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A18250	The firme foundation of Catholike religion, against the bottomles pitt of heresies wherin is shewed that only Catholiks shalbe saued, & that all heretikes of what sect so euer are excluded from the kingdome of heauen. Compyled by Iohn Caumont of Champany: and translated out of French into English, by Iohn Pauncefote the elder Esquyre, in the tyme of his banishement.; Du firmament des catholiques, contre l'abisme des heretiques. English.	Caumont, Jean de.; Pauncefote, John.	1591 (1591)	STC 4868; ESTC S104922	55,372	122

faith of the Romaine Church And it is not many yeres ago syns that some Turkes some Ievves vvere baptized at Rome and other places in the Romain Church The Lutherans Caluinists can not boaste them selues to haue conuerted to their sect neither Panimes nor Turkes nor Iewes vvhervpon it doth appeare that they be of the spirite of the deuil sithens that all their force is no maner of waye to get the Infidels but only to distroy the Christians The seuenth marke is the conformitie of doctrine with the Primitiue Church Now that the auncient fathers did teach the same doctrine that we doe at this day and condemned for heretical that whiche we condemne their bookes beare vvitnes therof of the vvhich I wil say further that who so euer readeth them shal necessarelie frame to him self a catholike spirit and shal neuer after drinke the venim of any heresie For all thies fathers as they vvere well instructed vpon what states the holy Ghost doth rest him self so doe they breathe out nothing but humilitie abatement of presumption abnegation or denial of them selues a soueraigne reuerence to the Church a perpetual flame of charitie and a care of spiritual vnitie and as a man might saye an indiuisibilitie with the Church The eight marke is holines of doctrine that is to saye vvhen the profession of doctrine doth not contein any falsehood concerning matter of faith nor iniustice concerning maners by the vvhich marke it is conuicted that there is no true Church in the vvorld but the catholike Church For there is not a sect in the vvorld be it of the Panimes Iewes Turkes or of heretikes as vvel olde as new but it doth contein in her doctrine some manifest impietie or some iniustice directly contrary to reason as the sect of Caluin doth make God authour of sinne and as much the cause of the treason of Judas as of the conuersion of S. Peter and doth teache that the christiā can not do any good worke Besyds that al theyr writings be impugnours of chastitie of virginitie of Religion inveihing against fasting against vovves against all orderlie deuotion in the church establishing all vice prouoking to dispaire laboring to extingwishe the seed of immortalitie in the hartes of men But the Church catholike is perfaictlie holie and immaculate in her doctrine she doth teach many things in her misteries aboue reason but nothing against reason she doth teache to auoide sinne she doth correcte transgressors she doth comfort the penitentes she doth exhorte all her childrē to walke holilie iustlie religiouslie in all their wayes and to haue their verie thoughts holie purging illuminating making them perfect for to present them holie to God Come sayth S. Augustin to our Churches there is nothing set foorth to see or to follow vvich is impossible nothing vniust nothing impure there be insinuated the comandementes of the true God or his marueilles declared or his giftes praysed or his graces demaunded And ther is no perfect ioye nor true consolation in the vvorlde but there for that there is not any remissiō of sinnes in the world but there The ninth marke is holines of lyfe aswel in priests as in the people I know that this marke although many doe cauil at it yet is it forceible more notorius in catholikes thā in all the sectaries of the world S. Chrysostome sayth that all the kindes of Iustice that the seruants of God haue in truth the seruants of the deuil may haue the same in dissimulation The deuil sayth he hath his meeke men and his humble men he hath his chaste men his almes giuers his fasters and all kinde of goodnes that god hath created for the saluation of men The deuil hath brought in the same kind for to deceiue them to the end that between the true good and the good faigned there should be a confusion by the which the symple not being easelie hable to discerne the true good from the good faigned whiles they searching the men of God they light vpon men of the deuil and there is not any thing but onlie charitie that the vncleane spirit can not counterfeit All apparence of Iustice is found in deceiuers except onlie charitie which is not found but in the onlie seruants of God The holie Ghoste hath reserued to him self onlie this vertue of charitie in such sort that by no other action of Iustice a man may so wel discerne where the holie ghost is as by the vertue of charitie All heresies at te beginninge come masked with a superficial holines whiche for that it is not of the spirit of God can not soundlie be there setled And as the ape learned by arte to hold the candle after he hath stode some small while in stead of a candelstik at the sight of a nut caste before him leaueth all for to runne after it euen so they can not long time indure without manifesting the spirit wherof they be And as theyr father was a morderer from the beginning so they be come straight waies theeues kindlers of Ioh. 8. discention worse then Panimes and Barbarians and aboue all other vices Pride is to them peculiar whereof S. Augustin sayth Insundrie places there be sundrie heresies but one Aug. l. de past only mother pride hath ingendred them all as also our onlie mother the Catholike Church hath brought foorth all faithfull Christians dispersed throughout the world And all thes heresies doe springe by accident of some euil occasion Egesippus speaking Egesipp apud Eus lib. 4. hist cap. 22. of the first heretike sayth thus then the church was called a virgin not being yet corrupted by adulterous doctrine but one Theobutes for that Theobutes he was denied a bishoprike did beginne to trowble and corrupt all things It apeareth in the ecclesiastical Act. 8. Tert. con Valē Epiph. he ●4 Theod. l. 3. 5 historie that Simō Magus Valentin Marrian Arrius and all those olde monsters did spring out from thēse for disdeining that others were preferred before them they made a secte for to reuenge them selues Apoc. 16. I. Coch. in actis Luth. 15 17. Luth. in ep ad Argen l. con Aug. l. de missa sing being eloquent and of great witt and of those that S. Iohn calleth false Prophetes issued out of the throat of the dragon vncleane and deuelish spirits practising the kinges of the earth Luther witnessed his owne motiue in the first disputation aginst Ecchius crying out this cause is not begunne for the loue of God Him self hath written that willinglie he would haue denied the presens of Iesus Christ in the Eucharist if the scripture had not bene so cleare for that therby sayth he he did see that he might do much hart to the Papacie He boasteth him self that kinges Princes and Popes were not worthie to vntie the latche of his shoes he sayed that he would that they should holde him for a holie man whether men would or no that he did not

esteme muche a thowsand Ciprians a thowsand Augustins And for to shew more plainlie that his father is the king ouer all the children of pride he sayth that the deuil did teache him that the masse was an euil thing and that persuaded by the Conrae Gesn in Bibl. Luth. reasons of the deuil he did abolishe the masse His owne followers them selues haue described him to be a man full of a malitious spirit and without charitie Erasmus sayth that he was a manifest deceiuer and that he Eras ad vultu did neuer see one of those which haue folowed him that did a mend them selues but manye impaired One of his owne ministers whriteth in this maner to the end that all the world may know that they be not Papistes and that they do not trust any vvhit at all in good vvorkes they doe none at all and hauing chaunged the spirite of humilitie into arrogancie redoubling their first dissolutions without fasting without almes 〈◊〉 Luth. in 〈◊〉 ●up ●uan● call that kinde of life an euangelical 〈◊〉 Luther him self hath acknowleged that his owne disciples gaue them selues to be more reuengeful more couetous proude vnmercifull vnrulie and muche worse then they had bene then vvhen they vvhere Papists Which thing the principal Lutherans perceiuing and that their corruption vvas cheeflie caused for that they had taken away auriculer confession they vvhere desirous to restore the same again by vvay of policie for to constraine the people there to they did present a request to the Emperour Charles the fifte who refused to heare them except they would vnite them selues againe to the Church His disciples Caluin and Beza Soto in 4. libr. sent vbi de c●fess auric did not so much as couer them selues vvith sheepes skinnes but beinge verie noon-deuils DEMONIA MERIDIANA haue painted out them selues as Apostatas of nature publishing their sinnes like Sodome and not hiding the same hell it selfe could not cast forth more filth then the schoole of those abhominable Pentapolitaines or Gomorits They haue digged out of the earth the bookes of impietie and ethnical corruptions vvhich our forefathers had buried They haue thereof made commentaries and put them in french for to infecte therwith the vvorld An horrible thing that they haue not bene ashamed to call thē selues waldins to write that they helpe them Beza imag selues with empoisoning with witche craft withe Magick and with the deuelishe arte for to dispatch them selues of their euil willers I would neuer haue beleued that Sathan had bene so impudent if I had not seen the same in their bokes They do reuile all auncient fathers with shameful iniureis exalting the olde heretikes so farre that they call S. Herome a peruerse spirit Cal. in har euā and wicked IOVINIAN which was an heretike they call an holie man and say that S. Hierom and S. Augustin in that that they did gainsey IOVINIAN were thē selues heretikes And it is a wonderful doltish folie in them whom they haue bewitched that they doe not recouer any space of time for to consider their illusions and whereof it cometh that in their writinges do appeare so many iniureis such false accusations and lyes and not any light of Charitie or grief of scandel of their neighbours turning al accidents of disorder in to mockery or matter of detraction in their behauiours The fabulouse goddesse Ate in Homer did neuer make so many calamities as they haue made where they haue passed by If their sectaries seing their steppes did cast ther eyes towardes thē for to consider by the motion of vvhat spirit they haue burned our Churches martired cruellie our priestes destroyed our howses committed a million of in humanities they should see that such thinges be not the markes of the true church The spirit of God is not in a tempest of wind ouerthrowing the monteignes and breaking the stones it is not in a thundering commotion it is not in in fier which doth distroy wher it passeth it is in a sound of a spirit calme and gentle woorking no harme nor ruine but creating a new reuiuing in such sort as the scripture sayth that he did manifest him self to Elias As for the Catholike people it is too true that there be manie wicked yet there are also many that fear God loue theyr neighbour and endeuor to kepe them selues vndefiled of this world which had rather lose their goodes their liues then the grace of God The catholike people is as the graūge of a laborer full of sheaues of corne whereof their doth not appear to the eies but the chaffe Yet if one come to threshe the sheaues and put the graine bare apart there wil be founde a good heape I know men see not the good people goe to gether in troupes but that the flud of corruption which hath swaie hath ouerthrowen manie and that it semeth as sayth the Prophet that Sathan doth reape the field and gather the vines and that God doth not but gleane or leaze after him But yet I saye there be a good number which doe set them selues against the euil and continue stil standing vpright holding them selues fastened to GOD and wil be raither crushed to pieces then to seperate them selues from him VVho if they fall somtime by infirmitie yet they rise againe quickly mainteining their custome of weldoing and praying vnto God incessantlie that he will fortifie them and when they must resolue them selues will forsake all the respectes of the world for the honour of God As for our priests it can not be dissembled but that there be dreedfull scandals and all good people haue their hartes wounded to see the disorders that be in them those men that deserue high punishment haue there the highest honours and the mindes of the comen people which are moued more by by exemple than by reason doe fall by to much marking the maners of manye prelates But what so euer confusion there be yet are there some found not vnworthie dispersed here and there doing their charge with reuerence The grief is that the greater parte doth surmount the better and there are not to furnishe euerie where It is our parte to praye that when the Iudasses traitors shal be gone into thir places GOD will giue vs Mathiasses for to supplie their romthes againe In the mean tyme good or bad as we haue them we honor them as ministers and dispensers of the ministeries of God We know that we must alwaies make distinction betwene the vocation and the person In mines of golde and siluer one shal not finde the golde all pure there is but one litle vein vpon a grain of the earth Yet men let not for that to take that veine and leaue the earth Now the golde and the siluer be the Sacramentes and the vvord of God the earth is the corrupted maners The holines of the church cōsisteth not in the persons but in the Sacramentes sayth Optatus The priestes