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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15732	Whyte dyed black. Or A discouery of many most foule blemishes, impostures, and deceiptes, which D. Whyte haith practysed in his book entituled The way to the true Church Deuyded into 3 sortes Corruptions, or deprauations. Lyes. Impertinencies, or absurd reasoninges. Writen by T.W. p. And dedicated to the Vniuersity of Cambridge. Cum priuilegio.	Worthington, Thomas, 1549-1627.	1615 (1615)	STC 26001; ESTC S120302	117,026	210

meaning of S. Augustine in this place he is to conceaue that the drift of that father here is to sh●w that a man can not liue in this lyfe in that perfect and true peace of mynde as to exercyse vertue and flee vice without all sodain reluctatiō of our sensualitie though we geue no assent thereunto and therefore the tytle of that Chapiter is De pace seruientium deo c. Of the peace of such as serue God whose perfect tranquillity can not be enioyed in this temporall lyfe And according to this his tytle some fewe lynes after the sentence alledged by M. Whyte he thus writeth Nam profecto quanquam imperetur c. For although reason doth ouerule vyce yet it doth not ouerrule without some conflict of vyce And therefore as longe as it is exercysed in commaunding and ouerruling vyce man haith not perfect peace But to ende this subiect of Iustification here you see how dexterously our minister haith borne him selfe who for the impugning of the same haith seuerall wayes abused the sentences of his Authors somtimes by insertions of his owne as if they were the Authors wordes somtimes by taking away and concealing what is there plainely set downe othertimes though the Authority be truly alledged yet by violent detortinge and wresting the place from the true intended sence yea often when the very place strongly fortifyeth that Catholick point or doctrime against which it is theare brought Thus though M. Whyte in his deprauations vseth seuerall shewes and coloures yet they all retaine in them one generall countenance and looke of deceipt and falshoode so as the Poets sentence here houldeth Facies non omnibus vna nec diuersa tamen Chapiter 2. Concerning the reading of the Scriptures The 1 Paragraph S. Ierome corrupted for the reading of the scriptures by the vulgare people where also vpon occasion geuen by M. Whyte it is examined whether S. Ierome was a papiste IT being a certaine truth that from Scriptures euill vnderstoode procede most heresies M. Whyte a faithfull frend thereof well knowing by dayly experience that no one thing in truth is more auaileable either for the first beginninge or propagation of heresy then generall libertie graunted to the vulgar people of reading and expounding the sacred Scriptures doth thereupon much labour in sundry places in profe of his supposed commodity and necessitie thereof amongst which he grosly abuseth the authority person of that great and most Catholick Doctor S. Hierome in these wordes pag. 22. Hierome writes of Paula a gentlewoman how shee set her maides to learne the Scripture and many of his wrytinges saith Whyte are directed to women commending theire labour in the Scripture encouraging them thereunto c. which he would not haue done if he had bene a papist Heare Christian reader I must confesse I reste verie doubtfull whether the malice of this minister is more to be detested or his greate folly to be admyred pityed for not contenting him self to corrupt S. Hieromes wordes and meaning he will needes inferre hereof that S. Hierome was noe papiste which how true it is I will onely for this present appeale vnto this Epitaph of S. Paula writen by this holy Doctor to the Virgin Eustochium and here cyted by our protestant minister whereby if it do not plainely appeare by sundry pointes of religion there mentioned and practised that S. Hierome S. Paula and the Bishops Preistes and people of those tymes were of the same Religion or beleefe which Catholickes now professe and protestantes impugne that then let me be enrolled in the black bill of lying ministers or coopled in brotherhood with Whyte as a legitimate sonne of the father of lyes First then S. Hierome vndertaking to set downe the blessed lyfe and death of the holy woman S. Paula in proofe of his sincere proceding therein maketh this protestation I call Iesus to witnes and his Sainctes yea that very Angell who was keeper and companion of this admirable woman that I will speake nothing in her fauour or after the maner of flaterers but for a testimony and that which is lesse then her merites whom the whole worlde doth praise preistes admyre quiers of virgins desyre and troupes of Monkes and poore people bewayle Is the inuocation of Sainctes and Angells which of necessity supposeth their knowledg is the beleefe of euery mannes proper Angell to guard him and quiers or companies of Virgins and Monkes plaine proofes of Catholick or protestant religiou To procede S. Hierome describing in perticuler her pilgrimage to the holy lande whereunto he affirmeth that men of all Nations did come sheweth how that prostrating her selfe before the Crosse she adored at though she had seene our Lord harging thereupon Entring the Sepulchre she kissed the stone of the Resurrection c. at one thirsting desyreth waters she licked with her faithfull mouth the very place of the body wheare our Lord had laid Then hauing visited the pillour at the which our Lorde was bound and whipped and the place where the holy Ghost did descend vpon the faithfull she went to Bethelem where entring our Sauiours caue and looking at the holy Iune of the Virgin and the stable after many other deuout speaches she vttered these wordes And I wretch and sinner am thought worthy to kisse the manger in which our Lord a litle babe cryed and to pray in the caue in which the Virgin brought forth our Lord an infant After this amongst sundry other holy places she went vnto the Sepulchres of the 12 Patriarches where she trembled beinge affrighted with many wonders for she saw the diuells roare being dyuersly tormented and before the sepulchres of the Sainctes she saw men howling lyke wolues barking lyke dogs roaringe lyke lyons hissing lyke serpentes and belowing lyke buls c. And is not all this with a protestant papisticall superstition Will our Whyte allow of pilgrimage to holy places or will he with S. Paula prostrate him selfe before the Crosse and worshipe will he kisse sacred Reliques or will he attribute such sanctity to the Sepulchres of Sainctes that in presence thereof diuells are tormented I perswade my self he will not And yet S. Hierome with him noe papist relateth the promisses to the commendation of Paula But to come nearer the maner of lyfe which S. Paula led her daily practise being best witnes of her beleefe hauing visited with greate deuotion all the places of the holy land intending to spend her lyfe in holy Bethelem she stayed there in a straite lodging for the space of three yeres vntill she had built Cells and Monasteries Mansions for diuers pilgrimes where she liued in such humility as being attended with many virgins in her apparell speach habit and going she was the least or basest● of all After her husbands death vntill her owne slenever with any man though she knew him to be holy and a Bishope Bathes she went not to but in daunger In her greatest agues she vsed not soft

beds but reposed on the hard grounde couered with hayre clothes c. Thou wouldest haue thought fountaines of teares to haue proceded from her yea she so bewayled litle sinnes as that thou wouldest haue iudged her guilty of greatest crimes c. Soft linnens pretious silkes she changed with a sharpe hayre cloth c. Her loue of pouerty was such as that she desyred she might dye a begger and not to leaue one peny to her daughter yea her selfe at her death to be wrapped in an others sheete And as for her dyet her abstinence was such as that festiuall dayes excepted she scarce tooke oyle in her meate by which may be iudged saith S. Ierome what she thought of wyne of any thinges molted of fish milke hony egs and the rest which are pleasant to tast If I should now aske Maister Whyte whether his wyfe for example being no doubt an Euangelicall sister of highest perfection him self being often absent about preaching of the worde whether I say in his conscience he thinketh her modesty such as that at such tymes to speake sparingly shee doth not often both eate and drinke with his Clarcke and other neighboures as also whether for the mortifying of the flesh and the quickning of the spirit she changeth a soft bed into the hard ground or fyne linnens into hayre-cloth and in breife whether without all exceptions of dayes not fish milke or egs but the daintiest flesh and most delicate wyne be meates most welcome to him and her I doubt not but he will answeare me that none of these agreeth with the fashion of these tymes But thereto then must I needes reply that therefore neither must he be much greued if his foresaid yokefelow grow wanton in the lord hard bed hayre cloth and fasting the best externall preseruatiues against such impurities being vtterly abandoned And yet if the lyke question should be proposed vnto me in regard of Catholickes all Christian Countries would answeare with me that the said austerities of B. Paula are not onely imitated practised by Religious persons but euen by wiues widowes Virgins which liue in the world But to touch yet one point further wherein I suppose all protestantes will disclaime as being incompatible with theire new gospels libertie which was S. Paula her Monasticall lyfe whereof S. Hierome saith I will speake of the order of her Monastery c. Besydes the Monastery of men which she had geuen to men to be gouerned she deuyded the Virgins c. aswell noble as of the meanest and lowest degree into three companies and Monasteries c. After Alleluia song or sounded by which signe they were called to Collect or prayer it was not lawfull for any of them to stay c. In the morning at the Third houre at the Sixt the Ninth Euen song and Midnight they song the Psalter by order or course And now foloweth Whytes proofe of theire protestancy neither was it lawfull for any of the Sisters to be ignorant of the Psalmes or not to learne somthing daily out of the sacred Scriptures But what is this against vs who allow not onely Religious women such as these weare Whom M. Whyte most fraudulently calleth Paules maydes but euen the laity to reade the Scriptures supposing they be knowne to be humble discreete and vertuous And yet in what maner S. Paula her self her daughter Eustochium being both well learned did it S. Hierome a litle after expresseth in these wordes She forced me that together with her Daughter she might read the old and new Testament I declaring it me disserente which in modesty denying yet through her importunities and often intreaties I performed that so I might teach what I had learned not of my self that is presumption the worste maister but of the famous men of the Church And when in any poynt I doubted and ingeniously confessed my self to be ignorant yet she would not rest but with dayly intreaty enforced me out of many and diuers sences to shew that which to me semed most probable Would not any man think this minister distracted thus producing against vs that which confoundeth him self Do not these Religious women in reading of the Scriptures requyre S. Hierome a Preist for their maister Doth not he professe to teach them not what he had learned himself or from many imaginary spirit but from the famous men or Doctors of the Church Yea doth not he plainely and humbly acknowledg his doubting and ignorance in his explication thereof none of which I am sure is orthodoxall with protestants But to returne to S. Paula and her Virgins in the monastery They had all one habite alyke Lynnens they vsed onely for wyping of their handes Their seperation from men was such as she seuered them euen from Eunuches Besides sustenance and apparel she suffered them not to possesse any thing Such as were talkatyue vnquiet she caused in penance to pray at the doare of the refectory to eate alone I might recyte many other lyke but these abundantly proue that M. Whytes maides were indeede Nonnes or Religious womē whereof good store to gods greater glory euen our Counrtie doth as yet daily afforde Now for a conclusion I will breefely note what S. Hierome relateth of her death As first hauing offered vp many deuout prayers vnto god almighty beinge almost speachlesse she signed her lippes with the signe of the Crosse a deuotion also vsed in her lyfe tyme as imputing much vertue thereunto which S. Hierome before mentioned in these wordes When she had signed her mouth and her stomake endeuoring by the impression of of the Crosse to mitigate her greife c. At her deathe were present the Bishopes of Hierusalem and of other Cities and an innumerable multitude of Preistes Leuits yea all the Monastery was filled with Virgins and Monks Some of the Bishops caried the Coffin and the rest goinge before caried Lampes and CANDLES and Led the Singers c. In the Hebrew Greeke Latin and Syrian Language Psalmes were songe not onely for three dayes but euen for a whole weeke And in the end of all this blessed Doctor as supposing her in heauen inuocateth saying a Farewel o Paula and help with thy prayers the old age of him who worshippeth thee thy faith and workes doe ioyne thee with Christ being present thou shalt obtaine more easely what thou askest Out of these premisses I may easely inferre that not onely S. Ierome but euen th Bishopes Preistes people of his tyme did wholly agree with vs Catholickes in the pointes folowing viz 1 Worshipping and Inuocation of Sainctes 2 That euery one haith an Angell guardian or keeper 3 Pilgrimage to holy places 4 Adoration of the Crosse 5 and signing the body with the signe thereof 6 Kissing and reuerencing of Relickes 7 Tormenting of deuils at the Sepulchres of Sainctes 8 Building of Monasteries and profession of Monasticall lyfe 9 Voluntary pouerty 10 Wearing of hair-cloth and no linnens