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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41160	Janus Alexandrus Ferrarius, an Augustine friar, his epistles to the two brethern of Wallenburgh, concerning the usefulness and necessity of the Roman Catholick faith wherein the ambition and avarice of the Church of Rome are lively demonstrated in a mathematical method, by a continued series of connexed propositions / from the original Latine.	Fabricius, Johann Ludwig, 1632-1697.; Fabricius, Joannes Ludovicus.	1673 (1673)	Wing F73; ESTC R32018	52,870	158

out of his quickness of Spirit he perceived how much the Christian Religion was averse to his purpose as diverting Men from seeking after present Felicity and softning and depressing their minds with the awe and reverence of Weak and Unwarlike Virtues recommending Peace instead of War Gentleness instead of Fierceness Service instead of Freedom and Prayers and Tears instead of Arms though he believed it utterly pernicious and averse to his design yet he judged it was not to be demolished at a Blow or by open Violence overthrown And therefore among other Chapters of the Alcoran he wisely commands his People That they should believe for truth those books sent amongst them of the Prophets and Apostles and should therefore profess Christ the Son of Mary to be the Spirit of God and an Apostle sent by him and the Gospel and Mosaical Law he every where approves Nay on these very Foundations he seems to lay the Superstructure of his whole Doctrine supporting it by the authority of the Scriptures Whereupon the Mahometans with a subtilty like ours in relation to the Pope find mention made of their Prophet in both books of Old and New Testament For in the Law Deut. XXXIII v. 2. where it is said The Lord came from Sinai and rose up from Seir unto them and shined forth from Mount Paran Those words they will have distinctly to signifie that the Law descended to Moses the Gospel to Jesus and the Alcoran to Mahomet And as that Prophet Abulkasimo Surata Lxxi testifies Jesus the Son of Mary said O Children of Israel I am the Apostle of God to you that I may verifie the Law you have and announce a Prophet to come after me whose name shall be Achimed That is as Beidavins interprets it Mahomet which likewise a certain Saracen Dialogist in Theodorus Abucara very wittily asserts to have once been writ in the book of the New Testament when he says to the Christian In the Gospel Christ writ saying I send to you a Prophet called Mahomet To which the Christian But the Gospel contains no memory of it Opusc 19. inter Opusc xiv edita a. G. The Barbarian replies It anciently indeed contained it but you have blotted it out Subtilly arguing it from the xiv chap. of St. John which discourses of the Comforter Where on the other side the page in the same context I am perswaded might be extant also the prophecy of the Occidental Comforter which is resident in the Cabinet of the Popes brest But if that is not to be found in any of the Copies or Translations now adays 't is done by the cunning of the Hereticks and certain kind of Calvinists whom I would swear before sixteen hundred years ago had with special care blotted all those things out of Scripture But for these reasons the Turks if at this day offered a book of the New Testament translared into Arabick receive it with an excess of reverence and most Religiously kiss it as a Book sent down from Heaven and in which of Old mention was made of their Prophet From all which we may gather that great Architect as well of a new Principality as a new Religion judged some outward show and external Scheme of the Christian Religion was to be set forth whilst its internal Power and Force was utterly extinct To which purpose though he often spoke Magnificently of the Scriptures yet he utterly forbid the Reading or nice disputing about or search into them content with this as Achimed Iben Edris ingeniously elsewhere professes that he made them serve to his purpose and for this reason he enlarged them with a supplimental Alcoran which as the last dictates of the Prophetick Spirit contained the perfect principles of Salvation Sect. 4. The courses of this most happy Monarch and with our Pope Joint Colleague and Brother in Antichrist why should not we follow For if he only to erect a gross and corporeal Empire believed the use of such exquisite Arts so necessary of how much more subtile industry shall we stand in need to raise up our Mystical and Spiritual Kingdom least it chance to offend any Eyes before its Foundations be solidly laid and the whole machine so firmly compact brought to that height that it become the terror of its Enviers and be able to support its self by its own strength For as such an Empire ought to be composed of a mixture of Divine and Humane things that it may be Spiritually-corporeal and Invisibly-visible so it is of necessity that the Arts whereby 't is erected should agree to both those kinds Thus profane things with Sacred Truth with Falshood Heaven with Earth are happily mixed Thus Churches will at the same time be Fortresses Monasteries Castles Islands fitted into the figures of Crowns and the Crosier or Pastoral Crook be at once both a Murderers Club and a Regal Scepter But he who shall employ all these Arts to the establishing of Sacred Empire will every way appear a true Leviathan much stronger and more formidable then Hobbs his Leviathan Then which what can be invented at once more slender and more strong Sect. 5. Therefore let not any fear of those Arms the Hereticks may fetch from Apostolical Doctrine disturb us For the same things were to be feared by the Mahometans even from very Subtile Hereticks For it may always happen that Christian Religion boyling like a kind of Fermentation may separate it self from opposing and Heterogenial Doctrines and casting them off convert its self to its pristine Purity and liquid Simplicity which yet has not happened in many Ages whilst Christianity mixt with Mahometism do's at this day remain in the same feculent crasis or filthy temperature Sect. 6. Moreover if this affright us or we suffer our selves to be scared by unseasonable fears we shall never reap any benefit from the errors of others For since Falshood without a mixture of Truth nor Evil without a Foundation of Goodness cannot subsist It will be always to be doubted least Truth and Goodness should withdraw themselves from Falshood and Evil and leave them Veluti Nudos in littore pisces Like Naked Fishes on the Share The consequence of which over provident fear would be that only pure truth and uncompounded goodness were to be followed and taught to others whereby all the fruit and advantage might accrue to us by Falshood and Evil would Perish and be lost 7. Certainly Nil prodest quod non laedere possit idem There 's nothing profitable but may likewise hurt So let us despise Food Fab. Instir cr l. 2. c. 26. because it is sometimes the cause of Distemper Let us never go into a House because they sometimes fall on the Inhabitants Heads Who is ignorant that Fire and Water without which ther 's no living and not to stay at Earthly things the Sun and Moon those Sovereign Lights are sometimes Noxious and Hurtful The dispute therefore lies not whether from those reliques of the Christian