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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

but persecuted with Whips and Tortures and yet even in those things as in some particular good they used to glory You will perhaps object to them what St. Paul attributes to the Jews That there was a Vail drawn over their Hearts when they read Moses or any of the Old Prophets so that they could not attain to the Temporal Prerogative and External Priviledge of the Church of which they ought to have been the Architects and Governours Indeed at the very beginning of his first Book that great Hebrew Prophet has most Elegantly writ God made two great Lights the one to rule by Day and the other to rule by Night Which words do plainly demonstrate that the Future dominion of the Church was to be much greater and more Splendid then the Imperial Majestty For thus writes Innocent III. to the Illustrious Emperor of Constantinople You ought to know says he c. 6. Solicitae de major obed that God made two great Lights in the Firmaments of Heaven the greater Light to rule by Day and the lesser Light to rule by Night both great but the one greater To the Firmament of Heaven that is the CATHOLICK CHURCH God made two great Lights that is instituted two Powers which are the Papal Authority and Regal Dignity but that which is to rule by Day that is over Spiritual things is the greater but that over Carnal the less that there may be known to be as much difference between Popes and Kings as there is between Sun and Moon The Pope adds That though he writ not these things as chiding to the Emperour yet that he might with reason chide him How much more then are you to be chid O ye Apostles That should have had more Understanding in the explaining Oracles then any little worldly King or Byzantine Prince As for what the Glossary on the Canon Law adds Whilst the Earth is seven times bigger then the Moon and the Sun eight times bigger then the Earth The Papal Power must consequently be fifty seven times bigger then Regal Dignity This I say I do not wonder you were ignorant of nor can I accuse you for it since in truth this observation could not have been deduced but out of new and very particular principles and that by the assistance of most subtil Logick to you unknown The same Moses sets forth a most exact Image of the Royal Papacy in Melchisedeck who did praefigure the Majesty of St. Peter and his Successors yet St. Peter understood not a word of this no nor St. Paul neither For as for the first that dignity which he ought to have vindicated for himself only he declared common to all Christians and when from thence he ought to have asserted his own Authority over the universality of mankind he collects the quite contrary to wit That the Clergy ought to be subject to every Ordinance of Man 1 Pet. 2 9-14 whether to the King as Supreme or to Governours as being sent by him And the latter in his Epistle to the Hebrews has indeed largely and laboriously discoursed many things but in a far different sense concerning the Priesthood of Melchisedeck when he ought to have explained only that one thing that he and his Successors had Melchisedeck for their Prototype As Campanel de Mon. Hisp c. 5. for he is indeed a High-Priest as of the Patriarchate of Abraham so of the Order of Melchisedeck and him God has appointed a Royal Priesthood and armed him as well with the Civil as Spiritual Sword for if it were otherwise Christ would be a diminutive Law-giver and not as Melchisedeck who was at once both King and Priest And that same Ignorance of his St. Paul has elsewhere as well as in this Epistle to the Rom. c. ix more openly betray'd For when as Brevengius witnesses Esau and Jacob In auctar Epist obse vir were types of the Hereticks and Catholicks and that the first signified that the Lutherans and Calvinists should lead a Life of Poverty and Affliction but the other that the Catholicks after his Example should abound in all Riches and Delights Paul omitting all those things which only made to this purpose explains both Stories of Mans Eternal Damnation and Salvation which he should obtain after the putting off Mortality which error is the more inexcusable because he might easily have learnt from the salutation of Gabriel to the Virgin Mary which doubtless was sometimes repeated in those days That our Pope was to Reign over the House of Jacob for ever Luke 1.33 that is both he and all the Clergy following him shall live Plentifully and Splendidly in this World as most subtilly he again divined whom we have before praised Lymphata mente Sacerdos Frantick or Phantastical Priest But with the same most manifest error do's St Paul wrest that Prophecy in the Eighth Psalm 1 Cor. XV. Heb. 11. to Christ alone God shall put all things under his Feet When by that is clearly meant Peter and Paul and their Successors in the See of Rome To wit To them God shall subject the Sheep that is the Christians the Bulls that is the Jews and Hereticks the Beasts of the Field that is Brevingius and the Pagans the Fishes of the Sea that is the Souls in Purgatory Summa Theol. Part. 3. c. 5. and the Fowls of Heaven that is the Blessed Spirits and Angels as full of Enthusiasm the most spiritual Antoninus explains it But it exceeds all manner of wonder that these unlearned Apostles should not lay hold upon those things which Isaiah so diligently inculcated concerning the Power and Dignity of the Pope of Rome and the Catholick Church under him That unless any one with that late Arch Heretick Cocceius will transpose every thing into a Spiritual sense he will be forced to confess that it cannot be otherwise explained then as the most Noble Count of Claraval not so lately has done it Scioppius in eo ad nobil Germ de solendo re div Eccl. Ingolst 40. 1605. According to whose interpretation the Gentiles walked says the Prophet speaking of the Roman Church They walked in thy Light and Kings in the Brightness of thy Rising Then shalt thou see and wonder and rejoyce when the riches of the Sea and all the substance of the Gentiles shall come unto thee The Sons of strangers shall build thy Temples and their Kings shall minister unto thee Thy Gates shall be open day and night that they may bring unto thee the Riches of all Nations and their Kings shall be brought Whatever Kingdom will not serve thee shall Perish The Emperours of the Heathens that oppressed thee shall adore the footsteps of thy Successors I will place thee in the Pride of Generations that is in Secular Pomp and Splendor and thou shalt suck the Milk of the Gentiles Chald. Thou shalt satiate thy self with the riches of the People and thou shalt suck the brests of Kings LXX Interpret Thou shalt devour the