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A15431	Tetrastylon papisticum, that is, The foure principal pillers of papistrie the first conteyning their raylings, slanders, forgeries, vntruthes: the second their blasphemies, flat contradictions to scripture, heresies, absurdities: the third their loose arguments, weake solutions, subtill distinctions: the fourth and last the repugnant opinions of new papistes with the old; of the new one with an other; of the same writers with themselues: yea of popish religion with and in it selfe. Compiled as a necessarie supplement or fit appertinance to the authors former worke, intituled Synopsis papismi: to the glorie of God for the dissuading of light-minded men from trusting to the sandie foundation of poperie, and to exhort good Christians stedfastlie to hold the rockie foundation of faith in the Gospell.	Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621.	1593 (1593)	STC 25701; ESTC S119967	179,229	213

the Church as to sell Bishoprickes and Ecclesiasticall liuings these the Pope might dispense withall O Petre saith hee quantam animarum multitudinem cateruatim transmisit transmittit ad Infernum haec superstitialis damnanda distinctio O Peter Peter how many soules hath this superstitious and damnable distinction sent by heapes and yet doth dayly send to hell Aureum speculum ex citation Iuell pag. 614. So the Papistes by their blasphemous distinctions of merites satisfactions iustifications adoration and such like doe subuert the truth peruert the soules of manie euert and ouerthrow the course of religion and tread them a high way and a beaten path to Hell and damnation The fourth Piller of Papistrie consisting of Papists contradictions amongst themselues IT is an vsual accusation of the popish sort against the professors of the Gospel that wee are at variance dissension amongst our selues cannot agree of the pointes of our religion Harding saith with a stinking vncleane mouth that the puddle of Lutherans runneth down by manie sinkes that we agree not within our selues and that each one often times disagreeth with himselfe Defeus Apolog. pag. 289. The Rhemistes falsely obiect that we would euery yeare haue a new faith 2. Cor. 2. v. 18. Bellar. saith that we haue 200 seueral expositions of these words of our Sauiour This is my body with lie all de Sacram. li. 2. ca. 1. Now then to cleare and purge our selues of this false occusation we will consider who they are that cast vs in the teeth with our dissensions who for one dissension that is among vs haue tenne among themselues yea if I said for one an hundred I thinke the saying might be iustified This Piller of Papistrie hath foure partes First we wil shew the dissensions of the later new Papistes with the old Secondly of the contradictions of the new among themselues Thirdly because they say that amongst vs one disagreeth many times with himself we wil lay open the nakednes of their stoutest champion Bellarmine how shamefully he forgetteth himselfe saying vnsaying now of one opinion by by of another Fourthly We wil shewe the repugnances inconueniences and inconsequent opinions which popish religion hath in it selfe The contradictions diuers opinions of old Papists new BEcause our aduersaries would beare vs in hand that their dissentions are not in material points but lighter matters which concerne not the faith Wee will make choice of such opinions of theirs leauing the rest wherein they dissent as shall easily appeare to be no triuiall or comon matters but of great weight moment Lyranus Hugo Cardinalis Caietanus do hold the bookes of Tobie Iudith Macchabees Ecclesiasticus the wisedome of Salomon to be Apocryphall bookes no part of Canonicall Scripture Arius Montanus also holdeth all the bookes of the old Testament not found in the Hebrue Canon to be Apocryphall ex Whitacher controu qu. 1. cap. 6. The contrarie is nowe maintained by Papistes that all the aforesaid bookes are Canonicall and part of the Scriptures Canus affirmeth that the Scriptures in the Hebrue text are wholly corrupt defaced by the malice of the Iewes Bellarm. confesseth some corruption in them yet not concerning the doctrine of faith maners And that those corruptions defaults came rather by reason of some faultie Libraries imperfect copies than by the malicious deprauation of the Iewes Bellar. de Verb. Dei li. 2. cap. 2. They differ much in many points concerning Antichrist Some of them thinke that the number 666. Apocal. 13. doth describe the time of Antichrists comming as Lyranus Some that it sheweth the name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which they thinke shalbe the name of Antichrist Anselmus Richardus Bellarm. thinketh his name shal not be known til he be come de Rom. Pont. li. 3. c. 11 Some that he shalbe borne of a woman of fornication Some of the tribe of Dan as Anselmus Richardus Bellarm. holdeth neither ibid. cap. 12. Dominicus a Soto is of opiniō that the Christian faith shall vtterly be extinguished in the great persecution vnder Antichrist Bellarmine thinketh no ibid. cap. 17. Their Canon law saith that no mortall man must here presume to reproue the faults of the Pope because he himselfe being to iudge all men is to be iudged of none Part. 1. distinct 4. Cap. Si Papa Yet the Rhemistes affirme the contrarie that Popes may be reprehended are iustly admonished of their faults ought to take it in good part if it proceed of zeale and loue Annot. 2. Galath Sect. 8. Some of them do thinke that the Pope euen as he is Pope may fall into heresie so become an heretike if he take vpon him to define or determine without a generall Councel Gerson Alphons de Castro Adrianus 6. Papa Some affirme the cleane contrarie that the Pope cannot possibly fall into heresie nor define any hereticall point no not by himselfe alone Albert. Pighius Others do teach that whether the Pope may be an heretike or not he cannot determine any thing that is hereticall sic Driedo Caietanus Hosius Eckius and to this subscribeth Bellarmine lib. 4. de Roman Pontif. cap. 2. That place of the Gospel where Christ saith I haue praied for thee Peter that thy faith should not faile the Diuines of Paris vnderstand generally of the whole Church that Christ praied that the Catholike faith should not faile But Bellarmine and the rest take these words as meant of Peter onely and his successors that they should not erre at any time in faith Bellarm. ibid. cap. 3. Durandus a popish author confesseth that Gregorie 1. was found in an error for permitting priests to confirme but Bellarmine chargeth him rather with error in so writing ibid. cap. 10. Melchior Canus affirmeth that Honorius 1. was an heretike Bellarmine holdeth the contrarie de Pontif. lib. 4. cap. 11. Celestinus 3. an heretike so saith Alphons de Castro Bellarmine is of the contrarie opinion ibid. cap. 14. Iohn 22. was in a great error who held that the soules of the righteous should not see God before the day of the resurrection Guilielmus Oek●● Adrianus Bellar. notwithstanding taketh vpon him to excuse him of heresie Bellarm. cap. 14. Benedictus 13. condemned for an heretike in the Councel of Constance Eugenius 4. in the Councel of Basile Bellar. denieth notwithstanding that they were heretikes but the Councels to haue erted rather in condemning them ibid. Some of the Papists thinke the Bishops as the Apostles before them do receiue their iurisdiction immediatly at Gods hands So Franciscus Victoria Alphons de Castro Others that the Apostles receiued their iurisdiction not from Christ but from Peter Bishops from Peters successor so Iohan. de Turre cremat Dominicus Iacobatius A third sort hold that the Apostles immediatly receiued power from Christ but Bishops must look for it at the Popes hands sic Caietanus Dominicus a Soto Bonauenture Durand so also Bellar. ca. 22. They are

you spare neither Apostle pastor nor minister neither primitiue and auncient nor present and now being Church say on still as ye doe that the protestants tende euery day more and more to Atheisme and Antichristianisme Rhemist 2. Thessa. 2. sect 14. That the protestantes haue forsaken Christ the protestantes are become Iewes the protestantes wil be circumcised according to Moses law the protestantes require to haue the paschal Lambe the protestantes tell the people there is no hell at all the protestantes at their next proceeding wil vtterly denie God Har ding praefat ad defens apolog ex Iuello Well yee slaunderous mouthed hypocrites if Ieremies saying were not verified vppon you Thou hast a whores forehead thou wouldest not be ashamed 3. 3. ye might well blushe and shew al your blood in your face when you inuent such vnchristian slaunders against vs which the worlde crieth shame vpon and your owne consciences accuse ye of Wee haue no other shielde to holde vp against these iniuries of yours but the prophet Dauids saying with his words in the person of our Church As he loued cursing so let it come vnto him and as he loued not blessing so shall it be farre from him as he clothed him selfe with cursing like a rayment so shall it come into his bowels like water and like oyle into his bones Let it be vnto him as a garment to couer him and for a girdle wherewith he shall alway be girded Let this be the rewarde of mine aduersarie from God and of them that speake euill against my soule Psal. 109 vers 17. 18. 19. 20. Heare ye also what Bernard saith Gladius anceps lingua detractoris Nec verò huiusmodi linguam ipso mucrone quo dominicum latus confossum est crudeliorem dicere verearis haec enim non iam examine Christi corpus fodit sed facit examine fodiendo A slauderous tongue is a two edged sword And such a tongue we need not doubt to cal more cruel then the speares point that peirced our Lordes side for this doth not pierce or wound the dead bodie of Christ but slayeth and woundeth it to death serm de triplici custodia Thus yee papistes shew your selues greater enimies to Christ in slaundering his Church then if ye had thrust his body through that hanged vppon the crosse for then his bodie was first dead before it was pierced But you doe rent and wound the liuelie bodie of Christ now which is his Church I pray God giue you grace if yee belong vnto him to repente you of this wickednes And thus much also concerning the slaunders and malicious reportes giuen out by papistes against our Church The 3. part of the manifold vntruthes forgeries and bold denials of papistes of manifest vntruthes Part. 3. IT followeth now in the third place hauing alreadie sufficiently discoursed of their personal slaunders which they vomite and spue vp either against our Church in general or against some particular members thereof that now we lay open to the worlde their vntruthes and lies which in heapes are coyned and forged out of their shoppes that whereas they accuse vs of lying saying most scornefully That lies are as common with heretikes as lice with beggers Harding it may euidentlie appeare to the world whether of twaine be the greate lyers And first of their forgeries Neuer anie Heretikes were more cunning or had better dexteritie in forging of writinges and foisting bookes of their owne deuising and making vnder the name of other authors First the Canons of the Apostles as they call them which are fathered vpon the Apostles are but bastard writinges falsely going vnder their name for in the last canon the gospell written by S. Iohn is numbred among the bookes of the newe testament which is confessed by all to haue beene penned by the Euangelist after the death of all or most of the Apostles How could then these Canons as they affirme be deuised and published by the Apostles them selues assembled together Againe those Canons of the Apostles doe recken 3. bookes of the Macchabees amongest the canonicall scripture But the papistes them selues receiue but two if then they were perswaded them selues that they were the verie Canons of the Apostles how durst they disagree from them in opinion Plura apud Whitacher controu 1 de scriptur cap. 4. The constitutions also of the Apostles the collection whereof is ascribed to Clemens seemeth to be but a forged booke conteining many thinges false and friuolous as lib. 6. cap. 14. He bringeth in Iames the brother of Iohn writing and speaking with the rest of the Apostles many yeares after his death Lib. 6. cap. 7. he calleth Philip spoken of Act. 8. an Apostle but lib. 8. cap. 52. he maketh him but a Deacon Of the like credite are the counterfeit writinges which passe vnder the name of Abdias Ignatius Hippolytus Policarpus as it may appeare by the homely stuffe contained in them Abdias prescribeth a most superstitious obseruation of Lent fast not onely in abstaining from all flesh-meates but also from all carnall copulation betweene man and wife The same Abdias is also contrarie to himselfe for he affirmeth that Paule suffered 2. yeares after Peter And saith further that Paule after Peter was crucified remained in his custodie at Rome mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles which was as Hierome saith the 3. or 4. yeare of Nero so that by this account there must be 10. yeares space betweene the suffering of Paule and Peter for it is confessed by all writers that Paule suffered the 14. that is the last yeare of Nero. Ignatius saith in his epistle to the Philippians that if any man shal fast on Sunday or Saturday he is a murtherer of Christ so hoat this counterfeit father is about his counterfeit traditions Of the like authoritie is Policarpus epistle ad Philippen which is gathered out of the Apocryphall constitutions of counterfeit Clemens Hippolytus booke is too ful of fables then to be thought to be that auncient Martyrs worke for writing of Antichrist he saith he shalbe no man but a deuil in the shape of man that Iohn the Euangelist shal come with Henoch and Helias before the comming of Antichrist that Antichrist shal bring deuils with him in the shape of Angels and commaund them to carie him vp to heauen with other such stuffe Now commeth in that vncleane dunghil of decretals which are falsely attributed to those good Bishops of Rome that suffered in the great persecutions in the primitiue age of the Church for the testimonie of Iesus As wee may strongly coniecture by the matter and substance of those decretals The epistle fathered vppon Alexander doth euidentlie appeare to be counterfeit by the date which it beareth when Traianus and Helianus were Consuls But there was neuer anie Helianus Consull with Traianus Fulk 1. Tim. 4. 13. Euaristus Bishop of Rome is saide to haue decreed that no priest should be ordained without a title But it is not like that

will adde also good proceedings and the Lord both vnto your good proceeding and vertuous beginning shal giue an happy end In te nūc puta cunctorum ora oculos conuersos ad spectaculum vitae tuae totam consedisse Angliam Al mens eies are vpon your Honor and haue as it were set led themselues to behold your doings God grant and we trust that all things shall be answearable to their expectation Lastly the Lord prosper your godlie enterprises and giue a blessing to your holy Counsels euen the blessing of Caleb That as Caleb droue the Anakims great Giantes by strong hand out of Hebron so at the length by your prudent godly counsaile with the assistance of the rest of the Honorable Lords of the Counsell Nobilitie vnder the leading of our happy Iosua gracious Soueraigne the Romish Anakims traiterous Iesuites and Seminaries with other rebellious and hollow harted Cananites may be weeded out of the Lords fielde in England that you with faithfull Caleb and Iosua may also haue an euerlasting inheritance in the heauenlie Canaan through the onely merites of Iesus Christ to whom bee praise for euer Tui honoris studiosissimus ANDREAS WILLET ❧ The preface to the Christian Reader IT is the common and vsuall practise of wrangling and cauilling spirites who to preuent other mens accusations doe themselues first begin to accuse and challenge others of the same crimes which they are guiltie of Thus Sathan the accuser of the brethren sometime dealt with Iob saying vnto God that if he would but stretch foorth his hand a little and touch all he had hee would not spare to blaspheme God to his face whereas nothing is more common with that old Serpent then to curse and blaspheme God Thus our aduersaries of the Popish religion which indeed is no religion but meere superstition haue subtillie sought to vndermine vs crying out against vs that wee are lyers Idolaters blasphemers and such like which are titles and epithetes fitter and more proper to themselues They charge vs with rayling Harding Confut. apolog cap. 16. diuis 2. with lying Defens apolog pag. 597. with corrupting and altering of scripture Rhemist 2. Corinth 2. sect 8. with fables Rhemist 1. Timoth. 1. sect 4. with execrations and blasphemies Iud. 3. with heresies Bellarm. de notis eccles lib. 4. cap. 9. They obiect against vs the weaknes of our proofes and arguments Harding defeus apolog p. 625. often innouating and changing of Religion Rhemist 2. Corinth 2. v. 8. Diuisions dissensions among ourselues Harding defens apolog p. 239. Yea that wee may see how true their other accusations are they are not ashamed to charge vs with Idolatrie and worshipping of Idols Rhemist 1. Corinth 10. sect 9. Wherfore that it may appeare to the world how vniustly they haue accused vs how subtilly they would vnburden exonerate thēselues of those crimes which are theirs not ours to this ende I haue vndertaken this labour in this treatise to detect and bewray their guiltines in this behalfe that we may bee purged from their slaunders and our cause iustified and that the shame blame may fall vpon them that haue deserued it As for vs wee raile not neither vse reuiling speech yet sometime we tell them roundly their owne and this may bee done without rayling vnlesse they will say Christ rayled when he tolde the Iewes that they had made his fathers house a denne of theeues But their rayling and venemous dartes which they shoot at vs are notoriouslie knowen and cannot be hide It is the grace of popish writers both old and new to stuffe their bookes full with cursing rayling Stapleton that blacke-mouthed Sophister of Louaine hath of late set foorth a booke against D. Whitakers wherein beside the badnesse of his cause he hath disgraced his profession with bitter and filthie tearmes calling that learned and godly man Rusticum fatuum asinum asininum professorem morionem stolidum Foole clowne asse doit yea he is so impudent that he spareth not to reuile the deade most shamefully calling Caluine that worthie Minister of the Gospel Egregium Nebulonem a notable knaue I thinke Stapletons owne friendes and patrones here in England will blush and be ashamed of him when they find such stuffe in his booke Neither doth Stapleton thus take on in his moode as carried away with some intemperate heate but being in his wittes if in his right wittes and well aduised and of purpose he falleth into this cogging vaine giuing M. Whitakers warning thereof aforehande age Whitakare ●t ad patientiam te compone willing him to take patiently what he saith Indeed M. Stapleton your counsell is good for shoote out your venemous dartes as long as yee will wee care not wee haue a sense for them and a buckler to latch thē as Augustine saith verie well Quaeso mi frater quasi has diaboli sagittas ad petram quae est Christus allidens sume scutum fidei I giue thee counsel my brother to rebound these arrowes of Sathan vpon the rocke which is Christ taking the shield of faith And such patience is in this case necessarie for M. Whitakers and the rest of vs protestantes as the same father speaketh of else where Quemadmodum parentes a filis vel pueris vel phreneticis multa patiuntur donec infantia vel aegritude transeat ita Christianus ab impijs tanquam phreneticis multa pati debet Like as parents do suffer manie things at their sons hands while they are children or phrentick til their childishnes or phrensie be past thus Christians must patiently beare manie things of the wicked as of men taken with phrensie Such intemperate and railing speeches then of Papistes we attribute either to their childish ignorance or phrentike malitiousnes Concerning the other accusations of heresie blasphemie lying corruption of scriptures and such other it shal appeare I trust in this discourse that they are the men none other that are faultie herein As for fables they do vs great wrong to cast them vpon vs their owne legend of lies and infinite fabulous stories do plaintie tell vs that poperie is fuller of fables then the heresies of the Valentinians or the Manichees Their other charge concerning iunouation and dissention is returned vpon themselues for who knoweth not that the Iesuites of these daies haue innouated and changed in the most pointes the old popish profession and haue cast it into a newe mould and brought in a new forme of Pope catholike doctrine But we in substance retaine the same Religion which at the first reuiuing of the Gospel was maintained 40. yeares ago by the Protestants As for dissensions in fundamental pointes and articles concerning faith we haue none In other matters there haue bene some contentions among vs more we graunt then needed more hotely pursued of some then was requisite yet they are neither in weight so great or in number so many nor so

either Augustine against the Heretikes of that age or Bernard● against the corruptions of his time Therefore to conclude this pointe wee say as not long since a darling of their owne saide yet with better right and more truelie I am sure then he Nowe the lawe of vpright dealing specially in Gods cause so requiring ye must pardon vs if as among husbandmen wee call a rake a rake a spade a spade a mattocke a mattocke so among diuines wee cal heresie heresie and likewise falshood lying slaundering craft hypocrisie blasphemie euerie such crime by his proper name without all glosing But leauing off here in this place further to make apologie or to seeke defence in this point for our selues which were a needelesse and superfluous labour the writinges of our learned and godly brethren are abroade to be seene and read I trust they shalbe founde neither to sauoure of so enuious a spirite nor to be mixed with such intemperate and vndigested humors as our aduersaries writinges are sawsed and powdred withall We will now proceede not further keeping the Reader in suspense to collect some flowers of popish eloquence and Rhetorike which their bookes are beawtified and adorned withall First wee will be so bould as walke into our countrie man M. Hardings Garden and there a little refresh our selues with the pleasaunt sent of his sweete smelling herbes And here in the verie enterance I find a nosegay alreadie gathered to my hand by that skilfull and cunning gardener not in name but in deede B. Iewell let vs take vp this posey and smell a litle thereon M. Harding therefore writing against B. Iewell cloyeth and ouerchargeth him with these and such like sweete speeches Who euer heard such an impudent man a most impudent lyer awicked slaunderer and all because he said with Laurentius Valla a Canon of Rome that Pope Celesti●●s was a Nestorian Heretike Againe who euer saw so impudent a man what shal I say to this fellow fiefor shame man a minister of fables a minister of lies foolish ignorance shamelesse malice so ignorant so witlesse lewd wretches Iewish Heat henish shameles blasphemous villaines false ministers false harlots yee lie falsely yea yee lie for aduantage yee are impudent liers lewd liers heapes of lies nothing but lies and al is lies But what is the cause thinke you that this meeke spirited man should be so disquieted and make such outcryes against liers forsooth because Maister Iewel in one place leaueth out enim in a nother place hoc in an other place the Printer set downe schemate for schismate and such like is not here great cause thinke you to make a man thus to take on and to run out of his wittes Is not this asweete nosegay thinke you and is it not compounded of choice flowers the sent is so strong to my smell that I cannot choose but stop my nose Nisi as Bernard saith omniū passim naribus iniecto foetore solus dissimulē pestem nec audeo manum contra pessimum putorem propria manu munire Vnlesse as he saith the stincke smelling strong in euery mans nose I only should dissemble the matter and not dare to sense my nose with mine owne hand against the contagious smell But let vs haue patience a litle and passe along to see what store of such sweet smelling flowers M. Hardinges garden wil afoord vs. Pag. 40. Thus your vaine boast in wickednes wrought by the power of Sathan is put to silence because M. Iewel saith that many kings princes are fallen away from the Sea of Rome haue ioyned them selues to the church of God Pag. 42 This is his heat henish hart what could Purphurie or Iulius or Celsus say more because M. Iewel had said that men euen by light of nature though thereby alone they cannot bee led to the perfection of faith yet may somwhat discerne what is likely or vnlikely in religion according to S. Paule Rom. 1. 20. The inuisible thinges of God his euerlasting power Godhead are seene by the creation of the world Pag. 85 We take you to be mad would God you were not worse then mad were you mad you should be tied vp Els were you suffered to goe abroad for feare folk● would flye from you and then should you doe litle hurt Pag. 145 How say you sir Minister Bishop ought the minister to be lawfully called Pag. 146 Touching the exercise of your ministerie you doe all thinges without order vnlesse ye meane such order as Theeues obserue among them selues in distribution of their robberies Pag. 153 If he were so folish to thinke so yet you M. Iewel in that behalfe should not beare the bable with him speaking of Nilus a Greeke writer a learned man and a reuerent Bishop Pag. 162. You shew your selfe to be a man of euill disposition no man euer said it but Illyricus or bawdy Bale Namely that pope Zosimus corrupted the councel of Nice the trueth where of notwithstanding is proued by B. Iewel out of the Aphricane councel cap. 101. 102. 103. Concil Carthag 6. cap. 4. Concil Florentin sess 20. Pag. 164. You are errant slaunderous liers how seemeth not this wicked generation to spring of the deuil because M. Iewel saith by the testimonie of Alphons de castro Sabellic Platina others that pope Liberius was an Arian heretike Pag. 189. This sir defender learned in the schoole of Sathan and now lieth bound in Sathan fatters Pag. 201. Their Bishops for custody of their chastity after their former olde yokefellowes decease solace them selues with new strumpets Pag. 209. Of what small substance this reason is the veriest Coblers of all their Ministers if they can reade any english beside their communion booke may easely perceiue B. Iewell telleth Harding he might haue remembred that not long since Iulius the 2. of a wherrislaue was made Pope but wee haue no coblers in the ministerie Pag. 290. Mauger the malice of the deuil and of all the sacramentaries the old trueth shall preuaile he meaneth the conuersion and transsubstantiating as he calleth it of the bread and wine in the sacrament into the verie body and blood of Christ. But this is no trueth at all neither old nor auncient confussed by D. Tunstall to haue come in twelue hundred yeres after the gospell as in that place it is manifestly prooued Pag. 297. Now sir I report me to euerie man that hath sense whether I may not lawfully giue you the Menti as for manners sake I may vse the Italian terme and chalenge you in plaine termes of a lie for vttering this vntrueth and yet there is no vntrueth vttered see the place Pag. 313. It liked your filthie spirite with vile wordes to bring that holy mysterie into contempt wherein you do the Deuill author of all heresies the greatest seruice that may be deuised because with Origen he had affirmed that the bread in the sacrament as touching the material substance thereof goeth into the bellie and