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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

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

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