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A briefe censure vpon the Puritane pamphlet entituled, (humble motyves, for association to maintayne religion established.) Reprooving of it so many vntruthes, as there be leaues in the same.
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A BRIEFE CENSVRE VPON THE PVRITANE PAMPHLET * ⎠* ENTITVLED HVMBLE MOTYVES for association to maintayne Religion established REPROOVING IT OF SO MAny Vntruthes as there be leaues in the same PRINTED M. DI.III A BRIEFE CENSVRE VPON THE PVRITANE PAMPHLET ENTITVled Humble Motyues for Association to maintaine Religion established REPROOVING IT OF SO MANY Vntruthes as there be leaues in the same THE I. VNTRVTH THAT my first entrance of account may giue to all equal and indifferent Readers some proportion to make coniecture how large and great a number of wicked and malitious Vntruthes are contayned in so little and shorte a treatise As I will beginne my reckoning at the Title and beginning it selfe of this Association So for euery worde which it conteyneth being only six besides the particles adiections of our language I will assigne a seuerall falsehood And the first six Vntruthes for the first six wordes For although the common decree of Philosophers teacheth vs that Verety and falsity truth and falschoode consist not in particular dictions and first apprehension but in Composition or Diuision and in Iudgment Yet because that first Title is so copious that it may easely bee resolued into sixe seuerall Compositions Propositions and Iudgments which it vertually conceyneth that is that they be Motyues that the Motyues be Humble that they be for Association that the association is to maintayne Religion that the purpose of the Pamphletor is Religion that their Religion is establshed All which assertions as they be plainly intended in that glorious Position and six in number I challenge them to bee so many slanderous and impious Vntruthes and forgeries And concerning the greate humilitie either of Puritanes in generall or of this Associator in particuler affirmed in the first worde Humble I appeale for sentence to the Iudicials of al trials Popes Councels generall prouinciall confirmed not confirmed all holy Fathers and Doctors of the Church of God all Arguments diuine and humane naturall and miraculous which their proud and arrogant spirit in the basest Puritane hath condemned I craue censure of all Emperours Kings Princes their lawes decrees and Parlaments which euery of them as repugnant to their holy Ghost haue censured and reiected whether this is humility the foundation of piety because hee pleadeth it in this first place or pride and arrogancie the mother of all Irreligion rebellion to God and man and other monstrous offences which they haue brought into the worlde by that most ambitious presumptuous and blasphemous doctrine that euery Puritane is directed and infallibly assisted of the spirit and may controle at their pleasure all Popes Princes Councels Parlaments and Consistories of al times and places Which hath caused the Puritanes of England so often by their Admonitions Challenges Pamphlets Inuectiues Iabels and rayling slaunders to reprehend Queene Councell Parlament Clergy and whatsoeuer is of estimation in this kingdome And is the motyue which at this present mooueth this humble Associator to direct them all and presume that his only deuises are worthy to sway the Scepter THE II. VNTRVTH CONCERning the second worde Motyues MOtyues are so tearmed a mouendo of moouing and motyues of the mind take their denominatiō because they mooue and perswade the vnderstanding and will of man to yeeld consent vnto and assect such thinges as they convince the one to allowe and the other to embrace for as in naturall and corporall motion from whence this tearme is deriued the leuity grauity of bodies are the cause which mooue them the first to ascend and the second to a lower Center So in the motions of the reasonable powers of mans soule that reason and argumēt which conquereth humane vnderstanding to giue consent to that sentence which it conuinceth and that approoued bonity and goodnesse which winneth the will to affect the good which is proposed are iustely named the motyues which mooue those reasonable faculties And as in ordinary and naturall affaires ordinary and naturall reasons are sufficient and allowed for motyues So in supernaturall and diuine thinges exceeding the naturall wit and capacity of humane Iudgement supernaturall and miraculous Arguments are produced For which cause Catholickes the knowne patrons and desendors of christianity against all both externall and internall aduersaries produce not only the authorities of so many and muincible testimonies of holy Scriptures traditions from Christ and his Apostles decrees of Popes sentences of so many generall and generally approoued Councels and assemblies of the best learned Doctors and Professors of the worlde togither with the absurdities of all other Professions But to confirme diuine busines with the infallible reasons of God and to mooue men to embrace that to which by naturall reason they can neyther ascend or assent They produce so many and manifest miraculous operations works and wonders so many propheticall predictions and fore-tellinges of future contingent euents to establish those misteries wrought of God to that purpose which no created power of it selse to any end or by the power and assistance God can bring to effect to ratifie any errour or superstitious falsehoode Nowe let vs examine the Motyues of this Moouer by these proportions and trie whether they bee worthy to bee the first mooueable or no. If we consider what it is which he laboureth to remooue it is that Catholicke and vniuersall Religion of Christ which hath mooued the whole worlde to approoue it by such irresistable motyues as haue conuerted it They which should be mooued to this and to bee drawne onely by his motion are our prudent and gratious Princesse her wise and Honourable Councell the reste of the Nobility the Protestant Clergy whatsoeuer is reputed great and of the highest iudgment in our Nation Hee which would mooue them is endued with that Puritane spirit which is in continuall moouing and neuer findeth his place of rest and vvho for his dissolute and deformed motion shrowdeth himselfe vnder the title of an erring Planet not daring to diselose his name He citeth not one example or authority for his purpose Those which he alleasdgeth for Motyues be none at all as her Maiestie her selfe Councell Nobles Burgesses Bishoppes and the whole consent of Commons which are to be mooued by his Instince had giuen sentence in open Parlament immediatly before And the meanes which he prescribeth either in the same or more forcible manner had bene practised many yeares togither as will be euident hereafter and no man but such a spirituall fellowe can beignorant And yet they coulde not preuaile to that motion Therefore no Motyues THE III. VNTRVTH ABOVT THE third worde for Association THE name Association is deduced frō Socius a fellowe or Companion and being a noune of Action and doing must needes fignifie to make fellowes and companions In which and al such combinations there must of necessity bee as well a kinde of equality otherwise no fellowship but a subordination as also similitude likenesse and agreement as is euident in all coniunctious
within siue lines after both forgetting himselfe and vnmindfull of the doctrine of his Masters Plato and Aristotle and all reason which deny a regradation in causes he acknowledgeth that Papists of Religiō be Parents to al the rest The fourth father to the third this to the second the second of the first Which in his former assertion gaue existence to al. This is the ridle of Oedipus Mater me genuit eadem mox gignitur ex me But his only intent being to encrease the power of his people of which hee considered before seeketh by all meanes true or contrary to make Puritanisme the first and last Alpha and Omega of all As Philosophers teache that which is first by order of intention is last by execution And in this sence his sentence is true for they wholie intend the setling of theyr Puritane sect which is their first and chiefest intention But the setling and execution thereof by necessitie must be last For both Protestants and Catholikes must be taken out of theyt waye before sufficient scope and place be made for the Regiment of theyr spiritte which as it ouer-turneth all thinges except it may rule the whole world as the natural propension thereof enclineth will euer be vnrulie still seeking Innouations THE XIIII VNTRVTH AFter he hath ended his Diuisions in such learned manner as I haue declared he giueth censure of the propertyes of the parts diuided His definitiue sentence is this The first Puritanes are constant and faithfull vnto your Highnes The second Protestants wauerenge The third Pag. 23. Papists of estate For such he chargeth the Lordes Bishoppes and others of the last Parlament perilous The fourth Papists of Religion Pernitious Than the which nothinge can be more corrupt I thinke this man should meane that Papists of Religion be pernitious in respect of a temporall Regiment for which he so much in words contendeth Otherwise a false Religion If we should graunt our most holye Catholike Reuerence to be such being vsed of those professors only for cause of Religion as his distinction is cannot be offensive or perilous to anye Ciuill Regiment against which it teacheth no repugnant thinge Secondlye he desineth the inconuenience of these Papists of Religion that to vse his wordes they bee in Darknes False-hoode Error and Superstition Then seeing this member of his diuision Pag. 11. 12. 13. by his owne graunt hath no reference to busines of estate they cannot be ofensiue or pernitious to that which they haue no relation But if hee coulde disburthen themselues which will bee an heauye loade to doe if he will charge any of this guiltienes the second and thirde Protestants of estate and Papists of estate which often he confoundeth because he allotteth them to State affaires must enter into combat against him Which they will easilye performe being such by his owne acknowledgment as bee neareste to her Maiesties Person Pag. 23. by Office by Parlament by Councell And those which haue not intermedling in such matters by the voice of so great an enemy may not bee condemned as pernitious Aduersaries That mouth which denounceth them innocent in the first cannot be admitted for Accuser in the second Where no cause is precedent or concommitant no effecte can be or followe except an effect can bee caused without a cause Thirdly we are enfranchised by an other sentence of this Censurer for as he highly commendeth Protestants of Religion or Puritanes as constant and saithfull to our Queene Pag. 11. so he confesseth that these be engendred of Protestants of estate these of Papists of estate which be ofspring to Papists of Religion Then if there is any constancy or faithfulnesse in the first Puritanes as it must be doubled in the second Protestants of estate tripled in the third so it must by that rule of proportion be somtimes as constant and faithfull in Papists of Religion and by no meanes if this mans gradation be true can be lesse in them then in the other which proceede from them My reason is which this man may reade in his Authors Plato and Aristotle there be two kinde of causes the one vniuocall the other equiuocall the first although it is not that which is now in question yet it must needes conteine so much vertue as the effect which it produceth otherwise some vertue in that which is caused should bee effected without cause which is a deceasance in nature Of this sort be all inferiour naturall agents as men beastes fowles fishes c. which produce the like in their kinde The second of which condition this Pamphletors discent and progeny is to be esteemed is called Equiuocall which euer contayneth more vertue and ability then that which is effected in which sence the Sunne Heauens and God himselfe are termed such equiuocall and vniuersall or generall causes because their power so much excelleth the faculties of their particuler effects and are able to bring forth many and not only one or few operations Fourthly by an other free charter of this Gentleman Papists of Religion are freed from al suspect to bee pernitious or any wayes dangerous in this busines because they want all those helpes by which he affirmeth Power and strength of any people is to bee augmented Pag. 10. 1. addition or number 2. supply of Necessaries 3. aduantage of place 4. order of gouernment All which be wanting in that people as is before demonstrated and Puritanes be possessed of them all And touching his addition number which hee nameth for the chiefest supplie himself acknowledgeth that in the beginning of her Maiesties raigne Pag. 40. when we were many and mighty we were so farre from contriuing against her that we honoured her with her greatest dignity and Diademe it selfe Then there can be no daunger hereafter For seing our doctrine is one there is no such perill of diuersity in dealings in that case And to auoide vs from all ielousie for suture and present times he maketh this threatning calculation Pag. 41. howe in diuers respects Puritanes are ten times more and mightier then Protestants Howe farre this sorte exceedeth all kindes of Papists there is no doubt And yet it pleaseth this man to acknowledge this sentence Pag. 15. It is not vnprobahle that of the Papists in this Land the fourth part are not Papists of Religion Then it cannot be truly said that such people be pernitious or perilous in this Common wealth which besides all their positions agreeable to an honourable and ciuill Regiment their orderly dutifull quiet conditions in Saxonye Denmarke some cantons of Switzerland Greece Hungary Turkic Persia and other places where they liue vnder Prin ces enemies to their Religion will be an eternall euidence When contrariewise these Puritanes Protestants of Religion So constant and faithfull to her Maiestye if this mans word be Gospell Mart Mar Prel not only be their priuate seditious Libels without ende in England but factious Admonitions by their generall