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A65590 The enthusiasm of the church of Rome demonstrated in some observations upon the life of Ignatius Loyola. Wharton, Henry, 1664-1695. 1688 (1688) Wing W1562; ESTC R29269 103,143 170

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of Discourses of Purity and Charity of Repentance and of seeking the Kingdom of God. Published by Dean Tillotson 8 o. His Second Volume of Discourses on several Practical Subjects 8 o. Sir Thomas Mores Vtopia newly made English by Dr. Burnet 8 o. Mr. Sellers Devout Communicant assisted with Rules Meditations Prayers and Anthems 12. Dr. Towerson of the Sacraments in General Of the Sacrament of Baptism in particular 8 o. The History of the COVNCIL OF TRENT in which besides the ordinary Acts of the Council are declared many notable occurrences which hapned in Christendom for 40 Years and particularly the Practices of the COVRT of ROME to hinder the R●formation of their Errors and to maintain Their Greatness Written by Father Paul of the Servi To which is added the Life of the Author and the History of the Inquisition Dr. B●rnets History of the Reformation of the Church of Eng. in 2 Vol Fol. A Collection of sixteen several Tracts and Discourses written in the Years from 16●8 to 1685. inclusive by Gilbert Barnet D. D. To which is added A Letter written to Dr Barnet giving an Account of Cardinal Pools secret Powers The History of the Powder Treason with a Vindication of the Proceedings thereupon An Impartial Consideration of the Five Jesuits dying Speeches who were Executed for the Popish P●ot 1679. 4 o. A Dissertation concerning the Government of the Ancient Church more particularly of the Encroachments of the Bishops of Rome upon other Sees By WILLIAM CAVE D.D. 8 vo An Answer to Mr. Serjeant's Sure Footing in Christianity concerning the Rule of F●ith With some other Discourses By WILLIAM FALKNER D. D. 4 o. A Vindication of the Ordinations of the Church of England in An●wer to a Paper written by one of the Church of Rome to prove the Nullity of our Orders By GILBERT BVRNET D D. An Abrid●ment of the History of the Reformation of the Church of England By GILB BVRNET D D. 8 vo The APOLOGY of the Church of England and an Epistle to one Signior Scipio a Venetian Gentleman concerning the Council of Trent Written both in Latin by the Right Reverend Father in God IOHN IEWEL Lord Bishop of Salisbury Made English by a Person of Quality To which is added The Life of the said Bishop Collected and written by the same Hand 8 vo The Life of WILLIAM BEDEL D. D. Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland Together with Certain Letters which passed betwixt him and Iames Waddesworth a late Pensioner of the Holy Inquisition of Sevil in Matters of Religion concerning the General Motives to the Roman Obedience 8 vo The Decree made at ROME the Second of March 1679. condemning some Opinions of the Iesiuts and other Casuists 4 o. A Discourse concerning the Necessity of Reformation with respect to the Errors and Corruptions of the Church of Rome 4 o. First and Second Parts A Discourse concerning the Celebration of Divine Service in an Unknown Tongue 9 o. A Papist no Misrepresented by Protestants Being a Reply to the Reflections upon the Answer to A Papist Misrepresented and Represented 4 o. An Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England in the several Articles proposed by the late BISHOP of CONDOM in his Exposition of the Doctrine of the Catholick Church 4 o. Defence of the Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England against the Exceptions of the Mons. de Meaux late Bishop of Condom and his Vindicator 4 o. A CATECHISM explaining the Doctrine and Practices of the Church of Rome With an Answer thereunto By a Protestant of the Church of England 8 vo A Papist Represented and not Misrepresented being an Answer to the First Fifth and Sixth Sheets of the Second Part of the Papist Misrepresented and not Represented and for a further Vindication of the CATECHISM truly Representing the Doctrines and Practices of the Church of Rome 4 o. The Lay-Christian's Obligation to read the Holy Scriptures 4 o. The Plain man's Reply to the Catholick Missionaries 24 o. An Answer to THREE PAPERS lately printed concerning the Authority of the Catholick Church in matters of Faith and the Reformation of the Church of England 4 o A Vindication of the Answer to the said THREE PAPERS 4 o. Mr Chillingworths Book called The Religion of Protestants a safe way to Salv●tion made more generally useful by omitting personal contests but inserting whatsoever concerns the common cause of Protestants or defends the Church of England with an exact Table of Contents and an Addition of some genuine Pieces of Mr. Chillingworths never before Printed viz. against the Infallibility of the Roman Church Transubstantiation Tradition c. And an Account of what moved the Author to turn Papist with his confutation of the said motives An Historical Treatise written by an Author of the Communion of the Church of Rome touching Transubstantiation Wherein is made appear That according to the Principles of that Church this Doctrine cannot be an Article of Faith 4 o. The Protestants Companion or an Impartial survey and comparison of the Protestant Religion as by Law established with the main Doctrines of Popery Wherein is shewn that Popery is contrary to Scripture Primitive Fathers and Councils and that proved from Holy Writ the Writings of the Ancient Fathers for several hundred Years and the Confession of the most Learned Papists themselves 4 o. The Pillar and Ground of Truth A Treatise shewing that the Roman Church falsly claims to be that Church and the Pillar of that Truth mentioned by S. Paul in his first Epistle to Timothy chap. 3. ver 15.4 o. The Peoples Right to read the Holy Scriptures Asserted 4 o. A short summary of the principal Controversies between the Church of Engl. and the Church of Rome being a Vindication of several Protestant Doctrines in Answer to a late Pamphlet intituled Protestancy destitute of Scripture proofs 4 o. An Answer to a late Pamphlet intituled The Judgment and Doctrine of the Clergy of the Church of England concerning one special Branch of the Kings Prerogative viz. In dispensing with the Penal Laws 4 o. A Discourse of the Holy Eucharist in the two great Points of the Real Presence and the Adoration of the Host in Answer to the Two Discourses lately Printed at Oxford on this Subject To which is prefixed a large Historical Preface relating to the same Argument Two Discourses Of Purgatory and Prayers for the Dead The Fifteen Notes of the Church as laid down by Cardinal Bellarmin examined and confuted 4 o. With a Table to the Whole Preparation for Death Being a Letter sent to a young Gentlewoman in France in a dangerous Distemper of which she died by W. Wake M. A 12 o. The Difference between the Church of England and the Church of Rome in opposition to a late Book Intituled An Agreement between the Church of England and Church of Rome A Private Prayer to be used in difficult Times A True Account of a Conference held about Religion at London Sept. 29. 1687. between
extraordinary and therefore taught that none did perfectly perform his Vow of Obedience who were not like a Statue which doth not in the least resist any motion a Position which he had learned from his Master St. Francis who affirmed none to be truly obedient who were not like a dead Body which remaineth in whatsoever situation it is placed An Opinion which indeed deserveth to be chiefly urged and recommended by designing Impostors who when they have once possest their Credulous Disciples with the belief of it have obtained their Design and may securely propose their Erroneous Doctrines Therefore Apollonius above all things took care to teach his Disciples that they ought in all things to pay a blind obedience to his Commands told them that he had received Inspirations from God and was taught by him whatsoever he revealed to them that he acted by Divine Impulse and expected that they should follow his Directions as he followed God's This pretence and belief of Divine Inspiration and Impulse in Enthusiasts is usually accompanied with so great a diffidence of their own Reason and Judgment that no matters of moment must be left to their direction Heaven must be importuned and extraordinary Revelations demanded to satisfy the meanest Scruples and regulate their Actions as if no Reason had been given to Mankind to guide their Conduct and determine their Resolutions St. Francis upon any undertaking was wont to retire into solitary Places and there incessantly beg of God with inexpressible groans and importune him with continual prayer to reveal to him what he should do In all emergent Difficulties he neither trusted himself nor his Friends but by instant prayer searched out the good pleasure of the Divine Will till he were illustrated by the Oracle of supernatural Revelation Being tormented with a great Scruple whether he should employ his whole time in Prayer or betake himself to preach the Gospel he could not resolve the question by his own Reason but resolved to expect the Divine Revelation He commands St. Clara to inquire the Will of God by Prayer It is revealed to her that he should undertake the Office of Preaching It is impossible to imagine any thing more irrational or Enthusiastical than this Conduct but what follows is an unpardonable Superstition which in the Ancient Church would have been punished with Excommunication Whensoever he undertook any thing of moment he was wont to consult the Bible and take his Resolutions from that place which upon a sudden opening of the Book first presented it self to his view Ignatius having got together six Companions at Paris calls them together causeth each in particular to pray and fast and beg of God his light to direct them and then opens to them his Design He prescribed to them the same method in forming the Constitutions of his Order and choosing a General When Borgia one of his Disciples was chosen Cardinal to find out the Will of Heaven in that matter he shut up himself for three days and communicated only with God in prayer The first day he found himself wholly indifferent inclining to neither side The second day he found in himself an inclination rather of breaking the Design than permitting it to go on But the third day he was convinced that it was not the Will of God that Borgia should be made Cardinal and therefore opposed the Election I will produce but one Passage more which demonstrates both the Enthusiastick Diffidence of Ignatius and the intolerable Flattery of his Disciples Upon occasion of his seeking God by Prayer so much when he was to write the Constitutions of his Order Vitelleschi hath these words It seems there was upon this Subject an agreeable debate between the Master and the Servant the latter judging himself incapable of making any Constitution and resolving not to make any without consulting the Oracle of the Eternal Wisdom and the former taking pleasure in communicating to the other the sublime and resplendent Lights of his Treasures which he had reserved from before the beginning of time for the conduct and regulation of this Society which he conceived and gave to his Church What pity is it Ignatius should be unhappily reserved to such a learned ungrateful Age Otherwise his Disciples might have offered somewhat to his memory answerable and in nothing inferior to the Eternal Gospel of St. Francis. When the Enthusiast is advanc'd so far as to believe the Phrenzies of his Brain to be Divine Illuminations and himself on all occasions to be divinely inspired he will not fail to pretend a mighty familiarity with God and from the sentiment of any grateful motion in the Blood or Spirits imagine together with his inward Lights to have received great abundance of inward Consolations He will fancy himself to be the familiar Acquaintance of God and Favourite of Heaven and thence conceive a spiritual Pride greater and more intolerable than any which ariseth from the pomp or grandeur of the World. Apollonius boasted that he enjoyed a personal familiarity with the Gods and as a Philosopher conversed with them every morning St. Francis was commonly filled with great consolation of Spirit in praying and boasted that he could defend himself from the cold of Winter by the fervour of the Divine Spirit acting in him What large Conceits Ignatius entertained of his own Merits and published without all sense of modesty we before shewed The pretence of extraordinary Divine Consolations in his Prayers and Raptures runs through the whole fragment of his Journal before published To these we may add what the Authors of his Life relate of him That sometimes such a flood of Consolations would suddenly come upon him that he was even overwhelmed and transported out of himself that by reason of these overflowing Consolations such abundance of tears would follow that his sight was endangered by it that by the great affluence of these Consolations and tears ensuing from them in reciting the Divine Office he was forced to stop and interrupt his Prayers at almost every word and employ a great part of the day in reading the Psalms only That he continued sometimes two or three whole days together without taking any thing feeding himself only with the honey of Celestial Consolations That all the favours which God bestowed on the Society are to be attributed to the love which he bore to the Soul of St. Ignatius in which his Divine Majesty was well pleased That he burned inwardly with the fire of Charity and the Heart of Iesus was a soft Bed to him whereon he took his repose Such impertinent Jargon and unintelligible Cant is the natural effect of Enthusiasm For when the turbulent motions of the Brain are mistaken for Divine Inspirations and the Judgment willingly acquiesceth in that delusion the outward expressions which are ever conformable to the Ideas of the Mind cannot but be involved in the same obscurity