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A07949	The tryall of the nevv religion Contayning a plaine demonstration, that the late faith and doctrine of the Church of Rome, is indeede the new religion. By Thomas Bell.	Bell, Thomas, fl. 1593-1610.	1608 (1608)	STC 1832; ESTC S101552	27,259	56

THE Tryall of the New RELIGION Contayning a plaine Demonstration that the late Faith and Doctrine of the Church of Rome is indeede the New Religion By Thomas Bell. PRVDENTIA AT LONDON Printed by William Iaggard dwelling in Barbican 1608. The Contents of the Chapters following CHapter 1. Of the name Pope Chap. 2. Of the Popes superoyall power Chap. 3. Of the marriage of Priests Chap. 4. Of Popish pardons Chap. 5. Of Popish Purgatory Chap. 6. Of Popish auricular confession Chap. 7. Of Popish veniall sinnes Chap. 8. Of Popish fayth Chap. 9. Of the condigne merrite of workes Chap. 10. Of transubstantiation in popish Masse Chap. 11. Of Popish inuention of Saints Chap. 12. Of the Communion vnder one kind Chap. 13. Of priuate Masse Chap. 14. Of Pope 〈◊〉 ●●●pensation Chap. 15. Of worshipping of Images Chap. 16. Of Church seruice in the vulgar tongue Chap. 17. Of the antiquitie of Popish Masse and the parts thereof Chap. 18. Of the mysteries of popish Masse Chap. 19. Of kissing the Popes foote Chap. 20. Of praying vpon Beades Chap. 21. Of changing the Priestes name Chap. 22. Of the Paschall Torch Chap. 23. Of the Popish Paxe Chap. 24. Of the Popes Bulls Chap. 25. Of the popish Agum Dei Chap. 26. Of C●●●●lmasday Chap. ●● Of the 〈◊〉 made to the Pope Chap. ●● Of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p●pish L●nt-fast Chap. ●● Of 〈…〉 ing of Wedlocke Chap. ●● Of 〈◊〉 power of a Generall Councell To the Right Worshipfull and my approoued good friendes Sir Charles Hayles and Sir Cuthbert Pepper Knights and worthy pillers of his Maiesties honorable Counsell established in the North-parts of England ⁂ THE visible Church as writeth Egesippus remained a Virgin free from all heresies and corruptions during the life of the Apostles that is to say about one hundred yeeres after Christ to which time S. Iohn the Euangelist was liuing But after the death of the Apostles saith he Errors by little and little crept into the Church as into a voyde and desert house This Assertion is dolefull enough and yet very profitable against all Popish Recusants of our time as who are not ashamed impudently to avouch that after so many hundred yeeres from Christes Ascention there hath been no Error at all in their Romish Babylon If any demaund the cause heereof the aunswere is at hand viz. That many without due examination receiuing negligently and carelesly the Doctrine of them that went before them haue vnawares brought Errors into the Church So writeth Eusebius of Errors in his time that Papius a man of no sound iudgement was the Authour of the Chiliasts who fondly grosly first inuented that there should be a thousand yeeres after the Resurrection To which Errour though most palpable Iraeneus and sundry others otherwise well learned gaue place onely for antiquity sake This sottish imitatien without all rime and reason was is and will be the cause of many Errours which many not of the meanest sort of Papists haue both grauely prudently considered For this cause did that great Shoolemaister Melchior Canus oppose himselfe against all the Chanists and Scotists both the old latter Papists For this cause did Cardinall C●●eranus a man of high esteeme in the Church of Rome both in his litterall exposition of Genesis an in his other bookes roundly reiect the multitude of fo●mer Commentaries For this cause said their learned 〈◊〉 and Schoole-Doctor Victoria that hee reputed nothing certaine albeit all Writers agreed therevnto vnlesse he could find it in the holy Scriptures For this cause did their famous Canonist Nauarrus peremptorily condemne the common opinion when it was not grounded vppon right reason For this cause grauely wrote S. Augustine that he reputed no mans writings wholy free from Errours saue onely the Writers of the holy Scriptures For this cause wrote theyr owne Roffensis that it is lawfull to appeale from Austen Cyprian Hierom and all the rest because they are men and doe not want theyr imperfections I saith S. Augustine doe not repute S. Cyprians wrytings as Canonicall but iudge them by the Canonicall and whatsoeuer doth not agree with the Scriptures that by his leaue doe I refuse And for this cause is it that so many silly follish rude and ignorant Papists doe at this day terme late vpstart Popery the Old Religion They onely respect the externall face of the Church as it was in the late dayes of their forefathers And for want of skill and reading of auncient Councells Fathers and histories of the Church they deeme that to be very olde which is indeede very new Hence commeth it that nothing more moueth the rude vulgar people to embrace Popery then this theyr fond perswasion that it is the old Religion In regard hereof right Worshipfull I haue taken vppon me for the glory of GOD the peace of his Church and the common good of my natiue Country to set before the eyes of all indifferent Readers as cleerely as in a glasse of Christall the originall and daily excrements of Popery and that it is not the Old but the New Religion I haue prooued succinctly and euidently first that the name Pope was common to the Fathers of the Church for the space of 528 yeeres after Christ and afterward vsurped as peculiar to the Bishop of Rome Secondly that the Popes superoyall power was vnknowne to the world for the space of 607. yeeres vntill Phocas the Emperour of Rome 3. That the Priests Bishops were euer married in the East Church and in the West Church for the space of 385. yeeres 4. That Popish pardons were vnknowne 1300. yeeres 5. That Purgatorie was neuer beleeued of the Greeke Church nor yet of the Latine Church for the space of 250. yeeres about which time Origen too much adicted to his allegorical Speculation ●eyned many odde thinges touching Purgatory After Origen others began to call the matter into question others rashly to beleeue it others to adde many thing to Origens conceit and so by little little it incre●s●d till the late Bishops of Rome presumed to make it an Article of Popish sayth That auriculer cōfession was no Article of Popish fayth for the space of 1215. yeeres 7. That Popish veniall sinnes were first invented by Pope Pius the fift of that name that is to say 1566. yeeres after Christ. 8. That the Article of Popish sayth that the Pope cannot erre in matters of fayth iudicially was neuer knowne to the Church for the space of 1500. yeeres 9. That the cōdigne merit of mans works was not an Article of Popish fayth for the space of a thousand fiue hundred and forty yeeres 10. That the popish Transubstantiation was first hatched in the Councell of Lateran 1215. yeeres after Christ. 11. That Popish invocation of Saints was neuer knowne nor heard of for the space of 1047. yeeres 12. That the Communion vnder one kind was neuer knowne for the space of 1230. yeeres neither was it an Article

Papists Absolutus Theologus knew right wel that Popish Pardons are but a toy for Chyldren to play withall these are his wordes The Popes Pardons saith he were neuer knowne to vs by the Scriptures although some alledge S. Paule for that purpose neither were they knowne by the auncient Fathers but onely by lare Writers Saint Antoninus theyr popish Saint and famous Archbishoppe had the selfe same opinion And Petrus Lombardus their famous Maister of Sentences who collected with great diligence into one Volume all the woorthy Sentences of the auncient Fathers could neuer find the Popes Pardons or any mention thereof in any of all theyr writings For as Syluester truly said The olde Writers were not acquainted with any such thing Yea their famous Martyr and Bishop Maister Fisher in his aunswere to Maister Luthers Articles was inforced to admit the newnes of the Popes pardons and withall forsooth to yeeld this reason for the same viz. That Purgatory was not then so well knowne to the Church as it is now adayes Peruse and note wel the next Chapter which is of Purgatorie so supposed paynes First therefore seeing the great popish Syluester confesseth plainly and boldly to the popes Holines that his popish pardoning is neither found in the holie Scripture nor in auncient Fathers Secondly seeing Antoninus Fumus and many other learned Papists grant freely that Syluester saith the truth heerein Thirdly seeing their famous Bishop Fisher vvas enforced to graunt the young age noneage of popish-pardons when hee could not aunswere Ma. Luthers reasons Fourthly seeing their Maister of Sentences could not find any mention of them in all the the Fathers writings I must perforce thus conclude Ergo the Popes pardon is a rotten ragge of the new Religion brought into the Church after 1300. yeres by Pope Bonifacius the eyght CHAP. 5. Of Popish Purgatory COncerning the originall of Popish-purgatorie it shal be enough to set down the words of Iohn Fisher the late Bishop of Rochester the popes canonized Martyr these are his expresse words The Greekes to this day doe not beleeue that there is a Purgatory Reade who will the Commentaries of the auncient Graecians and he shall finde either very sildome mention of Purgatory or none at all For neither did the Latine Church conceiue the veritie of this matter at one time but by leysure Neither vvas it without the great dispensation of the holy Ghost that after so many yeeres Catholicks both beleeued purgatory receiued the vse of pardons generallie So long as there was no care of Purgatory no man sought for pardons For of it dependeth all the estimation of pardons If thou take away purgatory to what end shall wee neede pardons for if there be no Purgatory we shall neede no pardons Considering therefore how long Purgatory was vnknowne then that it was beleeued of some by little and little partly by reuelations and partly by the Scriptures and so at the last beleeued generally of the whole Church we doe easily vnderstand the cause of pardons Since therefore purgatory was so lately known receiued of the whole Church who can admire pardons that there was no vse of thē in the primatiue Church Pardon 's therefore began after the people stoode in some feare of purgatory Thus writeth the popish Bishop Fisher. Whose words I hartily wish that the indifferent Reader may ponder seriously with me For if he so doe hee cannot chuse but abhor late popery and know it to be the new Religion This Bishop was a learned man a great papist said for popery what possibly he could yet he grāteth many things of such force is the truth which quite ouerthrow popery and turne it vpside downe First we see that the Greeke church neuer beleeued purgatory to his dayes and so it was vnknown to thē 1517 yeres Secondly that the church of Rome belieued it not for the space of 250. yeres after which time it increased by little and little Thirdly that the church of Rome did not beleeue purgatory all at once but by little and little Fourthly that the inuention of purgatory was the birth of Popish-pardons as which could haue no place till purgatory was found out by fained reuelations and the people brought into some feare thereof Fiftly that the primatiue Church was neuer acquainted with the Popes pardons nor yet with his counterfeit and forged purgatory Of which as the popish Bishop telleth vs the silly people doe stand in feare Thus therefore I must cōclude Ergo Popish purgatory is a rotten ragge of the New Religion CHAP. 6. Of Popish Auriculer Confession SCotus who for his great subtile learning was of the Papists termed Doctor subtilis affirmeth resolutely that popish Auricular-confession is not grounded on the holy Scripture but onely instituted and commanded by the Church of Rome The popish Glosse of great credit with the Papists telleth them roundly that Auricular-confession can no way be defended but by tradition of the Church Panormitanus Rhenanus Richardus Durandus Bonauentura Hugo and all the popish Canonists generally approue and follow the same Glosse To this I adde that Auricular-confession was not an Article of fayth in the Romish Church for the space of 1215. yeeres All which I haue prooued at large in my Suruey of Popery and in my Motiues First therefore seeing popish Confession cannot be proued out of the Scriptures Secondly seeing it is onely commaunded by the Pope And thirdly seeing it was no matter of fayth with the Papists for the space of one thousand two hundred and fifteene yeeres I must needes conclude that it is a rotten ragge of the New Religion CHAP. 7. Of Popish veniall sinnes THE newnes and young age of Popish-Religion may be sufficiently knowne by the coyning and inuenting of Veniall sinnes if nothingels could be said therein the Thomists will haue some sinnes not against the Law but besides the law and those sinnes they call their Veniall sinnes But Durundus a famous popish Schoole-Doctor many other learned Papists affirme euery sinne to be against Gods Law And this opinion doth nowe preuaile in the popish Schoole● as I●sephus Angles in his Booke dedicated to the Popes Holinesse 〈◊〉 vs His words are these Et hae 〈◊〉 in schol● 〈◊〉 cōm●nior and this opinion seemeth now adayes to bee more common in the Schooles Where I wish the Reader to 〈◊〉 by the way this word mod● now adayes because it doth most ●●●ely and sufficiently set before our eyes the mutability of the late Romish Religion For in that he saith niod● now adaies hee giueth vs to vnderstand that their Doctrine is now otherwise their it was of old time and in former ages Behold heere the new Religion and that popish doctrine is vncertaine Againe Ma. Fisher late Bishop of Rochester granteth to Ma. Luther when he was ouercome with the force of his Reasons that euery sinne is mortall of it owne nature Iaeobus Almaynus Durandus