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A32802	The rise, growth, and danger of Socinianisme together with a plaine discovery of a desperate designe of corrupting the Protestant religion, whereby it appeares that the religion which hath been so violently contended for (by the Archbishop of Canterbury and his adherents) is not the true pure Protestant religion, but an hotchpotch of Arminianisme, Socinianisme and popery : it is likewise made evident, that the atheists, Anabaptists, and sectaries so much complained of, have been raised or encouraged by the doctrines and practises of the Arminian, Socinian and popish party / by Fr. Cheynell ...	Cheynell, Francis, 1608-1665.	1643 (1643)	Wing C3815; ESTC R16168	87,143	88

well what Religion to be of or where to fasten The Jesuite who wrote the directions to N. N. which Mr. Chillingworth endeavours to answer began to triumph in our complyances with Rome Heark what he saith Protestantisme waxeth weary of it selfe the Professours of it they especially of greatest worth learning and Authority love temper and Moderation and are at this time more unresolved where to fasten then at the infancy of their Church Their Churches begin to look with a new face their walls to speak a new language their Doctrines to be altered in many things c. Mr. Chillingworth is so vaine as to call this painting of Churches the Beauty of Holinesse Sect. 22. But to proceed If the guides of the Church would not endure so much as a Nominall Inconformity with Rome if they and their Adherents looked so like and preached so like them that the Papists themselves took them for Romane Catholiques no marvaile if the poore people cryed out that England was turned Babylon and began to separate for that is very observable which Judicious Hooker delivers in his Ecclesiasticall Politie The people saith he are not accustomed to trouble their wits with nice and subtile differences in the exercises of Religion and saith he in actions of this kinde hee speakes of adoration of the Crosse it may well be applyed to adoration towards the East hoast altar Crucifixe we are more to respect what the greatest part of men is commonly prone to conceive then what some few mens wits may devise in construction of their owne particular meanings They then are to be blamed who invented a few cogging distinctions to juggle with God and their conscience and thought to salve up all with some curious subtilties which the people understood not If they that should be lights of the Church gave no better light then an Ignis fatuns which doth seduce them into bogges and ditches if they puzzeld the people and gave them good cause to doubt whether it was safe to communicate or no must the people communicate when they are perplexed with such doubts that they cannot communicate in faith He that doubts is damned if he eat Rom. 14. 23. The poore people could not be resolved and durst not be damned sure the Archbishop was rather Schismaticall in imposing such burthens upon tender Communicants then the people in separating from externall Communion Let Mr. Chillingworth be Judge sure he is no Brownist Neither is it alwayes of necessity Schismaticall to separate from the externall Communion of a Church though wanting nothing necessary For if this Church supposed to want nothing necessary require me to professe against my conscience that I beleeve some error though never so small and innocent which I doe not beleeve and will not allow me her Communion but upon this condition In this case the Church for requiring this Condition is Schismaticall and not I for s●parating from the Church Secondly all Separatists are not Brownists it is evident from this very place of Mr. Chillingworth for a man may have just cause to separate from the externall a Communion of a Church though he think that there are all things necessary to salvation in that Church But no Brownist doth conceive that there are all things necessary to salvation in any of our Parish Churches They deny that there is any true Church or Ministers of God to bee found in any Parish of England or that all the Parishes taken collectively can make one Church of God they say our Congregations and Ministers are limbs of b Antichrist Babylonians Idolaters this Doctrine I have ever preached against I preached against it even at Westminster where they say there are so many Brownists and resolve to preach against it still 3. There are some reverend and learned Ministers in this Kingdome who are commonly called the Independent Ministers and these are all put downe for Brownists if not Anabaptists in the Oxford Catalogue though the Arminians have no reason to censure any that goe from a Congregation that is lesse pure to one that is more pure I will therefore briefely shew that these Ministers are neither Anabaptists nor Brownists They will not say the Magistrate is an Head of the Church but they say that Every Christian Magistrate is an Head in the Church which no Anabaptist will say They say that the Prelates doe not hold from the Head as all Officers of the Church should doe Ephes. 4. 15 16. and yet they acknowledge that it is possible for a Prelate and the Diocese under him to hold the Head as the phrase is Colos. 2. 19. and this no Anabaptist or Brownist will acknowledge They will communicate even in a Parish-assembly where the Minister and people generally desire and labour by all lawfull meanes to procure a Reformation They protest against Brownisme as a * bitter error and full of cruelty what can be desired more to cleare them from being Brownists or Anabaptists I heard the same man preach since with much fervency and earnestnesse of spirit against the Brownists for this their error and among other inconveniencies which arise therefrom hee mentioned this that upon the same ground and reason for which they chiefely make the Churches in England no true Churches nor the Ministers thereof true Ministers they must make all those in Scotland France and other Reformed Churches whom yet they seeme to acknowledge to be no true Churches and so no true Churches to have beene in Europe since the Reformation but themselves which were a horrid opinion to enter into a mans heart 4. Brownists doe not that ever I could learne differ from Protestants concerning Civill government and therfore I doe not know why men should cry out that Brownists are greater enemies to the State then Papists themselves We have not yet forgot the Powder-treason and we doe still groane under the Irish Rebellion 5. If the Brownists be as bad as the Donatists of old if they conceive that there is no true Church but in parte Brownistarum as they conceived there was none but in parte Donati if they should deny the Catholique Church which they do not and refuse to Communicate with any of the Reformed Churches or with any Independent Congregation because they will not communicate with any who are ready to embrace communion with any Parish Church let their errour schisme pride uncharitablenesse cruelty and bitternesse be aggravated to the highest yet the Papists have no reason to complaine of them for Papists deny the Catholike Church as directly as the Brownists can be thought to doe they confine it to their owne party the Socinians and Arminians may hold their peace for shame for they both tell us that it is possible that Christ may have no Church at all neither in this part nor that hee may bee an Head without a Body an Husband without a Spouse a King without Subjects as hath beene shewen above pag. 49. 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would Kings and Princes did seriously consider that the d Arminians have taught Heretikes to rebell against any Prince or Magistrate who goes about to inflict punishment upon them in a legall way for say they if the Magistrate goes about to punish an Heretike because he thinks the Heretike in an errour the Heretikes may all joyne together and rise up in armes against the Magistrate because they conceive the Magistrate to be in an errour for the Heretikes have as much power to kill the Magistrate as the Magistrate hath to execute such seditious Heretikes Par omnium in omnes jus est is not that pure Anabaptisme in the highest Nay they adde farther that though the Heretikes be seditious Reipub. Turbones if they be Apostates if they turne Iewes and blaspheme Christ yet they would not have them punished by the Magistrates these Arminian Socinian Anabaptisticall errours are justly abhorred by the Divines of this very time There is at this very day a great talke of Tubbe-Preachers if there be any such the Arminians and Socinians must defend them as long as they keep in private but if they preach false doctrine publikely then indeed the Arminians would have them grievously punished the Magistrate may if it be needfull say they make a whippe of Cords and drive them out of the Temple as our Saviour did the Hucksters Thus they abuse our Saviour and the Magistrate both in a breath they will not allow the Magistrate to doe any more They doe not think it necessary that Ministers should expect a Mission in the first constituting of a Church for then there can be no order for order is not yet begun nor must Ministers expect a Mission when a Church is to be reformed for then they say all order is quite fallen to the ground and therefore the Word may be lawfully preached by them that are not sent so the Arminians Exam. Cens. cap. 21. pag. 228. state the point You see if there be any Tubbe-preachers now our Church is but Reforming they doe punctually observe the Arminians grave instructions The Arminians allow a liberty of Prophecying if any man shall perswade himselfe that he hath received some spirituall interpretations of the Word by the inspiration suggestion assistance of the holy Ghost and any Magistrate shall imprison this man because the interpretation is contrary to the Spirit of the Reformed Divines the Magistrate doth imprison the spirit and quench the spirit and the Church of Rome may as well emprison any Protestant because he brings an interpretation contrary to the Spirit of their Church which is as the Papists conceive infallibly guided by the Spirit Here'snothing but Qui sibi persuadet a strong perswasion required to beare out this Enthysiast though he seemes to the Reformed Divines to preach nothing but his own brain-sick fancies nay phrensies Sed hoc ipsum est Spiritum extinguere authoritatem sibi arrogare Spiritum qui cum Spiritu nostro by our Spirit they meane the Spirit which enlightens the Reformed Divines non convenit pro insanâ corrupta mente libidine contendendi adeoque mali spiritus suggestione censendi eoque nomine vi armata eum opprimendi Colloca teipsum coram tribunali Pontificio Reformationem dogmatum Articulorum variorum urgentem orantem ne spiritum tuum quem divinum esse credis extinguat quid respondebis si tibi reponat verba tua an spiritus est quod cuique insana corrupta mens contendendi libido adeoque malus spiritus suggerit Exam. Cens. cap. 24. pag. 276. Unlesse we have that infallible Spirit which the Apostles had to discern spirits the Arminians tell us we must allow men liberty to prophesy contrary to the Spirit of the Reformed Doctours or else our censure of these Enthysiasts will bee doubtfull uncertain Finally for I am weary of this subject they will admit Anabaptists to be true and lawfull Pastours of Christ cap. 23. Exam. Cens. de Baptismo pag. 248. in fine Sure this is liberty enough the Socinians need not desire more the Arminians and Socinians then must patronize these Tubbe-preachers In the next place there is a complaint of Brownists to which complaint I shall answer briefly and yet fully First they are to be blamed who gave the first occasion of this Rent I know between 40. and 50. yeares agoe there were some followers of Browne but in the latter end of King James his reigne the number of Brownists properly so called was much decreased and it was a rare thing to meet with a Brownist but when Bishop Land began to sit at stern and so he did a while even in Arch-Bishop Abbot his time then the number of Brownists began to encrease the reason was because ceremonies began to be urged upon the conscience with so much earnestnesse as if they had been necessary to salvation and about 6. or 7. yeares since when the Arch-Bishop was in his ruffe and his Priests began to surrogate it preaching for doctrines the commandements of men and consequently worshipping God in vaine Math. 15. 9. men of tender consciences and those no weake ones neither began to feare that they should transgresse the Commandements of God by observing Traditions Math. 15. 3. and conceived it vain to joyne with them in worship who worshipped God in vain Many were prevailed with by this reason but there were some of a moderate temper who if they might have the liberty of their conscience and not be forced to the use of any Ceremonies would and did communicate even in Parish-Churches But the Archbishop of Canterbury began to lay on greater burdens Crucifixes must be set up at the East-end that was too plain next the Communion-Table to colour the Design or at least to add varnish to it must be advanced into an Altar men must by a Tacit consent as we were informed at the Visitation of Merton College expressesome outward reverence by bowing towards the East the Altar the Crucifixe choose which you please all if you will but in no case must we be commanded to bow yet we must be censured as disobedient if we refuse to bow This was interpreted by Rationall men an asking of our consent to bring in Popery It was now high time to make Protestations that we would neither bow to East nor Hoast nor Altar for if we held our peace we knew not what might come by Tacite consent We were sure that our actions would speak aloud and how tacite soever our consent was it would be known to God our conscience I will not take this faire Hint to tunne into a long story of what censures were passed upon my self or others for our Protestation against this superstitious Innovation but sure I am that by degrees there were so many Innovations both in point of Doctrine and externall worship that the Papists themselves thought those of greatest worth learning and Authority in England knew not