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A14436	The waie home to Christ and truth leadinge from Antichrist and errour, made and set furth in the Latine tongue, by that famous and great clearke Vincent, French man borne, aboue .xi. hundred yeres paste, for the comforte of all true Christian men, against the most pernitious and detestable crafte of heretikes, which in his tyme by all subtell wayes, deuised to obscure and deface the doctrine and religion of the vniuersall churche. And now the same worke is englished, and by the Quenes highnes authorised to be sette furthe for the reliefe fo diuers Englishe menne, which yet stande in doubte, whether they may goe to heauen in the peace and vnitie of Christes vniuersall churche, or to hell in the dissention and confusion of heretikes; Pro catholicae fidei antiquitate libellus. English	Vincent, of Lérins, Saint, d. ca. 450.; Proctor, John, 1521?-1584.	1554 (1554)	STC 24754; ESTC S104650	58,039	228

examples in the rehersal allegation of such as at the beginninge were este med catholike in faieth and sound in doctrine at length not withstandynge either fell into some other sect or diuised some newe of their owne braines Verely it is a great matter profitable to be knowen verie necessarie to be often recorded worthye by dyuers examples continually to be illustrated and dryuen into euery mannes harte howe that all catholike men at all times haue thought themselues bounde to receiue the teachers within the church and not forsake the faith of the Churche with the teachers beinge in errour But where as I am able to bryng furth many in thys kind of tēpting yet I suppose none to be compared with Origenes teptacion Origenes in whom were so many excellent singular and merueilous giftes that he was as it were a marke for euery man to gase and wonder at Whose sentence iudgemēt and opinion in all matters all men iudged moost worthie to be embraced And no merueill For if the lyfe geueth any authoritie to man no doubte he did leade a verye perfect holy and continent life in much pacience and suffering Yf the stocke parentage who more noble then he which was sprong of that honorable house that firste was bewtified with blessed Martyrdome Who afterwarde for Christe his sake not onely forsakinge his naturall father but leauyng also all hys goodes and substaunce somuche proffeted amongest the harde straightes of holy pouertie that many times and oft he was sharpely handled for cōfes synge the name of oure Lorde Adde therto that so great was his knowledge in all kinde of literature matched with suche finenes of wit powdered with such pleasaūt deliueraūce of his wordes that he was thoughte pierelesse without felowe The highe magnificence of whose absolute knowledge was suche that few or none were thought to approche His pronunciatiō and vtteraunce so swete that from his lyppes not wordes but hony might haue semed to flowe What matters seminge neuer so hard hath not he with force of disputatiō made smoth cleere What thinges seminge veray hard to be done hath not he made to appeare easie by his owne example But some wyll thinke that he perswaded hys assertions by subteltie of argumente onely Yea there was not one of the Churche that vsed mo examples out of the holy scriptures then he did in anye worke that he made as he made veray many And that no thing might be lacking in him that either coulde encrease his knowledge or inlarge his estimation he atteined the full perfection of age And in his time he had so many disciples whom effectually bothe by continuall instruction of doctrine and effectuall example of maners he had soo framed that of hym and as it were out of his bosome issued innumerable Doctours Ministers Confessours and Martyrs Finally in howe great admiration glorye and fauour he was with all men who can expresse vnto whom diuers godlye men from all partes swarmed whome the Christians honoured as a Prophete The Philosophers reuerenced as a maister Whome for the worthines of his heauenly wisdom not onely men of priuate condition but also themperiall state honoured Recorde of histories whiche report that the mother of Alexander the Emperour sent for hym to learne at hys mouth heauenly wisdom wher of he had a speciall grace she a burnyng desire The same histories also reporte vnto vs the testimonye of an epistle whiche he endicted with the maiestie of christian prelacie and sent it vnto Philippe themperour Philippe who first was made christian of the Romayne Princes Touching the incredible knowledge expressed in that epistle yf any accept not the christian testimonye at my reporte at least wise let him receyue the gentle confession vpon the testimonye of prophane Philosophers For that impious and wicked man Porphyrius doeth confesse Porphyrius that by the sounde of his fame he was styred to trauel as far as Alexandria being in maner yet but a boye and that he there sawe Origines well stept in age but such one of such maiestie as who had buylded in him selfe a towre of all knowledge No doubt he was a man ful of worthines Al whos most worthye qualities I coulde not rehearse in a daye no not the least part of them And they all do pertayne not onelye vnto the glorye of religion but also vnto the greatnes of the temptatiō For who woulde eyther suspect such a mā of so excellēt wit so great knowledge of so wonderfull grace Or woulde not rather vse that sentence that I had leuer erre with Origent hen to thinke trueth with other What nedes many wordes It came to this passe that the moste daūgerous tēptation of so notable a person so great a mayster so hiegh a prophet allured very many from the integrite of their faythe Wherfore the same Origen whilest he more insolentlye abuseth the grace of God whilest he ouermuche trusteth to hys owne witte and iudgement slenderlye regardeth the auncient simplicitie and presumyng to be more wise then other doeth contemne the traditions of the churche and the preceptes of thelders He at length taketh vpon him to interpretate expound certen partes of the scriptures after a new guyse Wherby he hath also deserued that of him it shoulde be sayde Si sura rexerit in medio tui Propheta non audias verba illius prophetae quia tent at uos dominus deus uester vtrum díligatís eum an non That is to say If there aryse amonge you a Prophet thou shalte not heare the voyce of that Prophet because the Lorde your God tempteth you whether you loue him or not Doubtlesse it is not onelye a temptacion but a very great temptacion when he on whome the congregation of Christ doth wholly stai vnto whō the churche leneth allured by the admiration of his witte knowledge eloquence conuersation and grace whiche were all wonderfull in him doeth sodaynlye traduce the same nothing fearinge or suspectynge from the auncient religion into newe prophanities But some man wyll saye that the bookes of Origen are corrupted I doe not withstande that Yea I would that Origens bokes wer corrupt rather then Origen him selfe And that his bookes are corrupted diuers aswell of the catholykes as heretikes haue firmed How be it this it is that we ought now to attend that if not Origen him selfe yet the bokes put furth in his name were a great temptaciō Which scatterynge full of foule blasphemies were read and receyued for his and not for anye other mans In so muche that al be it in conceyuynge anye errour it was not the minde of Origen yet to the persuasion of errour the authoritie of Origen maye seeme muche to preuayle The like may be spoken of Tertullian Tertullian a man no lesse notable and famous amongest the Latines then was Origen amongest the Greekes For what coulde be more excellent then this man Who more exercised in the holy scriptures and in all other

who in his seconde booke vnto Themperoure Gratian deploringe and lamentinge the cruell bitternes of that tyme writeth in thys wyse O almightie god we haue now sufficientlie purged and cleansed the slaughter of thy confessours the murder of thy ministers the wickednes of soo great impietie with our bloude and with oure destruction Thou hast now sufficiently declared that they cannot be saued whiche haue uiolated broken thy catholike faith Likewise in the thirde booke of the same worke Let us obserue therfore saith S. Ambrose the preceptes of thelders let us beware through presūptuous temeritie to uiolate the seales of oure inheritaunce The fast sealed booke of the prophet nor thi seniours nor the powers nor the Angelles ne Archaungelles durste unseale To Christ onely was the prerogatiue reserued to open the same The boke of Apostolike fathers who of us dare open being sealed by so many confessours and halowed with the bloud of so many godlie martyrs They were holie confessours and martyrs howe maie we dense their faithe whose uictorie we commende Yea playnelye holye S. Ambrose we commende and greatlye alowe thē For who is so mad who so euyl disposed that wisheth not to trace and folowe their steppes all if he cannot ouertake them whom no violence no crueltie no kinde of death coulde terrifie whome no allurementes of worldlie felicitie no hope of life no desire of libertie no flatterie of frendshippe coulde withhold from the defense of the faieth whiche their auncetours had Whom I say our heauenly lord for their cōstancie in the aūcient faieth iudged worthie by whō his diuine maiestie mighte restore his churches beinge greuouslie mangled reuiue and quicken vp the spirites of well disposed people merueilouslye discomforted set vp and restore againe the holye ordre of hys priesthood beinge trode vnder foote and by whom finally his inscrutable prouidence mought with the bloude of so innocente martyrs cleanse the people being pitiouslye defiled with the stinkinge frothe of daungerous heresies And with the plentifull teares of so godlye by shoppes washe cleane awaye and vtterly deface suche newefangled not properly writīges but rather wrestinges of well written verities And so reuoke almoost the whole worlde frome pestilent heresies vnto the most certaine trueth of hys worde from altering noueltie vnto the sounde and constante auncientie from newetangled fantasies vnto the approued iudgment of his catholike Churche But in this heauenly constācie this is to be noted and earnestlie to be considered of vs that in the auncientie of the Church they defēded nat any one singular part but the catholyke that is to witte the vniuersal faith vniuersallie receiued Neither is it leefull to thinke that suche and so many sage and learned fathers would with suche constauncie affirme maintaine and defende the dreaines of one or two persones A rule or would for the fantasticall conspiracie as it were of one smale prouince cōtende euen to deathe But they imbracinge and faithfullye ensuing the decrees censures and definitions of all the ministers of the holye Churche and of the apostolike veritie had rather to deliuer their bodies vnto moost cruell tourmentes then to be deliuered from the auncient beliefe rather to be ouerthrowen by their enemies to death thē to geue ouer their catholike faith whereby they shoulde lose the hope of life at Goddes handes Thus losing al to wyn Christ suffering themselues willingly to be ouercome of al that truth might ouercome by them they haue pourchaced vnto theire name suche inestunable glorie that they be moost rightlye reputed and accompted not onlye confessors but the princes and cheife heades of all other confessors and Martyrs Wherefore this diuine and heauēly example of these blessed fathers ought to be a special president vnto all singular Catholike mē worthie in cōtinual meditation to be recorded who in maner of the seuenfolde candelsticke braushing which the seuēfold light of the heauenly spirit haue foreshowen vnto all their posteritee a verye manifest and cleare forme howe hereafter in al vprores of vaine errours the vnaduised temeritie of fantasticall innouation ought to be repressed vtterly to be suppressed by the authoritie of holy An tiquitie and by the force of the vniuersal consent of Christ his churche This hath not been straunge amonges the fathers of the Churche For euermore the holyer the better disposed any haue been the more ernest prompt and ready he hath been alwayes to withstand newe inuentions Examples hereof are plentie But to auoide tediousnes I wyll passe ouer many only recite one whereby it may be euident vnto all with howe great care studie and contention the blessed succession of the Apostles haue at all tymes defended the integritie of the religion once allowed receyued by the consent of the vniuersall Churche Agrippinus So it was therefore that Agrippinus bishop of Carthage first of all other thought good to be rebaptised contrary to the canon and rule lefte by the Apostles contrarye to the custome or order of the elders contrary to the general consent of the Clergie Which presumption of his raysed vp so much mischiefe that therby was geuen not onelye matter of factious sacrylege to Heretikes but also to certayne catholikes occasion of errour Howe be it on euerye syde eche good man withstod it earnestly Stephen But Stephen of honourable memorie then byshoppe of Rome with certayne other godlye men most vehementlye of all other did resist that fantasye of Agrippinus And in an Epistle sent vnto Affrike vpon that occasion he ordeyned that nothinge ought to be altred or renewed but all thinges to be obserued and kept as thei were by tradition left For that holy and prudent father well perceyued that ther was not the true religion where all thinges are not receyued in lyke faythe of the children as they were lefte of the fathers where we be not led by religion but we lede religion whether we like And this is the propertie of christen sobrutie and grauitie not to deuise new sectes and fashions for his posteritie but with all his power to obserue the old and holsome lawes receyued of antiquitie What was then the ende of that busines raysed by Agrippinus Forsoth the vsuall and tofore obserued the auncient custome was reteyned the newe deuise vtterly refused But ye wyll say perchaunce Note that suche men lacke power and learninge to defende theyr new deuised opinions Yea they were so excellent in wit so stowing in eloquence and so many in numbre agayne they had so greate likelyhode of trueth and brought so many sentences of the scriptures for their purpose but wrongfully vnderstanded that assuredlye they coulde by no meanes haue been ouermated had not their matters quailed in them selues as moost vntrue and contrarye to the will of God To be shorte what shall I saye of the decrees passed in the counsell kepte by certain in Affrica Howe did God fauour the same Were not all thynges therein done accōpted as dreames abolyshed as fables abrogated and vtterlye

the foreiudgemente of the auncient censure and hardlye maiest thou condempne them in whom affection hathe blinded the. Heare perchaunce some requireth that I explane these thinges auouched in the woordes of holye Moyses by some ecclesiastical examples It is a iust request and vnworthie to be neglected What temptation was that trowe ye when that vnhappie Nestorius sodainlye of a shepe beinge made a woulfe ●estorius began to rent teare the flocke of Christe Yea when euen they whose bloude he sucked yet beleued him to be a shepe whereby they were the redier pray vnto him For whoe woulde not hardlye beleue that he were in error whom they sawe elected and chosen with soo greate iudgemente of the temporall Empyre so greatlye fauoured and reuerenced of the spirituall clergie who with muche commendation of holye men with great fauour of the people was daily celebrated and did openly preache and teache the holye scriptures and so earnestly confuted the daungerous and pestilent errors of the Iewes and Gentiles Whoe woulde not thinke but this were a ryghte felowe and that he taughte preached and thought ryghtlye in all pointes For to th ende he mighte make awaye for his heresie to take place he inueighed earnestly againste the blasphemies of all other heresies But this is it that Moyses sayed The lorde your GOD tempteth you if you loue him or nor And to let passe Nestorius in whom alwayes moore admiration was thē profitte greater fame then experience whome in the conceite of the multitude rather the fauor and fancie of men had made great thē the grace of god let vs recite other which being of greate knowledge and diligence were therefore no small temptation vnto the catholyke folke As amōgest the Hungarians was one Photinus Photinus that tēpted the cōgregation of Syrma Who afterwarde that he was admitted into the holy order of priesthoode and had there ministred a while as a true catholike mā sodaynly as that false prophet or Dreamer whome Moyses speaketh of he beganne to perswade the people of God committed vnto hym to folowe straunge Goddes That is to saye straunge opinions whiche they knewe not before And as that is common so is this very pernicious when to the settyng furth of such straunge errours ther lacke no colour of scholes no apparell of Rhetoricke no helpe of knowledge as thys Photinus lacked not For he was a manne by witte able to doe asmuche as anye in all kynde of knowledge excellent for pleasaunt and swete pronuntiation inferiour to none Who copiously and weyghtely disputed and wrote in bothe tongues as is manifest by his bookes whiche he made and penned as well in the Greke tongue as also the laten tongue But happely the flocke of Christ committed vnto him being very vigilant and warye for and concernynge the catholicke faythe remembred quickely the watche worde geuen tofore by Moyses and although they wondred at the eloquence of theyr Prophet and Pastour yet wer they well warye of the tēptacion For whom they afore folowed as the belweather of their flocke nowe they auoyde and flie from hym as a rauenyng wolfe Likewise the example not of Photinus onelye Photinus Apollinaris but of Apollinaris also maye well teache vs what great peryll ensueth of the ecclesiasticall temptacion and so warne and prouoke vs with the more earnest diligence to obserue holde and folowe the catholycke faythe vniuersallye taughte and receyued For this Apollinaris had with such fetches so intangled his hearers with suche insoluble argumentes and so combred theyr wyttes that thauthoritie of the churche leading them one waye the custome and practise of theyr preacher drawynge them another waye they were al amased and in doubt what thei might stand to and whiche waye thei might take and folow Neyther was Appollinaris suche one as mighte easlye be contempned Yea he was so worthye a man and of suche estimation as in moste thinges mought very quickely be credited For who was more excellent in finesse of witte then he Who worthie either for diligence or knowledge to be conferred with him Howe manye heresies in howe manye volumes he hath expressed how manye errours contrary and iniutious to the fayth he hath confuted I nede not declare That most noble worke contayninge thirtie bookes in numbre maye suffice for the declaration therof wherin he confoūdeth mightelye the frantike brablinges fonde cauillatiōs of Porphyrie with a great heape of proffes It were a tedious busines to recite all the workes that he made wherein he shewed hym selfe to be so excellent a clerke as might worthelye be thought equall to the chiefe builders of Christ his churche had he not through prophane lust of hereticall noueltie ymagined that new fangled errour wherwith as with the poison of a running Leprie so defiled he the rest of his doinges with from thēcefurth his doctrine was thought and accompted rather to be ecclesiasticall temptation then spirituall edification Here it maye be required at my handes that I declare theyr heresies whom I haue aboue remembred for heretikes that is the heresies of Nestorius Apollinaris Photinus Howe be it this appertaineth not to the purpose which nowe is in hande For my purpose is not to recite all their errours but to produce the examples of a fewe whereby that maye be euidently and clearely demonstrated vnto you whiche Moyses sayeth that yf at anye time any maister of the Clergie yea and he euen a Prophet in expoundinge the mysteries of the Prophetes attempteth to bringe any new opinion into the church ye maye knowe that the prouidence of God then suffered you to be tempted I shall not let notwithstandinge in discurse briefly to disclose the errors of the afore saied men And I wil first beginne with Photinus Whose sect is this Photinus He sayeth that God is but a single and solitarye persone and that he muste be confessed after the maner of the Iewes He denaieth the Trinitie and thinketh to be no person either of the son or of the holy ghost He affirmeth Christ to be only mā that he toke his beginning of Marye And this he teacheth vehemētlye that we oughte to confesse the onelye personne of God the father and wurshyppe Christ as man onelye This was the heresie that Photinus mayntained Apollinaris braggeth that in the vnitie of the Trinitie he doeth consent with vs Apollinaris heresie and yet the same he blasphemeth with his erronious profession touchynge the incarnation of Christ For he sayth that in the fles he of our Sauiour eyther the soule of man was not at all or at leastwise such one as lacked vnderstanding and reason Moreouer he say de that Christ receyued not fleshe of the blessed virgin Mary but that he came from heauen into the virgin And being wauerynge and doubtfull what he might certaynlye at all tymes auowche he some tymes affirmed the fleshe of Christe to be coeternall with God the worde some times to be made of the diuinite of the worde For he would