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A88868 Legenda lignea with an ansvver to Mr. Birchleys moderator. (Pleading for a toleration of popery.) And a character of some hopefull saints revolted to the church of Rome. Lee, E., fl. 1652. 1652 (1652) Wing L839; Thomason E1290_1; ESTC R208984 68,279 266

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not like M. Birchleys Optio and wish though written in great Letters Anima mea sit cum Jesuitis But if he like that Prayer let him enjoy it without all envy or emulation CHAP. XX. IN the 53 Page the Moderator hath a fling and not without just cause and herein we agree against the violent and therefore short dominion of the Presbyterians saying that never were more cruel torturers of the Conscience than they never a more tyrannical Tribunal than their Jure Divino Assembly and Classical Inquisition The Author might as truly apply all this to the Papal Tyranny and have done no Injury to Truth at all The Moderator closeth his first Part Page 54. with a prayer for a General Act of Conscience-Indemnity which if once granted it is not to be doubted but Mr. Birchley and the Papists would be as high in their demands as they seem now humble in their supplications CHAP. XXI THe first Part of the Moderator thus impartially examined and the bottom of the businesse sounded The second may more easily and swiftly be waded over In the third line Page 55. the Author pretends to light which the Lord Christ hath infused into his soul then publisheth to the World his humblenes of spirit and then Jesuit-like offers and dedicates his discourse to the gracious Redeemer of Souls If there be true humility where there is such self-ostentation of light infused and a noise of all humbleness of spirit the meekest spirit may without him easily judge the rest of that Preface hath little more in it than a continuance of self-flattery Page 56. where the Papists apply the marks of tenderness of Conscience in themselves and tenderness of Spirit to others but with what truth this is spoken really let the Moderator himself be Judge who in Page 44. brings in an example of the Privernates an antient People of Italy who having rebell'd against the Commonwealth of Rome and being almost quite reduced by force of arms dispatcht Embassadors for terms of Peace The Senat sternly askt them what new Peace they could expect who had so insolently infringed the old To which they stoutly answered we must now take such conditions as you please to give if they be moderate you shall find us faithfull if too heavy we shall observe them onely till we may fafely break them It were an injury to the Moderator to leave out a tittle of this Story wherein by the example of the Privernates he sheweth to the life his own Picture as well as of his Popish brethren with what light they are infused with what humblenesse of spirit endued and how resolved to shake off all burdens they judge too heavy and violate all obligations which they will observe no longer than till they may safely break them CHAP. XXII AFter the Preface and Introduction to the second Part the Moderator Page 57. recites Petitions of some wel-affected in the County of Leicester and of some Churches in London but to what purpose it much matters not In the 58 Page he proclames that he waiteth on God in humility of spirit and presently after undertakes to clear the Papists of all obstinacy and non-submission to the present Government by representing an humble Petition of the Roman Catholiques to the House and then addes his Explanation and sense of their Humility Civil Society and Consistency with Civil Government And then sets down a platform of their belief but that being not done according to the Canon of the Council of Trent the Moderator surely much forgets his duty or else giveth himself a large dispensation for his present advantages From hence he wanders to a perswasion that many Papists of considerable quality are now in London as he is informed who are agreed in an explanation of what they beleeve concerning the Popes undervaluing and overvaluing of the Church Invocation of Saints and Angels Worship of Images their opinion of Merits of Justification and of the Morall Law These are questions of very great weight and consideration and surely the Moderator is too bold to tell the world that some considerable Papists now in London would undertake to explain and determin their private sense and judgement in points so exceedingly controverted on all sides by the greatest Professors and Universities Besides this Report is surely an injury to the faith and modesty of the Gentlemen who have such obedience to their Church as they presume not to differ with the weakest Canon of the Council of Trent which as it determines resolutions of Faith in many of these questions so it strictly requires beleef to them under an Anathema and a Curse CHAP. XXIII IN the 69. Page the Moderator ●resumes to affirm That many Papists were smar●ly punished for not taking the Oath of Allegeance and peremptorily concludeth That none were punished for not observing it which is a strange affirmation and cannot be consonant to truth if he had observed the proceedings in Civil Courts in times of Peace or the many evils of the late Civil Wars in another place he saith The utter ruine which now endangers the Papists whole estates proceeds solely from their performing to the late King that service which he called Allegeance and yet Page 18. of the first Part he saith That many Papists never did bear arms at all but only sculk'd in the Kings Garrisons for better security Immediately after he presseth to any indifferent Iudge to determine but upon suppositions neither proved nor granted 1. That the Papists beleeving all the holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament And yet the Lay. Papists are not permitted to read them sine permissu nor the Clergy to receive a Translation not to beleeve a word but as the Church of Rome beleeveth be the doctrine never so palpably dangerous and erroneous besides how is it true that the Papists beleeve firmly all the holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament when they prefer Tradition of their Church above Scripture and give equal authority as Bellarmin and others to verbum non scriptum as well as to the holy Scriptures penned by the holy Prophets and Evangelists 2. The Moderator urgeth That the Papists worship and adore onely one God and that is otherwise proved in the Tract of their Adoration of Saints and Angels 3. He urgeth that they rely on the sole mediation of Iesus Christ and yet in all their Letanies and at their daily Masses they invocate Angels and Saints and Martyrs and Confessors and Virgin as Mediators for them and plead their Merits in the close of the Collects of the severall Saints dayes as it is evident in the Roman Breviary and the Office of our Lady CHAP. XXIV IN the next passage Page 77. the Moderator sets forth his diligence and attendance at Haberdashers Hall wherin he sheweth his Active curiosity in prying into those passages which perhaps may least concern his superintendency and Page 78. he concludes That the Oath of Abjuration is not only against the Papists Consciences but
and disturbing the change is onely this from a cunning sharking Scotish Presbyter he is transform'd into the shape of a more impudent sawcy Secular Popish Priest in which capacity he rails as much at the Church of England though with much ignorance envy and falseness as he did when he was acting the part of a proud piert lascivious Presbyter And this is another such like Roman pillar who is likely to prove as great a Saint on that side the sea as he was to have been in the Kirk of Scotland CHAP. XL. THese great Impostors like cunning Juglers have deluded many Some as Children are easily puft up and enticed with every triviall blast of new doctrines and much taken with Babies toyes and trifles and sometimes those of elder Age grow doted and deluded It hath faln out thus with many wanderers of these times who afrighted out of their Religion and perhaps out of England wi●h the terror and effects of a Civil War have found out new faces new fancies and new resolutions at home and in other Countries where for better assurance of gaining ease or the hopes of plenty and safety they have parted with substances for shadows and truth for errors vaing loriously concluding into the bargain that they should get the names and reputations of good Roman Catholiques The greater numbers of these Converts and Revolters might yet follow Men and Women subjects more soft and easie and therefore more fit to be tamper'd withall as more thirsty after new fashions and so more capable of alterations and the dress a la mode But a decyphering of them and their interests might seem a work too tart and bitter therefore charity spares their characters And it is lesser wonder to see smaller Shrubs scorched and burnt up with weaker flames when seeming Oaks and Cedars so suddenly fall and tumble down overturn'd with the gusts and winds of a Civil War CHAP. XLI THe strokes of Afflictions are very sharp trying the very hearts and reins and as they engrave glorious marks and characters in religious Martyrs and patient Confessors who are well grounded in the faith so their smart lashes afright and drive away to any desperat mutation the light and giddy humors of unsetled minds This is a common experience in the History of the sacred Book of God where Iudas was as certainly affrighted with the news of our Saviours passion and therefore fear'd his own troubles and Persecution as tempted with the price of blood and the thirty pieces of silver that reward of iniquity Fear and Covetousness are very ill Commanders and lead on many ugly followers their company is infectious the design sinful and the end very damnable These two capital betrayers of worth and honesty fear of further loss and hopes of future gain inclin'd Iscariot not onely to forsake but to betray his Master and not only to fall from but to fall on Innocency it self There are some other Vipers which attend these horrid Monsters as Envy and Malice at others both parts and fortunes Ignorance and thereby a dull uncharitable measuring of others though of great abilities by the narrow scantless and short cubit of their own imperfect and ruder judgments Rashness and impatience cruelty and detraction keep the timorous alwayes company and it is most true oderunt quos metuunt men ever hate though without cause whom they fear It is no wonder then if timorous afrighted spirits forsake and fly from a Profession and Religion which may for the maintenance of its truth render the Pofessors either more miserable or less secure in their Plenty and Content It was even thus in the College of Christs own Apostles which was dissolved and they scattered when the great Shepheard of our souls was arraigned condemned and crucifyed One betrayd him but all forsook him and fled Mark 14 50. But except one Traytor who desperately dispatched and hanged himself Mat. 27.5 all the other holy Apostles speedily recovered themselves from fear and cowardise St Peter though afar off yet still followed his Master and though he sate without Mat. 26.96 yet even there was he within the Palace and when driven thence he went out into the Porch though he denied shamefully his Lord with his mouth yet he manfully defended him with his hand when he dared to smite off one of the High Priests servants ears The glorious company of the Apostles whose souls seemed to have been in deliquio almost quite melted for sorrow of Christs Passion quickly revived at the noise of his resurrection from the Grave and those who shew'd themselvs than men when Christ was crucifyed did put on the courage of Angels when they understood he was risen from the dead recōpencing the failing of their flesh with the great fortitude of their minds and the few minutes of fear with their whole age of better resolutions boldly professing that Truth which they followed to the Crosse and at last sealing with their blood what they preached with their tongues and published to all Nation CHAP. XLII THe many Demasses of this age who like frosted leaves have faln from that Tree that nourished thē with the juyce of truth surely have not beleeved this doctrine or not followed these examples but rather in these times of sharper trials like those dissemblers who pretended to be Christs disciples as neither willing though it were to save their souls in the ark of Gods Church to indure hard language nor hard labour much lesse to suffer the losse of their plenty ●ase cōtent or safety St. John records the infamous Apostacy Iohn 6.66 From that time many of his Disciples went back and walked no more with him Thus have too many disobedient children forsaken their Mother and as infected with the falling sicknesse of the times have in their distempers frothed out the v●nome of their disease The constitution of these lapsed Revolters is not much unlike the ignoble temper of Aratus Sicyonus in Polibius Lib. 6. Qui ad Civilia omnia mirificè vafer appositus trepidabat in bellicis nec exequi aut facere cor aut corpus ei firma Aratus was of an excellent wit very subtil and crafty and very active and prompt in Civil affairs but if call'd to Martial counsels or the businesse of War the Coward and Pultron trembled having neither a heart nor a body for such heroick enterprises but as that Historian goeth on hic autem ipse si quando in Aperto acie dimicare vellet segnis in Consiliis timidus in Aggressionibus nec aspectu quidem aut vultu pugnam tolerans If the great Politico were concern'd in a battel or a fight he proved flat and dull in his advice timorous and fearfull at the Re'encounter and durst neither see nor be seen in an Army ready to engage an Enemy CHAP. XLIII THus many verbal champions who in calm and serene days and more Civil times seemed to love truth impartially and for her own sake are fallen flat and tumbled into those