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The vnmasking of the politique atheist By I.H. Batcheler of Diuinitie
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Hull, John, 1569 or 70-1627.
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And was not Iohannes de Casa an arche Prelate that wrote a Booke in the commendation of Sodomy Sinon caste tamen caute To omit their baptizing of Bels and their other fopperies are not these sufficieÌ„t to shew what house they come of Agrippaâ—duers Louaniâ—ns did not Ecchius call marriage beastlinesse and yet himselfe had three bastards the same yeare he disputed thereof at Lipsia But these chaste patrons do not forsweare fornication adulterie and vncleanenesse but onely lawful wedlocke and honest marriage Ross lib. de â—ust reip Christ Imp. eap 5. If I should tell you what smal conscience these Papists make of rayling slaundering Hard. in defens Apol. lying blaspheming their Atheisme would be ouer plaine and palpable Who so shall read Alanus Bristow Stapleton Rishton Hamilton Bellar. praefat 2â— controu de Christ Bozius Vlenberge Verstergan Ecchius Cocleus Stapilus Bolsecus Bellarmine RheÌ„mist vbiqâ— Harding and the Rhemish testament where they call the protestants Turkes Pagans Monsters miracles Gerions Briareans Minotaurs Centaures lyers impudent foolish shameles ignorant witles iewish Staple in Whittak de Iewello â—uâ—e 9. heathenish blasphemous villaines harlots madmen theues coblers cananites apostates heretickes diuells letchers tinkers tapsters fidlers pipers that they make no account of the articles of their faith Bellar. denotis Eccles lib. 4. cap. 8. and such like may easily discerne in them the spirit of the dragon and of Atheisme They make no bones to bely religious and good men so they might colour their religion as you may see by these two examples in steede of many They write that Caluin calling vpon the diuel blaspheming swearing gaue vp the ghost cursing the day when he began to apply himselfe to study and writing yea that in his life time he had forsaken the Church of God Cyprian and betaken himselfe to papisme but mendacia diâ— non fallunt lyes last not long For Caluin answering for himselfe saith fallitur Diabolus cum tota suâ— caterua Calu. in Epist instit Christiâ— si me putidis suis mendacijs obruendo hacindignitate fractiorem veâ— magis lentum fore putat quia Deum prosua immensa bonitate daturum mthicoÌ„sido vt in cursu sanctae suae vocationis aequabili tolerantia perseuerem the diuell is deceiued with all his army if ouercharging me with their stinking lies he thinks by this indignitie to weaken and discourage me because I trust that God of his goodnes will so inable me as I shall perseuere in the course of his holy calling with the same paines and patience And of Beza they set out many copies in print that himselfe at his death did turne Papist with him the whole church of Geneua in this sort Theod Reza a â—â—oan Guiâ— Stuckâ—uâ—â— Sac. Theâ—log in â—ccles Tiguriâ— profess Epist pastorum ac profess Geneuens responsioon putâ—diss impudentiss Commentum Monachorum sacr nomen Iesu ementium de Theâ—dori Bezâ—â— obiâ—u ciâ—â—dem ac totius Ecclesiâ— Genauenâ—ad pâ—o â—uum defectionem Theodorus Beza vt semortivicinuÌ„ sensit coraÌ„ pleno senatu Geneuensi palinodiam cecinit hortans et per dei amoreÌ„ eundeÌ„ senatuÌ„ totumque populuÌ„ Genâ—uensem rogans vt si cohaeredes Christi in aeterna vita esse velint relicto errore Caluinismi ad catholicae sâ—dis obseruantiâ—m et religionem toto pectore sese conuerterent c. which Beza himselfe suruiuing conuicted of falshood the whole Church of Geneua writing in their owne his behalfe proued to be a detestable slander shamâ—les lying fictioÌ„ And are they lesse liberall of their blasphemies that say we are able to do more theÌ„ we ought yea plusquaÌ„ reuer a facere teneamur Bellar. lib. 2. de Monach. cap. 13 more then we are bound to doe by the law of God And if we cannot keepe the law of God Deus esset omni tyranno ini quior et crudelior then were God more cruell and vniust then any tyrant Naziacez Notwithstanding 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not to sinne is aboue the reach of man RheÌ„ 1. Tim. â— Aquin. supple 25. q. art 1. And what Papist caÌ„ loue the Lord with all his hart minde soule and strength that make the Pope equal to God and his Christ Papa et Christus faciunt vnuÌ„ consistorium the Pope and Christ make one consistory That say Francis did as much as Christ imo plura fecit quam Christus yea he did more then Christ Pomormitan lib. confirmitat That call the scriptures dumbe Defens Apol. Iewell dead and Inckhorne diuinity yea deny there is any iot of diuinity in them que nos ad credeÌ„dum that can bind vs by religion to beleeue them Pigh 3. de eccl Eckius Is not this the very top of Atheisme to deny the scriptures to be the word of God Andrad lib. 3. defens concil Trid. For this cause they haue printed bookes of the insufficiency of the scriptures the vncertainty of the same Ecchius Enchir. de author eccle resp 3. de obiect haeret And now they must not bee Authenticke nisi ecclesiae authoritate vnlesse the Church authorize theÌ„ For omnis quae nunc est scripturarum authoritas ab ecclesiae authoritate dependet necessario all the authority which now the scripture hath depends necessarily vpon the authority of the church Pighsus lib. 1. de Hâ— rarch Eccles cap. 2. No neither should they be cannonicall nor be of any force among the Papists nisi nos ecclesiae doceret authoritas but for the authority of their Church yea tantum valent Hossius lib. 3. de author scrip quantum Aesopi fabulae but for the testimony of their Church they would esteeme no more of the scriptures theÌ„ they doe of Aesops fables Hossius lib. 2. cont Brenâ—â—n No maruell then if they make Dauid a Ballad maker and equall fables Canons Epistles Extrauagants Constitutions and traditions with the scripture or if they make new scriptures as Nouum Euangelium Hosius lib. de verbo Leâ— the new gospell Andrad lib. 2. Lindan lib. 1. c. 4. 5. dist 15. Sancta Roma our Ladies Psalter the legends of Martirs new sacraments prefer traditioÌ„s aboue the scripture and make traditions the foundation of the scriptures Scripturae authoritas euanescit penitus nisieam traditio in sundamentuÌ„ stabiliat wheras no Turke Ioh. Cuspian de Saracenis or SaraceÌ„ dare change one iot of Mahomets lawe the Papists dare change the law of God take the cup froÌ„ the people decreed by Pope Iohn the 23 Baptista Pane. câ—us in the counsel of ConstaÌ„ce mingle water with wine ad salt spittle oyle exorcismes what not vnto baptisme Yet the scripture permits none to know aboue that which is written Bellar. lib. 1. de baptism c. 2. 27. 1. Corinth 4. 1. Galathians 3. Romans no not an Angel from heauen for euery man is a
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But the Iesuites both against the scripture nature religion and all antiquity allow the murdering of Princes an euident signe who is their father The Papists say kings raigne by the Pope but the scripture saith they rule by God And he that resistes the king withstaÌ„des the ordinance of God Ieroboham was an Idolater yet none of the Propheâ—â— perswaded any of the people to kill him Ahab was an Idolater yet Elias seekes no insurrection Ieremy vnder Zedechias Daniel vnder Nabuchodonoser Christ vnder Pilate Iohn vnder Herod Paule vnder Faelix and Peter vnder Nero line yet moue not the people to rebellion But the Papists haue beene the authors almost of all the warres euersions and dissentions that haue happened for the space of 700. yeares in disturbed Christendom Gregory the second Gregory the third and Leo the third made Italy decline from their soueraigne Emperor Adrian the first set the Frenchmen against the Lombardes and maintained Pippins rebellions against king Childerick Were they not Popes that set the FreÌ„ch Germans at oddes that held war themselues against Henry the 4. the 5. Fredericke the first and the second Ludouick Bauarus and suggested others to do the like Were they not Popes that disturbed Naples Aragon sowed discorde betweene France and Spaine the Greekes and Normans England FraÌ„ce France and Germany Prince and people Hist Flor. lib. 1. Guiccard lib. 1. Machi hist Flor. lib. 1. Insomuch as Machauell could note the Romaine Church to bee the cause of all the calamities of Italy What should I here relate the hurliburlies raysed and increased by Iulius the second the slaughters caused by Innocentius the third Of Nice and Goâ—stantinopl Synod Carthag can 6.2 q. 2. c. placuit c. 36. Gratian. â—â—st 22. â—â—renouintes Tonstal burned English testaments at Paules crosse and Nicholas the third these may giue vs a tast that their whole religion is but politique Atheisme It were worth the noting to marke how they corrupt the scriptures suppresse the trueth depraue the auncient counsels falsifie Synods change the Canons set vp fictions displace antiquities forge nouelties falsifie laws faine authors peruert tables burne bills set some of the fathers vpon the racke thrust the rest into purgatory Witnes one for many Bellarmine their chiefe champion whose pollicy is sometime to change the state of the cause at his pleasure sometime to trouble the whole order with new distinctions on the wordes Now to giue one and the same author yea one and the same booke both the liking and the lie Index expurgatorius as it shall be for him or against him then to turne the affirmatiue sentences of the fathers into Negatiues Abraham Sculteti Epist nucupator and their negatiues into affirmatiues otherwhiles to quote halfe a speach and period for the whole and then againe to bring in counterfeites among the fathers coine yea and to preferre the barbarous translations of the Latins if they serue his turne before the purity of the Grecian coppies that make not for him And it is no pollicie to keepe their nouices froÌ„ reading the booke of protestants Concil Trid. or was it not foxlike cruelty to condemne William Tolwin for an heretick being maister of artes because he had bookes of Frith and Ridley Melanthon and the confession of the Germans Anno. 1541. compelling him to recant it at Paules crosse Bellar. lib. de Rom. pontific 2. 3. And now men must build their faith vpon the Popes mouth for he caÌ„not err Yet Liberius was an Arrian Acasias 2 Nouatian Honorius 2 Monothelite Siluester the 2. Iohn the 18. Gratian. 2. dist 19. Platina Luitprand Iohn the 19. Iohn the 20. Bennet the 8. Bennet the 9. Gregory the 7. were Negromancers Iohn the 13. maintained open stewes Boniface the 8. was fouÌ„d guilty of heresie murder Fascie tempo Theod. a Nieen lib 3. cap. 9. Abbas Vrsperg Simony and Iohn the 14. was conuicted of heresie by the counsell of Constance Howbeit the Papists would not beleeue the scriptures no not Christum natum passum c. Benno Cardinal that Chrst was borne suffred rose neither the resurrection life euerlasting the trinity no nor that there was a God Nisipropter ecclesiae authoritatem but for the authority of their Church and yet the church depends vpon the Pope Stapleton lib. 1. 10. sect 3. c. 2 sect 6. c 2.13 sect 12. qui pleruÌ„que tantuÌ„ in se fidei habet quantum Turcarum imperator who for the most part hath as much faith and religioÌ„ in him Whittach cont Staplet oc author sact script lib. 1. cap. 2. as their great Turke And I pray you what more high way can there be vnto Atheisme then to build faith scriptures church and all vpon the Pope in whome is nothing but a masse of heresie and infidelity No maruell now if the canon of the scripture be so vncertaine among the Papists seeing the Pope may detract adde vnto it what he list If the third councell of Carthage decree vpon a canon Trid. concil sess 4. cap. 2. yet may the councell of Trident adde vnto it Baruch and Ecclesiasticus by the priuiledge of his Popeship Rhenatus Bcnedictus vpon commission may adde the 3. Lib. 1. cap. 8. stromar 4. books of Esdras to the Canon And his papacie may put in more into the canon then either the Fathers Concil Laod. c. 84. Origin Gelasius Nazianz. Hieron in prolog Galiato Athanas in synops sacr script or the Laodicean councell and for the interpretations of the scriptures if the Romists interpret it it must stand for the word of God be it meuer so false and ridiculous But can the Papists deride their religion How thinke you what did Hildebrand the Pope wheÌ„ he asked councell of the diuell Hosius de expres verbo Dei or the Bishops the sacrifising Priests demanding Satans iudgement policie touching the ruine of the Florentines signo dato hostiam Benno Cardinal id est deum suum igni inijciunt when they receiued a discoÌ„tented signe Volater lib. 5. Georg. they threw their host that is their God into the fire Boniface the 8. because Procherus tooke part with the Gibellines Harding Confut. Apol. Anglic. which were his aduersaries said vnto him vpoÌ„ Ashwednesday the solemne day of ashes memento homo quod Gibellinus es Concil Later sess 10. sub Leone 10. et cuÌ„ Gibellinis in terraÌ„ reuerteris RemeÌ„ber maÌ„ not that thou art ashes but that thou art of the stocke and faction of the Gibellines Nauclerus Ann. 677 Agathon in the first generall Councell at Constantinople and that with the Gibellines thou shalt returne vnto the earth and forthwith he threw ashes in his face Do they not defend whoredome taking tribute à meretricibus of stewes and harlots do they not defend vsury and call them montes pietatis rockes and mountaines of piety and deuotion