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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13320	A myrror for Martinists, and all other schismatiques, which in these dangerous daies doe breake the godlie vnitie, and disturbe the Christian peace of the Church. Published by T.T.	Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601, attributed name.; T. T., fl. 1590.	1590 (1590)	STC 23628; ESTC S118084	30,611	40

schismes wherby he might ouerthrow faith corrupt the truth diuide the vnitie of Christs Church This title and name of Christianitie whereof Cyprian speaketh is that cloke of schismatiques by which they would séeme holy and good to the detriment of the godlie Schisme according to Saint Augustines opinion springeth from a certaine hatred amongst brethren Many causes hereof are rehearsed by the fathers of the Primitiue Church but they all agrée that there be foure especiall meanes to hatch them all which foure haue a soueraigne supremacie and a supreame soueraigntie in this latter age of the worlde The first they set down is the contempt of Bishops to whom as Ierome saith euer since Saint Markes time the gouernment of the Church belonged In hoc omnes sunt docti c. By so much bee they nowe accounted better learned by howe much they can whet their tongues sharper and shoote out more poisoned arrowes euen bitter wordes against them The second is ambition or as some thinke enuie at the preferment of others This caused of olde Arrius Donatus and Nouatius to straine theyr braines to finde out their monstrous assertions being found to teach and preach them openly neither shall the sectaries of our daies euer cléere themselues from this suspition The third cause is false loue All men desire to bee commended for theyr skill They thinke nothing to be truly sayd or well done but that which they themselues doe The fourth is couetonsnesse this caused Balaam to curse Gods people and Simon Magus to desire the giftes of the holy Ghost and hope of gaine is said to be it that caused Paulus Samosatenus to fall into his damnable opinions This contagion hath so spread it selfe like a canker through the veines and hearts of the world at this daie that there is almost no hope of anie recouerie In respect whereof it cannot be sayd as it was of Iay rouse daughter that it is euen nowe dead but as they sayd of Lazarus that it alreadie stinketh These causes considered it may easily be séene what schisme is namely a separation of a congregation either through hatred and contempt of Bishoppes ambition selfe-loue or couetousnes by which there ariseth a diuersitie either of minde or opinion or spéeches or election of gouernours whether ecclesiasticall or ciuill which things doe both bréede and increase that hatred contempt c. Howbeit all Schisme is not to be condemned For there is a separation which we may iustly allow commend as when certaine partes separate themselues from the whole because they will not be corrupted and infected with vngodlynes In this respect Abraham is commended because he forsooke Caldea his natiue Countrie Lot Sodome and Iohn Baptist was no Schismatique though he departed from the Leuitical Priesthood himselfe being of the same Tribe Paul departing from the Scribes and Pharesies the Gentiles conuerted from the Iewes and we from the Church of Rome For Christ came not to send peace but a sworde and to seuere men from their owne household But if the body it selfe being good and some members being putrified and defiled are departed awaie such a schisme is most detestable both because the Church séeing it is a bodie of diuerse partes when it is diuided is after a sort ruined and also because the parts thereof being distracted and torne a sunder doe perish forsomuch as they do fall from eternall life They that separate themselues in this kinde of Schisme what other thing do they but rip vp y e seamlesse coat of Christ and breake the limites he hath set by disquieting the peace of his Church casting innummerable bones of debate to set men together by the eares so destroying their owne soules and so much as in them lyeth the whole Church vnles Christ vouchsafe his mercie to restore and preserue the same Here a question may be asked why God doth suffer his Church to be troubled and turmoiled by Schismes innouations and fantasticall deuices of the which greate learned men are many times the authors in such wise that not onely affinities kindreds friendships and whole families are subuerted as if Bellona or the furies were among them but also Cities Prouinces and kingdomes brought thereby to vtter desolation Moses the man of God answereth this question thus If there arise among you a prophet or a dreamer of dremes and giue thee a signe or a wonder and the signe or the wōder which he hath told thee come to passe saying Let vs goe after other Gods which thou hast not knowen let vs serue them Thou shalt not hearken to the wordes of that Prophet or dreamer of dreames for the Lorde your God proueth you to knowe whether yee loue the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soule The cause then we sée is as cléere as the light why the diuine prouidence sometime suffereth certain teachers in the Church-learned men to preach and maintain new opinions sayth Moses That the Lord your God might trie or proue you And in verie déede this is a sore temptation that hee whome thou iudgest to be a Prophet a disciple of the Prophets whom thou reputest to be a Doctor and teacher of the truth whome thou doest reuerence and greatly loue that he I saie should sodainly and couertly sowe hurtfull errours which thou canst not quickly find out nor easily condemne To make this place of Moses more manifest I will set before thée some Ecclesiasticall examples When that vnhappie Nestorius was turned from a shéepe to a woulfe how grieuously did he then teare spoile the flock of Christ when as they themselues were bitten of him which for the most part as yet tooke him for a shéepe and therfore laie more open to be deuoured of him For who wold haue thought y t he could easily haue erred which was elected to be Bishop of Constantinople by a generall consent of learned men who was beloued of the best and reuerenced of all men who dailie handled Gods word and confuted the pernitious errours both of the Iewes and also of the Gentiles Who would not haue beléeued that this man did teach and preache nothing but the truth that he had bin of a sound iudgement But he to make a waie for his owne heresie denying the diuinitie of Christ inueighed against the blasphemies of all heresies And this is that which Moses sayd The Lorde your God doth proue you whether ye loue him or not Many things are reported by Zozomenus in his Ecclesiasticall storie of the wickednesse of this Nestorius where amongst other things he setteth foorth the wonderfull and terrible iudgement of God vpon this heretique whose tongue with the which he had blasphemed Christ was immediatly after his death found eaten consumed from within his mouth with wormes But to leaue Nestorius in whom there was more cause of wonder then matter of profite more fame then desert who was for a time more