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A15396	A catholicon, that is, A generall preservative or remedie against the pseudocatholike religion gathered out of the catholike epistle of S. Jude, briefly expounded, and aptly, according to the time, applied to more then halfe an hundreth of popish errours, and as many corruptions of manners. With a preface seruing as a preparatiue to the catholicon, and a dyet prescribed after.; A catholicon.	Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621.	1602 (1602)	STC 25673; ESTC S114006	113,250	270

prooue they are not heretikes or schismatikes and then let them complaine of uniust punishment 2. They may say as well that the Ciuill magistrate may not punish Idolaters witches c. as heretikes for all these are reckoned in the same number Galat. 5. 20. 3. How came it to passe that they excelled the Maximinianists which were a certaine sect or schisme of the Donatists by the Emperours authoritie and so did the August contr ep st Parm l. ● c. 7. Papists persecute the Protestants by the magistrates authoritie what reason haue they to take exception against that power which they are content to vse to serue their turne 4. saith he Tribunus non est persecutor vester sed persecutor persecutoris Contr. Gaud●●● cap. 10. vestri the Magistrate doth not persecute you but persecuteth your persecutor that is your errour 5. Lastly he saith Si vniversarum contra vos latarum legum severitas c. if the seueritie of all lawes made against you be compared to your lawlesse crueltie it will seeme to be lenitie and so he concludeth Legibus latis catholica magis mansuetudo commendatur quam haeretica Contr. Cresco● lib. 3. c. 44. immanitas plectitur By these laws which are made the Catholike gentlenesse is rather commended then hereticall peruersnes punished Wherfore they complaine without cause and so this note also doth well beseeme them vers 16. Whose mouthes speake proud 20. Note things Neuer did any heretikes speake more proudly or giue more arrogant titles They speake proud things then the Romanists doe vnto the Pope as that he is a God a a Marcell in Concil Lateran s●st 4. in earth that he is the wonder of the world neither God nor b Clement in prooem in glos● man that the Pope hath power ouer purgatorie that he may c Felinus command the angels of God that he is d inter decret Adrian tom 1. concil Lord of lords king of kings for so the Emperour is called the Popes seruant that no mortall man may e distinct 40. c. 6. reprooue the Pope though he carrie innumerable soules to hell Thus also they proudely and blasphemously extoll their priesthood saying that euery priest is after the order of Melchisedeck which the scripture onely affirmeth of Christ and that the sacrifice vpon the crosse was f Heskin lib. 1. c. 15. after the order of Aaron and not of Melchisedeck One Nitinghal parson of Croudon in Kent vttered this blasphemous speach in his sermon that the Fox p. 1560. lord Cardinals grace had made him as cleane frō sin as he was at the fonstone thereupon he fell downe dead out of the pulpit Who now can denie but that their mouthes speake proud things and so may be rightly discerned by this note not to be be of the true Church vers 16. Hauing mens person in admiration because of aduantage If flatterie be a 21. Note Flatterie marke of an hypocrite and false teacher as here the Apostle saith the Romanists are here comprehended who are most grosse and palpable flatterers of the Pope For they doe all hold that he cannot erre that he sitteth in Peters chaire they call him the most holy father though some of them were heretikes as Honorius some idolaters as Marcellinus some sorcerers as Gregorie the seauenth some periured as Gregorie the ninth accused of periurie 3. Math. Paris in Henr. 4. by Frederick the second some infidels as Iohn 22. that denied the immortalitie of the soule some murderers as Vrbanus 6. that caused certaine of his Cardinals to be sowed in sackes and cast Theodor. Nie●● lib. ● schism into the sea some adulterers as Alexander 6. some incestuous as Paulus 3. Sodomites as Sixtus 4. yet all of them are iustified by Bellarmine and the rest to be holy fathers and right good men But as Augustine well saith Nec malam conscientiam sanat praeconium laudantis nec bonam vulnerat convitiantis opprobrium neither do●h a flatterers commendation heale an euill conscience nor yet a raylers defamation woūd a good conscience v. 18. There shall be mockers Mockers and scorners are not of the Church of 21. Note Christ for they are persecuters as S. Paul Mockers saith Ismael persecuted Isaak Gal. 4. 29. because he mocked him Genes 21. 9. But such are the Romanists deriders and mockers of religion and of the seruants of Christ for it is well knowne that an idiote or foole in Italie is noted by the name of a Christian the Rhemists call our communion a feast of Ceres and Bacchus another with a scornefull spirit calleth it an oyster table one Simōs a persecutor of Anthony B White apud ●o●um Persons when the Martyr said vnto him standing at the barre that at the last day it should appeare which of them had best deserued that place answered scoffingly shall I haue so long a day and held vp his finger then I care not saith he From Fox p. 1218. this scorning spirit proceede all those tearmes of Zuinglians Lutheranes Caluinistes precisians puritanes Hugonites which the Papists doe giue in disdaine and scorne to Protestants This marke then of mocking and scorning beeing so proper vnto them doeth descrie them not to be gouerned by the spirit of Christ and so consequently not of his Church We say then vnto them as Origen concerning the scornful writings of Celsus Si grauiter Lib. 6. contra Celsu●● modestius haec tractaret plus forsitan suasionis sunt habitura sed cum per risum scurriliter multa eloquendo deliret c. If he handled these things grauely and modestly he were more like to perswade but seeing he by laughter and scurrilitie vttering many things sheweth his madnesse I say for want of better wordes he is fallen into this braweling vaine c. Uers. 19. These are makers of sects This can not be more truely affirmed of 23. Note Romanists se●● makers any then of the Church of Rome for neuer had any profession so many sundrie orders of Monkes Nunnes Hermites Anchorites Friers blacke gray white blewe and I knowe not of what coloures nor of howe many orders Augustines Benedicts Franciscans Dominicans Carthusians Caponchians Carmelites Brigets order barefoote friers Caelestines Loc. 25. ●● 10. Hieronomites Charterhouse monkes with a great number more Heshusius reckoneth 65. orders of them and M. Foxe an hundred So many as that they were p. 259. constrained to make a publike decree in a generall councell that no man should bring in any newe religion yea some of Concil Later ●● sub Innocent part 3. c. 3. their owne side haue much misliked this multiplicitie of sects as Nicholaus Cusanus a Cardinall thus writeth Fallacia illorum qui sub habitu Christi apparent vix potest sciri ob suam varietatem nam alius quidem sub hac vesle alius sub illa c. The deceit of those that shewe themselues vnder

This note also most fitly agreeth to the Sea of 9. Note Rome For they haue despised and abused Despising of gouernment the greatest Potentates and gouernors in earth as Gregorie 7. made Henrie 4. Emperour with his wife and childe to p. 784. to p. 789. Marty tolog Fox waite three daies and three nights in the colde winter at his gates Alexander 3. did tread vpon the necke of the Emperour Frederick 1. Pope Celestine crowned Henrie 5. with his foote and with his foote spurned it off againe Fredericke 1. was rebuked for holding Pope Adrianes stirrop on the wrong side Neither hath this beene the insolencie onely of some Popes but it is prescribed as a rule and order in the Popes booke of ceremonies That the Emperour must Lib. 1. cerem sect 5. c. 4. beare the Popes chaire on his shoulder shall beare vp the Popes traine bring the basen and ewer to the Pope shall carrie sect 13. c. 2. the Popes first dish shall beare the Popes first cuppe What is it to despise gouernment if this be not to make vassailes and slaues of Kings and Princes So that we see that to be fulfilled in this Sea which Gregorie spake of Rex superbiae Lib. 4. epist. 38. in foribus est The king of pride is at the doores vers 8. They speake euill of them which 10. Note are in authoritie This hath beene an vsuall practise in poperie not to spare to reuile Speaking euill of princes and speake euill of the sacred Maiestie of kings and princes Gregorie 7. accursed the Emperour Henrie the fourth accusing him of diuers crimes sending forth his bull of excommunication against him wherein he calleth him sonne of iniquitie Martyrolog p. 181. Innocent 3. denounced his great curse against king Iohn forbidding vnder the same curse all persons to eate or drinke or talke with him yea his owne seruants to doe him any seruice either at bedde or board in Church hall or stable pag. 251. Thus Gregorie 9. vsed Frederick 2. comparing him to the beast rising out of the sea full of names of blasphemie and charging him with atheisme Martyrotyrd Fox pag. 307. At the instigation of Paulus 3. Cardinal Poole wrote a contumclious infamous libell against Henrie 8. Pius 5. and Sextus 5. haue in their wicked bulls of excommunication vttered most vile blasphemies against her Maiestie And that saucie and beastly frier Feverdentius hath published a most vile slaunder of her Highnesse Dialog 1. pag. 12. lin 30. They rayle of Princes shewing himselfe to be a filthie bird of that vncleane nest Wherefore these popelings can not be right members of the Church of Christ nor yet are lead by his spirit which contrarie to the commandement of God Exod. 22. 28. Thou shalt not speake euill of the Ruler of thy people are so shamelesse and impudent to open their mouthes against the Lords Annointed Some of our Runagates apostataes from the church and traytours to the state haue most wickedly affirmed that heresie in England is diademate regio ornata adorned with the princely crowne and most trayterously compare their Soueraigne to Herodias c. Gifford Reinolds in secund praefat ad Calvinoturcis which rayling libell of theirs is learnedly alreadie answered I D. Sutliff de turcopapism cont Calvino-turcism onely note how fitly this marke set downe by the Apostle agreeth vnto them that they speake euill of them which are in authoritie v. 10. These speake euill of those things 11. Note Slaunder of Christs seruants which they know not This also is a commō thing with our aduersaries to blinde both the persons and religion of Protestants when they know not the one nor vnderstand the other Thus the Sorbonists in Paris slaunderously reported of the Christian congregation there that when they assembled they put out the candles and went togither after a beastly manner that they maintained there was no God that they denied the immortalitie of the soule the resurrection of the flesh and such other false crimes they obiected Fox pag. 927. Thus haue they railed vpon the faithfull seruants of Christ whose neither liues nor deaths were knowne vnto them as that a B●lla●● Luther died of drunkennesse b Surius Bucer denied Christ at his death that c Polsecus Calvine gaue his soule to the deuill In like manner doe they speake euill of the doctrine of the Protestants that we leaue nothing but bare bread in the sacrament that we make God the author of euill Protestants b●li●d that by the doctrine of predestination we take away all choise of things and say it is no matter to saluation or damnation Se●m B. Watson con●r Bucer Fox p. 1963. what a man did in this life They are not ashamed to belie vs that we denie Christ and take away the Gifford praef 2. ad Calvinoture Trinitie But of all other Feuerdentius a fryer of Paris is most impudent in coyning lies and imputing most blasphemous heresies to the Calvinists as he calleth the Protestants As that they denie the three persons of Dial. 1. p. 27. the Trinitie That they mislike the inuocation and adoration of the Trinitie p 37. That they denie God to be omnipotent or to haue absolute power p. 89. That they charge God with lying inconstancie mutabilitie p. 115. 119. These and an hundred more such hereticall opinions he falsly obiecteth against the Protestāts wherein they either against their conscience belie vs or speake euill of those things they know not that they may appeare to be of that sect which is here by the Apostle described Uers. 11. They haue followed the way of Caine. What the waie of Caine was Saint Iohn 11. Note ●oul● of 〈◊〉 she weth he slew his brother because his owne workes were euill and his brothers good 1. Iohn 3. 12. So haue the Romanists persecuted innocent and good men onely of enuie and despite against their vertuous and honest life Brewster Sweeting burned because the one said to the other reading certaine good things out of a booke the sonne of the liuing God helpe vs the other answered the Lord so doe Fox p. 818. Ioānes de Cadurco because he brought forth this posie at a feast Christ raigne in our heartes was put to death Foxe p. ●97 Thomas Sanpaulinus because he reprooued a man for swearing was iudged to be a Lutheran and thereupon examined and condemned p. 904. Thomas Thomkins a deuout man who when any man came to talke with him would alwaies beginne with praier was cruelly handled of Bonner his face buffeted his hand scorched with a torch and after his bodie burned Foxe page 1534. A monke burned in France ann 1525. for marrying a wife p. 896. These and many other were through the enuie of Caine brought to their ende for thus he enuied the pietie and innocencie of his brother Abel Uers. 11. They are cast away with the deceit of Balaams