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A04780	A suruey of the new religion detecting manie grosse absurdities which it implieth. Set forth by Matthevv Kellison doctor and Professour of Diuinitie. Diuided into eight bookes.	Kellison, Matthew.	1603 (1603)	STC 14912; ESTC S107995	369,507	806

Romain Empire subiect to Christes Churche and caused the Scepter to yeeld to Christes crosse and made Philosophie as an handmayd to serue and attend ●ppō the fayth of Christe A straunge conquest certes vvhether you cōsider the vvarryers or the manner of fight or the force of the enemie against vvhō they vvaged battayle And as concerning the souldiours good lord hovv vnlikely mē to atcheue such a victorie Vvarriers should bee men of force and strenght to make the assault and to giue the onsett to defend or offende These vvere feeble fisher men 1. Cor. 1. Infirma mundi elegit Deus God chose the vveakelings of the vvorld Vvarryers especially the kīg or generall should haue ritches and treasures good store bicause armies can nether be releeued nor leuied vvithout mony vv ch therfore is called neruus belli the sinevv or strēgth of vvarre These mē vvere poore fishers vvho had no other treasur then ragged nettes their Generall Christe Iesus vvas as poore as they liuing on almes not hauing sometymes that vvhich vvolues and vvilde beastes haue a chamber to lodge in Lus ● Vvarriers especially if they be the leaders must be of noble birth and parentage for souldious are hardly ledd by them vvho are base and not easilie commaunded by them vvho are as meane in qualitie and condition as them selues These men vvere fisher men the basest kinde of People if vve beleeue Plutarche that are to be found vvho therfore by their trade are banished humain societie and cōuerse more vvith fishes then men and liue more on the vvater then on the lande ignobilia contemptibilia huius mundi elegit Deus 1. Cor. ●● God hath chosen the ignoble and cōtemptible of this vvorld Vvarriers should be vvise and ingeniouse to lay plottes to deuise stratagemes and to vse force of vvit vvher force of armes vvill not serue These vvere simple Fishermen neuer trayned vp in scholes and more coning vvith a hooke then vvith a booke Stulta huius mundi elegit Deus ● Cor. ● God chose the foolish of this vvorld Souldiours should be many in nūber least the grosse troupes of the aduersarie terrifie them vvith the sight of the multitude These vvere a small army and a silly flocke Luc. 1● only tvvelue Capitaines the tvvelue Apostles and 72. priuat souldiours I meane seauentie tvvo disciples And yet these vveakelings vvere to vvrastle vvith the might of the Romain Empire These poore beggers vvere to deale vvith them that had the vvelth of the vvorld These base fishers vvere to cōtende vvith the nobilitie of the vvorld These simple soules vvere to encounter vvith the Vvisest Philosophers and these fevv vvaged battayle against all nationes vppon earthe yea all the deuills in hell vvho also opposed against them all their hellish forces And as touching the manner of the fight that made the victorie more incredible For the enemies came vvith the florish of eloquence these vvith halfe barbarouse simplicitie they came armed vvith povver these vvith infirmitie in vvhich vertue is perfited 〈◊〉 Cor. 1● they vvith pride these vvith humilitie they shot maledictions these benedictions They layed on blovves these boare them patiētly they cried kill kill these cryed suffer suffer A strange manner of fight vvhere the souldiours ouercame by putting vp iniuries not by reuenging by bearing not by giuing blovves by laying the body open to the enemyes vveapon not by close vvarding or defending But if these fevv souldiours so ill armed might haue kept together they had been more stronge bicause force vnited is greater then the same dispersed but these fevve souldiours diuided forces and one man single vvent against a vvholle countrey yea somety mes many Countries Sainct Peter setts vppon Pontus Bithinia Galatia and Rome it self sainct Paule goeth against Illiricus Cappadocia Ciprus sainct Iames the elder encounters vvith all Spain sainct Iames the younger vvith Iurie sainct Thomas vvith India sainct Matthevv vvith Aethiopia others vvith other countries and in fine thus they conquered the greatest parte of the vvorld Novve if vve consider in vvhat consisted the victorie it vvill yet appeare more admirable This victorie consisted not in surprising of a citie in vndermining a castle in burning of villages in gayning of rauelings in maymīg and killing bodyes but in extinguishing of idola●rie in extirpating vice in subdevving mens vnderstanding in ouercomming their vvilles in curbing bridling their affections in planting a nevv religiō neuer hard of before vvhich commaundeth men to beleeue firmely thīgs aboue reason and to obserue lavves contrarie to sensualitie vice and pleasure vvhich by longe custome vvere become all most narurall vnto men And to this they persuaded not a fevv but all the vvorld nor fooles but philosophers such as Dionisius Areopagita Iustinus martyr and others vvere not poore men but Kings yea and Emperours such as Philip and Constantine vvere and that in despite of all the tyraunts in earth and maugre all the deuills in hell Yea so firmely they persuaded m● vnto this nevv religion and nevv life that thousandes by and by vvere ready to suffer all torments rather then to deny the least article of this nevv beleefe Let not any therfore obiect vnto vs that our religion is obscure and that it teacheth thinges aboue reason for all though vvee can not by reason see the truthe nor proue the truth of this religion yet it can not but bee true and of God bicause such men as the apostles vvere to such as all thevvorld but they vvere that is nusled and persuaded in a contrarie religion and after so straunge a manner could neuer haue plāted so hard a religion and that in despite of the tyraunts in earth and deuills in hell vnless God had seconded and assisted thē Let not thē the A theiste of this godless tyme call in questiō the miracles of Christe and his saintes vvrought by them in confirmation of this religion and related in the scripture and ecclesiasticall histories as though they vvere but olde vviues tales vvhich they tell amongest their mayds spinning by the candle Let them not say that neuer miracle vvas vvrought for this religion by this they shall gaine nothing I vvil come vppon them vvith that of sainct Austine that such a religion by such and in such a māner should be planted in the vvorld vvithout miracles is the greatest miracle of all and so in denying miracles vvill they nill they they graunt a miracle Deny if thou vvilt our miracles for vvhich not vvith standing vve haue as good better histories then thou hast for the Romain Emperours Captaynes legions vvarres and victories thou canst not deny but that a fevv fishermen obscure base vnlearned haue turned all the vvorld vpside dovvne for this thou seest Thou canst not deny but that the vvorld is dissuaded from idolatrie vnto Christian religion from sensualitie to chastitie from gluttony to fasting from ritches to voluntarie prouertie from vsuall vice to vnacquainted vertue from the broad and easy