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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17371	Maschil, or, A treatise to giue instruction touching the state of the Church of Rome since the Councell of Trent, whether shee be yet a true Christian church. And if she have denied the foundation of our faith. For the vindication of the right reuerend father in God, the L. Bishop of Exeter, from the cavills of H.B. in his book intituled The seven vialls. By Robert Butterfield Master of Arts, and minister of Gods Word.	Butterfield, Robert.	1629 (1629)	STC 4205; ESTC S120372	51,626	162

will destroy much poyson Many drinke of the Cup in the hand of the Mother of Fornications though some take deeper draughts than others to some of them which take downe● withall some reasonable portion o● Fundamentall truth by the mercy of God it may be an Antidote to expell the poyson from their hearts and striue so long with it till it qu●●● ouercome it that so that may bee fulfilled which our Lord promise● as a signe to follow those that beleeued on his Name That thoug● Mark ●6 18. they should drinke any deadly thi●● it should not hurt them Now yo● Comparison of extracting the spirit● i●id pa. 37. of Fundamentall truth through 〈◊〉 Popes Limbecke till nothing bee 〈◊〉 but a dead Vappa is very vnapt Fo● they that distill reserue that pure substance which they extract for the● vse casting away that which remaineth as vnprofitable So that by thi● Popery should refine not pollute t●● truth of God Thus vnhappy a●● you in your similitudes all along But good God what spirit possesseth this man that hee thus chaset● our Diuine and harmelesse Bishop who doth not so much argue for truth as beautifie and adorne it We all know that similitudes are brought to illustrate that which is already proued or taken for granted in the iudgement of the wisest no man vseth them as Arguments Our Reuerend Prelate intended not a disputation or if any not against any but the Romish Church How commeth it to passe that while hee forcibly bends himselfe against them he is by mis-construction made to plead for them and all his louely similitudes set vpon the racke as if they nourished some vnheard off monster When hee perceiued that vpon the first Edition of his Booke some as hee well hoped through ignorance rather ●han obstinacy were offended hee straight way addresseth himselfe to relieue those whom hee had no way harmed rectifying their iudgements that will yeelde to instruction and by a iudicious Apologie fully satisfying the truth and all that are impartiall louers thereof here hee speaketh home to the matter and leaueth no scruple vnresolued In this Mr. Burton can bee content to gleane taking vp now and then a sentence yet propounding more than he answers but for the former discourse hee lets not a tittle thereof fall to the ground vnsifted answering twenty lines with twenty pages But could neither his grauity his place nor his well-deseruings of the Church preuaile for him but he must needes come vnder the ferule or hath hee onely faulted in this kinde Surely no but furious persons strike them that come first in their way But what superstition doth your Limbecke extract out of the Similitude p●● 38. taken from Papinians ruled case That a sacred place loseth not the holinesse with the demolished walls Doth the Reuerend Bishop intend any thing but this That whatsoeuer is once dedicated to God ought not for euer to bee alienated it still in despite of malice and profanenesse remaineth his to whom it was intitled What haue wee then now to doe with beliuesse infused or affixed by any solemne act of consecration and for edifying the Faith of Christians he hath oftentimes like a true Scribe instructed for the Kingdome of Heauen brought out of his treasures both old and new Prouision for that purpose and is not yet drawne dry Comparisons as all other parts of learning he knoweth how to vse in their due place rather to helpe the vnderstanding than to beget Faith CHAP. V. Whether the diuorce bee sued out on Gods part or on the Church of Romes part THe Bishop goeth on If the Church of Rome were once the Spouse of ●hrist and her Adulteries are knowne yet the diuorce is not sued out that is Though she haue rebelled against God and on her part broken his Couenant yet hee hath not quite reiected her as yet Against this Mr. Bu●ton takes in hand to proue pa. 3● that on both parts this diuorce is formally sued out On her part because pa. 40. 41. c. faith he shee hath in the face of Men and Angels openly plainely expresly denyed Christ for her Husband For proofe whereof wee haue a Bull of Pope Pius 4. produced at large and from thence hee is not ashamed to affirme that Christ is therein as solemnly pa. 42. renounced as wee in our Baptisme renounce the Diuell and all his workes when there is not so much as one word or syllable of renouncing Christ there mentioned But this will come more fitly to bee examined anon when wee enquire how Christ is denyed in the Councell of Trent In the meane time let vs enquire how on Christs part the ●iuorce is sued out And that is in the Book of the Reuelation where she is called the Whoore and Come out of her my People pa. 43. c. Whence it is inferred If she bee Babylon If she be the Whoore shee is no longer Christs Spowse Answ Not onely of Israel but of Iudah was it said that the faithfull Esay 1. City was become a Harlot And God by his Prophets expostulates with them calling them a generation of Miscreants Witches children the seede of the Adulterer and the Whoore yet it cannot bee denied Esay 57. 3. but the Sheepe of his Visible flocke they continued euen in the depth of their disobedience and rebellion Now if it seeme strange to any that the Church of God while she playeth the Whoore should still be his Wife let them know that the Visible Church is but equiuocally called the Spowse of Christ For properly the Church Inuisible the Mysticall body of Christ is onely his true Spowse and shee is a pure Virgin without spot or wrinkle beeing washed in the blood of the Lamb. Those that outwardly professing Christ make vp the Visible Church we charitably presume to be members of his mysticall bodie for which cause wee call them his Spouse also But when wee speake of Babylon and the Whore in the Reuelation and apply it to Rome wee denie absolutely that the Church of Rome is Babylon that is all those which liuing in that Religion make vp one If thereby wee vnderstand a companie of m●n but if Baby●on bee a ●lace then we must vndersta●d thereby the ●●● of Antichrist Bodie or Societie but * Bablyon is a faction in that Church Are not the Whore and Antichrist the same Now what can be more absurd than to thinke the whole Church of Rome The Antichrist Antichrist was to seduce those that dwell vpon the face of the earth the Whore was to bewitch the nations now the Seducer and the Seduced the witch and the bewitched are not one As I take it we are to reioice at the downefall of the Whore but God forbid that wee should reioice at the Destruction of euery member of the Church of Rome but rather with teares beseech God for their conuersion And therefore good M. Burton now the learned Bishops distinction takes not place