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A13320	A myrror for Martinists, and all other schismatiques, which in these dangerous daies doe breake the godlie vnitie, and disturbe the Christian peace of the Church. Published by T.T.	Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601, attributed name.; T. T., fl. 1590.	1590 (1590)	STC 23628; ESTC S118084	30,611	40

Samaritans did which caused great contention betwéen them and the Iewes in religion as it is to be séene in Iosephus Now a daies this vniformitie of many inconstant men is loathed noueltie desired who are euer learning deuising neuer holde anie thing firme and certaine Tertullian a most ancient writer doth in his booke de Praescriptionibus shew that in his time there were the like sort of men which continually did search the Scriptures that they might thence bring forth some new thing and were wont alwayes to defend themselues with these wordes of the Gospell Seeke and yee shall finde To whom he answereth in déede we must séeke but yet onely those things which pertaine to our saluation and not strange things which are nothing necessarie but are rather contrarie to the Scriptures and rule of our faith For like as he which hath found that which is true right ceaseth from séeking so he which continueth séeking testifieth thereby that he hath not yet found out the truth There is an end of séeking beyond the which we may not passe For the Christian faith is not such whose end cannot be found so that we shoulde haue néede alwayes to séeke And this is confirmed by the Euangelist S. Iohn who sayth y e Christ did many things which were not written for if they shoulde haue beene orderly written the world could not containe them But he addeth These thinges are written that ye might beleeue that Iesus is Christ the sonne of God and that so beleeuing yee might haue lyfe through his name And héerein wée sée commonly the most blinde the most bolde the more ignorant the more busie and the least wittie to be most inquisitiue With such kinde of men Saint Basil was also troubled in his time who beeing in godly conference with the Emperour Valens about pointes of religion one Demosthenes which was the Emperours cooke rudely woulde interrupt him and peruert places of Scripture according to his fantasie and purpose whose presumption Saint Basil béeing no longer able to beare hee méekely reproued him with these wordes Tuum est de pulmentariis cogitare non dogmata diuina decoquere It belongeth to thy office to make pottage and not to make a hotchpot of Scripture The heathen misliked that the shoomaker should censure aboue the shooe and woulde that Carpenters onely should because they best coulde deale with buildings Tractant fabrilia fabri c. He therefore is a good and true Christian which loueth the simple truth of God stayeth himself in true religion and abideth firme and stable in the faith what nouelties so euer anie one or a few light heads shall deuise in corners knowing that they doe not appertaine vnto religion but rather vnto temptation the which also the Apostle confirmeth saying There must bee sectes that the perfect among you may bee knowen And obserue it who that list at the first budding forth of euery noueltie the grauitie and steadfastnes of the wheate and the lightnes of the chaffe is by and by discerned For the chaffe is carried hether and thether with euerie vaine blast of erronious doctrine One while through rash presumption they approue and allow those things which séeme vncertain another while they stand in doubt through a feare without reason of those things which are certayn vncertayne they are which way to take or which way to returne what to take holde of or what to let passe Thus being out of the safe hauen of truth they are tossed with the waues of diuers cogitations and so are compelled to pull downe their sayles of pride which before they had spread abrode through the blasts of nouelties Which when I consider with my selfe I cannot meruayle enough at so greate madnes and so great a desire that some men haue to erre that not being contented with good and profitable rules of most ancient Ecclesiasticall gouernment doe still from day to day deuise and séeke after new and strange plats to fit theyr fansies and doe euer in the store house of theyr vayne conceites finde some thing to adde to change and to pull from religion as if it were not a diuine and heauenly thing which sufficeth not to be once well established but an earthly institution which cannot otherwise be made perfect but by a continuall and daylie reformation or rather reprehension Whereas the wise man giueth this counsaile Goe not from the doctrine of the Elders for they haue learned it of their fathers and of them thou shalt learne vnderstanding And the Apostle after the same manner instructeth Tymothe O Tymothe keepe that which is committed vnto thee auoide prophane vaine bablings oppositions of science falsly so called which while some professe haue erred concerning the faith O Tymothe sayth hee keepe that which is committed vnto thee c. The Apostle begins with an exclamation procéeding from a propheticall and most charitable spirite foreséeing sorrowing the errours to come Tymothe doth beare the image and representation of the cleargie at this daie In consideration of théeues and enemies Tymothe hath matter of charge committed to his safe kéeping least men sléeping they shoulde sowe tares vpon the good séede wheate which the sonne of man hath sowen in his field Keepe sayth he that which is committed vnto thee not that which thy selfe hast found which thou hast receiued not that which thou hast deuised a matter not of wit but of doctrine not of priuate vsurpatiō but of publique tradition a matter brought and deliuered vnto thée not set forth by thée whereof thou oughtest not to be the author but the kéeper not the institutor but the follower Keepe saith he that which is committed vnto thee that is kéep the talent of faith and truth inuiolate let that abide with thée which is committed vnto thée and let that onely be deliuered by thée Thou hast receiued gold deliuer gold again I would not haue thée chop and change deceitfully and as one deuoide of shame craftily to tender copper in stead of golde but pure and perfect golde such as thou hast receiued O Tymothe O most reuerend Doctor and teacher as God hath furnished thée with good giftes méete to teach so shew thy self a right Bezaleel of the spirituall tabernacle set forth the precious gemmes of Gods word place them faithfully and polish them wittily that they may be resplendant and beautifull let it be plainly vnderstoode by thy exposition which afore time was obscurely beléeued let this latter time be thankfull to thée for the vnderstanding of it which the former ages haue reuerenced not vnderstoode notwithstanding so teach those things which thou hast learned y ● when thou speakest them newly thou speakest not nouelties But some man will saie do ye then mislike that there should be anie profiting and good procéeding in religion No verilie it is most to be desired And who is he so enuious vnto men and so abhominable vnto God which goeth about

bodie of the flesh and of the bones of Christ that we be most néerely conioyned vnto him and the giftes which we haue bee deriued vnto vs by God through the flesh of Christ giuen for our sake vppon the crosse and so by the flesh of Christ we be coupled and vnited to God And in the Gospel of Saint Iohn Christ praieth thus for his Church Cause you that they may be one euen as I am in thée and thou art in me The vnitie of the Church therfore by the places alleadged consisteth in the spirit in the word of God in the Sacraments in a most néere bond with Christ who is the head of all the members of the Church This vnitie we must by no meanes breake but first séeke all the waies that possible we can to make the same safe and sound Bernard an ancient Father of the Church saith that neyther praier sacrifice nor anie thing else pleaseth God better then our concord and vnitie and that nothing grieueth the deuill more then that we should liue in vnitie For if we fast saith he the deuill seareth it not because he neuer eateth if we watch he careth not because he neuer sleepeth if we praie he regardeth it not because he neuer praieth but that we should be in vnitie it displeaseth him because we being men and on the earth should doe that which hée could not doe being an Angell in heauen Wee knowe it now by experience that Fratrum odia acerbissima and that inimici hominis domestici eius that the hatred of brethren is most grieuous and that a mans enemies shall be they of his owne housholde The Church of God neuer receiued more detriment by the tyrannie of papists then she hath and doth dailie by the cruell hatreds of false and dissembling brethren If therefore ye intend to be citizens of that heauenly Ierusalē Subtraite vos ab omni frate ambulante inordinatè Withdrawe your selues from euerie brother that walketh inordinatly and vnderstand that the earthly Ierusalem is builded as a citie that is at vnitie in it selfe Of the Primitiue Church it is said that they continued with one accord in praier and the multitude of them that beléeued were of one heart and of one soule If ye wil abide in this vnity then must ye be alwaies constant in the truth and not depend vpon men For through inconstancy the peace of the church which is the bond of vnitie is many times broken when as our affections and likings of men is such that therafter as ye loue thē so ye like their doctrine For ye regard the messenger and not his message ye looke vpon the earthen vessell and not vpon the heauenly treasure therein contained And hereof it commeth to passe that ye doe contemne and despise not onely wholsome doctrine but also the minister and preacher thereof and then commeth such a nicenes and choice liking of some that at the last followeth also an vtter loathing of others whom before ye greatly liked Thus hath the common multitude alwayes behaued thēselues towards the ministers of the Gospell Yea thus was our sauiour Christ himselfe handled among the Iewes who one while would néeds make him a king and anon after was ready to kill him one while they called him Rabbi and another while a Samaritan saying that he had the deuill they which once loued his doctrine sayd afterward this is a hard saying And as Christ himselfe so also were Apostles rewarded at their auditors hands and no meruaile for the disciple is not aboue his master It is inough for the disciple if he be as his master is Therefore Iohn the Baptist had such estimation for a while when he first began to preach the Gospell that he was taken of most men for the Messiah yet stood he not long before he lost his head When Paul Barnabas had wrought that notable myracle vpon y e lame man the people were blindly carried with such inconsiderate zeale that in all hast they would haue done sacrifice vnto them as vnto God but in a moment this hot zeale was so cold towards Saint Paul that they stoned him almost for dead The same Apostle was of the Galathians also reputed for an Angell of God insomuch that if it had bin possible they would haue pluckt out their owne eies for him to do him good but afterward they tooke him for no better then their enemie And why Forsooth because hee preached vnto them the truth Consider and sée if the verie like inconstancie and far worse if worse may be hath not bin among you In the beginning of her Maiesties most happie raigne you had those learned and graue fathers in great estimation which during the time of Quéene Mary suffered exile for the testimony of the gospel some in Geneua some in Frankford and some other in other partes of Germanie and at their first returne to the Church of Englande beeing placed by her Maiestie in the roomes of greatest charge in the Church as tried and approued men that had borne the whole heate and burthen of the daie ye estéemed of them worthily ye were very glad to sée and heare them ye embraced theyr most wholsome doctrine and so ye begun to runne wel in a good course but ye persisted not ye were soone wearie of your olde men and yee must needes haue new and I feare me that this propheticall saying of the Apostle is verified vpon many of you The time will come when they wil not suffer wholsome doctrine but hauing their eares itching shall after theyr own lusts get them a heape of teachers and shall turne theyr eares from the truth and shall be giuen vnto fables Be not carried about with euery winde and goe not into euery way for so sayth the wise man doth the sinner that hath a double tongue Such double walking and such dissembling talking will at the last and that ere it be long cause greater diuision and contention among you to the wofull ruine of vs all if it be not amended betimes And if we goe forwarde in discorde and bitter contentions as we haue hetherto done it is greatly to be feared least GOD haue appointed and ordayned that same agaynst vs which in time past he did in the raignes of Dioclesian and Maximian the Emperors when as there were like strifes and contentions in the Church as notably appeareth in the Ecclesiasticall historie written by Eusebius the effect of which history is diligently to be marked for this cause to wit for that in those daies the Church of Christ flourished But the people were vnthankful vnto God and impenitent and the ministers of the Church were ambitious and stirred vp grieuous and hot contentions among themselues Wherefore God being angry with them gaue them into the hands of tyrants who raised vp greater persecutions agaynst the Church then euer was heard of before For thus writeth Eusebius

But when we were not touched with anie of these things nor went about to reconcile our selues vnto God but as godles men supposed that God neither cared for nor yet would visit our wickednesse but heaped sinne vpon sinne And those which tooke vpon them to be our patrones shaking off and casting from them the rule of godlynes were kindled with hatred one agaynst another whilest they gaue themselues onely hereunto to wit to threatenings pride mallice and hatred euery one gréedely and in a manner of a certain tyrannie followed their owne ambition Then the Lord euen then I say made the daughter of Sion obscure dark according to the prophesie of Ieremie For hee lifted vp the right hand of her enemies turned from her his sword of defence was not her helpe in the day of battell but ceased from purifieng her threw her throne vnto the ground and shortned her daies aboue all this he poured out confusion and shame vppon her All these things are fulfilled amongst vs whilest we sée the places appointed to praier to be raced from the top to the very foundations the diuine and holy Scriptures to be burned in the middest of the market places and the Ministers of the Church with horrible confusion to run here and there to hide themselues and some were taken and put to open shame by theyr aduersaries and according to another prophesie Contempt was poured out euen vpon their Princes c. Thus farre Eusebius who after through his whole booke following describeth the martyrdomes calamities afflictions which the faithful in that most cruel persecution suffered Wherfore God is most earnestly diligently to be praied vnto that he wil vouchsafe to giue vs his grace repentance and mutuall concord least for our leude liues ingratitude and contentions he deale with vs as he hath done with those fathers before vs so deliuer vs into the cruell and bloudy hands of the Turkes and others the enemies of Christianitie God in his mercie turne this euill from vs. Moreouer all godly and Christian Princes and Magistrates according to their calling committed to them by GOD ought diligently to take héed hereunto and with al their might and wisdome helpe that the people of this Realme may altogether forsake those vnprofitable and troublesome contentions and cease to braule and quarrell with their brethren and fellow-seruants and that the ministers may fruitfully with great modestie grauitie preach vnto the congregation repentance amendement of life and true faith in Christ. It is written of king Iosophat that he sent certaine Princes Leuites and giuing vnto them the booke of the lawe of the Lorde commanded that they should teach true faith and the sincere worshipping of God The like did the most holy kings Ezechias and Iosias who religiously depriued from their offices all those which walked not rightly in the way of the Lord and did not according to the law of God Constantinus the great followed the example of those most holy kings performed the like in his Empire For when the Prelates in his time were at variance and contention among themselues and writ and preached one against another and were so bold to offer those contentious libels vnto the Emperour himselfe to the end that they might contend before him he receiuing al theyr bookes sharply reproued them inasmuch as they being by the prouidence of God appointed vnto the people for pastors and captaines of concord and charitie were so at variance among themselues Neither would heee giue any iudgement as touching theyr controuersies or yet reade their libels which they deliuered vnto him but cast them into the fire as he also commanded vpon paine of death that no man should reade the bookes of Arrius but burne them at the first hand that at the least they might thereby learne that those contentions and braules displeased his maiestie and so setting discord apart might afterwarde giue themselues to peace and concord In like manner when he sate with the Bishops at the Counsell of Nice amongst whome also many contentions were he laying forth the bookes of the Prophets and Apostles to wit the holy Bible commanded them to decide and end theyr controuersies by them and all of them with one consent to preach one and the selfe same faith This excellent example of the worthie Emperor Constantine whom God in this world honored with the title of Great whose name and glory through the whole world was famous of greate renowme among all men and is much more excellent in the eternall felicitie This example I say let all Princes and magistrates of this age follow touching the staying and suppressing of all controuersies among the prrofessors of the Gospell that thereby they may prouide for the peace and publike health of the Church Peace is that new yéeres gift which Christ gaue vnto vs at his birth It is the bond of perfection which he commended to his disciples in his whole life It is the legacie which he bequeathed vs at his death Pacem meam relinquo vobis My peace I leaue vnto you The Apostle Paul following the same example in euery Epistle that he wrote exhorteth vs vnto peace O nos miseros si quos toties repetita pax non mouit O miserable wretches that we be if peace so often repeated doth not moue Peius est sayth a Father ecclesiam scindere quam Idolis sacrificare It is a worse thing to be a schismatike then an idolater Also Saint Augustine exhorting vnto peace sayth Fratres teneamus charitatem sine qua fides nihil est habet●s autem charitatē si teneatis vnitatem Brethren let vs holde charitie without the which faith is nothing ye haue charity if ye kéepe vnitie The God of peace grant that as we may alreadie say in regard of our most gracious soueraigne Ladie Quéene Elizabeth mercy and truth haue met together so wee may one day also say in respect of our selues and this whole nation righteousnesse and peace haue kissed each other And I beséech you brethren by the bléeding wounds of our sauiour and redéemer Iesus Christ that none doe increase olde faults by new offences but rather that euery man in sinceritie and holy obedience reforme his owne waies conforme his life according to the rule of perfect holinesse that so our conuersation before men may witnesse our perfect religion and we glorifie our father which is in heauen Let vs beautifie the chambers of our hearts with the florishing branches of a godly life mortifying and killing all those euill and peruerse affections which may blemish and darken those bright beames of Christian profession Let vs beare the sailes of our conuersations euen with the winde of Gods word and beséech we the holy Ghost to rule the stearne and guide the rudder of our thoughts least at anie time we cracke the barke of our religion against the rockes of euill tongues So shall our aduersaries bee ashamed to mutter against vs for liuing contrarie to that which we professe And God who is the God of peace shall in the end giue vnto vs his euerlasting peace in his heauenlie kingdome through Christ our Lorde Amen FINIS Ephes. 6. 13. Marke 4. 24. Math. 11. 19. Wisdome 1. 6 Verse 8. Cant. 6. 8 Isai. 5. 1 Psal. 125. 1 Isai 46. 13 Cant. 2. 1 1. Pet. 2. 9 Mat. 13. 47. Mat. 25. 1 Mat. 13. 24. 1. Iohn 2. 19 Apoc. 3. 15. Math 7. 23. Cyprian lib. de vnitate Ecclesiae The causes of Schisme Ierom. in Epist ad Euagrium Theodoret. li. 2. Fab. A definition of Schisme A distinction of Schisme Math. 10. 34 A most detestable schisme Deut. 13 False teachers a temptation Nestorius held that Marie was the mother of Christ but not the mother of God making two Christs Photinus denied the Godhead of Christ Apollinor held that Christ had no humane soule that he tooke no flesh of the virgin Marie but brought it from heauē c Isai. 1 The dutie of good ministers Ambr. de incarnat Dom. cap. 2. Apoc. 9. False Apostles described Contentious Ministers Tit. 1. 9 Ministers must reproue errours Modestie and mildnes of spirit becommeth Ministers 1. Tim. 2. 24. A comparison betweene the Apostles and our reformers Peruerters of good things How schismes and errors in the Primitiue time of the Church were suppressed Tit 3. 10 The ancient fathers were euer enemies to scismatikes Concord The mischiefe of discord Singularitie Order 1. Cor. 11 Anabaptists hate order Cyprian lib. desimplicitate prelatorum Aug. epist. 152 contra Donatistas Uniformity in the seruice of God Exod. 12. 49 Iohn 4. 20 2. King 17. 24. Histor. tripart lib. 7. cap. 36. Inconstancie Eccle. 8. 9. 2 Tim. 6 Math. 13 Exod. 35. 30. Religiō compared to mens bodies Innouation a dangerous euill 1. Cor. 9. 11 2. Iohn 1. 10 Martine reprehended by Paul for vaine babling Deprauers of good men False accusers Al heresie first beganne with vaine babling Pellagius Celestinus Arrius Sabellius Nouatius ●●mon Magus ●iscilianus ●nabaptists ●ildebrand ●essalians ●eldstins An exhortatiō●o y ● ministers of the Church Rom. 1. 32 Ad Cassul presbit Galat. ● Math. 18. ● Clem. Stromat lib. 7 Act. 6. 4. Apoc. 2. 6 Matth. ● ● An exhortat●●● to hearers an● readers Math. 4. 24 1. Iohn 4. 1 Rom. 16 17 Rom. 16. 17 2. Tit 3. 6 Tit. 1. 10. 2. Tim. 3. 8 1. Tim. 6. 4 1. Tim. 5. 13 1. Tim. 1. 7 and verse 19. 2. Tim. 2. 16 2. Tim. 3. 5 verse 9 Ecclesiast hist. lib. 6. cap. 37 Lib de vnitate ecclesiae Eus. Eccle. hist. lib. 7. cap. 6 The deuils cords wherby he draweth men into heresie Lewes Cole and Ket Aug. in Psa. ●● sub finem Ephe. 4. 3. Iohn 17. 21. Bernard in 〈◊〉 quem habuit ad sor de modo bene viuē 〈…〉 Psal. 122. 3. Act. 2. 46 Act. 4. 32 Inconstancie of y e multitude Iohn 6. 14. 15 Iohn 7. 1 Iohn 6. 60 Luke 6. 40 Luke 3. 15 and verse 20 Math. 14. 10 Act 14. 11 and verse 15. Gal. 4. 14 and vers 15. 16 2. Tim. 4. 3 Gal 1. 6 Eccle. 5 9 An exhortatiō to magistrats 2. Chron. 17 Martian and Iustiniā mad careful lawe to the lame purpose Reade Zozomenes li. 1. cap. 20 ● le 2. cap. 3. de libris 〈◊〉 heretici Luke 2. 14 Mat. 10. 1● 1 Iohn 20. 26 August cont Pet●●anum