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A17513	A iustification of the Church of England Demonstrating it to be a true Church of God, affording all sufficient meanes to saluation. Or, a countercharme against the Romish enchantments, that labour to bewitch the people, with opinion of necessity to be subiect to the Pope of Rome. Wherein is briefely shewed the pith and marrow of the principall bookes written by both sides, touching this matter: with marginall reference to the chapters and sections, where the points are handled more at large to the great ease and satisfaction of the reader. By Anthony Cade, Bachelour of Diuinity.	Cade, Anthony, 1564?-1641.	1630 (1630)	STC 4327; ESTC S107369	350,088	512

time in Rome before it was openly discouered For no man can tell who was the first that bought mens voyces with money nor that corrupted the sentence of the Iudges but he knoweth that this tooke away all authority and destroyed the Common-wealth So it is also with diseases in mans body they come not to the height and extremity at first and at once but ill humours and matter of diseases breed secretly and insensibly and afterwards by degrees become more full and strong and seldome are well discerned till they manifestly impaire the health and actions of the body Now when a disease is growne apparantly dangerous and deadly shall neither the Physitian nor the grieued Patient beleeue that there is any disease at all because they know certainly there was once health and they cannot set downe the time when the humours began first to corrupt nor by what accesses and increasings it proceeded to that desperate danger 2 Kings 5. So Naaman because he was once cleane and could not tell the very time meanes and degrees of the comming of his leprosie might be proued to be cleane still and needed neither the Prophet nor the washing Our Sauiour sheweth Matth. 13. that in the field where good feed was sowen the enemy secretly sowed tares but they were not discerned to be tares till they were growne vp to some height and peraduenture fauoured watered and defended by the Husbandmen and thought to be good Corne for a time till they shewed themselues more fully Shall we be so idle to say they were not tares because we know good wheat was sowen there but when any tares were sowen we know not The Master of the field acknowledgeth thē by their present view to be tares and saith that the enemy had sowen them secretly but your argument would perswade the contrary You Protestants grant say your Doctors that the seed first sowen in this field in the Church of Rome was good and there sowen by the Master himselfe now if these which you call tares be no good Graine but weedes sprung vp from some other seed tell vs the mans name that sowed it and the time when it was sowen If you be not able to shew this surely your eyes deceiue you either they are not tares as you call them or they are not of any enemies but of your owne Masters sowing §. 4. Antiquus Your similitudes are apt and perswasiue but no similitude is demonstratiue Can ye shew me some examples of things in this kind confessed to be changed the beginnings of whose examples were not perceiued or obserued or opposed Antiquissimus I can and will and you may read them more at large in D Vshers answer to the Iesuite in Jreland Your owne Catholicks confesse that the Primitiue Church See also D. Field Church lib. 3. cap. 14. who reckneth many more for many yeares deliuered the holy Eucharist to the people in both kindes according to Christs Ordinance and the Apostles practise that custome is now quite changed and the cup disused and forbidden to the people This change they grant but when and how it began and vnder what Pope they know not a Valent. de l●git vsu Euchar cap. 10 See more in B. Morton Appeal lib. 4. cap. 6. Gregory of Valentia your great learned Iesuite saith It began first in some particular Churches and in time grew to be a generall custome in the Latin Church not much before the Counsell of Constance in which at last to wit about two hundred yeares agone this custome was made a Law But of the time when it first began to get footing in some Churches he saith Minime constat It is not knowne D. Fisher b Rossensis assert lutheran confut art 18. B. of Rochester and Cardinall Caietan c Caietan opusc tomo 1. tract 15 de indulgent cap. 1. grant that of Indulgences no certainty can be had what their originall was or by whom they were first brought in But of the great increase and bringing infinite wealth out of all Nations to the Pope and the abusing of simple soules thereby we haue knowledge more then enough D. Fisher addeth ibid. that of Purgatory in the ancient Fathers there is no mention at all or very rare that the Latins did not all at once but by little and little receiue it that the Grecians beleeue it not to this day and that Purgatory being so long vnknowen it is not to be maruelled that in the first times of the Church there was no vse of Indulgences for they had their beginning after that men had a while been scared with the torments of Purgatory The originall of their priuate Masses wherein the Priest receiueth the Sacrament alone and none of the people communicate with him but all are lookers on D Harding d Hard. answere to the first article of Iewels challenge fol. 26. v. Antwerp ●dit anno 1565. fetcheth from no other ground then lacke of deuotion on the peoples part Tell vs in what Popes dayes the people fell from their deuotion and then we may hap tell you in what Popes dayes your priuate Masse began You see then 1 what little reason your men haue to require of vs the precise time of the beginning of such changes seeing themselues grant that in many things themselues cannot doe it 2 That some of them may come in pedetentim as B. Fisher saith of Purgatory by little and little and by very slow steps not so caste to be discerned as you would make simmple men beleeue 3 Thar it is an idle imagination to thinke that all such changes must be made by some Bishop or any one certaine Author whereas it is confessed that some may come in by the silent consent of many and grow after into a generall custome the beginning whereof is past mans memory as the abstaining from the Cup and some may arise of the ●ndiscreet deuotion of the multitude as those of Purgatory and Indulgences and some from the want of deuotion in the people as the priuate Masses and some also must bee attributed to the very change of time it selfe as publike prayers in an vnknowne tongue in Italy France and Spaine for there a long time the Latin was commonly vnderstood of all but when afterwards their speeches degenerated into those vulgar tongues that are now vsed there then the language not of the seruice but of the people was altered So that saith Erasmus e Eras in declarationib ad censuras Parisiens tit 12. sect 41. the vulgar tongue was not taken from the people but the people departed from it Now then shew you vnder what Pope their language degenerated and we will shew you when publike prayers there began in tongue not vnderstood §. 5. I may well then conclude with that learned D. Vsher that if we can shew the present Doctrines of Rome refused by vs disagree from the Primit ue it is enough to shew there hath been a change degeneration

one to him his sword could not discerne them so he might make way for his Master all was one to him How vnlike are the Romish Religions of this age to the Ancients As the pure Primitiue vncorrupt Religion was the greatest blessing both to Prince and subiects so this corrupt ambitious and turbulent visor of Religion hath beene an vntollerable scourge and Plague vnto them meanes more likely to make Religion stinke in the nostrils of men then to make it sweet and comfortable vnto them All these vn●atholike courses I grant the secular Priests lay vpon the Iesuites as if all other Papist were cleare of them Which is nor so 1 For who were in the fault ●n the troubl●s of the German Emperours and other Kings before there w●re any Iesuites in the worl● whose first beginning was little ab●ue an hundred yeares agone and their plot●ing Statizations within halfe that time 2 Secondly all Papists in common seculars not excepted hold the Apostolicke power and nec●ssity of obeying it Quodli●et 8. art 9 ●ag 277. 3 The secu●ars often bewray it in their writings though somewhat couertly because the times fit not so well to vtter their mindes plainely See Watsons Quodlib i● 9 art 3. pag. 293 art 5 pag. 306. quodl 8. art 6. pag 243. 4 They also submit themselues and all their writings yea euery word and t●ttle to the censure of the Roman Church as Quodl 8. art 8. pag. 267 361. 362. and Important Considerations pag. ●3 in the Postscript 5 The seculars sometimes plainly conf●sse it Jmp Con. p●g 15 hauing spoken of diuers attempts of the pope and Sp●niard in England and Ireland to depriue Queene Elizabeth of her Crowne they say plainely in all these plots none were more forward then many of vs that wer● priests adding that if they the pri●sts had opposed those designments the Laity would haue beene ouer-rul●d by them 6 Beyond all this Watson himselfe a secular priest who had set forth the said Important Considerations with a flourishing Epistle before as also the Q●odlibets c. to cleare the secular priests from all treasons euil practises became himselfe a Traitor and a Ringleader of diuers others in the beginning of King Iames his raigne for which he and Clarke his fellow were executed and the Traitor Ballard 1586 was a secular priest And many secular priests were in the Spanish army against England anno 88 as saith the Quodlibet 8. art 7. Doctor Sanders Morton and Webb were secular priests So that howsoeuer they would excuse themselues and lay all vpon the Iesuites it i● certaine that all perfect papists are conscious or guilty in heart and many of them in action of these courses vntollerable to the Church and State Isaacus Cosaubonus pist dedic ad ●bum Regem praefix Excercitat●n Baronium But concerning the corruptions of the Church both in doctrine and practises and our happy Reformation thereof I present the Reader with the substance of a worthy discourse of learned Casaubon Who after hee hath shewed that neither Truth nor Christians nor Christ himselfe the Way the Truth and the Life euer wanted enemies and that amongst those enemies two troopes haue euer beene most infest and most infectious Nonatores Veteratores the Introducers of new Doctrines and they that vnder colour of forged antiquity oppugne the true antiquity as some oppugned the most ancient true worship of the true God to maintaine old Gentilisme the worship of Idols he proceedeth to shew the old enemy of mankinde seeing himselfe shut out of the gates crept in at the back●ore into the Christian Church and not being able to hinder the sowing of good seed he secretly sowed Tares amongst it as in our Europe the Westerne part of the world the worship due to God alone to be many waies giuen to creatures Ceremonies vnder whose burden the Church groaned in Saint Augustines time wonderfully encreased drawing men from the substance of Religion to place all their hope of saluation in obseruing them from whence grow the worship of sacred Reliques beyond custome and due measure the trust in the aide of Saints and the carefull inuocation of them the worship and adoration of Images which we see at this day increased which nouelty when it was first brought in set the East and West at jarres and warres and droue the Emperour out of Italy Thence came also new idle worships deuised by mans brain and new rites of new superstition and the better to keepe the world from mistrusting or misliking such Innouations the holy Scriptures were by the vncredible fraud of Sathan withheld not onely from the Laity but from the greatest part of the Clergy And to top vp all these euils was introduced a terrible domination of one man The seat of Rome which before thought it sufficient to bee accounted the first among the Patriarkes seates now would bee the Lady and Mistresse of the whole Church And when her Bishop had lifted vp her power in spirituall things to the highest top not content with that height set his heart also to bring all temporall power vnder him and would neuer be quiet till hee saw himselfe lifted aboue Emperours Kings and princes and looked vpon them as persons farre beneath him vpon whom he might tread with his feet as oft as he list or iudged expedient for his affaires Thus the light of the Gospell was turned into darknesse the golden simplicity of true piety into innumerable superstitions Christian liberty into horrible seruitude the Rights of the Church together with the Crownes of Emperours and Kings made subiect to that Monarches Miter who challenged to himselfe alone the power to giue and take away Empires and Kingdomes Which he practised by bringing in all kinde of calamities wars and vexations wherewith Europe was so often and mightily shaken wh le the truth lay hid euery where neglected and deepely ouerwhelmed drowned and buried Thus Gasaubon of the former times III. Then hee proceedeth to the times of Reformation The great blessings of the Reformation of Religion After a long suffering saith he of vnspeakeable euils after long sighings and gronings of Emperours Princes Clergy and Laity after much expectation of many Ages for reformation in the head and members often promised neuer performed At last there were some found which brake the patience and shewed themselues leaders to them that sought the truth from their hearts What they were or what infirmities they had it mattereth not to argue Malice neuer speakes well of the best and most innocent This is certaine by the very euent that they as men stirred vp by God awaked and rowzed vp the world to looke into the corruptions of Christian Religion which long-time had brought in and to thinke of the grieuances and complaints which both Princes and people throughout Europe had shewed And if then the Bishop of Rome had carried the mind to suffer himselfe to be ouercome with the entreaties prayers publ●ke or priuate of the Emperors