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A01858	The vncasing of heresie, or, The anatomie of protestancie. Written and composed by O.A..	Almond, Oliver.	1623 (1623)	STC 12; ESTC S121925	83,475	142

THE VNCASING OF HERESIE OR THE ANATOMIE OF PROTESTANCIE Written and Composed by O. A. Cum Licentia Superiorum ANNO DC.XXIII To the Reader Christian Reader THough the diuell in no age euer wanted his emissaries and Antichrist agents who busilie laboureth in sowing tares death-bringing-darnel in the purest corne-fields of Gods Church like cunning Mountebankes left no wily inuention vntried which they supposed might any way serue to vent their adulterate theriaca bastardly balsamum yet he had neuer such hopes to store the vast caues of his infernal mansion with Christian soules as in this age of ours in which whole swarmes of Apostates and deceiuing Ministers are crept into the Church introducing according to the Apostles prophesie sundrie sects of perdition by setting abroach the infectious pestilent and long-since condemned dregges of heresie brewed by Simon Magus Cerinthus Cerdon Manichaeus Aerius Eustachius Vigilantius and other such subiects of Abaddon and after barrelled vp by Belzebub and carefully reserued in his chiefe sellar where though with long standing they were growne mustie and stincking yet by powring in the barme of libertie they haue made them flower againe and by hanging forth the Iuibush of Noueltie set out and garnished with Rhetoricall flowers haue drawne more customers then hells wiliest counsellor durst euer hope for For the better discouerie of all which infectious potions and vtter dismantling of such lewde Mountebankes which like Egiptian locusts couer the face of this some-time Angelike I le depopulating her once florishing vineyeardes and sweete-senting gardens I present thee with this ensuing Treatise in which thou shalt find plainly demonstrated That Luther Caluin Zwinglius and other Prime-doctors of Protestancie were by their owne confessions baptized and brought vp in the now Roman Catholike Religion and only by their apostacie gaue life and being to Protestancie and that the Protestant Martirologies Callendars and genialogical tables consist either of confessed Papists knowne Schismatikes detested heretikes wicked Atheists accursed Magitians Sacrilegious thieues or notorious Traitours That all the chiefe doctrines and principles of Protestancie are old condemned heresies and that the most damned heresies rhat euer were hatched in any age haue bene fostered cherished and defended by the chief doctors in the Protestant Church 3. That no Protestant especially of the Caluinean sect vvhich are commonly knovvne by the names of Protestants here in England of Puritants in Scotland of Caluinists in Sauoy of Sacramentaries in Heluetia of Hugonettes in France of Picardes in Bohemiah and of Gomorists Arminians Remonstrants Contraremonstrants in Holland and other partes of Germanie can be said if he follow the doctrines of his chiefe doctors to beleeue aright any one Article of the Apostles Creede 4 That the God of the Protestants according to their chiefe doctrines the famous confessions of some of the the same fraternitie is no other but a diuell of hell The due consideration of either of which heades or chapters vvill abundantly fuffice to perswade anie man that is carefull of his saluation and hath not made a couenant with death hel to fly the fellovvship of this heretical fraternitie hastē to the rock of that true Roman Catholike Church from vvhole top Luther Caluin other their Cymists by the incitements of the flesh the vvorld and the diuell casting them selues headlong fell into the sea of heresies in vvhich to be by death drenched is to eternally lost and certainely swallovved vp in the Charibdis of hells bottomlesse abisse THE CONTENCE of the first Chapter THAT Luther Caluin Zwinglius Bucer Osiander and all other prime Doctors of Protestancie vvere by their ovvne Confessions borne baptized and bred in the Roman Catholike Church and by their false beganne Protestancie that the said Luther by his ovvne and most other chiefe Protestants assertions vvas the first knovvne Protestant a sonne vvith out a father and a scholler vvithout a master That neither Illiricus Fulke FOXE or White in their pretended bedrowe of Protestant vvitnesses haue produced one true Protestant but haue shamefully stuffed their Catalogues vvith many knovvē and confessed Roman Catholikes infinite store of desperate heretikes and a multitude of infamous persons c. The contents of the second Chapter THat the chiefe doctrines principles of the Protestant Religion viz. That vve may be saued by faith onely that there is no free vvill to good that children may be saued vvithout baptisme that Christians enioy not the veritie of the olde figures that the Sacraments doe not conferre grace that the commandemenes are impossible to be kept that Christians are not tyed in conscience to performe the Lavvs of the church or com mon vveale that all thinges happen by ineuitable necessitie that Christs and S. Iohns baptisme vvere all one that the Church may be for some time inuisible that Altars holy oyle and the like are to be contemned that approoued generall councels may erre that the dead are not to be prayed for that Images are not to be set vp and vvorshipped that Matrimonie is of equall merit vvith Virginitie that Christ is not Realie in the Eucharist that the Saints can neither heare our prayers nor helpe vs that the Sea of Rome is the seate of pestilence that Indulgences are of no vvorth c. are old condemned heresies The contence of the third Chapter THat the chiefe Doctors of Protestancie teach a pluralitie of gods cannot vvell brooke the vvord Trinitie deny that Christ is God of God or that the Essence of the Father vvas communicated to him affirme that Christ vvas inferour to his Father as touching his diuinitie maintaine that Christ is his Fathers vicar or vicegerent as he is God that he had tvvo persons that he vvas subiect to ignorance and vicious affections that he is not omnipotent nor able to doe many things that he cannot be adored vvith out Idolatry because his humanity is ioyned to his Godhead that the blessed virgin remained not a Virgin in after her child-birth that she vvas subiect to the infirmities of other vvomen in child-bearing that Christs natiuitie and incarnation vvere no vvay meritorious that Christs diuine nature vvas crucified suffered and dead together vvith his humaine that his corporall death vvas nothing auaileable c. that Christ died not for all men but for some fevv that Christ descended not at all into hell that his soule lay together vvith his body in the graue that he freed not the Patriarkes and Prophets in his descent that he could not raise himselfe from the death by his ovvne povver that his Resurrection Ascention vvere no vvay miraculous c. that men neede not feare that their vvorkes shall come into iudgement that the holy ghost hath a distinct Essence from the Father and the Sonne that he is vnequal to the Father and the Sonne c. that the church may erre in fundamentall points that it vvas inuisible for a 1000. years together at lest c. that mens sins are neuer truly remitted no

in cap. 2. fol. 55. true it is I haue sinned therfore God will punish condemne me ●o yea but the Law of God saith so I haue nothing to doe with this Law why because I haue an other Law See also Caluin 4. Inst c. 10. n. 5. l. 3. c. 19. n. 2. 4. which compelleth this Law to be mute to witt Libertie what Libertie of Christ for by Christ I am freed from the Law so a faithfull man by only faith may lift vp himselfe and conceaue sure hope and firme consolation that he may not waxe pale at the view of sinne but may say Sir diuel thy threats and terrours mooue me nothing because there is one which is called IESVS CHRIST in whom I beleeue he hath abrogated the Law is thy Sathan ô Sathan ô Law if thou canst accuse me binde me terrifie me I wil place ouer thee an other Law that is to say an other tyrant tormentor who shall in like maner accuse bind oppresse thee v. Luther vt supra in cap. 3. ad Calat fol. 115. thou art in deed my Hangman but I haue an other Hangman Christ who shal tortour thee by him I am free If the diuell beate me I haue a stronger diuel who shal in like maner whip him Christ is my diuel a Ibid. in cap. 4. ad Galath fol. 118. therefore a conscience beleeuing in Christ ought to be so sure that the law with his terrours threats is abrogated that he must altogether be ignorāt whether MOYSES the Law or a Iew euer were b the Law certainly is no other then the sincke of all euils heresies and blasphemies because it onlie augmenteth sinne accuseth terrifyeth threatneth death sheweth God to be an angrie Iudge condemning sinners wherfore if thou be wise banning farre off stuttering and stammering MOYSES with his Law neither let his terrours threats any way moue thee but do thou simplie suspect him as an heretike an excommunicated person a damned wretch far worse then the Pope the diuel himselfe and therefore in no case to be heard c. Hetherto Luther August haer 6. see Alphon. a Castro in v. Creatura v. malum Againe in this same age the Gnostikes stand condemned of heresie by S. Austine for teaching that some creatures were of their owne nature ill which is Caluins expresse doctrine For he plainly saith that the diuel was by nature euill wicked malicious Caluin l. 3. Inst c. 23. n. 3 l 1. c. 14. n. 15. 17. Epiphan in anaceph August haer 18. and that all men whom God hath Predestinated to death are by a natural condition guiltie of death Againe in this same age the Caini stand condemned of heresie both by S. Epiphanius and S. Augustine for teaching that Iudas fact was good in betraying his maister and that he fore-saw the benefites which would accrew vnto vs by Christs Passion which in like manner is plausible doctrine among all the Caluin-Protestants Crowly in his Apologie pag. 30. 46. I confesse saith Crowly in his Treatise entituled An Apologie or defence of the English Writers these are my wordes that Gods Predestination was the onely cause of Adams fal but not consequently of all sinne for such as haue eyes to see See Melamcton in Rom. 8. edit 1. Caluin l. 1. Instit c. 18. n. 1. 2. l. 3. c. 23. n. 8. doe see that Adams fall was good c. yea it is a doctrine generally maintained by Protestants as shall be shewed in the next Chapter that Absolons incestious adulterie was Gods worke that Iudas treason was as well the worke of God as Paules vocation that the Iewes in abusing our Sauiour and putting him to death did nothing but what the hand and Counsel of God had formerly decreed and the like Againe in this same age the Plotemaians stand condemned for heretiks by S. Epiphan haer 33. Epiphanius for maintaining that God had cōmanded some impossible things And in particular touching the inseparable knot of marriage which doctrine is generally maintained by all Protestants as appeareth not onely in that they contrarie to Gods word admit of so many diuorces as shall be anone shewed but in that they maintaine * Caluin l. 2. Instit c. 7. n. 5. in Antid concil Trid. sess 6. c. 2 that the Law of God or the ten Commandements are impossible to be kept (a) Idem commēt in Act. 14. v. 10. no not though a man be neuer so much assisted or holpen by Gods grace Againe in the same age the Priscillians Marcites or Marcocites stand condemned for heretikes both by S. Ireneus S. Augustine and S. Irenaeus l. 1. c. 9. Epiphan haer 49. August haer 27. Epiphanius for teaching that the order of Preist-hood appertained as well to women as to men which doctrine is also maintaned by Luther and Caluin the two great Euangelists of Protestanisme In the administration of the b Luther tom 7. Witt. Lat in notis Eccles fol. 150. Sacraments it is not materiall whether the partie administring be male or female young or old neither neede we in the administration of the Word and Baptisme be inquisitiue touching these c. c Idem tom 2. Ien. Lat. lib. de abroganda Missa fol. 442. 443. 444. 447. 448. 449. tom 1. Ger. Ien. fol. 336. 824. apud Vtenbergium causa 7. See also tom 2. Lattin Witt. fol. 90. lib. de ministris Ecclesiae pag. 36. where reconing vp all the parts of Priestly function as to Preach to Baptize to Consecrate to giue absolution c. He concludeth that they are all common to women I say that among Christian people there is no difference of persons no Lay person no Clarke no Shaueling no Annointed person no Monke c. Priesthood in the New Testamēt is spiritual and common to all Christians for we are all Priests in the same manner that Christ was a Priest this sentence is vnresistable that in the New Testament there are no visible Priests nor can be different from lay persons and such as be are without the warrant of Scripture therefore all Christians haue power and authorite to Preach though BEHEMOTH with all his adherents burst himselfe when Paule saith it is not permitted for a woman to speake in the Church he doth not speak simply as if it were vtterly vnlawful for a woman to Preach but only that it is not fitting for a woman to Preach if a man be in presence that is able to performe that office otherwise it is necessarie that a woman speake c. all Christians both men and women See Caluin l. 4. Inst c. 19. n 28. c 4. n. 9. Gualtier in Cronographia saec 2. in Collat. c. 16. young old maisters and seruants mistaesses maids learned vnlearned are Priests neither is there any difference if their faith be alike whosoeuer hath crept out of baptisme may