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A13178	The unmasking of a masse-monger Who in the counterfeit habit of S. Augustine hath cunningly crept into the closets of many English ladies. Or, the vindication of Saint Augustines confessions, from the false and malicious calumniations of a late noted apostate. By M.S. D. of Exeter.	Sutcliffe, Matthew, 1550?-1629.	1626 (1626)	STC 23473; ESTC S100147	60,978	98

THE VNMASKING of a Masse-monger WHO IN THE COVNTERFEIT Habit of S. AVGVSTINE hath cunningly crept into the Closets of many English-Ladies OR THE VINDICATION of Saint AVGVSTINES Confessions from the false and malicious Calumniations of a late noted Apostate By M. S. D. of EXETER 1. TIM 1.19 20. Hauing Faith and a good Conscience which some hauing put away and as concerning Faith haue made shipwracke Of whom is HYMENIVS and ALEXANDER whom I haue deliuered vnto Satan that they may learne not to blaspheme PSAL. 22.16 Dogges are come about mee and the counsell of the Wicked hath assaulted mee LONDON Printed by B.A. and T. FAVVCET for NICH BOVRNE and are to bee sold at his Shop neere to the Royall Exchange 1626. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL AND HIS VERY WORTHIE Friends Sir BAPTIST HICKES Knight and the good Lady his Wife AS the holy Apostles Right Worshipfull so all faithfull Christians deriue their faith from CHRIST Acceptam à CHRISTO disciplinam fideliter nationibus assignarunt sayth * De praescript TERTVLLIAN speaking of the Apostles Hee is the Foundation that cannot fayle and the Truth that cannot erre and therefore are the Faithfull sayd to bee built vpon the Foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Ephes 2. because they first Preached CHRIST the onely Corner-stone and mayne Foundation of the Church Vpon the Foundation of CHRIST and his Apostles both St. AVGVSTINE and all the ancient Fathers built their Faith Doe wee then thinke that the Translator of St. AVSTINES Confessions a notorious Rinegate from the Faith of the Church of England hath reason out of that Father to draw his Romish Doctrine Sure no the poyson of his Heresie cannot be found in that holy Fathers Workes All his Confessions are directed to GOD and neyther to Saints nor Angels nor to the Virgin MARY as is the vse and practise of the Synagogue of Rome The Popes two Swords and his triple Crowne his supreme Power to judge his Cardinals Hierarchicall Orders and Vniuersall Monarchie ouer the whole Church hee knew not The reall presence of CHRISTS Body vnder the accidents of Bread and Wine and the eating thereof by the mouth of the Faithfull yea by the mouthes of the Reprobate and brute Beasts hee neuer taught Neyther did hee teach the monstrous Doctrine of Transubstantiation and the reft of the abominable Heresies established against vs in Trent Hungry Dogges may dreame of Bread 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sayth THEOCRITVS in Piscatorib And as ATMANASIVS sayth in Apolog. Defug Heretikes forge opinions according to their owne pleasure Pro libidine sua id opinâtur quod volunt But Truth will alwayes stand firme Wherefore seeing this Apostate so vnkind to his Parents so false to his Countrey so malicious to Religion hath some yeares since published St. AVGVSTINES Confessions translated into English in a long Preface and diuers false marginall Notes Obseruations and Calumniations endeuouring to induce the simple to dislike the Truth professed in this Church and to affect and approue the corruptions of Popery as if S. AVGVSTINE did fauour his Sect and dislike our Confession I haue thought it a Worke worth my labour to Vindicate that holy Father out of this impure fellowes false fingers Not that you need to bee resolued of the truth of Religion wherein I know you are firmely established but to the end that what I write for the establishing of the weake comming foorth vnder the Patronage of your name might remayne as a perpetuall testimony of that loue and respect which I haue borne and alwayes shall beare you These fellowes impudently arrogate to themselues the Name of Catholikes But as ATHANASIVS saith in his 2. Orat. against the Arrians How can they bee reputed among the members of the Catholike Church whose Faith is not Apostolike This young Nouice may please himselfe with his childish Annotations and Prefations but I shall show they are no better then those Childish fables and fooleries which S. AVSTINE Lib. 2. contr Academic would haue cast out of mens hands Nay diuers points of Poperie are no better then those monstrous Fancies which ORIGEN condemneth writing against CELSVS And this I shall God willing hereafter plainely demonstrate and not onely take from him all that hold that hee thinketh to haue eyther in Saint AVGVSTINES Confessions or in any other Booke of his This Treatise I consecrate to GOD vnder the Patronage of your fauour beseeching him that it may profit many so that the Thankes may remaine to you and that thereby you may vnderstand how much I honour you and that I shall alwayes remayne Yours much obliged and deuoted M. SVTCLIFFE THE PREFACE TO the Christian Reader FRom the excellencie of S. AVGVSTINES Pietie Vertue and Learning we purpose not Christian Reader to derogate any thing nay we doubt not to preferre him before many others both ancient and late Prelates Let the whole List of late Popes and their purple Cardinals and Mitred Prelates be produced and compared with that holy Father I suppose he will surpasse them all neyther doe we doubt but he is more worthie then manie others 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet doth hee not exempt his Writing from other mens iudgement Id genus literarum sayth he writing against Faustus lib. 11. c. 5. Quae non praecipiendi authoritate sed proficiendi exercitatione scribuntur a nobis non cum credendi necessitate sed cum iudicandi libertate legendum est so hee permitteth others to iudge of his Writings Neyther doth he disdaine in the same place to preferre the Canonicall Bookes of Scripture before them nor doe wee thinke it any disparagement vnto him or other Fathers to haue the Apostles preferred before them as hee writeth vnto Hierome Epist 19. There also hee giueth that priuiledge to Scriptures onely Not to erre in any thing The Apostate doth in diuers places call him an incomparable Doctor yet neuer did S. Augustine so thinke of himselfe nor doe other learned men so esteeme him but that Athanasius Gregorie Nazianzene Chrysostome Basil Hierome Ambrose and others might bee compared with him But the more excellent hee is the more is our gaine the lesse the Apostates aduantage For this I affirme and I doubt not but to make it good against all the packe of Iesuites and not onely against this silly Translator whose soule is lately turned and translated Popish First that S. AVGVSTINE neuer beleeued the Popes infallible judgement in matters of Faith nor his sublime and vniuersall Monarchy ouer the whole Church nor the Doctrine of the Popes Schooles and Decretals and secondly that hee holdeth nothing as a matter of Faith and necessary to bee beleeued that is contrary to the Articles of Religion publikely professed in the Church of England In proofe whereof that wee may proceed more particularly and punctually wee shall God willing declare in the first Chapter that S. AVSTINE neuer knew eyther the Decrees of Trent enacted against vs or that part of Romish Religion which this Church of

glorious Saint But would he disclayme his lying and calumniating this accusation would soone cease To preferre holy Scripture before any one Father is no scorne nor wrong Caluin in some things leaueth him but Papists leaue him where he followeth the Apostle and setteth forth the grace of Christ they beleeue that Monicaes soule was in Purgatorie but so did not S. Austine Toward the end of his Preface hauing almost tyred himselfe with lying and busie search of that he cannot finde he cryeth out O Heresie how deepe are thy Rootes layd in Hell Some pang belike of Hellish Treason and Heresie wrung his rotten carkasse and pinched him at the heart for to denie Masses and Dirges for the dead is no Heresie but to destroy Christs humanitie to renounce his grace and to maintaine Pelagianisme as Papists doe is most grosse and notorious Heresie We esteeme S. Austine and other Fathers as much as they desire to be esteemed and preferre them farre before the Pope and his whole Consistorie of Cardinals But the Papists doe preferre euery blind and ignorant Popes Sentence before all the ancient Fathers of whom albeit they speake gloriously in their Breuiaries and Missals yet they neyther regard them nor the Apostles of our Sauiour if they speake against their holy Father and his profit and Monkes slow bellyes S. Austine beleeued repented and liued a boly life but yet he neyther whipped himselfe nor did Penance as Fryars do neyther did he make boast of his eminencie in all perfection of life which the Apostate attributeth vnto him The Fable of the writing of the seuen Penitentiall Psalmes before S. Austine as he lay on dying is not probable the same being a practise of Fryars and not mentioned by Possidonius We endeuor by Faith and good Workes and the testimonie of a good Conscience to make our election sure to vs and so no doubt did S. Austine but we perswade no man to assure himselfe of his saluation his life being flagitious and sensuall and himselfe being ignorant and liuing without repentance and hauing Faith onely without good Workes as this lying and flagitious Apostate doth falsely charge vs that is rather the flagitious error of the Apostate and his Consorts who promise saluation to all absolued by Masse-Priests and dying in the Popes Faith which was also the Heresie of Eunomius The example of S. Austine he sayth is profitable to all men whether they be in state of puritie or are fallen into sensualitie hauing darke and frozen soules As if S. Austine were a Catharist or Puritan or sensuall Papists whose hearts are darkened with ignorance and frozen with coldnesse of deuotion could reape any profit by S. Austines example Onely he would not haue his Reader so to remember S. Austine as to forget their deuotion to his Mother Monica who as he sayth had a manly soule indued with massie and solide vertues A note of remembrance full of stoliditie rather then soliditie for deuotion and religion in the opinion of all solide Christians tryeth vs to God and not to men or women departed this life and vnknowne to vs. Further if her soule were manly why may not the Apostate haue a female soule being so much addicted to the feminine gender If her vertues were massie why may not his vanities be spongeous and light like Tyffanie Lastly if S. Austine and his Mother were Saints being not canonized by the Pope then is the Popes power lately vsurped in canonizing Saints nothing And thus an end of the Apostates idle and long Preface proface to his indignitie that hath thus vnworthily disgraced himselfe and his gracelesse Cause CHAP. VI. Notes and Aduertisements vpon the Translators Aduertisement concerning S. AVSTINES Retractations ALthough his idle Aduertisement to the Reader is neyther worth any Animaduersion nor the Readers paines yet because it commeth in sute next after his Preface it followeth in order that vpon his Aduertisement we put our Animaduersions And first I could not ouerpasse his impudence and arrogance albeit noted before in calling himselfe and his companions Catholikes whose Faith is neyther Catholike nor Apostolike nor Christian Let him if he haue any shame demonstrate that Christs Body is made of Bread nay of Wine and that it is contained vnder the accidents of Bread and Wine and was eaten not onely by the Apostles but also by Christ himselfe yea by men and beasts eating the Sacrament that the Pope is Christs Vicar and hath two Swords and power to depose and kill Kings that Fryars and Monks were instituted by Christ and liue in perfect puritie and all the new Creed of Trent When we are vrged by Papists with the authoritie of Saint Austine making euidently against vs it is our vse sayth the Aduertiser to alledge that he made Bookes of Retractation But first he is not able to shew any authoritie of S. Austine making euidently against vs contrariwise we haue alledged places making euidently against the Popish Faction and their Heresies Secondly it is no fault to say he made Books of Retractations Thirdly wee alledge places neuer retracted Lastly it is an easie matter to auoid whatsoeuer is obiected against vs out of S. Austine without any such friuolous and idle shift as is by this poore shifter suggested and deuised for vs. Where S. Austine Lib. 9. Confess c. 13. speaketh of the price of our Redemption he sayth nothing is signified but the Sacrifice of the Masse A conceit fond and ridiculous for first what is more absurd then to confesse that the soule of the Translator and his companions is of so little value that they may be redeemed with euery three-halfe-peny Masse Secondly that Father doth not so much as in one word mention the Sacrifice of the Masse Thirdly hee vnderstandeth the Sacrifice made vpon the Crosse for our Redemption a memoriall whereof is made in the holy Mysteries prophaned by wicked Masse-Priests That which S. Austine sayth of Prayers for the Dead maketh nothing eyther for the sale of Masses or Dirges or the blazing fire of Purgatorie neyther is the Apostate able to auow his irreligion by any words of S. Austine of Vowes of Miracles or of the darkenesse of any Texts of Scriptures He telleth vs that S. Austine mentioneth Monasteries of Religious persons and great numbers of Hermites yet cannot he shew any such institation of Hermites nor demonstrate that S. Austine euer knew any Popish Monke or Fryar That one and the same Scripture hath very many and different sences is not the Doctrine of S. Austine but the foolish conceit of this idle Translator that hath in his head very many crotchets but very little sence or vnderstanding for how can we be assured of the truth and certaine vnderstanding of Scriptures if the same haue many sences Apollo Loxias gaue forth ambiguous Oracles but farre is that from the Text of holy Scriptures and the wisdome of the holy Ghost He noteth also that albeit S. Austine wrote the storie of his youth yet he was no young man