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A14430	The golden treatise of the auncient and learned father Vincentius Lirinensis. For the antiquitie, and vniuersalitie, of the Catholicke religion: against the prophane nouelties of all heresies: newly translated into English by A.P. Verie profitable for all such as desire in these dangerous times, to imbrace the true Gospell of Iesus Christ, and to remaine free from all infectio[n] of false doctrine as in the preface more at large is declared; Pro catholicae fidei antiquitate libellus. English	Vincent, of Lérins, Saint, d. ca. 450.; A. P., fl. 1596.	1596 (1596)	STC 24748; ESTC S119131	43,517	126

Judgment SAint Jerom said Whatsoever he did he still thought that that Voice was still in his Ears Arise ye Dead and come to Judgment St. Jerom used this excellent saying If my Father stood Weeping on his Knees before me and my Mother hanging on my Neck behind me and all my Brothers Sisters Children and Friends howling on every side to retain me in a sinful Life I would run over my Father fling my Mother to the Ground despise my Kindred and fling them under my Feet that I may run to CHRIST Here 's Love and Fortitude CHrisostom says God had rather Men should love him than fear him to be called Father rather than Master He wins by Mercy that he 〈◊〉 not perish by Justice O 〈◊〉 Godly Man knows how to make 〈◊〉 of Mercies It was St. Hierom's saying Dead Flesh is to be cut off for fear of Gangrene Arias at first was but a Spark but being not suppressed betimes proved the Incendary of the whole Church St. Austin saith Love is strong as Death as Death killeth the Body so Love of Eternal Life kills Worldly Desires and Affections The Love of Christ being predominant in the Soul deadens the Affections to any thing else Christ asked Peter Three Times Lovest thou me not for his own Information but that by his Threefold Profession he might help his Threefold Negation of him Nicephorus Good and Wicked Men and Hypocrites THey are like True and Counterfeit Money the one seems to be good and is not the other both seems and is good Ignatius Chrysostom saith As a Rock tho' the Winds blow and the Waves beat against it is Immovable so Faith grounded on the Rock Christ holds out in all Temptations and Spiritual Combats Chrysologus saith Neither in the Steel alone nor in the Flint alone any Fire can be seen nor Extracted but by Conjunction and Collision so nor by Faith alone nor by Works alone is Salvation to be attained but by ioyning both together Alexander of Hales saith What the Eye is to the Body Faith is to the Soul it 's good for direction if it be kept well And as Flies hurt the Eyes so little Sins and Ill-Thoughts do the Soul Divine Love says Basil is a never failing Treasure he that hath it is Rich and he that wanteth it is Poor Chrisostom saith A Bulwark of Adamant is not more impregnable than the Love of Brethren THE GOLDEN TREATISE OF THE AVNCIENT AND LEARNED FAther VINCENTIVS Lirinensis For the antiquitie and vniuersalitie of the Catholicke Religion against the prophane nouelties of all Heresies Newly translated into English by A. P. Verie profitable for all such as desire in these dangerous times to imbrace the true Gospell of Iesus Christ and to remaine free from all infectiō of false doctrine as in the Preface more at large is declared ✚ With Priuiledge ⸪ TO THE CHRISTIAN Reader zelous of truth and desirous of Saluation A. P. wisheth the knowledge of the one in this life and the fruition of the other in the life to come IPRESENT thee heere gentle Reader the auncient french Father Vincentius Lirinensis attired after the English cutt a booke as learned as litle and no lesse profitable then pleasant of smalle volume if thou respect the quantitie but of rare prise if thon consider the qualitie It intreateth not of gathering scraping togither the pelf of this world which choaketh vp the Mat. 13. V. 22 Mat. 19. V. 24 heauenly seed of Gods word and putteth man in a dangerous state if we credite him who being rich for our sake became poore it disputeth not of ambitious and gallant attire nor of the art of pampering this corruptible carcase which brought that braue belligod of Luc. 16 whome we read in the Gospell to the furious flames and endlesse tormentes of Hell fire it prosecuteth not wicked and wanton discourses which corrupt good manners being in very deed the bellowes to kindle the coles of carnalitie the nources of vnchaste thoughts and the very baite with which the Deuill doth daily angle and catch the vnfortunate soules of mortall men But it handleth that which redoūdeth to the benefite of our soule created to the image of God and sheweth vs the way how we may so gouerne this fraile vessell of ours in the tempestious Sea of this wicked world that at last we may safely arriue at the porte and harbour of celestiall felicitie For if the first step to Heauen is to beleeue aright and the foundation and ground of all saluation be faith as I thinke no man can doubt that beleeueth that there is any God or truth at all then can not this golden treatise but be acceptable to all such as loue Iesus Christ and tender the saluation of their owne soules beeing as it were the heauenlye piller of fire that Exod. 13 may guide vs through the deserte of this world vnto the land of promise and the glittering starre to leade vs vnto Mat. 2 the new borne King of the Iewes Sauiour of mankind But to the end that thou maist more plainly particulerly view the excellencie great necessitie of this rare booke and as it were with Moises from the toppe of Mount Nebo Deut. 34. contemplate the land of Canaan flowing with milke honie I will briefly set downe such motiues as inuited me to the labour of the translation for the selfe same as I verily thinke cannot but inflame thee to the diligēt reading of the same Three principall reasons then especiallye moued me The first was because it is very auncient being written aboue an eleuē hundred yeres past for it was composed three yeeres after the generall Councell of Ephesus as appeareth in the conclusion of the booke And as the Author him selfe is of greate antiquitie so is his doctrine more auncient beeing the selfe same which florished in his time and came from the Apostles of CHRIST which thing as it was neuer of any good man doubted of so is it also most apparant First by sound reason grounded in gods word because when any man writeth ought concerning faith and religion and the same is not controld of any of that time it is an euidēt argument that it was consonant to the doctrine then generally taught and receaued otherwise those Pastors and Doctors which God as S. Paul saieth hath giuen that we be not litle ones wauering and be caried about with euery blast of doctrine Ephes 4 could neuer haue held their peace but would as the Prophete admonisheth Haue cried out exalted their voice like Esa 58. a trumpet as we finde in like case the licentious Nicholaits noted by S. Iohn for their false doctrine Himineus and Apoc. 2 Philetus reproued by S. PAVL for an error about the resurrection Secondly 2. Tim. 2. because the author him selfe doth not only confesse the same in setting down the answere of many excellent holy learned men which liued in his daies nor only because he

acknoledgeth that what he hath here written that he receaued it from his auncestors and forefathers both which he doth in the very first entrance and generally throughout the wholle booke but especially for that towardes the latter end he so highly cōmendeth the generall Councell of Ephesus that is the Parlamēt of the world which surely he neuer wold haue done had he not ioined with thē in opinion concerning faith and religion and what their opinion was him selfe recordeth for he saith that those Fathers inspired by God decreed that nothing was to be beleeued but that which the sacred antiquitie of our fore fathers agreeing togither in Christ had holden and beleeued Which surely is a notable argument that what faith was by Christ planted and his Disciples preached was by them carefully kept and maintained which thing is especially of vs English men to be noted because the first foure generall Coūcells amongst which this of Ephesus is one and the third in order are worthely allowed by acte of Parlament Wherfore moued with such reasons we may Anno. 1. Elizabe without all scruple or doubt not only read this booke but also imbrace and intertaine it as the common doctrine of that time as the religion practised reuerenced in the primatiue Church as the faith and beleefe of the Ephesin Councell and so consequently as the true doctrine of Iesus Christ Now thē seeing we liue in those daies in which so many new sectes and doctrines such strange and monstrous opinions such superstitious and new-fangled deuises flie vp and downe the world and seing wee are fallen into the latter times in which Men shall heape vp to them selues masters according to their owne desires 2. Tim. 4 and shall not indure soūd doctrine but auert their eares frō truth be conuerted to fables In which they shall loue pleasures 2. Tim. 3. more then God haue a shew of godlines but yet denying the vertue therof In which many scoffers shall come walking Ep. Iud. according to their owne desires who deuide them selues sensuall not hauing the spirit In which many false Christs and many false Prophets shall arise and seduce Mat. 24 many Very necessary it is being thus fore-warned of God that before all thinges we take great heed not to be peruerted and seduced by erroneous teachers or false Prophetes but on the contrarie doe diligentlye preserue our faith the light of our soules the roote and foundation of all goodnes with out which it is impossible to please God as S. PAVL saith Wherin we can take no Heb. 11 better course no way more surer then to repaire to the time of the primatiue Church when the blood of Christ was yet fresh bleeding in mens harts when the Gospell was instātly preached firmly beleeued sincerely practised confirmed by miracles established by the death of so many thousands of Martirs especially being exhorted hereunto by the holy scriptures for as by thē we are admonished of the daungers and troubles of the latter daies so are we for a preseruatiue against them sent to auncient times to conduct vs to gods true religion Stand saith the Prophet Ieremie Cap. 6. vpon the way and inquire of the auncient pathes which is a good way and walke in that and you shall finde rest for your selues Salomon likewise in his prouerbes admonisheth vs in this sort Do not passe the auncient boundes which thy Cap. 22. Fathers haue set downe And in Ecclesiasticus Do not set light by the report of thy elders for they haue learned of the Cap. 8. forefathers because of them shalt thou learne vnderstanding and in the time of necessitie shalt thou giue answere To the end therfore gentle Reader that thou be not caried away with the sweet benedictions of those licentious masters with which the latter times according to the predictiō of the Apostles should be much pestered nor seduced with the erroneous doctrine of those false Prophetes and false Christes of which the sonne of God the true Prophet true Christ hath forewarned vs. And that thou maist find out a good way to walke in and keepe thee within the ancient boundes set downe by our forefathers and by their report learne wisdome and vnderstanding I am to request thee to vouchsafe the reading of this olde Father newly translated and I nothing doubt but thou wilt geue that censure which Queene Saba gaue of 3. Reg. 10. the wisdome of Salomon The second reason which set me for ward was for that I finde this booke not written against some one or a few perticuler false teachers as S. Augustine and diuers auncient learned Doctors did against the Arians Pelagians and such like but against any heresie or erroneous doctrine whatsoeuer which is a thing of so great importāce as I knowe not what can be deuised more What golde were to much or what treasures to deare for that medicine which had vertue to cure all disseases False doctrine and heresie is a greate soare a canker more pestilent then any corporall infirmitie whatsoeuer seing this worketh only the temporall distruction of our carcase but that causeth death both of bodie and soule euerlasting In other bookes we find the cōfutatiō of some speciall fase point of doctrine in many the ouerthrow of diuerse but to destroy all at one blow and those each so contrary to them selues so distinct for time so diuerse for place so many for number is a propertie peculiar only to this most excellent treatise and therfore it may fitly be compared to that miraculous pond wherof we read in the Gospell Ioan. 5 which cured all diseases for as that water moued by the Angell cured whatsoeuer infirmity of him that first entred in so this booke writtē no dout by the motion of the holy Ghost hath force to cure any such as is corrupted with erroneous doctrine or to preserue him from all infection if he voutsafe to enter in that is to read it to ponder it and to waigh diligently what is said an discoursed of The reason why this booke hath this rare qualitie in my opinion is because it sheweth the right way of expownding Gods diuine scripture in which so many to the great daunger of mens soules doe so greatly go a stray and therfore as Dauid ouerthrowing Golias the cheefe chāpion of the camp 1. Reg. 17. put all the Philistians to flight so no maruell though this auncient Author discouering the false expositions and gloses of sacred scripture the principall piller of all poisoned doctrine ouer throweth also all wicked heresie The third and last motiue which incouraged me to this labour and ought partly to moue thee to the reading is the breuitie of the worke the finenes of the methode the eloquence of the stile and therfore if long and large volumes do litle please this is short which can not cause dislike if confusion be ingratfull a methodicall order can not but like thee if a stile