which were offered by the ingenious and learned students of Christ-church and by the ingemminated motions of the Reverend Deane that you shoulde sit to answere or oppose in the scholasticall forme of Disputations about this point The sixe Doctors need not to raise their forces to encounter you One of them whom it most cōcerneth hath opposed more then you and Rome will ever answer His lecture is divulged to the worlds censure so it was desired by the Rightly Honorable and most reverend Bishop Ravis whose great care before his death was that your ignorant scandalous Pamphlet they were his owne wordes might receiue a rigid answere The learned and painefull lecture is able to satisfie any who giue i 1. Tiim 4.1 no heed vnto spirits of errour doctrines of Divels which speake not lies through hypocrisie having their consciences seared with a hot yron With that lecture the places of Scripture be truely expounded the question as in the sight of God truely discussed in the Appendix the ancient Fathers most sufficiently answered Mr LEECH Meane while for the honor of God confusion of Sathan to preserue Christ his word the word of verity from the infectiō of Heresie for the iust defence of this doctrine the due reproofe of hereticall innovatiō I haue thought good here to insert a true coppy of the Sermon preached by me in Oxford to iustifie Evangelicall Counsailes vpon the occasion aboue mentioned Anno Dom. 1608. 27. die Iunij ANSVVERE k Chem. in loc Commun loc de Cons Evang. Luther about to cōfute this very doctrine vseth these words In perpetuam rei memoriam maximè verò in Redemptoris gloriam ista sunt memori mente servanda exaggeranda adversus impudentissimos rabulas Papisticae abominationis defensores I wil not bee so bitter But to the glory of God dischardge of my conscience and satisfying of those great and honorable friends that did importune me to this businesse I follow you line by line to see whether your coppy bee right You say you haue endevored to reproue hereticall innovation I say so much dicit Scaurus negat Varius vtri creditis you must put your selfe vpon God and the Country Mr LEECH Reade it deare Christian brother severely iudge of it impartially and God graunt it may effect in thee what I wish hartily and that is if thou feelest thy selfe called and thy soule mooved effectually to practise the same Amen ANSVVER Wish faithfully pray religiously then no doubt God will giue you vnderstanding in al things which you must haue in your selfe before you cā wish it or teach it to others I lament you should so oppose your selfe to the doctrine of Christs holy Catholique Church in a mercenary respect and discontented humour burthen your soule with so fowle a sinne as this is truely iudged to be even Apostasie All such to the life S. Paule doth decipher and giveth order against such 1. Tim. 6.3 4.5 If any man teach otherwise and consenteth not to the wholesome doctrine which is according to Godlinesse he is puft vp and knoweth nothing he doateth or languisheth about questions and strife of words whereof commeth envy strife raylings evill surmises vaine disputations of men of corrupt mindes destitute of the truth which thinke that gaine is Godlinesse Fly such and feare such So I wish you so I counsell you so I pray for you and seale my counsell wishes and prayers with Amen Mr LEECH THE SERMON PREACHED IN defence of EVANGELICALL COVNSAILES and the Fathers ANSVVER It was and ever will be true Causa patrocinio non bona peior erit In that it is Bellarmines doctrine all your authorities gathered from him you are his advocat hee your author But I know not whose the Sermon is he made it but preached it not you preached it but made it not Mr LEECH AND I saw the dead both great and small stande before God Apoc. 20.12 the bookes were opened and another booke was opened which is the booke of life and the dead were iudged of those things which were written in the bookes according to their works This verse naturally floweth into three streames of Christian Doctrine The first is a generall citation of all And I saw the dead both great and smal stand before God The second is a particuler examination of all vpon a two-fold evidence brought in liber conscientiae librū praescientiae the booke of conscience and the booke of God his eternall prescience the bookes were opened and another booke was opened which is the booke of life A finall retribution involved in the act and particuler manner of the iudgement and the dead were iudged of those things which were writtē in the books according to their workes ANSVVER AS the Surgion seeking to heale some vlcerated partes of a corrupted body doth not apply his Kataplasmes vnto every mēber but vnto those that are worse affected so must I deale with your sermon seeke to cure only those partes that are most tainted In this first Passage if by the rules of Criticisme I should examine it I shoulde finde it guilty of diverse errors but chiefly of your mistake in calling the first part of your text a Citation which is an appearance or a vision of the appearāce the effect of the citation I saw the dead both great and smal your best helpe here wil be to let it be dispensed with per metonimiam satis impropriam Mr LEECH The generall citation more particularly wrappeth in it the persons appearing the dead the extent of

THE DEFENCE OF TRVTH AGAINST A booke falsely called THE TRIVMPH OF TRVTH sent over from Arras A. D. 1609. BY HVMFREY LEECH late Minister Which booke in all particulars is answered and the adioining Motiues of his revolt confuted BY DANIELL PRICE of Exeter Colledge in Oxford Chaplaine in ordinary to the most high and mighty the Prince of Wales 1. King cap. 20.11 Let not him that girdeth his harnesse boast himselfe as he that putteth it off AC OX AT OXFORD Printed by Joseph Barnes 1610. TO THE MOST ILLVSTRIOVS PRINCE HENRY PRINCE of Wales Duke of Cornwaile and Earle of Chester the confluence of those choise blessings Peace Grace and Glory MOST GRATIOVS PRINCE with all reverence and devotion I present to your Highnesse this labour To whom shoulde I dedicate it But to your Princelie goodnes to whose service I haue consecrated my tongue and pen and heart and all the offices of my life it is an answer to a revolted late Minister a busines I may say imposed me by some of very honorable respect much encouraged by others especially the most Reverend Archbishop our late Chancelour It is the maintenance of truth O let it receiue countenance from the royall heire apparant of the defender of the truth The infection of Popery spreads too farre some come not to our Church others fly our Land and Church both revile and slander the Church The eies and harts and hopes of all the Protestant world be fixed vpon your Highnesse all expecting your Gracious faithfulnes readines in the extirpation of that man of sinne March valiantly herein Most Gracious Prince and the God of Princes shall protect you his Grace and Providence shall reward your faith and Confidence and shall heape vpon your Highnesse favor and honor and glory in both worldes For which as long as I haue being I shall never cease praying Your Highnesse most humbly devoted and faithfull servant DANIELL PRICE ANSWERE TO THE EPISTLE Mr LEECH TO the learned wise and ingenious Academicks flowrishing in the renowned Vniversitie of Oxford ANSVVER SIR your booke sent from Arras as a peece of worke of divers colours is at length surveyed and reviewed to see whether it be worth the answering The opinion of many was as that of Tully cōcerning a Act. 4. in verrem Heius that you had rather mard the cause then bettred it and therefore your tract vnworthy to bee answered But my minde was otherwise that the cause mard you and therefore you and it to be viewed to be pittied to be answered In which succeeding discourse would I could deale with you as S. b Ierome Tom. 2. Ierome desired to deale with Origen that our Countrymen shoulde know your best things and bee ignorant of your worst For my witnesses be in heaven in my owne bosome that no motion of envy gaine glorie irregular provocation or popular ostentation haue drawne me to this but the all guiding spirit of God by the honourable motion of some and comfortable encouragement of others And therefore I doe refraine all disparagements and personall aspersions against you wishing you had done so against those manie worthy Doctors of our Vniversity An act which I know you once disliked in that baaling Priest c His booke entituled de Triplici hominis officio his epistle to the Vniversitie Weston who as if he had beene one of Psilli who only fed on Poyson or the voice of a man in the mouth of a Devill d Esay 36.4 or Rabshekah sent out of Hell to blaspheme God did vilifie all the Bewclarks of learning aliue dead Doctors and governors of our Academy But let his branded character remaine vpon him and his memory Cams curse and Cains marke e Gen. 4.12 vagus profugus in terris The front of your Epistle sheweth at first that you thinke otherwise of vs thē he doth seeing that you stile our students the learned wise ingenious Academicks flowrishing and our Vniversity the renowned Oxford we shall see how you proceede Mr LEECH Experience doth well approue Saint Bernards saying Efficacior lingua quàm litera the tōgue is of greater efficacie then the pen. And therefore I suffer no little disadvantage in that I must now speake vnto you in a silent letter pleade my cause by a mute advocate of my mind ANSVVER It is true efficacior lingua quàm litera but yet melior anima quàm lingua If your pen expresse not what your tongue is able fullie I would your hart woulde conceiue that which your tongue may speake truly that as some thinke there bee certaine strings that passe from the hart to the tongue so there might bee a concatenatiō that what your hart thinketh your tongue speaketh and your pen writeth may so agree that they may be all to the glorie of God the instructing of others and saving of your owne soule For if your tongue could thunder as f Aul. Gell. lib. 17-c 17. Aristophanes spake of Pericles or you had a tongue like a trumpet as g Hier. adver Ruffin tom 2. fol. 221. Hierome saith Hilary had or as Saint h 1. Cor. 13. Paule observeth the tongue of men or Angels and had not Charitie it were but vayne sounding tickling tinckling The tongue not powerfull without charity and charity not fruitfull without verity S. Austin noted that all marvailed at Tullies tongue but not at his invention and at Aristotles invention but not his tongue I know not that ever you were admired for either But remember to vse the talent given in both as you ought thinke not you suffer disadvantage in that you speake in a silent letter I would it were not silent both for proofe and profit and that your mute advocate were not mutinous Mr. LEECH But since I write vnto thē who are not strangers in my busines but as well eie witnesses of the wrongs which I haue endured as eare witnesses of the doctrine which I preached among you my vndoubted hope is that your harts will be touched with some compassion either toward me vnworthyly entreated by a faction for I will not impute the crime of a few vnto all or towards your selues whome this particular doth very highly import in respect of your learning honor and estimation ANRVVERE You write to those that are strangers to your doctrine not to your person or strāgers not to the hearing but approuing your opinion strangers wee are all to any wrongs done to you not to the wrongs offered by you And therefore thinke you not to touch the hartstrings of our students with a dittie of compassion as if you were as you say wrongfully and vnworthily entreated by a faction Compassion every honest hart will afford you for being misled rather then misused i Lib. 1. de Controver ad Cler. c. 31. St Bernard distinguisheth of pacidicos and pacificos those that in word speake of peace but indeed make ready to battaile So may I

in gathering stickes never making iudgement the Master of your opinion seldome adorning your speech with the better part of that which the Navy of Hiram brought to Salomon I meane with gold and siluer but with Ivory and Apes and Peacocks legends allegories c. But neerer to the purpose to answere why your doctrine was not descried by his vigilant wisdome and rebuked the reason was either his absence at that time which whither he were or no hee knoweth not being not only then but ever since hee gouerned vs imployed continually in the greatest and most aduantageous businesse that ever any Vicechancelor laboured in or else because of the vndisposed vndigested rude and crude manner of your preaching wherin you proposed your positions so darkly and obscurely that vnlesse you were vnacquainted with your selfe you had not begun your Epistle with Efficacior lingua quā litera for if * Some body doth much iniury you if hee were not author of much corrector of most in this your booke none had mēded your pen your most ingenuous friendes woulde haue as much neglected your paper worke as your pulpit O howe much are you to answere for the prophanatiō of that holy place and for your idle words in that holy worke beating the aire mispending the time mistaking the Text that the most iudicious among vs could hardly conceiue whether your doctrine were positiue or priuatiue affirmatiue or negatiue the most charitably censorious thought it perdere horā to heare you Arist as the Philosopher spake to such another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whose speech was composed of non sense non sequitur If in your first sermon you only vrged the distinctiō and began to build your rotten wall vpon that foundation afterwardes marvaile not that when like a Mole you were working vnder ground you were not discried when you were not aboue ground For as it is a doctrine conceived in darknes so you brought it forth in clowds of darknesse Mr LEECH Howbeit certaine of a purer straine Brethren some mē call them and Brethren I confesse them to be fratres in malo as Simeon Levi sometimes were secretly murmured and began in corners priuatly as Heretiques vsually haue done to traduce me my doctrine and my author S. Gregory calūniating that in secret which openly they durst not yet adventure substantially to impugne ANSVVER Nullus est eorum fidus affectus Ierom. quorum est diversa fides saith S. Ierom Difference in religion extinguisheth charity in affection You proue this true when you taxe the purer straine and yet you straine for a more perfect straine Do any of the more pure strain professe angelicall integritie virginall chastity spirituall transcendency as you teach Or to come to your meaning be any here of those purer straine whome while you scoffe he that sitteth in heauen shall laugh you to scorne be there I say any here of those who making conscience of their waies haue refused in manuall subscription and orall declaration willingly to manifest their harty consent and reverence to the religious Articles in our Church maintained The name of Brethren is much abused by you a name that Christ by his own mouth sanctified the Apostles in the Acts so frequently vsed S. Iohn in his Epistles so familiarly recited the Primitiue Church in their time so blessedly entertained The a Ratisbon in Comp. Theol Schooles obserue the name of Brother to be nomen vnitatis aequalitatis charitatis societatis and even by this brotherhood we haue santiorem copulam cordium quam corporum saith Bernard Bern. A name more welcome to the godly then the Oliue branch to Noah then David to Ionathan then the waters of Bethel to David It is an Oade a Psalm a Canticle a c Cant. 1.2 name as an oyntment powred out as that name in the Canticles It was the oyer and determiner of d Gen. 13.8 Abraham and Lots controversies in the law and it is the bonde of peace and girdle of truth to al true Christians in the Gospell Of Iosephs miseries it is recorded that the Archers greiued him and shot against him and hated e Gen. 49.23 him Malitious perfidious murtherous brethren greeued him iniuriâ operis shot against him blasphemiâ oris and hated him invidiâ cordis saith f Hugo in Gen. Hugo You may be rankt with such brethrē if you continue the Cacoethes of traducing those worthies whose liues shine before men that they honor God and glorifie their Father which is in heauen Discharge not then such arrows even bitter words hedded with venome feathered with fury and shot off with folly But these Brethren you say they bee fratres in malo such as were Simeon and Levi. How Caiphas-like you denounce iudgement against fratres in malo your brethren in iniquitie looke the Text Gen. 49.5 Gen. 49.5 c. Never any Scripture came so neere to any offenders as that to fratres in malo the salt Peter Pyoners who like as if the dreame of the Stoicks had come to passe that the world should be fired had instruments of cruelty in their habitations into their secrets let not my soule come saith old and Reverend Iacob my glory bee not ioined with their assemblies for in their wrath they killed a man and in their selfe will they digged down a wall Cursed be their wrath for it is fierce and their rage for it is cruel Nay the very curle of curses and very bottome of the viall and dreggs of vengeance with the dissipation and dispersion of their families vpon the face of the earth the eternall detestation of their names with the clapping and hissing and supplotion of al the world against them be vpon them and their posterities that practise such Helborne boundlesse conspiracies Wee haue no such fratres in malo Obiect not murmuring against any among vs it is the brand of malecontented Traitors not of godly preachers The Christians in this life may be compared to the Stork desolately sitting to the Turtle mourning to the Doue lamenting to Rahel weeping and to the soules vnder the altar crying out How long Lord holy and true dost not thou avenge So they may sorowfully complaine to see the abomination of desolation Romish diuilish Antichristian positions presume ever to bee taught in our Churches and Temples It was no factious murmuring no secret calūniating as you vniustly tearme it but the vindicating of truth from oppressiō which neither Policy for example nor religion for peace could tolerate Your preaching was misliked not your author S. Gregories praises we neither deny nor envy yet h Bar. Tom. 8. Annal. An. Christi 1593. num 62. p. 57. Baronius affirmeth that he liued in a barrē time and therein taxeth him for some wants in learning And i Canus loc Theol. lib. 11. c. 6. Canus observed that he was overcredulous in the reports of miracles in his time therein toucheth his defect in iudgement But

or rather annotations considered that there are divers Fathers meerely forged as Hyppolitus Amphilochius the epistles of Cletus Anacletus c. B. Iuell D. Rainolds that world of learning the honorable B. of Winchester haue proued which point was never answered as yet Secōdly divers false tracts are fathered on the true fathers as Mr Perkins Probleme a book neuer answered the worke now in our Oxford library in hand for comparing all the Fathers with their most ancient manuscripts do shew 136. bastard Epistles already discovered in Gregory Thirdly the Fathers are reiected most scornefully by Papists where they cannot wrest them to their purpose as is proved by the practise of Canus Villa vincētius Sixtus Senensis Baronius Bellarmine Fourthly that all of these Papists haue taxed the Fathers for particular errors Fiftly omitting many more reasōs the fathers make more for vs thē for Papists nay only for vs not for Papists as that precious Iewell of the Church hath irrefragably proved The counsaile out of Lyrinensis is already answered but this I adde hee doth not there meane vnwritten verities or a supply to bee made to scripture for hee doth acknowledge in the next Chapter and so againe in the 41. that solus Canon Scripturae sufficit ad omnia Vincent Lirinens satis supérque that the Scripture is sufficient alone against all Heretickes yea alone for all things more thē this that it is more then sufficient his 41. Chapter doth plainely deliver vnam regulā to be scripture the interpretation of which is ever to bee approved by Scripture And for those notes of vniversality Antiquity and consent which you say doe inseparably concurre Vinc. c. 4. c. 5. 11. he saith not so the word inseparably is not his for Vincentius sheweth that Heretikes haue claimed the two former shewing that the Arrians had vniversality and the Donatists Antiquity And for consent he forewarneth as a Prophet in 39 Chapter that when men endeavor Maiorum volumina vitiare to corrupt the ancient Fathers as Papists most openly doe to obtaine Consent then the only remedy is sola Scripturarum authoritate convincere to convince them by the only authority of Scripture And therefore if you built your fort vpon this ground as not hauing red or not vnderstood your Author choosing some fragments and not observing all the particulars and passages of his meaning your foundation is not on the corner stone the foundation rotten the building reeling and your doctrine hath no approbation from Vniuersality Antiquity or lastly from consent either iointly from all from the greatest number of fathers or from that which is the only Countenance and Approuer of Spirits Doctrines from the Scripture That therefore which you make your first motiue to haue rended you from the truth the same I make my first confirmation to settle me therein and to detest Popery that seeing Papists admit not a trial of their religion by Scriptures that the Fathers admitte none that reiect Scriptures as also that Papists approue not alwaies the Testimony of the Fathers as they pretend I infer in particular that this doctrine of yours is worthily condemned but not the Ancient Church as also in generall that by condemning of vs in any point you cōdemne Antiquity seeing our Reformed Churches be reduced to the ancient Primitiue And therfore your New foūd Religion is Rebellion against the Truth Apostasie frō Scripture and Antiquity Mr LEECH The second Motiue The Protestants preferre their Reformed Congregations before the ancient Catholique Church AS my violent Iudges did palpably disclaime the sentence of the ancient Church so they vnreasonablie required my submission vnto their reformed Congregations which as they be not comparable with the purity of the former so their principal Doctours Luther Zwinglius men no lesse odious each vnto the other S. Austin S. Ambros S. Hierom. then both are hatefull vnto the Church of Rome are no waies matchable with the Patrones of my doctrine For as S. Gregory Nazianzen iustly excepted against the Arrians in this māner If our faith be but 30. S. Gregory Epistola 1. ad Cledō contra Arrianos yeeres old 400 yeares being passed since the incarnation of Christ then our gospell hath been preached in vaine our martyrs haue died in vaine vntill this time c. So if for a point of faith I must remit my selfe vnto Luther Zwinglius Calvin and their reformed conuenticles rather then vnto the holy Fathers ancient Church thē surely the gospell hath beene miserably taught and all our predecessors haue beene pitifully deceiued for 1600. yeares since Singular therefore was the folly and partiality of my Iudges to detract authority from our blessed Fathers to yeeld it vnto Lutherans men of as new a stāpe in these times as the Arrians were in S. Gregory Nazianzen his time whose carnal appetites and base condition of life drew them to allow that in their doctrine which they performed in their practise being contrary in both vnto the canon of scripture and continual succession of the Church The consideration whereof did manifestly detect vnto me that either their vnderstāding is very meane or their will very perverse who feared not to disauthorise the Fathers yet would not grant me the same liberty against their brethren in whom I neuer approued any thing other waies then it was consonant with the prescription of Antiquity or dissonant from hir Tradition ANSVVER THe reformed Church that hath left Babylon and is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowler having received true Religion 〈◊〉 according to Scripture was in all reason to haue had submission performed from you both because that the truth professed is against this position as also for that profession and subscription you had willingly afforded to her when you were supposed to be not only a member but a Minister in her Congregation Had you straied as a sheepe through simplicity it had been lamentable but to fly being a shepheard through Apostasie this is damnable Luther and Zwinglius though they agreed not in all points yet they both ioined in demolishing your Dagon Great lights of the Church haue diffred in some particulars nay haue whet their pens like rasors and edged their tongues like swords yet in the truth of God they haue agreed to the suppressing of the kingdome of Sathan The differēces between these two were nothing so scādalous as their ioint conflicts with Rome were victorious To coūtervaile your place out of Gregory Nazianzene Prudent Peristep hym 10 which you apply improperly Prudētius witnesseth the heathens did scornfully so deale with the religiō of Christianity in the beginning thereof Nunc dogma nobis Christianum nascitur post evolutos mille demū Consules so you as if after so many holy Fathers our Religion had beginning from Luther Zwinglius or Caluin But how contrary to all truth this is Bristow Motiue 45. Bristow his confession sheweth in