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A61885	Legends no histories, or, A specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society wherein, besides the several errors against common literature, sundry mistakes about the making of salt-petre and gun-powder are detected and rectified : whereunto are added two discourses, one of Pietro Sardi and another of Nicolas Tartaglia relating to that subject, translated out of Italian : with a brief account of those passages of the authors life ... : together with the Plus ultra of Mr. Joseph Glanvill reduced to a non-plus, &c. / by Henry Stubbe ...	Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.; Tartaglia, Niccolò, d. 1557. Quesiti et inventioni diverse. Libro 3. English.; Sardi, Pietro, b. 1559? Artiglieria. English. Selections.; Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676. Plus ultra reduced to a non plus.; Henshaw, Thomas, 1618-1700.	1670 (1670)	Wing S6053; Wing S6063_PARTIAL; ESTC R21316	289,570	380

Government that is that Learning which our Universities intend before the Mechanical Education of the Virtuosi Excudent alii spirantia mollius aera Credo equid●m vivos ducent de marmore vultus Orabunt causas melius coelique meatus Describant radio surgentia sydera dicent Tu regere imperio populos Romane memento Hae tibi erunt artes pacisque imponere morem Parcere subjectis debellare superbos Others I grant shall ●ould respiring Brass And grave on Marble a more lively Face Some better plead and some Astronomers Better describe Heavens motion and the Stars Be thou ambitious how to Govern best In these Arts Roman thou must be profest That we a Peace well-grounded may enjoy Subjects to spare and Rebels to destroy While the Bishops of Rome did assume an Infallibility and a Sovereign Dominion over our Faith the Reformed Churches did not only justly refuse to grant them that but some of them thought themselves obliged to forbear all Communion with them and would not give them that respect which possibly might belong unto so Antient and so Famous a Church and which might still have been allowed it without any danger of Superstition Having represented to the World how little Mr. Sprat is versed in Grammar-Learning and the Bible Here he gives me an occasion to shew his Ignorance in Church-History It is false and notoriously known to be so by any man that is conversant in the Writings of our Divines against the Papists that the Grand Motive and Reason why the Reformed Churches did Separate from the Bishops of Rome was because they assumed an Infallibility and Sovereign Dominion over our Faith Had the Popes taught the sincere Truths of the Gospel had they not depraved them with heathenish and Superstitious Follies Blasphemies and Idolatry the Point of Infallibility had never come into Question amongst those who were in possession of Truth and Peace but when the gross Usurpations Errors and Damnable Blasphemies and Idolatries of the See of Rome came into Dispute and to be refuted by the means of that Critical Learning and Philosophy assisted by the peculiar Grace and concurrence of God which our Virtuosi deny then was this Question started about the Infallibility of the Roman Catholick Church whether that could Erre That the Bishops of Rome either are Infallible or have any Sovereign Dominion over our Faith was no Question on which Protestancy was introduced and Communion with Papists refused The Papists themselves did avow it they held that the Church Catholick could not Erre and that they that is the Christians in Communion with them were the Church Catholick If the Popes Infallibility came to be asserted it was by the Canonists impious and indeed Blasphemous Parasites Sic omnes Apostolicae sedis Sanctiones accipiendae sunt tanquam ipsius Divini Petri voce firmatae sint So saies Gratian. Distinct 19. Canon 2. But the General Counsels of Pisa Constance and Basil have sufficiently damn'd this Doctrine Leo the Tenth in the Lateran Counsel said indeed that none of his Predecessors had erred but he evidently erred in saying so yet he neither did nor durst say they were infallible The Jesuites of late do I confess assert the Popes infallibility but I well know the Sorbon and the Parliament of Paris and the French King too have lately damn'd this Doctrine of the Popes sworn Janizaries Nay so ridiculous is this assertion of theirs that they neither tell us nor know themselves how he is infallible whether by himself or with his Consistory of Cardinals or a General Counsel and then what is a true General Counsel who must call it who have decisive Votes and whether all or the Major part may be enough to make a Canon Concerning these and many such Questions more they are not agreed and so cannot assure us of what they are not assured themselves If any Pope ever did assume a personal infallibility and Soveraignty in matters of Faith any man might have rejected the bold Assertor without being an Heretick or being guilty of Apostasy from the Roman-Catholick Church for the Gallican Church keep Communion and yet ever denyed the Popes infallibility In fine the Point of Infallibility of the Roman-Catholick Church I am not such a Fool as to say the Infallibility of the Bishops of Rome for they are confessed to have Erred and that damnably some times was not the occasion of the rupture betwixt the Papists and the Protestants at first nor doth it now continue it otherwise then by accident in as much as it hind●rs the Reformation of those Idolatrous Tenets and practises with which that man of Sin hath filled his adherents and without the profession whereof no Protestant can be admitted to their Church-membership and Communion Let any man but comply with them in these Solemnities and I dare engage that he shall neve● be pressed Authoritatively to own that personal Infallibility of the Pope or his Soveraign Dominion in matters of Faith So that there must be more Important grounds than Mr. Sprat imtimates for that great Action of ●he Reformed Churches or the imputation of Maleper●ness and horrid Schisme must be fixed on them But the Truth is they were infallibly certain Certitudine fidei as assured as they were of the Truth of the Bible and Gods word and as Morally certain as Metaphysicks natural That is Aristotelian Phylosophy and Skill of Tongues could make them that the Papi●ts did hold such Errors as none could know and Communicate with without hazard of damnation Nor any Ignorantly profess and be saved without the benefit of an hearty though General repentance and the boundless but not to be presumed upon Effects of that mercy of God in Christ which the Antichristanisme of that Satanicall Synagogue otherwise would frustrate T is not dispu●ed betwixt Church and Church whether the Pope can add new Articles of Faith or vary the old Creed the current of Popish writers ascribe unto him no such Dominion over our Faith no nor to their Counsels They are to enquire Quid traditum est What there is of Ecclesiasticall Tradition in the Scripture and the Church Doctrine and Practise and to determine this or that to be de fide because it hath alwaies been de fide Every Point that comes short of this declaration is so farr short of its Catholicisme and the Obligation to believe it And now let any man Judge whether Mr. Sprat were of the number of those that were Satiated to use his own expression pag. 152 with Religious disputes or of those that never looked into them how necessary soever they be to the support of the English Monarchy the Church of which he is a Member the Salvation of his Soul which is of more importance then these Natural Experiments I could have with more confidence cryed out How beautiful are his Feet● and Hands had I found him employed in the Gospel-work than in this Society But he gives me no