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A56280 A full and clear exposition of the Protestant rule of faith with an excellent dialogue laying forth the large extent of true Protestant charity against the uncharitable papists. Pulton, A. (Andrew), 1654-1710. 1688 (1688) Wing P4205; ESTC R7815 18,771 21

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However thro' the esteem I have for that august Assembly I submit my self and am willing to depend on its prudent determination To the end therefore that amidst so much confusion this weighty matter may be more Cautiously and Piously decided Martin Bucer once a Dominican Bernardin Ochin a quondam Frier and some others qualify'd in the same nature are call'd into England by my Lord Protector and Bishop Cranmer to frame a new Model of Religion and fix the Standard of the English pretended Reformation Let me here desire my Reader to weigh these following lines with that indifference of Judgment and unprejudicateness of mind which an Affair of this importance requires and as I write them with the most sincere Zeal and Uprightness of intention so I most earnestly beg they may be accordingly consider'd by the discreet Christian Reader Bucer therefore stil'd by Arch-Bishop Whitgift a Reverend Learned Painful Sound Father and of whom Sir John Cheek In his Defence page 522. said The World scarce had his Fellow first became a Lutheran then a Zwinglian after that a Lutheran again as may be seen in the Acts of the Synod held at Luthers House in Wittemberg in the year 1589 And Bucer himself in his Commentary on the 6th of St. John and Epist ad Norimb Esseing 26th of St. Matthew asks pardon of GOD for having deceiv'd so many with the Errours of Zwinglius and the Sacramentarians yet after this open Repentance he returns to the same Zwinglianism in England and at his Death as those who were present testifie Schlussem nn Theol. Calv. l. 2. f. 70. Pratcol page 107. embraces Judaism having long before declar'd to Dudley Duke of Northumberland that he doubted whether all was true which the Evangelists relate of CHRIST which if it were none who believ'd CHRIST to be GOD and to have spoken these words This is my Body could deny the Real Presence Ochin whose Opinions were Oracles to the Composers of the Nine and Thirty Articles and whom Bishop Bale terms a Light of Relig. Gover. p. 62. 3. the Church saying That England was happy whilst It had him miserable when it lost him after many changes in Religion turn'd Jew taught Circumcision and wrote a Book in defence of Polygamy Cranmer in Henry VIII's days wrote a Book in defence of the See his Letters in Fox 1279 and Stow p. 1036. Real Presence and another in Edward VI's against it Many such Remarks might be made of Peter Martyr Coverdale and others the grand Masters of the Reformed Church of England Now I desire to know whether these Men were in all these Opinions true Protestants If my Reason is not quite lost I conceive you must answer in the Affirmative for he according to your Doctrine is a true Protestant who guides himself by the HoIy Scripture taken in such sense as appears true to his own reason which he is not oblig'd to submit to the Judgment of any Church whatsoever Why so Because every sound Judgment is a sufficient Judge in Controversy If those Men therefore were of sound judgment and judging according to Scripture as they for the present understood it were now of one Opinion then of another now condemn'd what they once believ'd then again believ'd the Tenet they had so lately Anathematiz'd liv'd Christians dy'd Jews They were notwithstanding in all these Opinions true Protestants If you say they judg'd right when they were Zwinglians wrong when they were Lutherans This is said meerly gratis and is a perfect begging of the Question The Lutherans will rise up and assert that they were then truly inspir'd from above when they judg'd the Zwinglians an abominable Sect And the Jews will challenge them because in their latter days when they were not only more experienc'd but also more grave and serious upon the approach of death they pronounc'd Christ to be no Messias and all the Christian Religion to be nothing but a meer Delusion and Cheat. If being asham'd of such Patriarchs you disown them and say They were deceiv'd in this or t'other Opinion that they were of weak judgment wanted Sincerity Humility Modesty It then follows that the Basis of your pretended Church totters and how shall any one be assur'd that the Fabrick built on such a Foundation is firm solid and warrantable If you say you have only taken from them what was true and agreeable to the right meaning of GOD's Holy Word without the mixture of their various and unchristian Errours I desire you to give me a Rule by which I may be assured of this your certain Choice of only true Doctrine These Men always spake conformably to their present Judgment of Scripture which as you Universally teach is clear and evident in all points necessary to Salvation what certainty have I that this Perspicuity and Evidence was better discern'd by them when they taught this Doctrine than when they deliver'd the Opposite If you tell me you are sure of it because 't is conformable to your own Judgment of Scripture the opposite Party will as confidently affirm they are certain of the contrary because they Judge contrary to the Doctrines which they are assur'd are true and only conformable to GOD's Holy Word The Zwinglian according to his sense of Scripure says He is sure Bucer was deluded when he taught Lutheranism The Lutheran from his Judgment of Scripture avers the same assurance of his having Err'd when he taught Zwinglianism The Jew is as certain that he was deceiv'd in both and was then only in the right when he embrac'd Judaism Where does the Scripture say Luther you understand me right you Zwinglius Err or the contrary But methinks I hear you tell me that I have forgot with whom I argue that yours is not a Religion of any one Man but a Church Establish'd by Law that 't is not only imprudence but even impudence to question the Certainty and Truth of a Religion prescrib'd by so Wise Sincere and Learn'd an Assembly as that of an English Parliament Very good but am I not still free to examine according to my own Sense and Judgment whether this Assembly speak conformably to the sense of the Holy Ghost You reply that I am every Man of sound Judgment being judge of Controversies of Faith. What therefore if according to the conviction of my Understanding I am in my Conscience perswaded that they have all Err'd Holy Scripture seeming clear to me in the contrary sense Am I still a true Protestant while I Judge the Church of England to be a Spurious and False Church If so then I am at the same time a Protestant and no Protestant if not then a Man of sound judgement may cease to be a compleat judge in Controversy If you Preach to me submission of Judgment and implicit Faith you have left your Principles and are become a Papist O but tho' I may securely judge Ten whole Ages and Twelve General Councels to have handed