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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41074	Lex talionis, or, The author of Naked truth stript naked	Fell, Philip, 1632 or 3-1682.; Gunning, Peter, 1614-1684.; Lloyd, William, 1627-1717.	1676 (1676)	Wing F644; ESTC R20137	30,835	44

of the most eminent Propagators of the Christian Faith and at this time when Arianism entred the World merited this Character 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It continues to our times and is celebrated for persons powerful in the Word and study of Divine things What then could be the matter that should hare and lead a poor innocent man into such a Maze of falsehoods Why surely no more than this He had heard from the Parson of the Parish or some other good body in discourse that the Arian Heresie took its rise from Alexandria that it supported it self much with quirks of Philosophy and Sophistical Nicities and that there was a Divinity-School at Alexandria and a notable man one Pantenus had been Master of it and now if this were put together and all the Heresies of the world laid upon the back of this Pantenus and School-Divinity it would make a very pretty story and look like a learned account of Antiquity Just as if a stranger sho●ld have heard that there was a mischievous fanatical Rebellion which overr●n the whole Nation and was the cause of the destruction of so many tho●sands of Christians both body and soul fomented and carried on at Westmi●ster in England and likewise that there was a famous School and one Dr. Lambert Osbaston a noted man had been Master of it and then should tack all this together and say that Westminster School was a Seminary of Fanaticism and Rebellion and that Dr. Lambert Osbaston was the first and chief Promoter of it Now this ridiculous Fable is far more probable than that which our Author obtrudes upon us in that several of the Ringleaders in the la●e Rebellion as Sir Arthur Haslerig Sir Harry Vane Scot and others were really Scholars to Dr. Osbaston and Governours of that School nothing of which nature can be truly suggested of the other But our Author goes on and has certainly made a Vow not to say one true word in this whole Paragraph and keeps it most religiously His following period runs thus The Heresies before thi● were so gross and sensual that none took them up but dissolute or frantick people and soon vanisht But after this School-subtil way of arguing was brought into Christianity Heresie grew more refined and so subtil that the plain pious Fathers of the Church knew not how to lay hold of it c. But now what will become of us if there were refined and spiritual Heresies before Nay in a manner if this very Heresie were so What if they were followed by men neither dissolute nor frantick nor did soon vanish And that the Fathers of the Church were not so plain men but that they knew how to encounter this School-Divinity Monster Has not our Author the worst luck of any man that ever put Pen to Paper As to the sensuality and grossness of Heresie no● to look higher than the confines of this Age we talk of surely neither Novatianism nor the Heresie of Sabellius or Paulus Samosatenus of which Arianism was but an off-set were gross or sensual Nor were Novatus Tatian Tertullian and Origen who were all very considerable men and fell into Heresie before this time ever noted for being frantick or dissolute people But on the contrary their very severity of life and zeal for Vertue were the prime occasion of their Heresies Nor did their Heresies soon vanish but continued for several Ages some in their own others under new names and titles And whosoever reads the Controversies of those times will find that the pious Fathers of the Church were not quite baffled by School-distinctions and evasions nor did these Sophisters proud of their conquest triumph and carry away a specious appearance of truth But the advantage of Arius was quite of another kind in application and address 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He was of taking and pleasant conversation always glozing and flattering as Epiphanius tells us then adds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He addrest to each particular ●ishop with insinuating arts and flatteries whereby he drew in many to be Partizans with him And as Sozom●n expresses it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 His Party finding it their interest to prepossess in their behalf the Bishops of each City they sent their ●gents to them with confessions of their Faith .... w●●●h practice turned mightily to their advantage But th●●r chief advantage lay in their Court insinuations first with Constantines Sister during his life and after with Constantius his Sons after his death and when the Aria●s had the suffrage of an Emperour on their side we need not imp●te it to Sophistry that they prevailed Our Author having not as he thinks fully enough discovered to us the mysteries of his knowledge goes on with the same ausp●ces of Ignorance and Error to acquaint us farther That this great bane of the Church took its rise from hence Many of the Primitive Doctors and Fathers being converted from Heathenism and having by lo●g and great industry acquired much knowledge in natural Philosophy Antiquity His●ory and subtil Logick or Sophistry were very unwilling to abandon quite these their long studied and dearly beloved Sciences falsly so called and therefore translated them into Christianity c. And now we know perfectly the true cause of all the Heresies that ever came into the Church I will adventure notwithstanding all this to add one more to the number and say in opposition to what is here averred that Christianity received more advantage from Philosophy than ever it did damage from it It is true as Tertullian tells us that the Philosophers were the Patriarchs of Hereticks but it is as true they were the Champions of Christian truth He must be a stranger to every thing that relates to the Church who know not how much Religion ows to Iustin Mart●r Athenagoras Ammonius Pantenus Clemens of Alexandria and notwithstanding all his misadventures to Origen himself The last and most dangerous attempt against Christianity was the setting up Heathen Morality gilded over with Magick against Christian Ethicks laboured by Apollonius Tyanaeus Porphyry Iamlichus Plotinus Hierocles Simplicius and several others And had not the good providence of God raised up the before mentioned and other eminent Christian Philosophers to attaque them in their strengths and fight them with their own Weapons it is to be feared our holy Faith would not have had so easie or so clear a victory over the World But because our Author has so particular a Pique against Sophistry I shall desire him at his leisure to read the twenty ninth Chapter of the seventh Book of Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History the Title of which Chapter is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 How Paulus Samosatenus baffled and confuted by one Malchion a Priest who had been a Sophister was deposed And sure the Sophister may be allowed to have done no small service who baffled and confuted that so considerable Heretick But the stop put to the Donatists Schism by the interposition of