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A67894	The primitive practise for preserving truth. Or An historicall narration, shewing what course the primitive church anciently, and the best reformed churches since have taken to suppresse heresie and schisme. And occasionally also by way of opposition discovering the papall and prelaticall courses to destroy and roote out the same truth; and the judgements of God which have ensued upon persecuting princes and prelates. / By Sir Simonds D'Ewes.	D'Ewes, Simonds, Sir, 1602-1650.	1645 (1645)	Wing D1251; ESTC R200135	53,793	72

sagacious man alive First they proceeded against any person they suspected without accuser witnesse or proofe and fettered his eares with so many Questions to be answered unto upon oath and with so many severall examinations at severall times that at last as John de Monluce Bishop of Valence well observed of the Spanish Inquisition in the yeer 1562. that it was Decipula ad vexandos bonos illa● queandas conscientias Though hee came into their clutches unjustly suspected yet he was sure never to escape their griping talons justly acquitted A second invention was to adde many new matters to be confessed as matters of faith which were before left as matters of liberty and fact either to hold or not to hold and in this particular did that fatall Conventicle of Trent so blasphemously transcend the bounds of all sobriety as to adde twelve new Articles of faith to the ancient Creed to be believed upon pain of damnation and to this they commonly adjoyned as a slip or branch of it adjuration of all former truths or at least a Recantation Miserable experience hath taught the Lutherans and Pseudo-Lutheran in Germany the tyrannie of the Romanists in this particular who having assisted them to ruine those godly Protestants in the Empire of the most sound and Orthodox Helvetick or French confessions did as a reward of their treacherie finde them more implacable against them inforcing upon them a most dangerous and blasphemous abjuration then against the others These two former wayes of Inquisition went yet no further then the tongue but the next that followed included the hands also and compelled subscription to many false blasphemies and dangerous heresies Thus the Lutherans of Saxonie desiring to root out all the godly Ministers amongst them of the purer Confessions would have them subscribe to those two portentuous and monstrous errors of Consubstantiation and Ubiquity And it was a notable Machiavilian policy of charles the ninth of France who having enforced the consciences of the King of Navar and Prince of Conde in the yeer 1572. by the cruell murther of divers in their sight and by threatning death to themselves to cause them to write to Pope Gregorie the thirteenth by their Letters under their own hands that both their conversion to Popery and abjuration of the truth had been gratefull and voluntary But the fourth and last invention is a down-right and never failing way either of discovering the godly or of shipwracking their consciences being one of those sins Divines call Peccata vastantia Conscientiam and that is their enforcing them to adore their severall Idolls by bowing to and towards their hee-Saints and shee-Saints Altars Reliques Crucisixes and their great Moloch of the Masse This skill they learnt from the Heathens themselves who to avoid multiplicitie of Interrogations with the first holy and Primitive Christians who abhorred the placing of Images in their publique Temples and Oratories they asked them in a few words Will you sacrifice to the Image Charles the ninth of France never demanded of Henry de Clermont Prince of Conde whether he would turne Papist but will you goe said he to Masse He knew raw flesh to be harder for a true Protestant to digest then all the other parts of Popery And doubtless he that will adore and bow unto or towards an Image the Sacrament an Altar a Communion Table or any other creature where the bowing is not meerly Civill will never stumble at any other part or point of Popery but may safely passe to Rome or Rhemes Oh that the Papists could but see their own vanity in bowing to and adoring the Wafer Cake as God! For they confesse it is not transsubstantiated into Christs flesh unlesse the Priest that consecrate intend to turne and change it And what then if the Priest be so ignorant as many be that he know not the words at which his quu or turne is come by his imagination onely to worke a miracle what if his minde be roving about his necessary affaires or more unnecessarie and vainer thoughts usuall with them that reade one particular often over and so inadvertently he forget to joyne his intention to the words of Consecration Doubtless these cases and divers besides might be instanced in which the Priest hath often and doth daily faile to create his Saviour blasphemy I confesse positively to affirme for want of meere advertency and premeditation within the rules of the Romish Synagogue it selfe And then what follows but formall and materiall Idolatry by their owne confessions when they adore it So as should the Papists themselves see a Protestant Prelate or Minister bowing to and adoring the Elements of Bread and Wine in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper before or after Consecration he could not but account him a Poishly affected Priest belonging to his owne Church or an absolute Idolater For in the 29th Article of Religion published by the Church of England agreeing expresly with the Helvetick and French Confessions it is plainly let downe That Transubstantiation or any change of the substance of Bread and Wine is repugnant to the plaine words of the Scripture overthroweth the nature of the Sacrament and hath given occasion to many superstitions That the body of Christ is given taken and eaten in the Supper of the Lord onely after an heavenly and spirituall manner And that the meane whereby the body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is faith And that the Sacrament was not by Christs Ordinance reserved carried about lifted up or worshipped So the Article of the Church of England When therefore any Papist shall see his Masse celebrated by any English Divine with Elevation and Adoration or bowing to and towards it both gestures being condemned by the doctrine of that Church he must either within and by the rules of his own Church give him up for an adaquate Idolater in giving adoration to the substances of Bread and Wine which action the Romanists abhorre and condemne or else in charitie suppose howsoever in outward shew he seem an heretick yet in truth he is a good Catholick and did intend in and by the words of Consecration to make his Saviour and so supposing his body to be really there before him doth adore and bow to it The Lutherans condemne the Popish Transubstantiation the Jesuites deride the Lutherans Consubstantiation and Ubiquitie and both justly But should they heare of any subtle wittall that hath in theso dayes found out a third and more sublime invention out of the Bush that the man in the Moone carries at his back and can finde Christs body in the Sacrament as really and naturally as it was in the Virgins wombe but yet will not say he is bodily there either Con Sub or Trans they would most justly hisse him out of their Churches and Schooles Doubtlesse the Popish Transubstantiation is of the three the most rationall and profound error because that being accompanied with a supposed Miracle and may be

unreasonable French Papists being true limbs of the Romish Synagogue whose faith was then faction and whose Religion was then rebellion would embrace no conditions of peace no offers of pacification from their own undoubtedly lawfull and warlike King as long as he continued in the open profession of that truth in which he had been educated under Joan D'Albret hereditary Queen of Navarre his royall and godly mother who also upon her death-bed had expresly charged him never to recede from it This brave Prince seeing nothing but an utter ruine threatened to his kingdome of France either by cantonizing it into Provinces or setting a forainer on the Throne which Charles Lorainer Duke of Maine had out of some ambitious and self-respects of his own a while opposed and prevented in the yeer 1593. submitted himself to a publike recidivation which though it brought on an outward peace to that Realme yet was the King himself never freed from continuall Treasons and Conspiracies hatched against him in the dens and nests of the Jesuites till at the last he perished under one of them to the irreparable losse not only of France but likewise of all Christendome Neither did the Papists cease to vilifie his very act of reconciling himself to their Church saying as Monsieur de Thou himself confesseth that either his conversion was fained as it had been before in the yeer 1572. and that a false Catholike would do more hurt in their Church then a true Heretique or else that he loved the Crown of France better then he did the kingdome of Heaven that to gain that without any inward convincement would turn from one Religion to another SECT. XXV AFter this martiall Prince had deserted the Protestant Religion to the great astonishment and excessive griefe of all the Professors of the Gospel both at home and abroad What did his French Subjects of the Helvetick Confession instantly rebell against him and deny him due and lawfull obedience as his Popish Subjects had done before Nothing lesse but all the disobedience they shewed to him or expressed towards him consisted in humble supplications and Remonstrances that they might still enjoy the publique libertie of their Consciences and he as graciously yeelded to their just and Christian Petitions and all the time he raigned never forgat their cause or prayers or suffered any of his bloudy Prelates or Jesuited Counsellors to molest vex cite fine suspend deprive or imprison any of them and much lesse to butcher them or draw bloud from them because he knew every one of those acts are essentially true and down-right persecution as well as shedding their blouds onely there is a graduall difference in the Martyrdomes of the sufferers as well as in the cruelty of the destroyers As strange was the example of Henry the eight of England who led by the advice of some of his Sycophanticall Popish Prelates thought to have established the Romish Religion without admitting the influence of the Papacy whose unerring spirit is to that Synagogue like the soule to the body or the Sunne to the firmament But he soone saw his error and would doubtless had he lived have made that integrall and saving Reformation which his Royall Sonne so piously finished for he himselfe and his new Popery were more abhorred by the Bishop of Rome and his Vassalls as a monstrous and inconsistent Church then the Princes of Germanie themselves who had made a rationall and intire defection from that man of sonne For the Pope and his Conclave employed Cardinall Poole Henry the Eighths neare kinsman as their Ambassadour to Charles the fifth the Emperour to exhort and perswade him instantly to invade the King of Englands Dominion rather then to make warre against the Turke himselfe And the reason why the Pope was so vehement in his prosecution against that King doth palpably and fully appeare from the very words ensuing of the Decree of Pope Boniface the eighth in his Extravagants set forth by himselfe in the eighth yeare of his Papacy about the yeare 1300. Subesse Romano pontifici saith he omni humanae creaturae declaramus dicimus definimus pronunciamus omnino esse de necessitate salut is We declare define and pronounce that it is necessary for every one that is to be saved to be subject to the Pope of Rome The same doctrine doth the Bull of Pope Pius the fifth bearing date there in the yeare 1564. the Romish Catechisme set out a little after doth maintain and confirme in the tenth eleventh and twelfth Sections thereof in their exposition of the twentieth Article of their new Creed to which Creed their Prelates and other Ecclesiasticks are compelled to sweare that they hold it to be the true Catholick faith it being strongly disputed for also by Suarez in his first booke and twelfth Chapter against the Lutherans by Gregorie de Valentia in his Analysis lib. 6. cap. 1. and by Bellarmine in his third booke and fifth Chapter of the Church Militant That though any Prince Prelate Priest State or Church should receive all the other parts of the Romish faith Religion abolishing the doctrine and discipline of the Protestants and should onely deny the Popes Supremacy and subjection to him yet they should still remaine damnable and wicked hereticks So as the light of the Sunne is not more cleare then that the Pope in this one particular imitates God himselfe hating more a linsey-woolsey mungrell halting Popish Protestant then a true and zealous one Blessed therefore are those Monarchs Princes and States who preserve the Evangelick truth without the least intermixtures of false doctrine and Pontificall additions for to halt between light and darknesse and to intermix Idolatrous actions or Popish errors with saving truths will necessarily draw on the ruine of the godly and the hatred of the Papacy and bring downe Gods judgements as causally as an absolute entire and plenary defection and recidivation And then if the Popes headship be once admitted a volume would not suffice how not onely every proud Prelate but even every Popish Priest might trample on the Soveraignes Crowne and Dignitie murther their fellow-subjects and be guilty of a thousand other villanies without dreading or regarding the punishment of the Temporall sword SECT. XXVI MAtthew Paris the Monke of St Albanes a witnesse without exception doth truly relate a pithy Story to shew the ancient deplorable and base state and condition of the English Kings under the Papall tyranny That Pope Innocent the 4th in the year 1253. in the 37th yeare of Henry the third being set in his Conclave in the middle of his Cardinalls after mature deliberation and advisement upon a very small and trifling occasion brake out into this vehement Interrogation Nonne Rex Anglorum saith he noster est vafsallus ut plus dicam mancipium qui possumus eum nutu nostro incarcerare ignominiae mancipare That is Is not the King of England our vassall or to say more is he not our slave who have power as often as wee please either to mue him up in prison or to expose him to ignominy Justly therefore did Henry the eight of England free himselfe from this Papall Tyranny and if he had been possibly sensible of those bodily pangs or inward remorses and horrors upon his death-bed which the Papists mention yet could not these divine flagellations be imputed to his defection from Rome and error as they pretend but to his shedding of so much innocent bloud of Gods Saints by the instigation of his sanguinary Prelates For in France after that barbarous and cruell Massacre in the yeare 1572. upon the eighth day of November the same yeare there appeared a dreadfull Comet touching which some learned Protestant immediately published an elaborate and exquisite Poem presaging that it was Gods Herald or Messenger to denounce his judgement shortly to ensue upon that Kingdome for their newly perpetrated inhumane butcherie His verses were 〈◊〉 dispersed when there suddainly broke out in Poitou a new 〈◊〉 and before unknowne disease commonly called the Poit●vin Cholick which wasted that goodly Kingdome for above thirty yeares after It was accompanied with so many extreame paines and torments not onely in the outward parts of the body but in the inwards and vitals also as it drew on divers horrid convulsions and in many blindnes it self before they dyed The strange originall the hidden nature and those unparalleld torments it produced sometimes resembling the very stabs and gashes made with swords and poygnards gave all impartiall judgements just ground to conclude it to be the finger of God himself in punishing the mercilesse murthers of his dear Saints And a blessed warning it may be to all Christian Kingdoms and States that a seasonable remedie to stop the growing of the plague pestilence and other severall diseases and judgements may questionlesse be applyed by inhibiting and abolishing the power and malice of such Popish Prelates as count it their chiefest solace to waste and persecute the pious and godly Protestants that so the true Catholick Church might againe flourish as it did in the Primitive times under learned religious sober faithfull preaching Pastors and Ministers Which incomparable blessing the Divine Providence vouchsafed to the Scottish French and Helvetick Churches upon their first Reformation The Printer to the Reader I Am here courteous Reader instead of troubling thee with an Index of the Errata to give thee notice that so great care hath been used in this second Impression as it needs none neither was it my fault but my mis-fortune that the first had so many greater errours as well as lesser slips for I had the use of a very imperfect Copie transcribed from the Originall by two or three severall hands in some hast by which I was mis-led almost in every Section Those errours and such as escaped the Presse are now amended to thy hand FINIS * Lutherus paulò ante mortem age● cum Phil●ppo Melancthone fatetur in negotio Coenae●n mium esse factum c. Dr Rainoldus prelectione 4a. in lib. Apocryphos p. 53. Col. 1. Et Orat. Isaac Bootii Vesalii de controversiis Sacramentariis Edit. Basilere Ao Dm. 1601. ad Calcem Polani Analys. in Ho●●seam p. 405. * John Dudley Duke of Northumberland The late inhumane ma● sacre and bu●chery in Ireland hath since excee●ed it