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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	field_n	seed_n	sow_v	1,239	5	10.0934	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18354	Credo ecclesiam sanctam Catholicam I beleeue the holy Catholike Church : the authoritie, vniuersalitie, and visibilitie of the church handled and discussed / by Edward Chaloner ...	Chaloner, Edward, 1590 or 91-1625.	1625 (1625)	STC 4934.3; ESTC S282	90,005	150

censure concerning them Whatsoeuer all the Fathers saith hee doe vniformely deliuer that is to bee held for the opinion of the Doctors of all times because the Schoolemen doe follow the holy Fathers as their guides But not on the contrarie whatsoeuer the Schoolemen doe deliuer vniformely is to bee thought to haue beene beleeued by the Doctors in all ages because the Schoolemen haue added many things more explicatly to the doctrine of the Fathers Seeing therefore neither ancient writers will serue their turne no latter may be admitted I demand by what other authoritie they hope now to make good their bragge By what doe the Iesuites answere but by the testimonie of the Church and chiefly the present affirming such a doctrine to haue beene vniuersally beleeued in all ages And this indeed is their last refuge whereby it may plainely appeare that after they haue so lowdly dared vs to shew the perpetuitie of our Church in all ages a posteriori by producing the names of our seuerall Professors they can bee contented quietly to relinquish that title themselues and to flie to the testimonie of the Church which being with them the foundation and principle of their faith is not properly to argue a posteriori but a priori the difference betweene our arguing in that kinde and theirs being but this that we proceed descending downwards from the Scriptures they ascending vpwards from the present Church But I aske now will the Churches testimonie in this case serue their turnes to proue that whatsoeuer is held at this present as an article of faith in the Roman Consistorie was alwayes so beleeued in the Church No doe Bellarmine Valentia and other Iesuites informe vs for some points say they were not heretofore defined by the Church in which to erre was then no heresie which now are and Thomas tells vs that the Pope may make a new Creed But wee aske then how their articles of faith were held in all ages They reply that these new additions of theirs though they were not as then made articles of faith nor beleeued by the Fathers explicitly yet were they implicitly beleeued But this plungeth them then into another gulfe for if implicitly onely then the profession thereof was not visible for an implicit beliefe is like seed buried in the ground and cannot serue for any of those proofes whereby the visibilitie of the Church which is in question may be tried But haply will some say those points which in former times were not mentioned or not expresly beleeued or not defined are but matters of lesse moment and such as the present Church of Rome makes not to be fundamentall No doe the Iesuites answer for they are euen such as are by the Tridentine and other Generall Councells commanded vnder paine of an A●athema to bee beleeued and to denie the which is by their Constitutions made damnable heresie Thus whatsoeuer they pretend they finde no harbour but in their present Church and that like the Sirtes too troublesome and tempestious For our parts God hath affoorded vs a quiet Hauen where in to anchor the holy Scriptures which teach vs that if we cannot discerne the Church Catholike fide oculorum with the faith of our eyes and say videmus wee see it wee should yet apprehend it oculis fidei with the eyes of our faith and say credimus we beleeue it Credo Ecclesiam Catholicam I beleeue the Catholike Church Vnde Zizania THE ORIGINALL AND PROGRESSE of Heresie Handled and applyed before his late MAIESTIE at THEOBALDS An. Dom. 1624. By EDWARD CHALONER Dr. in Diuinitie and Principall of ALBAN Hall in OXFORD LONDON Printed by William Stansby Vnde Zizania The Originall and Progresse of HERESIE MATTH 13. 27. So the Seruants of the Housholder came and said vnto him Sir Didst not thou sowe good Seed in thy field From whence then hath it Tares THe Progeny of Heresies begotten by the Prince of darkenesse and conceiued in the conclaue of Hell cannot be seene by mortall eyes but in aenigmate in a riddle or Parable and therefore most fitly in a Parable is heere set forth the originall and progesse of them First You haue their Antecedent to wit the sowing of good Seed before them For howsoeuer Heresies may be antiqua ancient yet they are not prima the first and most ancient and therefore is Christ the Husbandman first presented in the Narration as seminans sowing good Seed in his field before the Enemie is produced reseminans resowing the same Acres with vnprofitable graine Secondly their Efficient or Authour the Deuill who is pointed out by two remarkable properties his malice in that he is tearmed inimicus the Enemy and his subtiltie which appeared by those aduantages which he took in sowing The first was the opportunitie of the time for he wrought not his mischiefe in the face of the Sunne whilest the Seruants of the Husbandman might beare him witnesse but in the dead of night not whilest the Husbandman himselfe slept for he which keepeth Israel neither slumbreth nor sleepeth but Cum dormirent homines saith the Text whilest men slept that is whilest the Pastors and ouerseers of the flock those to whom the Master had let out his Vineyard were supine and negligent in their charge The second was the nature of the graine which hee sowed sympathising and according with the good Seed in the manner and likenesse of growth that is Heresies bearing the Image and Superscription of Truth Hee tooke not therefore Acornes or Mast or Kernels or Fruit-stones but Tares nor set them with their stalke or bulke but buried them in the Seed that they might appeare with a Copie of old-age being not espied till they had taken roote and then displaying themselues gradatim by little and little The third was the conueniencie of the place for such a purpose beeing free from suspition among the Wheate and the last his hypocriticall couering of his action abijt hee went away id est latuit saith an Interpreter he lay hid vnder the faire penthouse of zeale and seeming deuotion For had either his venome spawn'd in any other soyle then where the Husbandman had bestowed his Wheate or had he beene spied trauersing the field in his proper shape and complexion the seruants of the Housholder could not haue bin so surprized with admiration so soone as the first bud had saluted the light they would haue said behold Tares behold the Enemy now that the field had beene manured and cultiuated with Gods Husbandrie the earth made to trauell with the fruits of his Garner and the Enemies footings vndiscerned these second seedes must spring vp those sproutes become to blade that blade bring forth fruit ere the seruants will beleeue the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or quod as Logicians speake that they are Tares and yet for the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or propter quod that is the Authour and Sower of them they are still ignorant they come to the Housholder and say vnto him

Sir Didst not thou sowe good Seed in thy field from whence then hath it Tares The case being thus put to the Husbandman by way of question or probleme and the Seruants like Schollers in the Mathematickes requiring a sensible demonstration of the same my Text may bee not vnfitly deuided into these two parts datum quaesitum Viz. 1. First Datum the thing giuen or granted Sir Didst not thou sowe good seed in thy field For Interrogatiues in holy Writ are oftentimes equiualent to affirmations and assertions and not notes of doubt or dubitation 2. Secondly Quaesitum the thing demanded from whence then hath it Tares The first is heere and hath bin by all good Christians euer granted and therefore shall not by me be disputed Far be it from any to question the Seed of the good Husbandman or to suspect his Graine Bellarmine Becanus two Iesuits would faine lay the aspersion vpon vs the one that we teach directly the other that we affirme by consequence God to be the Authour of Sin and so to fasten the Tares vpon his sleeue But let them know that we receiue this datum this granted Proposition that God euer sowes good Seed in his field with no more scruple then did these Seruants Our Controuersie is onely the same that theirs was touching the Quaesitum the thing demanded from whence the Tares are And heere wee that are Seruants of the Housholder are no more exempted from Cauils then his field from adulterate Graine The Deuill hath scattered his Seed amongst the Wheate the World beholds it not onely in the blade but also bearing fruit yet the Seruants of the Enemie denie that it is Tares vnlesse we can shew vnde from whence they are This is the Riddle wherewith the Antichristian Sphinxes doe assault vs. But alas how is the Text peruerted the Scene altered serui non Patrisfamilias sed inimici the Seruants not of the Housholder but of the Enemy of him which is conscious to his owne act veniunt dicunt they come and say and to whom doe they say non illi not to the Oedipus that can resolue them the Husbandman but nobis to vs dormientibus vs that slept they aske vs the question they require of vs to dissolue the knot Name the Heresie say they whereof wee cannot record the Brochers describe the place date the time of its Natiuitie Could Arius or Nestorius or Macedonius play their prizes vnspyed by our Centinels Could they or any other Hereticke euer scape the Eyes and Eares of our Intelligencers Thus they insult before the Victory They indeed which are of the Enemies Councell may be priuie to his Plots wee that are of the Housholders retinue may decerne the Tares and yet not know the sowing and we may say without preiudice either to our cause or skill with these men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 From whence hath it Tares But the ground hereof will yet better appeare if wee compare the Enemies carriage in this Parable with his wiles and legerdemayne at other times All creatures which inhabit this Globe of Earth are subiect to a vicissitude of Light and Darknesse Day and Night and to the necessary actions thereof waking and sleeping That which properly in this kind belongs to man considered in his Naturalls the same by a certaine symmetry and proportion is found also in his Intellectualls that waking in the one he may be said sometimes to sleep in the other This aduantage the Deuill tooke in his first Master-piece sowing the Seeds of originall transgression in the fairest of Gods fields our Mother Eue. For the man being absent and deficient in his watch the Enemy assaulted the woman as heere in this Parable in a manner vnseene appearing not in the colours of an Enemy but of the Serpent who whilest Adam the common Citizen of the Earth continued in his integrity was a Domesticke creature and parcell of his Family And it is worth our noting how in the whole Story God conceales the Deuils name because the Deuill euer in such cases conceales his nature In this disguise therefore tendring matter of argument and discourse vnto the woman he scattered a seed so small at the first that it exceeded not a graine of Muster-seed onely of question and doubt Yea hath God said yee shall not eat of euery tree of the Garden Who would haue thought a naked question could harbour so much poyson in its bowels yet so dangerous is it to entertaine a question of Gods peremptory Iniunctions that this alone in the next reply brought forth the blade which was incredulitie and imboldned the Deuill to giue God the lye saying Yee shall not dye This blade at length shot vp so high that the Prince of the Ayre doth now therein nestle himselfe and yeilded that bitter fruit And shee did eat and gaue vnto her Husband who did eate Thus hee sowed the Seedes of Heresie in the Church of the Iewes at the comming of our Sauiour The Prophets which had successiuely tended the flocke of Israel were now asleepe in their Sepulchres and the watchmen which remayned slumbred vpon their Couches of carnall and temporall proiects dreaming of an earthly Messias and Kingdomes of this World when loe the Enemie shrowding himselfe in the frock of men venerable for their profession Scribes and Pharises seasoned with the leauen of seeming deuotion long Prayers and Hypocrisie remarkable for their industry in compassing two vast Elements Sea and Land to gaine one Proselite instilled those Errours which at the first vnseene did in a while send forth an ominous blade and that blade a worse fruit obseruing still the same rule of progression that if the Masters were one their Proselites should bee two fold more children of Hell then themselues Matth. 23. And to bee briefe thus is the Enemy prophesied to sow the Seedes of those great defections and fallings away from the truth towards the latter day when the whole world almost was to sleepe being intoxicated with the wine of the Whore of Babylon What part thereof wherein he expounds not this Parable with his act and wherein those stratagems of deluding men so slumbring with counterfeit deuotion appearing truths and insensible growthes lye not buried Would you vnderstand the kinde of doctrine which hee should insinuate know that it was not a profest opposition of the Truth but a secret vndermining of it and therefore both by Saint Paul and also in the Reuelation it is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Mysterie which none but the wise and hee which hath vnderstanding can penetrate Would you take a view of the Actors Imagine not that you see the faces of Neroes or Dioclesians but what wee reade in Daniel of Antiochus the type of Antichrist that he should get the Kindome by flatteries the same in holy Writ is affirmed of Antichrist himselfe and his Complices The Teachers which in the last and perillous times must arise saith Saint Paul are men