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A16459	A defence of the olde, and true profession of Christianitie against the new, and counterfaite secte of Iesuites, or fellowship of Iesus: Written in Latine by P. Boquine a Frenchman, borne in Borges, & Professor of Diuinitie, in the Vniuersitie of Heidelberge: Translated into Englishe by T. G. Whereby maye bee perceiued, howe falslye the Iesuites vsurpe the name of Iesus, and how farre off they are, from the thing signified thereby, and what their profession, and purpose is in truth: otherwise then they beare the worlde in hande.; Assertio veteris ac veri Christianismi adversus novum et fictum Iesuitismum seu Societatem Iesu. English	Boquin, Pierre, d. 1582.; T. G., fl. 1581.	1581 (1581)	STC 3371; ESTC S116194	81,465	194

noone For God and the world are of such contrary desires one to y e other that Iames doubteth not to say that the friendshippe of the world is enimity with God and that whosoeuer desireth the friendship of the world is made an enemie vnto God Whosoeuer therfore is not an aduersary vnto the world and hath not bidden battel vnto it and doth not declare the same rather in deede then in word is not to be counted y e friend much les y e felow of God For Christ also hath sufficiently shewed that no man can be addicted to them both and loue them both Paule allegeth no other reason why Demas forsooke him but that hee had imbraced this present world Furthermore Iohn in his first Epistle and second chapter hath liuelye paynted out the nature of the world and what his lustes are wherein also he confirmeth the former sentence of Iames. Whatsoeuer saith he is in the world the luste of the flesh the luste of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the father Now it is to bee considered amongest whom these affections doe raigne and these markes appeare If there be any that dare denye that they are chiefly to be séene in the courtes of the Bishops of Rome of Cardinals and of Bishoppes I will not doubt to affirme that hee is touched with no féeling of conscience and with no shame For who vnlesse he be marueylously shameles wil deny that their palaces or houses more stately then kinges are schooles of all kinde of pleasures Who knoweth not that they and their reteyners doe liue in excessiue ryot and do fare most delycately and dayntely Truely that olde prouerbe a Prelates feast did neuer so well agree vnto any as vnto these men I speake nothing of the monstrous outrages which are done in secreate those that are openly done do suffice and giue euident testimony thereof If it hath bene heretofore truly and worthily saide let him depart from the courte that mindeth to bée godly howe much more truely and rightly I pray you may it be saide of these men whosoeuer desireth to haue fellowship with Christ and friendship with God Let him beware flée and abhorre these companies and fellowships For he that goeth about to ioyne the one of these with the other he thinketh and doeth as wisely as if he should endeuour to make fire and water agrée together If these newe fellowes are so desirous of the Apostolicall temperance continence and abstinence as they professe them selues in their apparell iesture wordes and writinges howe commeth it to passe that they couet so much to nestle thēselues so neare the Popes kitchins It is maruel that they auoid not smoke which is noysome to students of learning the sauor of rosted meat which is wont to be vnpleasaunt vnto those which are fasting They that in déede hate wickednesse doe diligently remoue from them all those thinges whiche entise men therunto and doe diligently cut of all occasions thereof Yea theire eares can scarce abide their names And many not without cause doe thinke that this cause especially brought foorth the olde solitarie lyfe For those goings aside from the multitude and company of men do séeme to haue tended to that purpose as the monumentes of antiquitie touching the same do plainly declare But these vpstart fellowes of whom it is reported that they meane to raise vp the godlye antiquitie beinge as it were buried take a cleane contrary way from it To the intent they might flée from the worlde they séeke the verie marowe and fatte of the worlde to the intent they might auoyde filthinesse they cast them selues into the gutter Turrianus wryteth that he was before he tooke vpon him the profession of the secte of the Iesuites in the world and so he would conclude that he is now out of the worlde following I thinke them which cast themselues into hote burninge coales least they should be burnte or which for feare of rayne least they should be wet doe dreanch themselues in a ryuer Furthermore they that are desirous of godlynes from the hart indeuour to goe before others and prouoke thē by their example to vertue doe euen auoyde all occasiōs which might cause men to suspect the contrarye of them Now who would not beleue much more suspecte that those which follow the sauour of the kitchen be rather geuen vnto voluptuousnes then to temperance and albeit they fayne themselues to be abstinent yet that they do liue ryoteously For it is not said for nought if thou dwell by a lame man thou shalt learne to be lame But these men wil say that their purpose and end is to cure the diseases of y e church and that they doe follow cunning and wise Phisitions which doe verie well thinke that it ought to be the chiefest endeuour to take away the causes of the diseases for as much as they perceiue the Bishops of Rome and Prelates to be the fountaines of all those euils wherewith the church is greatly pressed and well neare oppressed as all men likewise doe confesse that therefore they haue most iust cause to beginne amongest them their cure These thinges are well saide but their déeds must answere their sayings Verely they are but vaine bragges whether they holde their peace or say any thing to the contrarie For it is no wise mans part as one well saieth to beléeue more those thinges which thou hearest then which thou seest Neyther are there more sure testimonies of our intentes and willes then the effectes thereof Therefore we do then especially beléeue and confesse that the causes of diseases are cured when wée sée the diseases to be assuaged and diminished But now what signes and tokens of this assuaging of the diseases doe there appeare vnto vs or what can these newe Phisitions shewe vs whom haue they of so many naughtie and leaude persons brought vnto a better trade or a sounder minde Errours and naughtines amongst them are not only not diminished but more and more increased In some of these gouernours of their church superstition together with ignorance of heuenly doctrine groweth daily more stronger in other some the contempt of true religion waxeth greater in most part either Atheisme or Epicurisme doe openly raigne Their maners are verie corrupte all discipline yea that which the Popes themselues haue inuented and deuised is quite decayed And what shoulde I bring any witnesses hereof séeing the thing it selfe soundeth it out Who knoweth not that that moste gréeuous complainte which is in the Prophet Ose the 4. Chapter was neuer more iustly eyther spoken or heard of then at this daye to witte There is no trueth no mercy and no knowledge of God in the lande by swearing and lying and killing and stealing and whoring they breake out and blood toucheth blood for these thinges are done without controlement and these wounds are séene both euerie where and especially amongst

are thereby signified By the iudgemente of this learned and holy man we vnderstande that it becōmeth not the godly to speake as they luste and carnally to conceaue of matters of religion but that religiously and reuerently they vse a certaine manner of wordes Before Saint Augustine his time wee reade that Ieremy a good writer did woorthely reproue in the Valentinian heretickes the libertie of such kinde of woordes For the holy Ghost would haue vs so framed that we should neyther thinke neither say any thinge but by his direction The history of the holye Scriptures setteth foorth vnto vs many examples of a mind so framed and ordered vnto godlines that it will take in hand all thinges religiously but that cometh néerest to my purpose which Moyses writeth in many places of the holye endeueur the godlye had in geuinge names vnto men euen from the beginning There it is to be séene by the reasons which are ioyned almost to euery name that they attempted nethinge no not in that matter whiche may séeme to be of no great waighte vpon fleshly affection but that they did al things hauing the feare of God to guide them and his holy Spirite to teache them which thinge I woulde haue well marked leaste any man shoulde lightlye estéeme thereof and thinke it nothing materiall vnto godlines Yea and the selfe same wryter as do also other witnesseth that God himselfe hath either geuen or chaunged the names of some whome he had made choyse of for greate matters And the same to haue béene done also of Christe the historye of the Gospell doth diligentlye and that not without cause rehearse Uerely he that is touched with the feare of God will neuer suffer himselfe to be perswaded that those thynges are eyther nothynge worth or triflinge whiche are so earnestlye repeated by the holye writers Neyther let any man saye that thys was onely done in some fewe men For we reade the same to haue bene vsed in all orders and degrées of men which God by his wise counsaile hath chosen and appoynted both to teach and to rule others and to establishe comely and orderly gouernemente in his churche then which nothinge can be imagined either more profitable or more honest and herehence is it that he woulde haue some both to bée and to bée called Apostels to speaks nothinge of the manner of the olde people some Euangelistes some Prophetes Bishops Pastors Doctors Elders and Deacons Which titles it is wel knowne to be neither idlely neither rashly either deuised or geuen For they that sée not the reason of their offices and functions to be conceiued therein are woorthy to sée nothinge For they to whome those offices are committed are plainely admonished what theyr duetye is or what they owe vnto other and what other should looke for at their handes what accompt they oughte to make of them That all these things are cōprehended in one worde it is cleare so that whosoeuer knoweth what these wordes meaneth doth also easelye vnderstande the same Neither shall it be amisse in my iudgement to knowe in these titles some steppes of Gods wisedome suche as appeare in the visible signes of the Sacraments which to haue bene most wisely chosen out and ordeyned all that are of sound iudgement do confes For they know which are rightly instructed in these misteries that God by these signes as it were visible wordes as Sainte Augustine is wonte to call thē doth speake vnto those that haue their eyes to sée and by these meanes doth teache them that are willinge to be taughte Like as then these sacramentall signes hath euerye one their significations apte and agréeable to the institution of God so by these titles they that are chosen and placed in those functions are put in mind of their dueties Wherefore euen as in the sacraments they that vnderstand not what the signes meane doe receaue them to their destruction as prophaners thereof so they that vsurpe the titles of these orders and adorne themselues therewithall and yet performe not the things signifyed thereby doubtles they shall be iustly punished in their due time of God the reuenger of so greate wickednesse as vniust vsurpers of holy thinges And let thess iolly fellowes tell me I pray you which no lesse fondlye or rather unpudently then boldly do faine and take to themselues names at theyr pleasure if any man in a well ordered common wealth should take vpon him any name belonginge to the chéefe Magistrate as of a kinge or such like or should vse the title appertayning to any other dignitie should not he vnlesse hee were holden of all men for a foole be sayd to haue vsurped the magistracie and bée proclaymed giltie of high treason Now if in ciuile dealinge man doth thus offend and therefore cannot escape vnpunished may the same bée done lawfully in the church of Christe Surely religion is defaced as much also in the very names and wordes And to adde this by the waye those that haue bene estéemed wysest amonge the profane Philosophers haue written that it is not for euery man to geue names vnto things and that he hath bene holden for most wise that first inuented names and applyed them vnto things whose opinion is manifestly warranted in that Moyses in Gen. 2. cap. the 19. verse sheweth that Adam being made vnto the image of God appointed names by the commaundement of God for euery liuing thing Yea and there are some that write that it skilleth much and is very behoufefull for the commō wealth what name euerie one man be called by who so list to way these things which I would briefly point at not stande vpon wil resolue I trust that it is not the part of a godly or wise man to faine at his luste and openly to vse either the name or the surname which agréeth not vnto anye thinge CAP. II. That the name of Iesus and tytle of Christ were geuen by the commaundement of the Father vnto the Sonne of God manifefled in fleshe AS Christ did not take vpon him as witnesseth the Author of the Epistle vnto the Hebrues Ca. 5. the office of a Byshoppe so it is manifest by the history of the Gospell that he tooke not vpon himselfe neithere the name of Iesus neither the title of Christ but that he was honored therwith by the decree and expresse commaundement of his euerlasting Father As for the name of Iesu both Mathew and Luke are euident witnesses that it was geuen him by the Angeles appointment and least it might séeme vnto any man either a thinge comminge by chaunce either not of purpose in flat words a most iust cause was therewithall ioyned by the heauenly messenger He shall saue saith he his people from their sinnes that is to saye the thinge it selfe shall answere this name least any man should thinke it to be a vaine imagination I wil not at this time dispute eyther of the originall

ouergone the former and that is fallen out which oftentimes we see to come to passe amongest trauellers that they that tooke their iorney laste do leaue them a great waye behinde them whiche went on their way first So muche in the compassing of matters can diligence speede and industrie do wherwith Satan their cōmon father hath furnished them aboue al other And in this thing we may perceiue y t which diuers times cōmeth to passe amōgst men that the yongest of many children are better beloued of the fathers then the other For the rest doe seeme in comparison of them to be cast of because they are not regarded these onely are their dearelings these are enriched and aduaunced to honours and dignities To be shorte a man would say that these were the lawfull and true children of the Romishe sea and that the other were now bastards Furthermore whether these doe follow also filthy lucre the inheritaunces whiche they haue gotten vnder the pretence of godlines defeating the lawfull heires doe sufficiently testifie These good felowes of Iesu of Iesu I say which openly professed him selfe to be poorer then foxes byrds doe refuse giftes yea beeing offered but doe most greedily accept of great houses and riches Whether likewise these holy men be kindled with the desire of bearing rule and do couet a tyrannie ioyned with the contumely of the Churche those can be fitte witnesses amongst whom they haue gotten and doe yet hold courts as they call them of inquisition of mens fayth Verely they laye vppon the necks of the godly and force them to beare the crosse of Christ whiche they are more afrayde to touche then were sometime the souldiours of the Romanes more cruelly then they did lay it vpon the shoulders of Symon of Cyrene By these and other things which it were to long to touche seuerally they that are not altogether blinde do easily perceiue howe great a likenes there is in all poyntes betwéene these counterfayt fellowes of Iesu and the olde aduersaries of Paule And for as muche as they can not denie that this Apostle was the most true felow of Iesu Christe all that are well in their wittes may iudge whether we ought not to call these mē more rightly Anti Iesuses and Antichrists then Iesuites and Christians of whiche name they seeme to be ashamed CAP. XV. That the auncient title of Christians is to be kept together with the auncient godlynes WE heare the dayly cōplaints of many for dissentions in religion which almoste are infinite vttering that old saying that they sée in deede whō they may shunne flee but that they see not whom to folow and for this cause we not only heare but also with great gréef sée most part of men to cast away all thought of religion much more the care therof As I cōfesse that complaynt of the nūber and diuersitie of dissentiōs to be most true which thing also greueth me very much so wheras they deny they sée whom to follow it is most certayne that it cōnteth not of the true desire of religion but of the hatred wearisomnes lothsomnes therof For if they were earnestly touched with the loue therof they would quickly see whom they are to folow Verely these cōplaining ouerde●nty felows séeme vnto me to do no otherwise then if many should striue together a great many torches beeing lighted at noone day which of them were to be taken followed for the brightest one offended with that striuing and multitude of lightes should hide him selfe in a dark hole and should sh 〈…〉 e all light As though he might not rather and also ought not to looke vppon the ●unne and folowe his light making no account of all the other lights God calleth vs with a lowde voyce vnto him selfe why then doth the horesy clamors of men hinder vs He hath opened an enteraunce vnto vs by his sonne as a moste right and straight waye and sure gate vnto him selfe why dothe the bypathes deuised by men trouble vs His voyce is cleare if so be we giue eare and be willing to be taught the waye also is playne and darke or harde to finde out vnto no mā but vnto them which refuse to open their eyes All men cry out that they loue the truth and bost that they seeke it but this speeche is in many mens mouthes very rise yet their mindes muse vppon other thoughtes and intende other purposes and are moued with no more loue of knowing the truth then was Pilate when he heard Christ speake of the truth And this is not the least cause of dissentions as I truste I shall at some time or other make euident If we loue and seeke the truth why do we more regarde and harken vnto men then God Whye haue wee not rather recourse vnto the very fountayne it selfe then stick so muche vnto the riuers Why are we rather tyed vnto things present then call to remēbraunce things that are past Why do we not rather fetch the forme of godlines rule of trueth from y e godly and learned antiquitie then runne vpon new rockes But to returne to this new garrison of Satā omitting at this present al other these confederates lately sprong vp beeing but yet children where as they endeuour to innouate all things cease not neuertheles to boast of antiquitie and obiect it forsooth against vs they commende in wordes that whiche they condemne in their doings they labor to establishe and auouche with their tong that which they ouerthrow and ouerturne with their hand We doe loue reuerence and desire to haue restored and as much as we can haue restored the doctrine and forme of religion and godlines which is auncient and Apostolicall notwithstanding these innouators are not ashamed to cast vs in the teeth with the desire of noueltie We account it to be extreme impietie and that it dothe as i● were condemne God of folly to goe about to rayse vp beeing buried and to bring to light agayne those old ordinaunces of Moses whiche God as he did once appoynt so did he after abrogate repeale Contrarily these men euen as did those Iewish Christians doe holde that they are to be kept and doe disanull those thinges that Christ by his Apostles hath placed in their roome that they mighte shewe them selues two manner of wayes to be enemies of God and of Christ in that they not only ordaine that whiche is not lawfull by Gods worde but ouerthrowe and repeale that which is lawfull or rather that which is ordayned and established The thing therefore it selfe sheweth that they haue bin suborned and substituted by Satan not to call backe agayne the auncient and true religion but to nourishe the confusion which he hath brought in this laste and as it were olde age of the church partly by cōsidering the errors which he hath already spread partly by encreasing them and by corrupting