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A61870	A censure upon certaine passages contained in the history of the Royal Society as being destructive to the established religion and Church of England	Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.	1670 (1670)	Wing S6033; ESTC R32736	43,471	70

ad prophana quaeque convertantur torquentur verba sententiae sacrae Scripturae ad scurrilia scilicet fabulosa vana adulationes detractiones superstitiones impias diabolicas incantationes divinationes sortes libellos etiam famosos mandat praecipit ad tollendam hujusmodi irreverentiam contemptum ne de caetero quisquam quomodolibet verba sacrae Scripturae ad haec aut similia audeat usurpare ut omnes ejus generis homines temeratores violatores verbi Dei juris arbitrii paenis per Episcopos coerceantur What there is amongst the ancient Canons what in the Fathers prohibiting this usage I do not now remember after so great a discontinuance of those studies but that Dionysius Areopagita or whosoever Writ those works is as severe in some places as if he had continued the Court amongst Christians and that the mystery of Christian Godliness were as much to be reverenced as the Eleusinia Sacra this I am sure of Whether there be any prohibition amongst the rules of our Church I know not perhaps it may be in this case the Church of England is silent and with as much of Prudence as that State was which made no law against Parricides being not willing to think any humane creature capable of such barbarity or by inhibition to put them in mind of such an horrid fact But since the Railleurs have met at last with an Advocate who teacheth them that they may boldly take the sacred Word of God into their mouths though they hate to be reformed and that they may innocently apply it to their civil entertainments discourses though it be notorious that it is a vain talking neither for the glory of God nor edification nor decency nor without great scandal and yet the precaution of the latter and a constant regard to the former is an indispensable Command and at all times obligatory though it be manifest that whosoever useth the utmost extent of his Liberty approacheth very near to a vitiousness of acting that this Holy Raillery hath given occasion to most prophane Burlesque and that 't is the subject matter not words which hallow a conversation Oh! that any Divine should be ignorant of this or expect a contrary issue It is time that publick Authority interpose and that our Church concern her self seeing that our concern for the sacredness of Scripture ought to be much greater in point of Prudence then that of the Papists with whom the Canonical Books are but a part of Sacred Tradition and no further a Rule of Faith and Authenticate then their Church delivereth and expoundeth them so that if the repute thereof were extinguished yet would not their Church fall we have no foundation but the Apostles and Prophets upon this we are built this is our hope in this we doubt not to find Eternal Life And how this foundation will be sapped and undermined by the project of our Virtuoso I do submit unto the serious consideration of the Church of England If any one would understand what is particularly meant by this application of Sacred Writ to vulgar discourse and the manner of this Holy Raillery deduced from Scripture let him read Mr. Cowley's Poems especially his Mistresse such as this where he detests long life without enjoying his Mistress Th' old Patriarchs age and not their hapiness too Why does hard fate to us restore Why does Love's fire thus to Mankind renew What the Flood wash'd away before Resolv'd to be Beloved Thou shalt my Canaan be the fatal soyle That ends my wandrings and my toyle I 'le settle there and happy grow The Country does with milk and hony flow The Welcome Go let the fatted Calf be kill'd My Prodigal's come home at last With noble resolutions fill'd And fill'd with sorrow for the past No more will burn with Love or Wine But quite has left his Women and his Swine My Fate Me mine example let the Stoicks use Their sad and cruel doctrine to maintain Let all Praedestinators me produce Who struggle with eternal bonds in vain This Fire I 'm born to but 't is she must tell Whether 't be the Beams of Heaven or Flames of Hell These and such like Instances as they frequently occurre in those Poems so they are to be allowed by our Virtuoso for a Treasury of magnificent sober innocent Wit for when Mr. Cowly died he desired him to revise his Works and to blot out whatever might seem the least offence to Religion or good manners FINIS Hist. of the R. S. p. 47. Socrates Histor. Eccles. l. 6. c. 3. M. Fr. Wendelin Chr. Theolog System Mai. l. 1. c. 24. Council of Trent l. 1. pag. 52. Communio inter fideles in publicis maximè pietatis exercitiis est posita atque hoc est optatae bonis unionis vel praecipuum coagulū Casaubon resp ad Card. Per●on 5. 6. Edw. 6. c. 1. 3. as also the Act of Qu. Eliz. for Uniformity See also the Act for Uniformity premised to the English Liturgy Chillingworth ch 5. §. 45. Causabon ' resp ad Card. Perron I grant that Papal Infallibility were there such a thing would oblige us to an assent but not inforce us Sovereignty im●lies power but Infallibility doth not so Let a man but inquire into the Papal power to nature and management in Cajetan Victor a Panormitan Tur●ecremata Gerson and others that write about the power of the Pope's briefs in France or Spain c. and he will find that the Papacy is no Sovereignty either in matters of faith or of lesser importance It is true that long before the Reformation when the Guelphs and Gibellines contested there were some especially Canonists that did attribute to the Pope and some Popes challenged a Sovereignty over the Christian faith to make new Creeds and Articles of faith even such as might contradict the old but these were not agitated at the Reformation and are no more to be imputed indefinitely to the Bishops of Rome then the extravagant claims of some Princes are to the Monarchies they hold See the conference betwixt Raynolds and Hart. c. 9. divis 4. pag. 582. where you will find that before the Reformation the consent of the Doctors and Pastors throughout all Christendom except the Italian faction had condemned the usurped Monarchy of the Pope The Lateran Council never gave it him and whatever for his Supremacy not Infallibility were defined or acted at Trent yet it was opposed there and the Authority of that Council together with the tenet rejected in France at this day without a Schisme Casaubon resp ad Cardin. Perron Fr Victoria relect 5. de pot Eccles. sect 1. §. 6. Davenant de judice norma fidei cap. 21. a Opinio verae est posse esse Haereticum b Probabile est piè credi potest haereticum esse non posse See the Conference ch 7. divis 2. pag. 236. a In dialogo part 1. lib. 6. cap. 1.

be used in Baptisme but onely water whereunto when the word is joyned it is made as S. Augustine saith a full and perfect Sacrament They being wiser in their own conceit than Christ think it not well nor orderly done unlesse they use Conjuration unlesse they hallow the water unlesse there be Oyl Salt Spittle Tapers and such other dumb Ceremonies serving to no use contrary to the plain rule of St. Paul who willeth all things to be done in the Church to Edification Christ ordained the Authority of the Keyes to excommunicate notorious Sinners and to absolve them which are truly penitent They abuse this power at pleasure as well in cursing the Godly with Bell Book and Candle as also absolving the Reprobate which are known to be unworthy of any Christian Society whereof they that lust to see Examples le them search their Lifes To be short look what our Saviour Christ pronounced of the Scribes and Pharisees in the Gospel the same may be boldly and with a safe conscience pronounced of the Bishops of Rome namely they have forsaken and daily do forsake the Commandements of God to erect and set up their own Constitutions Which thing being true as all they which have any light of God's word must needs confess we may well conclude according to the Rule of St. Augustine That the BISHOPS OF ROME AND THEIR ADHERENTS ARE NOT THE TRUE CHURCH OF CHRIST much lesse to be taken as chief Heads and Rulers of the same Whosoever saith he do dissent from the Scriptures concerning the Head although they be found in all places where the Church hath appointed yet are they not in the Church A plain place concluding directly against the Church of Rome These Homilies are of such Authority with us that the Clergy must subscribe unto them That they are a part of the Liturgy the Rubrique in the Common Prayer and the Preface to them shews and the Preface saith they were set forth for the expelling of erroneous and poysonous Doctrines More fully t is said in the Orders of K. Iames Ann. Dom. 1622. the Homilies are set forth by Authority in the Church of England not onely for the help of non-preaching but withall as it were a pattern for preaching Ministers Neither is Bishop Iewel in his Apology for the English Church any more favourable to the Pope and his Adherents Nam nos quidem discessimus ab illâ Ecclesiâ in qua nec verbum Dei purè audiri potuit nec Sacramenta administrari nec Dei nomen ut oportuit invocari quam ipsi fatentur multis in rebus esse vitiosam in qua nihil erat quod quenquam posset prudentem hominem de sua salute cogitantem retinere Postremò ab Ecclesia eâ discessimus quae nunc est non quae olim fuit atque ita discessimus ut Daniel è cavea Leonum ut tres illi pueri ex incendio nec tam discessimus quàm ab istis diris devotionibus ejecti sumus And in the conclusion that pious Bishop thus delivers himself again Diximus nos ab illâ Ecclesiâ quam isti speluncam latronum fecerant in qua nihil integrum aut Ecclesiae simile reliquerant quámque ipsi fatebantur multis in rebus erravisse ut Lothum olim è Sodoma aut Abrahamum è Chaldaeâ non contentionis studio sed Dei ipsius admonitu discessisle ex sacris libris quos scimus non posse fallere certam quandam Religionis formam quaesivisse ad veterum Patrum atque Apostolorum primitivam Ecclesiam hoc est ad primordia atque initia tanquam ad fontes rediisse I might prosecute this point with an infinity of Citations out of such Divines as were eminent Writers and Actors in the beginning and throughout the Reign of Qu. Elizabeth when the Church of England even in the judgment of Dr. Heylyn received her establishment and when her Sentiments were best known but I shall content my self with Dr. Whitaker alone Romanam Ecclesiam Catholicam quae nunc est quaeque recentioribus hisce temporibus floruit eam nos non solam Ecclesiam Catholicam sed ne omnino quidem Catholicam esse dicimus nec tantùm non Catholicam id est Vniversalem sed nè veram quidem Ecclesiam Christi particularem esse contendimus Quare deserendam esse dicimus ab omninibus qui servati volunt tanquam Antichristi Satanae Synagogam Nullam in ea salutem sperandam esse imò damnandam illam dicimus tanquam barathrum haereseos erroris Si quando ex animo de Ecclesia illa loquamur eam semper Romanam Papisticam Antichristianam Apostaticam Ecclesiam vocamus Other Elogies then these no true son of the Church of England did afford unto the Romish Church at first and they who afterwards began to speak more mildly of her in which number were Bishop Hall and Dr. Potter they allowed her the name of a Church but with those termini minuentes the additiō whereof renders all simple predications to be false those restrictions of a Schismatical Heretical idolatrous and superstitious Church They compar'd her to a man mortally wounded nothing can be argued from their Writings to condemn the Protestant separation of Schisme they make her so a Church as to interdict all communion and all peace with Her And if it be thus difficult to procure from any man that regulates his judgment according to the established doctrine of our Church any manner of grant that the Romanists are a Church I am sure it is impossible to extort from any such person a confession that the Church of Rome in that condition wherein our Reformers found it and wherein it still continues is either Antient or Famous The Homily aforerecited allowes it no greater antiquity than of about one thousand years and t is an avowed Truth that whatever is not primitive and Apostolick is an innovation The transactions betwixt the Emperour Phocas and the first of the Universal Bishops are too recent and too infamous to give unto the present Romanists any repute It hath alwaies been the profession of the Church of England and of all Protestants that they deserted the Church of Rome because she was apostatised from what was truely ancient and the Church of England is really what the Papists pretend to be this Iewell declares in his Apology more than once Nostra doctrina quam rectiùs possumus Christi Catholicam doctrinam appellare nova nemini videri potest nisi sicui aut Prophetarum fides aut Evangelium aut Christus ipse videatur novus The passage I mention'd formerly shews that we reformed our selves from their errours and impieties to conforme with the genuine Antiquity The Homily against peril of Idolatry allowes scarce of any Antiquity but within the first three hundred years Others extend a fair respect as far as the dayes of the Emperour Marcianus in whose time the