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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10875	Differences in matters of religion, betweene the easterne and westerne churches VVherein the Romane Church may see her selfe charged with as many errours, as shee falsly layeth to the charge of other churches in Europe. Gathered by Irenæus Rodoginus.	Rodoginus, Irenaeus.	1625 (1625)	STC 21141; ESTC S116064	28,860	89

Hoast which they hold to be life giuing bread they suffer the Dogs sitting at the Priests feete to barke at all those that come in and to fawne vpon the Priests and others that stand by They suffer Beares and Hogges also to enter into the Church 9. When the Gospel is a reading and Masse a singing yea when the very sacred gifts are taking out all men who please sit and yet they are neuer blamed by their Leaders When wee aske the cause of this irreuerent and vndecent gesture they answere that they sit that no tumult be raised whereby God may bee offended as if that vnseemely and irreligious sitting were not iniurious to God but rather tending to his honour 10. After Table they take not the Panagia or blessing in honor of the most holy Mother of God but they mocke at vs for the same as if wee Grecians onely tooke the blessing when our bellies are full of meat and drinke and so they esteeme a thing holy of it selfe prophane These forsooth are the men that are bold to say that they are most religiously minded towards the most holy Mother of God 11. They nick-name the Grecians which are most pious in their actions calling them Bogomili they say that the Armenians are more religious then the Greekes whom they call Brethren and whom they loue as brethren yea they hate vs more cruelly then Iewes and Saracens for they honour and embrace Iewes which amongst them may carry the old Testament in their hands 12. If any man amongst them die by the sword hee is thought to bee blessed and to goe straight to Paradise though he be killed fighting out of auarice or for murther or for any other wicked deed 13. Whatsoeuer death any man dieth amongst them they euer blame * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I thinke to bee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for in the Westerne parts they vse to blame Fortune much 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for so after a barbarous manner they name Fortune or Destiny 14. They shaue their beards and all the haires of their body holding this in a manner for expiation which is meere Iudaisme 15. They eate dead things and strangled things taken from wild beasts blood vncleane things as Hogges Beares Conies Hares Snailes Water-dogs Mice Crowes Rauens Dolphins and such like vncleane beasts And so much for that which the Grecians taxe in the Doctrines and Ceremonies of the Latines now followeth that which they taxe some things iustly and some things vniustly in their habit The Pope and his Vicars vse a Miter and a Turkish tuffe with long robes and other things vsed in the old Testament more fitting for women Their Priestly vesture is not of wooll to signifie Christ slaine like a Lambe for vs but of silke party-coloured When they are doing holy Seruice they carry their Gloues in both their hands and vpon the right hand they write Tanquam ex nube and vpon the left Agnus Dei. Their Bishops vse rings alwayes and they giue this reason Because that they are like Bridegromes or rather Husbands euer married to their Churches so grosse are their thoughts of sacred matters Their Ecclesiasticke persons and Monkes vse no other daily vesture then Layickes vse neither shalt thou euer discerne Church-men from prophane men since they shaue the chin and that women-like Gloria enim eorum inconfusione for their glory is their shame their ordinary clothing is of haire the vesture for holy dayes is all silke directly repugnant to the Constitutions of the Catholike Church Some Monkes alwayes vse white robes a token as they say of vertue and cleanlinesse in them A Supplement They suffer Priests and men of other Orders to lye eight dayes without buriall and that for filthy lucre and gaine They celebrate sundry of the festiuities of Christ vntimely and confusedly not according to the tradition of the Fathers Whomsoeuer they loose from excommunication they strip them naked to the loynes and hauing whipt them soundly they let them goe as then being perfectly reconciled to the Church They receiue not the workes of Saint Chrysostome Basil and Gregory Nazianzen the lights of the Church There are some calumnies heere They contemne the Epistles of Saint Paul saying that hee was not one of the twelue and that hee did not see Christ regarding nothing that vision which hee saw going to Damascus when it was said Vas electionis eris neither regard they his stripes trauailes and conuersion of Gentils Herein as in some other the Greeks falsely charge the Latins Cerularius Archbishop Patriarch of Constantinople in his Epistle to Peter Patriarch of Antioch in briefe tearmes short words gathereth all these long poynts and concludeth out of his narration that since the Latines are such men and so giuen it is impossible that they should haue any vnion with them or hold them to bee true and Orthodox Christians or suffer and endure them to bee numbred with them And that which he holdeth to be most grieuous and intolerable is the Supremacie challenged by the Latine Church to teach all and to bee taught of none and Dictator-like to giue Lawes to binde other Churches whereas shee doth those things which others mislike in her This gentle Reader thou shalt finde in Baronius his Annals Tomo XI anno Christi 1054. num 33. where Baronius striueth to excuse the true things laid to their charge to refute the vntruths and to cloke the errours of this Westerne Church in things rebukeable Yea hee bringeth in Petrus Antiochenus writing an answere to Cerularius and doing it with greater credit to the cause if he wrote such an answere and in more modest and Christian tearmes then any Sides-man could haue done seeing that preiudice oftentimes leadeth the best man that is either in answering to be Satyricke and invectiue or else to defend the absurdest and most erronious things that can be And therefore I will set downe his Epistle because it is profitable for these times in which we liue wherein euery man would draw another to his opinion and practise in all things in things of themselues meerly indifferēt in things touching Verity Schisme or Heresie for Nature hath made man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a ciuil creature and sociable delighting in the company of those that are of his owne Species and desiring all those that are of his owne kind to sympathize with his mind and affection But Christian Charitie suffereth many things tolerating that in the weake which in the stronger it would whip with a scourge before it should come to bee Schismaticall either in action or affection The Lord ioyne the Christian Church in vnitie of faith and Communion in Charitie Amen The Letter of PETRVS ANTIOCHENVS to CERVLARIVS WHat is it to vs that their Priests shaue their beards And what although they carry a Ring as a Badge of their Marriage with the holy and blessed Church * * This place seemeth to bee forged for it was Christ that was crowned