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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26149	An answer to some considerations on the spirit of Martin Luther and the original of the Reformation lately printed at Oxford.	Atterbury, Francis, 1662-1732.	1687 (1687)	Wing A4146; ESTC R4960	53,756	88

Church of Rome for the Catholic Church and is too trite a subject to be here insisted on But Truth and Holyness Error and Vice have a necessary Connexion §. 59. What then Luther we have prov'd an holy man and therefore this do's not touch us in the sense he would have it Yet truth and holyness Error and Vice are not it seem's so necessarily link'd together but that a Teacher of something false may bring forth the fruits of a good life and contrary the Teacher of Truth the fruits of a bad for these are his words in this very paragraph So that Necessary and Contingent are the same in this man's Logic. Agen he proves that where more corrupt Doctrines are §. 60. believ'd and taught there for the general are more corrupt lives Agreed but are Luther's Doctrines of such a stamp Indeed in his gross way of delivering 'em they may have such an appearance The 4 main heads are he says 1. The §. 61. Nullity and Antichristianism of the former Clergy and the non-obligation of their Laws But I have made out from the Smalcald Articles that Luther held no nullity in this case tho' in points fundamental he allow'd not the Authority of councils as depending merely on revelation for them yet in things indifferent I have shew'd that he was as willing to be concluded by their sanctions as any man 2. The inutility of works pennance mortifications c. This is all a slander he decry'd not the use but the merit of them 3. The servitude of Man's will and inability to do good even in the regenerate Ls. Doctrine of free will is when fairly expounded the same with the Church of Englands as such we own it and shall defend it 4. The sole sufficiency of Faith in us for our Iustification We have told him that Luther held good works as necessary to Salvation as any Papist of 'em all tho' he did not think they were the cause of justification That they follow'd upon it as heat attends the light of the Sun he own'd but then as heat do's not enlighten however close join'd with that which do's so neither do they justify If then ' t was out of these three latter points that a great dissoluteness of Life Covetousness Oppression c. grew 't is to be hop'd the crimes imputed are but a fiction and that the Reform'd are not so bad as they are represented since those three points when truly stated have a quite different air we see from what he has bestow'd upon ' em The Parragraph referr'd to I 'me sure proves no such thing § 7. there are two or three expressions from Erasmus Calvin and Musculus which represent some of the Reform'd as worse then while they were Papists And will he take the advantage of this so far as to say that the Reformation do's of it self make men worse If he will 't is plain he 's resolv'd to make all the spiteful inferences he can without troubling himself whether they are just or no. He proceeds to reflect on the many Sects that sprung § 62. up after the Reformation But a late Apologetical Vindicator of the Church of England has so fully clear'd this objection that the most partial must be satisfy'd I can add nothing to what that worthy Author has done and shall therefore spare my self the trouble of transcribing I shall only take notice of something the Considerer relates on this occasion By reason of these Sects he says following the Reformation so close at the heels c Lr. often foretold that the true Religion should not long continue after his death He bring 's not a Letter from Lr. to confirm this report which is an evident sign that he cannot for upon lesser occasions he do's not spare his Latin Indeed Luther was so far from any diffidence of this nature that his Adversaries have blam'd him for a too great presumption on t'other side particularly Bellarmin in his 12th Note urges against him a prophecy of his that in two years the Papal Kingdome should be destroy'd Tho' this too be a falsity and was broach'd by Cochleus a venemous writer and one so careless of truth or falshood that Sanders himself is not more But my Author has a great knack at Remarks i' the end of this Paragraph he makes another about our refining in the points of Controversy and coming nearer and nearer still to the Church of Rome Now let any man compare Bellarmin's bold truths with the softnings of the Bishop of Condom and the Representer and then tell me on which side this imputation lyes 'T will appear I believe upon this search that Old Popery and New Popery agree no more then the two styles We are come now to the last stage of the Pamphlet §. 63. where we may see how much art is requisite to manage circumstances well Nothing is less obnoxious to censure then the story of Ls. death when intirely told Yet as passages are here pick'd out and wrested it makes no good appearance This we have the more reason to take ill of him because he there quotes Iustus Ionas his account the most authentic extant and yet takes but a single circumstance from him in the whole relation The truth is no other account bear's any credit with us This was compil'd by Eye-witnesses Ionas Caelius and Aurifaber who solemnly invoke God to witness that they have related all things with exact fidelity and who indeed durst not have done otherwise since Count Mansfeld and several other persons of Quality were present also and could have confuted 'em had they been faulty in any thing Sleidan has contracted the story from them and in his words I shall give it you Vide marg a Prius quam Islebium perveniret quod erat sub exitum Januarii valetudine utebatur tenuiori sed tamen causam agebat propter quam erat vocatus aliquoties in templo docebat percepta quoque caena Domini 17. vero die Februarii coepit aegrotare gravius ex pectore Erant cum eo filii tres Joannes Martinus Paulus alii quidam familiares in his etiam Justus Jonas Ecclesiae Hallensis Minister quanquam erat imbecillus prandit tamen cum reliquis atque coenavit inter coenandum variis de rebus locutus hoc etiam inter caetera rogavit Num in illa sempiterna vita simus alter alterum recognituri cumque illi ex ipso averent scire quid inquit accidit Adamo c. A coena quum divertisset precandi causa sicuti consuevit coepit augeri dolor pectoris Ibi monitu quorundam usus est cornu monocerotis ex vino post in minori lectulo hypocausti per unam alteram horam suaviter dormit Cum evigilasset in cubiculum ingreditur ad quietem iterum se componit salutatis amicis qui aderant orate inquit Deum ut Evangelii doctrinam nobis conservet