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A15396	A catholicon, that is, A generall preservative or remedie against the pseudocatholike religion gathered out of the catholike epistle of S. Jude, briefly expounded, and aptly, according to the time, applied to more then halfe an hundreth of popish errours, and as many corruptions of manners. With a preface seruing as a preparatiue to the catholicon, and a dyet prescribed after.; A catholicon.	Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621.	1602 (1602)	STC 25673; ESTC S114006	113,250	270

Rome hath can 6. but nowe they hold the contrarie 2. In the same Synod where a restraint was mooued for the marriage of ministers Paphnutius by his wisedome staied it and the whole synode commended the sentence of Paphnutius and left it free 3. About the same time which was anno 300. or there about was held the Eliberine Councell in Spaine where it was decreed Ne cerei in coemiteriis aut publice incendantur That waxe candles should not be be burnt in the churchyards or openly can 34. 4. Can. 36. Placuit picturas in Ecclesia esse non debere It seemeth good that pictures should not be in the Church least that which is worshipped be painted in the walls 5. Can. 77. Concerning those which died without baptisme it was thus concluded Fide qua quis credidit poterit esse iustus By faith wherewith one beleeueth he may be iustified they affirme no absolute necessitie of baptisme as the Papists hold 6. Can. 55. Sacerdotes qui sacrificantium coronam portant c. Priests which carrie a sacrificers crowne two yeares must abstaine that is from the communion but the contrarie is practised in the popish Church for their priests do weare shauen crowns 7. Concil Gangrens celebrate about ann 324. can 4. Quicunque discernit c. Whosoeuer maketh difference in regard of a minister or Presbyter that hath a wife that he wil not receiue at his handes let him be accursed but such are not suffered to minister in the popish Church 8. Can. 2. Si quis carnem comedentem c. If any condemne one eating flesh in faith let him be accursed But in the popish Church eating of flesh vpon fish daies was condemned as a wicked and impure thing the flesh cast away as an vncleane thing as Frebarnes pigge was buried by B. Stokeslies sumner in Finsburie field Foxe p. 1184. 9. Ibid. c. 17. Siqua mulier crines attondeat c. If any woman doe pole or clippe her haire for the seruice of God as shee thinketh and so taketh away the matter or signe of her subiection let her be accursed but poling shauing of Monkes and Nunnes is defended by the Rhemists 2. Thess. 3. v. 10. 10. In the Councell of Laodicea held ann 364. cap. 59. there are 22. bookes only of the old testament decreed to be Canonicall whereas the Church of Rome maketh the nine Apocriphall bookes of Tobie Iudith Ecclesiasticus Machabees with the rest of Canonicall authoritie In these and many hundred such points the Church of Rome is swarued and degenerate from the faith of the Primitiue Church so that this note of the Apostle doeth discouer them to be of the false Church Uers. 4. There are certaine men crept in Romanists creepers in 3 Note Creeping into houses c. These which creepe in corners and despise the publike assemblies of the Church are false teachers and seducers Such are popish professours Ergo The first is prooued by Saint Paul 2. Tim. 3. 6. Of this sect are they which creepe into houses and lead captiue simple women c. Ioh. 3. 20. They hate the light neither come to the light least their euill deeds should be reprooued Concil Gangrens cap. 5. Si quis docet domum dei contemptibilem c. If any man teach that the house of God is contemptible and the assemblies kept therein let him be accursed The second part is euident for popish priestes seminaries Iesuites doe secretly creepe into houses to seduce and despise the assemblies of the Church among vs. Uers. 4. Which turne the grace of God into 4. Note Doctrine of ●icontiousnesse wantonnesse so doeth the popish church by granting pardons and indulgences so commonly yea for the time to come whereby people are made more secure and carelesse Gelasius long since complained of this abuse Date nobis veniam dum in errore duremus c. Giue pardon while we continue in error still He calleth it one of the monsters of the world to forgiue sinnes for the time to come Remitti culpa de praeterito potest Sinne may be remitted for the time past c. epist. ad Faustum Likewise Opusc. Tripartit lib. 3. cap. 8. this complaint is renewed Quaestuarii praedicatores quaedam brevia habent c. The pardoners haue certaine briefes vvhich they leaue in euery parish wherein so many indulgences are contained that good men doe wonder that euer they could be graunted with the Popes knowledge The further abuse hereof is confessed by Roger Holland sometime a papist I was of this your blind religion saith he that now is taught c. hauing libertie vnder your auricular confession I made no conscience of sinne but trusted to the priests absolution he for money doing also some penance for me which after I had giuen I cared no further vvhat offences I did no more then he cared after he had my money whether he fasted with bread or water for me or no. Foxe pag. 2040. Thus we see how they turned the grace of God in pardoning of sinnes to a further libertie of sinning They denie the Lord Iesus Christ. So 5. Note Denying of Christ offices doeth the popish Church denie Iesus Christ in denying of his offices for they make other Mediatours beside Christ other sactifices beside his death and so denie his priesthood they make another head and lawe giuer to make lawes to binde the conscience beside Christ as namely the Pope and so denie his kingly office they make the Apocriphall bookes Canonicall and their vnwritten Traditions equall to the word of God and so denie in that they empaire and diminish his propheticall office And therefore as Augustine saith of Peter quicquid eius negauit ipsum negauit what soeuer he denied of Christ he denied Christtract 66. in ●oann And as Ambrose Gratia dei tota repellitur si non tota suscipitur The grace of God is wholly repelled or wholly receiued epist. 84. Wherefore the Church of Rome denying any part of the offices of Christ denie Christ and then consequently are not the true Church of Christ. Uer. 6. The seducers and deceiuers whome the Apostle writeth against he resembleth 6. Note Pride of Lucifer to the angels that fell for their pride whence this argument may be framed They are not of the Church of Christ which are led with the spirit of pride and exalt themselues against Christ But so doeth the Pope the head of that bodie Ergo The first is proued by S. Paul that Antichrist shall sitte as God in the temple of God and be exalted against all that is called God 2. Thess. 2. 4. Eusebius saith Hoc est argumentum eos edisse deum c. This is an argument that they hate God because they would haue themselues called Gods de preparat Euang. l. 7. The second is euident not onely in that the Pope hath exalted himselfe against kings and Emperours which are called Gods in earth causing them to kisse his feete

The certentie then of Gods iudgements dependeth both vpon the iustnesse of them and the strength of the oath of God which is immutable First then we are here put in great comfort Error 30. Babylonish Rome beginneth to fall Rome Babylon if all the woes of Gods booke shal be fulfilled that the destruction of Antichrist his false Church shall certainly come to passe and that it cannot be farre off as it is euident in the prophesie of the Reuelation c. 16. 19. Babylon is come in remembrance before God to giue vnto her the cup of the wine of the fiercenesse of his wrath and 17. 16. The tenne hornes which are tenne kings shall hate the whore and make her desolate and naked for God hath put it into their hearts to fulfill his will this we see in part fulfilled alreadie that God hath turned the hearts of some Christian princes that before were slaues to the whore of Rome now to hate her and other princes must followe and had plaied their parts ere this but that our diffident faint and distrustfull hearts are an hinderance Againe let all couetous persons oppressours all that are mightie to drinke wine and to poure in strong drinke all that are wise in their owne conceipt that is which doe despise instruction take heed vnto themselues and all other against whome the scripture declareth any word as it doth against these Isay 5. 8. against oppressours against drunkards Isay 5. 11. 22. against the proud and wise in their owne ●ies v. 22. for certainely howe secure soeuer they are these wordes shall come to passe For they haue followed the way of Caine Caines way was to hate his brother because Doct. 2. his workes were good and his owne euill 1. Ioh. 3. 12. so then it is a grieuous sinne to hate or enuie any man for his goodnesse This the preacher well obserued that the perfectiō of a worke is the cause of the enuie of a man against his neighbour Eccles. 4. 4. As Ioseph was enuied of his brethren because of that excellent gift of diuination and expounding of dreames Gen. 37. 8. and Iosua enuied E●dad and Medad because they prophesied whome Moses therefore reprooued Numb 11. 29. Esau hated Iacob because of the blessing Gen. 27. 41. Therefore the Patriarkes that hated Ioseph are cōpared to archers that shoote Gen. 49. ●● at a marke or white so the wicked doe aime at the vertue and innocencie of the righteous The cause of enuie in some is the corruption of nature because as Saint Peter saith the spirit and the flesh doe one lust against another and are contrarie each to other Gal. 5. 17. In some vaine glorie breedeth enuie because it grieueth them to be exceeded and excelled of others as the Apostle saith let vs not be desirous of vaine glorie prouoking one another enuying one another First then we see why the Church of God is persecuted of the Antichristian synagogue Error 31. Why Antichrist persecuteth the gospell because they enuie the profession of the true faith they are persecuted for their righteousnesse Math. 5. 10. Againe let all wordly and carnall men take heede that they hate not any for their righteous and honest life as he that sweareth stealeth committeth adulterie hateth him that is not like minded so Ahab hated the prophet Micaiah so Caine hated Abel but woe is vnto them that followe the waie of Caine. And are cast away with the deceipt of Balaams wages the worde signifieth to be Doctr. 3. poured out 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is haue giuen themselues ouer for lusts sake to followe the errour of Balaam who for reward sake was hired by Balaack against his conscience Balaams wages to curse Israel and shifted from place to place from Baal to Sedesophim from thence to Peor to fetch diuinations perceiuing that God would not suffer him to curse Num. 24. 1. then he gaue wicked counsell to cause Balaack to set a stūbling blocke before the Israelites to entice them to commit fornication cōmit idolatrie 〈◊〉 2. 14. Doctr. We are taught what an abhomination it is for lucre sake to follow euill or to be perswaded vnto it So Moses saith that a gift blindeth the wise or seeing Exod. 23. 8. which while some haue lusted after they haue erred frō the faith 1. Tim. 6. 10. Thus Iudas was corrupted with money to betray Christ Saint Peter calleth it the reward of iniquitie Act. 1. 18. and as he receiued money so Haman offered great summes to destroy the innocēt Iewes Est. 3. 9. These are like to Esau that sold his birth-right for a messe of pottage so they make shipwracke of their conscience for lucre or as Adam that for greedinesse of an apple lost paradise The reason Saint Paul sheweth 1. Tim. 6. 9. They that will be rich fall into tentations and snares that is Sathan seeing the corruption of the heart layeth a fit baite for him and so intangleth him in his snares First then this text may be better applied against the papists and with much greater right then they force it against Error 2● protestants as the Rhemists in their annotation vpon this place for couetousnes is the very ground of poperie their doctrine of purgatorie merits pilgrimages indulgences the Popes supremacie are all builded vpon this foundation yea it is notoriously knowne howe with great summes he hath corrupted diuerse to betray and murther their princes Secondly let euery man take heed how like vnto Balaam he corrupt his consciēce for desire of gain the marchāt buier seller executor iurie men and all other but let them embrace the sentence of the wise mā Prou 23. 23. Buy the trueth but sell it not And perish in the gainesaying of Core that is they despise gouernment and resist Doctr. 4. those which are in authoritie as Core Dathan and Abiram whome the earth swallowed vp Numb 16. Doctrin That God will not suffer them to goe vnpunished that doe make a rent We must t●ke heed of schisme or schisme in the Church in resisting lawfull authoritie So the wise man saith Feare God and the king and meddle not with the seditious for their destruction shall rise suddenly Prouerb 24 21. Absoloms example sheweth this for the ciuill state who for his rebellion was hanged and Shemaiah for the ecclesiasticall who for his seditious letters against Ieremie was worthely punished with the vtter ruine of his posteritie Ierem. 29. 25 32. As he that kindleth a fire shall be compassed about with the sparkes thereof Isay 50. 11. Like as Nadab and Abihu were consumed of fire censing with straunge fire before the Lord Leuitic 10. 1. The reason Saint Paul rendreth they shall receiue to themselues iudgement because they resist the ordinance of God Rom. 13. 2. First then not the protestants as the Rhemists falsely charge our Church are Error ●● like vnto Core because they are departed from the obedience of the pope no

c. whose waters cast vp myre and dirt so these by the foame of their mouthes and wordes doe cast vp the dirt of their hearts Our Sauiour Christ sheweth the reason Math. 12. 34. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh as their heart is wicked and corrupt so are their words First then this note fitly agreeth to all Error 36. popish writers for let a view be taken of their bookes therein shall you finde cursing rayling proud boasting presumptuous Papists rayl●rs words blasphemous speaches so that their manner of style and writing doth easily bewray their enuious spirit wherewith they are pricked forward they call vs heretikes reprobates accursed worse then turks with such like opprobrious tearmes as also while they defend the grossest errours of poperie as of the carnall presence purgatorie adoration of images works of supererrogation and such like they foame out their owne shame Secondly we are taught euery man to gouerne his tongue to refraine lying slandering swearing for what doe these else then bewray their filthie shame neither shall escape vnpunished as Psal. 52. 4. Thou louest all words that may destroy so shall God destroy thee for euer and therefore Prou. 14. 3. it is said that in the lippes of fooles is a rodde of pride that is his proud foolish tongue is a rod to whip himselfe As wandring starres to whome is reserued the blacknes of darknes for euer That is Doctr. 4. horrible and euerlasting darkenes Here then the doctrine is that they which doe erre themselues and mislead others as they delighted in darknes so shall be punished with euerlasting darknes This the Apostle sheweth thus alleadging out of the Psalme Destruction and calamitie are in their waies the way of pease or truth they haue not knowne Rom. 3. 17. They are ouerwhelmed with destruction because they peruerted others with their errors Such was that great seducer Simon Magus to whome S. Peter saith Thy money perish with thee c. thou hast neither part nor fellowship in this busines Act. 8. 21. For like as wandring starres doe sometime loose their light beeing ouershadowed of the funne and as falling starres are extinct like a torch quenched in waters Reuel 8. 10. so are false teachers compared and they haue the key of the bottomlesse pit to open it to themselues and others Reuel 9. 1. The reason is giuen by the Apostle 1. Ioh. 1. 5. God is light and in him is no darkenesse therefore they which delight in error and darknesse can haue no accesse vnto God First we see the ende of all seducers and false teachers whether Papists or others the deuill that deceiued and false prophets shall be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone Reuel 20. 10. Secondly neither giue you eare to false and erroneous doctrines to be as wandring starres to wander from one doctrine to an other to your owne confusion The 11. lecture vers 14. And Enoch also the seauenth from Adam prophecied of such saying c. The Apostle hauing first discou●● and descried the sinnes and corruptions of these seducers v. 8 9 10. and then amplified the same by examples v. 11. by similitudes and comparisons v. 12 13. he returneth againe to shew the certentie of their iudgemēt which as he did first by the former examples of Gods iustice against the incredulous Israelits v. 5. the apostatat angels v. 6. the wicked cities of Sodō Gomorra v. 7. so now he doth verifie the same by an ancient prophesie of Enoch contained v. 14 15. Where we haue to cōsider of the Prophet here named to be Enoch the seauenth frō Adam then of the prophesie which is of Gods finall iudgement both of the forme and manner thereof The Lord commeth with thousands c. and of the matter or subiect first God shall rebuke or conuince both of their wicked deedes and cruell words and then he shall giue iudgement and sentence against them First then seeing Enoch so long agoe euen Doctr. 1. fowre thousand sixe hundred yeare since prophecied of the comming of the Lord to iudgement when as yet the world had not beene destroied by waters we doe The certentie of the day of iudgement see the certentie of this day of the Lord that it shal surely come Thus the prophets beleeued Behold saith Esay The Lord will come like fire his chariots like whirlewind that he may recompence his anger with wrath and his indignation with the flame of fire for the Lord will iudge with fire Isay 66. 16. Thus the Apostles preached as S. Paul testifieth Behold he will appoint a day wherein he will iudge the world in righteousnesse Act. 17. 31. A president of this iudgement day we haue 1. King 22. 19. I saw the Lord saith Michaiah sitte on his throne and all the hoast stand about him on his right hand and on his left And Dan. 7. 9. I beheld till the thrones were set and the auncient of daies did sit c. v. 10. a fierie streame issued from before him thousand thousands mustered before him the iudgement was set the bookes opened such shall be the comming of Christ to iudgement For like as the husbandman in the euening calleth his labourers to paie them their hire Matth. 20. 8. the master reckoneth with his seruants Math. 25. 19. the rich man taketh account of his steward Luk. 16. 2. so the Lord hath appointed a day of reckoning wherein he wil call all men to account The reason why God hath purposed a generall iudgement is grounded vpon his iustice 2. Thess. 1. ● It is iust with God to render tribulation to those which trouble you and to you which are troubled rest when the Lord Iesus shall shewe himselfe from heauen with his mightie Angels First then whereas some take occasiō to reiect the authoritie of this book because it citeth a testimonie out of the booke of Henoch which was Apocryphal as Hierome Catalog scrip testifieth and the Papists by this that of Michael v. 9. which are not found in the Canonicall scripture doe inferre that there are many trueths to be found which are not written in scripture Our answer then is this first that there are many Apocriphal books of obscure and vncertaine authoritie as the Acts of Peter the gospell and reuelation of Peter a gospell to the Hebrewes the epistle of Barnabas the trauaile of Paul and Tecla and such other whereof Hierome maketh mētion and among the rest there was the Catalog scrip booke of Henoch cited by Origen yet this testimonie is not alleadged out of any Hom. 34. in nu●er such obscure booke but either deliuered by faithful tradition or else extant in some booke of authoritie which is nowe perished as we read of other bookes in scripture nowe lost as the booke of the battels of the Lord cited by Moses Numb 21. 14. the booke of Iasher or the righteous Iosua 10. 13. the bookes of Nathan Gad Iddo

to hold his stirrop to lead his horse by the bridle treading vpon their neckes c. But also in suffering most blasphemous titles to be giuen vnto him as one Christofer Marcell said to the Pope in the late Councell of Laterane Tu es alter deus in terris Thou art another God on earth sess 4. Cardillus the Spaniard calleth the Pope terreum Deum an earthly God pro Concil Trident. in the bull of Clem. 6. for his yeare of Iubile he thus saith Mandamus angelis c. We commaund the Angels to carrie their soules to heauen that come to Rome this yeare c. This Luciferian pride is an euident argument and badge of Antichrist The next note of false teachers is out of the 7. verse they are likened to Sodome 7. Note Strange 〈◊〉 for following strange flesh which whether we take it for that sinne which is contrarie to the morall lawe as of adulterie fornication incest or for that which is against the lawe of nature such as was the sinne of the Sodomites and of the heathē where of Saint Paul speaketh Rom. 1. 27. When the men burnt in lust among themselues for both these are counted strange flesh It is notoriously knowne that the Romanists haue exceeded in these strange lusts For as Bernard did well foresee the mischeifs like to ensue where lawfull marriages is forbidden thus writing Tolle de Ecclesia Reples e●m concubinarii● seminifluis incestuosis masculo●●●u con●●bito●ib honorabile coniugium c. Take out of the Church honourable marriage and the bedde vndefiled and you fill the same with concubine louers incestuous vncleane persons and abusers of the male sexe so hath it fallen out in the Romane Church To let passe former examples as of Sergius 3. that had a sonne by afamous harlot a Platina Marozia of Ioann 10. that vsed b Luitprand Theodera of c Platina Iohn 13. that was slaine in adulterie of d Beano Gregorie 7. that was familiar with Mathild otherwise then became him of e Appendix c●●cil Const. Iohn 23. that was accused in the Councell of Constance to haue committed incest with his brothers wife and fornication with Nunnes and virgins To come to nearer times Sixtus the fourth did erect brothell houses for both Agrippa de vanitat scient ● de leno●●● sexes and graunted to a certaine Cardinall the vse of vnnaturall venerie for certaine monthes he had also his Ganymedes Petrus Riarius Innocentius 8. had diuers bastards was the first as Volaterrane saith that boasted Volaterran geograph of his base sonnes and aduanced them to great riches I am ashamed to rehearse the incest of Alexander the 6. with his owne daughter Lucretia of the monstrous and vnnaturall Guicciardin 1. 3. venerie of Iulius the 2. of Paulus the 3. his incest with his owne sister daughter Constantia Lib. 7. and his neece Laura I say here with Bernard It is a shame to speake what is done of these Bishops in secret I thinke it better to dissemble and conceale these things Serm. in concil Rhemens but why should I be ashamed to speake that which they are not ashamed to doe Againe he saith of the patrimonie of the crosse of Christ Nō facitis codices in ecclesia sed pascitis pellices in thalamis Ye make not bookes in the Church but ye feede harlots in your chambers As were their heads such was the rest of the bodie their Monasteries and Monkish cells were detected of most infamous incests fornications Sodomitrie as may appeare in the Inquisition made Vid. Prae fat Balaei de actis Roman pontif in the time of Henrie 8. And Gregorie 12. giueth this testimonie of certaine monasteries of Phrysia All religion and feare Libido carnis corruptio inter ipsos mares moniales c. Theod. Niem tract vnion 6. cap. ●4 of God is departed carnall lust and filthinesse betweene the Monkes and Nunnes vvith other vices are growne vp in stead thereof This inconuenience Bernard in his time did foresee cōplaining how one attēpted to place certaine Nunnes not far frō a monastery though he were instantly intreated not to do it saith Bernard ne seminariū scādali posteris parerent relinquendū least they Epist. 253. should beget a seminarie or seede-plot of offence and leaue it to their posteritie Yea he further saith concerning the force of lust Non aspernatur tuguria non reveretur palatia vtinam sola caenobia fugiat it despiseth de inter dom cap. 29. not cottages nor feareth palaces I would it did onely scape Monasteries Thus it is euident that if the following of strange flesh be a proper note of a false religion hereby the popish profession may worthily be called in question v. 8. Likewise notwithstanding these dreamers 8. Note If dreaming following of fables Following of fables be also a fit marke to know a false prophet by the Romanists in this kinde shall not giue place to any For if they should leaue out their fained miracles and coined lies they should want some of their best arguments for the carnall presence purgatorie adoration of images and such like For the proofe of this I will onely produce the acts of the second Nycene Councel which denied the worship of images there it is euident what grosse fables and old wiues tales are alleadged to establish that grosse superstition In the fourth action one steppeth vp and telleth this tale how a certaine Iew succeding a Christian in his habitation found there an image of Christ which he with other Iewes inuited to supper espying ran at it all at once and thrust it through and presently there issued forth such a quantitie of bloode that it filled a great hydria or waterpot such as mention is made of Ioh. 2. 6. which contained about fifteene gallands a peece Likewise in the same action they tell of a monke beeing tempted of a spirit of incontinencie the deuill appeared to him thus saying If thou wilt not haue me to tempt thee worship this image no more which was the image of the Virgin Marie as though the deuill hated the worshipping of images which is his owne inuention A certaine man of Cyprus striking out with an oxe goad the eye of the image of the Virgin Marie had his owne eye smitten forth with the same staffe breaking into shiuers and lighting vpon his eye A certaine Saracene did beate out the eye of an image and presently his owne eye fell to the ground Such stuffe was then produced to confirme the superstitious adoration of images and such fables are their festiuals and legends full of who list to peruse them ● and thus as Nicolaus Lyra complained aliquando in ecclesia fit maxima deceptio popu●● in miraculis fictis à sacerdotibus c. sometime in the Church the people is greatly deceiued by miracles fained of the priests and their adherents for lucre sake vers 8. They despise gouernment