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A08326	An antidote or treatise of thirty controuersies vvith a large discourse of the Church. In which the soueraigne truth of Catholike doctrine, is faythfully deliuered: against the pestiferous writinges of all English sectaryes. And in particuler, against D. Whitaker, D. Fulke, D. Reynolds, D. Bilson, D. Robert Abbot, D. Sparkes, and D. Field, the chiefe vpholders, some of Protestancy, some of puritanisme, some of both. Deuided into three partes. By S.N. Doctour of Diuinity. The first part.; Antidote or soveraigne remedie against the pestiferous writings of all English sectaries	S. N. (Sylvester Norris), 1572-1630.	1622 (1622)	STC 18658; ESTC S113275	554,179	704

of that house is a prophane person And a little after He that gathereth not with you scattereth that is he that is not Christs is Antichrists To S. Augustine Number the Priests euen from Peters seate see who succeeded one another in that row of Fathers that is the Rocke which the proud gates of Hell do not ouercome And in another place That is it which hath obtained the top of authority Then he sayth The principality of the Apostolicall Chaire alwayes florished in the Roman Church Lastly The Bishop of that Sea hath the preheminence of higher roome in the pastorall watch-tower which is common to all Bishops For this cause the Church of Rome is tearmed The head of the world the head of all Churches by Prosper by Victor by Vincentius by the Emperour Iustinian and others To which Church as Irenaeus testifyeth for her more powerfull principality euery Church ought to repayre For this the Pope of Rome is worthily intituled The a Hiero. epist. 123. chiefe and highest Priest The b Ambr. com in 1. Tim. 3. ruler of the house of God The c Concil Chal. in epist ad Leonem act 1. head of the Church The d Synod Later sub Mar●ino Papa secret 2. Prince Doctor of the orthodoxall and immaculate fayth The e Stephanus Archiepis Carthag ep ad Dam. Father of Fathers The f Bern. l. 2. de consid Vicar of Christ The g Bern. ibid. Pastour of all Pastours The h Concil Constant 5. act 1. pag. 74. giuer of Light and pillar of the Church The i Valent. epist. ad Theodosium quae habetur inter praeambula Conc. Chaleed Iustinian Nouell constit 123. in edit Haloand lib. 1. Cod. de summa Trinitate Liberatus in Breuiario cap. 12. Sozom. lib. 3. cap. 7. most Blessed Bishop of the Citty of Rome to whome amiquity hath giuen the principality of Priest-hood aboue all other These last be the wordes of Valentinian the Emperour whome Iustinian Chrys Ep. ad Innocent Theod. in Ep. ad Leonem Sulpitius Seuer l. 2. sacr hist Epiph haer 42. Cyp. l. 1. Ep. 4 Epiph. haeres 68. ●este Paulo Diaco Anact in Symmacho Sigeber in chronic Extainter Epi. Agapeti Tō 1. ep Rom. Pontif. habetur ep Euti tom 2. Conc. edit Colon. ann 1606. pag. 510. Apud Leonem epist 68. following maketh also a solemne decree That according to the Definition of the foure Holy Councells of Nice of Constantinople of Ephesus and of Chalcedon the Pope of Rome is the chiefe of all Priests And he addeth No man doubteth but that the top or principality of the highest Bishopricke resteth in Rome 11. Besides these authorityes which are all impregnable the continuall practise and consent of all Nations approue the supremacy of the Pope of Rome and therfore to him as to the supreme and highest Iudge vpon earth appeales haue beene made from all partes of the world To giue you a tast of some few examples To whose high tribunall did Flauianus the Partriarch of Constantinople appeale from the second Councell of Ephesus but to the tribunall of Leo Pope of Rome Whose ayd and succour did Athanasius the Bishop of Alexandria implore oppressed by the Arrians but the ayd of Iulius the Pope of Rome Vnder whose wings did S. Iohn Chrysostome flye deposed in a Councell of many Bishops of the East but vnder the wings of Innocentius the Pope of Rome To him Theodoret to him Saluianus and Priscillian rebells vnto God and enemyes of that Sea condemned in a Synod at Caesar-Augustum to him Marcion to him Basilides deposed from his Bishopricke was faine to appeale To him Valens and Vrsacius came to giue an account and craue pardon for their treachery against Athanasius To Symmachus Pope of Rome 220. or 225. Bishops as others report banished their seates by King Thrasimond fled for reliefe who honourably maintained them at his owne charges 82. To the Pope of Rome as to the anker of fayth oracle of truth the faythfull were wont to direct the Summe of their beliefe the greatest Clarkes their bookes and writings most famous Councells their Canons and decrees So Iustinian the Emperour sent the profession of his fayth to Agapetus the Pope Eutychius the Patriarch of Constantinople to Vigilius the Pope Proterius the Patriarch Aug. cōt 2. ep ●ela lib. 1. cap. 1. Inter Ep. Hormis Tom. 1. Ep. Rom. Pontif. Hiero. in exp li. Sym. ad Dama Concil Chal. in relat sanct Synod ad Leo. Con. Mileu 10. 2. p. ●01 inter ep Aug. 92. c. Cyp. teste Hier. dialo adu ●ucif Bils● pa. 1. p. 44. 45. 48. 49. Chrys Ep. 1. ad Inno. Tom. 5. Socrat. l. 2. cap. 15. Hier. in symb exp ad Damas Aug. con 2. Epis Pelag l. 1. c. 1. Theod Ep. ad Leonē Commen eius in Paul praefix of Alexandria to Leo the Pope So S. Augustine sent his workes to Pope Boniface to be examined and amended Possessor a Bishop of Africa his commentaries vpon S. Paul to Hormisda S. Hierome his explication vpon the Creed to Damasus So the Councell of Chalcedon sent their Canons to Leo the Pope The Mileuitan Councell held in Numidia the cause of Pelagius to Pope Innocentius And S. Cyprian the Primate of Africa sent the decrees of the Councell of Carthage to Stephen the Pope Neyther were these thinges done as M. Bilson to obscure the truth and beguile his Reader craftily suggesteth for the common consent mutuall agreement publike liking of the Bishops in euery Prouince because then the like resorts should haue been made to other Primates as well as to the Pope but they were made to him as to the Vicar Generall of Christ and ruler of his whole Church who had power and authority to examine the causes punnish the faultes reforme the abuses approue the fayth condemne the heresies establish the decrees reuerse the sentences of all other Bishops as the Letters the Complaints the Suites the Embassages the Petitions the whole History of the former Appellants and other resorters vnto Rome beare witnesse 13. S. Iohn Chrysostomes letters were to request Innocentius To pronounce the proceedings of the Bishops of the East voyd and of no force to punish with Ecclesiasticall Censures the Authours of that disorder S. Athanasius his complaint was of the wrong offered him by the Emperor a great assembly of Easterne Bishops who wrongfully thrust him from his Bishopricke And Iulius the Pope of Rome as Socrates relateth by the prerogatiue of the Roman Sea wrote threatning letters in his behalfe and restored him to his place rebuking them who rashely deposed him S. Hieromes suite to Damasus was If any thing be here vnaduisedly set forth we entreate it may be amended by thee who holdest the fayth seat of Peter The like suite S. Augustine made to Bonifacus Theodorets supplication to Leo was this I humbly request beseech your Holynesse in this case to ayde me appealing

Iohn the Patriarch of Constantinople vsurped it to himselfe to wit to be such an absolute and vniuersall Patriarch as to derogate from all others their Patriarchall dignity as diuers Catholike writers haue often demonstrated out of S. Gregoryes owne Epistles Greg. l. 4. Ep. 34. 36. Andreas Frisius de Eccles l. 2. 6. 10. p. 170. Yet if it may carry more credit with Protestants deliuered by Protestants themselues let them read what Andreas Frisius a famous Zuinglian Secretary to the King of Polonia wryteth Some there be who agaynst this office of vniuersall Superintendent obiect the authority of Gregory who sayth that such a tytle belongeth to the Precursour of Antichrist But the reason of Gregory is to be knowne and it may be gathered out of the words he repeateth in many Epistles That the tytle of vniuersall Bishop is contrary and doth withstand the grace which is commonly powred vpon all Bishops He therfore that should surname himselfe vniuersall Bishop nameth himselfe the only Bishop and taketh Bishoplike power from the rest Therefore this tytle he would haue to be reiected which is vsurped with the iniury of other Bishops And immediatly after Notwithstanding by other places it is euident that Gregory thought the charge principality of the whole Church was committed to Peter by the voyce of our Lord. And thus much he wrote plainly and almost word for word to the Emperour Maurice and strenghtned it by testimony of Scripture Thus he Plainly declaring that although S. Greg. l. 4. Ep. ●2 Gregory disliked the arrogant vsurpation of that name with iniury to the other Bishops yet he allowed the vniuersall dignity of one supreme Gouernour of the Church without wrong or derogation to any 22. To that which M. Bilson vrgeth of Councells Bils part ● p. 84. 85 86. 87. 88. c. deposing Popes I answere First they were vnlawfull assemblyes as the Councell of Brixia the Councell of Pisa according to Antoninus And the Councell of Basil although lawfully begun was then vnlawful when it deposed Eugenius Secondly I answere that lawfull Councells may in tyme of Schisme iudge and declare who is true Pope depose the vsurpers or perswade also the true Pope for quietnes sake to resigne his right which was all that the Councell of Constance defined practised in deposing Iohn the 23. Gregory the 12. and Benedict the 13. And therefore M. Bilson might haue well spared his paynes from tyring the learned and amazing the simple Reader with the vayne recitall of so many wild and vagrant hystories To proceed 23. This second point being proued that Peters Successour enioyeth his dignity it resteth I discusse why the Pope of Rome should rather inherite it then the Bishop of Antioch where Peter first sate or the Bishop of Ierusalem where Christ our Sauiour dyed For declaration whereof you must vnderstand that Christ neuer fixed his seat eyther at Ierusalem or at any other determinate place Agayne he hath none to succeed him he still continueth Haeb. 7. v. 24 his Euerlasting Priest-hood And that the Primacy should not remayne at Ierusalem the testimonyes of Scripture are most perspicuous S. Paul giueth a reason hereof The Priesthood being translated it is necessary that a translation of the law Haeb. 7. v. 12. Matt. 21. v. 41. Act. 13. v. 46. also be made Christ forto●d it to the Iewes The Kingdome of God shall be taken from you and giuen to a Nation yielding the fruits thereof S. Paul and Barnabas testify the performance To you it behooued vs first to speake the word of God but because you repell it and iudge your selues vnworthy of eternall life behold we turne to the Gentils 24. If Caluin had weyghed these places well they might haue instructed him why the seat of Christs Lieutenant was not placed at Ierusalem the chiefe Citty of the Iewes but in the chiefe and principall Citty of the Gentils It might haue also informed M. Bilson why at Rome rather then at Antioch because it was meete as Saint Leo doth often insinuate That the Citty of Superstition Leo 1. de na●a Apost Pet. Paul Marcel Ep. ad presbyt Antioch Anaclet ad omnes Presbyt Hieron de viris illust in vit Pet. Damas in vit eiusdō Euseb in Chron. an 44. Hieron de viris Illusta in Petro. might be made the Chiefe Seate of Religion For this cause albeit he first sate at Antioch for the space of seauen yeares yet after as Saint Marcellus Anacletus Saint Hierome and Damasus auouch he translated his throne to the Citty of Rome and there continued Bishop as Eusebus Saint Hierome and other Hystoriographers testify 25. yeares There he ended his life with a glorious Martyrdome There he resigned or rather surceased his Pastorall charge Wherefore seing he only is inuested in the state of his Predecessour who succeedeth him yielding vp eyther by natural death or voluntary resignation his whole former dignity and not he who succeedeth only in his place or partaketh some part of his charge the reason is cleare why Linus the Pope of Rome and not Euodius Bishop of Antioch is Peters Successour because in Rome he sate last in Rome he sate longest in Rome he resigned his Episcopall dignity 25. We see when the King changeth and remoueth his Court from one Citty to another the Magistrate he placeth in his former residence he appointeth no heyre or Successour to the right of his Kingdome When the throne of the Empire was translated from Milan from Treuers from Antioch and other places the Gouernours of those Cittyes did not thereby vsurpe the Imperiall crowne no more can the Bishop of Antioch challenge the scepter of Peters supremacy after that Peter translated his seate from thence after that he aduanced it to the Citty of Rome and there continued it vntill the houre of his death Neuertheles he often departed thence during this tyme into diuers other countreyes about the affayres of the Church 26. And it hath pleased God so to confirme the continuall succession of his chiefe Vicars in the Blessed Sea that notwithstanding many cruell and mighty Tyrants haue bent their whole endeauours to disturbe them from thence notwithstanding they haue beene often banished into remote and barbarous Countreys as Clemens by Traian in Chersonesum the North part of Asia Cornelius Thomas Bozius de signis Eccl. Tomo 2. l. 17. signo 78. Baronius in Auna anno chri 200. 255. by Decius to Centumcellas Liberius by Constantius into Thrace Martin by the same into Pontus and forty such like notwithstanding 33. one after another haue beene put to the sword notwithstanding their remoue for a tyme to Viterbo Auenion Rauenna Yet the Pope haue still returned and the Sea continued at Rome All other Patriarchall seates haue beene shaken in pieces but that of Rome no deaths no banishments no Tyrannies of men or malice of Sathan could euer ouerthrow That hath perseuered for the space of 1620. yeares and

In 6. Syn. gen act 4. 9. ●6 with Sergius with the Monothelites their wills and operations who for this cause are enrolled in the rancke of heretikes and aboue 1000. yeares ago condemned by Pope Agatho in the sixt generall Councell 23. Wherefore to draw to an end I intreate you all who peruse this Treatise if the filth sucked out these miry puddles haue not dammed vp the passage of truth if these dregges of heresyes haue not quenched in you all sparkes of grace renounce the Patrons of such iniquity beware the infection of their folly the fury of them who proclaime Christ a Priest Christ a Mediatour according to his Deity and acknowledge with vs how he dischargeth these dutyes only as man notwithstanding how his actions his Sacrifice his prayers and teares were all of infinite and incomparable merit through the excellency of his diuine person Which I would to God his Royall Maiesty would also vnderstand for whose worthy satisfaction I haue diligently laboured to decide this question THE TENTH CONTROVERSY DEMONSTRATETH The Primacy of S. Peter against D. Bilson and D. Reynoldes CHAP. I. ARISTOTLE the chiefe and Prince Arist ● 3. polit ● 5. 6. 7 of Philosophers assigneth three seuerall manners of gouerning a Common-Wealth For eyther many of the meaner sort beare sway or some few of the Nobility or only one as absolute Soueraigne If many it is called Democracy if few Aristocracy if one a Monarchy The first is often ruined with the tumults and garboyles of the vnconstant and diuersly-headed multitude The second commonly deuided with the strifes and factions of the ambitious Peeres The third as it is lesse subiect S. Thom. de regim principum l. 1. cap. 1. 23. ● to diuision so most conuenient as S. Thomas learnedly noteth to order guide and keepe many in peace and vnity the finall scope to which all gouernments should be directed and all rulers ayme 2. Whereupon Plato Aristotle Isocrates and diuers other affirme in peace in warre in managing al affaires Plato in polit Arist l. 3. polit c. 11. 12. l. 4. cap. 2. Isocrates oratione 3. this to be the most diuine forme of a Common-Wealth where one most singular man hath the supreme power and administration of things which both God and Nature confirmeth For in the mystery of the most holy Trinity there is the Father from whom the Sonne and the Holy Ghost who from the Father and the Sonne as from one only origen or beginning proceedeth They euery way equall in properties distinct in Persons three are only one in ouer-ruling and disposing all things Amongst the immortall spirits and quires of Angels there is one illuminated by God who giueth light to the rest In the Heauens there is one first moueable by which the inferiour orbes and planets are moued One Sunne from whence the light of the Stars is borrowed and influence of the signes in the Zodiacke determined In earthly thinges in this little world of man there is one hart from which the arteryes and vitall spirits one braine from whence the sinewes one lyuer from which the veines channels of bloud haue their head or of-spring in euery element there is one predominate quality Amongst the birdes the Eagle among the beasts the Lyon among the fishes the Whale doth also dominier In Trees Cyprian tract do Idolorum ●anitate Hearbes and Plants in Townes Villages Families priuate Houses the like head-ship or Monarchy might be shewed if it were not too long for my professed breuity in so much as S. Cyprian writeth The very Bees haue their guide and captaine whome they follow Apo. 2● 2. Cant. 6. 3. Mat. 13. v. 38. 41. Ioan. 10. 16. Luc. 10. 34. 1. Tim. 3. ●● 3. Now sith the Church of Christ militant vpon earth is a perfect yet spirituall Common-wealth sith it is An holy Citty A campe well ordered and established by the wisest Captaine Gouernour and Law-maker that euer was Who doubteth but that he placed in it the most worthy Regiment of all others that Monarchicall preheminence which in all his other creatures so perfectly raigneth especially for that he resembleth it to A kingdome to A sheepefold to An Inne to An House in which one King one Pastour one Host one Maister beareth sway For that it ought to be correspondent to the ancient Mat. 16. 18. 19. Synagogue in which one High-priest answerable to the celestiall hierarchies and orders of Angels among whom one Seraphim is chief And who was this visible Monarch this Ministeriall head of the Church vnder Christ but S. Peter To whom our Sauiour said Thou art Peter and vpon this Rocke will I build my Church and the gates of Hell shall not preuaile against it And I will giue to thee the Keyes of the Kingdome of Heauen and whatsoeuer thou shalt binde vpon earth it shall be bound also in the Heauens and whatsoeuer thou shall loose in Earth it shall be loosed also in the Heauens In which sētence foure rare prerogatiues are promised vnto Peter and by euery one of them his supereminent dignity aboue the rest of the Apostles manifestly declared 4. For first he calleth him Rocke by which Metaphore he doth insinuate that he as a Rocke or Stone vnmoueable Amb. ser 47. Orig. hom 5. in Exod. saith S. Ambrose vpholdeth the whole weight and fabrike of Christian worke That he saith Origen is the great foundation or most solide stone vpon which Christ builded his Church Secondly he addeth To thee I will giue the Keyes of the Kingdome of Heauen by which words is signified all power to enact or repeale Lawes sommon or confirme Councels appoint or displace offices consecrate or degrade Bishops all power and authority which is requisite for the rule gouernment or instruction of the Church For euen as when the keyes of a Citty are giuen vp to the Magistrate the administration and rule of the State is surrendred into Greg. l. 4. epi. 32. Luc. 11. 52. Apoc. 1. v. 18. his hands so now when the Keyes of the kingdome of Heauen are imparted to Peter The whole charge and principality of the Church as S. Gregory writeth is committed vnto him And whereas there be two sorts of Keyes the Key of knowledge to teach and instruct of which S. Luke You haue taken away the Key of knowledge and the Key of authority and iurisdiction to guide and gouerne whereof S. Iohn speaketh I haue the Keyes of death and of Hell and Esay I will giue the Key of the house of Dauid vpon his shoulder Both these Keyes were here delegated vnto Peter by Isa 21. v. 22. It was vsuall amongst the Hebrewes to giue power and authority by the Keyes vid. Azor. Insti mor. p. 2. c. 9. the one he had the Chaire of infallible doctrine to decide all controuersies and define all matters of faith by the other the scepter of Ecclesiasticall gouernment to rule order correct and

boast of the pure preaching of the Word whereas you shall discouer in my third Part that they haue no authority to preach no mission no vocation at all They are Theeues who enter Ioan. 10. v. 2. 10. not by the doore but climbe another way to steale kill and destroy your soules They are the Ezech. 13 v. 3. 6 7. false Prophets who crie Thus saith our Lord when our Lord said it not nor sent them nor gaue them commission to speake And the purity of which they crake is as Hieremy Hierem. 14. 1 v. 4. declareth A lying Vision and Diuination Deceit and Beguiling of their heart which they prophesie vnto you Thirdly they glory to haue purged and reformed the Church of many errours which by little and little haue crept into her and restored her againe to the ancient integritie of the Apostolike Faith But you shall see their Reformations haue beene al corruptions abuses innouations they haue broken the peace departed from the vnity of the flocke of Christ are indeed no Church at all but a Rebellious Faction an Hereticall Assembly You shall finde their Ancient Faith a new Beliefe as S. Gregory Nazianzen said of the Arians their refined Greg. Nazian orat in Aria●os Doctrines meere nouelties new broached Heresies which I pray God both you and all others may haue grace to discerne in time least you open your eyes and begin to lament these things to late as Constantius the Emperour did of whom the same S. Gregory Nazianzen writeth That lying on his death-bed he repented him of three things Greg. Nazian in Laudem Athanas First that he had commanded his Sonne in law to be slaine The other that he had nominated Iulian the Apostata to succeed him in his Imperiall Throne The third that he had giuen eare to new deuised Doctrines And with these words he yielded vp his ghost 9. O yee flourishing Academians But what should I restraine my speach to you O England my dearest Country I would to God this fearefull president might so mooue thy Heart as to make Thee now whilest time serueth and grace is offered more fruitfully bewaile the like or more grieuous crimes committed by Thee Thou perchance hast not murdered thy carnall Kinsfolkes or Allies but thy spirituall Pastours Guides and Curates of thy soule Some thou hast spoyled vexed imprisoned and pined away with extreamest misery some thou hast arraigned executed and barbarously massacred as Rebels to thy Prince and Traytours to thy Crowne their bloud like water thou Psal 78. v. 3. hast powred forth round about Hierusalem their quarters thou hast set vp as preyes to be deuoured by birds and foules of the aire Thou hast vniustly nominated and entitled others to inherite their roomes possesse their benefices discharge their functions many of them reuolted Apostata's many mercinary Hirelings all tyrannicall Vsurpers who seeke not so much to oppresse the bodies as exercise their tyrannie ouer the soules of thy subiects and pittifully enthral them to euerlasting seruitude Lastly thou hast dammed vp the passage by which the cleere waters of Antiquity should flow into thy Kingdome thou hast opened the sluse to the puddles of nouelty to new flouds of Doctrine new fayned Sacraments new Articles of Faith new worship of God which I beseech his Diuine Piety thou maist haue grace to detest learne of the Lacedemonians who would not permit any strang merchandise or vnusual wares to be transported into their Citty to banish and abandon these vnwonted Doctrines and imbrace againe that ancient Faith which once thy whole Realme then happie Iland daughter of God and Dowry of the B. Virgin deuoutly sucked from the breast of Rome which all thy former Kings and Princes vntill now of late supported thy Lawes established thy People honoured thy Vniuersities defended To this end I present you Noble Students with these first fruits of my labours and will not cease to sacrifice vnto God my continuall praiers THE EPISTLE TO THE READER TWO of the first stoutest Champions of the Primitiue Church Tertullian and Arnobius writing against the Pagans auouch Tertul. Arno. cōtra Gent. that many of them impugned at the beginning our Christian fayth not so much of inueterate hatred as either of ignorance not knowing what we maintainde or of weaknes transported by the streame of Idolatry which euery where disgraced and opposed it selfe against it S. Augustine likewise writeth of himselfe Aug. l. 7● Confess c. 19. and his friend Alipius how slowly they imbraced or rather refrained from the Catholike Church by reason of some erroneous conceits they framed of our beliefe the one that we were infected with the heresy of Apollinaris the other not discerning the purity of our doctrine from the dregges of Photinus 2. The same opinion I haue of sundry Protestants who renounce our Religion not of any malicious mind but for that they ignorantly mistake the true grounds of faith or easily giue eare to the pernitious obloquies of their fayth-lesse Ministers who without feare of God or regarde of conscience perfidiously appeach vs of innumerable Sacriledges of such worship of Images as was vsed by Reyn. de ido Rom. Eccles lib. 1. c. 2. c. Fulke in c. 2. ad Col. sect 3. Fulke in 1. ad Tim. c. 4. sect 4. 5. Sutclif in his suruey of Popery cap. 8. Sparks in his answer to M. Iohn D'Albines p. 219. 120. VVhitak contro 1. quaest 5. Rich. Stoch in his ep Dedica to the Lord Knowles prefixed before M. VVhitak answere to M. Camp 10. reasons Bils in his booke of Christian subiection c 4. par part 1. Reyn. in his conference with M. Hart. the Carpocratians of such inuocation of Angels as the Apostolikes practised of deniall of Marriage with the Tatians and Encratites of selling the guifts of the holy Ghost with Simon Magus of honouring our Blessed Lady in offering her a wafer cake with the Collyridians of many such execrable blasphemies which our harts detest farre more then theirs Wherefore after the excellent and worthy labours of diuers memorable men both forraine and domesticall who with large volumes and inuincible reasons haue purged vs of these slaunders manifestly defended the vnconquerable truth of our ancient beliefe I haue endeauoured to make a short abridgment of all our most weighty and important proofes that heere the Reader may see as in a mappe described or pourtraited in a table what in the spacious feild of sundry mens workes is in diuers things more amply enlarged 3. My purpose is not seuerally to encounter any one particul●r aduersary but to trace the steppes and ioyntly to des●ry the errours of many according as the proiect of my intended discourse or force of their opposition shall minister occasion for my intention is to wade by Gods help into the maine Ocean of all the greatest and most difficult questions controuerted at this day betweene our English

blisse but in other prerogatiues In knowing quoth Origen what fauour we enioy in the sight of God praying with vs for increase therof In assisting with them quoth S. Gregory at the Diuine Altar c. In remembring our necessityes and crauing pardon for our sinnes In custody and safegard of vs sayth Saint Hilary In patronage and Prelacy ouer vs In conuersation with He alludeth to the 8. of the Apocal. Hilar. in Psal 124. Amb. in l. de vid. l. 8. in Luc. Bern. ser 2. de S. Victore Hierem. 15. Apoc. 5. Primasius in cum locum 2. Macha 15. Reyn. l. 1. c. 3. Field l. 3. c. 20. fol. 111. Tob. 12. Dan. 10. Zacha. 10 Psal 90. Matth. 18. Theod. l. 8. ad Greg. Greg. ora in Cypria vs sayth S. Ambrose Whereupon S. Bernard The Angels runne and succour men and they who were of vs haue they forgotten vs Haue they not learned to take compassion in which they once suffered Passion Certes they haue as the Diuine Oracles in sundry places insinuate 4. God spake vnto Ieremy If Moyses and Samuel stood before me my affection should not be to this people Therefore they were wont to stand pray for them or els the speach were very incongruous S. Iohn in the Apocalyps saw the 24. Seniours falling downe before the lambe hauing euery one harps and vials full of odours which are the prayers of Saints Where Primasius and others note what prayers and for whome they were Ieremy the Prophet after his departure Prayed much for the people and all the holy Citty as Onias the high Pryest testifyed to Iudas Machabaeus M. Reynoldes with his pew-fellow Field both instructed in the schoole of Caluin answere with their Mayster That the Saints pray for vs in generall as these places proue not in particuler as we would enforce But it is euident out of Toby Daniel Zachary King Dauid and S. Matthew that the Angels pray for vs in particuler are our particuler Guardians Pedagogues and Ouerseers Which Theodoret S. Gregory Nazianzen and diuers ancient Fathers consequently inferre of the Saints calling them in like manner a Amb. lib. de viduis Presidents of our Saluation b Basil in 40. Martyres Protectours of mankind comparteners of our cares c Basil ibidem Intercessours or Embassadours to God for vs. d Prudē l. de Coronis Patrons of the world e Theod. l. 8. Graec. affect 2. Petri 1. Captaynes guides and defenders of men by whome we are rescued out of sundry misfortunes and fensed from the euils our Ghostly enemyes wold inflict Euident it is that S. Peter spake of particuler matters when he sayd And I will doe my endeauour you to haue often after my decease also that you may keepe a memory of these things The soules of the Martyrs craued in particuler reuenge for their Persecutours how much more pardon and mercy for their Friends The rich Glutton moued with naturall compassion prayed in particuler for his brethren and shall we not thinke that the Saints in heauen installed in blisse enflamed with Charity haue a more particuler care of their brethren Apoe 6. Luc. 1● Ambros in natali sanctorum Mart. Nazarij Celsi Leo ser 1. in natali Apostol Aug. l. de cura pro mort c. 16. Euseb l. 6. hist cap. 5. Pruden in Hym. de S. Fructu●so Nys in in vita Greg. Neocaesar Gen. 48. Iob. 5. The Heb. word Kara signifieth to Inuoke Exod. 23. Theod. q. 67. in Exod Dan. 3. friendes and kinsfolkes S. Ambrose S. Leo S. Augustine thinke they haue S. Ambrose writeth that S. Nazarius was a peculiar Patron of the people of Millan by the priuiledge of his Sepulcher which there was honoured S. Leo affirmeth S. Peter to haue a generall loue of all but a speciall protection of the Citty of Rome S. Augustine testifyeth of the particuler care S. Felix had of the Citty of Nola and of his strange apparition in defence thereof confirmed by vndoubted witnesses Eusebius Prudentius S. Gregory Nissen report in particuler cases many such particuler apparitions To proceed 5. It is lawfull for vs to pray to them in particular therefore they know and may redresse our priuate necessityes Iacob sayd The Angell which hath deliuered me from all euils blesse these children Iob was counselled to pray to the Saints Call if there be any who will answere thee turne to some of the Saintes Which the 70. Interpreters translate Inuoke if any may answere thee or if thou doest behold any of the holy Angels Moyses intreated the patronage as Theodoret witnesseth of the Patriarches in these wordes Remember Abraham Isaac and Israel thy seruants The like did Daniel Take not away the mercy from vs for Abraham thy beloued and Isaac thy seruant and Israël thy holy one And King Salomon Remember O Lord Dauid and all his mildnesse Which God himselfe approued in the 4. of Kings I will guard this Citty for Psalm 13● 4. Reg. 19. Chry. hom ● in psa 10. Victor l. 3. de pers VVanda Greg. Nazian orat in Basil Iero. in Epita Paulae Nissen orat in Theod. Aug. de Bap. l. 7. c. 1. Crys ho. 5. 8. in Mat. hom 43. in Gen. Bern. ser 2. super missus est Reyn. l. 1. de Ido Rom. Ec. c. 2. misliketh the name of Queene of Heauen Star of the Sea Athan. ser de Deipara Aug. serm 18. de Sancti● Ephrem ●rat in laudem B. Virg. Conc. Chal. act 11. ●lauianus post mortem viuit Martyr pronobis oret Field l. 3. c. 10. Iero. in ep Paulae Nazian orat in S. Basil my owne sake and Dauid my seruants sake Where S. Chrysostome sayth Dauid was dead and his merits florish and are of strength or power O wonderfull thing a dead man patronizeth the liuing Thus Victor V●icensis prayed to the Angels Patriarches Apostles and to S. Peter and S. Paul by name Thus S. Gregory Nazianzen implored the help of S. Basil S. Hierome of S. Paula S. Gregory Nissen of S. Theodore S. Augustine of S. Cyprian Thus S. Chrysostome often exhorteth vs to supplicate vnto Saints S. Bernard exciteth vs to pray to our B. Lady gracing her with sundry illustrious tytles which M. Reynolds vtterly distasteth S. Athanasius sayth Incline thy eare to our prayers and forget not thy people O Lady Mystres Queene and Mother of God pray for vs. S. Augustine O Blessed Mary receaue our prayers obtayne our suits for thou art the speciall hope of Sinners S. Ephreem inuocateth her by the name of Hope Refuge Aduocate Safty and Mediatrix of the world All the venerable Bishops in the Councell of Chalcedon allowed the prayer made to Flauianus where it is sayd Flauianus liueth after his death he a Martyr let him pray for vs. 6. Were these thinges all spoken by way of Apostrophe as you M. Field would deceaue the ignorant Were they as you miscall them doubtfull Compellations and not rather effectuall prayers deuout inuocations