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book_n	church_n	old_a	testament_n	6,574	5	8.1314	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19246	The weather-cocke of Romes religion: with her seuerall changes. Or: The world turn'd topsie-turuie by papists	Cooke, Alexander, 1564-1632.	1625 (1625)	STC 5661; ESTC S108625	12,246	18

Assemblies should in their turnes prayse God with heart and voyce by singing of Psalmes yet they tell vs that Ecclesiastica instit optimè prouisum est ne praeter certos ad hoc inscriptes alij in Ecclesia psallerent It is excellently well prouided for by the orders of the Church that none shall sing but a set number appoynted for that purpose viz. Priests Clerkes and Quiristers In old World euen ab initio naescentis Ecclesiae populus post recitatas preces respondebat Amen from the first birth of the Church the common people at the end of prayers said Amen as Durantus proues But now with Papists the Parish-Clerke onely saith Amen In old World the Bible was translated into knowne Languages as Papists confesse But now Id ipsum fieri omninò non expedit It is not meet it should be so say they In old World it was ordered That no bookes should be read in the Church nisi solos libros noui vet Test but the Bookes of the Old and New Testament But hodiè quorumlibet somnia imò muliercularum deliramenta leguntur inter diuinas Scripturas At this day euery idle bodies dreames and old wiues fancies are read with the Canonicall Scriptures saith Erasmus In old World Patres dicebant ad Hebraicos vel Graecos codices recurrendum esse The Fathers said wee ought to haue recourse to the Hebrew or to the Greeke Copies saith Azorius But now Non est quòd ad Hebraica vel Graeca ex●mplaria recurramus There is no reason why we should doe so saith the same man In old World Bishops and Presbyters read all manner of bookes hereticall as well as orthodoxall by the Papists confession Yet at this day they are agreed vpon this poynt Haereticorum libros non esse legendos hodie nisi solùm ad illis quibus ex speciali licentia summi Pontificis id concessum fuerit That no man may reade in these dayes any hereticall bookes except they haue a speciall licence from the Pope Quod partibus antiquissimis licuit nobis non licet It is not lawfull for vs to doe that which it was lawfull for the ancient Fathers to doe say Papists In old World he was thought to wrong a Martyr who prayed for him for it ran currant of old Iniuriam facit Martyri qui orat pro Martyre But now the Papists pray for them whom they account Martyrs for pro celeberrimis illis Carthusianis in Anglia Martyribus totus ordo Carthusiae per orbem Christianum diffusus consuetas pro defunctis preces ad Deum fudit The whole Order of the Carthusian Monkes thorow-out the world said their ordinary prayers for the dead for those famous Carthusian Monkes who were martyred in England saith Molanus concluding that pro nostri temporis Martyribns absque iniuria oratur Men may pray for the Martyrs of these dayes without wronging them giuing this pretty reason hereof Because plerunque sunt imperfecti Martyres The most of the Martyrs in our time are poore Martyrs such are all your Tyburne Martyrs In old World Leo the First said Non permittendum est vt quisquam extra Sacerdotalem ordinem constitutus gradum sibi praedicatoris assumat It is not to be suffered that any who is not Priested should preach But now the Popes of Rome dispence with Iesuites Lay-Iesuites who are not Priested to preach as Durantus witnesseth In old World Imperator congregabat Concilia The Emperour called Councells saith a Cardinall of France Tempore magni Constantini aliorum Augustorum ad congreganda Concilia non quaesitus est magnoperè Roman assensus Papae In the time of Constantine the Great and other Emperours the Bishop of Rome his assent was not greatly required to the calling of a Councell saith Aeneas Siluius But now it is ouer-ruled That calling of Councels belongs to the Pope and not to the Emperour In old World A tempore Apostolorum per multos annos etiam per aliquot secula Presbyteri et Diocam omnes ad Concilia vocabantur From the Apostles times for many yeres yea for many ages all Elders Priests if you will Deacons were called vnto Councels as Bellarm confesseth But now eyther few or none are called Now Bishops onely are the Domini facientes totum In old World Reges ac Imperatores non adfuisse tantùm Synodo sed praefuisse legimus Wee reade that Kings and Emperours were not onely present at Councels but as Presidents of them saith Duaren And so much may be gathered out of Marcianus the Emperours words which are to be found in Gratian. But now the Pope must needes be President eyther in his owne person or by his Deputy In old World primis sexcentis veloctingentis annis summi Pontifices cogebant Concilia Nationalia Episcoporum Italiae for the space of sixe hundred or eight hundred yeeres after Christ the Bishops of Rome for the weightier matters of the Church called Nationall Councels of the Bishops of Italy as Bell. confesseth But now they haue left that Now the Pope and his Cardinals dispatch all as Bell. tells vs. In old World before Gregory the First his dayes Lent alwaies began on that day which we call the First-Sunday in Lent as AZorius proues well But now all men know theirs begins on Ash-Wednesday In old World Lent was thought to end vpon Palme-Sunday for Quadragesima impletur ad Festum Palmarū saith Anastasius Nicaenus But now theirs is thought to end vpon Easter-euen In old World it was decreed That the Clergy should haue one weeke more in their Lent than the Laity But now this Decree is out of force saith Azorius Clerici hodie non seruant sed initium faciunt i●iuniorum vt Laies The Clergy keepe not this Decree but begin Lent when the Laity begin it saith Antonius Augustinus In old World Wednesday was commanded to be a Fasting-day as Bell. and Azorius proue fully But now a man may eate flesh vpon Wednesday by both their confessions In old World they fasted at Rome in the time of Aduent But now they vse not to fast then In old World they might drinke no wine on Fasting-dayes for veteres Canones vinum interdixêre diebus ieiuniorum The old Canons forbade wine on Fasting-dayes saith Alfonsus Pisanus But now Papists drinke and may drinke wine hold belly hold In old World veteres Canones interdixêre siceram omne quod inebriare potest mulsam cerui●iam It was not lawfull to drinke any liquor which might intoxicate a mans braines But now no liquor is exempted on fasting-dayes In old World veteres Canones interdixêre Pisces the ancient Canons forbade fish on fasting-dayes saith Pisanus But now Piscibus vti licet a man of their Church may lawfully eat fish saith the same Pisanus In