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A41160	Janus Alexandrus Ferrarius, an Augustine friar, his epistles to the two brethern of Wallenburgh, concerning the usefulness and necessity of the Roman Catholick faith wherein the ambition and avarice of the Church of Rome are lively demonstrated in a mathematical method, by a continued series of connexed propositions / from the original Latine.	Fabricius, Johann Ludwig, 1632-1697.; Fabricius, Joannes Ludovicus.	1673 (1673)	Wing F73; ESTC R32018	52,870	158

possibly be wondred at by some that having proposed the Demonstration only of such Heads of the Catholick Faith which the followers of Calvin and Luther oppose that we should undertake the proof of this Proposition since they themselves do not only defend it as a truth but urge it as necessary and judge all who think otherwise worthy to be cast out of Humane Society but their wonder will cease when they shall know that I have stated the matter in the same words indeed but in a sence quite different from the Hereticks for as to the word RELIGION that indeed sounds the same to them and us That is The fear of some invisible power Exalted above humane Condition Def. 1 which Mortals as more feeble and inferiour to it are to apply themselves to with all submissive Reverence But that word SALVATION Def. 2 though in the General it be taken by both Parties in the same sence to wit for the top and extremity of all Truth Piety and Holiness and therefore the end of all Religion Yet specially it usurps a diverse signification for when in our only Axiom Epist 1. that only ought to be deemed Pious True and Holy which tends to the Churches that is as in the same Epist to the Defence and Amplification of the Papal Empire it will of necessity be gathered thence that that word SALVATION signifies nothing else to us Def. 3 But a prospect of the Vastness and Perpetuity of that Dominion which under Christs Name his Vicar Exercises here upon Earth But the Hereticks in a quite different manner abuse the word to wit by making it signifie I know not what imaginary Kingdom of Christ which they call Invisible here upon Earth Internal but in the Heavens Eternal and which with our Salvation that is with the Welfare and Prosperity of the Roman Empire to have any Consistency they expresly deny Wherein least either side happen to Err it is by the way to be observed That by the Name of Roman Empire no one is to understand that profane thing which at present is Vulgarly called the German Empire and by the Germans Das Romische Reich but that most truly Holy yea Divine-Power which our great Pope as Vice-god Exercises upon Earth for as for the Caesars and other worldly Kings they neither are in Rome nor scarce get any Right in or from that City nay rather all they possess is solely from the Churches favour holding it in Fee and under that Title becoming her Vassals whence it would be very Idle and Ridiculous to call them either Kings or Emperours of the Romans Therefore the Hereticks meaning of the word differs from ours as far as East from West whilst for SALVATION they understand that blessed Estate which Mortals too greedy and therefore too Credulous of Immortality do as I suppose expect to injoy in the Elysian Fields But we mean by it certain and present Happiness and that this last signification is much more Noble and excellent then the other and brings as we say More Grist to the Mill from hence appears that in the judgment of all Prudent men Certain and present Goods are to be preferred before future and doubtful ones and therefore likewise the Church has a Value for present things DEMONSTRATION Since by SALVATION nothing else is to be understood but the Welfare of the Church as Def. 3. Propos 1. and that the Church from the only Def. Epist 1. is a spiritual Kingdom which in fear and Spiritual obedience and therefore as Def. 1. Propos 1. in Religion only consists it must of necessity be thence Collected that Salvation cannot be obtained without some Religion which is what was to be Demonstrated The force and power of this Period is so Firm and Evident that not only the wisest Law-givers and Founders of Republicks have in all Ages observed it but even Boys are at this day Taught in the Schools that no Earthly Governments can Subsist unless they be founded upon or at least Bordered about with Religion And yet some trivial writers of Politicks of which sort of Vermin whole Shoals have in this Age been Bred in your Germany as our most Eminent Richlieu used to say have even to Loathing dictated out of Plate Aristotle Tully and Seneca whole Hundreds nay repeated Thousands of patcht Systems for a Foundation to the Religion of Empires which needed not have been so laboriously Inculcated when no one can doubt of it that is not absolutely unexperienced in all things and a stranger to all Common-wealths For though if I may speak out of Plutarch there are in all Stages of the Universal World Contra Colosen Cities to be found wanting Walls Learning Laws Houses Goods Money and Ignorant of Schools and Theatres yet a City wanting those Temples of the gods where Prayers solemn Vows and Oracles were used where Sacrifices are made for good things and evils endeavoured to be averted by holy things no man yet ever saw I therefore think it were easier to Build a City without a ●un then that that City should either gather or subsist where the Opinion of the gods is utterly taken away And 't is but this Savayedra meant when blushing to say over again what had been so often said he chose rather to paint the Pillars of the Republick Floating in the Air unless they were knit together by a Basis of Religion And the same thing though more newly and briefly as he does many things else says our Montaigne Toute Police a un Dieu a sa Tete Essais l. 2. c. 16. All Police has a god at the head of it To wit It has ever been the Business of the Wisest and most Prudent men to deceive the people in matters of Religion as St. Austine in his de Civ Dei lib. iv cap. 23. very well noted For that all Actions might be made more venerable they are to be referred to God according to the Counsel of Campanella de Monar Hisp cap. 9. for as much as all have a greater value for Divine then humane Power as was rightly observed by the most wise Machiavel Counsellor to his holiness Pope Alexander VI. in his Discourse of Common-wealth Lib. 1.11 Nor if we consider the Nature of men can things be otherwise swayed for all men are by Nature equal as Hobbs de Cive has rightly observed and therefore as well out of a sense of that Natural Equality as out of a General Ambition common to all Mortals man does not so easily subject himself to Man as to God But that Man compelled to it by unavoidable necessity may live in Society he ties himself by certain Covenants and Laws but those Laws are onely armed against external actions which must be proved by certain Reasons and Circumstances so that not so much wickedness as the discovery of wickedness not so much malice as imprudence seems to be punished Whoever therefore can closely commit Injuries Adulteries Fr. in ad Ant. Fabri de relig reg

one consent teach us implies a contradiction as I remember long since to have heard from my Master of blessed memory D. Raconis of the Navarr Colledge But we will follow the Scotists and then those to whom as you have taught it were to be wished that the defence of the Catholick Religion were hereafter to be delivered rather then to the Divines to wit the Lawyers for thus Alfenus l. 76. F. de Judiciis Proponebatur ex his Judicibus qui in eandem rem dati essent nonnullos causa audita excusatos esse In Exam. Princip inque eorum locum alios esse sumptos c. It was proposed out of those Judges imployed in the same thing some after the hearing of the Cause were dismissed and others taken in their places and it was questioned if the change of several Judges made the same thing or another Judgment I answer that if not only one or another but if all the Judges were changed yet the matter would remain the same and the Judgment the self same it was before Nor do's it only happen in this that though the parts be altered the thing is adjudged to be the same but in many other things For that Legion is still accounted the same from which many have departed and others have supplyed their places and the People at this time think it the same that it was an hundred years ago though not one that was then in it be alive In the like manner a Ship though it be so often rebuilt that there is not one Plank in it but what is new is notwithstanding judged to be the same Ship for if any one shall think the changing of parts changes the thing we by the same reason must not be our same selves which within a year we were for as Philosophers say we consist of certain minute Particles which continually give place in our Bodies to others which inwardly succeed them and this all our Interpreters advise to be effected in things that successively and by parts but not at once are wholly changed And the same is delivered by the new Doctors of the Metaphysicks and by the Hereticks themselves among all whom we will make choice of Claubergius a man doubly Heretical as both infected with Cartesianism and Calvinism and who under that Title had the Tutoberg Sepultures been in our power was to have been burnt but yet whom our most worthy Clerselerius and the most friendly Rovraeus have given great praises to for the sharpness of his Wit and clearness of his Writing He therefore Ontosoph Sect. 294. Tota inquit haec disputatio de eodemac diverso Edit ult potius ad modum cogitandi loquendi pertinet c. All this disputation say's he of the same or a diverse thing rather relates to the manner of thinking and speaking then to the things well considered in themselves whence the wise and vulgar neither think nor speak alike in this matter nor indeed do wise men among themselves though it be made evident by other examples then that of the Philosophers dispute concerning Theseus's Ship which may be read in Plutarch his Theseus Sect. 295. Si non simul semel at paulatim sensim sit mutatio facta c. If not together and at once yet leasurely and by little and little let the change be made so that being scarce observed it will for the most part be called the same Thus Fire which as Aristotle well observes lib. de juvent cap 5 continually is rouling and pressing forward like a Flood though by its swiftness it gets out of our sight is thought all night the same Fire if fed with continual Fewel but if the Fire be once quite extinguished and then again gets head it is avouched to be another If a Ship be at once destroyed in all its parts that is reputed of another number which in its place is built of new Timber But if a Ship be repaired in parts and in progress of years becomes wholly changed there are few men but will call it the same Ship For Example that of Theseus in which at last there was not one Plank of the old Timber remaining This reason of the self same being proceeds wholly from our carelesness and inconsideration making us account a change leasurely and slowly made though it be as much a change as when happening together and at once almost for none at all Sect. 296. Licet omnia accidentia externa quae incurrunt in sensus mutentur dummodo maneat invariatum aliquod fundamentum saepe res eadem esse censetur c. Though all external accidents that present themselves to the senses may be changed yet if any fundamental part remain unaltered the thing is often judged to be the same An Example we have in boyling or melted Wax in respect of that is solid and hard in which all the Sensibles are changed Yet the extended and mutable subject remains still endued with certain essential properties of Wax Sect. 297. Si mans●rint partes Principales licet minus principales pereant totum Judicatur idem c. If the more principal parts remain though the less principal parts perish it shall be judged to be all the same For Example It will be called the same House whose foundation and walls are standing though all things else be destroy'd Sect. 298. Si veltota mutetur materia dummodo forma quaedam eadem conservetur totum haud rar● dicitur idem permanere c. Or though the whole matter be changed yet if some form be preserved the whole is not rarely said to remain For Example That is thought to be the same City or University now which it was an hundred years ago though now the Citizens are all other persons then at that time they were But how the word FORM is to be understood in such things can scarce be defined by a general conclusion for if you call that City the same because it re tains the same Laws and Priviledges and Place Yet though those be in all or the most part changed it will not be forthwith thought another Academy 's remain the same though transferred elsewhere as is done either in time of War or Plague and the City may go out of the Town Sect. 299. Omnis igitur identitas quae rebus tribuitur requirit aliquod fundamentum quod vel revera vel apparenter maneat immutatum c. Therefore every Identiry or sameness which is attributed to things requires some Foundation which must either really or seemingly remain unchangeable whence it is either truly or apparently so according to being or according to saying only You will doubtless wonder Right Reverend Men that we continue so long upon these Metaphysical observations unless your selves have already made the discovery That hereunder lies hid the whole mysterions foundation of the thrice holy Monarchy and that in these Cradles from the first Infant Estate of the Church that mighty Monster first began to be

the Greeks foolishness and to the Jews a stumbling-block they forbore to Preach Christ Crucified whom only Paul professed to know and set up another Christ Beautiful Splendid Clad in Chiness habit who with wonderful Magnificence had formerly descended from Heaven into Europe and foretold the Reign of our Pope Palafor in Epist ad Innoc. x. Pontif viii Joan. And also in Diario de Mr. de St. Amour Doctoris Sorbon alegatorum Nothing Preached they of Christ Crucified nothing of Mortification nothing of Fasting nothing of Repentance nothing of yearly receiving the Sacrament so that if the Church would again teach the Chinesses and Instruct them in the right Rules of Faith they would oppose it and cry out they were deceived for no Fasting Religion no Penitent and Weeping Faith dreadful to Nature enemy to the Flesh destined to Death and Danger No Saviour Crucified had their Masters the Jesuits told them of They will protest they Embraced him not as Man and God Scourged Spit on Contemned loaden with Wounds hanging on the Cross and Dead but received a Saviour Beautiful Lovely Glorious such as the Jesuits paint him in the Chiness habit and a Law and course of Life Easie Pleasant Sweet Delightful Merry and Peaceable 14. Yet this new Method some have disallowed and among those great stirs were raised in this matter by John Palafox de Mendoza Bishop of the City of Angels in America and Dean of the Counsel of the Indies a man too Simple and Rude to understand these Arts. He possibly imagined with himself that Anathema which St. Paul pronounced Gal. 1.8 Even against an Angel from Heaven preaching any other Gospel was to this day and even in the Indies themselves of force and did not rightly Interpret another saying of the same St. Paul So that Christ be Preached that is so that Christs Name be retained Led by which Errors this Morose old man publickly damn'd that Jesuitical Catechism whereupon it was no wonder if he were disturbed in his Bishoprick cast out of the City and by the Ignatian Society made a comman Laughing-stock having a Cross put upon him made of Bulls Horns whilst they sung as a Litany From Bishop Palafox Good Lord deliver us as himself in his Letters most lamentably complains Certainly he that thus durst stickle for the ancient Purity and Simplicity of Religion was worthy to be turned out of doors there eternally and bitterly to Weep and exercise Fasting as long as he pleased 15. Indeed many good and simple Men throughout Europe were much offended at the declarations and importunate complaints of this Bishop and such like imprudent Men whom that the Pope might in some measure satisfie and perhaps being justly fearful by sacred edict he restrained the publication of that Method the instrument of which prohibition was lately transmitted us by Hurtado a Spanish Divine Thomas Hurt in Opusc Colon. ● 1655. But that Censure is not at all to be interpreted as relating to the Christians Inhabiting beyond Ganges and the Equinoctial Line when it was only made in favour of those who yet in Europe retain some remains of ancient Christianity as to omit others the famous Didacus de Moralez a Jesuite Rector of the Colledge of St. Joseph in the City of Manilia which is the Capital of the Phillipines has taught us in one entire and solid volume 16. And since things are so I believe that the safest way which the Emperours of old held in Converting the Roman Commonwealth into a Dominion For as they left some resemblances of the late liberty though the liberty was wholly taken away so it will be convenient to expose some image of Christ though himself by degrees be utterly abolished To which end we may observe the advice of the most Religious Machiavel Whoever would innovate the form of the Commonwealth in that attempt Disput de Repub. lib. 1. c. 25. it is necessary that he retain some shadow of things that were before for so it comes to pass that the People do not think any thing changed though all things be innovated For the People use to look no farther then things are Visible and outward appearances and as such takes and receives them though the Magistrate plainly creates new things and new duties are imposed upon Men yet retaining the same names they are thought still to be the same Hence may evidently be gathered The CONCLVSION Since the Condition and State of things permits not that Christ be taken from the midst of us by open Violence 't is adviseable to dispatch Him by a lingering Consumption and whilst He Withers and Pines away by Babylonish or Egyptian Arts so temper harden and paint Him over that He may be imposed upon duller Understandings as the Image of a lively and perfect body Which Arts that I may truly set forth and particularly explain I humbly supplicate that Spirit which resides in the Cabinet of our Popes Brest not to think we unworthy of his Guidance and Inspiration And you likewise Most Reverend Men assist me with your Prayers and Intercession to him Dated in the Library of the great Convent these Calends of December MDcLxvii FINIS