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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09094	A brief discours contayning certayne reasons why Catholiques refuse to goe to church. Written by a learned and vertuous man, to a friend of his in England. And dedicated by I.H. to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.	1580 (1580)	STC 19394; ESTC S102386	63,624	177

deede to honour the same This was also the scandale that the worthy ould Eleazarus in the booke of machabies so much detested resisted y t he chose rather to dye most cruelly then to cōmittit For whereas the Tyrant did com maund him to eate of the sacrifized meates and he refused the same the vnder officers of the Tyrant being moued with vniust compassion as the scripture tearmeth it offered him secretly other flesh not offered to Idoles and of the which he was not forbidden by his law to eate meaning thereby to deliuer him and to geue out that he had now satisfied the Prince his comāundement But the good old man considering what other men might thincke of it and what Scandale there might ensew of it answered thus as the Scripture sayeth That he would first be sente downe vnto hel before he would doe it for saieth he yt is not conuenient for our age to fayne whereby perchance many yong men thinking that Eliazarus now of nintie yeares ould hath past ouer to the lyfe of the Gentiles may through my dissimulation be deceaued This therefore is the second point of scandale which S. Paul forbiddeth when he sayeth Keepe your selfe from al shew of euil The third point of scandale is in respect of the enemy that is when although I doe not induce any man to siune or offend any mans conscience yet I doe disedefie the enemy and doe that thing whereby the enemye is scandalized and taketh an occasion to blaspheme God his trueth his cause his law or the lyke Whereof S. Paul speaketh to the Corinthians Be you without offence or scandale to the Iewes and also to the Gentiles And in an other place Geauing offence or scandale to no man to the end that our function or ministerie be not blamed thereby And this is that great scandale that Dauid being a King and a Prophet gaue to Gods enemies by his fal and for the which he was sore punished as it appereth by the words of the Scripture which are thes And Dauid sayd to Nathan the Prophet I haue sinned against my Lord and Nathan sayed to Dauid God hath taken away thy sinne but yet because thou hast made the enemies of God to blaspheme for this cause the sōne which is borne to the shal dye the death This also is the scandale that Esdras comming out of Persia towardes Ierusalem with his countrimen the Iewes was affeard to geue to the king of Persia by causing him to think basely of God as not able to helpe and defend his seruants if he should haue asked him ayde to conducte himselfe and his companie to Ierusalem for soe he sayth I was ashamed to aske of the King ayde and horsemen to defende vs from our enemies in the waye because we had said to the King before that the hand or defēce of our God is ouer al them that seke him in honestie and that his empire and strength and furye is vppon all them that forsake hym Finallye of this scandale ment S. Paule and S. Peter also when they sayd that the word of God was blasphemed or spoken euil of by the aduersarie part for the euil lyfe of certayne noughtie Christians Nowe that a Catholicke going to the Churches seruice or prayers of them of the contrary relygion cannot but cōmit this great sinne of scandale in the highest degre that is in al these thrée poyntes before rehersed it is euident to al the world For touching the first poynt if he be a man of any calling his example shal induce some other as wyfe children frendes seruantes or the lyke to doe the same And howsoeuer he scape him selfe they maye be infected and so damned and theyr bloode layd vppon his soule but muche more if he should exhorte or constrayne anye man to doe the same as commonlye manye Sysmatyques doe vse And touchiing the seconde poynte he cannot but offende manye mens Conscyences for they that doe knowe hym inwardelye to be a Catholyque will thynke hym to sinne against against his owne conscience and perhapps be induced to doe the lyke And they who know him not must néedes presume him to goe of conscience and as a fauorer of that religion and soe be brought to lyke the better of that religion and the worse of the Catholicke by his example And as concerning the third and last poynt their is no enemye of the Catholicke religion in the world whether he be Gentile Turke Iew or hereticke but that he must both thincke and speake the worse of the sayd religion séeing the professors of the same are content for worldly pollycie to dissemble it and leauing their own Churches to present them selues to the Churches of their open and professed enemies To conclude in this matter of scandale men must not flatter and deceaue them selues thincking that they walk in a net and are not séene when they geue scandale to all the world which fixeth his eyes vppon them if not for their owne cause yet for the religions sake God is not to be mocked The godly and learned Father S. Ambrose did accuse Ualentinian the Emperour for geuing a publyke scandale to the world because he did but permit certayne aulters to the Gentiles saying that men would thincke that he preuilye fauored them And his scholler S. Augustine thincketh it a scandale if a man should heare a Donatist but speake and he to hould his peace for that the hearer might thinke that if this were euil which the Donatist sayeth the other would reproue him But if S. Ambrose had sene the Emperour to haue gone to the Panims Temples or S. Augustine the other to frequent the Donatistes Churches what then would they haue sayed What excuse then would they haue receaued and this is our very case The Third Reason The Thyrd reason why a Catholicke may not come to Church is for that goynge or not goeyng to the Church is made a signe now in England distinctiue betwixt religion and religion that is betwyxt a Catholicke and a Schismatyke So that a Catholicke by going thether doth directlye denye his religion For the better vnderstanding whereof we must note that the professor of any religion may be knowen by thrée wayes firste by wordes professing him selfe to be of that religion secondly by workes or déedes proper to that religion thyrdly by some signe or marke appointed to signifie that religion As for example In Italy a Iew may be knowen First by his wordes if he would professe him selfe to be of that religion Secondlye by workes proper to Iudaysme as by keaping the Saterday holye daye by circumcysinge his children and the like Thirdly by a notorious signe appointed to distinguishe that religion from al others which is to weare on his head a yealow capp Nowe as these thrée are wayes to professe this religion soe if a 〈◊〉 of an other religion for example a Christian should