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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96073	A modest discourse, of the piety, charity & policy of elder times and Christians. Together with those their vertues paralleled by Christian members of the Church of England. / By Edward Waterhouse Esq;	Waterhouse, Edward, 1619-1670.	1655 (1655)	Wing W1049; Thomason E1502_2; ESTC R208656	120,565	278

appointment but of divine approbation So say I in the case of Ceremonies so far as they relate to the usefull Order and Ornament of the Church they are not only not to be contemned but honoured and kept And these that are hotly violent against them quâ such had best consider that there may be use of them to do the drudgery of worship and to stave off prophanesse and when they are emploied but as Cryars of Courts of Justice are to minde men of their reverence to what is sacred and to learn them to be bare and submisse to their betters there is no ill construction can be reasonably made of them I know they have and ever will be while men are ignorant ambitious and worldly subject to be abused partly by the ignorance of superstitious people and partly by over activity of men of note in the Church who of good purpose introduced them as did S t Chrysostome Church-Musick into the Church at Constantinople to prevent the Arians withdrawing of the Orthodox to their Church or Oratories in which they had such Musick I know I say that by this and other means the number of Ceremonies grew so great that the Church was not able to abide them That S t Augustine and many others greatly inveighed against them and wished correction of them And therefore as all things of discipline and order constituted by man may upon just cause be ordered and altered as to prudence shall seem most meet Provided it be done in lawfull manner and by persons lawfully called thereto so endeavoured many in the Church to put a stop to this evil and to offer a remedy thereto But alas It was a disease past cure Men of estimation hugg'd their own Apes and in the customes and Rites of their own initiation hung up Trophees and Banners to their Memories happy was he thought that could travell farthest in this wildernesse of imagination and have the remarque of adding something to Church-Solemnity under pretence of some notable zeal noble charity devout-rapture matchlesse self-deniall so that at length the Ceremonies grew to have no name but Legion for they were many which made many holy men cry out against them and some professe that the soul of Religion was overlaid by the body yea every thing so out of order that even Pope Adrian the 6. in his Instructions to his Legate professed Scimus in hac sancta sede aliquot jam annis multa abominanda fuisse nay for many years before him holy S t Bernard cried out against some of place as more proggers for their own advantage then the glory of Christianity Vides omne Ecclesiasticum zelum ●ervere sola pro dignitate tuenda honori totum datur sanctitati nihil aut parum lib. 4. de Consid ad Eugenium Heu Heu Domine Deus ipsi sunt in persecutione primi qui videntur in Ecclesia primatum diligere Yea even in the Councel of Trent about the gathering and managing of which more carnal policy was expressed then comported with the simplicity of Christ and the reall honour of his pretended Vicar there was a loud out cry againsi extravagant Ceremonies And that from the mouths of Learned Prelates and Friars of the Papacy Insomuch that Langi Archbishop of Saltzburg said It was but reasonable to be disburthened of them But the Pope and his party had too much gain by this craft to part with them cheaply The Colledge of Parish ● Priests at Rome is now become a conclave of Cardinals and hath Church-Princes and the Pope Head of the Church to rule it which way it will yea his Palace the Commonwealth of Christians as Albergatus his words are to the Cardinall Nephew to Gregory the 13 th They I say becoming so great must have support And finding this among the politique accoutrements of the Papacy could not give ought but a deaf ear to those endeavours Nothing obtaining audience at Rome but what hath the Oratory of gain or the impulse of invincible necessity The Crys and humble Remonstrances of the Waldenses Nicholaus Clemingius Petrus de Aliaco Humbertus de Romania Gulielmus Parisiensis Petrarch Bernard Adrian the 6 th Cornelius Antonius Picus Mirandula Lawrentius Cardinal of Ratisbon Gilbertus the Monk Durand the Schoolman all which in their times importuned Reformation produced nothing those Addars of Rome would not hear the voice of these charmers though they charmed wisely till Luther broke out no general Councel could be gained and when that was brought about there was such tricks such postings from Trent to Rome such designing things to crafty and secular ends such tying up of the Fathers and Prelates there convened that some of the braver spirits muttered that the Pope did but hold the world in hand that he called that Councel to reform the Church but that he ins●nded nothing lesse which made the French Embassador protest In the Name of his Master and the French Church that they would not obey any thing co●cluded there for as much as they were the Decrees of Pope Pius the fourth rather then of the Councel all things being done at Rome not at Trent Now as it were the Axe is laid to the Root of the Tree Germany reaks on t the heat Luther had roused up in her Many of the Prelates faithfull enough to the Papacy in spiritualibus are not displeased at the cheque that this new appearance is expected to give to the career of the Conclavique policy and divers Princes not only not oppose Luther but openly mediate for him and at last prove protectors of him The Germans naturally sturdy and rough enough adore this new risen Star and use pretences of zeal for warrànts to violence and extravagancy Religious men and houses go to wrack and all the symptoms of popular dirity and confusion are visible Many partiall Reformations there were in some parts of Germany and France and sundry Princes favoured Luther wherein his enterprises gratified their interests as to Supremacy and justification of Princely authority against the Popes Usurpation the Emperour Charles the 5 th the then King of France and Henry the 8 th of this Land found not themselves aggrieved Vnus in mundo Sol Vnus in regno Rex Vna in Religione Religio ne ubi non una ubi multa nulla fiat saith the Politique Marselaer as Luther by distracting the Papal affairs did them no disservice so silently they applauded him but when once Religion grew concerned then all of them fell foul upon him Henry the 8 th wrote against him and the other two Princes prosecuted the Lutherans severely So God calling up Luther and calling out of this life Henry the 8 th and the Crown of his Land descending to his Son and Heir Edw. the 6 th Reformation began to be in credit here also In the short Reign of this blessed Josiah by the counsell of his godly Uncle the Protector of his person and Government