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A18250	The firme foundation of Catholike religion, against the bottomles pitt of heresies wherin is shewed that only Catholiks shalbe saued, & that all heretikes of what sect so euer are excluded from the kingdome of heauen. Compyled by Iohn Caumont of Champany: and translated out of French into English, by Iohn Pauncefote the elder Esquyre, in the tyme of his banishement.; Du firmament des catholiques, contre l'abisme des heretiques. English.	Caumont, Jean de.; Pauncefote, John.	1591 (1591)	STC 4868; ESTC S104922	55,372	122

to the Apostles you are owt of the communion of the Church of IESVS Christ you be without Church without priesthood and without any mediation towards God for that you haue not any preist of the order of the Mediator Your ministers be those that S. Ciprian speaketh of who without lawful S. Ciprian lib. 4. ep 9. calling without gods ordinance without ecclesiastical order doe appoint them selues to be head ouer rash men take to them selfs titles of Bishops and like apes they resemble mens actions and them selues being not in in the Church counterfait the face of the Church arrogating to them selues her authoritie truth blessing others being them selues cursed of God promising life being thē selues dead calling vpon God being blasphemers administring priesthood being thē selues prophane presenting thē selues to the altar as intercessors to God being thē selues sacrilegiouse prouokers of gods wrath their preaching is not preaching but preuarication of the woord of God their priesthood is not priesthood but a seruice of the deuil and ministerie of Antichriste for Apes be alwayes Apes and neuer shal be men and heretikes alwayes heretikes how so euer they doe counterfait and neuer shal be Catholikes except they enter again in to the bosom of the Church where the lauful succession of priesthood of the Apostles doth remain The third marke is Antiquitie for euen as the good seed was sowen in the field by the house houlder before the cockle by the enemie so it is certein that the true church is more auncient than the false Now that the catholike Apostolike and Romain Church is the same that IESVS Christ him selfe hath instituted more auncient then all the sects of heretikes this argumēt wil forse them to confesse In all notable chaunges of religion six things are to be marked the Author the new opinion the tyme when it began the place where it began the Impugners that it had the small number of folowers when the same began to make her separation of communion from the religion that it dyd forsake first vve know that the Author of the heresie of Arriās was a preist of Alexandria named Arrius of Nestorians a Bishop of Constātinople named Nestorius of Lutherans a monk of the order of S. Augustin named Luther Secondlie we know that the new doctrine of Arrius imported that the sunne of God was a creature Of Nestorius that there was two personnes in Iesus Christ Of Luther that the Eucharist is not a sacrifice and that man is Iustified by that onely special faith which he hath of his own iustification Thirdlie we know that the sect of Arrius dyd beginne the yere of our Lord 324. that of Nestorius the yere of 431. that of Luther the yere 1517. Fowertlie we know that the Arrianisme dyd beginne in Aegipte the heresie of Nestorius in Thrace that of Luther in Saxonie Fiftlie we know that the Arrians were Impugned by Pope Syluester by the Councel of Nice by S. Athanasius ' by S. Hilarie and many others the Nestorians by Pope Celestin by the Councel of Ephesus by S. Ciril and many others the Lutherans by Pope Leo the tenth by the Councel of Trent by all vniuersities catholikes and by many Doctors Finally vve know that in the beginning when all those archeheretikes did separate them selues from the communion of catholikes they were small in number an that euen then the catholikes were dispersed throughout the world in infinite numbers None of all those thinges can be obiected by the Lutherans and Caluinists againste the catholikes First they haue neuer obiected vs the autor of our faith contrary to theirs neither haue they named vs after any particular man vvhich they wolde verie willinglie haue done if they could Secondly they doe not shew the beginninge of any our nevv doctrine if they ascend not vp to the Apostles vvhose nouelty is ours and is our antiquitie against all heresies They are not also hable to shew any tyme certain of our faling from the Church nor the place neither where it should haue begun nor those which did impugne the same as new nor that any councels haue bene celebrated against her nor finally that this our Church catholike Apostolike and Romain did separate it self from some greater that was before in such sorte as those which did cōmunicate with the Romaine Church vvere fewe in member and that the rest of Christians were farre more greater For it appeareth by the epistles of S. Gregorie the Pope vvhich he did vvrite to the Bishops of the East of Afrike of Spaine of France of Italie that almoste all the Christians of the world did cōmunicate with him Now it is a thovvsand yeeres past sithens S. Greg and the doctrine of faith vvhich he did teache is the same that the Church doth teach at this day The fowerth marke is continewance without being interrupted It is foretould in Daniel Dan. 9. that the raigne of the church shall neuer be dispersed and in sanct Paule that heresies 2. Tim 3. can not long stand the Churche being like the brightnes of the firmament vvhich shineth in perpetual eternitie Heresie is as a Comet conceiued of the vapours of the earth vvhereof the flame ceaseth so sone as his earthly norishement doth faile The Church in an other sorte is as a continual flud which can not drye Heresie is as a flud of tempest vvhich presently doth faile wherof S. Augustin sayth Be not you sayth he amased to see the fluds swellinge and roaringe In illud psa 97 Ad nihilum d●u●n●ent tanquam aqua de●urrens for a tyme. It is a violence of vvater vvhich runneth downe and shall cease verie sone for the same can not long continue many heresies be alredie dead they haue runne in theyr channel as long as they could they be slydden away the rootes be drie and hardlie shal one finde the marcke where they were It is verie certein that the Church catholike Apostolike and Romain hath cōcontinued since the Apostles in her visible brightnes vnto this day vvhich thing if heretikes doe not fullie grant yet doe they confesse that those things which they blame in the same vvere alredie brought in before a thowsand or twelue hundred yeres But vvhat heresie hath euer lasted any thing near that tyme yet I vvil confound them by this argument Before that Luther did start vp besydes the Romaine Church there was not in the vvorld but thes religions Paganisme Iudaisme Machometisme and the relikes of Nestorianisme in Grece But it is certein by the confession of Lutherans and Caluists them selues that the Church of IESVS Christe was not in any one of thies sectes vvhereof it foloweth that she was in the Romaine Church or els quyte extinguised in al the vvhorld vvhich can not be Trulie this marke of the true church is famous for sythens Theobutes and Simon Magus the first Archeheretikes vntil Luther two hundred diuers heresies haue had their course wherof some were vpholden by verie mightie Patrones by

in the Eucharist said that they did vvoorshippe Ceres and Bacchus And aboue al the Panimes Tacitus by his writings doth shewe him self to be a manifest sclanderer of matters Tac. l. 4. hist both Christian and Iudaical But yet to take the historie as if there vvere no errour in the name of Serapis and that the deed vvere auerred in the person of Vespasian it vvas not a blinde man in deed nor a lame man indeed which were healed by Vespasian For Tacitus doth write that the Phisiciens assembled did saye that the disease of those two were curable that in the one the facultie of sight was not lost and that the same might come again if they did take from him the impediments As to the other he sayd that it was easye to helpe his legges Therefore if the diseases which naturalie might be healed haue bene cured by the craft of the deuil that is not a true miracle And it is credible which Tertullian sayth that those diseases whereof the deuil which Tert. in Apol. did hinder in the one the vse of the eie and in the other the vse of the legges to the end that he might seme to heale vvhen he did cease to hurt and to the ende that he might darken the true miracles of Iesus Christ and of the Apostles The true certen euident and vnforged miracles haue neuer bene but in the Catholike Church in the vvhich at all times according to necessarie occasion God hath wrought them in the beginning in infinite number but sithens that heuenlie plant hauing cast his rootes throughout the earth and hauing no more need of such vvatering they haue bene lesse frequented for that it is not for the benefite of the Church to haue so often miracles And yet not witstanding for the space of these thowsand yeres there hath no age passed without miraclcs in the Catholike Church authentiklie witnessed and with out gainsaying as the miracles done by Tharasius S. Malachie S. Bernard S. Frauncis S. Dominike and others which haue made the blinde to see restored hearing to the Antonin part hist cap. 23. deafe holpen the lame and raised the deade And it is not much more then a hundred yeares from S. Vincent he which did conuert 25. thowsand Iewes and Sarasins of whom 38. dead men weare reised from death to life Anthoninus which was of his time hath written the same And all the people Christians Iewes and Turkes did see the same Of our time it hath bene written from the Indiens newlie discouered that Francis Xauier priest a Iesuit hath healed some of the palsey some deafe some domme some blinde and raised one dead and hath done other miracles witnessing that he was of the spirit of the Apostles And all those holie persons were Catholikes Manie haue written that Caluin other new heretikes haue suborned poore people for to counterfait them selues to be dead to the end that they might raise them again in the assemble of people for to authorise their impietie the which counterfaiting to be dead haue dyed indeed in the act of their feyning to the confusion of the deceiuers In conclusion the marke of the true miracles is not found in any place of the world but in the Catholike Church The eleuenth marke is the vnhappie end of the archeheretikes of princes their protectors and the prosperitie of those that haue defended the Church I know how much a mā must leane or trust to this marke I know that God doth oftē spare the wicked and doth fatten them vvith prosperities shevv him self more austere and hard to his true children to the end to a vvake them again and that they remain not setled in the earth Therfore our faith hath other sounde groundes sufficient vvithout authorising her by euentes vvhich may haue by the wil of God motiues vnto vs incomprehensible and may happen somtimes vvith disaduantage in respect of the vvorld to the true children of God as roddes and fatherlie chastisementes But vve see ordinarilie that God doth shew him self so good a father and so fauorable towardes those vvhich be couragiouse to defende his Church that ouer and aboue the most happie eternitie vvhich is assured vnto them he doth reward them also temporallie and strikes vvith ignominie and calamities those vvhich be enemies to him Among the Archeheretiks Simon Magus caried by the deuil in the ayr at the prayer of S. Peter did fall downe and all brused died shamefullie Manicheus was flaine a liue by the king of Persia Montanus did hang him self Arrius being about to goe into the Church sodeinlie died of an horrible death casting out his intrailes Nestorius vvas eaten of vermin Luther died sodenlie the same night that at sopper he had tippled square gossiped and made all the companie to laugh Zvvinglius vvas slaine in vvarre against the Catholikes Corolstadius slaine of a deuil by the testimonie of his own disciples Caluin died yet more miserably Among princes Iulian the Apostata was slaine from heauen and his bodie vvithout buryenge vvas swalowed vp of the earth Valens burned a liue of the Arrian Gothes vvhom he had fauored Anastasius vvas striken vvith thunder Hunerick king of Vandals eaten vvith vermin The 3. Herods as also Nero Domitian Maximin and all the other persecutors of Christians be miserablie dead either be killing them selues or being cruellie killed by their owne men Contrariwise all the Emperours and Catholike kinges which haue defēded the church haue bene glorious in the vvorld God hath made thē triūphe ouer their enemies hath giuen them their desires The examples of Constantin of Theodosius the elder yonger of Honorius of others doth proue the same So longe as Heraclius vvas a good catholike he prospered against the Persians after that he bekame an heretike he vvas vnhappie and died miserablie Likewise Iustinian And to be short sithens that the Emperours of the east did vvithdraw them selues from the Romain Church they grew from daie to daie in decaie vvaxing weakar and weakar till they lost the Empire It is apparent that the Emperours of the west haue floris hed more or lesse according as their deuocion vvas more or lesse to the church As for Fraunce vve can not denie that euer it hath bene in greater glorie and more redowted to the world than when it vvas a refuge to Popes and hath neuer declined so much as vvhen it hath bene against them And of our kings those which haue done most for the Romain Church haue bene the most happie most beloued of the people and most dreadful to their enemies In our time in the yere 1531. the Catholike Suissers had fiue battailes against the heretik Suissers and in them all the Catholikes did vanquishe the heretikes making finalie a peace in the first article the heretikes did write this clause that from thense forth they would leaue in peace their confederates concerning the point of their true indoubted and catholike faith And the catholikes this clause