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A02563 The olde religion a treatise, wherin is laid downe the true state of the difference betwixt the reformed, and Romane Church; and the blame of this schisme is cast vpon the true authors. Seruing for the vindication of our innocence, for the setling of wauering minds for a preseruatiue against Popish insinuations. By Ios. Hall, B. of Exon. Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656. 1628 (1628) STC 12690; ESTC S117610 79,903 246

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for vs against the Pride of his following Successours he could not haue set a keener edge vpon his stile Consonant whereto it is yet extant in the very Canon Law as quoted by Gratian out of the Epistle of Pope Pelagius the second Vniuersalis autem nec etiam Romanus Pontifex appelletur Not the Bishop of Rome himselfe may bee called Vniuersall Yet how famously is it knowne to all the World that the same Gregories next Successour saue one Boniface the third obtained this title of vniuersall Bishop from the Emperour Phocas which the said Emperour gaue him in a spleene against Cyriacus Patriarch of Constantinople for deliuering Constantina the Wife of Mauritius and her Children or as some others relate it vpon a worse occasion And accordingly was this haughty title communicated by the same power to the See of Rome and by strong hand euer since maintained This qualification their Register Platina confesses was procured not without great contention And Otho Frisingensis fully and ingenuously writeth thus Gregorie departed hence to the Lord After whom the next saue one Boniface obtained of Phocas that by his authoritie the Romane Church might bee called the head of all Churches For at that time the See of Constantinople I suppose because of the seat of the Empire translated thither wrote her selfe the first Thus their Bishop Otho Now if any man shall think that hence it will yet follow that the See of Rome had formerly enioyed this honour how euer the Constantinopolitan for the present shouldred with her for it Let him know the ground of both their challenges which as it was supposed by Otho So is fully for the satisfaction of any indifferent iudgement layd forth in the Generall Councell of Chalcedon The same say those Fathers we determine of the priuiledges of the most holy Church of Constantinople called New Rome For the Fathers haue iustly heretofore giuen priuiledge to the Throne of old Rome because that Citie was then the Gouernesse of the world and vpon the same consideration were the hundred and fiftie Bishops men beloued of God moued to yeeld equall priuiledges to the Throne of new Rome rightly iudging that this Citie which is honoured with the Empire and Senate and is equally priuiledged with old Rome the then Queene of the world should also in Ecclesiasticall matters bee no lesse extolled and magnified Thus they And this act is subscribed Bonifacius Presbyter Ecclesiae Romanae statui subscripsi I Boniface Presbyter of the Church of Rome haue so determined and subscribed Et caeteri c. And the rest of the Bishops of diuers Prouinces and Cities subscribed What can be more plaine This headship of the Bishop was in regard of the See and this headship of the See was in regard of the preeminence of the Citie which was variable according to the changes of times or choyce of Emperours But Binius wrangleth here Can we blame him when the free-hold of their Great Mistresse is so neerely touched This act saith he was not Synodicall as that which was closely and cunningly done in the absence of the Popes Legates and other Orthodox Bishops at the instance of Anatolius Patriarch of Constantinople an ambitious man by the Easterne Bishops only How can this plea stand with his owne confessed subscription Besides that their Caranza in his Abridgement showes that this point was long and vehemently canuassed in that Councell betweene Lucentius and Boniface Legates of the Romane Church and the rest of the Bishops and at last so concluded as we haue related not indeed without the protestation of the sayd Legates Nobis praesentibus e. The Apostolike See must not in our presence be abased Notwithstanding this act then carried and after this Pope Simplicius succeeding to Hilarius made a decree to the same purpose not without allusion to this contention for precedencie that Rome should take place of Constantinople Yea so vtterly vnthought of was this absolute Primacie and headship of old as that when the Roman Dition was brought downe to a Dukedome and subiected to the Exarchate of Rauenna the Arch-Bishop of Rauenna vpon the verie same grounds stucke not as Blondus tells vs to striue with the Bishop of Rome for prioritie of place So necessarily was the rising or fall of the Episcopall Chaire annexed to the condition of that Citie wherein it was fixed But in all this we well see what it is that was stood vpon an arbitrable precedencie of these Churches in a prioritie of order and according thereunto the Bishop of Rome is determined to be primae sedis Episcopus the Bishop of the first See A style which our late learned Soueraigne professed with Iustinian not to grudge vnto the moderne Bishops of that See But as for a Primacie of Soueraignty ouer all Churches and such an Headship as should enforme and enliue the body and gouerne it with infallible influences it is so new and hatefull as that the Church in all ages hath opposed it to the vtmost neither will it bee endured at this day by the Greeke Church notwithstanding the colourable pretence of subscription hereunto by their dying Patriarch Ioseph of Constantinople in the late Florentine Councell and the letters of vnion subscribed by them Anno 1539. Yea so farre is it from that as that their Emperour Michael Paleologus for yeelding a kinde of subiection of the Easterne Bishops to the Roman would not bee allowed the honour of Christian buriall as Aemilius hath recorded And in our time Basilius the Emperour of Russia which challengeth no small part in the Greeke Church threatned to the Popes Legate as I haue beene informed an infamous death and buriall if hee offered to set foot in his Dominions out of a iealous hate of this vsurpation SECT II. The newnesse of challenged Infallibilitie THe particularities of this new arrogation of Rome are so many that they cannot be pent vp in any strait roome I will only instance in some few The Popes infallibilitie of Iudgement is such a paradoxe as the very Histories of all times and proceedings of the Church doth sufficiently conuince For to what purpose had all Councels beene called euen of the remotest Bishops to what purpose were the agitations of all controuersall causes in those Assemblies as Erasmus iustly obserues if this opinion had then obtained Or how came it about that the sentences of some Bishops of Rome were opposed by other Sees by the Successours of their owne by Christian Academies if this conceit had formerly passed for currant with the World How came it to passe that whole Councels haue censured and condemned some Bishops of Rome for manifest Heresies if they were perswaded before hand of the impossibilitie of those errours Not to speake of Honorius of Liberius and others the Councell of Basil shall be the voyce of common obseruation Multi Pontifices c. Many Popes say they are recorded to haue
and seduction And if any of our people loath this Manna because they may gather it from vnder their Feete let not their palates be humourd ic this wanton nauseation They are worthy to fast that are wearie of the Bread of Angels And if herein we bee curious to satisfie their rouing appetite our fauour shall be no better then Iniurious So wee haue seene an vndiscreete Schoole-master whiles he affects the thankes of an ouerweening Parent marre the progresse of a forward Child by raysing him to an higher forme and Author ere he haue wel learned his first rules whence followes an emptie ostentation and a late disappointment Our fidelitie and care of profit must teach vs to driue at the most sure and vniuersall good which shall vndoubtedly bee best attained by these safe and needfull ground-workes From these tender pastures let mee leade you and you others to the still Waters Zeale in the Soule is as naturall heat in the body there is no life of Religion without it but as the kindliest heat if it bee not tempered with a due equalitie of moysture wasts it selfe and the body So doth zeale if it be not moderated with discretion and charitable care of the common good It is hard to bee too vehement in contending for maine and euident truthes but litigious and immateriall verities may soone be ouer-striuen for in the prosecution whereof I haue oft lamented to see how heedlesse too many haue beene of the publike welfare Whiles in seeking for one scruple of truth they haue not cared to spend a whole pound-weight of precious Peace The Church of England in whose motherhood wee haue all iust cause to pride our selues hath in much wisdome and pietie deliuered her iudgment concerning all necessary points of religiō in so compleat a body of Diuinitie as all hearts may rest in These wee read these we write vnder as professing not their truth onely but their sufficiencie also The voice of God our Father in his Scriptures and out of these the voyce of the Church our Mother in her Articles is that which must both guide and settle our resolutiōs Whatsoeuer is besides these is but either priuate or vnnecessarie and vncertain Oh that whiles we sweat and bleed for the maintenance of these oracular truthes we could be perswaded to remit of our Heat in the pursuit of opinions These these are they that distract the Church violate our peace scandalize the weake aduantage our enemies Fire vpon the Hearth warmes the body but if it be mis-placed burnes the house My brethren let vs bee zealous for our God Euery heartie Christian will powre Oyle and not Water vpon this holy flame But let vs take heed least a blind selfe loue stiffe preiudice and factious partialitie impose vpon vs in stead of the causes of God Let vs be suspicious of all New verities and carelesse of all vnprofitable And let vs hate to thinke our selues either wiser then the Church or better then our superiors And if any man thinke that he sees further then his fellowes in these Theologicall prospects let his tongue keepe the counsel of his eyes Least whiles he affects the fame of deeper learning he embroyle the Church and rayse his glory vpon the publike ruines And ye worthy Christians whose soules God hath entrusted with our spirituall Guardianship be ye alike minded with your teachers The motion of their tongues lyes much in your eares your modest desires of receiuing needfull and wholsome truthes shal auoide their labour after friuolous and quarrelsome curiosities God hath blessed you with the reputation of a wise and knowing people In these diuine matters let a meeke sobrietie set boūds to your inquiries Take vp your time and hearts with Christ and Him crucified with those essentiall truthes which are necessarie to saluation Leaue al curious disquisitions to the Schooles and say of those problemes as the Philosopher did of the Athenian shops How many things are here that we haue no need of Take the neerest cut yee can yee shall finde it a side way to heauen yee need not lengthen it with vndue circuitions I am deceiued if as the times are yee shall not find worke enough to beare vp against the oppositions of professed hostility it is not for vs to sqander our thoughts and houres vpon vse-lesse janglings Wherewith if we suffer our selues to be still taken vp Satan shal deale with vs like some craftie cheater who whiles he holds vs at gaze with trickes of iugling pickes our pockets Deare brethren what euer become of these worthlesse driblets bee sure to looke well to the free-hold of your saluation Errour is not more busie then subtile Superstition neuer wanted sweet insinuations make sure worke against these plausible dangers Suffer not your selues to bee drawne into the net by the common stale of the Church Know that outward visibilitie may too well stand with an vtter exclusion from saluation Saluation consists not in a formalitie of profession but in a soundnesse of beliefe A true body may be ful of mortall diseases So is the Romane Church of this day whom we haue long pitied and laboured to cure in vaine If she will not bee healed by vs let not vs be infected by her Let vs bee no lesse ielous of her Contagion then she is of our Remedies Hold fast that precious Truth which hath been long taught you by faithfull Pastors confirmed by cleare euidences of Scriptures euinced by sound reasons sealed vp by the bloud of our blessed Martyrs So whiles no man takes away the Crowne of your constancie yee shall be our Crowne and reioycing in the day of the Lord Iesus To whose all-sufficient grace I commend you al and vow my selfe Your common Seruant in him whom we all reioyce to serue IOS EXON The Contents CHAP. I. THe extent of the differences betwixt the Churches Fol. 1. CHAP. II. The Originall of the differences Fol. 7. CHAP. III. The Reformed vniustly charged with noueltie heresie schisme 14. CHAP. IV. The Roman Church guiltie of this schisme 22 CHAP. V. The newnesse of the Article of Iustification by inherent righteousnesse 27 SECT II This doctrine proued to be against Scripture 36 SECT III. Against reason 42 CHAP. VI. The newnesse of the doctrine of merit 45 SECT II Against Scripture 48. SECT III. Against reason 50 CHAP. VII The newnesse of the doctrine of Transubstantiation 53 SECT II Against Scripture 62 SECT III. Against reason 67 CHAP. VIII The newnesse of the Halfe-Communion 71 SECT II Against Scripture 75 SECT III. Against reason 77 CHAP. IX The newnesse of the Missall Sacrifice 79 SECT II Against Scripture 81 SECT III. Against reason 84 CHAP. X. The newnesse of Image-worship 87 SECT II Against Scripture 94 SECT III. Against reason 98 CHAP. XI The newnesse of Jndulgences and Purgatorie 100 SECT II Against Scripture 108 SECT III. Agai●st reason 112 CHAP. XII The newnesse of Diuine Seruice in an vnknowne tongue 114 SECT II Against Scripture 120 SECT III.