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A40455	The polititians catechisme for his instruction in divine faith and morall honesty / written by N.N.	N. N.; French, Nicholas, 1604-1678.; Talbot, Peter, 1620-1680.	1658 (1658)	Wing F2181; ESTC R35689	105,901	208

Religion but his discipline The reason why Calvin rejected all ceremonies in his Church was Luthers ill successe in admitting and framing some This mad fellow tooke upon himselfe the authority which he denyed to the Catholick Church composing a Masse and ceremonies of his owne but soone repented his folly when he perused Iodocus Clictoveus his booke confuting his fond presumption to which Luther could never answer This made Calvin so great an enemy of Ecclesiasticall ceremonies 7 Though he hated ceremonies he coveted miracles because they are necessary to make a new sense of Scripture and a new private spirit prudently credible his bare word was not a sufficient testimony of the truth without some supernaturall and visible signe to confirme it Calvin therefore persuaded one Brullen a Frenchman of his owne Sect in Geneva to feigne himselfe dead and when he would bid him rise in confirmation of his Religion spirit and discipline to obey and tell the spectators newes of the other world The agreement was made Brullen was to have so much money his wife gave her consent because she was poore and they communicated the matter to her it being impossible to conceale it from her knowledge To be briefe the supposed death of Brullen was published Bolsee c. 11. Lang c. 13. and none lamented it more then Calvin considering the distresse of his wife and family Out of meere compassion he repaires to the house declaring the affliction of his spirit to all who met him but withall giving them hopes of a miracle whereby the sanctity of his owne life doctrine and discipline might be made evident As soone as he fixed his eyes upon the supposed dead Corps he lifted them up to the Lord and desired his faithfull brethren to joyne with him in prayer that God might command Brullen his soule returne to his body and Calvin naming him bid him rise and declare to all present Gods sense of his doctrine and discipline The wife seeing her husband did not rise and that really he had signes of death in his face drew nearer and by experience found that Brullen was dead indeed Whereupon she cryed aloud and declared to all the people the story accusing Calvin of being not onely an Impostor but a murtherer both he and his friends sneakt away and never afterwards attempted to worke miracles which now he hated as much as ceremonies Such another miracle doe we read of Cyrola the Arrian Greg. Tur. 2. hist 3. who by touching the eyes of one who feigned himselfe blinde was realy made blinde by that hereticall hand but Eugenius the Catholick Bishop of Carthage restored him his sight againe by making the signe of the crosse upon his eyes These Hereticks were rather Cheates then Politicians weake policy doth betray it selfe at length and when it is applyed to the discredit of the true Religion and establishment of heresie God is so much concerned in the discovery of these petty plots and tricks that its impossible they should have any effect The Lutherans did so laugh at Calvin for this successe that neither himselfe nor his Disciples could abide to heare the word miracle pronounced 8 The Calvinists had no other way to stop their adversaries mouthes but by casting in their teeth the onely miracle which Luther attempted to worke A poore woman was brought to Wirtemberg to be dispossessed by him Staphylus in prodro apol 2. Genebr Chronol lib. 4. in Paul Sur. in Comment Martin refused to intermedle in the matter being fearfull of the successe But perceiving that his backwardnesse made others for ward in censuring and contemning both in his person and doctrine he resolved to venter and try what his exorcismes lately composed by himselfe would be able to doe The man was led to the Vestiary of the Parish Church thither repaired Luther accompanied with his disciple Staphylus who writ this story and begunne in a grave and severe tone to command and threaten the Devill who laught at Martins folly and impudence seeming to say How now friend Are we not better acquainted then so Doest thou imagine to conquer me with the armes I put into thy hands The Devill might lay claime to Luthers exorcismes Luther de Missa angulari Sacerdotum consecrat as well as to his doctrine in other points which himselfe acknowledgeth to have learnt of the Devill and to have eaten a bushell of salt in his company We may judge what a ridiculous object it is to see a P●otestant Minister exorcise or pretend to performe any Ecclesiasticall function or ceremony when Martin Luther the Apostle of Protestancy looked so absurdly and despicably in the Devills eyes that instead of being exorcised he did exorcise Martin and did so fright him that he attempted to leape out at the window the doore being made fast by the Devills art untill at length Staphilus who had more courage broke open the dore with a hatchet but was almost stifled fot his paines with a most abominable sent occasioned by Luthers feare Hereticks may counterfeit miracles but never worke any in confirmation of that doctrine wherein they differ from the Roman Catholick Church in confirmation of our Tenets against Hereticks we have continuall miracles and we read of Jewes that escaped dangers and Devills by making the signe of the Crosse and though Protestants should doe the same in confirmation of the Trinity or any other Tenet of Catholicks that would favour Protestancy no more then Iudaisme As for the Kings of Englands gift in curing the Kings evill if any such thing there be every seventh sonne hath the same as many say or other as extraordinary privileges and if it be a supernaturall miracle they owe that grace to Saint Edward the Confessor a knowne Roman Catholick to whom and not to their owne merits or Protestant Religion they must attribute all their cures Calvin dyed in the yeare 1564. the 27. of May in Geneva invoking the Devill Laing Franc. Balduinus Claudius Sancterius Guiliel Lindanus Hosius Florim Prateol Rescius alij de morte Calvini blaspheming God cursing himselfe his studies writings doctrine and discipline as Hierom Bolsee his owne Scholler and many more his domesticks and friends testify though Beza who never told truth affirmes that he delivered his soule in peace I am sure his Sect which is more violent then politick hath occasioned so many warres and rebellions that Calvinist Princes doe not desire to make their Subjects of their owne Religion SECT V. Of the Reformation in Holland and the other united Provinces 1 IN the yeare 1565. the Hereticks of France sollicited their brethren in the Low Countries to a rebellion and Reformation for these two sisters goe alwayes together The Prince of Orange tooke this opportunity and advised the malcontents to send Agents to King Philip the II. humbly desiring his Majesty would be pleased to recall his Fathers severe Lawes against novelties in Religion and that Cardinal Granvile and the Spanish garrisons might be removed

Pius V. his profession of Faith Declarations against new heresies are no new Creeds they are but explanations of the old not new articles of Faith One article of Faith may be divided into many branches how many doth Saint Athanasius set downe in his Symbol of the Trinity and Incarnation The Catholick Church did alwayes practise this way when it was necessary to confute heresies If it was lawfull for the Church of the fourth age to command all Christians to professe and believe the Symbol of Saint Athanasius which was but an explanation of particulars contained in the mysteries of the Trinity and Incarnation why cannot the Church now explaine more particularly the Apostles Creed and any part of Scripture impugned by Hereticks and command all Christians to believe the same All the pretended new articles are contained in the Apostles Creed implicitely as in that of the Communion of Saints Remission of sinnes Catholick Church c. or at least in some text of Scripture as Transubstantiation in Christs words This is my Body The petty Ministers of the English Nags-head Church presume to make a new Creed of 39. articles protesting against the ancient Faith of Christendome and they admire that the Vicar of Christ and a generall Councell should warne all Catholicks to beware of their heresies and to that end declare in a Symbol of Faith more particularly the received Doctrine of the Church of God Away with these shamefull shifts of Hereticks whose last excuse for their Schisme is that they who begunne it were Roman Catholicks So were Rebells once loyall Subjects and yet that doth not excuse themselves or their adherents from the guilt of rebellion With these hereticall devises are many poore idiots misled by ungodly and wicked Preachers who gaine their living and credit by the damnation of soules that Christ our Saviour purchased at so deare a rate 6 The last thing I proposed in the title of this Chapter was that its a greater foppery in Protestants then in Catholicks to deny the Popes infallibily in deciding controversies of Christian Religion That it is a foppery in both must be evident to all persons that will reflect upon the nature of Christian Faith and the Bookes of holy Scripture When men believe as Christians they must exclude all manner of doubts and feares of being mistaken from the act wherewith they believe they cannot defend themselves from a new heresy by onely protesting against it by word of mouth they must detest it with their heart and understanding and believe the quite contrary truth There was never Heretick so simple as to broach an errour upon his owne score he alwayes pretends Gods Word for its fundation and backs it with as many texts of Scripture as Catholicks oppose against his heresy This was the practise of Arrians Nestorians and all other ancient Hereticks which Protestants doe now adayes imitate If the true meaning of Scripture were as visible to us as it is infallible in it selfe no Heretick would make use of the words of holy Writ because his fancy or interpretation would be easily discerned from the sense which God intended at least by combining and comparing one text with another but experience demonstrates that notwithstanding all combinations of one place of Scripture with another the controversy remaines and cannot be decided by Scripture alone To imagine that all which cannot be decided by Scripture alone is superfluous and the beliefe thereof not necessary for salvation is to dispense with the mysteries of the Trinity and Incarnation seeing the Councell of Nice Soz. lib. 1. c. 16. Athan Apol. 2. and Saint Athanasius that great Champion of the Catholick Church confuted and condemned the Arrians not by Scripture alone but by tradition and adhearing not onely to the words but also to that sense of Scripture which that present Church had received from the former 7 Seeing therefore that controversies of Christian Religion must be decided by the sense as well as by the words of Scripture and that the said sense is more clearly delivered to us by tradition and the testimony of the Church then by the words themselves in controverted texts and that Hereticks may endeavour to confound their owne tradition with that of the true Catholick Church as the Quartadecimans did in the celebrating Easter and that they may invent new heresies never thought of in former ages supposing I say that all this is possible the remedy of these evills in the Church cannot be impossible and truly the remedy is impossible at least at all times to wit when generall Councells are not assembled if the Pope be not infallible in declaring what is heresy divine Faith and Catholick tradition Such few Catholicks as called in question the Popes infallibity excused their errour not onely with the infallibility but also with the morall possibility of a generall Councell whensoever a new heresy would be invented but they were grossely mistaken as experience doth demonstrate and a perpetuall generall Councell was never intended by God who commandeth the Bishops and Prelates to have a care of the particular Churches which he committed to their charge a thing not compatible with their continuall assistance in Constantinople Trent or any other one City where the Councell is assembled But Protestants hitherto have denyed even the English Church in the 21. of their 39. articles that generall Councells arc infallible and consequently must say that God commanded an impossibility bidding us beware of new heresies Act. 20. and not believe false Prophets when he left us no infallible Judge or Pastour to declare unto us what doctrine is heresy and who are the false Prophets No Catholick was ever so unreasonable as to defend such a foppery 8 And though of late some of our Nags-head Doctours contrary to the 21. article of their Creed and English Church acknowledge that generall Councells are infallible in deciding controversies of Faith and to their eternall shame and the infamy of their venerable Mother the Protestant Church of England are now forced to call the 39. Articles of their Religion by the name of onely probable opinions yet such a definition or description they give in their printed bookes of a generall Councell with so many odde conditions and so insuperable difficulties that onely mad men may hope to see such a Christian Assembly meete and much lesse agree in condemning any heresy or declaring what is Catholick Doctrine This new definition of a generall Councell is but a meere put of to gaine time that Nags-head errours may last as long as their Ministers but they are evidently convinced and condemned by the absurdity of their poore shift it s a greater foppery to admit of infallibility in an impossible Councell then to admit of a possible Councell without infallibility The first is an absolute Chimaera contrary to the evident light of naturall reason the second seemeth onely impossible to Christians that grant there is a Church of God upon earth and that be hath