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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13320	A myrror for Martinists, and all other schismatiques, which in these dangerous daies doe breake the godlie vnitie, and disturbe the Christian peace of the Church. Published by T.T.	Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601, attributed name.; T. T., fl. 1590.	1590 (1590)	STC 23628; ESTC S118084	30,611	40

fauoured of the cōmon multitude whom he sought to please then beloued of God I will set before you those of more deserued fame and learning and thereby a greater temptation to good men Among which Photinus is to bée remēbred who not long after that he was called to the Church of Syrmitana by a general consent shewed himselfe soone after rather a tempter then a teacher insomuch that sodainly lyke that euill Prophet or dreamer of dreames of whome Moses speaketh he began to persuade the people committed vnto him to followe strange Gods that is to say strange errours which before they had not knowen to bring which wickednesse to passe he had great helpes as a singular wit profound learning and persuasible eloquence insomuch that he could speake copiously with delight and dispute and write subtilly and sententiouslie with commendation as plainly appeared by his bookes which he wrote in Gréeke and Latine But happily it befell that the shéepe of Christ committed vnto him hauing a vigilant eie and carefull regard vnto their faith soone remembred the forewarning of Moses and although they had in admiration the learning and eloquence of their pastour and prophet yet were they not ignorant of the temptation For him whom afore they followed as the bel-weather of the flocke the same now they began to shunne and flie from as a most dangerous woulfe As we are warned by this example of Photinus so also are we taught by another of Appollinar to beware of the danger of this Ecclesiastical temptation and to take diligent héed that we kéepe the faith This Appollinar was also a man of great learning as appeareth by those thirtie bookes which he wrote against Porphyrius and as he was learned so also he séemed zealous in ouerthrowing many heresies and confuting such errours as were contrarie to the faith It were too tedious to make report of all his workes by which he might séeme equall to the greatest builders of the Church But sée the mallice of sathan This man through a certaine prophane desire of hereticall curiositie began to be new-fangled and so as it were by the contagion of a leprosie he defiled and corrupted all his labours whereby his doctrine in the end shewed it selfe to be rather an Ecclesiasticall temptation than a building of the Church But of all the most dangerous tempters of olde time none may be compared to Origen in whom many things were singular many excellent and many wonderfull to speak of whose condigne praises in respect of the mans rare gifts a whole daie will scarse suffice all which notwithstanding did not make so much for the glorie of religion as they do set forth the greatnes of the temptation For what man is he that rather than hée would cast off one endued with such a wit so profound in learning in all science such swéete eloquence so holy a life and with so great grace will not vse this sentence that hee had rather to erre with Origen then with others to be of a true and sounde iudgement And yet for all this no common but a perillous temptation by him as the end shewed carried many from the integritie of faith insomuch that the selfe same Origen insolently abusing the grace of God trusting too much to his wit and standing too fast in his owne conceit made smal account of Christian religion thought himself more wise then others contemned the ancient rites of the Church and interpreted some places of Scripture after a new and strange sense giuing iust occasion to Moses to speak vnto the Church of Christ concerning him Thou shalt not heare the voice of that Prophet because the Lorde your God proueth you whether yee loue him or no. But what néede wée séeke examples so farre of when as at home daily we haue too many of these before our eies of such men as are indued with competent learning and other good giftes and hauing once begun well in the race of discretion to run a good course and like good builders to lay a good foundation to reare vp the Church of Christ by the preaching of the Gospel are now at the last lyke those foolish builders of Babel confounded in their worke building by presumption a tower of fonde conceit to themselues and are by the iust plague of God so diuided therein that some are Anabaptisticall Brownists some libertine Family-louists and some beside other sectes malecontent Martinists birdes hatcht of an euill egge a generation of vipers that can finde no life but by the destruction of their mother to too gréedie to séeke themselues not Christ hauing no care to maintaine the peace of his Church but contrariwise séeke to disturbe the same which preach not his Gospell simply but their selfe conceited deuises which are infinite which masking kinde of hypocrites haue their visors daily taken from theyr faces and the most godly wise do knowe them perfectly and can saie that they are no better than those seducing dreamers and false teachers of whom Moses speaketh by which God vseth to trie vs whether we loue him or not Who therefore séeing these dangerous daies doth not rather wish with Ieremie to dwell in y e wildernes that so they might leaue the societie of sinfull men and giue themselues onelie to contemplation that so also they might not sée the miseries like to fall vpon vs. Polycarpus that holy martyr scholler to Saint Iohn the Euangelist when he heard in his time but of a little discord in regard of that which at this daie raigneth both in Church and common wealth is reported to haue cried out Deus bone in quae tempora me reseruasti vt haec audiam Good God vntill what time hast thou kept continued me y t I shuld heare these things How much more iust occasion haue the godly of this age not onely to crie out with the heathen Oratour O tempora ô mores O times O manners but also with the Prophet Isay Heare O earth and hearken O heauen c. The godly and faithfull of this most Christian Church of England féeling and fearing the danger of Schisme doe euery where greatly complaine of the discorde among Ministers Such is the miserable corruption of this latter world that whereas calamities troubles and contentions do euery where abound and the dutie of the Ministers of the Church is euen as Fathers chiefe men and teachers or rather as messengers of peace in the house of God to teach men plaine and simplie and instruct and confirme them in faith to reproue sinne and errours to exhort vnto good workes to comfort the afflicted finally to stirre them vp both to peace charitie and concord to amendement of life and repentance from sinne yet notwithstanding many of them doe nothing lesse And which is worse they themselues are the authors of schisme and distracting of the simple and ignorant multitude vsing a contentious kinde of teaching and quarrelling among themselues that beeing ouerwhelmed with these