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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40669	The historie of the holy vvarre by Thomas Fuller ...	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650.; Cleveland, John, 1613-1658.	1647 (1647)	Wing F2438; ESTC R18346	271,602	341

the edge against Christians dissenting from him in small matters But few-voluntaries were found for this service because of a pious horrour and religious reluctancie against so odious an imployment Onely in Cyprus I believe in a private persecution rather then open warre some Grecians were put to death the Pope using the same severity against wolves and wandring sheep foes and prodigall children Chap. 5. Wherein the Greeks dissent from the Latines What must charitably be conceived of them BEsides their rejecting of the Popes both Ecclesiasticall and Temporall tyranny the Greeks differ from the Latines in other matters of moment For they maintain the procession of the holy Spirit from the Father alone As for their other tenents they stand in some middle terms of opinion betwixt Papists and Protestants yet so that they approch near the Papists in more to us in more weighty and dominative points With Rome they concurre in Transubstantiation in the whole sacrifice of the Masse in praying to Saints and for the dead in Auricular Confession in worshipping of Pictures onely of Christ and our Lady but all Images they detest a kind of Purgatory they hold but not in hell or the skirts thereof nor by any outward torment With us they consent in the Sufficiency of the Scriptures to salvation in denying the Infallibility of the Church much more of the Pope the overplus of Merits Service understood Indulgences Liberaties out of Purgatorie and the like Hereupon the Romanists condemn them all for hereticks and castawayes killing more then a third of all Christians as Cain did a quarter of mankind with a blow with this their uncharitable censure But heaven-gate was not so easily shut against multitudes when S. Peter himself wore the keyes at his girdle And let us not with rash judging thrust all into the pit of hell whom we see walking near the brink thereof We shall think better of them if we consider That First their tenets wherein they dissent from the Romanists are sound enough save that of the holy Ghost Concerning which it is an usefull quaere Whether granting the first authours and ringleaders of that errour in a bad condition there be not some favour to be allowed to those who in simplicity succeed to hereditary errours received from their ancestours if they do not wilfully barre nor bolt their eyes against the beams of the truth but be willing as we charitably conceive of the Greeks to receive and embrace better instruction Secondly the Master of the Sentences waited on herein with other learned men is of opinion That in the sense of the Greek Church A Filio and Per Filium is no reall difference but a question in modo loquendi Sure it would have grated the foundation if they had so denied the procession of the holy Ghost from the Sonne as thereby to make an inequality betwixt the two Persons But since their form of speech is That the holy Ghost proceedeth from the Father by the Sonne and is the Spirit of the Sonne without making any difference in the consubstantiality of the Persons their doctrine may passe with a favourable interpretation Thirdly our quickest sight in the matters of the Trinity is but one degree above blindnesse Wherefore as concerning it let our piety lodge there where in other disputes the deceit of sophisters used to nestle it self namely in universalibus in large and generall expressions and not descend to curious particulars To search into the manner of the ●Spirits procession is neither manners nor religion and rather falleth under an awfull adoration and belief then an exact and curious enquirie Lastly this their tenet doth not infect any other point in Divinity with its poysonous inferences Some errours are worse in their train then in themselves which as the Dragon in the Revelation drew down a third part of the starres with his tail by their bad consequences pervert other points of religion But this Grecian opinion as learned men propound it concerning the holy Ghost hath this happinesse that it is barren and begetteth no other bad tenets from it being entire in it self More may be alledged for the lessening of this errour But grant it in its full extent yet surely the moderate judgement of that learned Divine whose memory smelleth like a Field the Lord hath blessed will abide triall who in effect thus concludeth Their schismes are sinfull wicked and inexcusable their doctrine dangerous but not so damnable as excluding from all possibility of salvation As for the observation of a Schoolman That afterwards the Turks wonne Constantinople on Whitsunday the day dedicated to the memoriall of the holy Spirit as if God herein pointed at the sinne of the Grecians in dishonouring the holy Ghost we leave it to the readers discretion desiring rather to be scepticall then definitive in the causes of Gods judgements Chap. 6. A comparative estimate of the extent of the Greek and Latine Church What hope of reconcilement betwixt them The influence this breach had on the Holy warre IF that religion were surely the best which is of the greatest latitude and extent Surveyers of land were fitter then Divines to judge of the best religion Neither is it any matter of great moment to measure the greatnesse of either Church But because Rome maketh her Universality such a masterpiece to boast of let us see if the Greek Church may not outshoot her in her own bow If we begin with the Grecian Church in Africa under the Patriarch of Alexandria thence proceeding into Asia and fetch a compasse about Syria Armenia Asia the lesse with Cyprus Candie and other Islands in the mid-land-sea and so come into Grecia if hence we go into Russia and Muscovia who though differing in ceremonies dissent not in doctrine as a sundry dialect maketh not a severall language to take onely entire Kingdomes and omit parcels it is a larger quantity of ground then that the Romish religion doth stretch to since Luther cut so large a collop out of it and withdrew North-Europe from obedience to his Holinesse Perchance the Romanists may plead they have lately improved the patrimony of their religion by new purchases in both Indies But who knoweth not that those people rather watered then baptized affrighted with cruelty into Christianity deserve not to be accounted settled and well-grounded professours of their religion As for reconciliation betwixt the Grecians and Latines it is utterly improbable except the Greeks submit to the Popes Primacie which they will never do No hope then of their meeting together when neither party will stirre step towards other True it is some fourty years since anno 1594 the Bishops of little Russia a countrey following the Eastern Church but under the King of Poland on condition they would accept the Popes supremacie were dispensed with and permitted in other matters to adhere to the Greek Church and keep union with it the Pope manifesting herein that he aimeth not so much at the