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A10966	A treatise vpon sundry matters contained in the Thiry nine Articles of religion, which are professed in the Church of England long since written and published by Thomas Rogers.	Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616.; Rogers, Thomas, d. 1616. Faith, doctrine and religion professed in England.	1639 (1639)	STC 21233; ESTC S1674	207,708	274

persons not a Trinity to be worshipped so did Anastasius the Emperor command and the Apollinarians did hold l Athanas ad Epictet Some doe grant and acknowledge the name of three in the God-head but deny their persons such were the Noetians Praxentans and Hermogenians These did say how the same God was called by diuers names in the holy Scripture and therefore that the Father became flesh and suffered because one and the same God is called the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost For which cause they were tearmed Patripassians in this number was Serverus Againe some doe grant the names persons of three and yet depriue not onely the Son and holy Ghost of their diuinity but the whole Trinity also of their properties For they say there is three in heauen viz. the Father the Word and holy Ghost howbeit say they the Father onely is very God the Word is the breath of the Father and the holy Ghost is the Spirit created by God of nothing through the Word spoyling so both the Son and holy Ghost of their deity and the whole Trinity of their properties Such were the Arrian and Macedonian heretikes hence by-named Pneumatomachons because they waged battell with the holy Ghost And some doe bring in other names of deity besides of the Father Sonne and holy Ghost as did the Priscilianists m Concil Bra. car cap. 2. 2. Article Of the Word of God which was made very man The Sonne which is 1 the Word of the Father begotten from everlasting of the Father the very eternall God of one substance with the Father 2 tooke mans nature in the wombe of the blessed Virgin of her substance so that 3 two whole and perfect natures that is to say the God-head and man-hood were ioyned in one person neuer to be diuided whereof is one Christ very God and very man who suffered was crucified dead and buried to reconcile his Father to vs and to be a Sacrifice not only for originall guile but also for all actuall sinnes of men The Propositions 1. Christ is very God 2. Christ is very man 3. Christ is God and man and that in one person 4. Christ is the Sauiour of mankinde 1. Proposition Christ is the very God The proofe from Gods Word IN the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and that Word was God a Iohn 1.1 This is written of Christ Therefore Christ is God Christ was begotten of the Father from everlasting b Psal 2.7 Acts 13.33 Heb. 1.5 Therefore very God This is life eternall that they know thee to be very God and whom thou hast sent Iesus Christ c Iohn 17.3 They shall call his name Emanuel which is by interpretation God with vs d Matth. 1.23 Christ he is the brightnesse of the glory and the engraued Image of the Father his person and beareth up all things by his mighty hand e Heb. 1.3 I beleeue in God the Father c. and in Iesus Christ his onely Sonne our Lord Symb. Apost The Godhead of the Father of the Son and of the holy Ghost is all one the glory equall the Maiesty co-eternall Such as the Father is such is the Sonne The Father vncreate the Sonne vncreate The Father incomprehensible the Sonne incomprehensible The Father eternall the Son eternall The Father is Almighty the Son Almighty The Father is God and the Sonne is God The Father is Lord and the Sonne is Lord Symbol Athanas I beleeue in God the Father Almighty c. and in one Lord Iesus Christ the onely begotten Sonne of God begotten of his Father before all worlds God of God light of light very God of very God begotten not made being of one substance with the Father Therefore very God And this both hath beene of the ancient Christians f Symbo Nicen. and is the Faith of the reformed Churches g Confe Helv. 1. ar 11. ● c 11. Bohem. cap. 4.6 August ar 6. Gal. ar 13 14. Belg. ar 10. Wittemb c. 2. Sueuica ar 1. The errors and aduersaries vnto this truth Miserably therefore do they erre which either deny or impugne the Deity of our Sauiour as did certaine old heretikes viz. The Arrians whereof some were called the Douleians because in scorne they tearmed the onely begotten of God the Fathers seruant a Theod. haer fab lib 4. The Cerinthians b Irenaeus The Ebionites among whom some said that Christ Iesus was a meere man others acknowledged him to be God but not from everlasting c Euseb eccles l. hist l. 3 c. 27. The Eunomians d Basil 5. contra Eunom The Samosatenians who thought that Christ was not the Sonne of God before his incarnation e Concil Bracar cap. 1. The Nestorians whose opinion was that Christ became God by merit but was not God by nature f Liberatus The Macedonians which vtterly denyed the Sonne to be of one substance with the Father g Theodoret. l. 4. haeret fab The Agnoites who held that the diuine nature of Christ was ignorant of some things h Gregor ep 22 l. 8. Againe some late heretikes even to the death never would acknowledge Christ Iesus to be the true and very God as namely Certaine Catabaptists i Zuing. lib. contra Catab Blandrat k Beza ep 19. Matthew Hamant burnt at Norwich An. 1579. one of whose heresies was that Christ was a meere and sinfull man l Iohn chron 12.29 Francis Ker burnt also at Norwich An. 1588 who most obstinately maintained that Christ was not God till after his resurrection Dauid George sometime of Basil who affirmed himselfe to be greater for power then ever Christ was m Hist Dauidis Georg. In oppugning the deity of our Sauiour with these heretiks ioyne the Iewes n Lud Caret I. divinior visci ad Iudaeos and Turkes which say that Christ was a good man such as Moses and Mahomet were o Policy of the Turkish Emp. c. 5 p 16. but not God Hence Amurath the great Turke in his letters vnto the Emp. Rodolph the second An. 1593. tearmed our Sauiour in derision The crucified God vnto whom may be added the Family of Love p Display of the Fam. of Love H. 7. ar 2. Proposition Christ is very man The proofe from Gods Word HOlding the humanity of Christ wee ioyne with the blessed Prophets and Euangelists who either prophecied of his future incarnation a The seed of the woman shal breake thine h●ad Gen. 3.15 The Scepter shall not dep●●t c. vntill Shiloh come Gen. 49 1● and conception in the wombe of a Virgin b Behold a Virgin shall con●●i●● and beare a Son Esay 7.14 or plainely auouched and writ both that the Virgin Mary was his Mother c Matth. 10.18 2● Luk. 27 31.34 and that as very man he grew and increased in strength d Luk. 2.40 endured hunger e When he had ●●sted 40

this Archbishop was great to further the glory of God but through the enuy and malice of his ill-willers his power was but small his place high but himselfe made low through some disgraces by his potent aduersaries which he meekely and patiently endured till his dying day 6. During the time of this mans troubles among other The factious encrease and grow confident two things especially deserue obseruation One is the flocking of Iesuits into the Kingdom who afore then neuer came among vs the other is the insolency boldnes of our home faction The Iesuits indicted Councils summoned Synodes enacted and reuersed orders and exercised Papall iurisdiction among vs wee not witting nor so much as dreaming of any such matter The Brethren for so did they now stile themselues in their Churches and charges would neither pray nor say seruice nor Baptize nor celebrate the L. Supper nor Marry nor Bury nor doe any other Ecclesiasticall duty according to the Law but after their owne deuisings And abroad as if they had bin acquainted with the Iesuitical proceedings or the Iesuites with their practices they had their meetings both classicall and Synodicall they set downe decrees reuersed orders elected Ministers exacted Subscription and executed the censures of suspe●●ision and excommunication where they thought good The I●su●es had for their prouinciall first Robert Parsons alias Cowbuck then Weston and lastly Garnet which Garnet continued in that office till the yeere 1605. when he was apprehended and for most horrible and hellish treasons as an arrant Traitor put to death in Pauls Churchyard the fame yeer And the Brethren had their I know not what chiefe men All of these residing in and about London and in speciall fauour both with the Gentiles and vulgar people of their seuerall factions and so continued multiplying their number and growing strong euen head-strong in boldnesse and schisme till the dying day of this most graue and reuerend Archbishop which was in the moneth of Iuly 1583. 10. Some foure moneths afore whose death the said Brethren at a certaine Assembly of their own appointing among other things as I find decreed Vnitie of doctrine still holdeth among vs. An. 1583. that if Subscription unto the booke of Articles of Religion afore mentioned and still meant should againe be vrged the said Brethren might subscribe thereunto according to the Statute Which declareth that what diuersity and disagreement soeuer was about other matters yet abode there still a blessed Vnitie among vs touching the foundation of Christian Religion And this was in 25. yeere of Q. Elizabeth Archbish Whitegift 11. Next vnto him D. Whitegift then Bishop of Worcester a man deseruedly vnto that dignitie promoted and for his manifold paines in writing teaching defending the truth his wisedome in gouerning and his well demeaning of himselfe euery way worthy the double honour which hee did enioy or the State could aduance him vnto from thence was translated vnto the See of Canterbury No sooner was he confirmed in his office but obseruing both the open intolerable contempt in many places of all Church orders by authority prescribed and hearing both of many secret conuenticles and vnlawful assemblies in his Prouince and of the tumults and garboiles abroad and euen at his very admission vnto his charge raised in Scotland and that for the selfe-same cause which by the Brethren here in England was maintained and foreseeing the dangers and troubles likely to ensue for which he should giue an account if in time he sought not meanes to preuent them he thought it his bounden duty for the preseruation of vnity and purity in Religion the preuenting of further schisme and the discouery of mens inclinations either vnto peace or faction that all and euery Minister Ecclesiasticall hauing cure of soules within the Prouince of Canterbury vnder his owne hand and by subscription Subscription the secōd time called for should testifie his consent both vnto the points of Religion in the Conuocation Ann. 62. approoued and likewise vnto other Articles necessary for concord sake of all euery man Minister especially to be acknowledged and accordingly by due course of Law called then thereunto Which was done the very first yeere of his remoueall and of her Maiesty the 26. Anno 1584. This of the brethren was tearmed the wofull yeere of subscription but that they should so doe there was no cause vnlesse they are grieued that factious spirits and malecontented Ministers and Preachers were discouered and their erroneous and schismaticall opinions brought into light And surely neuer was their subscription hitherto by authority vrged in this land but diuers new fancies held yet for truthes not to bee doubted of among the brethren were thereby detected for Gods people to auoid as monsters neither hath our Church lost by imposing nor the aduersaries gained at the long runne by refusing Subscription 12. In the yeeres 71. and 72. when subscriptiom first was required the whole land will witnesse that many and sundry bookes aswell in Latine How basely the Brethren cōceiue of the doctrine by the Bishops agreed vpon and established by the Prince as English then and afterward flew abroad In which we read how then and in those dayes the truth of God did in a manner but peepe out as it were at the Screene that Cranmer Parker Grindall and all the other Martyrs Preachers and learned men which first in our age brought the light of the Gospell into this Realme did see a little and had a glimpse of the truth but ouersaw many things which in these dayes of the Sunshine of the Gospell men of meaner gifts doe see and yet may not vtter them without great danger of the Lawes through the iniquity of the times though the said things now seene be comprised in the Booke of God and also be a part of the Gospell yea the very Gospell it selfe so true are they and of such importance as if euery haire of our heads were a life say the Brethren we ought to afford them in defence of these matters the Articles of Religion penned and agreed vpon by the Bishops and Clergy and ratified by the Prince and Parliament in comparison of these things now reuealed and newly come to light are but Childish and toyes Thus write they as your grace best knoweth and I would haue quoted the places where they may be read had I either not written vnto your selfe or did write vnto a man vnacquainted with their bookes And had they here stayed their words had bin able without the more grace of God to haue moued the Parliament and all the people of this land as they have preuail'd but too much already with their too credulous Fauorites to thinke our Church for all the reformation wrought and Vniformity in doctrine established to be much awry and farre from the truth it should professe But setting downe as they haue done and publishing both what the truth is which now breaketh out and