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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05416	The bruising of the serpents head A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse September 9. 1621. By Roger Ley Maister of Arts, and minister of Gods word in Shoreditch.	Ley, Roger, b. 1593 or 4.	1622 (1622)	STC 15568; ESTC S103082	34,316	56

misdoubting conscience no testimonie against them can be greater Their feares are more then Panike moued by great occasion Gods word directed aright is like the firy tongues wherein the holy Ghost did sit vpon the Apostles which tongues were diuided being a fire to burne vp the hay and stubble of false tradition and like enough to make a diuision whereof they complaine so grieuously The spirit in them commeth like that mighty wind which fild the house wherein the assembly was gathered But as antiquity fained of Aeolus he kept the windes vnder huge Mountaines least all should be ouerturned And the great commander of heauen and earth deputed an inferiour Lord to rule them Regemque dedit qui saedere cert● Et premere laxas sciret dare iussus habenas That King was appointed to stint their vnrulines so is the diuine word by a counterfeit shew of a diuine authoritie to be kept vnder and he below to play fast and loose expounding all after his owne law and counsell Thus the candle being put vnder a bushell as a darke night sometimes preuents a skirmish may keepe men from quarelsome protestations Vpon these termes their peace standeth and they are forced to hold with both hands least it ouergoe them Zanchie relateth a decree made in Italy Tom. 8. de scriptura Comment in cap. 1. ad Titum the Scripture is permitted to be read of the better sort onely with condition that they expound nothing but with the Church of Rome Claudius Espenceus one of their owne reports that an Italian Bishop told him that learned men in Italy were affraid to study the Scriptures least by them they might be drawne into heresie and they rather imployed their time vpon the Popes law bookes and the decretals A franciscan Fryer plainely said the Councell of Trent the Lutherans did preuaile vpon none so much as them which were exercised in the Scripture To shew what tyranny keepes their affaires in peace obserue one proofe insted of many Zanchie relateth it in his booke de Ecclesia One of the Regular Canons wrot a booke in which he prooueth the Pope may be called into question and censured by the Church the reason is because he is our brother and Christ saith If thy brother offend thee tell the Church That he is our brother hee prooueth for in saying the Lords prayer he calleth God father if then all be children in respect of God they must be brethren among themselues The booke for this fault was cald in an excommunication was sent out and the Authour had a checke yet was the argument so strong that none could answere it so well as one Courtier who wisht his holines neuer to say our Father so by not acknowledging a superiour with that Title he might put his greatnes out of question So strange a slauery is produced by this vsurped power that an eminence and prorogatiue must be claimed aboue the nature of man and the qualitie of a sinfull creature and a point of beleefe and conscience made not to mooue in it any question By ignorance then is the peace grounded and maintaind by tyranny not easie to be discernd whether more barbarous or ridiculous Well wereit if we could learne wit by their example that euery ignorant inuention did not forge out a new conceit against the present times Or that some crasie and misalledging braines soothed vp by an in bred curiositie did not so much sleight antiquitie and authoritie as not care what is generally established and hath bene vsed many ages in the Church euen in the purer time before corruption For vpon any dissention thoughts in a ceremonie or small ordinance we know what complaint the aduersarie raiseth Moreouer a small controuersie in a branch depends vpon a roote and adhereth to some question of great moment the same principles in disputation against an indifferent ceremonie if they should take place will ouerthrow whole frames of gouernment But to come to the last blow with our aduersaries Let truth be wayed in an euen ballance though quarrelers see not their owne blemishes so directly as they espy anothers peace is no such vniuersall blessing among them All of them or at least the more sober sort allow not the Iesuits practises and positions In free will and predestination the Dominicans the Iesuits consent not nor the Dominicans and Franciscans about the originall sinne of the Virgine Mary to omit the scruples of Thomas and Scotus with their followers in more subtile matters That of the Virgine Maries freedome from originall sinne was so hotly defended by both parties that the Councell of Trent durst not decide it for feare of a Schisme Where knowledge doth abound and men haue liberty to speake the corruption of many will abuse it Nec per se mala est eruditio sed plerumque gignit factiones dissidia saith Erasmus learning is not euill in it selfe but for the most part it ingendereth factions and diuision If knowledge then haue a freer passage for all sorts among vs their peace hath some aduantage Besides when a reformation is published all cannot haue one consent in clearing things of moment hid before and now come to more open light And if among so many that imbrace the reformed religion good and bad wise and foolish sober and curious had all consented it had beene a signe of false Doctrine rather then true for tares spring vp with wheate and God ioyneth some corrections with his blessings weeds may grow alone sometimes and heere our Sauiour speaketh of the deuill and maketh it one part of his strength His goods are in peace But see the face of former times did not some say at first I am of Pauls I am of Apollos and others of Cephas a new Doctrine came vp and ignorant people could not keepe a sober course in entertaining it As for the grossest deuisers among vs they are partly scattered and supprest but if we speake of setled Churches see worse then we haue had The Corinthians doubted of the resurrection The Galathians called for the ceremonies of the law so stiffly that S. Paul feared his labour had beene lost This one opinion of retaining ceremonies is called by Musculus perpetuum certamen an euerlasting contention of those times And the Apostles were enforced to call a generall Councell at Ierusalem to take it vp and yeelding to some infirmities for a time forbade eating of blood a thing in it selfe indifferent Reu. 2.6 Then came in Simon with his deuises and the sect of the Nicolaitans which God hated Ebion and Cerinthus denying the eternall God-head of Christ are supposed to haue giuen occasion to S. Iohn to write his Gospell All this while we find not among the Heathen any notorious breaches about the principles of their idolatry After this when Constantine had giuen peace to the Church and men might vse more liberty the Arrians their successors ouerflowed in such a number that it was sayd of Athanasius their