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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17445	Puritanisme the mother, sinne the daughter. Or a treatise, wherein is demonstrated from twenty seuerall doctrines, and positions of Puritanisme; that the fayth and religion of the Puritans, doth forcibly induce its professours to the perpetrating of sinne, and doth warrant the committing of the same. Written by a Catholic priest, vpon occasion of certaine late most execrable actions of some Puritans, expressed in the page following. Heerunto is added (as an appendix) a funerall discourse touching the late different deathes of two most eminent Protestant deuines; to wit Doctour Price Deane of Hereford, and Doctour Butts Vice-Chancellour of Cambridge. By the same authour	B. C. (Catholic priest)	1633 (1633)	STC 4264; ESTC S107396	79,660	208

of others much deterreth and withdraweth vs from sinning considering that shame is a great hinderance of sinnes and how vngratefull and vnpleasing it is to mans nature to reueale euery secret sinne euen in expresse and particuler wordes or els not to haue thē remitted to him to another man But we must rest contented with the Institution of Christ (b) Ioa● 20. Whose sinnes you shall forgiue they are forgiuen and whose you shall retayne they are retayned But how shall it be knowne what sinnes are to be forgiuen and what sinnes to be retayned except it be first knowne what the particular sinnes are 11. Our Aduersaries deniall of the necessity of Baptisme causeth no doubt that many Children borne of Puritaine Parents are not baptized at all but remaine during all their life in that Heathenish estate subiect to eternall damnation That the necessity of this Sacrament is not required is taught by Luther who thus teacheth (c) Lib. de captiu Babylon Yf thou hast receaued Baptisme it is well if thou wantest it no losse Belieue and thou art saued before thou be baptized That Baptisme of Children borne of the faythfull is not necessary is further taught as appeareth from the (d) Pag. 105. Suruey of the booke of Common Prayer by (e) In his meditation vpon the 122. Psalme pag 92. M. Willet and most resolutely by Caluin and Beza in many places ouerlong to recite But we fynd Gods Holy Word to teach the contrary (f) Ioan. 3. Vnles a man be borne agayne of water and the spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdome of God 12. Touching the licentious doctrine of diuorce in case of any impotency or otherwise Luther thus teacheth (g) Serm. de Matrimonio If the wyfe will not or cannot to wit performe the act due to Mariage let the mayde come Of which sentence D. Whitak was so ashamed as that he thus writeth (h) Contra Camp rat 8. Luthers iudgment in this kind of diuorce I do not defend Yet Luther further teacheth thus (i) Luth. in Proposit de Big●m●a edit 1528. propos 62. 65. 66. Poligamy or hauing many wyues at once is no more abrogated then is the rest of Moyses Law and it is free as being neither commanded nor forbidden Bucer is as indulgent and full herein as Luther for Bucer teacheth diuorce and marying agayne with another in case that (k) Bucer in Script Anglic de regno Christi l. 2. c. 26. c 37. c. c. 42. one depart from the other in case of Homicide or theft or but in repayring to the Company or banquets of immodest persons or in case of incurable infirmity by Childbirth or of the mans falling into Lunacy or otherwise And further it is taught expresly by (l) Beza lib. de repudijs diuortijs p. 1●3 Beza (m) In Synops of the yeare 1600. pag. 685. M. Willet (n) In partition Theolog. pag. 739. Amandus Polanus and others that in case but of the husbands departure he might becaused by his wyfe to be proclaimed if he did not returne within the time appointed that thereupon the Minister might giue the wyfe licence to marry agayne I assure my selfe there are many hundred wiues in England who would be glad of their husbands long absence and not returne and of the execution of this doctrine therby to satisfy the flesh by marying agayne So dangerous is this Position of diuorce if full practise thereof were made as in part it is to the state of wedlocke to the inuiolable bond of chastity which the one party in mariage oweth to the other But let vs remember that we read (o) Math. 19. Which God hath ioyned togeather let no man separate 13. Touching the authority of Princes and all Magistrates our Aduersaries do strangely dictate And first Luther thus teacheth (p) Luth de secular potest in tom 9 German Among Christians none can or ought to be a Magistrate (q) Luth. vbi suprà ech one is to other equally subiect And yet more (r) In se●mons Englished printed 1579. p. 97. As Christ cannot suffer himselfe to be tyed by lawes c. so ought not the conscience of a Christian to suffer them With Luther agreeth Swinglius in thus betrampling all soueraignty (s) Tom. 1. in explana Art 42. When Princes do euill and contrary to the rule of Christ they may be deposed Caluin is no lesse sparing in censuring Princes for thus he writeth (t) ●n Daniel c. 6. Earthly Princes depriue themselues of authority when they erect themselues against God c. and we are rather to spit vpon their faces then to obey them I will close this Scene with Beza who did write a booke entituled de iure Magistratuum in subditos A booke so destroying all obedience to the Prince and Magistrate that D. Sutcliffe thus censureth thereof (u) In his answere to a certaine Libel supplicatory p 75. Beza in his booke of the power of Magistrates doth arme the Subiects against their Prince in these cases c. And further saith thereof (x) Vbi sup p. 98. It is a booke which ouerthroweth in effect all authority of Christian Magistrates But here I would demaund of these men how do they answere those diuine Testimonies (y) Rom. c. 13. Who resisteth the Power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist purchase to thēselues dānation And agayne (z) Rom. vbi supr We ought to be subiect euen of necessity for conscience sake But now let vs contemplate a little vpon the dangerous effects ordinarily ensuing of this doctrine of deniall of the authority of Princes and Magistrates And first if Luthers doctrine be true that ech one is equall to another and that there ought to be no Magistrates This being I say once granted what an insufferable confusion and Anarchy would there be in the society of Christians seeing from hence it would follow that there should be no lawes to keepe men in duty no Magistrates to punish the delinquents no rewards for well-deseruing men no chastisement for malefactors Would there not be in such a State daily perpetrated all homicide theft rapine incest Adultery fornication and all other most flagitious crimes whatsoeuer and all this with all impunity and without the least feare of any castigation Were not this a Common wealth fitting to be instituted rather by mans Ghostly Enemy as being the high way to lead soules to Hell then by Christ who suffred death for our sinnes Agayne admit that the subiects might rise at their pleasure in armes against their King as the former sentences of Swinglius Caluin Beza do warrant what tumults what intestine seditions and simulties what insurrections would there be in euery Monarchy and absolute State finally what vtter euisceration and disbowelling as it were would be made in euery such nation euen by it owne borne subiects And were it not far better for such Princes