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A07935	The Bishop of London his legacy. Or certaine motiues of D. King, late Bishop of London, for his change of religion, and dying in the Catholike, and Roman Church VVith a conclusion to his bretheren, the LL. Bishops of England.	Musket, George, 1583-1645.	1623 (1623)	STC 18305; ESTC S102862	100,153	188

Which serious disquisition search of myne I grant first inuited me to spend the more tyme and labour after in the reading of all our Protestant Wryters of any eminency And therefore what authorityes of Protestants are in these Motiues insisted vpon by me I except not one I do iustify them not as borrowed from any Catholike wryter for I hould that course vnworthy a Man of my Place but as from my owne most diligent and laborious reading of the Protestant Bookes themselues But to returne We haue aboue euidently proued that the auncient Fathers were supporters and defenders of the Roman Religion and that in their writings they do transmit and commend ouer the same to all posterity Can we thinke they iustifyed a false fayth they being the Churches Sentinells in those times Vpon thy walls (k) Isa 6● O Ierusa●em I haue set watches for euer Or shall we dreame the Church of Christ being then in her greatest purity that vpon her Altar the Arke of Truth could be compatible with the Dagon of Heresy It is repugnant to Gods Prouidence repugnant to his (l) Matth. 16. Promise And doubtlesse if the Fathers fayth were false and Protestancy the true Fayth I may iustly say all collaterall respects weighed that heere Falshood is much honored with probabilityes and Truth discountenanced with Vnlykely hoods But for my selfe in particular my body daily hasting to it graue through it languishing sicknes the question is Whether during this short remnant of Tyme I should longer consociate my selfe in fayth and Religion with my former Brethren the Protestants or subscrybe to the Cristalline and cleare iudgments heerein of the Auncient Fathers But the election is already made And in these few leaues so my leaues shall not be without fruit that is my desyres without effect I do protest to God and the world that I haue and do renounce all Innouation of doctryne heeretofore imbraced by me and do with all resignation of mynd submit my iudgment to the iudgments of those Primitiue reuerend vertuous and learned Fathers whose voluminous Wrytings I grant for some yeares past haue had an influence and soueraignty ouer my Vnderstanding THE V. MOTIVE That the articles of Protestancy are particulerly condemned for Heresyes by the auncient Fathers And that all Protestants originally came out of the Catholyke Church IALLOVV well the proceeding of Theodosius (a) Sozomen l. 7. histor cap. 12. the Emperour who for his better suppressing of the arrising Heresyes of his dayes was accustomed to demaund of their cheife Patrones whether they thought the auncient Fathers liuing and sterning Gods Church before those new doctrines first appeared were orthodoxall in their fayth or no To which question when they gaue their assent by reputing the said Fathers for such he thus concluded Examinemus ergo doxtrinam vestram ad illorum scripta si cum illis consenserit retineamus sin winus abijciatur The lyke course I hould to be obserued in triall of our Protestant doctrin But I much feare the euent this for two different reasons The one in that I fynd as aboue is showed our owne brethren openly to breake with the cheifest Fathers of the primitiue Church reputing them as so many supporters of Papistry The other because many articles of our Protestant religion newly springing vp in those tymes thus the Gospell d teacheth vs (b) Matt. 13. that the Cokcle was presently sowne after the good seede haue beene condemned for Heresyes by Irenaeus Ierome ●piphanius Augustine and other Fathers in their Catalogues of Heresyes and other their wrytings I do not speake this of euery article of Protestancy since I grant some haue taken their first being from out owne sensuality lyke vnto certayne weeds which grow rather out of the Lust of the earth then from any formal seed Now these Fathers since they were learned could not but know since they were pious and godly would not but confesse the said then arysing doctrines to be crosse to the generall professed Religion of their owne and former tymes And it cannot be as yet nor hath beene by way of retaliation answered that any one of them were euer reprehended for ranging that opinion in the Catalogue of heresyes which was not then generally accepted for heresy Let vs exemplify in some The Arians besides their greater blasphemyes taught that all vnwritten (c) Lib. 1. c. a. contra Matrimin l. vlc Traditions were to be reiected they further perpetrated many sacriledges (d) Atha in apoleg pro fuga against the Sacraments Altars Priests and religious or professed persons And do not we Protestants bring them vpon the stage againe acting their parts in our writings and deportments The Aeri●ns to vse S. (e) ●ib de Haeres c. 33. Augustines wordes thought it vnlawfull orare vel offerre promortuis to pray or offer vp sacrifice for the dead or to obserue set dayes of fast and heereupon they were condemned for eating flesh in Lent See how we Caluinists are lineally proseminated sprung from the loines of Aerius so fully we do reintegrate his heresyes The heretike (f) Hier. l. 1. 2. contr Iouinian Aug. lib. de haeres cap. 82. Iouinian taught that Fasting was not meritorious that Virginity was not to be preferred before Wedlocke and that a man once hauing true fayth could not sinne Either we Caluinists are heerein Posthumi to Iouinian or Iouinian by preuention of tyme was an anti-dated Caluinist the difference is but small The o Eunomians maintayned (g) Aug. l. de haeres cap. 54. that no sinne could be hurtfull to one hauing fayth Wil you haue this doctrine deliuered in Luthers (h) Lib. de capt Babilon c. de Euchar. wordes Tam diues est Christianus vt non possit perire etiamsi velit quamtumq malè viuat nisi nolit credere so conspiringly we iumpe togeather in imbracing this confident presumption which as I may tearme it is no better then Hope out of it wits The Manichees depriued man of freewill according to that of S. Augustine Peccatorum (i) Lib de haeres c. 46. originē non tribuunt Manichaei libero arbitrio Now Luther and (k) Lib. de seruo arbit Caluin (l) Lib. 2. Insi●t c. 2.3 4. are so precipitate and headlong in this doctrine that neither of them can brooks the name or sound of the word Freewill yet heerin they dissent from the Manichees in that they by taking away freewill ascribed all sins wickednes to that God which they tearmed an euill God as to the first cause whereas our men will needes impute the perpetrating of the greatest sinnes whatsoeuer to that God which they acknowledge for good The Donatists (m) Aug. l. 1. contra Petilian cap 51. 61. l. 3. cap. 40. most implacably hated the Bishop of Rome calling his feate Cathedram pestilentiae the very dialect of vs Protestants they most cruelly persecuted Monkes and Religious men