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A56281	Remarks of A. Pulton, master in the Savoy, upon Dr Tho. Tenison's late narrative with a confutation of the doctors rule of faith, and a reply to A. Chresners pretended Vindication.	Pulton, A. (Andrew), 1654-1710.	1687 (1687)	Wing P4207; ESTC R5578	30,730	54

of the Tigurines upon it It Tigur Theol. Ort. Conf. fol. 10. Tigur Tract 3 cont supra Luth. Conf. pag. 61. is most clear and cannot be deny'd but that never any man writ more uncivilly more filthily more leudly c. than Luther And again Did ever man hear such Speeches pass from a furious Devil himself No less Excellent an Instrument was he in order to Civil Authority and Government Among Christians Tom. 6. Germ. de Saec. Pot. alibi says he no man can or ought to be Magistrate but each one is to other equally subject Hence no wonder he treats Crown'd Heads with that unparallel'd Indignity and Impudence He calls Henry the VIII More Furious than Madness it self Tom. 2. fol. 333 334 335 338 340. more Foolish than Folly it self indu'd with an Impudent and Whorish Face without any one vein of Princely Blood in his Body a lying Sophist a damnable rotten Worm a Basilisk and Progeny of an Adder c. Most wicked and impudent Harry And again Thou lyest in thy Throat foolish and Sacrilegious King. Thus giving Luther some few grains of Allowance that is allowing him to be one who question'd if not deny'd the Unity of God held Christ to have been Man from all Eternity the Divinity to have suffer'd several unquestion'd Books of Scripture to be meer sigments and idle stories the three first Gospels not to be true the ten Commandments not to be made for Us Polygamy and Fornication not to be unlawful Continency to be as impossible as not to be a Man one generally confess'd a manifest and publick corrupter of Scripture most filthy in his Language and Writings most dis-respectful and insolent towards Princes one Infamous for his intimate Familiarity with the Devil and in short one whose Principles and Practice are absolutely destructive of all Piety Religion Civil Government and Morality and then Dr. Martin Luther will prove most undoubtedly an excellent Instrument of GOD's What impartial man can doubt but these Grains of Allowance are weighty enough to counterpoise the Dr's bare assertion of it Having in compliance to the Dr's Request given these Grains of Allowance to Luther whom he has been pleas'd to assign for an excellent Instrument of GOD's and a Pillar of the pretended Reformation A. P. craves the Favour of his kind Reader that he may be permitted to draw also a short Scheme of one whom he verily believes to have been a very great Instrument of GOD and who was Contemporary to Martin Luther 'T is of the great Xaverius who when some parts of Europe instigated by this Trumpet of Sedition revolted from their Obedience to the Pope leaving those great Pretensions in the World to which his extraordinary Parts might have made him justly aspire and binding himself to GOD by a triple Vow of following the Evangelical Counsels as Luther had formerly done though now broken it went in extreme Poverty to the farthest parts of the East where having Preach'd the Faith to near thirty Kingdoms in twelve of which he left it planted having demolish'd many thousands of Idolatrous Temples and Baptiz'd with his own hands twelve hundred thousand Souls Almighty GOD accompanying his Preaching by such Signs as he is usually pleas'd to confer on Apostles of the Gentiles as a wonderful Power over Devils the Gift of Tongues the Spirit of Prophecy the Curing all Diseases and raising five and twenty persons from Death to Life all which attested by many Eye-witnesses were after a very rigorous examen found indisputably true he dy'd with an Opinion of admirable Sanctity which is yet farther confirm'd by his Body remaining till this day uncorrupt at Goa The Pious and Christian Reader is now desir'd to reflect a little on these two Instruments and having seriously compar'd their Lives and Doctrines in both of which they were Diametrically opposite to each other freely and indifferently to determine which of them seems to have been sent by Almighty GOD. To return now to our Dr. we find him relating Confer p. 8. a story that this great Instrument of GOD Martin Luther being at Rome heard the very Courtizans jeering by say that some who Consecrated had us'd these Words Bread thou art Bread thou shalt be Wine thou art Wine thou shalt be Now had Luther heard this from the Colledge of Cardinals Bishops and Prelates and had they allow'd of it he might have had some Motive to distrust the sincerity of the Roman Catholick Tenet But he heard it from the very Courtizans This indeed is an irrefragable Proof of Luther's Pious Conversation And here the Dr. has unawares pointed us out the true Motive of Luther's Change of Life and Doctrine viz. The Conversation of Courtizans which he knew being a Frier he could not so easily enjoy The Dr. now got into a pleasant Humour tells us another impertinent story of an old Man who Swore to the Devil Ador'd an Image of the Blessed Virgin and kept his Courtizan Giving an hint as though the second Council of Nice approv'd all this Which are three notorious Calumnies The Fathers there assembled said as they ought that an Oath made to the Devil could not oblige and that it would be less Sin to be naught with a Woman it being a personal and private Trespass than by denying the Respect due to Holy Images at that time wickedly oppugn'd by the most Impious Ieonoclasts to give occasion of publick Scandal and Heresie I must upon this occasion mind the Reader of a very disingenuous Proceeding frequently us'd by most Protestants viz. That if they find in History of whatever Time or Author any Passage seeming to make the least against the Roman Catholicks they presently receive it with all the Credit due to the most assured Verity Whereas though five hundred Authors of undoubted Sincerity Virtue and Learning attest from their own knowledge and experience Passages Miracles c. evincing our Catholick Tenets they value them no more than a Tale of Tom Thumb or Valentine and Orson The Dr 's Rule of Faith prov'd Insufficient THis story which as appears by his own account rendred the Dr. very uneasie till he was deliver'd of it being over he now assigns for the Rule of Faith the Holy Bible the sum of it in necessary Doctrines being the Apostolical Creed Confer p. 9. Now A. P. when requisite will assign many necessary Points which as they are unmention'd in the Apostles Creed so are they either not at all or much less clearly prov'd from Holy Scripture than the Doctrine of the Real Presence Auricular Confession Purgatory c. But at present what follows shall suffice 'T is necessary for Christians to keep Holy the first day of the Week Now where does the Bible teach the Sabbath or seventh day which was commanded to be kept in the Decalogue to have been abolish'd by CHRIST and the Sunday being the first substituted in its place The same might be instanc'd in the Feast of Easter no